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John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... A very special girl. Though Lizzie appears affectionate and devoted, it becomes clear that she's so violent and unstable that a normal boy would run away from her. But when John sees her, he sees someone else suffering from a mental condition. John is willing to risk his safety for a chance to help Lizzie gain some mental stability. Lizzie is willing to murder everyone in school if she believes it would make him happy. Will he reject her or succumb to his depression? Will she lose control and ruin her chances? Is there a sinister conspiracy lurking in their school, or is it only a figment of their mental struggles? Or... could the two of them actually be exactly what the other needs? Depending on your choices, their relationship will end in tragedy, violence, or just maybe happiness. Project Info This is a completed visual novel you can find in a variety of places: VNDB: https://vndb.org/v21499 Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/655770/Crimson_Gray/ itch.io (SFW): https://sierralee.itch.io/crimson-gray itch.io (NSFW): https://sierralee.itch.io/crimson-gray-nsfw MangaGamer: http://blog.mangagamer.com/detail.php?product_code=1027 Nutaku: https://www.nutaku.net/games/download/crimson-gray/ DLsite English: http://www.dlsite.com/ecchi-eng/work/=/product_id/RE204113.html DLsite Japanese: http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ204113.html Info Crimson Gray is a psychological thriller, exploring the psyches of the characters and the strange circumstances that brought them together. It has a focus on subtle actions having consequences, your choices impacting the characters' mental stability in ways that could make choices later in the story have very different results. Lizzie has multiple poses and many expressions to convey a wide variety of different emotions, which you'll have to navigate during the game. The backgrounds are also part of the game's core themes: John sees the world in black and white to represent his depression, and the world becomes increasingly unfocused when he succumbs to it. Hi everyone! I'm Sierra Lee - I make a variety of games, but I've never posted any of them here before. This is my first major Steam release, so I hope people will take a look! Most of the rest of my games are free and can be found in my signature links. More RPG content, but there are some VN hybrids in there as well.

Both are bad. Period.

I don't run FuwaReviews anymore (That's Palas), but as somebody who used to run it, I can at least shed a little light on what's going on, and explain why I stopped doing reviews in the first place: So, for those who aren't aware, I work for quite a few different companies in the localization industry in various different roles. I won't provide that list here because you can find most/all of them by looking around. Some of these companies I started working for in the past couple years. Before that, I had a ton of connections with a lot of different devs, and I was able to get us signed up for review keys from something like a dozen companies/teams/groups/whatever you wanna call them. Some of those connections are still around today, while others have pulled out for various reasons (none of which were our fault—at least not that I'm aware of). During that time, we had pretty consistent reviews, a great set of reviewers (many of whom are still on the team), and it was 20% thanks to our reviewers and 80% thanks to Flutterz (seriously, he edited everything for us and is amazing—10/10 would recommend) that we were able to be that blessed. Thanks to our connections, I was usually able to just be like "Hay [company] can I get key for x?" and then divvy out the keys to whoever wanted them. Then, everybody started getting busy. A few reviewers, including myself, fell off the face of the Earth/peaced out/couldn't spend time playing VNs. It sucked. I put out a call for new reviewers and got basically nobody (except Decay—love you bae). I got slammed with school and life and official stuff, so I stepped down. Bats took over and tried to keep the ship afloat, but during this time we lost roughly half of our connections for various reason (not because of this swap, just bad timing). We attempted to pick up more reviewers, but nobody fit the bill. We have a general process for our reviewers, which is why we had to turn down quite a few people. We try to remain unbiased (though, like any review site, it happens), and we write enough to justify our reasons. A lot of our posts are on the longer side, follow a pretty straightforward format, and give people a good idea of what to expect. We also anticipate that our writers have some mastery of the English language, so that we can get reviews edited in a timely manner. Not much to ask for: you spent two to 40+ hours playing a game, hopefully you'll be willing to spend thirty minutes to an hour writing a solid review. So we were having problems finding reviewers. And while I say "We," I mean Bats. Later, some "things" happened. At the time, we had a rule in place (mostly for me) that we cannot review any title we worked on. For the record, I never reviewed a title I directly worked on, and any titles I did work on had a disclaimer, especially when I was the one who got the key. It's the ethical thing to do. But, because that wasn't enough, we had to strengthen the rule to "We can't review games from a company we work/worked for." I understand why that rule is in place, but the number of companies I can do reviews for is fewer than the number of companies I can't do reviews for, so I was finished. Bats left the VN scene completely shortly after this, and Palas stepped up. He's doing what he can, but there are a lot of roadblocks. The fact that a couple other reviewers also had restrictions placed on them caused a bit of a dead space that we still weren't able to fill because nobody applied and met the basic requirements to be a reviewer. We still have a strong team, but virtually all of us are involved with something (official, unofficial, or non-VN related) in one way or another, and it's difficult to make it work. Would I love to run FuwaReviews again and get it back to the glory days? Yes, of course I would. But I can't. I'm too involved in the community for that to work out. Instead, I'll have to depend on somebody else, and I look forward to seeing if we can make it work out. And maybe, one day, I'll do a JAST game review. Maybe.

Dies Irae Ayakashibito Tokyo Babel

I think they shirk [avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility)] by bringing life size love dolls home. I think its really damaging to young children to have their fathers do that when they have wives or even otherwise. Fatherhood goes beyond simply clothing, feeding and sending them to school. You have to also protect your children as much as you can from things that may traumatise them. If the kids are adults and out of the house then its fine. Still... doing that when you have a wife is something incomprehensible to me. I think the reasons why his wife isn't giving him love is a question only they can answer. Normally people would try to work through the problem, separate or get a divorce. Not bring a love doll home . Personally, I think if you aren't harming anyone in any way, go love the doll all you want, its your life. When you have a family though, its a different matter entirely. Ps: I think in the articles I mentioned in that post, it shows some of them living in separate places from their families to stay with their dolls. Anyway there's a number of articles out there for people to google if they're interested. *cringe*

Wrapped up Interviews with Monster Girls. I unfortunately watched the best episode before a long hiatus, so the last two episodes I watched just now couldn't help but be a disappointment, given how much I enjoyed my favorite episode, but the show remained lovely and sweet right up until the end. I really appreciated that it never fell prey to sacrificing its characters for its plot: every episode was well thought-through and the way each one played out was honest to the characters. That resulted in a truly marvelous episode 11, which was backed by a plot which in most other shows would have been a frustrating, predictable episode about a misunderstanding. Instead, we got a real, interesting, and incredibly beautiful episode about working through issues and forming new relationships. In retrospect, Interviews with Monster Girls reminds me of what I loved in Kokoro Connect, a level of care which I hardly ever see in anime: all the characters are thoughtful, relatable, and believable. The last may sound ironic for a show featuring a vampire, a snow woman, a Dullahan, and a succubus, but of course that is exactly the point.

Don't you dare besmirch "Please Bang My Wife," Ningen.

"Funbag Fantasy" is proof that translating the title of a VN can be a fine thing.

Hey people, me again! So, I noticed that there are no new reviews for a while, being the last one for Chrono Clock. One of the best features since Fuwa changed was the creation of its own reviews, and even though I don't usually comment on the site, I used to read and appreciate all of them. Since there are so many new games being released week after week, I started to miss FuwaReviews even more, and wanted to ask if they are coming back anytime in the future. You can consider it a request, even And I like a lot the Visual Novel Tracker too, so thank you all for bringing it every saturday

The English term seems be well established in English philosophical texts as well. German English I guess it's really just for the Edginess Well, the page talking about the removal of that scene is the page for the 18+ patch (NSFW). So at least you wont get the scene through an official patch. The scene and image isn't even that hardcore. But apparently still too much for people who get confused by Japanese names.

From my perspective as one of the current reviewers, and speaking only for myself, not for FuwaReviews at large or Palas in particular as the head, I see a combination of factors influencing the rate at which we publish reviews (which, btw, I don't think is all that slow; we've maybe had some outlier slow months recently with only one review a month, but these things are going to be cyclical): Reading a VN simply takes time, and we're all busy individuals doing various things. Reading a VN to review it vs. reading it for pleasure is actually a surprisingly different experience. Reading something with the intent to review it actually puts a fair bit of mental burden on me, vs. simply reading it normally, for better and worse: I spend time stepping back and assessing how I'm feeling about certain things, taking notes, constantly considering collecting screenshots, etc. All told, it's actually a fair bit less entertaining to read this way. That said, the psychological payoff of actually putting out the review and having a big public conversation with people about a game is substantial (and is the reason I do reviews). It actually takes a while to write a review. Even if you're thoughtfully preparing along the way while reading it, like I mentioned, preparing the final review takes a few hours (at least for me). Basically, choosing to do a review is signing up for a fair bit of work. We don't have all that many active reviewers. Looks like only 5 reviewers have posted something in the last 10 months? Palas recruited another reviewer fairly recently, and I myself only joined the team within the last year, so this isn't an area where we're completely stagnating, but finding interested and qualified people is not easy. To have a review, you have to have a game that people want to review. There are a ton of VNs coming out all the time, of course, but individual reviewers have their own preferences and interests, and not much incentive or desire (hopefully understandably) to review outside of things they're already interested in. And even within the bounds of those interests, things don't always work out. As an example, the Symphonic Rain HD remaster came out recently, and I picked it up with the intent of reviewing it since I really liked it back when I read the fan TL years ago. However, a couple hours in, I realized the release was sub-par in a lot of ways (backlog didn't work correctly, lots of proofing errors, translation did a poor job of capturing characterization), and I just couldn't stand the thought of sinking 40 hours into ruining my pleasant memories of a game by playing a bad release of it at that level of elevated scrutiny, just to wind up saying, "This game I loved got a sub-standard official localization and HD remaster," even though I think that's exactly the sort of review that would be great to put out there, in that it would likely create an interesting conversation. Now, all that said, I can personally say that I'm planning to pick up WagaHigh on release date and review it, since for whatever combination of reasons, it's caught my eye. I don't know how long it will take—my time is always limited—but you have my word there will be a review of it before too long after release. I also want to add one important request, as a reviewer. If you want to support FuwaReviews, from my perspective, the best thing you can do is to make sure to comment on the reviews, in whichever venue you prefer: the tweets (retweets are always appreciated), the FuwaReviews blog posts themselves, associated forum threads, the Facebook post I guess (I've never even looked at those to see if there are comments... I probably should...). Doing reviews, for me, is an extension of why I'm on Fuwanovel in the first place: I like VNs, and I want to talk to people about them. The payoff of all that time spent reviewing a game is all in that subsequent conversation a review sparks.

GHS needs to learn that less is more when it comes to writing. Good lord. "The heavens were a dark curtain visible from the window, a scattering of twinkles cut off by the frame that absconds with my sight." ffffff What even is this.

I will recommend you my favourite novels of all time Yume Miru Kusuri https://vndb.org/v44 , drug that makes you dream It has the best character development and the stories are top notch. It would probably be the game I would ask to delete from my memory for replay, for sure. Katawa Shoujo https://vndb.org/v945, I simply will say that after finishing and falling in love with the characters, you will go outside and get a lot of exercise, I am cereals. Only 2, I don't follow rules

Try ef if you like eden since they came from the same company (minori), and perhaps you could try Saya no Uta (Quite twisted though). Other than those two, I could recommend Steins Gate (And the sequel) and Kara no Shoujo duology. If you okay with girl love, then Pygmalion would be good for you as well. By the way even if some of my recommendations were only at 800×600, those recommendations still good enough imo.

Coμ - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku - Deardrops Ourai no Gahkthun ~What a Shining Braves~ There's a lot more that's not included in your list, just tag translated visual novels in vndb and you'll get the full list . Oh, and I second Chelphas suggestions, great Vns [haven't read Ayakashibito yet though, saving it].

Wow, this looks really nice! Just picked it up.

Higurashi no Naku koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni are the exact games you are looking for.

That's not exactly uncommon though? And it probably makes sense marketing wise, to a person unfamiliar with Japanese a title like that might be too much, and they will just ignore it; weakening the "impression".

Watching Aria: The Origination, slowly, savouring 1 episode at a time, occasionally, over a month. Man I love this series for so many reasons. The music [THE MUSIC], ambience, the characters, the humour, conversations and scenes that evoke so much of emotions. There's so much passion and life in the characters. The world of Aria is so ideal, beautiful and serene. Everyone loves their roles in this world fervently, finding joy in their simple yet grand existences. As a viewer, it fills my heart with happiness and love, watching this anime makes me feel that way in every single episode. It just can't help but gift me happiness in such a forward and honest way. I have literally shed a few tears just by how happy I get in certain episodes [okay a lot of episodes!]. I 'feel' Aria and it fills me with love and warmth. I think that's the simplest way of putting it. I don't think there's another show out there that is quite like this, or evokes such strong positive emotions from me. Every element just comes together so beautifully. Of course there are bits that are melancholic, but that's fine, those scenes have a purpose in their creation, and it ultimately leaves you feeling content and humble. I want to drag this season for as long as I can, I'm trying to sip and savour this smooth drink and remember the moments, so that I can tap into my memory banks when I need a smile. Every scene, every character, I love them all. I'll be sad when this journey ends, but i'm so happy that I got to experience it, and that I took my time with all the seasons. Beautiful.