Narcosis

I wonder if it's going to be at least as good as Planetarian, cause I highly doubt it'll be better. Eitherway, everything in it screams of an spiritual sequel and I wouldn't be surprised if it's set in the same exact setting, whether it's a spin-off or an alternative retelling of the original story, happening somewhere else.

They can even charge 30$/month for a patreon subscription and people are happily paying them almost 12k/month for more lousy porn.

"Free", you say? I wouldn't review their games even if they'd paid me big bucks to do it

Your waifu doesn't exist.

I don't use a proxy to access DMM Japan and website always worked fine for me, but that just might be my country. Sucks to be you As for the "no import for you" and "Japan only" - they are selling hentai games and other borderline content online; due to complicated laws regarding digital distribution of 18+ materials around the world, your best bet is to simply block access from all foreign IP's, rather than risk legal issues. If InvertMouse lives in the Philipines or any other SEA country, there's a 90% chance the website is already blocked by their ISP's because of the law; there's no other way around than using a proxy.

Propably does, since it's just a digital edition of the original game. more importantly - why would you even need it?

That's a cult classic. Definitely worth getting, at least for the feels. If you haven't read it, you should.

You greatly underestimate the power of 4c That said, it's preety obvious it would have been like that eitherway, because those certain parts of 4c are filled with weebs. It's the only place tho, where people literally make up a whole game from a random pic drawn by a random doujinshi artist. Whilst there are literally thousands of better concepts floating around the internet, all we got was a cliched vn with crippled girls everyone adores

You didn't really brought up anything, that breaks the mold. People don't have issues with anime-styled art or traits in general, especially when it's nicely done; it's a false assumption and a perfect excuse for devs, when this topic is brought up to attention. The real issue is within direction of those games, their subpar writing and lack of willingness to improve, or change for the better with time. You said there's a lot of games, which actually aren't trying to copy japanese vn's; that's kind of true now, but for every original game, there's a couple in production, which don't even try to hide the fact they're just copypasting the most popular trends on the japanese-western market. Most of them are just what they are - generic stories with little to no worldbuilding (at least in case of original, scfi-fi/fantasy settings, dear god), weak dialogue, half-assed and hastily built scenarios which often don't make much sense when the climax comes, empty husks of characters filled with cliche, overall siliness and weeb sheaningans which make every self-respecting anime fan puke. And best of all - people are actually trying to sell them! Moving the setting from a generic japanese high school to a generic western high school isn't much of a change; same with moving setting from Japan in general to America or Europe. Military school with giant robots in US? Why not? Of course, our protag has to run late with a toast in her mouth and let's not forget about the obligatory bump into her dear sempai, whom she's secretly in love with! What's the point of creating a western vn, when you actually don't talk about western-related things, issues or problems? Don't use the setting to the story's advantage? Do not build upon it? Is it supposed to be just a preety backdrop to make western players less hesitant and more willing to fork over their money? It takes a lot more effort to actually craft a story, which is both interesting and genuinely fresh; one which doesn't simply swap assets, but truly embraces the essence of being set in an enviroment, which greatly differs from that of a generic japanese vn and makes full use of it to create a memorable experience. Sadly, from all the late games, only VA11 HALL-A managed to do that and it's still not a perfect example, mainly because the game focused way too much on bartending and interactions with the customers and way too little on the surrounding world, issues and urban legends which affected all the characters.

There was no rollback and we didn't lost a week of everyone's shitposting. Hooray.

That pool is biased, just like every single pool made on these forums Please, for the love of gods, don't use the term "OELVN". They are simply called western vn's. It's hard to compare japanese and western vn's; it's like trying to compare tangerines and oranges; yes - they are fruits, they look similiar but they taste entirely different; in fact, they shouldn't be compared, out of obvious reasons. Western vn's will propably continue to fall flat in general comparison to their japanese counterparts; it won't change anytime soon. That said, when you look at certain attempts and examples, quality western vn's often surprass japanese vn's by a great degree, both as a storytelling medium, art and genre of computer games; it's because they aren't handicapped by the very same cancer audience, which invented them in the first place. This means more freedom and less restrictions on what they can be and less pressure from the playerbase. That makes them a far more powerful tool for expression, whilst the japanese vn's are more often tailored exactly towards the tastes if it's main consumer base - otaku crowds. The real problem with western vn's is that they tend to copy japanese vn's way too much and that is, ironically, what hurts them the most. When the time comes and devs finally understand there's no need for that, only then western vn's will have a chance to surprass their japanese counterparts. I just love how you placed Winged Cloud at the very bottom in regards to potential future Despite what some people say, VA11 HALL-A is actually a traditional visual novel, one reminiscent of good ol' PC-98 games; one, where drink mixing replaced traditional choice making in a clever manner. Have you even played Solstice? Cinders? Along the Edge? Ori, Ochi, Onoe? The Dandelion Girl? Everlasting Summer? Analogue? VA11 HALL-A? Her Tears Were My Light? No? Then you already have your hands full and that's just the tip of an iceberg.

>Island Haha, nope. It's either Inochi no Spare or WareMete.

None of the games mentioned can even compare in any way to Swan Song.

Apples vs Oranges. Clearly the most exciting debate since dawn of adventure game genre.

>looks at the gorgeous backgrounds >FairyTale Requiem vibes >looks at the rest afterwards *sigh* ...why do the characters have their names in fucking japanese, despite being clearly western? Is the devteam japanese, or am I clearly missing something? Stop with the weeb crap already. Make good western vn's, because I know you can.

You can't go wrong with Akatsuki no Goei.

Fucking weebs English is extremely easy to learn. Russian is very easy. German is easy once you grasp the grammar basics.... so nope, you're wrong. Learning *certain* languages might be difficult, but learning new languages isn't; it's a matter of appropriate mindset.

>online community I enjoy very much You must be a masochist Welcome, please enjoy your stay

Aside from being sarcastic, there's no point in reading something you won't fully comprehend

You literally deleted/moved your game save folder. Don't be surprised why the progress got lost.

Sakura was actually before Subahibi, not the other way around, if I remember correctly. Don't read any of those, find something better

Repent your sins!

Geuss I'll have to plow through all the crap in my backlog to be able to give this a try. RIP me