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Sorry, slip of the finger.

Clannad is not that depressing most of the time, I mean, it has a lot of drama for every character, but also tons of slice of life. I feel that Kanon, that was the VN that started the former Key trend, is way more tear-inducing. I really only cried with Ushio. Also remember that nakige always ends on a positive note, so the negativity is undone.

¿Are you liking it?

Well, of course. It has just released in Japan, and with no joint release in English unlike Harmonia, due to the size of the script most likely. About Little Busters... meh, it's a VN that most people have played by 2017, also it hasn't even been that long on Steam (where people tend to wait for the best price possible). Potentially there are lots of people like me who want to buy it to support Key's English releases, in my case I haven't dropped the 30 bucks just because I'm busy playing other things. I think I'll drop them eventually, but it's not really a priority. Also, I think that the TL of Little Busters Steam is a bit meh. You have to factor in that, too. I guess it's the same with Clannad. Both novels also have the blemish of being damn long to beat. Not everyone likes that. In truth there have been TLs for Key's major works since forever, so it's a bit difficult for them to take off. They have to rely on the fresher Steam audience. And then I don't know if they're really keen on drama, they seem to prefer low-intensity ecchi like Sakura games.

Maybe they're building up their own fanbase in the West, they have a good number of games on Steam. Maybe they make enough money... though I disliked Angel Beats, Rewrite and Charlotte, and beyond that I don't think they have been as big successes as their past works... but. Meanwhile you can get the rarer VNs from them that you possibly haven't read (like Harmonia) and thus support them for bringing over the likes of Angel Beats or even Summer Pockets... For all the rest, just wait (TM)

Even if it's a game worth it, I don't think that the DDLC phenomenon has been a positive one in general terms. Here pen-and-paper roleplaying games gained a lot of fame, but a bad one, since they were known by association to crimes perpetrated by players. Of course, it was all sensationalism, but the regular person doesn't know better. DDLC has been on the spotlight for , even if it all was warned about beforehand. For me the best we could achieve is that everyone, or the majority of anime & manga lovers would play VNs often, and then some will of course stick to anime & manga anyway. I don't think we can hope VNs will attract people who aren't keen on Japanese media. Their point of entry will always be anime, because it's accessible and most people have watched an anime at some point of their lives (probably their childhood, I was born 1983 and still watched 80's children anime). Maybe videogames like Pokémon, that also has anime, and then in time they will jump to VNs... but you need something in-between because Pokémon players don't readily jump into VNs. Also the Pokémon anime is... old. Obviously you don't get into VNs hating the artstyle, and people who aren't familiar with Japanese media tend to dislike it or at least, they aren't really accustomed to it. Maybe we could attract some hentai lovers, because back in the day you played the likes of Knights of Xentar for the porn, it didn't matter if it was anime-like or not, it didn't matter the kind of media it was... it only mattered for the H. But then again, there are a lot of H-less VNs. With the advent of the internet however, you can have as high a dose of porn as you want, so no real need for eroge or nukige unless you really like them...

Well, most of the time H scenes are jarring. To enjoy them, you have to find ones that appeal to you (or are you against any and all forms of porn?), and they have to be well integrated within the game. I enjoyed "Eroge" from Clockup somewhat, because I knew what I was getting into. It can be considered a nukige. Still, it's like fast food entertainment. VNs can do much better.

Hi and thanks for the attention. The thing is, I want to purchase a legal copy of Chaos;Head. I've got the TL patch in my hands, so I only need a fresh copy. Of course, a physical copy from Japan is out of the question. I've seen that the game is for sale at DMM, but it denies me the possibility to buy it. I guess I need to use a VPN to pretend I'm in Japan. Does anyone know a good VPN service that can be used for that? I've never used a VPN before. This is also useful for all people who start to purchase their games in Japan stores. Thanks!

Hey, don't you know about the fantastic amounts of amateur porn? For me the most exciting is seeing a regular girl doing whatever. I'd say amateur is best. Besides, amateur covers every imaginable fetish, like hentai. Do you think people could resist uploading those dirty things, and that they would remain in the realm of 2D? No way! As for what Thyndd says -some H scenes work for me, some don't. First of all, I need a proper context: it has to be well conveyed. In some games (for some reason I'm thinking of Clockup's "Eroge" because that's like the last one I played) you can really tell what's going on. It's IMMERSION. But immersion means nothing if the scene doesn't click my button. So I need both well-done scenes, and scenes that interest me. The umpteenth plain missionary or virgin sex with a timid girl (sometimes it's the case, usually not) doesn't look very interesting. For example, I like cowgirl IRL because it gives a lot of pleasure and it's exciting, but it's so common in eroge that for me it's vanilla and I tend to boo to it. If I'm not being "cowgirled", it isn't half as fun. For the record, it's not only H scenes in eroge that have immersion problems, a lot of modern videogames with gameplay don't feel immersive.

How would they know what you bought or what you don't in the first place? Are they tapping your lines? If so, you need a really good revolution in your country.

The broken seal of the apocalypse was that "hentai IS art" thread.

That's not going to work dear Kaede, if he bought it "a couple years ago" the refunding window has expired. I tried it with Undertale (no less) like a year later and they politely informed me that it wasn't possible.

Oh, you can turn back after choosing the wrong path. But it's never as smooth as simply loading and playing again. It takes dear years from your life.

Sekai brings good titles over here, so it's rather a "your life or your money" kind of situation.

...But Koko Yagami is alive.

Clearly not Clockup.

Grisaia seems to have decent H, that's definitely not its weakest point. Me, I'm having problems enjoying the common route, and I don't like Yuuji that much. So if you don't have the same problem, get the whole game (with H) if you can. Review the H flavour in VNDB to see if it matches your liking.

Already have Steins;Gate and S;G 0, so my library is perfect, not going to buy anything I think. That will change when Robotics;Notes eventually arrives.

I hope I'm immune. In case of fright, call Yawgmoth

Koichoco is fine, tho. I liked it at as much as 6/10.

Rad plotge like Ever 17, Virtue's Last Reward, Steins;Gate and Root Double. Equivalent to seinen in manga terms.

The company's and the characters' names are awesome.

> Seitokai Yakuindomo You can argue that its brand of humour is very particular and I can't complain, but I DO complain. > Grisaia no Kajitsu anime I can barely stand first episode. I'm not sure if the novel is that bad. > Ookami Kakushi I didn't particularly like Lucia's route in Rewrite, but this is certainly Ryukishi's bottom of the barrel (titor).

Hey, in 20 years anything is possible...

If the common route is well done, you can more or less predict how the girls will turn out, at least personality-wise. There can be surprises, but if you like the character, her route has to be terrible to ruin it. Likewise there are heroines you despise right off the bat, but these are badly written I guess (you know, they are trying to make you choose her, so why is she so annoying? Examples: the whole cast of A Profile comes to mind, especially the imouto).