Decay

You bump the dice in order to get the spells you want, doing so doesn't reset your spirits at all. You only reset your spirits when you autocast a spell from the spell list. I almost never do this. It's generally pretty easy to cast the spells you want purely by bumping without losing any spirits once you get used to the dice bumping. You can then get 1500-2000+ spirits per category pretty easily with the right spells. It's impossible to do everything in a single playthrough, but you can save a lot of time by being really efficient with your lessons and spell learning, reducing the amount of content you have to repeat.

Well, Chaos Head and Steins Gates' console versions most probably outsold the PC versions in Japan, otherwise why would 5pb go consoles only for that series? Your anecdotal experience probably doesn't translate to the Japanese VN market.

https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=tag_inc-134.tag_exc-292.tagspoil-0;o=d;s=rating Some of these may only have a female protagonist for just a chapter or two. https://vndb.org/g542?fil=tag_inc-542.tagspoil-0.lang-en;m=0;o=d;s=rating These are all romance games with a female protagonist and male love interests.

The extra dice are only for spirit generation, they do nothing else. But it's good to have lots of dice for certain spells like celestis flos or whatever that's called (the fireworks spell, which is available from the start). The general strategy is to spend the first couple days setting up the board, creating as many high-value dice as you can, then spend the rest of the week casting spells that strike the dice a lot generating crazy amounts of spirit. Specific spell combos may vary but that's the general outline that everybody should follow. After the first few months, you should probably be casting spells with both characters every day. As for character age, well... don't ask don't tell. I did find it a little weird that despite their apparent very young age, they don't age at all in the course of three years. And I'm not a lolicon so like half of the characters' scenes are about as unerotic as they get for me.

I'm not sure the two are related. 5pb has a lot of stuff they may never bring to the states. Well, if the console version of S;G is successful, that may prompt R;N, C;H, and C;C releases (although they may just skip R;N if they think the cel shading is too dated or its too late to release a 360/ps3 game), they'd definitely look at those before they consider YU-NO. They first have to establish that home console VNs (with no gameplay) are viable in the States. edit: And although what I said about the xbone was just a joke, this IS 5pb we're talking about here, so don't expect a PC version, expect it to be PS4/xbone/PSV at the most.

I just want to make clear that so far there's no indication that whatever this is will actually be xbox one exclusive, please don't get enraged at 5pb because of my joke, wait for the facts.

A quick question, I know for new game+ your spells carry over for lessons (but not quests), but what about your spirit caps? Do those get reset? edit: I can now answer my own question: Yes, the spirit caps get reset. I guess that makes spells carrying over largely pointless because you could usually reach the cap for all spirit types each lesson anyways. It might save a dozen or so days, I guess? Also, another thing, apparently the game doesn't wait until the end of the third year to branch off into the different endings, that certainly took me by surprise. I got the Aria ending when I was still in month 8 or 9 of year 3. I still had a bunch of quests I was going to do, some of them Aria-specific! I should read an ending guide now, if there is such a thing.

Oh cool I always wanted an xbone exclusive version of YU-NO, thanks 5pb.

It sounds like you basically want dating sims. There aren't many good ones translated to english, and most of those are Otome games (female protagonist, male love interests) https://vndb.org/g39?fil=lang-en.tagspoil-2.tag_inc-39;m=0 edit: Although VNDB excludes several dating sims on the premise that they aren't VN enough, I'm not sure which noteworthy ones are missing.

The math works out so where you'd get more spirits if you cast tempero ignis on days one and two. 20% fewer rounds casting calestis fios but you get around 83% more spirits for those next 4 days.

Best tip anyone can give is to learn Tempero Ignis ASAP and cast it multiple times per lesson for both characters. Right now I'm casting normal ignis first then tempero ignis a couple times, and trying to get a couple "moon" spirits (is that what that is?) per roll after that for maximum spirits. There may be more optimal strategies once you get more spells.

Well, Akihito is really selfish but I don't think that makes him wrong. He wants to save everyone he cares about while putting an end to conflict. I'd say that "doing the right things for the wrong reason" absolutely does not fit him since in any other VN he'd be a standard altruistic protagonist but in Comyu, it's shown how those desires can actually be selfish and possibly hurt others in the process, while possibly not even being attainable anyways. It's an interesting way to portray a protagonist and represents a desire most people have and don't follow through on, which is why I said he's relatable. Meanwhile, Gasai is largely just power hungry and I don't see what makes him interesting at all. As for the thinking with his dick part, well, I guess to some extent. When it comes to Haru and Rondo, he did what most single pubescent males would do. I think he's just willing to engage in casual sex when he doesn't perceive himself as being tied down in an established relationship and I don't think that's a repulsive point of view at all, but rather perfectly normal. There was one exception to this and I didn't actually like that scene but I don't think it degraded the quality of the VN by much.

Most people prefer Gasai? Are you sure about that? Gasai was a pompous douchebag. Who on earth would prefer him? Akihito was much more relatable.

He is probably the single most perverted protagonist in any non-nukige VN translated to english, and probably holds a really high spot among the rest of the VNs as well. It was really off-putting at first but I gave the VN another chance and got further in, once I got to know the characters and the setting better, it all kind of fell into place and it become another interesting facet to the web of relations between everyone.

It's not too dark. There are some dark-ish themes and such but for the most part it's actually surprisingly light hearted with some dark undertones. Sometimes those undertones surface, but it's never over-the-top.

I'm currently playing the SakuSaku partial patch, and am on the Mio route. Oh my god these characters are so god damned stupid. I'm almost pulling my hair out at how frustrating this route is sometimes. Somebody please tell me this is the worst route.

I think due to the way exposition and flashbacks and all that are handled in MLA, it's possible to understand things if you don't read MLE and MLU first, but skipping those will still end up resulting in a lesser overall experience, in my opinion. Like, you will know that Sumika is an important loved one to Takeru but without experiencing that first hand in MLE, a lot of stuff in MLA will lose its impact. It's like hopping into a TV series halfway through, relying on plot summaries to fill in the missing details. You understand everything that's happening, but you find it much more difficult to actually care.

The decensoring will be optional.

Like I speculated earlier in the thread, Sekai Project most likely did the translation on contract and don't have the rights to sell the 18+ version, only Neko Works does. The version they sell on their own site will contain all three languages.

Same for Oblivious Garden. The translation at the very least is real shit. Seems to be a rash of poorly translated cash-ins appearing on Steam.

While I was reading it, I had occasional thoughts about what Inganock would be like as an anime. I don't think it would work at all.

I'm also encountering this problem. I'm getting the same crash in that same spot, and using that fixed file doesn't stop the crash. Neither does fast forwarding. So, err, is that the right file? Is there something else that can be done? If it works for anyone, could they maybe make a save file for the very next line? edit: Okay, I found a solution! This one should work for everyone. 1. Open sr_loc.ini. 2. Set Width=1040 and VNWidth=1015 to something small. 3. Skip past the line in-game. 4. Save. 5. Set it back to the previous values. 6. Done. Copy and pasted from some anon in an archived 4chan thread. None of the other solutions worked for me, but this one did. So if DarkSideoftheSmoof manages to catch this, give it a shot. Same to anyone else who might have this problem.

They can, but again, it runs into the same issue of trust, but it will be even more pronounced. Especially for a small company like Sekai Project. And that takes money and engineering and such to set up.

People trust Kickstarter. There's are other crowdfunding sites but even when marketed in the same manner, the projects there aren't as popular. Somehow, people feel more comfortable backing a project on Kickstarter than Indiegogo.