solidbatman

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Steam was a double edged sword. One the one hand, it did wonders for getting VNs overseas that I never believed would be legally sold in the west. However, as you pointed out, VNs gaining in popularity somewhat also created a bit more of an ignorant market for VNs. I often find translation debates overblown since in most cases, the original meaning gets across (generally), but Moenovel has been something of an exception to that.

so some garbage basically. I would hope that decreasing sales would force the company to reevaluate their methods and work for a higher TL quality. The problem though, is something Mangagamer has struggled with before. VNs just don't sell well at all. Hard to want to pump money into a good translation knowing you likely won't make the money back, or just break even.

Has Moenovel released anything other than that one pulltop vn?

Rewatching Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei for the 15th time while slowly working through Excel Saga once again.

Keep up the great work!

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shit its ren

I've honestly never tried one. Got any suggestions?

im still cooler than those dweebish new members

I really don't know why I ever got chosen.

5 years worth of shitposts

I actually enjoyed her route mostly because of just how out of left field it was. I was not expecting nearly anything in her route and found myself emotionally involved in it, which is more than I can say for most VNs. Then again, I failed to complete any other route in the game so its possible the rest were far better.

Michiru from Grisaia and Rin from Little Busters! are the two that come off the top of my head. Rin, for example, could have been so much better if we saw character growth within the VN. Michiru just got completely ruined by her route

Setting. The setting of a VN can make all the difference. Setting changes your characters, your stories, your tone. We have a bajillion VNs set in a Japanese high school. We have far fewer set in Cold War Europe, or early 1900s Japan. Having a unique setting, something to stand out, might be the single most important aspect of a VN.

good evening. welcome!

Building on top of Zalor's post, I can give a quick and dirty version of my time here. Granted, I don't remember dates all that much. I joined early on in Fuwanovel's history because i needed help fixing sound in Never7. I never fixed it. I think early on, I didn't care about Aaeru hosting pre-patched torrents because for me, it was easily the best way to get a VN. I didn't trust purchasing through Mangagamer or Jast USA and this was well before steam VNs, aside from random ones like Analogue: A Hate Story, were a thing. Anyway, I read Ever17 and loved it a lot so I began to pick up other VNs and take part in more discussions on the forums. I never delved heavily into VNs though and mostly stuck to anime and gaming discussions. Early on, though, I remember clashing with sanahtlig. I don't know what the hell I was fighting with him over but thats hardly unique to me. Someone then made, likely tay or ryoji, a terrible mistake and promoted me to a moderator with some others, like Down and Steve. At once, I got into a big fight with aaeru over hosting licensed content. I don't recall what the it was though, possibly Steins;Gate? Or something related to it This went directly against a rule that had been set up, that Fuwanovel would not host licensed games. Anyway, I was kind of a dickwaffle and wasn't very nice. The staff ended up splitting into two camps over the issue. I do recall Ryoji and myself were on one side with Aaeru and Steve on the other. Then Tay stepped in like the mighty God he is, and somehow solved the situation. I think we ended up making it a rule that no licensed content would be hosted by Fuwanovel, that it was to be strictly fan TLs. This would come back to haunt the site when Clannad and Grisaia got licensed. Things chugged along for a bit, and I was quite active in doing nothing really. I do recall a spam war where suddenly everyone began posting AMA threads over and over. Your boi zakamutt was part of this if memory serves. By this point, aaeru's activity had begun falling off so Tay and Ryoji were left to deal with this situation. Ryoji favored the nuclear option of banning those involved. Tay wasn't too terribly eager to do so. I vaguely recall diving into the irc channel with him and talking the situation out. This marked the beginnings of the Coliseum of Chatter. Originally I think it was a single thread, and then a subforum, before it got split off into its own thing. Once again, Tay had achieved a middle ground. I think maybe one temp ban was handed out during all of this? Ryoji left the site, I don't remember the date but I remember it happening pretty vividly. Wasn't great. To try and bridge the gap, I volunteered to take the spot, never intending to actually keep it for a long amount of time. I admit, it was nice to finally be a higher rank than Steve, who was my nemesis on the site. I really didn't do much different than what I had been doing as a mod. I didn't feel it was my place to make any structural changes to the website so I tried to avoid doing anything major like that. The only thing I remember doing as an admin was spending 3 hours talking to steve in his cursed teamspeak channel to convince him that posting pictures of naked lolis wasn't great, and even posting p. risque ones could get people in trouble. Finally, after much talking, I finally convinced him to put them in spoiler tags and not post naked lolis. As the compromise, I went in and placed many of his pictures in spoiler tags to save him the effort. It was a dark, loli filled day for me, one I never want to repeat. Then the website blew up, thanks to aaeru pirating the software for the site. It was down for quite some time, nayleen stepped in and helped Tay get things back up. aaeru was long gone by this point, which complicated matters quite a bit. Regardless, Nay and Tay got things back up and running. I stepped down from the staff since I felt rather out of place, not knowing how to really help anymore. My activity declined somewhat around this time too, until Tay had a situation arise and had to leave for a while. As a result, Cybersteel took over the show and Steve was promoted to admin. Yeah... that was something. He asked me to come back as a moderator, thus beginning the meme of solidbatman joining and quitting the staff daily. I don't remember when it was exactly, that Clannad and Grisaia got licensed. Tay may have still been hanging around at this time? There was a huge debate over whether or not Fuwanovel should continue hosting those two VNs. I argued that they ought to be taken down as they were no longer fanTLs and a legitimate way of purchasing them was now available. Steve, and many others argued that because the official releases had a different translation, they technically were not the same and should be left up. The second part of their argument dealt with purchasing them from other countries (which as steam releases made little sense to me but not much about the VN community and culture does). They ended up being removed which marked the beginning of the end of hosting torrents of fanTLs on the website. Back to Steve's adminship. I ended up leaving the staff again shortly after when I realized I was only placed on the staff for optics. Steve, if memory serves which it may not as I am biased, really didn't listen to anyone and did whatever he really wanted to do. Admirable maybe, but I was not really in the mood to work under that knowing nothing I said or did would matter. In true Steve fashion, he argued with me for a couple hours trying to get me to stay on. Didn't work. Then Tay showed back up. What he managed to do still amazes me. He took down the torrents and kept Fuwanovel alive. I honestly have no idea how he managed to do this. Some members did leave over this and begin their own new fuwanovel thingy that does the same thing the old fuwanovel did. But the core of this site stayed intact. VNTS was revived by Zakamutt and Tay, and later Decay, who brought it into their current format. With the removal of torrents, Fuwanovel gained some legitimacy within the commercial VN industry. I've no doubt some fan translators still hate fuwanovel for hosting the pre-patched torrents but companies were willing to interact with Fuwanovel after the removal. FuwaReviews became a thing, and to be honest, thats all I cared about once we got it going. Ryechu did good work building some contacts within the industry to gain reviewers some review copies. I got into a twitter tiff with the Lupiesoft guy because I gave his shitty VN a low score after he gave us a review copy (the god damn game barely ran). I wrote the infamous Little Busters! review. The reaction was amazing. Doing FuwaReviews stuff was some of the most fun I think I had on this website. Regardless, with FuwaReviews, my interest in other parts of the site died off, and I no longer followed the happenings closely as they didn't concern me. Then I left all together for about 2 years before coming back in the past week due to boredom. So there is my 150% self-centered history of Fuwanovel. I admit its self-centered because all I really can remember is stuff I was involved with. Like I said before, I typically stayed out of VN discussions unless it was in regards to their distribution. Relevent comment from nay the bae about Steve:

ayyyy thats me

High school was fine. Got kicked out of my creative writing class a couple of times for apparently encouraging bullying (the teacher didn't understand satire). Other than that, high school was a lot of fun. Had a lot of friends, hung out after school with people pretty often, and I generally didn't hate going. Sure was easier going to high school rather than all the crap I deal with now that I'm nearly done with university.

I mean, my 8 year old laptop could easily run this game. Not heavy one bit in the grand scheme of things. Likely has all of its assets at 1080p, you know, actually modern resolutions unlike most VNs we get.

Sakura Santa is by far the absolute worst VN I have ever read. The fact I was given the review key was cruel and unusual punishment. https://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2015/12/25/sakura-santa/ My old review for it

its like someone with some talent drew Mei from Clannad and made her not insufferable. 6.7/10 I see this girl all over weeb twitter and never know who she is. Usually though she has big ol tits that are just distasteful. Which is sad because I love her hair and eyes. Most of these are pretty good. 8.5/10 3/10 more Oyari art woooo 8/10 Megumin is a really enjoyable part of Konosuba and I found myself wanting the entire show to just be her really.

oooh man wait until someone changes a single user field and it breaks the entire website. Then you'll see how modern we truly are Welcome to the forums!

ill start on this tomorrow.

just my shitty opinion. in my perfect VN world, VNs with routes dont have true routes locked away. I don't care if there is a true route and other routes. Just don't lock that shit away from me and force me to complete usually wildly inconsistent routes