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http://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2016/09/02/supipara-chapter-01-spring-has-come/ Better late than never, right? I did not like this VN much, as some people who have talked to me recently about it may have noticed. I guess there's a reason it bombed in Japan, huh?

"Supipara's end result is a confusing mess of an experience I’m not sure is right for anyone except those looking for the most basic of light-hearted slice of life." Aight @tiags, this one's for you

You propably never heard of womanizers or casanovas. What vn's often tend to miss are guys (and gals), who are good with women, but not in a lame, cliched sort of way and it's the kind of stuff we should see in vn's more often. We have either shitty perverts and all sorts of moral degenerates somehow winning over gals' hearts, or girls who fall for protags, just to have sex with them. Where are the true knights - real gentlemen - who'd be around them, not as predators, but companions, willing to go to any lengths to please them, make their lives brighter? Showering them with flowers, throwing their coats under their feet, willing to make sacrifices and protect them. I swear, japanese scenario writers are unable to write anything decent, that doesn't involve massive trope hyperboles. That aside, there's nothing wrong with a bit of pervyness an every man is a pervert to an extent, otherwise humanity would be already extinct

I'm still playing Supipara; haven't actually gotten that far to be honest. But I recently just played EF before this and I'm having a bit of deja vu Is it just me or is that Yuuko and Miyako?

Some random sites I came upon while browsing several days ago, I can't tell you how good they are since I didn't get serious into them so far but they definitively look like something that might help in Japanese studies, at least beginner level if nothing else: - https://www.erin.ne.jp/en/ (Something by Japan Foundation, should be helpful); - https://www.nihongo-pro.com/kanji-pal/ (good for learning Hiragana/Katakana and Kanji I guess, I did play a little with it, and somehow I managed to even learn some new Kanji, can be useful too); If you need a good software for Kanji memorization and practice (as well as learning new vocab and stuff) and you have an android tablet or telephone, you should definitively look at Obenkyo because it's really an awesome program and unlike some other Kanji software, it's free (I think) and I didn't stumble upon any features that need buying though there might be some, I don't know, I use it for Kanji primarily and it looks like it doesn't have restrictions based on JLPT level, some other Kanji software do restrict it to only JLPT level 5, this one allows you to work with all jojo (standard) kanji up to level JLPT 1 (the levels are in reverse) ... and so it's good for that ... There are some other memorization software out there like Anki and some others but I didn't really like them, the flashcard system is kind of a bother and I am more into quiz type of learning ... That's why another software of recommendation would be MemRise (also for Android OS), it's something I use too, so you should check it out if you want ... As for other Japanese related stuff, like grammar, and other things, you should check Tae Kim's guide mentioned in the post above me. But if you want more you'll have to either buy some good Japanese textbooks like Genki and some other, from what I have seen there, they are very good beginner-oriented textbooks ... I guess you could pirate them if you aren't able to buy them now, those books aren't even available in my country so can't really judge anybody for pirating xD Though you should look out for different versions, I think it has two editions of the book, the 2nd one should be the latest (or so I believe) and it has Genki I and Genki II, it's two preety long textbooks + workbooks, tons of material and it looks aproachable from what I have seen. Something also approachable is Japanese by Rosetta Stone though that one lacks in many stuff but I found it fun to go through, but it takes time to go through units there. Though you can't really learn stuff from there because it expects you to "figure it out" yourself, so it's preety much like a guessing software, but it's a fun experience to me, it could be much better if it had a textbook of some kind though And yeah, start Kanji immediately if you plan on learning Japanese ... That's probably the most laborous thing about Japanese that I have found so far.

It appears I've been spared the reaper's scythe this time. Actually, my part of Tallahassee didn't get the worst of the damage. Power went out and we had some downed trees and branches, but the worst was in town up to the north end. Just got back from the Florida High School gym. Gloria works for the Dept. of Health and she did 12 hours as a nurse there for them - it was serving as a special needs shelter. I went with her to keep her sane. Good thing I did - I was pretty much the only able-bodied male there and ended up moving a lot of heavy-things. And in between, I even banged out a good portion of a date route script for SSPDRK - update just for you, @Okarin. I'm probably doing better than the vast majority of Tallahassee - they actually got the power back at our house just before 7 pm yesterday.

So, Valmore got me a starter account with 800 quartz and I started playing yesterday. First, of course, was rolling for good stuff with all the quartz. I saw there was a camelot gacha going on, and decided to avoid it like the plage. After all, I never really liked Saber, or Gawain. Instead of waiting for another promo or something, I decided to just roll the other option. I got 4 five-starts servants (with that many quartz, I'm not sure if that's good, bad or average.) Either way, I got one Arturia, two Mordreds and one Attila. RIP me. Was I rolling a saber gacha without knowing or something? Attila is a cutie, so I don't mind it too much, though. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the second day, I also solo rolled a Zhunge Lang with the remaining 14 quartz, and used my second mordred to increase the NP of my first one, so I currently have 4 five-star servants, as well as a bunch of 4 star ones. This was my best roll out of the 25 or so: More important than any of that, I look a lot cuter than my servants, so it's cool. Just got that Atlas uniform. Now I can pretend to be Sion.

Tae Kim is easy to digest, iKnow.jp used to be good for vocabulary but sadly it's not free anymore.

-Those who thought Hitogata Village sequences were ok

Yo man I gotchu, you gotta go with the Dan to the Gan and Ron with the Pa or I'mma

Maliciously pervy? No. Comically and harmlessly pervy? Sure, why not.

At multiple points while playing it I actually thought that this VN was perfect for @Tiagofvarela

Obviously, it's Maou who grew out his hair and got a sex change. Maou never dies. Maou is eternal.

I'd rather have them be a massive pervert than scream every time they see a nipple.

As this thread, which should properly be titled "Making Shit Up", continues, since we now have some factual inaccuracy to go along with our baseless theorizing, I'm just jumping in here to correct the former. As you can see from their wikipedia page if you take the trouble to count, Sekai Project has published 64 games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekai_Project#Published_games As you can see from their Kickstarter created page, Sekai Project has created 12 Kickstarters, of which 11 were for games, not all of which are included in the above tally of 64 games because one failed and some are not completed yet, and two of which (WEE and Grisaia) are counted twice in the above since they subsumed multiple releases: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/sekaiproject/created Carry on making shit up, but please do try to restrain yourself to wild hypotheses about companies' and people's motives and their NDA-covered contractual obligations, rather than about easily verifiable matters of fact.

I'm not completely sure why you would want to read a machine translated version when an official English release of Steins;gate 0 is coming out very soon.

Man, God really wants you to write that novel. Consider it your sacred mission. Not surprisingly it's to mock communists.

Voted for Aviary, because I want to know more about it

You're better off watching anime instead

I quite agree with these resources, but let me be persnickety and personally veto Rosetta Stone . There are a few good aspects inherent to Rosetta Stone; for example, I personally concur with the philosophy that a language should be learned from scratch, not bouncing off of one's native language, which Rosetta Stone accomplishes by merely offering the user pictures and situations rather than English words. However, this also turns out to be something of a bane when it comes to Japanese specifically. Japanese involves learning a convoluted writing system, which requires some careful thought on the part of the learner how to learn in balance with the language's other aspects. The reason Rosetta Stone is unable to address this is that their program fits every language into the same format which appears to have been based on some Romance or Germanic language. So, for example, it might introduce Spanish words to the reader (whose native language is presumably one that uses the Roman alphabet) to be learned, and in Japanese, those same words will be presented, but the reader will not know how to read the kana/kanji―of course, there's an option to use roumaji, if I recall correctly, but now the reader is skipping a pretty essential part of learning the language, which is being able to read kana/kanji fluently, because roumaji isn't helpful. Moreover, this situation that I spoke of, in which every language gets shoved through the same hole, causes even greater problems in terms of grammar. For example, having used Rosetta Stone for Spanish, I recall them teaching at length the concept of "acabar de" (to have just done something) relatively early on. Yet, in Japanese, this piece of grammar is not nearly a 1:1 translation. Rosetta Stone had the same concept taught, presenting it as merely appending ところ to the end of a clause, and there are several un-parallelisms here: 1) that structure in Japanese presents nearly no grammatical difficulty, so it should not be labored upon to the same degree as the Spanish version, 2) there are other, more subtle ways to express the same grammatical concept, yet Rosetta Stone presents it as though this is the only one, and 3) by virtue of the previous point, the phrase is not nearly as common as it might be in Spanish and English, so in no other learning context would it be taught as early as it is in Rosetta Stone. So, out of the resources above, do stay away from Rosetta Stone. I can only imagine it being helpful for somebody who's traveling to Japan on business for a week and doesn't want to get lost and die.

I voted for Danganronpa because based on what I know about you so far, you seemed to be very much into darker stuff like Fata Morgana and Phenomeno, from what I know about ef, it's supposed to be romance (? not sure, didn't read it but I heard it's good) and never heard of Aviary Attorney (is that related to Ace Attorney?) ... Danganronpa seems to be very popular and it should probably suit your tastes more if I'm right about your tastes xD ...

Aviary Attorney Because fucking look at it

Dysfunctional Systems Episode 1: Learning to Manage Chaos It was supposed to be a Kickstarter trilogy but sequels got cancelled .

Certainly some valid points, although I found the interactions between Yukinari and his mother pretty much the worst part of the whole VN lol. It's just the first chapter though, and I wonder what rating ef would have gotten just based on its first chapter. Not that I'd have any confidence that we'll ever see Supipara's later chapters 3 - 5... Still, I think I'm currently struggling more with Flowers than I was with Supipara.

If only it didn't have that asspulled ending, the visual novel would be certainly above 6/10.

a pervy protagonists like taichi from cross channel? Nope but even less when they are like Rance (I don't like nor enjoy rape and certainly I dont find anything funny about rape as a joke)

I'll say Danganronpa, amazingly fun vn if you like mystery.

It kinda depends on the title, if it is something like Rance or Bunny Black in which the protagonist is certainly doing villainous things, but is not straight up evil I can usually enjoy. If it is something super fucking bleak, in which the Protagonist has nothing but animosity twords the heroines and are only fucking them to straight up ruin their lives, I have a harder time enjoying those titles.

I don't mind pervy protag, but only if they respects the ladies, and remembers that "no means no".

New avatar.

I'd rather have a perverted skirt-flipper than a blockhead self-insert, but I'd rather not have to deal with either if I can help it

@FruitsPunchSamurai [the mv's hilarious and random tho]

I can just imagine an H-scene going like this

Highly disagree myself, Igor and Rise's JP performances are nowhere, NOWHERE near the dub. A case can perhaps be made for Chie (P4G's new dub is inferior to the original tbh), but overall, nah.

FWIW, I think the Persona 4 Golden voice acting is really good. You're pretty early in the game, so keep in mind that you haven't met much of the cast yet. P4G is at its best when the whole group is together; a lot of the charm is the overall group dynamic. That goes for the voice cast as much as anything: they do their best when they're playing off each other. Don't mind Rooke on that count - he's just eternally salty about voice acting. While you're right that there is technically an optimal set of choices, and specifically there's an optimal choice for any given social link conversation, it's not by any means important that you clear the game with max everything or that you always make the right choices. I don't think you get anything but a Playstation Trophy for clearing the game with maxed out social links. I've never done it, but I've never felt that I've missed out, and in particular, I've gotten both the Good ending and the True ending. Also note that you can do a New Game+, and that will make it much easier to get all the things anyway, since you'll start with all your social stats presumably maxed. And on the flip side, IMO, it's definitely more fun to play the game without a guide, without save scumming (much...), and to live with the consequences of your choices. That is, I expect, the way it was intended to be played. It's an RPG: try to role-play a little bit. You may stall or even screw up a relationship, but if that happened in real life, you'd come back the next chance you got and tried to fix it; you wouldn't go back in time or go read a guide online about how to talk to your friend. And, yeah, obviously that means you'll have to trade off one social link for another that you care about more. The game has a lot of time, and you'll end up finding that you care about some of the characters, and that you don't care so much about others, and you can easily prioritize your time accordingly to build relationships with all the characters you care about. When you play the game that way, it can really suck you in.

https://twitter.com/tkdnr_27/status/765558722517094401

Cave of Sinners: A Virtual Reality Visual Novel Introduction. Q: Why VR for a VN? A: I know that VR might be like a "?" for most people, but when you're like me that enjoys free roam and puzzle based gameplay, it becomes a little more interesting. Q: What platform is the VN coming to? A: Right now the VR version being developed is for Android, the PC version will be made later when this one is finished. Q: Is the VR obligatory? A: No, VR is not forced on you. If you don't have a Google Cardboard or any other VR headset for Android you can turn the feature off. Same goes for the PC version with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Q: What will make the VN benefit from VR? A: Head tracking, fast movement and immersion. It will be essential in the gameplay segments and to more easily spot "things". Q: How big will the game be? A: The script says about 45 hours, which is for the first path taken out of a lot. Q: Will there be voice acting? A: Yes, fully. Q: Will it have any electronic music? A: So far I've made one electronic song for it, all else is orchestral. Title: Cave of Sinners Studio: XionsProphecy Software Publisher: XionsProphecy Release: TBA Platforms: Android, iOS, PC, PS4-VR. Genre: Horror, Gore, Erotica, Beastiality. More info is coming as the game is being developed. Want to BETA test the game? Head on over to XionsProphecy Software to apply.