Dergonu

Think the two of us have different definitions of "NSFW".

It helps quite a lot with kanji, but not much else. They are very different langugages.

There is no enforced playing order. That was a mistake. Someone added the wrong tag.

Hello!!!

@Aizen-Sama, happy birthday, dictator-sama! Oh and happy birthday to you too, @Velociraptor, you silly dinosaur!

Don't worry if that is the only thing stopping you. The gameplay kicks in quite rarely, and if you have a 100% save file, you can skip it entierly. (And if you are anything like me, you will want Nagi's true end right after her normal end, so you'll need the 100% save file anyways.) The gameplay is a bit disruptive at times, but it's so rare, you won't really notice it much, even if you don't get the 100% save file. (It's a VN with gameplay now and then, not a gameplay VN, like Beat Blades Haruka and games like that.)

Being able to understand what you are reading is extremely important. I didn't mean he literally has to be able to pronounce English words, but as he stated himself, he isn't very good at English in general. Translating like that will be hard. How do you translate something you do not understand in the first place? As long as you are able to understand what you are reading, there should be no problems. (Isn't this all very obvious...?)

So does your face! Hah! It's actually a very nice read, though if you don't like yuri, I suppose it won't be as entertaining.

*EDIT: Oh, sorry, I see you said NOT Japanese. Well then, sorry to have to say this, but if you don't speak English very well, translating from English into Spanish might be a bit of a hard task. Translation requires knowledge of both the language you are translating to and from. Still, best of luck. What you can do is ask someone who already TLed something for the TLed scripts I suppose. If they are okay with it, they might send them over, (though don't count on this being the case for all projects.) -------------------------------------- Do you mean, how to get the Japanese script files out of the game, so that you can modify them and add in your translation? If so, you will need a hacker who can help you out with that. You can check out the data extraction thread for help on extracting, and you can look for team members if you are starting a project or add in your own skills to look for a project, here.

I blame Fiddle's lamp.

Like I said in my previous blog post, I have been wanting to keep my blog more active for a while, and this time I'll be talking about yatagarasu's yurige, Seisai no Resonance. Before we get into it, I have to admit, I skipped a few routes in this one in order to get the true ending. (Nagi's true end.) It's not that the other girls in the game are bad, but more that Nagi was such an interesting character, her normal ending was not enough to satisfy me, so I HAD to skip to the true ending. (For a very annoying reason, you HAVE to complete at least another route, (possibly all of them?) after Nagi's before you can get Nagi's true ending, as Nagi's true end serves as the whole game's true route.) I ended up grabbing a 100% save file, so I could jump into her true route. Because of that, this post will primarily be talking about the common route, Nagi's route and the true ending. To quickly sum up the setting and start of the story. Kanae, our main character, travels to Otofuse Island to look for her mother, who vanished seven years ago. Otofuse is a small island closed off from the main land, where a strange ritual takes place every year. The reason for this ritual is, long ago, a big fireball fell down on the island, and a pair of shrine maidens were the ones who calmed down and sealed away the flames. Ever since that that, a yearly ritual is held, where two shrine maidens are picked to preform a similar sealing ritual like back then. The shrine maidens on the island now wield strange "gems" that grants them special powers. (More on this later.) Kanae takes a ferry to the island, but before she reaches Otofuse, a strange girl from a "shady" organization running the island, the shourai-kai, attacks her and she falls into the sea. Washed up ashore, Kanae is rescued by the beautiful and mysterious Mirai, who tells Kanae she has to become a shrine maiden in order to see her mother again. After a bit of a struggle, Kanae enrolls at Sakihana all-girls school, and aims to become a shrine maiden in order to see her mother. Gameplay This game has a rather interesting battle system, which is used for boss battles, training matches and so on in the game. (So, often when Kanae gets in a fight, you end up battling.) I personally found the gameplay very fun, but totally out of place. Because of how rarely you actually end up fighting, and how little the result of the battle matters, it almost just served as an obstacle between the story segments, which I did not enjoy. Like I said at first, the gameplay itself was actually pretty fun and well made, but it just... felt totally uncesessary. (At the end, I honestly just found myself annoyed at the fact that these battles were interrupting the story.) The combat is quite similar to fighting games like the Naruto PS3 games etc. You can move in a 360 angle, use different powers to fight your opponent, drain your "spirit(?)" as you preform special attacks and so on. Overall, although the gameplay started off as fun and was well made, I really didn't feel like it had a place in the game at all. Story As Kanae tries to become a powerful shrine maiden, so that she can be selected for the yearly ritual and see her mother, you learn more and more about what is actually going on in Otofuse. Why is the shourai-kai trying to kill Kanae? Why must Kanae become a shrine maiden in order to see her mother, and what happened to her mother seven years ago? What are the strange beings living in the forest outside the school grounds? I found the story very good, which was really cool for a yuri title, which often focuses primarily on the romance, not the story segments. Towards the end, I was glued to the screen, wondering what would happen next, and the way the game was paced was quite nice in my opinion. Some people have complained about the writing of the story, but I found it absolutely fine. It was entertaining from start to finish. Now, moving on from the common route, I will only be able to talk about the Nagi route and the true ending, but honestly, you should play this game just for that. (Short version, it was great.) Nagi and Kanae This is without a doubt one of my favorite yuri romances, ever. Kanae is goofy and funny, sociable and a little bit overly friendly with most people she meets. Nagi on the other hand, is a retracted, cold and cunning girl. (She is very intelligent when it comes to most things, but she isn't very good at social situations, unlike Kanae, and she is a bit of a tsundere under her closed off shell. Strange, but great mix.) At first, she uses Kanae for her own benefit, which is searching for an answer to a question she has had for a while. (Basically, what is actually going on? Nagi doesn't believe that the ritual and the shourai-kai is what it seems to be, and wants to dig deeper in order to find the truth.) Kanae wants to find her mother, and the two start working together. From there on out, one of the greatest yuri romances I have read unfolds. (And plot too, but pffft, who cares about that. ) The two of them are literal opposites, Kanae with her warmth and her flames, and Nagi with her cold attitude and her ice. (Going back to the powers I mentioned earlier, the true image of their soul is reflected in the shrine maiden's powers, which is summoned from a special stone they all have. (Kanae recieved hers as a gift from her mother years ago.) So, for the closed off Nagi, we have ice. And for the warm and loving Kanae, it's fire. As Kanae learns more about Nagi, she decides that she wants to be the one to "melt Nagi's ice," which is honestly one of my favorite quotes ever, and the two of them just fit so perfectly together in the game, as they are literal opposites. The pacing in Nagi's route is absolutely perfect, and the romance is slowly but surely introduced, so not rushed at all. There is also a fairly small amount of H-scenes, 2 for Nagi if I remember correctly, both of which happen at just the right time, which made the relationship between the two seem all the more real to me. (It's not like Koiken Otome, where you are showered in H-scenes fairly early on.) The fact that Nagi is the true heroine in the game is so, so right. She is a really great character, and her paired up with Kanae makes for a fantastic couple. One thing that did dissapoint me a little with the game was Nagi's normal ending, which in all honesty, is a "bad" ending, not a "normal"/"good" one. (It's very bittersweet.) The fact that you HAVE to play through the rest in order to unlock the true ending makes the time between the real Nagi ending and the "bad" one too great, and if you are going to play the game, I honestly recommend getting a 100% save file, so you can do the true ending in all it's glory right after Nagi's normal end. The rest of the cast and a conclusion The rest of the cast in Seisai no Resonance is great, with a few rather standard template characters like Yuu and Mako, but even they are quite interesting, and although I didn't play their routes, I very much enjoyed what I saw of them in the common route and Nagi's route+ the true end. My favorite character besides Nagi and Kanae has to be Yayako, Nagi's only friend before Kanae. She is such a hilarious character, and I will definitely be playing her route at some point. (And yes, that is a cat on her head.) Overall, Seisai no Resonance is a really great yurige with an interesting plot, well written romance and an interesting cast. The gameplay, although well made, serves more as a distraction from the story, and could in all honesty have been removed. But, despite that, I really enjoyed the game, and would strongly recommend it to all yuri fans. (The game's opening, for those interested)

Been playing グロ・でれ recently, and it's freaking hilarious. Done with the イルミ "route" now. (Best ending ever, rofl.) This is probably the first time I have seen guro used mixed with humor like this. (It really works in this game though.) Gotta say, despite it being completely stupid, it's really funny. The animated sprites feels a bit out of place though. It's just the characters moving up and down in an eternal loop, and the only animted part in the CGs is the eyes and their panting, which is a little bit boring. Honestly, that part could have been completely removed from the game. (Whenever the sprites froze up, then resumed moving, it looked like they had ingested about 900KG of speed, which was both hilarious and disturbing.) Anyways, so far the game is surprisingly entertaining. Recently got a whole bunch of Cyclet games, will be doing this and it's fandisk after グロ・でれ.

@DharmaFreedom Happy birthday! Have some yuri:

Well, steam disagrees!

I had a similar issue with Norwegian laws a while back, and spoke to a lwayer about it. Here is what I concluded: (here is the whole thread.) You really should stick with digital VNs if you think physical editions might cause problems. Don't risk jail time for VNs, it's not worth it.

Happy birthday @Kaguya-senpai, hope you have a great day! (You're the best senpai a guy could ask for. Thanks for always teaching me stuff. You're awesome.) Tried to find a good picture of Kaguya. (I assume you have seen most of them already but hey, here you go.)

It does appear to be a bit of a general review, but I found a quick mention of it: I'll probably end up reading this whole review either way though, (it has already started hyping me more for this game, damnit. )

Holy wall of text Batman! Thanks, I'll give it a read!

Question to the people who has already played the 18+ version of Dies: how is the quality of the H-scenes in the game? The version I'd want to play even if I did read it in Japanese is Amantes amentes, simply because of all the new content it adds. For this particular game, I don't really care about the 18+ content at all. But, I'm still a bit curious; what are we missing by losing out on the H-content? Is the H any good? Does it contribute anything to the game at all, or is it just ... porn for porn?

Okay, not going to lie, I'm fucking hyped now. Been seriously considering picking up Dies for a while, but never made it past the prologue. (... lol, I suck.) If this ends up being a troll, I'll just man up and read the Japanese version! (And understand exactly 9.45% of it!)

Haha, perfect Honestly, you are better off just trying it and seeing for yourself. The story in Euphoria is very good, but the game is also quite dark and will be too much for some people. Play some of it, see if you can take it. The game only gets darker the further in you get, but the story also gets better and better. Everyone will have a different opinion of "how bad" the game is, (I personally think it's not that bad at all, but my tolerance for this stuff is quite high now. Others might think it's just too much, and drop it because of that.) The best way to find out is probably just giving it a try. Go to Mangagamer's site and grab the trial, and you can kind of measure it for yourself. The trial has a few of the first scenes, and you'll get a taste of what is to come from that.

Hey, it has been a while since I wrote a blog entry. I did make one not too long ago, when the Maggot Baits TL got announced, but thanks to the forum rollback, that got purged. (Thanks a lot Nosebleed. Yeah, we know it was you!!!) Anyways, in this blog entry I'll be talking about the guro game that got released by Bug System about 3 weeks ago, Shi ni Iku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo. I picked this up after @Kawasumi told me about it and asked if I wanted to read it with him, (thanks for that by the way, love you <3), and I was completely hooked after just a few minutes in the game. Now, I know guro isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I just really wanted to write something about this game, so here we are. The game has a very simple but effective plot and story, though it was a lot longer then I was expecting. (The 2-10 hour marking on VNDB is right on the edge; the game is a hell of a lot closer to 10 than 2. Depending on your reading speed, it could definitely feel like a medium game.) At first glance, I thought this was a mere guro nukige, but that was not the case at all. A few small details before we start: The game is NOT translated, at least not at the moment. The difficulty of the game is honestly not very high. I'd say beginners can give this a go without running into many issues. You'll find some words you aren't familiar with unless you read a lot of guro, but it's not very hard to understand it if you use a text hooker and parser. Honestly, if you really want to try out the game, you might actually be fine with a machine translation. Test it out and see for yourself. Main point is, the game isn't very difficult to read. Let's get into the story: It happened without any warning. In a world that was peaceful, superior beings suddenly appeared. They one-sidedly massacred humans, and the world was swallowed by a whirlpool of chaos. While our heroine Mia was shopping with her family, she also fell victim. With her father, mother, and older sister dead, she desperately tried to escape, but before she could a different superior man appeared before her. Falling into desperation and prepared to die, Mia took up a knife and stabbed the man. The next second, she lost consciousness. Not knowing what had happened to her, she felt a great pain on her stomach. "You hurt my body, now I can't allow you to die easily. Your sin... deserves ten thousand deaths..." Pulled from the VNDB description. Basically, Mia stabs a "superior-man" (that is literally what they are called in the game,) and he swears she will die ten thousand times as punishment for her grave sin. Some more information on these "superior beings", they look like humans, but are seemingly immortal, can use magic, feed on humans and the lot of them are just a gang of messed up bastards. Mia wakes up in a mansion, and soon finds out that this mansion has been taken over by the superior-man she stabbed. He explains the "rules of the mansion" to her in a completely calm and collected tone of voice. (Then crushes her arm to bits after the explenation. What a nice guy!) To sum it up, Mia can do whatever she wants inside the mansion and no one will try to stop her, (she can even try to escape if she wants, but it will be futile, as a barrier has been put up around the house, and the only way to turn off the barrier is to kill the man.) Mia's room is "magic", and it will heal any injury, no matter how serious it is. Basically, even if Mia is dead, as long as a part of her corpse is brought up into her room, it will heal over time and bring her back. The reason this room exists is simple: the man will do horrible things to Mia whenever he feels like it, torturing and killing her, and the only way to stop the loop of her being murdered then resurrected is to kill the man with her own hands. Now the game begins; Mia has to look for a way to kill the Superior-Man in order to stop the loop. Also, one small detail that is important to add in is that whenever Mia dies, her memories get all messed up. (The ressurection magic isn't perfect.) This means that you as a reader will be confused as hell a LOT of the game, because you see things from Mia's point of view, and many times she will wake up having forgotten lots of things while the game kept on going, which means you won't get what the fuck is going on at first. (This is a good thing though, as the confusion adds to the suspense in the game when Mia walks around trying to figure out what is going on and how she can save herself and the others trapped in the mansion. Of course, all the confusion is cleared up in the end, so if you stick with it, you'll get all the answers you want.) Sadly, it did also make the game repeat itself a lot, which wasn't a deal-breaker, but it did get a bit boring after a while. "Mia wakes up, wonders where she is, puts on clothes, walks out into the hallway, goes down to the dining hall." Rinse and repeat. The art, music, CGs and backgrounds used in the game are all freaking stellar. It's very high quality stuff. The music is great, and adds to the feeling you have of being trapped in a mansion with a psycopath walking around. It's such a simple horror setup, but it's pulled off so well in the game. The art is quite hilarious actually, because it has a strong moe feel to it. (But, this game is not a moege, obviously ) Here is a CG from the game, so you can see the amazing moe art in all its glory: And to get a taste of the dark elements, and the great music in the game, here is the game's opening. (The censored youtube version.) Anyways, like I mentioned in passing earlier, there will be other people in the mansion as well. These people are humans the Superior-Man caprutres for food, and some of them he chooses to use for toys, kind of like Mia. During the game, you get several choices that will let you choose Mia's and the other girls' fate in the mansion. Make a wrong turn, and ... well, you'll figure that out on your own if you choose to play the game Some of the other characters will try to help Mia plot out a plan to kill the Superior-Man, and you will be able to decide how you proceed with the plan and so on. Some of the choices will "reward" you with unique CGs and scenes that you cannot get otherwise, making for some decent replay value. The game also has a large amount of endings, (I believe it has around 7 or 8,) so you can keep getting different outcomes depending on your choices. All in all, the game is freaking awesome for those who likes dark horror games. Of course, the game focuses heavily on H-content, and several of the scenes contain some fairly "spicy" fetishes, so it's not a game everyone will enjoy, but like I said before, this is not a pure nukige. There is a clear story and the game has a purpose. Everything that happens in the game adds to the story in some way, and as you continue to progress through it, you'll be dying to figure out what happens next. That's about it, (this might have turned out a bit messy, sorry for that. Just really wanted to write something about this game real quick.) I'll be trying to get out more blog posts in the future, as I have been way too inactive with my blog after I finished The Last GM Standing. Anyways, thanks for reading! Go play the game!

So, for the people having issues with the JAST version, it should be fixed now. Try downloading the files again.

EDIT 2: looks like the issues with the JAST version are being fixed at the moment. EDIT: Never mind, the game isn't working... Just get a black screen. Come on JAST. Ah, the download is working now. It's yuri time

We have, but they don't work, (at least not mine). Sasuga