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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night I really wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much~

Welcome! About mahou shoujo VNs, sadly, the most recent non-smut mahou shoujo game overall (not just VNs) that I remember having checked is some Sailor Moon RPG for the SNES (and tbh, I can't remember many smut ones either), so sadly, I can't help on that front. About the parakeets' names, they're not as usual. I liked the creativity! And on the topic about stones, a little trivia: amethysts are a type of quartz. Certainly don't look like so to me, with how fragile amethysts tend to be.

This is a hard one. Tried using Apple's Shazam, multiple times, even, and the best I got is what appears to be a Swedish remix (I don't speak Swedish, so looking for info on this one is being a challenge):

I tried to look for info on SteamDB, ITAD, Internet Archive, KS's FAQ, comments, and updates, Gamefaqs, Metacritic and VNDB, but unless I'm not searching properly, it doesn't seem like there's any useful info publicly available. Besides what's been suggested before, at best, what you could try to do is asking about what became of the game on DMs of users from the KS's comment section that say/imply they have played it.

For legal digital manga and light novels, you can sporadically find bundles of such on Humble Bundle, Groupees, IndieGala and Fanatical, and all the manga I've seen being sold in their bundles were DRM-free. DLsite also sells manga, both SFW (e.g. shounen; albeit usually with DRM) and NSFW (DRM presence needs to be verified for each title individually). And MediBang has some manga on Itchio, although most are smut.

Slayers for the Super Famicom, and I think I'm pretty close to completing it, after over a decade beating around the bush to play it.

Greetings, traveler! English is not my native language either (nor is Spanish), but going by how you wrote the post, I found it to be pretty good! Also...

Mobile devices, so I can play them wherever I am. And in the lack of native mobile/portable console versions, having a way to emulate or port them in mobile devices helps a bunch too!

The SNES spin-off of the 90's anime Slayer. Hopefully this time I'll complete it.

Father, by Sabaton:

Greetings, traveler! I also need to be in the right mood for reading VNs, so I feel you Bonus points if it there are means to make it run on a mobile device, though!

Bleach is airing once more, and despite watching it, I'm worried on how it'll develop. If they do an 1:1 of the story in the manga, without expanding on things that were frankly pretty rushed in the manga, or at least including the story of the light novels, I don't think it would be much of an improvement.

Now that I think of it, isn't it possible to set multiple users on Windows, or even multiple sessions for the same user? Perhaps you could have a secondary user or session with the Japanese locale, while having the main user or session with the usual settings.

Does the control panel still exist in Win11? If so, try to change your computer's locale through there. That's what I do in both Win7 and Win10, and that is enough, usually. Alternatively, install Ubuntu, Fedora or any other common Linux distros, either on bare metal, or through a virtual machine or Windows Subsystem for Linux, then install Wine in it and run this command from a terminal window: LC_ALL=ja_JP wine /path/to/the/game's/executable.exe

It is planned to release on GOG, Jast USA and Steam, and Jast USA is already holding pre-orders for it:

Salutations! If I may suggest, Va-11 Hall-A is a visual novel that fits both the comedy and drama departments.

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I get the info from multiple sources, actually. For Jast, it was through their official Discord group. For Zoom Platform, they usually warn about any delistings in their official Discord group. For GOG, delistings are usually warned in their official forum, and there's a thread there for games at risk too (link). There are also two threads on Steam I follow for that (#1 and #2), as well as a Steam curator (link). There's also a site that tracks delisted games too, called "Delisted Games" (link). Some times things can pop up in r/delistedgames and r/GameDealsMeta over on Reddit too, but the former is still pretty small and the latter only sporadically has info on game removals. Mainly, those are the ones I get the info from.

One of those countless smut minigames from Steam, called PongPong Girl, will be delisted at the end of October: https://steamcommunity.com/games/2088040/announcements/detail/3306229070218287259

To start off, all games on Jast USA's site released until the decade of the 2000's are at risk of getting delisted. Or rather, from what a staff member commented in the store's official group, the delisting of each of those titles is already programmed, and the delisting for each game should happen once they get remastered versions. The latest game to suffer from that is Heart de Roommate, whose remaster released on September 30, a few days ago. =================================================== Also, the free "SKALD: Against the Black Priory - The Prologue" will be delisted from Steam next week since a more up to date demo will be released, and GOG probably will be affected too, since the soon-to-be-rendered-outdated prologue is there as well. Source: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1069160/announcements/detail/3287088771792102809 Prologue on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/skald_against_the_black_priory_the_prologue Prologue on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1609100/Skald_Against_the_Black_Priory__the_Prologue/

Creating this topic because of how little people talk about it, despite happening so often, and people could miss warnings in other sites, forums and groups because of that. Hope it can be of any help!

I'm replaying Saints Row The Third (2011 version) after around 5 years, and it's far more insane -and better- than I remember!

Nope, none of them were DRM free. Little meme about this release, by the way (mind Persona 5 spoilers!):

News post: https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim I genuinely wasn't expecting that to happen... "<.< Also according to a news post by Nexus Mods (link), they, as well as the creators of SKSE, were working with GOG behind the scenes before the release to help add modding support to the GOG release. Mind individual mods may need to be updated first before they can work with the GOG version, as there are some modifications to this version so it can work under the premise of GOG. That marks the first DRM free release of Skyrim, and by what I read in the store page and forum comments, it seems the game features that could and would work as DRM were disabled and given, to an extent, workarounds. Thoughts?