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Poll is a horrible idea: very very few people will vote which will only lead to the conclusion that it's an extremely vocal minority. It's not as evident when you simply use messages since they don't psychologically associate with something as easy as pushing a button in a poll and don't give an access to "objective" numbers.

I'd really prefer if Aksys "stole" Net High from XSEED instead of Tokyo Xanadu Oh well. Balrdr Sky, Island, TX, 999 VITA remaster, Trinoline - in the end this year's Anime Expo turned out surprisingly great.

It should really be noted that all those otome games are VITA only.

That's too bad. Pretty ironic how one of Telltale's weakest efforts has become their "hallmark", though that's not unusual in itself. And yeah, I'm already sorry for bringing it up in a ZTD discussion, I should go and buy it already to make my presence less, erm, off-topic-y.

I'm not really sure about that one despite IP being their porn bestseller and releasing way earlier. Did they actually say it anywhere?

That does sound like the real Akane we know. Finally. Cringed hard at the "like TWD" remark. Will people ever stop implying that TWD games are even relatively good *sigh*

At least the translation is not nearly as bad

Well, maybe, though it still baffles me then that they took up literally three in-progress titles instead of so many already released ones. Not to mention how XSEED rarely ever picks up anything substantial (non-port) outside of E3 nowadays. The hope dies last though.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited for Root Letter, but still kinda hoped for something new. Oh well. Chances for Net High suddenly took a dive after this E3 and I was even almost sure that it was coming

Yeah, Root Letter it is. Pity. http://www.ricedigital.co.uk/kadokawa-name-pqube-root-letter-english-publisher/

they just really don't like vita, I suppose

A bit off-topic but looks like that new PQUBE announcement will not be a new game but rather Root Letter that has been revealed as a worldwide release some months ago.

I did, of course. It's not quite fare to judge their upcoming localizations before the AX announcements but nonetheless. Mangagamer: has just delivered two pretty high-profiile and/or well-known VNs (Tokyo Babel and Fata Morgana). The pipeline is a bit dry after the slew of late 2015/early 2016 releases but still has Da Capo 3, Supipara, Myth, Bokuten and especially extremely well regarded Himawari. Sekai: a whole mix of everything like Grisaia sequels, Ley Line, Tenshin Ranman, Chrono Clock, Maitetsu. Who knows how many of those will be released decently but still they probably won't exhaust everything. JAST: well, not much outside Sumaga and Django, not to mention how the first one is often almost hated, but I don't think anyone expects a lot from them at this point. PQube: actively dabbling in Science ADV series, I expect them to become a lot more active on the console VN market in the coming years. Since the show season is only getting started, the list may look a bit sparse, but even now if all of the above are not even "half way decent" while companies like Moonstone can bring the "decent" ones after going solo than I can only note that you have quite an incredible taste. The situation with western "mediators" is improving year by year and I don't think that often barely readable efforts of the japanese companies will be able to adequately replace them soon.

It's like you are still living in 2008

There's also that pretty cool looking Root Letter. Though with the way kadokawa is marketing it, I doubt many people are even aware of that game.

I'm talking about the tease that their head of PR has just made.

Meh, who cares about your big screen, portables all the way! They'll most likely announce console version of chaos;head next month, so there's probably not much point in getting too excited about that tease.

I believe it has already "penetrated". Danganronpa alone with its over 200k sales has given vns more publicity in the west than any pc-localization ever. VLR has sold great and PQube/RD are all rainbows and flowers about how S;G is, well, nearly not failing. It would be really interesting to see real comparable numbers with the JAST release after that US launch in august. It's just that fuwa is an extremely pc-oriented community so it may not be that obvious to most.

They did report this and tweet that. Also LE's sold out real quick and even regular editions are usually low on stock and disappear completely from time to time. RD is also tweeting how it's doing very well and is one of their hottest in the summer sale. So all in all it's obviously selling at the very least decent and maybe even a lot better. Especially considering how the official US-release is yet to come.

Eh, didn't vita/ps3 release of S;G sell quite well though? Can't really say anything in comparison terms but pretty sure they are certainly not disappointed with those numbers. As for otacon: well, at least Propeller got hooked, way better than nothing.