Mr Poltroon

That is indeed it.

The fact that things such as Fxxx Me Royally!! have come into existence is more than enough to justify wanting the titles for VNs to be translated.

I imagine he was talking about me in his comment. That said, I do know that a lot of Portuguese-speaking people have shown up on the forums over time. Nevertheless, welcome to Fuwanovel!

In perhaps not as strong a wording, I do agree that this is among the poorest choices to make in titles to bring over to the West via Steam. Not all anime games with lolis make them look like such children, but this one pulls it off nicely.

It is not. This is the best you can get it to look: It requires installing certain fonts. See the following thread:

I prefer titles fully in English, because I'll know what they're saying! That said, the keeping Japanese titles can be helpful in cases where the original Japanese game was known in the West before it got localised.

I have been told this title is even more insane than Fureraba. Hard to believe, but I'll be paying attention to this one. I fully intend to purchase it at some point.

Hm. If I recall correctly, YU-NO is one of those games that's unbeatable without a walkthrough. Part of the classic experience, I suppose. Until the remake is out, there's no telling which is more worth experiencing, if they're mutually exclusive at all.

On the topic of harem titles: Harem, by their very definition, involve multiple people. Due to the traditional standards of romance, polygamy is not often in the cards outside of outright sex stuff (much to my dismay). This would mean that any title that pursues the avenue of multiple romantic interests will have to either choose one, changing genres and killing some of the audience, or never come to a resolution. These are the kind of titles that can only live off the premise, and they will end should it be resolved.* That is why I believe that titles that can somehow find a way to continue after breaking through this limitation (without introducing a new such hook and limitation) are best. That, or titles that are never inconvenienced by such limitations, like the slice-of-life genre. However, despite these obvious limitations, harem titles and their ilk are by far the most popular. Teasing with only minor pay-off (a kiss after three seasons that gets misunderstood and reverts back into the status quo) does wonders at keeping people addicted. It also often happens that harem titles are somewhat sexual in nature, skipping over the romance in the process. This is, of course, to offer some stimulation and pay-off even without needing to commit to any one person, and maintaining the hook and status quo for as long as there's money in the business. There is also something to be said about multiple girls being interested in the same person providing a great scenario for all sorts of drama and 'best girl' moments and competitions. Anime such as Nisekoi made they living by giving everyone a chance to be best girl and Re:Zero has the famous debate over Rem and Emilia. A lot of wonderful scenarios can be concocted by having multiple romantic interests, but it is usually not in the makers' best interests to let the hook end and reach a conclusion. Visual Novel's inherent advantage is that they CAN choose everyone, and they don't even need to make it a polygamous relationship. Multiple paths enable these possibilities that are mostly shut-off to the other mediums. The thing with VNs is, as a PC game in Japan, they usually need porn in order to sell, as it's the one thing they have over mobile and consoles, which are far more popular in Japan. So the reason VNs do well on the romantic front is two-fold: They can establish hooks like anime and manga, but since VNs are necessarily finite in length, they cannot let the hook carry them indefinitely and will need to commit. Thankfully, it is easy to pull that off with VNs, as they can offer multiple paths, dedicating to everyone a full path of sole romance. As a PC game, they tend to press their one advantage: sex. This usually brings along with it a plethora of other romantic shenanigans in order to provide context. *For example, the other day I saw a manga where the entire premise was that the romantic interest is a huge tsundere that is only true to herself... when she becomes a ghost, as she has the power to do so at any point. What she doesn't know is that the protagonist can see her. The whole story is around the protagonist pretending he can't see her whilst she goes super dere-dere all over him in ghost form. A reader will spend the entire time hoping that the two get together, but it is plain to see that there's nothing to the manga outside of this tease and premise. On the topic of manga: Shoujo can include sex as something that happens off-screen, assuming it happens at all. Where sex happens more often is in smut titles, and those would generally be considered josei more than shoujo. The reason why shoujo include sex more often is because when seinen and/or shounen do it, the titles are usually just hentai by that point. That is to say, seinen and shounen tend to be more extreme, leading to borderline-h titles that you're likely not interested in, whereas shoujo scarcely ever goes this far, instead becoming a form of smut and josei you're also not interested in by that point. So the question becomes: "Why is there a clearer separation between all-ages and 18+ for male stuff than there is for female stuff?" I would theorise that that would be because porn is more widely spread as a thing among the teenage male population than among the teenage female one, and that would mean that including light stuff in shounen and the like is not as much of a selling point as it would be to the teenage female audience. So, when you say that shoujo manga has more romance stuff, I reply with Girls are believed to have more interest in romantic matters where as boys are believed to prefer more raunchy stuff. It follows that stories aimed at girls more often include romantic things that boys'. This includes very romantic and non-explicit sex scenes, the exact opposite of what you find in seinen and some shounen stuff. More popular shounen usually have a harem than shoujo stuff, which impedes romance severely (shoujo have love triangles, which are their own kind of hell, but don't sabotage romantic interactions as much as a harem intentionally does). Shoujo plotlines traditionally follow a girl falling for a guy who's nice (or mean) to them once, and tend to involve more one-on-one and romantic interactions, whereas shounen doesn't usually even focus on romance to begin with, unless it's a harem. The reason why this is is because plotlines where a guy falls head-over-heels with a girl and is led around by the nose aren't as popular as the shoujo versions. In the end, then, why is it that the titles are usually at one extreme or the other: Full-on hentai VS endless harem/romance with scarcely a bit of progress in sight. The reasons are all spread out throughout what I've mentioned previously. Romantic titles tend to garner more interest by placing a hook or dramatic situation that, if resolved, would either end the story or cause a sharp decrease in interest. This is the reason why romance anime and some romance manga tend to be long and inconclusive. If progress is made, it'll usually be towards the end. They use these methods because they air/publish continuously, whereas VNs are single titles with a set beginning and end. It is not that there are no titles with proper romantic progression over the course of the story: consider these two lists I made (that are now rather outdated, as I've come across many more). It's just that the popular ones aren't usually these. They're the others. Because of their hooks and more continuous nature. The more romantic titles will always, due to the absence of strong hooks and drama, be less popular, despite offering more romantic progression. The reason why all-ages stuff doesn't tend to include sex or intimate nudity is that it is a very large jump to make. You'd be jumping from something that can be sold everywhere to something that's have more limited sections to be sold in, and that is simply not a worthwhile sacrifice to make unless you're going for full-on porn.

Gentlemen and others. This conversation is clearly not contributing much to the topic at the moment, so let us let it go. Further discussion can be had through PMs, where threads will not be derailed.

You may only have that impression because it is a rarer phenomenon (either because it happens less frequently, or because it is brought to your attention less frequently). If games with young female characters are more common or popular than those with young males then, naturally, the amount of like and dislike you see for it would scale proportionately.

Correct. Shuffle was memorable in that it kept jumping to whenever something happened. Though I like both approaches, I appreciate this one all the more because it is not the most common.

Tsk Tsk Tsk, @Eclipsed.

The conversation is kind of slipping away from the point of the thread and into personal conversation so feel free to take it to PMs. Thank you!

Yes, as long as the price with all of them together would equal the price of one full game and their individual prices were evenly distributed. It is fine if you do not agree, but at that point I have nothing more to add.

There's a lot of crappy translations (at least in the past) and content cutting going about, certainly. But charging 20 dollars (or 16,50 euros) for a VN fandisc is not money hungry or price gouging. Partitioning and making DLC only helps the consumer so long as the overall price of the product is not above the norm for the type of content, and here it is most definitely not. It'd be the same bloody thing if they made no DLC and instead sold everything for the 20 dollars it amounts to, except it'd have taken longer, people only interested in routes other than Akari would need to pay for the route they don't want, and people interested only in Akari wouldn't feel strangely 'cheated'. (The 20 dollars = main game + DLC)

By last season, are you referring to the currently airing shows and contrasting it with Summer's, this season, or are you referring to Winter, and contrasting it with the currently airing? Having Spring and Summer threads at the same time is confusing me.

Do not worry, it is perfectly natural to not realise it when you die.

Do not load any saves during the scenes in the auditorium. That caused problems for me.

Well, no discussion thread seems to have popped up yet, so I guess I'll make it. As always, I'm plenty excited for most things coming out. In particular, I'm excited for Isekai Quartet: Chibi, Comedy, with my favourite series's. Could not be better. I've also watched the first episode of Fruits Basket. Weird to hear it in Japanese this time. I think I'll wait for the dub, since that's what I originally watched it with. Fruits Basket is important for me because it's among the first few shows where I actually read the manga after the anime. As it happens, however, the anime deviated heavily from the source material at points, so it'll be interesting to see how this new one does it. It's certainly shinier, if nothing else. One Punch Man sequel is something I'll watch. For the comedy, as ever. Other than that... I'll keep an eye on all the romances and comedies and see what I might like.

I'm not so sure. Have you played it? From what I've seen, entering into relationships and developing the bonds with the girls is phenomenal, though there's more than a fair bit of everyone just growing to like the protagonist. It's after the relationship starts that it devolves into, uh, an H-fest. At least, the full route I played had a very gradual transition and lots of handling of feelings delicately. I liked it. She got interested in him because of his grades, that much is certain, but they've known each other for a while by the time the VN starts. I think she's also impressed with his ability to resist against her and dealing with his daily life and other people in the particular way he does (avoiding problems).

@Dreamysyu! Happy birthday.

Ah, yes. I did think those missing files were from some external program the VN uses and not from the VN itself. And you're right. Their support team is off for the weekends.

Yes, this seems like a good description. When nobody in particular stands out as being a good match or being placed in a position where the protagonist would get close to them, I pick my favourite...ish? Favourite or second favourite. I often like more than one or two characters, so I can't quite tell who my favourite is beforehand.

You'd need nearly as many posts as I've ever made to catch up with him, and you're already a highly qualified spammer of ages past. Oh, I seem to have missed this one. Where did this 'Tiag' comment?