Agent Francis York Morgan

Wow, I must have been really tired last night - the demo does NOT have their logo appear on the version that I downloaded. I must have confused the two VNs I was playing last night, as one of them was Deardrops - really sorry for all the confusion on this one. (Mangagamer is in no way related to the development/localization of "If My Heart Had Wings" - my apologies once again.) On another note, it would be interesting to hear what people think of Manhagamer in general - I've only started playing their VNs a little while ago, so I'm pretty impartial when it comes to their games.

When you open KonoSora the Mangagamer logo showed up, so I just assumed that they were involved at some level with the production. After some further research though, I noticed that Moenovel was actually the company that did the localization work. For Higurashi, didn't they also modify the interface, or something similar? I'm only bringing these things up because I'm hazy on the details when it comes to the VN market.

Recently I got around to making my way through Kira*Kira on iOS and was surprised by how much it drew me in and made me care for the characters and what eventually happens to one of them by the end of their route (Kiirari). While I really enjoyed my first read through (and to a certain extent Chie's route), I started to be really distracted by a lot of repeated scenes early on (as my iPod would crash if I fast forwarded for too long). Luckily the game has some really good music and (mostly) interesting end games for all of the routes. Considering this was my first VN I've (almost) made my way through, I was wondering what everybody else who has played a part of or heard about this game thought of it. I still need to make my way through the final true route, but I'm almost there. PS - Does anybody perhaps have a save file/no where to get one/have a way to go through all the routes on PC before the True End? My savefiles for Kira*Kira on iOS died and I don't really feel like wading through such a long adventure again.

For a long time I've been hearing people talk about how bad Mangagamer butchers their releases with missing CG, features, or voice acting that was once present in the JPN versions. Some of these include: changing music in Higurashi and shortening the length of their new VN "If My Heart Had Wings" (also removing CGs that were in the JPN release). I know personally I've noticed some pretty bad flubs when it comes to their release of Kira*Kira (iOS) with the voices being mixed up and even a line of dialogue being left untranslated (these issues were later fixed through patches). In regards to "If My Heart Had Wings", I'd like to maybe purchase it in the future, but if it is missing a ton of content (someone said it might be missing 30 hours - though I'm pretty sure that might be inaccurate) I'd rather not waste my money on a butchered product. While I understand all of these issues (and their recent release might have been about decisions from the actual translators Moenovel), I was wondering what other people think about Mangagamer. Are they generally reviled like I seem to hear all the time, or is it just Internet hate propelled out of control?