Mr Poltroon

Pinned this. While we will go over the pinned threads at some later point, there is not reason not to pin it in the meantime. Thank you for your efforts, though.

I've found it to be really good. A comedy with a large cast and plot progression!

Haven't read this post, but I've saved it. I saw a few titles I haven't yet looked into, so I'll definitely read this all nice and proper when I finally feel like reading manga once again.

I don't see what the issue with this approach is. An excessive number of games are released every day (this, of course, includes many which the vast majority of people, anywhere, would not consider buying - troll games, asset flips). Steam has made it a policy to allow every game to stand on its shelves. The closest to 'equal opportunity' they will get, and in my eyes, a good thing. However, this remains an excessive number of titles released daily. I will not insist that curation of these releases is impossible or unfeasible, but I do see it as wasted effort. Unlike a physical retail store, which has a limited number of shelves, Steam is a digital one. It has (for all practical purposes) infinite shelves, and virtually infinite games to go with them. Browsing habits in each store cannot be compared. Because Steam is digital, popular things will float up to the bigger shelves at the front, and ignored things will float down into the abyss of the warehouse. But, every single game is tagged, and these tags link games, meaning you can always pull games of a certain genre back up from the abyss. It is not impossible to browse Steam, and I daresay it does provide some fairly good recommendations. Even if I do get an asset flip or AIDS game put in front of me during my search, I can simply ignore and move on instead of making a video about it, sharing it* or whatever. There's so much stuff on Steam I probably won't see them again. I find that Steam does provide a decent browsing experience, so long as I keep in mind that I cannot see everything, and that Steam accepts everything (or it tries to, at least). And this seems to be the crux of the matter. People like to shout a lot about asset flips and troll games, but the issue they actually have is with a storefront that accepts all. Because 'all' includes bad games. I mean, maybe the storefront would be marginally better without hundreds of non-games being submitted all the time, but curation of said games will end up as a number of work hours wasted, when it could instead sink to the bottom of the store by itself when people ignore the game or refund it. Good games will drown because there are too many games. Of course they will. They'd also be dead in the water if Steam didn't exist or if they had to sell the game on their own. They can try other, more curated platforms. Still unpopular? That happens. The storefront will generally not bring success by itself, though it can. So you want Steam to accept only the 'good' games. Time to formalise 'good' then. A possible issue is that so many games (and non-games) are only made because Steam accepts them all. I can see there being some element of this. This is one criticism of the approach I don't mind. *Which might cause said game to gain popularity, have people visit its page, and have it re-enter the recommendation algorithms. Good job! I would, however, like to hear other opinions on this. Steam allowing everything has always seemed like an undeniably good thing to me that I am incredibly surprised to see so much hate for the policy. I imagine my viewpoint may be limited or skewered as a result, and would love to discuss this topic a bit. On the topic of VNs on Steam, I am not sure they have the systems to properly host what is effectively pornography on their storefront. For now. I imagine things will probably stay as all ages versions until they decide to try and create a system for more pornographic titles, which they might not ever do.

Slice of Life Romance Comedy.

I only know this one. Not sure if you're aware of its existence.

It is one of the things I want to check. I don't know as of yet, but I don't see why they would have different scenes.

Sorry for not replying properly! I don't intend to include them, as they're optional and up to the player. If it's not in the guide, then it's certainly optional. Right. I will include dedicated notes when I do get to finishing it. I'd already left a note explaining how to unlock a jealousy scene*, so players should be able to if they try, but I'll experiment myself and include them properly at a later point. Bad ends are unlocked by not achieving an ending before the allotted time. I'm actually surprised I didn't mention this anywhere within the guide itself. It's there now. *Get one of the girls to stage four and another to stage 3 simultaneously.

The guide itself is complete (with help from other contributors). Any 'final' versions will consist of me testing all the choices myself one more time, and maybe add every single conversation. Maybe. If I ever decide to read every single one. It's not really anything I'll need to check other Walkthroughs for.

So I just happened to click on the Birthday thread, so let's see whose turn is it today? Ah, I see. Happy birthday @Plk_Lesiak.

Hohoho. Here's some news. In addition to steam, the game will also be sold on the JAST Store. The one sold on JAST will be uncensored (I think). The JAST store will also host the uncensor patch for the Steam version (for free). It'll have no mosaics. Perfundia will be up by or around 26/06/2018 The kickstarter will give us a new trial that will include gameplay segments. Read those tweets for information straight from the source and not misinterpreted by me.

I believe the crux of the issue is that they do exactly that, and that the English versions are a case of them telling the developers: 'Hey, BTW we also do those' and them replying 'k, cool'.

Hold on. Let's not go too far, here. Saying Riki and Rin sound particularly different is something of an abuse of language.

Look at him covering all the bases. Given the colours here and the fact that the page refers to 'three girls' and a 'trio of romances', I am inclined to believe the story will follow three girls' romances, and does not suggest they'll get together. As such, I find heterosexual relationships more likely in this instance.

This is probably the only thread on this forum which I am still 'following' from back when I used that feature (which would be around 4 years ago?). I receive a notification every time there's a post and it's so nice to see.

No. They are precisely the continuation of the plot. They have a bit more side-content, such as afterstories, but are otherwise a sort of 'true route' for Grisaia.

I am quite surprised to hear this, as GOG seemed to have no interest in VNs before. (Apologies to the authors for the messed up thread. There is simply little point in having two posted at the same time.)

@Zenophilwhatever

Excellent. A chance at rereading one of my favourite stories.

Pure Speculation:

Bloody hell. Drink away but not astray.

Hold on, this is as long as as Princess Evangile? Or are they referring to the proportions/ratio of H to story? Because Princess Evangile felt looong. And I have the impression I'd prefer this game, so that's good. For me.

Common complaint. Unfortunately, the professor is simply too OP. That is one of his main traits. Phoenix would have hardly had a chance to be on the same level as him. I'd still have preferred if he were, though.

I've found that most translated monster girl (that is, not anthropomorphic cats, dogs, bunnies, and other 'pets') tend to be about the monster girls raping the protagonist, who also tends to be a shouta, for instance. I wonder why this is so common.

Here's a place to send all those questions that won't really get answered. I mean, they might.