McDerpingheimer III

The art does look terrific, but I would suggest finding an editor for the writing.

The one VN you absolutely must read is Tsuma no Niku Ana ni Homestay Suru Macho Ryuugakusei ~Shucchouchuu no Sono Ura de, Tsuma wa Kurobikari Bou kara Afureru Hodo no Hakudaku o Sosogare, Yorokobi ni Michita Acme-gao o Sarashiteita~. It's simply an amazing work that left me absolutely floored after reading.

If you are competent and have delivered a quality product (i.e. translates from one language to another properly, reads well in the second language), then I agree, endless gratitude and praise to you. If you have not, I'll still give you many thanks and compliments if you can recognize your issues, fix them, and learn for later. If, however, you don't care about quality or are too stubborn to accept constructive criticism, and you fail to acknowledge your issue or improve, then fuck you, you're a cancer to the VN community and only promote the accumulation of garbage.

It’s not, but the way he put it earlier (learning hiragana, kanji, and katakana) implied kana was a significant obstacle

If you have free time to read VNs you have time to learn Japanese plus a single VN probably takes longer than learning kana

Man everyone thinks this is like konosora just cause it got planes smh Konosora is babyshit, they’re tryna make a plane, never even seen one before, this VN is about people who know how to fly and fly well It’s clearly a combo of Aokana and Top Gun

Wrong board, ain’t it

The best VN of all time, Tsuma no Niku Ana ni Homestay Suru Macho Ryuugakusei ~Shucchouchuu no Sono Ura de, Tsuma wa Kurobikari Bou kara Afureru Hodo no Hakudaku o Sosogare, Yorokobi ni Michita Acme-gao o Sarashiteita~, is getting translated, so to answer the question in your title, yes.

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If you don’t already have one, I would recommend an English editor

Would recommend getting an editor

My personal preference is proper grammar, though I understand not everyone shares that sentiment.

long enough to make the letter z not look like a letter anymore

This is an article about 25 zisual movels, often called zakage, that I wholeheartedly recommend you read. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oIrKghtAxg3U2nFCIwg8a6O8CbgZqWGqGlGQ68wPfo0/edit?usp=sharing Inspired by @Rain Spectre

Thank you, very readable!

I mean, sure, if you want to produce a version of the game routed through a round of Telephone.

give back anime tiddy

The vocab might be undoubtedly higher-level, but I'm going to cast that shadow of doubt upon its status as well-written. In a way, it somewhat reminds me of my high school English essays: the writing may appear to be sophisticated and intellectual, but it is not necessarily superior for that. The analysis of a VN's merits, qualities, and themes is merely skin-deep, covering a broad and comprehensive overview of the VN as a whole rather than delving deeply into a single element of it, and as a result, the article ends up feeling rather superficial. Certainly, the phrasing is professional, academic, and advanced, and I cannot deny a markedly erudite tone to the work, but there appears to be a certain sort of distance created between the author and the audience that lessens the impact of the recommendations. Were one to read it, they would likely feel unable to appreciate the sentiment placed within the text. But, that's an awfully drawn-out and pretentious way to put it. If your eyes glazed over when you read that, you're probably getting the point. In simpler words, after each recommendation, I get the feeling of having read a whole bunch of nothing, because it doesn't connect with me. Now, it's not that there should be a deeper analysis, since these are just quick reviews designed to interest the reader in the VN, and they shouldn't have any spoilers. Really, the issue is that the tone and style don't really fit this level of analysis. It would fit better if you were writing about some d e e p s h i t explored in the game, maybe a reflection on the core theme, but that'd be something for people to read after a VN, not before. These are recommendations, intended to make people want to read something, so you gotta appeal to people, and to do that, you can't have the distance between author and audience that "essay language" creates. Essay language sounds sanitized and boring, and while it's not false, it's not genuine either, because it feels like it's losing the heart of the author in order to take on some affectation of intellectualism. None of these elements are good for reaching the audience. So, what's to be done? The solution is to be casual, simple, and straightforward. A line like "It is not a happy experience." (from the Muv-Luv portion) sounds stilted and unnatural. A simple "It hurts." flows much better, conveys feeling much better, and interests me much better. A line like "It is when one reaches Alternative, the real meat of the narrative, that Muv Luv becomes an explosion of emotion" seems weird in the same way. I'd say something like "When you get to Alternative, the real meat of the narrative, Muv-Luv starts to hit your heart hard" would work much better. Changing all of those "they"s and "one"s to "you"s would probably help too, since speaking directly to an audience will connect better than speaking to some nebulous avatar representing the audience. In summary, I wouldn't say this article is well-written. It's higher-level in vocabulary and arrangement, but that doesn't make it well-written, because a significant part of the quality of writing is how well it does what it's supposed to do, how well it reaches the audience with its intent. This article fails to interest the audience as well as it needs to, because it fails to connect with them as well as it needs to.

Didn't Kaguya make this already www

I feel so enlightened i should complete my transformation and put on my kimono and get my balsa wood katana then i’ll truly be japanese

I’d say the only case in which not knowing the story is when basically everybody who’s played the game with story agrees the story is a complete dumpster fire, which is naturally a really rare occurrence in “awesome games.” In any other case, you’re missing out on a large part of the experience, and since I highly doubt you’ll want to come back to the game and play the entire thing when you can understand the story (whether you’ve learned Japanese or the game’s been translated), you’re essentially ruining the experience for yourself. Even if you do end up liking the gameplay enough to go through the game a second time, it’ll still be noticeably worse than if you played the full experience the first time. So yeah, I’m gonna second the general opinion of no.

this isn’t an entirely fair comparison tho like i’d rather have vanilla ice cream than fried chicken wing, licorice, or wasabi ginger flavored ice cream

good luck may colonel sanders approve of your culinary skills

inb4 word count includes each time you go through the common route and events copy pasted between routes

They’re not 4kids until they replace Cross Channel’s OP with a rap