Sakura Swim Club

[XReaper]

ahahaha that reminds me on some poor dude who got bullied by dovac on reddit, when suggesting them doing so few months ago...*points at sanah..

[sanahtlig]

Looks like Winged Cloud overthrew dovac then.  Denpasoft is hosting the patch on their Amazon download server, so it's not like Winged Cloud went rogue.

[Satsuki]

Weird, somehow there are two pre-unlocked CGs in the gallery...

 

Aaaanyway, I will try to clean this up today (not now, too sleepy) then put some stuff up tomorrow~

[Yuuko]

I knew that Sakura series is bad but wtf? I played 5 mins and I don't know what this is...

[Kanbe]

I'll wait for the cg rips 

[kyrt]

Did not buy the game will have to update the denpasoft thread since new content is available but I can't help but be very confused; the protagonist seems to be a hybrid of multiple races which I can't help but think might be an experiment in order to appeal to as many people as possible or just another mistake for a sakura game.

[Nosebleed]

Saw a CG rip now. 2 HCGs with each girl and one threesome CG. Rest of the CGs amount to panty shots and boob shots.

Yep, still not worth buying, but at least you can get some faps out of it if you try, so that's an improvement.

[Eclipsed]

 but at least you can get some faps out of it if you try, so that's an improvement.

[Abyssal Monkey]

Saw a CG rip now. 2 HCGs with each girl and one threesome CG. Rest of the CGs amount to panty shots and boob shots.

Yep, still not worth buying, but at least you can get some faps out of it if you try, so that's an improvement.

Seriously? Only 3 events? That's some poor quality nukige they've made.  Should have stuck to all ages to at least claim on the surface it was moege.

[Chuee]

Yeah, the lighting issues in that one scene blow, as do the rest of the h-scene artwork. If you can fap to that awful whipped cream looking semen, then I applaud you. 

[Nosebleed]

Seriously? Only 3 events? That's some poor quality nukige they've made.  Should have stuck to all ages to at least claim on the surface it was moege.

To be more specific

(Nsfw/spoilers)

Brown haired girl:

1st scene: doggy style

2nd scene: doggy style (+anal)

Blonde girl:

1st scene: girl on top

2nd scene: boobjob + blowjob

The threesome only shows the brown haired girl getting penetrated with the other one just staring.

Yeah, pretty lame, but baby steps I guess?

[sanahtlig]

Saw a CG rip now. 2 HCGs with each girl and one threesome CG. Rest of the CGs amount to panty shots and boob shots.

Yep, still not worth buying, but at least you can get some faps out of it if you try, so that's an improvement.

Everyone knows you buy Sakura games for the story.  The H-content is just icing on the cake.

 

 

whipped cream looking semen

Literally.

[julyan]

I feel so bad for buying this game.

[Josephl64]

To be more specific

(Nsfw/spoilers)

Brown haired girl:

1st scene: doggy style

2nd scene: doggy style (+anal)

Blonde girl:

1st scene: girl on top

2nd scene: boobjob + blowjob

The threesome only shows the brown haired girl getting penetrated with the other one just staring.

Yeah, pretty lame, but baby steps I guess?

that's disappointing, they should've gone full out if they were going to make a decent nukige (no the story isn't worth it)

[sanahtlig]

The worth of a porn game isn't determined by the number of H-scenes. ^^;  Too many H-scenes actually detracts from the buildup of sexual tension.

[Satsuki]

...Ok, screw this, I'm quitting. Rush story + absolutely horrible H-scenes. This is just so dumb...

[sanahtlig]

...Ok, screw this, I'm quitting. Rush story + absolutely horrible H-scenes. This is just so dumb...

This demands a comparison among Sakura titles.  Rank each game on a scale of absolute trash to decidedly mediocre.

[SilverLi]

If Silvery Li is talking about Neko Vol 0, it also benefits from a 3 dollar price tag

My name 

But yes Nekopara was cheaper. But if i Recall Sakura Beach was 7 euro with the launcher discount? It ain't that expensive.

[Canicheslayer]

The point is, it's bad h.  I saw the scenes, and they were pretty terrible.  The writing was terrible, the art was actually quite average compared to the artist's other non-h work, and they were really, really short.  Nobody involved seemed to know how to make good h-scenes, and it showed.  If they've never made them before, then it's not really that surprising.

[Narcosis]

The most hilarious thing is that Winged Cloud's games still attract so much attention.

[Nosebleed]

I think they can improve, but to do so, they really need to stop shoveling titles out the window every couple of months and just focus on making something longer.

If they want to take the nukige route, that's fine too, but even nukige require a certain length to be enjoyable.

And of course, this greater length of time can and should be used to actually write something decent.

[sanahtlig]

Hasn't Softhouse-Seal made a business out of just shoveling short nukige out the door every few months?  The strategy seems to work for them, although I'd guess even their games are a tier above the Sakura series.

 

I'm skeptical Winged Cloud could improve with current staff.  Writers (or rather, people told to write who aren't writers) don't get better simply because you tell them to.

[Nosebleed]

Hasn't Softhouse-Seal made a business out of just shoveling short nukige out the door every few months?  The strategy seems to work for them, although I'd guess even their games are a tier above the Sakura series.

Comparing the titles, Softhouse-seal at least has voice acting and more CGs and I'm going to guess the writing during the h-scenes is better and more catered to their audience.

Sakura Swim Club is not a nukige in my book as 80% of the CGs aren't porn and the h-scenes themselves are super short.

 

So yes, while shoveling titles out the door can work if you have the budget to make something decent in that amount of time, that clearly is not the case for Winged Cloud, so I think they'd really benefit from changing strategies.

 

This is just a guess but I think the reason they're so desperate to shove titles out the door is because of their patreon support.

If they stop producing content for too long, that could potentially mean losing the supporters who make up their monthly paycheck, and that might be a risk they're not willing to take.

Although I would assume their Steam sales are enough to make a decently large title, but I'm not Winged Cloud so I don't know how much revenue they actually gain from those.

[Maxel]

This is just a guess but I think the reason they're so desperate to shove titles out the door is because of their patreon support.

If they stop producing content for too long, that could potentially mean losing the supporters who make up their monthly paycheck, and that might be a risk they're not willing to take.

If they could provide steady updates on the big game the would make for a year~~ I don't think supporters would leave them

I really wish for a change of writer here, hire someone good, and then make a big game with huge amount of CGs, good writing, and polished to the max. Then after a year, release and profit.

Way more customers are happy, opinion on Winged Cloud goes up, less hate. And more steady supporters, customers, because they're gonna make some quality stuff.

 

But for now, it's just gonna be crappy short VNs with bad writing, and pretty good artist.

 

Imagine Winged Cloud without this artist... He's really being wasted on Sakura games. 

[Pabloc]

So, they moved on from [horrendously written, shit-tier porn without porn] to [horrendously written, shit-tier porn with very little porn]. Definitely a step in the right direction.

Now if they hired a chimpanzee in place of their current """writer""" and increased the amount of porn about 10x, they would have a chance to produce something on a level of thrashy, mass-produced SofthouseSeal nukiges.