Decay

I would not be surprised if this review ends up being the lowest-scoring one around. Yet, I was entirely honest and made no exaggerations on the work or on my feelings. Several of the points I brought up may have been subjective, but I think I pointed out enough solid objective shortcomings to substantiate my claims and back up my opinion. It's brutal, but I see no point in holding back if I truly dislike something. It would do a disservice to the readers who expect honesty from us.

So? What's the downside to voting for something that's receiving a translation? Are they going to go "Oh, people only want already-in-translation stuff" and stop all future licensing? No, they're going to look towards the next-most-voted thing instead. Just have fun and vote for what you want most. If those companies are going to make use of that information, they can still do so just as well.

This is just a popularity contest, don't assume any sort of deeper meaning beyond that. The winning VNs may not be translated. They probably won't be. Anyways, the akagoei translation is long dead, so no, that's not going to happen.

Well, everyone is clearly wrong since the Ritsuko route is the obvious and objective best.

I wonder if people realize Baldr Force isn't Baldr Sky. People made that mistake on the first page of this thread, lol. Well, the other two aren't anything special so those two being on the top seems about right, anyways.

Unfortunately, I could not disclose many of NOBY's biggest faults due to them deeply involving story spoilers. I wanted everyone to read this review, so I needed to keep it spoiler-free. But on the forums there are spoiler tags! Now, you will no longer have to put blind faith into my words, but will be able to see for yourself just how bad this shit gets. Onto the insanity of the Megumi route we go! To be clear, these are very major spoilers. Wow, that became one hell of a wall of text. BTW, all of that happens in the span of about 60-90 minutes, because that's how long the routes are. Extremely rushed.

And they released a third VN, Sickness, right around the same time as NOBY. I'm not going to go anywhere near that thing. I wish I could have put this screenshot into the review, in place of the tree one. But, you know, spoilers and all that.

It is likely as simple as finding the localization files and identifying the string for the location field, adding a ": " to it.

I'm referring to this: It's okay, tiago, I still love you.

WOW. Tiag, pls. You're killing me here.

Read the review here. Don't play this game.

Oh wow, ChuSinGura pulled ahead of Minidead. The first couple of hours weren't promising for it. But I guess people got the word out that it was similar to MLA in some ways and the muv-luv fanboys flooded in.

It means identifying the engine used, downloading specialized tools for asset extraction, swapping the files within the archives, rebuilding the archives. Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's not, and it requires you to do specific research for each game.

Responding to salt with salt... just stop. Anyways, Maxel, you shouldn't worry about Ikusa Megami Zero not winning since the top two most voted for VN in these stages pass.

P4 is the best game I played... well, I won't say EVER because I've also played Super Mario World, but man, I really love that game. Most hardcore weebs seem to like P3 more, I also loved P3, but not like I did P4. I'm not entirely sure why I think of it as a female, it just feels right. Here's a fanart of Funky Student riding Mysterious Fox.

Oh yeah, this topic exists. Oops.

Majikoi is a pretty unique VN and a hard one to classify. There's not much in the way of serious plot but some routes have some pretty elaborate storylines thrown in. Always light-hearted, though. It's like a fusion of moege and chuunige in a weird way.

It's odd that you say that it NEVER would have happened when Himawari was actually born as a fan TL project. Also, he has talked a bit about this in the past, but his VN work definitely isn't his full time job, it doesn't pay nearly well enough to be one's lone source of income. You guys shouldn't forget about Garejei, Conjueror's brother-in-arms. He co-translated Himawari, Tokyo Babel, and is co-translating on the secret project.

The only time I've ever touched a MySQL database was 12 years ago when I ran a phpBB board. I could probably learn to work with it directly but Tay would have to give me access to the databases, A simpler solution would probably be preferable if it wouldn't be more effort than it's worth.

Those numbers seem fairly small when compared to other games of similar script file size. But those three use the same game engine and should be more or less useful in comparing those three games' size. What I'm saying is that I'll buy KnS2 being 50% larger than the first, that feels about right to me.

I dunno, I think the OP is a pretty accurate representation of Ren's two years here.

The fox doesn't show up until a bit later. And it's a pretty bad value until you get a few s-link ranks for her. Yes, there's a social link with a fox. On your first playthrough, you'll take a couple days to beat each dungeon and that's fine. Take a third if you have to, even. You won't be maxing all of your s-links the first time around unless you really sperg out and follow some guides, and you shouldn't be concerned about losing days. That said, you also shouldn't really need to grind, as in running around just to kill monsters. As long as you're fusing new personas somewhat often, just getting to the end of each dungeon without skipping fights is enough to beat that dungeon's boss without much difficulty. Just don't forget to fuse. edit: By first boss, you don't mean shadow Chie, do you? If you're struggling with that fight, then you probably just need to learn to abuse elemental weaknesses.

There is no such thing as a platform that can guarantee sales. Steam doesn't guarantee anything, success or failure. But it gives them a chance bigger than any other platform can give. It's as simple as that.

Route order is as unimportant as it gets in PE, in my opinion. It really doesn't matter. Just go with whoever you like.

Because it's the description used on VNDB. This isn't even the first time this has happened, I remember JAST doing this for Flowers last year.