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Symphonic Rain vs. Kindred Spirits in round 1: why you gotta make me make hard decisions like that so early on?

>Type-moon >Releasing a VN

As I understand it, Nitroplus and 5bp were partners but not merged companies. Both of them worked on the Science series together until the most recent entry, which 5bp designed and produced separately from Nitroplus. This is because 5bp partnered with Hobibox (the originator for Caramel Box) for the PC version's development this time around, instead of Nitroplus. This is because 5bp doesn't have the means to effectively program/port games for/to pc, so they inevitably have no choice but to partner with other companies to produce PC versions. Oh... and 5bp was a no-name with pc-gamers when the series first started, so they used Nitroplus to get their product sold on PC, but that was just plain common sense strategic thinking... Edit: To Nitroplus, it was probably just a chance to add some extra cash from swag and partial profits from the sales of the PC versions... I don't think anyone expected for 5bp to get so big when Chaos;Head came out... and now they are the primary porter of famous/infamous non-mainstream VNs to console, lol. Edit2: It should be noted that Nitroplus, while it produces high quality games that sell a lot over the course of several years, their initial sales almost always fall behind the mainstream. The whole point is that their sales won't be hurt by the decay of mainstream VNs, since they don't bother with the mainstream in the first place.

The first choice in game is only there for you to choose a route. Pick the gold or the silver egg. (It has been a little bit since I played it, so I don't recall which one is which, but pick an egg and it will hatch right away, and you'll see.) After that, most of the game is just raising the girls. So, managing their stats. Just pick the different options as you raise them, and the days will count down, and you'll see different scenes based on their affection etc. There isn't really a clear cut guide for it, I think. (The choices you see during normal raising scenes have no effect on the story outcome, I think. Those are just there for fun flavor. What matters is the stats and affection meter.)

They cover many shops yes but for example something like Softmap is not included in it which is one of biggest shops. These are the shops included in the sales data:

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. The top main stream brands like Yuzusoft, August, Clochette or Navel still seam to be able to sell about ~40.000 copies initial sales. There were several posts with concrete sales data over the last 1 - 2 years that confirm that. But what's certainly true is that the market is more 'tight', at least in the mainstream moege market. There's a lot more competition today than let's say a dekade ago. So if you're not one of the established top brands or have something special to offer, then there's certainly the risk to fall through and just end up with a few thousand copies sold or less. Overdrive is probably one of the most prominent examples of recent times. Apparently they'll release one more title and then close down. There's much less competition on the market for story VN's and that's probably the main reason why the small group of Nitroplus, Light and Innocent Grey still seem to do well. I wouldn't take that as a given though, since Propeller, who were certainly one of the most established story brands a few years ago, are dead now. And newcomers don't have an easy life like Novectacle can surely confirm. Fata morgana no Yakata is a highly praised story title, but apparently didn't sell well, at least at first. I think they recovered since. But there's a reason why most newcomers target the mainstream market. The breadcrumps there are still much fatter than in the niche section. lol What I've learned from the various post with concrete sales data: ~40.000 initial copies sold => Fantastic (Yuzusoft, August, Clochette, Navel) ~20.000 initial copies sold => Very good (Purple Software, Eushully, AliceSoft) ~10.000 initial copies sold => Good (Circus, Ensemble, Moonstone, Minori) ~5.000 initial copies sold => Average (Lump of Sugar, Whirlpool, AXL) Depending on how individual titles performed some developers might place higher or lower, but I think the examples aren't too far off from the truth.

１．2004年の『Fate』以降、ストーリーゲームにシフトしすぎた ２．格差社会＆リーマンショックのコンボが、エロゲー購入層を直撃した ３．エロゲー売り場が減少した ４．2004年に同人ゲームが隆盛、抜きゲーと競合状態に陥った ５．2008年以降、スマートフォンが浸透を始め、2011年に一気に広まった ６．2011年のMacBookAir以降、ノートパソコンの軽量化＆薄型化に拍車が掛かり、光学ドライブが内臓ではなくなった ７．キラータイトルが減少して、若者の注意を引き寄せる機会が減少した ８．ボリュームインフレションにより緩やかに客足が遠のいた https://note.mu/kagamihiroyuki/n/n4d8a2555c667 1. After 2004's FSN, moving too much to story games. (Most probably shit lol) 2. Social stratification and "Lehman shock" hit eroge selling places 3. Less places to buy eroge 4. Doujinges get more popular and start to fight nukiges 5. 2008 smartphones, 2011 more smartphones 6. 2011 MacBookAir, laptops get more light weight and no longer DVD drives 7. Less "killer" titles, couldn't attract younger people into eroge 8. Volume inflation (too much eroge) (Might be shit TL that is wrong w) Oh and might as well mention that people are into light novels and soshage now.

Just looking in the usual places, there doesn't seem to be one. However, I doubt that they bothered with anything complex... Edit: Vanadis generally isn't the type of company to put a lot of choices in its games... the only one that sort of overloaded on that was the school games (because of the number of heroines and endings, probably). I'd suggest just doing it systematically... saving at the first choice and branching out from there.

For downloading eroge right OP: What I've noticed in the around 8 years that I have been active on various forums is that forums themselves are a pretty bad place to make friends with people. That is, if you only interact with those people on forums. Forums are a great place to talk about a common hobby, and to get help and trade advice for things related to the hobby. And hell, it can also be a good place to meet some people initially. But ultimately, people on forums who seem to be the closest with each other are people who also interact with each other on Skype, Discord, or some other IRC client. Something that I have never been able to get into myself. What I like about forums is that they are somewhat formal. The types of conversations that happen on IRC, are honestly pretty dumb and stupid most of the time. Or rather, IRC seems like a waste of time to me since the time spend on that I could be either socially active irl instead, or be doing one of my own hobbies.

I don't really get Nitroplus' and 5bp's relationship to each other. Both are developers and both are publishers. And both publish their own titles and the titles of each other. And some titles are even developed or published together. Is there some system at work here, or do they use a spinning beer bottle at their regular's table to decide who will develop and publish their next title?

Fuck the covfefe!

You're a disgusting individual.

Hatsukoi 1/1 Summary Yuuma is a second year student at the prestigious public school Hoshioka Gakuen. It is known for offering a fulfilling school life, but he has yet to experience love and spends his days lacking any satisfaction. He hasn’t made any progress with his classmates nor his osananajimi. All he can do is look at his love interest, the student council leader Midori, from a distance. One day, he saw her with a troubled face. It seemed that the remaining members of the school cafeteria improvement committee had resigned. After giving it some thought, he volunteered to lead the committee. After that fateful moment, his surroundings became a lot more lively and before long, his first love had blossomed. Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order This VN has five heroines, Maya, Kyou, Midori, Yukino, and Runa. Since this is charage, feel free to play whatever order you like. That said, Route Guideline As for the choices that didn't exist in this walkthrough, all of those were available after past May 2nd in which you're already locked at one route. Therefore, if you see the choice after May 2nd, feel free to chose whichever you like. Tsukishima Kyou Tokizaki Maya Makabe Midori Fujikawa Runa Morino Yukino Attribution This walkthrough is based from the walkthrough made by the translator themselves with some adjustment made by myself.

Amnesia: Memories Summary A story that takes place in a fictional world... It was the 1st of August. That morning, when she awoke, the heroine found herself without any memories from before August 1st...... Everything, from the sort of life she lived, to the relationships she had, was a blank...... A young boy named Orion appeared in front of her, referring to himself as a "spirit." Under Orion's guidance, the heroine began the struggle to regain her memories. She searched her house for clues about her everyday life, and received a message on her phone... What was displayed on the screen was an unknown name to her. Now, she is asked to meet with him, a boyfriend whose name and face she doesn't know. In a position where who to trust is uncertain, the heroine must move in a way that her memory loss remains undetected by her partner. Because of this, the story becomes tangled in complex ways. With no memories of "him," our heroine will write a new love story starting today...... Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order There are 5 hero routes: Ikki, Kent, Shin, Touma, and Ukyo. To unlock Ukyo (Joker World), you need to get all other Hero's Good Ends first. Then start a completely new game. Route Guideline Ikki Kent Shin Touma Ukyo Attribution This walkthrough is based on info attained on https://welcometowonderland.me by the lovely Amnette with some adjustments made by me.