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It's seems MG have made another lience survey and here it's 3 VN I choose as license suggestion Gift Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia Ojou-sama to Himitsu no Otome Both by MoonStone and I want to see more VN from MoonStone and partner I hope MG will partner up are KID.

I was the editor on Houkago Cinderella when the project was dropped, joining a few months before it was dropped due to the takedown notice. At the time, I was tasked with focusing on editing Youka's route and was about half-way finished with the route, but due to the takedown, nothing I worked on was released in the partial patches that came out. I was not in the conversation when the takedown was requested, but based on statements, the translator was messaged to stop the project from someone at NekoNyan since they are partners with Hooksoft and the image editor made a statement along those same lines(saying it was NekoNyan) in the Discord server when announcing the project was dropped. Though when news spread and when it was announced it was worded like it came from Hooksoft(the AfterschoolTL's blog post stating "HOOKSOFT representative") themselves since NekoNyan was acting as Hooksoft's representatives due to the partnership. Part of the reason why things shifted to not announce what future projects, if any, are. The translator was honestly surprised they weren't hit sooner by a takedown notice or something, and so was I.

It needs to be said that Tone Works is pretty much the only company that has ever done romance VNs as extensive and detailed as their games. It is the reason why they have such a solid following. In terms of artwork, 80% of all slice-of-life commercially-made games have that quality of artwork (it is pretty much standard for the course) post-2012. Except for nitpicking details, there really isn't anything to choose from. Komorebi no Nostalgica comes to mind, for sheer emotional impact and depth of the romance. However, it also has a philosophical aspect that some people might have trouble with, so I'll leave the choices to you. Haru to Yuki is also a good choice, if you don't mind it being generally somber in atmosphere. The romance is highly emotional but if you don't want a fantasy element in the story, you should go elsewhere. (more like this is if you don't mind it, otherwise I won't barrage you with suggestions of the same type) Soshite Hatsukoi ga Imouto ni Naru, Shunki Gentei Poco a Poco, and Love Rec by Alcot are straight-out slice-of-life romances that draw out the emotions. Natsuiro Recipe is 'comfort food' slice-of-life romance based in a Japanese country setting. Any game by Clochette will have good romance and humorous character interactions, with various levels of fantasy or sci-fi depending on the game. If you are in the mood for tragic romance in a unique future setting, Sakura, Sakimashita is an excellent choice. It is based in a future where people discovered how to become ageless using genetic engineering, and where all humans have the right to become so. However, due to the appearance of a planet-destroying asteroid, the previously ageless 'tokoshie' people (including the protagonist and the heroines) are forced to face the reality of their own mortality, while they seek to make the best of the time they have left. Lovesick Puppies Izayoi Fortuna Hana no No ni Saku Utakata no

Happy new year everyone! I'll be honest here, I had some last minute trouble and I couldn't get it in before the year end, but the common route is finally here. I have added a link to the download in the post, you can check it out. Hope you all enjoy it. I eagerly await everyone's feedback and criticism.

I can't tell if it's globish or Engrish, and I really don't care. The text offends me at some deep, profound level.

Game's name is supposed to be named "Sora o Aogite Kumo Takaku". Instead we get the Engrish version that will most like censor the kissing scenes too (which is quite romantic in a sense with the french kissing and all...) I really like male protagonists in this game too. All of it is gonna be ruined by Debonosu's horrible localization decisions.

If they actually got their act together and got a proper translator and bothered releasing an adult and all ages version maybe they could actually release something decent. As it is I will be passing on this title just like I did for the last one. Why should I put my money to help them if they won't put the money in to make the product playable/readable? Shame this company is putting in so little effort for a good game release. It can't cost them that much to just hire a proper translator and find a means to release an 18+ patch for the game. Unless of course Debonosu is using steam as a last resort to try and earn some funding to prevent itself from going out of business.

"A battle is an easy action gaming!" "You don't have to worry if you are not confident of an action gaming." I don't have to worry, okay. I'll pass. They should get their shit together and hire a translator. If I would want to play this game with google translate help I would do so... One screenshot is enough to say "no, ty"

This game is now up on Steam Greenlight. The Greenlight page is less of a mess than Kagura Douchuuki's was, but the text is still obviously written by a non-native speaker. It manages to be understandable at least, but we're still talking worse than the Flowers demo here. Unlike Kagura Douchuuki, this is a game that actually has merit without its H-content--indeed, the H-content in the original felt kind of out of place. The battle system resembles the one in Tales games, and it's probably the best system of any Debonosu game I've tried. The story is the standard cliche garbage with dimwitted villains that you'd find in a 1990's SNES JRPG, with some moe scenes added in. Overall, I could vaguely recommend this game to fans of VN-RPGs, even without the ero-content. That is, if Debonosu actually hired a translator that could write proper English at least. Going by EGS scores and my gut intuition, it's probably the best game in Debonosu's lineup (excluding Izumo 4, which I haven't evaluated).

To be fair, Debonosu's track record is having promotional materials that are more poorly translated than the game itself. My guess is that they hire a translator for the game script and have some random person on their JP staff do the promotional materials. But those screenshots are nothing. Feast your eyes (and ears!) on this:

The H-scenes in this game felt very much like slapped-in extra scenarios shoehorned in at opportune moments. They were literally fetish material. The ero element formed an important part of the setting in Kagura Douchuuki, but in this game it's more or less just a plot device. The entire game has a very fake, cartoony feel to it. Every character, including loli Mint and her adult variants, more or less personifies a trope. Even by Debonosu standards the writing is pretty weak. It's a shame because the gameplay isn't bad at all. I never made it past the second H-scene with adult Mint, so maybe it gets better. I kind of doubt it though.

The title is literally "Looking up at the clouds high in the sky". It's supposed to symbolize Mint's growth during the course of their journey. The English title attempts a literal translation of that and fails horribly. I'd probably go with the title "To Raise a Dragon Girl". That more or less captures the theme of the first half of the game without being overly verbose or obtuse.

That's not an unlikely scenario. Their games hardly get any votes on EGS. I expect characters in a game written for adults to not mirror Disney tropes.

Steam Greenlight forum discussion This makes my head hurt.