Decay

Like I said earlier, it's not particularly intense. Much more prominent than Steins;Gate, much less than some moege. It encompasses a middle ground, employing a good number of the common ecchi tropes of yuri fiction.

A partial patch that translates the main heroine's route exists. The project is discontinued and the site hosting it is down, but thanks to this splendid thread dedicated to partial patches you can find a link to the patch here, and the h-scene restoration patch here.

I may go into this in the review I plan on eventually writing, but the fanservice and pandering comes in both visual and written forms, and feels inappropriate considering the tone of the work. Obviously I play and enjoy all sorts of VNs that pander like crazy, I don't have a problem with the concept itself, but in Flowers it felt like they were just doing the standard amount of yuri ecchi for no other reason than because they felt like they had to. Fred makes a valid point about the characters' sexual awakening causing unexpected feelings to arise within them, but this feels more like an excuse than a justification. Other works like Kindred Spirits have explored this area without being kind of creepy about it. And it feels weird and creepy specifically because it's in contrast to the tone the rest of the work takes, which is pretty serious and down to earth. It always takes me out of the work a little bit when in the midst of some serious melodrama the game pauses to have the reader ogle the girls more. Maybe it would have worked better if it was more subtle, less in-your-face about it. Basically what I'm saying is that Flowers feels like an eroge that was neutered, and they should have just went all out with it instead of half-assing the sexual aspects. That, or tone down the sexual aspects or make them subtler, but I know which you all would prefer. This isn't an especially major complaint, btw. When I made my initital remarks on twitter about this a few days ago I was only half done with the VN. The second half doesn't lean into this stuff as heavily. So it's really just a minor issue at most, I don't mean to make a mountain out of a molehill here.

Only one other person voted for Cyberpunk 2077. Yes, we know practically nothing about that game and it's still like 18 months away at the earliest, but it's still my most anticipated game release after Persona 5. Also I feel like the OP is putting too much stock into a game's country of origin. I consider South Park Stick of Truth to basically be a watered down JRPG, even though it was made in America. And Shenmue is probably not an RPG at all but if it is, it's definitely not JRPG. These are genres that are defined by their gameplay styles, they can come from any part of the world despite having regional names. Also not JRPGs: The Souls series. And definitely a JRPG: Undertale. The genres are weird like that. Anyway, I feel like I'm pretty even on which style of RPG I prefer, but I think I might like western RPGs more.

The Digital Novel versions seem to be heavily cut down versions. Not sure if they actually deserve separate VN pages on vndb but at the time the people who have read them insisted that they were different enough.

Utena is overrated garbage.

There's already like eight of them? I would be more surprised if they stopped at this point.

Youtube doesn't ban very often. I have however seen youtube videos get taken down for it. In fact, most VN publishers here have specific guidelines on how much of their games you can show in youtube videos because it's a problem for them. It's basically giving people a way to experience the VN without paying for it.

They basically are, especially when there's zero commentary and you're playing a kinetic novel. It's an identical experience to just reading it yourself.

Can I ask you why you're recording it for youtube? This doesn't seem like a good thing to do. I have to question if this even falls astray of our anti-piracy rules.

The word "funbags" is a perfectly acceptable comedic euphemism for large breasts.

There's no need to be logged into Steam either. It has an offline mode, you know? And a lot of the VNs (most?) on it are DRM-free and can be played without even booting up the Steam client. Steam does not require DRM. Also I doubt GOG is in a rush to allow 18+ content. The issues they face surrounding that are the same as those Steam faces.

How is this different from your regular behavior?

Presuming he's talking about fan translations, it's just a matter of taste.

Swan Song for sure. The POV switches a fair amount but the main protagonist fits this perfectly. eden* also features a stoic protagonist, and is a well respected, short-ish single heroine romance story. As much as I hate the protagonist in Wanko to Kurasou, he fits the bill here. edit: Crap, you already played this one. Not only that, it's on your list of protagonists that DON'T meet your criteria? Dude is cold as fuck. Uhh absolutely not either of these, lol. One of the biggest aspects of Cross Channel is how the protagonist is completely unable to control his emotions and impulses.

Because Nekopara sold so well. So a super trimmed down version of Koikuma for Steam is likely to also sell well, despite being so butchered. You can tell SP was taken by surprise by how their press release made no mention of a Steam release. Well that, and some of their staffers' reactions on discord, lol.

That idea came entirely from the Japanese side, actually. And they didn't even seem aware of it until Sayori suddenly said at AX that it was going to happen.

What would you say your Japanese skill level is at? I'll be blunt, your translated intro was pretty shoddy. I understand and appreciate your enthusiasm, but your efforts are misguided here. You do not seem capable of producing a translation that is of acceptable quality even for the low standards of fan translation. I very strongly suggest that you drop this endeavor. edit: I have to say, I'm actually pretty shocked and heavily disappointed at the amount of encouragement that's going on here. What's happening is akin to someone encouraging some frail kid to go toe to toe with Mohammad Ali. This is just irresponsible at this point. I'm sorry PUBAK but you are simply not ready for translation yet. Furthermore, to translate the work with the above level of quality is both disrespectful to us and the original creators of the work, it's so bad. Please stop.

I didn't know Atelier Sakura was separate from Atelier Kaguya. I was hoping for some works from such brands as Atelier Kaguya BerkshireYorkshire and the illustrious Atelier Kaguya HonkyTonk Pumpkin. Instead we got a mountain of insanely generic NTR.

Anyone on NA want 80 gold? Decay#11491

Thread title is amusing in how obnoxiously long it is, good job OP. Why isn't the cat girl wearing any panties?

You know there's a spoiler tag, right?

Uhh, You know, tens of millions of people use Steam right? Considering Steam sales of VNs tend to outperform non-steam sales, even for eroge that gets censored, I don't think you can generalize like this. That said, selling the game on the humble store or something would be pretty cool.

At least even the TB haters realize how good the voice acting was.

I was actually going to recommend that you read this but then I forgot.