Fred the Barber
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On 9/28/2019 at 3:17 PM, Twiztedharlequin said:
Hrm, that's exactly what I've tried to be honest, gave all of them 3 hearts for about 3 or 4 days. But then I've encountered choice events where I could only kiss one of them, the MC wanted to kiss the rest of the sisters too but every time mom shows up and forces the MC to go study. And that happens every time from there on out, I've tried spreading the 1 kiss chance equally among the girls but after a while mom gets pissed for not choosing one of them properly and forces me to make a final decision and I can only get on a single sisters route in the end.
Edit : Oh, and of course I've already cleared all the girls routes, unlocked all CG's for all characters. Literally only the harem route is missing ( And I don't have an option to go for the mom either, she doesn't even have a section in the CG watch screen )
hmmm. Let me paste what I said again and bold something for emphasis.
QuoteIf you have cleared all the girls' routes, then if you kiss them all at every opportunity (so you end the day with 3 hearts), you should have both the harem route and the mom route available at the end of the first day.
The fork for Mom and harem routes is only available at the end of the first day. You say you "gave all of them 3 hearts for about 3 or 4 days", so I'm guessing you missed the chance at the end of the first day? They'll be in the lineup of kisses: in addition to the four individual girls, there will be an additional option of Mom, and one more option for all four sisters.
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On 9/29/2019 at 11:06 AM, KurumiKokonoe said:
how to unlock the extra scenes?
everyone kind to explain?
Edit: I got the harem and mom routes completed but im still missing some cgs and scenes
The only thing I can imagine you missed is that you need to play the harem route twice to see all the scenes. Which pair of sisters you pick first changes the scenes you see after that. I think there are two (or four?) long scenes after that split, before it converges for the harem route ending.
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6 hours ago, Merkom said:
That is how customer feedback works in any industry. Let's say you got 1000 customers. 100 of those come to you and tell you that the starters served there suck ass. Then you get positive feedback about the same starters from around 20 people, who however hang around the restaurant all the time and are friends with your chef. Of course, the chef and his buddies like it as well. You either need to act based on the feedback you got or gather more feedback. Customer complaints in general come from a very small percentage of overall customers, but normal companies usually do their utmost to do something about it. Now, this is even more pronounced in a niche industry such as eroge localization, where you get only several thousand regulars.
But we both know you will ignore this and revel in the likes you received from the aforementioned echo chamber.
My guy, just look at the reactions in this thread. You're in the minority on freaking Fuwanovel, the weebiest place to talk about VNs short of 4chan. The only reasonable conclusion is that the one living in an echo chamber is you, not those of us saying 3rd-person self-reference sounds like ass in translation.
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If you have cleared all the girls' routes, then if you kiss them all at every opportunity (so you end the day with 3 hearts), you should have both the harem route and the mom route available at the end of the first day. The harem route does not unlock until you have cleared all the sisters' routes.
Edit: And I'll add, following the Japanese guide is only for the insane. Just kiss all the girls all the time and you'll be fine, honestly.
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I have witnessed the progress of an English speaker transitioning out of referring to themself in the third-person and into the first-person. The toddler in question finished making that change shortly before their third birthday. So if you want to feel like Saya is two years old while you're reading that game, go for it and apply that patch. Meanwhile, any halfway decent translator is going to understand how inaccurate it is to render 3rd-person self-reference in Japanese as 3rd-person self-reference in English.
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11 hours ago, Ryuushi said:
That was a good one, tho i'm waiting for someone to do a walkthrough of this. It's so much choices according to the walkthrough from Seiya-Saiga, and i've got no time to do try and error. I'm not very good in japanese, so i'll have to wait.
The walkthrough is silly and is targeted at seeing every single dialogue line, including like, one-line forks for "hey, aren't you going to kiss me?". You do not need a walkthrough if you want to see every route. Just kiss the girls and the rest will sort itself out. Trust me.
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I... don't know if he would want me to share that. He used to post here quite a lot, but I don't know if I should say more than that. I'll just say, there were only ever two company reps who did that who were well thought-of, and he's one of those two.
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I imagine this mostly flew under the radar, but a certain former PR rep, once known as the nicest guy in the VN industry, is translating this charming-looking indie game which is getting a Kickstarter to fund the translation:
They already hit their funding goal, but consider showing them some love anyway; the game does look fun and goofy, and knowing Ian, the localization should be a riot.
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I am somewhat biased, but 9-nine-: Episode 2 has the only truly hilarious H-scene I have ever seen.
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Edit: I somehow completely misread the OP o_O, so I'm basically rewriting this post, lol
Clannad, because I loved the anime. Which soon led to Little Busters, and then down a very deep rabbit hole...
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Yeah... The structure of the game is definitely not friendly in that regard. The prologue is a slog.
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On the one hand, I understand not wanting to abandon your own hard work. On the other hand, once a company has announced an official localization, the civil thing to do if you're a fan translation outfit is to talk to the developer and understand what they want you to do, not to say "fuck you, Key, we're going to keep releasing our fan TL patches". I hope these guys cool off a bit and have a conversation with the developer's English representatives to understand what their wishes are. Who knows? Maybe there's room for collaboration.
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Volume 3 completes the story. The writer indicated a long time back that they planned to write a volume 4 for the webnovel, as an epilogue story, which has never materialized. However, there's more content at the end of volume 3 of the game than there is in volume 3 of the webnovel, so I saw one person hypothesizing that they got out what they wanted to in the game, so we'd probably never see a volume 4 of the webnovel since the content they wanted to do was in the game instead. Who can say.
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the Nine games:
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Sorairo is a lot better than Kokoiro, imo. More plot, more action, a bad end that destroys you, and absolutely hilarious porn in the good end. I'm looking forward to Haruiro as well. Half a year... would be nice, but maybe!
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Broski's back, y'all.
- Denpasoft (full 18+ release): https://denpasoft.com/collections/newest-releases/products/9-nine-episode-2
- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033420/9nineEpisode_2/
- Denpasoft (free patch for the Steam release): https://denpasoft.com/collections/dlc/products/9-nine-episode-2-18-dlc
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Uhh, so, to get the first post-ending scene, you just wait at the title screen for a while, and then it'll take you straight to a short post-ending scene.
After you've seen that, you just start a new game (either from prologue or the other option, I don't have it handy), and the new options are available.
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19 hours ago, TexasDice said:
Majokoi is a good one. The pacing is absolutely dreadful and half the "routes" could've just been cut entirely. The setup is interesting and the main girl is such a silly quirky doofus, Alice is just a blast. During the stretches that are the actual plot, I was basically glued to the screen and couldn't stop reading. Her story ends really strong.
Just a small thing... very minor spoilers
There's a second ending, an ending for the overall plot of Jabberwock and the desert part. It's fucking annoying to get; you have to 1. Read the "Replay" option under the Extras menu and then 2. skip through 80% of the whole VN. Select [Remember] 4 times and you are there.
Honestly, it's not worth the effort.
I feel like it kind of breaks the strong emotional note I just ended on and the tone (and background music) of that very last scene is so bad: It's as if it's building up excitement to a new chapter or a sequel and feels completely out of place.
SpoilerMy take on it is that the hidden ending should be viewed as being less about what actually happens in it and more about how it presents the reverse side of the coin for the overarching themes. It's showcasing the difference between Alice and Alys and how they and Takumi ended up reacting to the game's big ideas: that beauty and infatuation are fleeting, that a lasting love accepts this, and that a story without an ending is fundamentally broken, even a simple love story.
Both endings deal head-on with these statements. Alice's ending accepts them, embraces them, and tells a tale made even more heartwarming by them, where Alys's ending rejects the premises and seeks to tell a story that never ends. As you'd expect, since the latter is in violent contradiction to what the story would have us believe, the results are gruesome; the story (Takumi) gets crushed in the process. It's actually the point! It's definitely not building to anything subsequent; while it's making it clear that the story never ends, it's telling you that that's a bad thing!
tl;dr: Alice's ending is the only reasonable headcanon; Alys's ending is the cautionary tale.
And since it's on the same topic, I'll take this opportunity to add some more thoughts on the themes that I wrote up a while ago. Would not recommend reading until you've finished Alice's ending.
SpoilerThe Witch’s Love Diary is, in its oddball way, a very meta VN, and even more oddly, it’s precisely because of this that the whole of it becomes so relatable to a VN player. Takumi Sakurai is you: an unreasonably desirable guy who romances the ladies one by one and leaves them behind at the height of their shared love, magicking away their memories and beginning the cycle anew with another girl. It’s the fate he chose, but does it bring him happiness? Not really. Happiness, for him, would be breaking the cycle. Happiness is ending the eternal refrain, breaking free of the clock’s circle, and finally moving forward, together with Alice, toward the story’s conclusion. Because beauty is fleeting, not eternal. Because our stories were always meant to end. Because that’s what makes us human.
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16 hours ago, ChaosRaven said:
Hmm, started this at the weekend and so far it seems to be a pure nukige. Alice finds a diary where a scum protagonist pretty much bangs every female being that can't run away fast enough. But naturally, everyone of them is willingly spreading their legs as soon as he gets in range of 5 meters. I've rarely seen such an unlikable protagonist. If it continues like that I'll definitely drop it.
The game starts after the prologue. Trust me, it changes character fast. I'm not a fan of the prologue either.
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Note that there is no all ages version and Steam and Denpasoft both have identical uncut, demosaiced releases. That means you'll need the right config toggles in Steam before they'll let you see it exists. Pick it up with a 10% launch discount on either store:
- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1100800/I_Walk_Among_Zombies_Vol_2/
- Denpasoft: https://denpasoft.com/collections/newest-releases/products/i-walk-among-zombies-vol-2
The new heroine in this one is really cool, and as with volume 1, the volume 2 is one part post-apocalyptic survival horror one part human drama. This time, I'd say, with a little more emphasis on the "human" angle, as Yuusuke slowly starts to become a little less of a clod.
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No, yeah, the Kanon H scenes are truly awful. They were actually my first experience with H in a VN, and I was like, god, why is this a thing. And then I think my next experience was F/SN, which only reinforced that view. I had to play one more game with H in it (it ended up being Comyu) before I finally started thinking maybe H scenes weren't so bad after all.
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The nine episode 3 OP song kicks some major ass.
To this day, I still love the Kindred Spirits on the Roof soundtrack. This number always makes me want to crank up the volume:
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7 hours ago, Veshurik said:
I am also not sure if Daresora will ever be finished, because devs are silent, and Sol Press deteled all related info from their site about that game... Ehem... So, it means it is a big disaster
They've said previously that leaving it off the shop was just an oversight (but that itself is obviously telling), and I don't think they deleted information about it from their site at any point.
7 hours ago, Dreamysyu said:I'm pretty sure people downvoted it because of its episodic nature rather than anything else. The game itself looked pretty decent, but it was way too short to give it even approximate rating. Like, do you rate a manga after reading just one chapter or an anime after watching first 10 minutes of its first episode? I sure don't.
Yeah, it's actually pretty interesting, it's just way too short, and (at $3, this is saying something...) overpriced. Could've been an interesting teaser introduction if they'd bothered to keep it up and if they'd priced it better ($1? Free?).
(Request walkthrough) onii-kiss onii-chan where's my kiss?
in The Necropolis
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There are no extra "scenes" unlocked from bonus codes, only extra art, OP/ED movie replay, and VA comments (which have been subbed in English, of course).
The English game's bonus codes were meant to have been given out by the Sol Press twitter account... but it seems like they've kind of dropped the ball there.