Clephas

For your first request, check out http://vndb.org/v7773 http://vndb.org/v542 http://vndb.org/v10447 For your second: http://vndb.org/v453 (Belche, the best loli vampire ever, though she is just one of several heroines on the true route) http://vndb.org/v1308 (Mei, though her everyday personality is not what I would call mature, she isn't a tsundere or an idiot... she just doesn't understand humans) http://vndb.org/v7650 (Vivi)

HHG- Megami no Shuuen is a . There are two returning characters other than the protagonist, one of which is Mephisto, the other which is a character integral to the true end of the original and thus I won't name here. Similar to the previous game, it gives you the option of pursuing the main story or choosing an icharabu regular moege ending for each of the three main heroines and their sub-heroines. If you played the original, you'll recall Kyoushiro as a rather capable protagonist, who nonetheless slips up in a big way on occasion. He has a number of admirable qualities, not the least of which the fact that This story has a different main antagonist, as well as a greatly different setting (though certain aspects, such as the presence of the Holy Maiden as the savior of the Geniuses, are the same). Overall, once I got past the somewhat annoying prologue, I found the game to be at around the same level of quality as its predecessor, though I found the main heroines somewhat less compelling. The main story had enough depth to be interesting, and the moege stories maintained a similar level of quality (and short length) to those of the first game. If asked whether I would recommend it... I'd definitely recommend it to those who played the first game. However, for those who haven't played it, I'd recommend staying away. A great deal of Kyoushiro and his background are incomprehensible without having played the first game, and you probably won't develop the necessary attachments to him and Mephisto solely from this game. To be blunt, Mephisto was such an excellent true heroine in the original game that the existence of their relationship was made even more poignant in the new one. If you haven't played the first game, you'll miss out on a lot of nuances. Edit: Only for those who finish this game and miss certain important details:

Welcome Zaka *presents Zaka with a gigantic jar of mincemeat, leftover from his Thanksgiving cooking*

*sets down a large bowl of cybernetic tentacles near the Mikuloli, letting nature take its course* Welcome.

*gives the lolis the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and turns them into adults using his favorite nanomachine growth accelerators*

That's an excellent choice for a translation project, and if you understand it well enough to understand it by ear, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to manage Vns that aren't fully-voiced using the ITH/translationagg/jparser combo. This is because it will transform your kanji to furigana (hiragana, katakana, or romaji, depending on your choice). While it isn't perfect, it is more than enough if you are used to listening to Japanese. Welcome to Fuwa.

Aka-san to Kyuuketsuki is not your standard moege VN. However, this isn't because it is some grand saga that explores a unique concept or a work of ideological genius... it is because of the terrible pacing (really abrupt cut-offs into random-feeling h-scenes and everyday scenes, as well as a sudden plunge into seriousness toward the end), frequently weird kanji and word choices that make it difficult to read (using different kanji for common words, several characters who use a weird fusion of dead dialects, etc), and an utter failure to address any of the protag's personal issues until the very end (in fact, he never does develop a recognizable personality). Individual heroine routes are weak and short, the endings almost seem redundant, and too much of the game's humor is reliant on the baby. In other words, this is a startlingly bad game from a good company... which leaves me feeling a little depressed, considering how much I was looking forward to it. Edit: Next is HHG~ Megami no Shuuen. I loved the original game, so I'm interested to see if the alternate version is any good.

*uses nanomachines to transform all the girls into cyborg killing machines* Welcome.

Plz don't add the first one... and I'm even more behind than you are. I have two days off before I am stuck working constantly again, because the company I'm working for sold two months of the time on my contact to a retail corporation (meaning I have to work even more than usual, due to the holiday season).

That's a familiar nickname... well, welcome to Fuwa. *does the crazy dance, sucking away the MP from all who are present*

Looks like Aka to Kyuuketsuki will be the first one I play. My purchased version won't arrive until the twelfth of December, but my download is going to end sometime tonight. If yall want, I'll go ahead and write comments here about each game as I finish them, rather than writing a general report in a post after I've completed the last of my schedule.

Hmm... Konakana (Konata yori Kanata made) is my suggestion for you. This game is relatively short, an utsuge (the best of all time), and is just generally well-written.

Mmm... that sentence doesn't really make much sense... if they had said 'ukete' rather than 'motte', it would have made a lot more sense. 'Please hold/take my respect.'

Tayutama is a good choice... I suggest you start with Mashiro or Mafuyu, as both their paths are interesting and good. Mashiro's differs greatly from the anime ending, and it is satisfying for people who hate the way Japanese treat immortal heroine paths most of the time.

Wow... if you'd just asked for 4 or a short game, I would have been able to do something... but decent games with a 4-rating are hard to find in the first place. Not to mention that 2-10 hours pretty much limits you to kinetic novels, which are in short supply in any case. Gothic Delusion comes to mind, but if I recall correctly, at its most difficult points it is a 6-7, with the normal conversation at a 4. Ideally, I'd provide you with a moege, but ironically, decent moege generally average 20 hours in length. If you were willing to settle for something that was linguistically easy but longer, I'd recommend Tayutama, simply because it is the first moege I played in Japanese... Mashiro's route would probably take me seven to eight hours to complete, if I included the common route, so technically it would be fulfilling your request if we were talking about only one route, lol. Not to mention that there is a lot of repeated text in the game, haha... To be blunt, if you ask for something decent that is 2-10 hours long, most of them are going to be hard linguistically. A lot of skilled writers prefer to write kinetic novels, which make up the greater majority of such games. With easy games, you are only going to see nukige and moege variations, which is why I generally suggest people start with a moege. This is despite the fact that I'm bored of moege, lol. The majority of the length of such games is the common route, with individual heroine routes generally only being two to three hours of reading on their own... not only that, but ones that can be read easily are pretty simple to find.

*gives the girl a shotgun, implants her with a control device, and directs her to slaughter random people in the streets* Welcome...

Welcome....

*transforms the loli into a giant cat, who promptly begins licking herself* Welcome.

*Clephas does the evil dance, calling on the spirits of eroge to bless MottainaiVN's arrival with an endless libido and thousands of pretty traps that will transform into pretty girls if he finds true love with them*

It is an utsuge, meaning it is meant to depress the reader, make him/her sad, etc. I haven't played it, but from everything I've seen on it, it screams utsuge with high sexual content (borderline nuki, but has too much story to quite make it). Also, I wouldn't suggest buying this kind of game unless you literally don't have anything else you are interested in.

The concept for this thread is simple... on request, I will attempt to recommend at least one VN for each person, based on whatever qualifications they put forth. I will not recommend more than three for each person (the top three I can think of). These VNs will universally be untranslated (see Kaguya's thread if you want translated games), so if you don't intend to learn Japanese, don't know Japanese, or don't think you have the ability to muddle through with a machine translation, I wouldn't recommend this thread for you. For those thinking to rely on a machine translator such as Atlas or Google translate, while I recommend against it, if you insist I will provide you with the best and most easily machine-translated VN titles meeting your standards that I can think of (these will utilize mostly simple writing with commonly-used kanji and kanji combos, thus making them easier for the translator machines to handle). However, be aware that any such titles I recommend will necessarily be of lower quality than those I would prefer to introduce. This is meant to be a help for those who have run out of translated VNs, want to avoid 'jirai' (horrible games that look good at a glance), or who aren't sure of where to start. Here, I will put down a suggested form for you to use. Genre: (chuuni, moege, charage, utsuge, nakige, story-focused) Linguistic level (from 1-10): (with the understanding anything below 4 is going to be very... bad) Stimulus preferred: (do you want to be stimulated emotionally, or do you want the game to make you think?) What is your list of no-nos?: (can you not stand blood, or maybe you have problems with idiot protags... put down what you don't want in the game here) Other:

*クレファスは’もえ’を燃やすことにした*　 クレファスから：　このメッセージを見て、笑ったものへ。。。　あなた方は翻訳家の素質があるんです！！！ なんちゃって、てへぺろ Welcome...

http://vndb.org/v9205 (non-ero, but I found the romance in it to be fairly mature, with its own logical progression, though there is a lot of melodrama in the game overall) http://vndb.org/v604 (this is one of my oldest favorites and the romances for the main school heroines - Miyabi, Donoko, and Shino are good, though the protag is a teacher so he goes through the usual 'teacher-student relationship' internal dilemma) http://vndb.org/v551 (All but one of the paths in this one are tragic, short-lived love, but what's there is very well-done, if somewhat melodramatic) http://vndb.org/v6411 (great game overall... though the true ending is somewhat harem-ish and there is a threesome ending in the 'sun school' endings)

lol... you pretty much eliminated all romance in VNs with those words. It's either goofy/harem or melodrama with VNs, for the most part. If I had to choose between the two, I'd do melodrama. Edit: This is mostly because human beings generally don't HAVE mature relationships, since it is the one thing people seem incapable of treating in an adult fashion.

Game of the month candidates for the November releases: http://vndb.org/v12487 (as this is chuuni, I'll be playing this first) http://vndb.org/v12795 (this will be the second one I play, because I liked the original) http://vndb.org/v12856 (Ensemble's games tend to vary greatly in quality, so I'm sort of wary of this one) http://vndb.org/v12981 (chuable's last game was awful, so I don't have much in the way of hopes for this one) http://vndb.org/v12982 (Alcot Honeycomb, and thus worth playing. I've yet to encounter a game by this company that didn't provide at least a decent level of entertainment) http://vndb.org/v12985 (debut title, might be a nukige, taking a chance on it anyway) http://vndb.org/v12988 (nekoneko soft and thus a chancy proposition... but I'll try it anyway) http://vndb.org/v12992 (low priority, since the parent company only makes nukige... but I heard this was intended to be a moege, so I'll try it and give my honest opinion, lol) http://vndb.org/v13260 (seems like your classic love-comedy, nothing to get excited about) http://vndb.org/r29096 (remake of a classic, so worth taking a look at) http://vndb.org/v9913 (previous games by this company sucked, but I'm giving it a chance) Edit: tbh, I'll probably only play the top three, the Alcot game, and the Kazoku Keikaku remake right away and wait for the others. I can only take so many moege in a single month, lol.