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On the topic of harem titles: Harem, by their very definition, involve multiple people. Due to the traditional standards of romance, polygamy is not often in the cards outside of outright sex stuff (much to my dismay). This would mean that any title that pursues the avenue of multiple romantic interests will have to either choose one, changing genres and killing some of the audience, or never come to a resolution. These are the kind of titles that can only live off the premise, and they will end should it be resolved.* That is why I believe that titles that can somehow find a way to continue after breaking through this limitation (without introducing a new such hook and limitation) are best. That, or titles that are never inconvenienced by such limitations, like the slice-of-life genre. However, despite these obvious limitations, harem titles and their ilk are by far the most popular. Teasing with only minor pay-off (a kiss after three seasons that gets misunderstood and reverts back into the status quo) does wonders at keeping people addicted. It also often happens that harem titles are somewhat sexual in nature, skipping over the romance in the process. This is, of course, to offer some stimulation and pay-off even without needing to commit to any one person, and maintaining the hook and status quo for as long as there's money in the business. There is also something to be said about multiple girls being interested in the same person providing a great scenario for all sorts of drama and 'best girl' moments and competitions. Anime such as Nisekoi made they living by giving everyone a chance to be best girl and Re:Zero has the famous debate over Rem and Emilia. A lot of wonderful scenarios can be concocted by having multiple romantic interests, but it is usually not in the makers' best interests to let the hook end and reach a conclusion. Visual Novel's inherent advantage is that they CAN choose everyone, and they don't even need to make it a polygamous relationship. Multiple paths enable these possibilities that are mostly shut-off to the other mediums. The thing with VNs is, as a PC game in Japan, they usually need porn in order to sell, as it's the one thing they have over mobile and consoles, which are far more popular in Japan. So the reason VNs do well on the romantic front is two-fold: They can establish hooks like anime and manga, but since VNs are necessarily finite in length, they cannot let the hook carry them indefinitely and will need to commit. Thankfully, it is easy to pull that off with VNs, as they can offer multiple paths, dedicating to everyone a full path of sole romance. As a PC game, they tend to press their one advantage: sex. This usually brings along with it a plethora of other romantic shenanigans in order to provide context. *For example, the other day I saw a manga where the entire premise was that the romantic interest is a huge tsundere that is only true to herself... when she becomes a ghost, as she has the power to do so at any point. What she doesn't know is that the protagonist can see her. The whole story is around the protagonist pretending he can't see her whilst she goes super dere-dere all over him in ghost form. A reader will spend the entire time hoping that the two get together, but it is plain to see that there's nothing to the manga outside of this tease and premise. On the topic of manga: Shoujo can include sex as something that happens off-screen, assuming it happens at all. Where sex happens more often is in smut titles, and those would generally be considered josei more than shoujo. The reason why shoujo include sex more often is because when seinen and/or shounen do it, the titles are usually just hentai by that point. That is to say, seinen and shounen tend to be more extreme, leading to borderline-h titles that you're likely not interested in, whereas shoujo scarcely ever goes this far, instead becoming a form of smut and josei you're also not interested in by that point. So the question becomes: "Why is there a clearer separation between all-ages and 18+ for male stuff than there is for female stuff?" I would theorise that that would be because porn is more widely spread as a thing among the teenage male population than among the teenage female one, and that would mean that including light stuff in shounen and the like is not as much of a selling point as it would be to the teenage female audience. So, when you say that shoujo manga has more romance stuff, I reply with Girls are believed to have more interest in romantic matters where as boys are believed to prefer more raunchy stuff. It follows that stories aimed at girls more often include romantic things that boys'. This includes very romantic and non-explicit sex scenes, the exact opposite of what you find in seinen and some shounen stuff. More popular shounen usually have a harem than shoujo stuff, which impedes romance severely (shoujo have love triangles, which are their own kind of hell, but don't sabotage romantic interactions as much as a harem intentionally does). Shoujo plotlines traditionally follow a girl falling for a guy who's nice (or mean) to them once, and tend to involve more one-on-one and romantic interactions, whereas shounen doesn't usually even focus on romance to begin with, unless it's a harem. The reason why this is is because plotlines where a guy falls head-over-heels with a girl and is led around by the nose aren't as popular as the shoujo versions. In the end, then, why is it that the titles are usually at one extreme or the other: Full-on hentai VS endless harem/romance with scarcely a bit of progress in sight. The reasons are all spread out throughout what I've mentioned previously. Romantic titles tend to garner more interest by placing a hook or dramatic situation that, if resolved, would either end the story or cause a sharp decrease in interest. This is the reason why romance anime and some romance manga tend to be long and inconclusive. If progress is made, it'll usually be towards the end. They use these methods because they air/publish continuously, whereas VNs are single titles with a set beginning and end. It is not that there are no titles with proper romantic progression over the course of the story: consider these two lists I made (that are now rather outdated, as I've come across many more). It's just that the popular ones aren't usually these. They're the others. Because of their hooks and more continuous nature. The more romantic titles will always, due to the absence of strong hooks and drama, be less popular, despite offering more romantic progression. The reason why all-ages stuff doesn't tend to include sex or intimate nudity is that it is a very large jump to make. You'd be jumping from something that can be sold everywhere to something that's have more limited sections to be sold in, and that is simply not a worthwhile sacrifice to make unless you're going for full-on porn.

https://imgur.com/lsOseEK create new one because i post wrong use eng patch and this game is ver1.1 what should i do this game is crash

MOON and One To The Radiant Season. These are old titles, but they're really good. If you like Key works, these are must plays, as they are pretty much the origins of Key, and have a lot of content written by Jun Maeda, and the same artists and such.

Nice work @Bathhouse_Owner This is truly amazing research you've done here. I see you managed to find a solution for ' display. Also, some of the things you documented are a very nice find. Yeah, this was discovered the other day. Jaefine can't repack images for her GSS project now. There's a source code on how extraction of GPK can be done here. Too bad GARBro doesn't do reverse functions, so you'd need a hacker to write a code that would work in an opposite direction. Also... one more thing. Repacking .gpk files is not necessary. The games work fine if you just extract .dwq files from them. This is what I did. The only thing you need to pay attention to is to structure the dwq folder like this: Now the real problem is how to make these dwq files. GARBro has source code for something related to how to read it (link), but not how to convert your JPG/PNG image to that format. Things I've tried so far to solve the problem... I tried checking out various code repositories made by the developer of SystemNNN (link) but without any success. I don't understand Japanese, so I wasn't able to figure out what does what, and my knowledge of programming is fairly limited. There's a free version of SystemNNN IDE on the developer's site (link), but after countless hours of fiddling with it - I wasn't able to figure out anything. This is what Japanese devs used to make the game itself, but I had no luck deciphering how it works. There's a help somewhere, but reading in Japanese is hard. Maybe you'll have more luck than me figuring out things, seeing how you discovered a lot of things I yet didn't.

Disregard that, I'm dumb and didn't realize there were other stuff to do before inserting. Tested with another game (Dasaku) and they worked. Anyway, after fiddling with the tools and other engine files, I found you can make them work for pretty much any Cyc-soft game. You can make the engine do a ton of stuff too, I'm surprised. Here are my findings: https://pastebin.com/vM4SjTJN https://pastebin.com/UDVzKHnm Tools: https://mega.nz/#!AV5nWQCZ!aVLYk3TkxKxqYz1TNesZs8xoeXedrPyNEhf9W8x4MGY Dasaku specific files (Only for Nuiawase version): https://mega.nz/#!QF4hVYwC!mBAOWhHoLXM5V94YmvxiBL7UPYkQgx1u7m0ery-cXc8 To do: https://pastebin.com/mkh2QfC3 I'll format this better later, as I'm busy ATM.

I'm sorry to say, but no such thing exists... How about https://vndb.org/v21552 , although it seems it will be localized soon.

11eyes -Tsumi to Batsu to Aganai no Shoujo- *Summary* Kakeru lost his older sister five years ago. He tries to get back to normal life, but he still lives a vacant life. He has a childhood friend, Yuka, who goes to the same high school. She always tries to cheer him up and he gradually gets better. One day all of a sudden, the sky turns red and the moon becomes black. Everyone besides Kakeru and Yuka disappears and monsters start roaming the streets. All they can do is just to run away and hide. A while later, it all gets back to normal. But when they start to think its all passed the Red Night happens again. They find out that there are four more humans who get involved in this mysterious phenomenon. They get together and try to survive, but six shadows appear in front of them... *Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order* There are four heroines, to unlock Kukuri you need to beat the first three. There is also a Bad End that will give you a CG. Recommended route order: *Route Guideline* Minase Yuka Misuzu Kusakabe Kukuri Tachibana Yukiko Hirohara CG Collection