Rylei

Because NIS doesn't let other publishers localize their games, duh.

Isn't this, erm, bad? Barely anyone buys dlcs and, from what I heard, we've already seen the same plan to fail spectacularly for ChuSinGura, even though their case is, admittedly, pretty different. Plus it will clearly deduct from the "prestige", new people won't perceive it as a big release when they see a weird free-to-play with dlcs.

Yeah, right, that's what you and maybe someone like BDH think, while in reality I now constantly see the passages like "everything about danganronpa is so good! While on the other hand dat horrible persona translation, it's barely playable, I didn't really notice anything wrong with it myself outside of the few weird lines but people bash it so much on the internet, it's so bad!" And now it's even compared to something like Libra. It's pretty amazing. With the way they handled it, the only things they attained are the questionable glory for themselves and some bad PR for Atlus. When there are so many bad localizations of even quite high-profile games, now we have a mindset that persona's translation is somehow the worst of its generation among the jewels. Oh my, Libra's localization is so bad, it's Persona all over again. I'll better go and play the amazing Atelier, now that never hinders my enjoyment with its blatant mistakes. Sigh, oh well, there's no point in continuing this weird off-topic, please carry on with bashing Libra.

In an exremely excessive and often wrong manner. They simply chose the most popular target even if it's not really suitable past the first few hours. The vast majority of KT, NISA, Aksys or Bandai Namco translations are much worse but they turned Persona into the martyr of "bad" translations. That's exactly what absurdity looks like and now we see the amusing results.

Man, just how much were the people's minds polluted by several self-righteous men who decided to earn their chunk of fame and turn persona into the promotion of their ideas of an "ideal" translation if those people are now ready to equate the very competent overall, even though uneven and at times unedited persona translation, with the plain bad excerpts Decay provided. Truly regrettable.

Then we shall rejoice that at the very least it's not Grisaia. Though seriously, with Island, Subahibi, Dies Irae, Dangan 3, Sona-Nyl etc. it would have likely been an easy pick for most if properly done at the end of the year. But if we do it like this then it's probably 2014 since it was exactly the year when I read steins/fate/dangan and I didn't touch most of the later stuff yet anyway obviously nothing beats Sakura Spirit.

Then, to be honest, you shouldn't have included it in the rankings at all. 2017 is supposed to have many notable releases, none of which have released yet outside of Grisaia, having it in the list like this is completely pointless

Hey-ho, extremely late but not forgotten, this year's top is here! Third time is probably the charm and I know you liked it so let's do this again. Watch our video, post your picks, throw tomatoes, live after midnight, rock to the dawn. Previous years: 2015: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/13189-best-vn-openings-and-endings-of-2015/ 2014: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/8300-best-vn-openings-of-2014

I don't really understand the question, to be honest. We do have at least one, the very first HM by Sakakibara.

Yeah, Zwei is great, but this song is from 2014. I think it would have good chances to get into the top 10 this year though.

Nah, we went by the japanese calendar and euphoria is a 2011 game then.

After how disastrously fun the last time was, we couldn't possibly refrain from discussing your favourite songs of the year that past again. Watch our video, post your picks, throw tomatoes etc. Albeit a little late but it still should be curious, I believe.

Vita-version had a new opening cinematic with a brand new song from marina. There're actually many re-releases with new tracks among the list like cross chan, oretachi or, the most obvious, fate. Hello Lady OP2 almost got in, we'll now surely find and punish responsible for such blunder.

Hi there, as we in TopLab have made our own crafty list of best openings from 2014's visual novels, I'd actually like to take this chance to talk about your picks! What are your favorite vn-songs of the past year that would stay with you even when you'd grow tired of the game itself? And, well, if you don't really know yet, this is exactly the time to find out. Or you can always simply tell just how bad of a taste we all have, that counts too.