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What little I played of Gold did not impress. The setting was so uninteresting, the characters so bland and cliche, that I couldn't even get past the prologue. I didn't experience much of the gameplay mechanics so I can't really comment on that, but supposedly the gameplay (and the art, for some) is the game's main strength. But honestly the game seemed like a inferior version of the Sengoku Hime series with less interesting characters and story. I don't expect every game like this to be Sengoku Rance, but I do expect the dialogue to not be a chore to read through. That said, I might pick this up and try to play through it in English, as I do like gameplay eroge and want to support titles that have at least some redeeming value. I just don't have very high hopes for it.

If one of the files wasn't the right size then this isn't Overflow's fault. Also, JAST is the one that created that bizarre 17-part installer.

JAST's technical support is more or less their forums. They're too understaffed to individually troubleshoot problems over private channels. They've even let major issues slide like taking the official Shiny Days bugfix patch down and expecting users (i.e., ME) to host it somewhere else. Contacting J-List is useless because they're just distributors; at best they'll forward your mail to JAST.

Text-hooking was never 'supported' by developers to begin with. And the people who text-hook are a tiny and inconsequential fraction of the English fanbase. The reason that text-hooking compatibility could be dropping is that VNR, which featured continuously-updated engine support, is no longer being maintained. On top of that, the AGTH code database disappeared into the void due to collective apathy, making H-codes less accessible.

Shuffle is the first game that comes to mind...

This VNDB search should be what you're looking for. Hope you like Japanese, because only one of those has a full English patch. Do note that specifying 'otome' yields like one result; you'll have to settle for 'female protagonist'. Some of the tags aren't commonly-used on VNDB, and thus not all valid tag combinations will actually give you what you're looking for.

Sounds like you had a rough time, but made the most of it. Good luck on your new path.

I'm fairly sure the route flag is in the system save, which is independent of the clear save. If you get a choice to do Hard or Eternal difficulty and a choice to see or not see the Eternal language, then the flag should be activated. Just in case, I'd make sure both saves are in your save directory.

You'll need a clear save, and then you should start a new Normal mode game without carrying over the clear data. You can use my clear save (available in my review) for this purpose. Be warned that the skip read text feature will no longer work if you overwrite your system save with mine. A small part of the introduction will also be partially spoiled.

Reverse NTR

'Maledom'. Is this the latest code word for rape games?

Try Song of Saya. I think it has what you're looking for, and it can be completed in 6-10 hours so it won't take up much of your time. Moe and slice-of-life are a centerpiece of most VNs, and this genre tends to have bloated writing with large amounts of fluff dialogue. To avoid that, you should probably stay away from many of the lengthier VNs, even if they're highly-rated.

Try uninstalling all games in the Days series currently on your PC, Japanese or English, then reinstalling Cross Days and patching it with the multiple patches available. Shiny Days had a conflict between the Japanese and English versions that caused an error just like this.

Here's an actual quote: Belphegor: どうなってるんですか、これ？早くもどしなさいです！What the heck is going on?Let me fuck this instant!What’s going on? Let me off this instant!

Nutaku has been caught censoring dialogues implying non-consensual sex in free-to-play ero-RPG Kamihime Project R, reneging on earlier promises. Rape scenes censored in Nutaku's Kamihime Project R

I'm not certain what this sentence even means (virtual machine?), but I'll take a stab anyway. JParser or MeCab, as implemented in Translation Aggregator, are extremely useful for processing each word quickly enough to understand simple sentences. JParser also tries to interpret grammar, which can be helpful too. Machine translators can be useful for untangling complex sentences or for skimming text that you don't want to devote effort to actually reading. Even nowadays I still use ATLAS to skim boring food discussions, for example.

Hi, welcome to the forums, and thank you for your patronage! Connecting with people like you is what keeps me posting. If you're into loli games, and School Days is one of your favorites, then I recommend Shiny Days. It has a full mini-route dedicated to Kokoro Katsura from School Days. You'll need to patch the loli content back in though. If you haven't already, you should create a VNDB account and add/vote on all the VNs you've played. You can link your VNDB account in your Fuwa profile the same way you listed your Steam account.

I showed my mother, who's mostly into dramas, Shiki. She liked that. My father, who likes sit-coms and sci-fi, is completely uninterested in anime and refuses to watch it.

What about an E-book designed to open using RPGMaker with 'save files' that remember the last page you were on?

Sorry, but it's only going to solve minor pixelation by upsampling. Best-case scenario is that it'll match mosaiced and unmosaiced images and serve up the unmosaiced one instead--but that's already possible with existing image matching technologies.

The concept of 'native resolution' is unique to 2D pre-rendered 'static' art. Many people, especially on Steam, are used to 3D games where everything is rendered dynamically in real-time by the engine, so they don't understand why VNs can't be rendered at any resolution desired without loss in visual quality. In addition, it seems that higher resolution drastically increases production costs on detailed CG like you typically find in VNs.

Windowed mode to avoid scaling artifacts (blur). For Japanese games, there's the additional reason that I need space for dictionary software.

I'm amazed you find it so unbelievable that a company could delay a release to wait until the second release is ready. Do you realize Seinarukana was originally released in 2007, announced in 2011, and released in English in 2016? They could've easily waited 10 more months and released it in 2017 instead, with not much difference in the overall time scale. Although perhaps you're right--JAST doesn't appear to put much thought into the timing of its releases. They just release when the games are done, typically with no fanfare and to the surprise of even those who keep tabs on them like me. The Steam release itself appears to have been a last-minute sort of decision as they were preparing the adult version for release.

JAST has established a pattern of releasing an eroge, then several months later releasing a non-adult version on Steam. They could easily release both versions at the same time, if they wanted to, but they don't. Why? So they can charge eroge fans full-price and give them the satisfaction of playing the game first, then sell a value version of the game on Steam to a larger audience. Furthermore, the free Steam keys to JAST users encourage their fans to give them good reviews on Steam in those very important first few days of sale. As a business strategy, it makes sense. As for the price difference, it's useful to keep in mind that JAST has limited control over its pricing. Every price change has to be negotiated with the original rights holders. Japanese companies expect eroge to be priced higher than non-eroge, and therefore JAST is obligated to price them that way. From that perspective, perhaps JAST acknowledges that allowing users to purchase the cheaper version and add the adult content back in could secure them sales they wouldn't get otherwise. Indeed, if you look at OELVN developers, they operate quite differently. Whenever there's two versions available, I almost ALWAYS see them priced the same, and adult patches tend to be official and free. The cultures are completely different, and in this case I'd say that OELVN developers clearly understand their audience better. The non-adult version modifies some scenes and adds a few bonus missions, including some additional story content that appears to be separate from the main story. It largely looks like gimmick content intended to lure Japanese fans into purchasing both versions (and it's not yet clear whether the low-res CGs from the PSP version will look out of place in the Steam version). That's in contrast to the PS2 version of Aselia, which seems to have added significant content to the game.

Google Analytics tracks unique visitors. It tells me I've had 47k unique visitors to the Sakura Swim Club installation guide. The numbers I gave before were page views from Blogger. The quotes around "redundant" indicated the tone of my response. The response was in fact a mild gesture of disapproval towards the quoted content. While I'm aware of the release (I was actively tracking the forum thread where it was posted) and I did tweet it to my followers, as well as add it to my censored eroge list and the list of VNDB releases, for various reasons I haven't actively promoted it. JAST is permissive of such patches though so feel free to share them, and I do believe there's other users who will be interested.