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Hello. I felt it might be a good idea to clarify a few things, since I see the thread is rapidly getting excited, but the exact text of our reply to him was: In addition, please see this tweet: Thank you for reading.

Hello there, I'm Helia/Helianthus and, as you would probably guess, I'm a big fan of visual novel (and anime) I have rather dififcult tastes though: what I like the most is deep, psychological themes, possibly depressing stuff. That's why some of my favorites are Saya no Uta, Yume Miru Kusuri, Narcissu, Kara no Shoujo and the Infinity series. Especially Remember11 which is very well written. Well, except for the ending (of lack thereof). Needless to say, I'm one of the people waiting for SubaHibi TL since forever Ah and I'm very fond of English visual novel in general. I'm also making my own under the Träumendes Mädchen team since more than four years now. We were hobbyist for a while but we recently decided to make a bold move and become a real company. So I'll be sharing our first commercial project soon if you don't mind. Beware though, we do make pretty unique stuff...

http://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2016/07/22/the-labyrinth-of-grisaia/ Hay guys! After way too much delay, I finally got this one out the door. Special thanks to flutterz as always for editing it. I snuck that paragraph on the nature of the cut Steam version at the last minute because it seems like there are still a lot of questions swirling around that aspect. In short: The steam version definitely feels like a complete game.

WTF people. Someone randomly tweets at Sekai Project about a game for which they've announced nothing, and it somehow spirals into a thread for dumping on Sekai Project because they say they have nothing to announce? Or, better yet, @CeruleanGamer because if they might theoretically have announced something, you somehow psychically know it wouldn't be what you're looking for, despite recent evidence to the contrary? This is the most illogical thread I've seen on Fuwa in a while.

Words I never expected to hear from Eclipsed.

Because people in general are nitpicky nimrods that think the sky is falling just because color can also be spelled colour, or that Visual Novels can be classified as games, and that tsun tsuns are teh best

Yes

Released "Treasure of blizzard" is a fantasy themed visual novel inspiring with beautiful arts and interesting game characters. The fate of the protagonist completely depends on your choice. Probably your character may meet his partner in life; however he may also meet the end of his life. You’re the ones to choose. Game features: Based on the original story in a Fantasy World Two girls to start a relationship (and one additional secret character) 10 alternate endings Effects animation Estimated Gameplay Length: 2-10 hours Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux High replay value The young officer is transferred to the capital where he is supposed to be under 24/7 control of the Emperor’s people as a sign of loyalty towards his mutinous father. It’s ironic that the young officer is convoyed by his Childhood friend, Lin. Now she’s serving as one of the Emperor’s guardian and each mission will be valuable for her career. However first, these two have to get over the Mountain Pass and here is a rumor stating the mystical things happen in that place. Steam was allowed to publish it without censorship(Girls Topless). The level of censorship is selected in the settings. Steam - http://store.steampowered.com/app/508260/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Irich555 (Demo with old graphics) Old demo

I have played the original game in Japanese, and then the new English censored version. The amount of censorship is quite high. Take it from someone who has played both.

why is that so? because they mentioned not having any plans of working together with august at the moment? did you even consider the possibility of them might having already tried, but got refused? maybee another publisher has already striked a deal, or august simply wants to do it by themselves, same as frontwing, makura etc etc etc. not to mention the worst case scenario of august NOT having any interest in the western market in the first place. as you see there´s a little bit more to a title getting licensed by company a-c than just telling the jp-devs "yo our fans want that title", or by spamming twitter in hopes of it working out in the end. sure your actions were birthed of good intend and somehow understandable, but licensing procedures, or anything related to suchalike are a delicate matters that could very much backfire hard if an (carefully) approached company´s speaksman/ceo/staffmember were put in the situation of feeling harassed by a rioting fandom.

The main people I could see directly benefiting from this would be the English-language VN localization / publishing companies. If this site became well-established, was completely reliable, and charged reasonable fees, then ideally MangaGamer and DenpaSoft could take down their own storefronts and use this, focusing their own efforts on the localization and publishing aspects, and then not have to worry about distribution and sales headaches like payment processor management. That seems to be a regular problem for those guys, it's probably probably quite detrimental to their bottom line when it happens, and it's really not something that aligns well with the rest of their business. I expect those companies currently have storefronts simply out of necessity. And just to address this before it comes up: yes, for their games which are also released on Steam, I'm quite sure MangaGamer makes more money if you buy their game directly from them than if you buy from Steam. But that's only because they already have the sunk cost of maintaining that storefront. I bet they'd save more money by dispensing with the storefront entirely than they'd lose on the fees, if they had a place to sell their games that was as usable as their own storefront.

I will definitely, if it works as well as steam in terms of actually getting your games and stuff, MG has so many issues when it comes to payment and stuff, also I think that if they make it attractive enough, I think we can see a lot of adult doujin games coming over in the future

No 18+ version = I dont give a shit about it. I'm with "Learn Japanese" movement. More fruitful than waiting for Sekai's trash heap that will most likely get censorships and content cuts.

And the 18+ versions makes for even more exercise opportunities On a serious note, my answer is yes. It is basically a book, but in the end, it is a program that is run and "played" by you on a computer. That basically means it's a video game, even if the only thing you do is click the screen to advance the text.

VNs are ＤＩＧＩＴＡＬ　ＳＰＯＲＴＳ

You could not possibly be more misinformed on the difficulties of proofreading, editing, and TLCing a flawed translation. I recall you elsewhere posting a figure citing a 94.7% likeness to each other. I heavily doubt that figure, but even still, they're both based on the same source material, and a good percentage of Ixrec's script was okay. This does not mean it was a good translation or that the improvements they made weren't dramatic. Changing a single word in a line can lead to huge effects in its accuracy and readability. An example of this in the excerpt I posted a few pages back was the "It's your fault" -> "It's your own fault." Adding one word to a thirteen word line changed its tone by a fair amount. It wasn't a dramatic difference, but it's still a noticeable difference. Some lines won't be changed at all because they're fine. But if most lines have these kinds of minor differences, which they do, combined with the much larger sweeping changes you see every so often, it creates for a dramatically better reading experience overall. You will almost always have a high likeness rating when working with the same script. I'm working on the Dracu Riot completion patch. I am the lead editor on the project and have been leading an effort to give the entire existing translation editing, QC, and TLC passes. I can assure you that our team has been working our assess off for months now, me included, yet you will probably see a very similar likeness rating from us. These constant "minor" changes require you to analyze each and every line and then come up with ways to make them better. The number of total line rewrites end up actually being pretty low, and even then they tend to use a lot of the same words. That's just how writing works. TL;DR: You are misunderstanding your own statistics and what it means to accomplish them, and their effect on the translation overall. It is way more work than you're imagining, and I can assure you the efforts do pay off well. Maybe you're not able to appreciate the efforts as easily because you're not a native-level english reader, that's fine. The new ML translation reads way better for me and practically everyone else I have talked to about it. I hope you know that to suggest that their efforts are worthless and shouldn't take much time is extremely disrespectful.

Today is a memorable day, as i received my first like from tay. The feeling is quite okay, as it's uplifted my day. This feeling is here to stay, i remember as if it happened... well, today. I was going about my way on this beautiful morning in july may, when along my way, i saw a thread from tay. he wanted a way, to hear what people had to say. While thinking "Okay", i said what i wanted to say. Don't know if what i had to say will be able to persuade, but i went on my way, and continued my day. what i can take away, from the generosity from tay is that he liked the way my comments point was made. so thank you tay, for making my day. \ /

Finished Fate's route Uhh 6/10 so far, some of the end game plot revelations regarding the Holy Grail were underwhelming and expected, the drama between Saber and Shirou with his whole "I know what you want better than you do!" was absolutely meh, and the big baddies' "I'm evil for the lulz" was just ._. I would've preferred more confrontations with the other Masters and Servants, more Rin and Archer, hell even more Illya. The route kinda just went downhill after her arc.

One of the funnier parts (so far) in Akane's routes and where I'm at now oh! and this gem.

A lot of it is because online security is an oxymoron...

Mob mentality. And to coin that famous philosopher, Terry Pratchett - "the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters"

I remember seeing her thread recently, maybe it's what you are looking for.

The childhood friend route is actually very good. Took me by surprise. Yves' is also very good, (in fact it was my favorite. Her personality is not what it looks at first glance.)

If memory serves, Nutaku is a Canadian-based operation - and considering that countrys' draconian laws - I suspect it would be a business venture with heavy-handed restrictions on content. I do like the concept of a "steam for adult games" however. Just needs to be handled by a company in a position to act freely (or moreso, at least)

I would use this. Hopefully they have more then just vanilla VNs. 13 million monthly users on their portal last year. Maybe by doing this the adult market can grow even larger and maybe we could see some exclusive titles come to the west. I'm all for it and I wish them the best.

I just found out there is a new love live show airing this season, love live sunshine. We have to watch it! COME ON!

I mean, nowadays, if I want to fap, I just go to porn sites. I read/play VNs just for the story.

You don't seem to be that picky in terms of themes; just pick something from Kaguya's topic.

anything from minori https://vndb.org/p27 like ef https://vndb.org/v88

Isn't that the same as asking: are movies porn? It' pretty much depends on the contents. There are nukige with no real story, which pretty much lives up to the criteria as porn while there are all age VNs, which clearly doesn't. Then there is the thing in between. Hollywood has the thing in between as well and that isn't porn. They do go quite far and have actually transmitted STDs during recordings of non-porn movies produced in Hollywood.

I'd say the lack of wordy text guides in the present is more due to the Baby Boomer Retiring phenomenon where all the peeps from 15 years ago that made the walkthroughs became 15 years older and so they retired And then the new generation coming 15 years in are a bunch of kids who grew up with Ipads and 4K instead of CD players / walkmans / grey TV and so they're all too spoiled to make wordy old fashioned text guides and instead resort to half arsed wiki crap. I miss 'em though. They were great.

I too am fond of those wordy text guides Half-arsed wiki crap are terrible.

"pretty fun series so far" < has watched the currently available episodes (16) = AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Ay mate, the "fun" that awaits you

mitchhamilton, maybe in the next vn Thank you and I understand. Not everyone has to like BL.

Hello, littleshogun, thank you for the kind words. I'm happy to be here Fred the Barber, nice to meet you and I'm glad you think the campaign's well-written. Thank you for the support, especially when you don't like BL. I have so much planned for the game, and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I will definitely fulfill every promise to my Backers. Kingdomcome, haha hello to you to. Fajnie widzieć Polaka na takim forum, nie reklamuję gry w Polsce, bo nie liczę na rodaków szczerze mówiąc (I basically said that I don't count on my fellow countrymen for support) Forgetful Frank, yup I'm definitely happier now. Thank you and nice to meet you!

Sorry, but you're deluded, and you're spreading your delusions by preying on the vulnerable. Please stop.

10/10 would cringe again.

From Sekai Project's discord. Rip

The biggest push accomplished in regards to the Steam group was the Steam curator. Otherwise not much activity is seen in the group itself. Post in the comments on the Steam group and get a convo going if you can~ Most of my MP games are Blizzard games... Though I do have a healthy amount of others on Steam I am willing to play once in a while

I treat Steam groups like I used to treat most Facebook groups. You don't actually join them to socialize, only to show belonging in a kind of abstract way.

The Steam group is pretty much half ded. Since a lot of Fuwans use the main site itself to congregate and to be a pleb around in the forums. Also, we do all the shitposting activities here.

There once was a guy named mitchhamilton He wrote a nice post about Fuwadom And how a guy named Tay Liked what he had to say And dropped a nice like on his post. Elsewhere Tay was feeling undone Because working on the site was not much fun Then along came poem Which really did show 'em And left him smiling the most.

If Grisaia can teach you to abuse and take advantage of broken girls, I do see this as plausible

Yes.

Confession: i fucking quit my job Told mah boss to fuck himself and now i am unemployed scrub More time for 2D grills! Yay! \ /

First trap doujin I ever translated, couldn't resist: http://exhentai.org/g/952052/355ef125b4/