Decay

I think you are over-estimating a company's general ability to acquire license deals. If it was as easy as "the fans want it" we'd be getting a lot more interesting games than some of the stuff we have been getting. Both MangaGamer and JAST have had various negotiations with Alicesoft for years. I don't think the survey had much to do with them licensing it. I also think it is extraordinarily unlikely that MG will end up licensing Fate. Type-Moon is hyper protective and they have shown no signs of opening up to the west, although maybe the successful anime series will loosen them up a bit. Aquaplus has recently opened up to the west a little by releasing TtT2 in the west, but again, this is one of those situations where it depends on a lot more than a user survey to be able to license their games. It would be really awesome to see a White Album 2 announcement but I'm not holding my breath.

Sounds pretty chuuni to me, which is a largely unexplored genre for MangaGamer. There are rumors of a possible Propeller announcement, do they have any games that fit that quote? I can't think of any suitable games from them. I still wouldn't put much stock in that rumor at all, seems like a pretty unlikely one to me. I just want to say it at loud which is something I didn't do a few weeks ago with Haruka, even though that did leak out ahead of time, I dismissed it as unlikely and never brought it up. So, never say never... In other news, the primary translator/TLCer who worked on Steins;Gate for JAST teased something to do with Chaos;Head, so that may be a thing.

Yeah, Sharin no Kuni has no routes. Your choices gives you a different five minute epilogue and some different h-scenes, that's pretty much it.

Well, the plot barely matters. It's mostly just a delivery vehicle for the sex. It is a nukige, after all.

Shatter soundtrack still amazing to listen to on its own. Or shit, just listen to the whole thing.

Do Russians commonly use their entire names? Most anglophones will never even mention their middle name except in very rare circumstances. The only problem I have with foreign names in Japanese media are how incredibly generic the english names are. But that's to be expected.

Meikyuu (Labyrinth) will be out later this year. Rakuen (Eden) will be out in the first half of next year. Kajitsu was a quick turnover because it was already translated, the next two games actually have to be translated from scratch.

They cannot and will not. Himawari only has one 18+ version, the original one. All of its several other iterations were all-ages, including the new remake they're localizing. You cannot blame MangaGamer for this. Unless you're just mad that they picked an all-ages game at all, which is ridiculous considering how highly acclaimed this one is. They've announced a lot of nukige this year and have a lot of that to release yet. They're still licensing borderline games like Haruka, and some adult-themed games that cannot go all-ages like KnS2. And there will probably be more games that they make two versions of like Princess Evangile. It's good to have a nice spread of all sorts of games.

I'll second Swan Song as a decent post-disaster story (earthquake in this case) that may as well be post-apocalyptic, focusing on societal breakdown and rebuilding, and how people can transform in such unusual circumstances. One of the things that makes it interesting is how it's told from the point of view of several different characters, not all of whom will have righteous character arcs. Sekien no Inganock is a good fantasy-steampunk dystopian post-disaster story (that's a lot of adjectives). Inganock's story is a lot more high-concept than Swan Song's with a complex plot dealing with the metaphysical, has a really depressing and grimdark setting, and also a pretty unique art style.

Please use punctuation from now on. Was this VN in English or Japanese?

abhorrent sums up Harukoi Otome perfectly. I have a feeling that bookworm was way too kind to it. Incidentally, the two best routes according to him are the only two routes I've played (besides half of Umi's), and they were both awful. They did have some almost decent slice of life stuff but the moment they try to be dramatic they become pretty much the worst things ever.

A random note regarding Himawari, there will not actually be an 18+ version, that appeared to have been a mistake on the mangagamer PR's part. http://mangagamerstaff.tumblr.com/post/124038930274/i-was-wondering-if-there-was-any-difference-in-the Also because there's nowhere else good to post about this, the guy who handled Steins;Gate for JAST teased something Chaos;Head related: http://ask.fm/SciADV/answer/129059980599

And now for something completely different.

You forgot "Learn English", an important step that is often forgotten.

If by cringy you mean amazing, then I agree. RIP Iwata. Before moving on to the presidency of Nintendo he helped craft one of the most consistently great game development studios in existence, HAL Laboratory. It's highly possible that they hadn't made a single bad game in the last 25 years. I will miss his presence in the industry dearly.

If you have it, then play it for yourself and make your own judgement. I don't think it impacts the game as negatively as sanahtlig implies. It would be ridiculous to skip on it just because of a few message board posts, and outright asinine to complain about it without experiencing it for yourself.

I almost prefer the Tsukihime remake's new art, but the art here is worse. I still don't think it's awful or anything but I don't think it really fits the tone of the story and characters.

The JAST version has an entire route missing, an "evil" route where the protagonist basically rapes everyone and everything. I haven't heard very good things about that route and it was just a side thing in the original version.

He means this: https://vndb.org/v17037 Not actually a sequel but so incredibly similar and creatively bankrupt it may as well be.

My tastes seem to differ, then. I enjoyed Fortune Arterial, Eustia, and Daito much more. The Yoake translation is suuuper dry, though I thought it was that way in the original script.

It wouldn't be much of a curse if it was explainable. Really though, it's just that all august projects are always left mysteriously unfinished. Good news is that Erengy has recently stated that QA work on Yoake has resumed. Bad news is that it will still probably take ages and also it's one of August's worst games. Still, there is hope yet for the curse being broken.

I guess I worded my post pretty poorly. I meant basically what you're saying.

There is in fact some shaky legal ground which give companies authority to issue C&Ds for translation patches. Some lawyers argue that translations are derivative works protected under copyright law.

The anthem of my life

Here you go. https://www.mediafire.com/?6a4evvke1td8knq