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imho a walkthrough guide is completely unnecessary for this title with it's built-in flowchart which makes it also unnecessary to save on any choices.

How can it expire again so soon? Nevermind, looks like it's something else causing the site to not be secure, the certificate hasn't expired.

The bolded part is where you are completely wrong, he does get back into playing FC but you HAVE to read all 4 routes to see that which you already refused to do for stupid reasons (I don't care how rude that is, your reasons are just lame excuses, both Mashiro and Rika's routes are good), you only read two routes which means you have by no means completed the visual novel at all, there is no point in you even giving it a rating when you haven't even finished it.

The Sequels are not unnecessary, you really shouldn't say that without having played them yourself. The sequels are really good as well, they may even be better than the first game. That VN you linked, it's not a good one at all, I doubt Valve would ever allow a VN of it's type on Steam, they already don't allow any VNs with Loli like content of either all-ages or ones with adult content. Supporting VNs on Steam is a bad idea anyways imho, VNs don't belong on Steam no matter what kind they are.

Rewatching it won't change my opinion on it at all. Sure the visual novel is of course better that is always the case but I did fully enjoy the anime adaptation.

The anime adaptation of Mask of Deception is actually pretty on point, there is nothing to butcher except for the adaptation to the first game now that got butchered, they left out key parts of the story. FYI I won't touch the remake to the first game at all.

Until you read all 4 routes (your reasoning for not reading Mashiro and Rika routes is beyond stupid) I'm not taking your opinion seriously at all and will consider it invalid, there is a special ending that only unlocks after you finish all 4 routes and will no doubt change your opinion on the visual novel as a whole.

It expired again.

They just released a new patch which includes the missing files: https://tsurezurescans.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/giniro-haruka-update-15-7-1-image-update/

They released a patch for the first two routes today. Either I'm doing something wrong or the patch they released as issues because nothing is translated with it. Looks like they left the g00 folder in the patch empty thus the reason nothing is translated. A major mistake on their part. https://tsurezurescans.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/giniro-haruka-update-15-7-hinata-route-patch/ Don't bother downloading the patch until they fix their mistake. I wonder how they screwed up the patch this bad when they've had no mistakes like this on their other projects at least as far as I know. So much for reading this now. I hope they're able to fix this mistake as soon as possible. You can grab the first patch for now if you haven't already: https://tsurezurescans.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/giniro-haruka-update-10-5-bethly-route-patch/ The newest patch is missing about 10MB of data because the g00 folder in the patch is empty when it shouldn't be. Seems like it may take a while for them to realize their mistake (8 hours later after I originally made this reply), no updates about it and my replies aren't being seen because "Your comment is awaiting moderation." is what I'm getting when I reply at least I don't think they're being seen, it's probably because I've never really commented on wordpress before though I've had the account for years I believe. Does anyone know if they have a discord available so contacting them would be easier? @littleshogun

I don't like what they did to VNDB at all, they made it more complicated than it needed to be, it was perfectly fine before this unnecessary change.

I only mentioned the ending total because I didn't disagree with the rest of what you said about being forced, I would have said so otherwise.

Yes.

The translator has already stated that he will release the patch when the side stories are done and not before, some of the side stories aren't related to the main heroines routes. I even have the Eustia Progress Tracker Excel Spreadsheet site as a pinned tab keeping an eye on the progress, that is how much I'm looking forward to it being completed.

It takes a long time to translate and they have their own lives as well (not to mention they're doing this for free), an ETA probably isn't possible at this point and you shouldn't expect one so early either. A lot of other people are waiting patiently for it to be finished me included, it'll get done eventually.

Side stories aren't even 50% translated yet, follow this to check translation progress, the link is also found on the first page of this thread.

The choice is up to you but imho reading the first two routes can give you a good idea if the visual novel will even be something you will like, the translation is really good though, it's a Dark Fantasy themed visual novel just so you know. For me I'm glad I read what is currently translated, I just have to wait for the full translation patch now, I do have a lot of other visual novels I haven't finished yet.

The side stories aren't even close to being done so I doubt an ETA will be possible until they have a lot more progress, currently only 4.23% of the side stories are done (there are 19 side stories in total), I don't know how often they update the chart though: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=2AA0C152F3ABC311!169&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!AMiZoMMtMwT6WaI. I've already finished reading through Fione and Eris's routes so I'm just waiting for the full translation.

According to VNDB page on the title there aren't any bad ends otherwise it would list them on the tags for it, it uses a Ladder Structure which I believe is a new tag they came up with since when I played Grisaia no Kajitsu (it's one of the titles that has it now) a long time ago I'm pretty sure that tag wasn't there, there aren't that many titles that have it though. I've noticed even if you choose what would normally be a bad choice it actually will choose the right one just with a little extra from the MC. About that website, I did find one from a thread on VNDB but it's in Japanese and can't be translated to English for whatever reason, I've come to the conclusion that a walkthrough guide isn't necessary for this title.

Is there any way to tell what chapter you're on when reading this visual novel? So far I haven't seen any indication of this, there isn't even a date/time display anywhere. I am enjoying what I'm reading however, wish I would've known about this project but I don't really browse that much on this forum. Does anyone have a walkthrough guide for this visual novel? It's possible I'm on Eris Chapter now since the focus is on her now.

I wasn't even aware of this translation project until now.

Wasn't that canceled? The entry for it on VNDB was deleted as well. Looks like they reverted it, it was deleted at one point.

That looks like it's an issue with your system, I play it on a desktop and I have never encountered that issue, it's possible you barely meet the minimum requirements to play it, while most visual novels will play fine on low-end PCs there are some that require more power.