Okarin

Screw them, it will be better for everyone.

Yume Miru Kusuri... ugh. Not bad per se, but not very well handled. Aeka route is your typical bullying route with a lot of shock value, but at the end you keep wondering if you really care for her. Mizuki... no spoilers but ugh. Nekoko, is maybe the most enjoyable but it can be better. The most "infamous" aspect of YMK is the mountains of porn that pop up suddenly in the middle of the narration. It's a bit jarring. Still, YMK is 12 years old. There are surely better options at its length. All in all it didn't impress me. Besides, I wouldn't rate it as nakige... you won't cry very much, and the drama is handled differently. It's 3 cases of mundane drama presented as something great, but it isn't.

I'm a strong proponent of Yuka... and maybe Kaori, the nurse from Crescendo, too. However, I don't really recommend A Profile, that's a mess as far as I'm concerned. Miou's route... it's very convoluted like the rest of the game, and it won't give a good aftertaste. I'll leave it at that. Even the infamous Yume Miru Kusuri I put above A Profile.

If they're looking for something new, why not? Even though most people of enough age know of anime, and know if they like it or not. Also most normies stick to Western regular shows. But if that's what they like, then fine.

Sora no Woto, though it can be argued if it's military or not, as it frequently strays from that genre and tends to be more slice of life, and also tries some mystery that never amounts to anything. The city it's set in is modeled after the Spanish city of Cuenca.

Mine's cheap. I guess I'm never buying an APU again. But works like a charm to play VNs and some low-end games, and no issues worth of mention: CPU - AMD A10 Quad Core 7850K "Kaveri" (released 2014) Motherboard - MSI shit for that socket, not half bad, supposedly. RAM - 8GB Crucial Ballistix 1600 MHz (I guess) GPU - Integrated Radeon R7 (I guess it's a 250, like 1 GB of VRAM) HDD - 1TB Western Digital Caviar Screen - Asus 1080p

Do you mean there aren't already otaku all over the globe? The difference is the industry, not the art. In the West we have conventions, and I can't speak because I've only went to very minor and local ones, but they seem pretty weak, at least they let you gather goods like there's no tomorrow (is there, again?). But Japanese conventions are off the charts: there the amateur artists get visibility, and they seem to be huge events. I agree we should overcome fear of sexuality, but not in 2D, in 3D! I can't decide if I want to be an otaku or a normalfag. What about a combination? Meh, I just take refuge in this culture because I can't do it any other way at the moment.

Well, hasn't it a mark of a TBA English TL? Keep the faith! I'll add Amairo Islenauts. I looked at the sex, and it seems far more appealing than both Dracu-riot and Noble*Works. Bring me the Werfen!

The art is kinda nice, but given all the evidence that this is a regular eroge, I should stick to clearing my backlog and looking for more fulfilling VNs. I like mystery/thrillers over all the rest, though I welcome "good" (ymmv) porn in an eroge, and play those from time to time.

Unluckily, that doesn't spare us from terrible translations. But it's a start.

Seems just obscure slang.

Oh, so it's one of those things impervious to us non-native speakers. Great, I guess.

Yup, seems they went full retardo and mistook "baka" for "bat". When Hanako talks about "designing bats [by eroge writers]", seems she's talking about "designing idiots" instead, since in the above sentence she says those people are "irritating".

Looks like you're probably better off reading only these characters' routes and leaving the rest apart. For example, I don't think you'll want to read all Period's ¡8! routes, but if you end up liking the game... hey, that's great. The same with Koichoco.

Weirdo - Morishita Michiru from Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate. Tomboy - Sawatari Aoi from Period, though she isn't that interesting (in my opinion, Rin from the same novel outclasses her).

I guess no one is voting for Reyes-san. I hope no one is voting for Nae.

Mayuri and Luka got 1 vote... how heartwarming. But I'm not amused that Faris got more votes than Suzuha.

I don't have anything to do with this game for the moment, but as for the incest... I've only read a couple of incest routes and they were all terrible. Crazy drama turned into bad romance and always this thrill about blood relationship or not. So I really would shrug at the incest route being bad because I really think that's the trend.

Kinetic novels are okay for trying something new and hopefully fresh, but there are limits to what you can convey with them. I mean, long novels aren't long for the sake of it (some are bloated, though). I suppose companies would love to release kinetic novels that sold like crazy, but that's not always what the people are demanding.

I'll add that when going for 100%, or simply progressing smoothly through the game, you'll end up getting the guide. For example, I am playing Rewrite at the moment, and I really want to get to the final routes (Moon and Terra), so I can't really spend a lot of time figuring why I didn't get into the Akane route. I mean, I could, but it would be a waste of my time. And not particularly thrilling either. I consult the guide and go, "oh, so that silly choice in the club really affects what route you get into. Interesting. Problem solved, yay". Likewise, games with a lot of endings such as The way we all go are pretty torture (and lots and lots of time and, well, boredom) if you try to unravel the choice tree. I mean, it's not unfathomable that there are people who enjoy unraveling the choice tree by themselves, a la old school, but it's more humane and economical to just get a guide and be done with it. You get the same content either way. Because, if you could play 200 novels in your lifetime, why play only 100? Compare with anime, that has a fixed watching time with no shortcuts. Your time is precious (I actually do more things than weeb stuff, even if I usually have a lot of free time and my free time usually consists of things like these). To go on topic: the likes of Clannad are labyrinthine, and Clannad is bloated as well, but my point is unless the novel is really silly and basic romcom, you'll equally need a guide.

Occassionally you may read a VN making choices on the run, and there are easier VNs for that (i. e. those novels with choices that clearly point to a certain girl). That's okay and feels very fresh. But when you have a VN reading economy and try to maximise the number of VNs read, or have a great backlog waiting to be thinned, walkthroughs and guides are pretty mandatory anyway.

A random shaven guy...

Akane Senri's route (from Rewrite) is being really gut in terms of drama.

You should quit all date sims like that, I did. Because, I already have a life to take care of. Also, you like epic stories?, what's more epic than making ends meet in a post-depression world?

No, the greatest fear is that Best Korea nukes the porn away. Our only hope is that their technology sucks as much as the rest of the regime.