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If they reintroduce the adult content, why not? I have nothing against Norn; granted, their games aren't anything special (honestly, most of them range from outright godawful to mediocre at most, porn-wise), but every company has it's place and they definitely know theirs. Art is very nice. What Toranth said - if they're slightly more clever than most of japanese studios willing to share their games with the rest of the world, they might actually adjust their business model and start releasing short games on Steam with 18+ patches aside. They will beat Winged Cloud hands down, solely with their experience That said - fuck you, Japan. Another vn with kemonomimis and all we get is porn. Not that I complain, but give us something slightly more solid for once

It's been a while I saw something so heart touching and bittersweet at the same time. Thoughts?

You're in a wrong place to ask for translations, OP. That said, people have seriously no idea how much work it takes to translate a single game, especially a japanese one.

Wait... Multiplayer usually introduces player competition or cooperation within the game's main workframe. Care to explain how such mechanics would would work in a visual novel? It's hard to think of anything, because vn's can be barely considered games and what little interaction it is, ammounts to nothing more than advancing the text on screen and making choices. Where's the point?

Definitely Yosuga no Sora. There's no other story as good as Kana, tho.

You kind of have to agree it took them a while to upgrade into next-gen graphics and systems. It looks nice, it does, but considering this is primarily (who am I kidding) a sex game like most of their releases, it literally has no ground to survive on the market and should be considered more of an experiment, than a full-fledged product. The sole fact it requires VR-hardware to operate is kind of disappointing; I'm not that stupid yet to invest into something, which barely took off the ground and doesn't use even a tiny bit of it's currently available potential. At least, you could say the waifu age is finally upon us. Gals from Sukeban must be smirking hard right now. PS. Still waiting for monster girls

IIRC, Taichi hates lolicons so I don't even know where that notion came from There's no loli content in Cross Channel, and whatever's left, it's subverted. The closest thing one can get is Miki, but she's not a loli, either. If you have issues with multibranched stories, I'd recommend playing Cross Channel with a walkthrough; you'll get frustrated preety quickly otherwise, as it's possible to repeat certain parts countless of times without even knowing it Be sure to read Tower of Friends afterwards. It adds a lot to the story.

If there's anything that's dying right now, it's the olden fan community. We played our part and we're not really required anymore. The new playerbase is already voicing their opinions with their wallets, as things should be and all's fine with the world. It's an exciting time to be a vn fan.

EVN's?

That's why it's a preety decent movie, even though it lacks depth; it's not really the kind of thing, you'd be watchhing it for, though

You sure are bad at maths. And how old is "that japanese adult game industry", you're talking about? 1982, perhaps? That's exactly when the first japanese eroge appeared on the market, mostly because computers became capable to display graphics good enough to make them somewhat enjoyable. And you're wrong about "visual novel" being coined by ELF; it was a derivative off Chunsoft's "Sound Novel". Because "Sound Novel" was trademarked by them (and as such, no one aside from Chunsoft could use that name commercially), Leaf coined their own term - "Visual Novel" - by adding character portraits and facial expressions to backgrounds. That's how the genre we know today was born. Please refrain from posting misinformation. Majority of so-called western vn developers do not have the slightest idea what vn's, or eroge are. They jump into the genre, because they like the general notion associated with visual novels: "adventure games, that tell stories through text, sound and pictures on screen"; they don't know, nor care about the japanese industry and rarely take time to actually inform themselves, least learn about the current market and it's trends. Obviously, this backfires on their games afterwards and causes a large portion of already experienced western playerbase to treat them with disrespect and indulgence at most.

It's because it was literally influenced and inspired by mecha anime and kaijū shows

I could elaborate, but you're propably off better watching this instead: If you still think otherwise, then I don't even know.

If your tolerance for stupid bullshit is that low, then propably, yeah If anything, Gargantia was a lot better and I'd actually recommend watching it, if you're into post-apo settings.

It's highly possible that's a false positive. What kind of virus does it supposedly detect?

Gunbuster. You might watch the sequel too, although it didn't manage to achieve prequel's level. Then, you have Tekkaman/Tekkaman 2 which were suprisingly good shows definitely worth watching, for space operas. Daimos is considered a cult classic, although might not be as good (YMMV, it's kind of cliched and full of early propaganda, but still - a nice show to watch, albeit quite dated). Gurren Lagan is a must, if you haven't seen it yet. For more mecha, but not necesarilly space-oriented shows - Patlabor, especially the second movie; third is worth watching too, although it's completely different than it's predecessors (not really about mecha anymore, haha). Knights of Sidonia from lately airing shows proven to be really decent, too.

It's more propably a false positive, rather than actual virus. What anti-virus software do you use?

The end is nigh ( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)

More like, won't be an "english-centric thing" only. I don't want japanese studios to treat western playerbase like a foster child of vn industry. We deserve better treatment.

I'm not surprised rarely anyone outside from more sophisticated and experienced readers recommends Christine Love's games and that's fine. Then, you have new games, like Along the Edge; a great evn I'm sure barely anyone even heard of, despite having a topic on this forum? It's kind of sad people complain so much about EVN's - especially the hardcore otaku crowds - yet, at the same time, they outright refuse to reach out and discover what's it currently made of. Everyone just keeps on bickering about how "mediocre and low budget they are, yada yada" etc. But forget, that almost all prominent japanese studios began as doujin circles, with usually even smaller budgets (if any at all) than the current evn's. It took the genre in overall more than two decades to "grow up" and turn from sex romps into story-driven adventures and that was only the beginning of it's evolution. I'm sure evn's will achieve similiar results, just give them time; it's hard to talk about development, when their sole playerbase feels so detached.

>EVN's are meh >KS is an exception because it was first This can't sound any more biased Instead making another pointless topic, where people will repeat the same things over and over again, why not use search and add something meaningful to one of the already existing topics? Like this one or this one, for example?

If you're a die hard Frontwing fan, why even ask? I'd say none, but I'm sure you won't listen and will read that piece of crap anyway