What are you playing?

[crunchytaco]

The quality of Sharin no Kuni/Himawari no Shojo was so high, I didn't think it'd be one of their first productions and in 2005. 

 

 

Akabei Soft are responsible for way more than two games. Most of the games, as well as the games they publish and the games from developers who split off from them share some similarities. The biggest one probably being protagonists with strong personalities and/or wills who drive the story forward. Unfortunately there aren't any active translation projects for any of the other games from that family of developers.

[Decay]

Their latest game is Dekinai Watashi ga, Kurikaesu which features a time traveling, working adult protagonist. You could also say the Akabei Soft spirit has passed on to Tigre Soft (Reminiscence, Akatsuki no Goei) and Akatsuki Works (Comyu, which was just recently translated, and many others), since both companies were founded by former Akabei Soft staff. They all make good games and so few of them are translated.

[Rilarion]

Their latest game is Dekinai Watashi ga, Kurikaesu which features a time traveling, working adult protagonist. You could also say the Akabei Soft spirit has passed on to Tigre Soft (Reminiscence, Akatsuki no Goei) and Akatsuki Works (Comyu, which was just recently translated, and many others), since both companies were founded by former Akabei Soft staff. They all make good games and so few of them are translated.

 

Dekinai seems pretty interesting, its a shame that its too new. It won't have any translations out in the near future, if it gets translated at all 

[nohman]

I'll be playing Season of the Wolf (by Winterwolves) just as soon as it's "officially" released... which should be in a few hours.

 

Very excited :3

[Darklord Rooke]

Let us know how you enjoy it.

Did you play Loren the Amazon Princess?

 

Will do.

 

Winterwolves had released 2 RPGs up to now, Planet Stronghold and Loren: The Amazon Princess. Planet Stronghold has incredibly impressive gameplay mechanics, to the point where it pleasantly surprised a community of old-school, western RPG fans. The story is pretty bad, but like Kamidori that's not why you play it. Loren, in comparison, is a visual Novel (heavily influenced by the Dragon Age games) with an okay RPG system tacked on. It appeals to the same people who likes Bioware but I enjoyed playing Loren far more than I did playing any of the Dragon Age games. It's far less polished but captures that 'fun' element which is so tough to do.

 

Season of the Wolf is supposed to aim for the middle ground. It has better RPG mechanics and less emphasis on the story, but it still aims for that Bioware crowd and doesn't take it to the extremes that Planet Stronghold did (partly because he hires writers now instead of writing games himself.)

 

And now to find out how good it is. W00000000 *loads game*

[FinalChaos]

Finished Chris's route. The route was good overall though most of the things happening were predictable.

Though I was surprised at the Margit threesome, that came out of nowhere and ........... it was pretty fulfilling.

[Vokoca]

Their latest game is Dekinai Watashi ga, Kurikaesu which features a time traveling, working adult protagonist. You could also say the Akabei Soft spirit has passed on to Tigre Soft (Reminiscence, Akatsuki no Goei) and Akatsuki Works (Comyu, which was just recently translated, and many others), since both companies were founded by former Akabei Soft staff. They all make good games and so few of them are translated.

[SilverLi]

Will do.

 

Winterwolves had released 2 RPGs up to now, Planet Stronghold and Loren: The Amazon Princess. Planet Stronghold has incredibly impressive gameplay mechanics, to the point where it pleasantly surprised a community of old-school, western RPG fans. The story is pretty bad, but like Kamidori that's not why you play it. Loren, in comparison, is a visual Novel (heavily influenced by the Dragon Age games) with an okay RPG system tacked on. It appeals to the same people who likes Bioware but I enjoyed playing Loren far more than I did playing any of the Dragon Age games. It's far less polished but captures that 'fun' element which is so tough to do.

 

Season of the Wolf is supposed to aim for the middle ground. It has better RPG mechanics and less emphasis on the story, but it still aims for that Bioware crowd and doesn't take it to the extremes that Planet Stronghold did (partly because he hires writers now instead of writing games himself.)

 

And now to find out how good it is. W00000000 *loads game*

[Mr Poltroon]

After punching myself for a couple of hours as punishment I shall now commence reading Air, the only Key Visual Novel I haven't tried yet.

 

Such scum of the earth I am...

[TexasDice]

Shuffle! is pretty stupid. I like it.

[Kosakyun]

Shuffle! is pretty stupid. I like it.

 

That's the best reason to read Shuffle I've seen.

[Darklord Rooke]

I am interested in your opinion too. I am interested in Season of the Wolf and Loren but never approached the games that much. I played the first Dragon Age and it was a good but with a very enforced playing order.

 

Give us at least 5 minutes of your precious time when you are not playing Season of the Wolf. Don't let us wait in the abyss.

 

I will. I also might write up a review when I'm done with it. Initial prognosis (I've only played an hour) is that SOTW is fun in the same way JRPGs were before they started taking themselves so seriously (and before Square became obsessed with interactive moviemaking.) Has a few technical issues but nothing too serious.

 

I highly recommend giving the free demos a go if you're undecided. The games are fairly consistent, in that if you like the demo you'll probably like the game and vice versa.

[Hakamichi_Sajaki]

I'm about to start a serious run through of Clannad before moving onto Tomoyo After. I Think I'll play it along side another run through of KS.

[Desert35]

I started if my heart had wings (even if I know the translation is really bad I couldn't stop my curiosity towards this VN ^^ )

[TexasDice]

That's the best reason to read Shuffle I've seen.

Dropped it. Mayumi doesn't have a route, I call bullshit.

[sirjabberwock]

Dropped it. Mayumi doesn't have a route, I call bullshit.

Don't drop it yet! At least read Asa-senpai's routeeeeeee

[Decay]

Mayumi had a route in one of the rereleases, but Mangagamer never bothered to translate that.

[TexasDice]

Everything in my life is denial and loss. Truly a bitter revelation. ;-;

[sirjabberwock]

Mayumi had a route in one of the rereleases, but Mangagamer never bothered to translate that.

That was essence+ right?

[Decay]

That was essence+ right?

Yep. With essence+, I don't think anyone was left out. 

[Vokoca]

So, I resumed playing RuiTomo, reading Atori's route, when--

Akaneko "In Soviet Russia, cats pet Akaneko!"

 

I don't even... I, uh... I really wasn't expecting to see this in a Japanese VN, of all things. 

[theboxcarracer]

Hang on.

 

People are referring to reading Miyakos route in Majikoi.

 

That patch isn't out yet, is it? Because if it is, I need it.

 

On topic:

 

Playing Never 7 with a little bit or Kamidori on the side. I've been sidetracked a little bit by my recent purchase of a Wii U (Smash is out soon!) so I haven't played as much as I would have like, but I'm getting a little bit in here and there. Never 7 is okay. It's not excellent, it's certainly not mind blowing like Ever 17, but at least it's not complete and total nonsense like Remember 11 was. I do find myself getting distracted from it pretty easily, when VNs that are great as opposed to just okay don't really do that.

 

And as for Kamidori, it's pretty grindy, so I'm just chipping away at it slowly.

[sirjabberwock]

Hang on.

 

People are referring to reading Miyakos route in Majikoi.

 

That patch isn't out yet, is it? Because if it is, I need it.

 

On topic:

 

Playing Never 7 with a little bit or Kamidori on the side. I've been sidetracked a little bit by my recent purchase of a Wii U (Smash is out soon!) so I haven't played as much as I would have like, but I'm getting a little bit in here and there. Never 7 is okay. It's not excellent, it's certainly not mind blowing like Ever 17, but at least it's not complete and total nonsense like Remember 11 was. I do find myself getting distracted from it pretty easily, when VNs that are great as opposed to just okay don't really do that.

 

And as for Kamidori, it's pretty grindy, so I'm just chipping away at it slowly.

On/Off-topic: It definitely isn't out yet.

[Mr Poltroon]

Hang on.

 

People are referring to reading Miyakos route in Majikoi.

 

That patch isn't out yet, is it? Because if it is, I need it.

No, they're just saying they want it to come out, as they have been for the past god knows how many years.

[pokemon123]

Just finished the heavens feel route of fate/stay night.

 

time to start kara no shoujo!