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Finally finished the VN! Spoiler thoughts below.

Thanks for all your words! Indeed, I didn't play NG yet, I was really broke when it released so I decided to wait for a sale, in fact I bought it just yesterday so you now left me excited to see what's to come!!! And I hope you enjoy Nie no Machi ^^ It does have some sensitive content here and there, sure, but some of them is text-only and the level of occurrence of them in the normal/true end routes is about the same as Dramatical Murder I guess (that's not true for the bad ends though, as NnM ones are worse than DMMD ones)

According to this tweet, it seems like the first one has been sent out and the second one will be released soon. (And both will come to Steam as soon as they have been approved.)

Very interesting read. Our tastes seem to be similar so I'm hyped to start playing Nie No Machi asap since you recommend it! I hadn't got around to playing it since I didn't fully understand what concept they were going for so it gave me rapey vibes lol. I wonder if you already played NG, Death Mark's sequel? I liked Death Mark (and Mashita is my fave too <3) but I was surprised to not see NG here since it improved everything that was clunky in Death Mark, imho. Death Mark had a tendency to just throw a bunch of characters at you and then take them away before you could properly bond with them (only Mashita was around for long enough), and this only improved with the extra Red Riding Hood case. If you haven't played NG yet, I really recommend it! It improved the faults in gameplay and placed a lot more focus on characterization, so you actually walk away attached to all of your friends instead of a select few. My favorite partners in Death Mark were Mashita and Yasuoka, which is why I'm a bit bummed out Yasuoka apparently won't make an appearance in the upcoming 3rd game ;; (Recommendation for NG: the Super Scary mode is the one that has the same jumpscare formula as Death Mark, not default mode. I made the mistake of picking default, thinking it would be the Death Mark setting... Turns out NG's default has basically no jumpscares.)

Here is the translation: "Since srpgs like Shinyaku Eien no Aselia and Yuukyuu no Euphoria are too big as projects to be funded using crowdfunding as well as other difficulties (Clephas: In other words, 'SRPGs suck development funds like an elephant does water in comparison to normal rpgs, which are somewhat simpler'), we want to first make a standard dungeon RPG while keeping the contents at a somewhat lower development cost. That is 'Mugen no Nanato to Yakusoku no Kishidan'. Edit: As a note, the proper translation for the last game's name is 'Illusionary/Fantastical Nanato and the Promised Knights'. 'Mugen' with that kanji combination doesn't translate so well in this context, so it is best just to use the Japanese title.

If I have the context correctly, he's saying that trying to get the crowdfunding for big-budget/niche projects like the Aselia remake or the Euphoria game is difficult, so they're starting with a low budget 3D dungeon crawler (夢幻のナナトと約束の騎士団 / The Spirit of Eternity Sword and the Promised Knights*). However, there are other tweets saying that all three projects are proceeding in parallel, so... I think they're just making Nanato as a way to get more trust (and funding), rather than diverting serious resources into it away from the main games.

Trust Zakamutt over me. I have no trust in my memory of the particular scene or even others. (Zakamutt, you preferred to write 'previous poster' rather than alter the name. Astonishing.)

I would say it's actually even worse than tiago (previous poster) is saying. Also, the thing he mentions was not really consensual I'd say

I believe what he said was "I might hold out until we're done with everything, including the side stories." (which is sort of ambiguous and less definitive than you make it sound) Maybe they have decided or are playing it by ear. I don't know. I've said what I wanted to and will leave it to them because I'm not sure if they'd appreciate me pressing the issue further. Thanks for your reply

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