Frontwing announces their next project: Purine Party - A match-three/VN hybrid.

[Kawasumi]

1 hour ago, Zenophilious said:

@Kawasumi All your meme are belong to me.

Huh, that's actually quite interesting.  I hadn't really questioned the whole "Westerners hate reading" idea that gets repeated so many times, so it's a little refreshing to know that that is essentially BS.

[Diamon]

6 hours ago, Rooke said:

If they did, they're morons. Let me present people with a little diagram based on a survey of more than 30,000 respondents:

Observe the ranking of the US, Italy, UK, Spain, Germany, France, and Australia.

Now observe the ranking of Japan, and Korea. I keep telling people that the idea of the West 'not liking to read' was an argument with no basis in fact, and I'll keep pumping out figures to support that statement.

I wonder if that also actually reflects your average steam user as well though. The "westerners don't read" thing kinda implies westerners geeks / gamers /whatever you call them, not the whole population. In a sense, I kinda feel that your average geek reads (as in reading books) much less than your average otaku (if only because light novels are a big thing in japan). For some reason, people in the west associate more reading with intellectual exercice, while in japan it is more viewed as an entertainement medium? I don't know, might be totally wrong about that.

[Darklord Rooke]

40 minutes ago, Diamon said:

For some reason, people in the west associate more reading with intellectual exercice, while in japan it is more viewed as an entertainement medium? I don't know, might be totally wrong about that.

If they did, literature wouldn't sell as poorly as it does. Or romance/smut novels wouldn't be the largest selling genre (by miles and miles, over fantasy/sci-fi ... I think.)

Also, I grew up in the 90s when geeks were DnDing all over the place, making their own campaigns and constructing user defined stories. Comic books and the like. Living in the library, devouring fantasy. Dunno how it is in modern times. 

I think this is a really big issue and simplifying it down to a single point is a good way to completely overlook the problems. Many people view gaming as a social exercise where they play together in groups, and in fact it's become one of the most popular social activities for friends - MMOs or together IRL. Not to mention twitch and streaming in real time with people watching and commentating on social media. Reading would dampen this experience. Gaming has advanced well past the days where there used to be 1 guy in a darkened room. Some people also use it to relieve stress with simulated violence, reading would also hamper this experience. Lastly many people don't really feel comfortable reading at a computer or on a console (I like to lie down and read, for instance - it's nicer on my back.)

To say people don't like to read because they don't like to read 'while gaming' involves a pretty big leap of faith. 

Anyway, imo it's not that the West doesn't like to read it's because VNs don't appeal to those who like to read (while those who want games will complain about the lack of gameplay.)

[sanahtlig]

8 hours ago, Rooke said:

If they did, they're morons. Let me present people with a little diagram based on a survey of more than 30,000 respondents:

Observe the ranking of the US, Italy, UK, Spain, Germany, France, and Australia.

Now observe the ranking of Japan, and Korea. I keep telling people that the idea of the West 'not liking to read' was an argument with no basis in fact, and I'll keep pumping out figures to support that statement.

Define "read".  Then consider if these figures can be accurately extrapolated to the Steam userbase.  Then consider if Steam users consume fiction in games the same way they might consume it in other contexts.

I think Frontwing would be right in assuming that their target audience is more likely to appreciate a puzzle game with fanservice shots as a reward than a moe nukige.

[Darklord Rooke]

On their site this has a June 2016 release. It's June, I'm fairly certain it's 2016 (unless I've hibernated for a year without realising it again,) so release should be imminent :3

[Dergonu]

11 hours ago, Rooke said:

On their site this has a June 2016 release. It's June, I'm fairly certain it's 2016 (unless I've hibernated for a year without realising it again,) so release should be imminent :3

Root double still has "March 2016" listed for their physical release. Shit happens. 

[XReaper]

purino party to come out in 5days. steam page is up. my life is going to be wasted (again). heil!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/483960/


edit. believes them heroines arent visibly fuckable in said version (who would have thought, eh?), but a patch should help you get into their panties.

[Fred the Barber]

Here's to hoping it's at least half as good as HuniePop.

[Ningen]

7 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

Here's to hoping it's at least half as good as HuniePop.

So a 1/10 ? 

[Darklord Rooke]

Will be buying this. Anyone know what the price will be?

[Ningen]

23 minutes ago, Rooke said:

Will be buying this. Anyone know what the price will be?

$11.99USD according to this.

[XReaper]

price seems pretty okay-ish, isnt too much and as long as it makes me have a good time i wont dare to complain. future bus & train-rides are saved.

[Suzu Fanatic]

Agreed, in ok with that price.

[littleshogun]

See the video, and well the puzzle was resemble Huniepop except apparently we didn't had mana sentiment, so we couldn't cast some magic give a date gift to the girl when dating to made the date easier. For the seiyuu 6 out of 8 heroines were had same seiyuu (Ichigo Momoi, Himari, and Misonoo Mei was had double role here). Although it should be not a problem here if we look at Huniepop, because each heroine in Huniepop barely interact with each other. Other than the gamelay, we apparently had usual VN system ie choice and we'll unlock CG if we successfully manage to gather 5 love point. I bet it'll be raised each time a date was successful, and the CG was probably HCG from Innocent Girl and Pure Girl. I think that's all I could say for this game.

[Valmore]

You actually get it for under $10 as it starts on sale 15% off. The game play is challenging but not as hard as some think. The key is to remember you have a full 10 seconds before dropping the gem you picked up. You can swirl around the board up and down and left and right and slide tiles into matches during that time. Optimum strategy would be build a heart match for the one move double points and use that move to build a lot of matches. Points rack up, fap material will soon be achieved.

[XReaper]

anyone around who´s started playing it, that can tell abit about the state of its language being used, like does flows well, or sound natural? havent touched it myself yet, but am pretty curious coming to their in-house squad´s capabilities. much appreciated.

[Dergonu]

Just now, XReaper said:

anyone around who´s started playing it, that can tell abit about the state of its language being used, like does flows well, or sound natural? havent touched it myself yet, but am pretty curious coming to their in-house squad´s capabilities. much appreciated.

I have spotted a couple of mistakes, (they forgot to put spaces between a couple of words in a sentence,) but overall it's not bad. It feels natural. I haven't really noticed any blunders anywhere, except for those 2 sentences lacking a few spaces.

The writing isn't exactly rocket science, but editing / translation wise, it looks pretty acceptable.

[Fred the Barber]

I played it for a couple hours. At first I thought it was soul-crushingly difficult and random, but then it turned out there was an under-explained mechanic which is completely different from HuniePop, and thus my brain never thought to try it: once you pick up a gem, you can drag it all around the board, not just along a column or row, for some 10 seconds. If you don't do this, it's essentially impossible beyond a certain point (basically once the clock appears; I actually survived up until that point, without even lowering difficulty).

The gameplay that results from that big mechanic change is substantially different and still complex - unlike in HuniePop, where I built my strategy around a couple of gifts that gave +1 move and +sentiment for matches of 4+ gems, now I have to approach the board completely differently. I'm trying to clear a lot of it at once, rather than build single long strings.

I don't think it's more complex than HuniePop, but it is different. I liked all the complex currencies and whatnot that HuniePop was so fascinated with (like in the puzzle game, the heart meter and sentiment, and in the dating sim, the Munny and Hunny). Purino Party is definitely weaker in terms of having an interesting balance of concepts. But the core puzzle game is pretty playable.

The English text is fine - I didn't stumble across anything jarringly unnatural. Nothing about the text is going to be noteworthy anyway, so the translation is sufficient to the task.

[wyldstrykr]

question: it is really a vn hybrid? because i cant find it in vndb........

also does the 18+ of the game is only a CG?

i didnt play huniepop either so which one to play and why? thanks

 

[Fred the Barber]

It seems a bit weak on the in-between scenes to really call it a VN hybrid. I'd say it's a gem-matching game that shows you snippets of a nukige when you win, at best? Because the plot of each route appears to be on about that level.

And, yes, there are H CGs, but no H scenes. So, if reading "Ahh... mmm... slurrrrp" and hearing someone moaning are beneficial for your enjoyment of H content, be aware that you won't find them here.

HuniePop is better in many ways - gameplay is more interesting, characters are more varied. The art is a little less familiar to the otaku eye, in HuniePop vs. Purino Party, and the voice acting is in English instead of Japanese. So, maybe if you're a really huge weeb, Purino Party might win out on those grounds? Barring some kind of bias like that, definitely play HuniePop rather than this game.

[bogdankl]

5 minutes in and the cringe is unbelievable :))

[Fred the Barber]

On 6/25/2016 at 9:49 PM, Fred the Barber said:

The English text is fine - I didn't stumble across anything jarringly unnatural. Nothing about the text is going to be noteworthy anyway, so the translation is sufficient to the task.

After spending some more time with it, I'll amend this statement somewhat: it's still full of Japanese cliche. But for the typical English plebeian otaku, it'll be fine. And nobody should go into this game expecting good writing anyway.

I've played through half of the "routes" at this point.In summary: Purino Party is a passable-but-not-good puzzle game that rewards you with extremely cheesy SoL scenes and lewd CGs of cute anime girls.

[bogdankl]

so this is basically japan's huniepop from what I can tell, more of a vn with gameplay where as huniepop was a dating sim, also I finished just one "route" and I have to say it's way fucking harder in my opinion

[Dark_blade64]

3 hours ago, bogdankl said:

so this is basically japan's huniepop from what I can tell, more of a vn with gameplay where as huniepop was a dating sim, also I finished just one "route" and I have to say it's way fucking harder in my opinion

Japanese huniepop but instead of having the whole hunies system, it use the dungeons and dragons gameplay system.

[Fred the Barber]

11 hours ago, bogdankl said:

so this is basically japan's huniepop from what I can tell, more of a vn with gameplay where as huniepop was a dating sim, also I finished just one "route" and I have to say it's way fucking harder in my opinion

I definitely fail puzzles much more often in this game than I did in HuniePop (mostly later in the routes, when many more points are needed to clear them), and there's definitely a whole lot more luck involved here than there was in HuniePop. The gifts system in HuniePop really helped you take a little more control over the board and reverse bad luck.

To put it another way, the game is noticeably more random and noticeably less balanced.

That said... I don't know if "harder" is how I would put it. Once you get the hang of it, it's quite a bit faster to clear a level here than in HuniePop, even if you fail once. However, a level is cleared or failed a whole lot faster and requires a whole lot less thought. In Purino Party, I tend to just grab a gem in a decent place and start dragging it, rather than spending long periods of time carefully contemplating my next move to optimize the subsequent board position, like I did in HuniePop.