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The life cycle of popcorn disturbs me just as much today as it did when I was 5 years old.

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Overall, yeah, I personally thought that linearity was a bit unsatisfying. To be honest, after finishing it I personally believe that Aselia is the game that you play twice for the story (since New Game+ adds enough new content to make the whole game worth replaying), but you should only aim to finish all the routes if you really like the gameplay. If you enjoy the gameplay, then the multiple route system gives you a chance to play the game more, and there is a bonus that you get some information about the world and the characters only in certain routes. If you don't like the gameplay, then playing one route will give you enough information about the whole story to make replaying really unnecessary. Which brings me to the next point. There are 6 routes: Nozomi, Satsuki, Narukana, Katima, Ruputna, and Naya. I personally only finished 4 out of 6 routes, and, honestly, I literally don't see any reason to play all of them. There's literally even less difference between routes than in Aselia. Just a few lines and h-scenes here and there, and the last chapter is a bit different, but that's it. The only exception is Satsuki's route which adds some interesting stuff in the middle that you don't get in any other route (and introduces a major plot hole). So, honestly, I'd recommend to play Satsuki and then Narukana and skip everything else. If you really want to finish every route, play Nozomi before Satsuki and other routes after Narukana. No, every other route is unlocked from the very beginning. I personally recommend playing Satsuki before Narukana, or you may be a bit lost. I never found one myself. And the problem is that the guides that exist kind of contradict each other. Overall, the route system is more straightforward than in Aselia, so you don't really need a walkthrough. Basically all you need to know: Narukana's route is the easiest to get into. There's a choice in a dream sequence in chapter 8 that only appear on your second playthrough which lets you choose between "Continue watching" or "Reach out for her". If you choose the later, you're locked into her route. That's it. All the other routes are decided by the number of affection point you have with a heroine. You can get affection point by: Choosing dialogue options that favor the heroine in some way. Putting her into the the same squad as the MC and using this squad to defeat enemy squads marked with a heart. This is the biggest difference with Aselia where any enemy squad works. Putting the heroine into the same squad as the MC and letting her get an MVP, which means to defeat the highest number of enemies in the battle. I believe, this gives you the highest number of affection points. In the end you get into the route with the heroine that has the highest number of affection points. That's it.

Instead of a blogpost I did this one as an amateur documentary. I'm 100% serious about my claim. It might sound crazy, but if you watch the video I'm sure you'll at least see that my claim has a logical foundation to it. You don't need to have watched Lain to follow the video either. So if the topic interests you by all means check it out.

I just created an account just to say ... thank you so much for all your hard work! I barely found out about this thread today but seeing people's passion has encouraged me to translate a visual novel. But hey, I just have one question, how the heck could you make the .scn files editable? I couldn't find anything on the internet to be able to do it ... Thank you very much if someone responds to this!

Thank You Guys for giving Noratoto a chance to show it's full content... Take your time as much as you need, More Power to you guys...

I appreciate the effort, guys. Thanks! Take your time as much as you need.

The points we considered when selecting the steam version - Contributing to the global VN market. - The English version, which uses kirikiri, supports Unicode and therefore is more suitable for translations into any language, unlike WhaleEngine (From the Japanese version) which uses SJIS and supports only Japanese / English characters. - The English version is already in English (obviously), so instead of translating the entire Japanese game, it seemed more practical to just import the h-scenes and translate them. - Translating the steam version does not prevent you from translating the Japanese version, so even if we do not translate the Japanese version, someone may take the trouble to import the translation. I considered making an automated port of the translation, but that would greatly increase our work because even the automated port would require manual work in order to adjust the sections of the scripts that have changed, after all some dialogue was removed and / or changed in the English version. We can't just to do a ctrl + c ctrl + v, the higher we try to go, the harder we could fall. So, the project is basically and exclusively focused on translating the h-scenes already ported. Some more adjustments are expected later on, for quality control and to ensure stability of the 'mod', because the scripts were literally rewritten and complex binaries edited by hand. I personally expect to have some bugs to fix later.

Koiken Otome English Translation Patch (by Flying Pantsu) Summary A long time ago, unknown beings known as Kotona invaded Earth in search of food. Humans were unable to repel them until after a few years, some people gained special abilities known as ‘douryoku’ which allowed them to exterminate the Kotona and return peace to the world. Now, Seiichi attends the super-elite Kashinomori Academy which trains people with douryoku in preparation for another attack by the Kotona. However, even though he has great power, he doesn’t have the ability to manifest it, leading to him being labelled as ‘most useless one’. The rest of the students in his class all had great skill, but in particular one girl caught his attention. Akane had average powers even though she came from a distinguished family, so she trained hard daily to improve her skills. Watching her, he can’t help but want to help her and that was when his ‘Amplifier’ ability awakened. It is an unidentified power which greatly boosts the abilities of people who believe in one another. As a result, he was greatly sought after not only in the school, but in the world. Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order There are four heroines: Akane, Touko, Yuzu, and Yves. You may play in any order you like . Some of Touko's route is spoiled by other routes, so you may want to play hers earlier. I'm personally going Akane -> Touko -> Yves -> Yuzu. Route Guideline Yasukuni Akane Kamishiro Touko Someya Yuzu Yves Elaine Austin Attribution This walkthrough was created by me with information obtained on seiya-sega.com Flying Pantsu