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FractalSandwich posted:Not my call, man. Take it up with Director Getsuya. I like ladies in uniform so let's make it a story about falling in love with mature professional police officers.
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alright, the boss says we're going ahead. sorry Nena.
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Guess it can't be worse than any of the Sakura VNs
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I admit, this isn't what I was expecting when I signed on with the project, and if we had unlimited time and resources and didn't have to worry about our sales, I'd have liked it if we could have done a few things differently. But it's a tough industry, and things change in development, and we had to make some compromises. That's just how it is. But it's been a valuable learning experience for all of us, and I think we'll be able to avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
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Sakurazuka posted:Guess it can't be worse than any of the Sakura VNs They can try.
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Guys unfortunately I think we're going to have to shut the project down. Steam is telling me if we want to put our game up on their service we're going to need to censor a few of the more questionable scenes. I can't preserve my artistic integrity while giving in to censorship demands so I'm going to release what we've finished of the project for free and hopefully that will garner enough interest that when we try our next project people will be willing to back it through Kickstarter so we don't need to rely on Steam for our sales. It was really good working with you guys.
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Getsuya posted:Guys unfortunately I think we're going to have to shut the project down. Steam is telling me if we want to put our game up on their service we're going to need to censor a few of the more questionable scenes. I can't preserve my artistic integrity while giving in to censorship demands so I'm going to release what we've finished of the project for free and hopefully that will garner enough interest that when we try our next project people will be willing to back it through Kickstarter so we don't need to rely on Steam for our sales. gently caress Gaben. Never giving steam any of my money again.
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anything decent on ios, aside from 999? something playable / readable on phones.
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You could try Banshee's Last Cry, one of (if not the first) 'sound novel', an early form of VN that's mostly just text and music. Obviously it's pretty primitive, I thought it was okay though.
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Banshee's Last Cry is a very good and interesting iOS VN! It starts off as a straightforward mystery but there are a lot of routes and it changes dramatically for quite a few of them.
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NRVNQSR posted:It depends what you mean by "on the level of". There are loads that are as popular as 999/VLR or more so, but they're not all going to be accessible/engaging in the same way. There are decent arguments for any of the following, though: By "on the level of," I mean of the (high) quality of 999/VLR. There are other horror visual novels like Banshee's Last Cry but they aren't nearly as good, scary, or as engaging as something like 999. They don't have vivid descriptions of a guy's blown out insides looking like spaghetti or a grotesque blooming flower in a sea of blood at the least. BLC started as an SNES game so that's probably why it seems primitive. I actually prefer there not be a game element to it, really. I just really like the horror aspects of 999 with the sense of urgency of rushing to the next door before the timer runs out and you blow up and the looming sense of danger and urgency of being on a sinking ship with one of the people in your group possibly being a serial killer. Thanks for the suggestions, though! Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Mar 5, 2016 |
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Getsuya posted:Guys unfortunately I think we're going to have to shut the project down. Steam is telling me if we want to put our game up on their service we're going to need to censor a few of the more questionable scenes. I can't preserve my artistic integrity while giving in to censorship demands so I'm going to release what we've finished of the project for free and hopefully that will garner enough interest that when we try our next project people will be willing to back it through Kickstarter so we don't need to rely on Steam for our sales. Why not release the censored version on Steam and link back to an uncensored Director's Cut on your website? Best of both worlds, really. Accomplished directors with integrity have to do this all the time by releasing an "R version" in theaters for a wider audience while releasing an "NC-17 version" or Director's Cut on DVD/Blu-Ray later.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:By "on the level of," I mean of the (high) quality of 999/VLR. There are other horror visual novels like Banshee's Last Cry but they aren't nearly as good, scary, or as engaging as something like 999. They don't have vivid descriptions of a guy's blown out insides looking like spaghetti or a grotesque blooming flower in a sea of blood at the least. BLC started as an SNES game so that's probably why it seems primitive. Sound of Drop might be worth looking at; the descriptions of violence in that game actually reminded me quite a lot of the way 999 handled it. It's got that same combination of graphic description but detached, almost clinical detail to it. Gameplay is pretty much straightforward CYOA-style read-and-make-a-choice, with most of the choices past the intro sequence either advancing the plot or leading to a quick and messy death: it's basically a gauntlet with a couple of branching paths. Be warned that it's quite short (you can get either of the two normal endings in a couple of hours if you're a fast reader, and then there are two NG+-only alternate routes that add a fair bit of extra content) and the premise may or may not land for you as effective horror (it's a haunted aquarium, there are some genuinely well-written and unsettling scenes in the game but they're still working against the fact that there's something inherently silly about the idea of deadly fish ghosts). Thuryl fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Mar 5, 2016 |
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Umineko can get pretty loving detailed on how horribly human beings can be mutilated.
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Thuryl posted:Sound of Drop might be worth looking at; the descriptions of violence in that game actually reminded me quite a lot of the way 999 handled it. It's got that same combination of graphic description but detached, almost clinical detail to it. Gameplay is pretty much straightforward CYOA-style read-and-make-a-choice, with most of the choices past the intro sequence either advancing the plot or leading to a quick and messy death: it's basically a gauntlet with a couple of branching paths. Be warned that it's quite short (you can get either of the two normal endings in a couple of hours if you're a fast reader, and then there are two NG+-only alternate routes that add a fair bit of extra content) and the premise may or may not land for you as effective horror (it's a haunted aquarium, there are some genuinely well-written and unsettling scenes in the game but they're still working against the fact that there's something inherently silly about the idea of deadly fish ghosts). Thanks for this, I'll check it out.  But yeah, not even necessarily gore and violence but a sense of tension and psychological dread/unnerving is welcome.
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So a lot of you have probably heard about Flowers' translation being a bit of a disaster. The official word from JAST seems to be that they hosed up by releasing a demo before doing adequate QA on it and they're delaying the release until it isn't a disaster any more. Here's hoping they manage to fix it.
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999 was supposed to be horror? What? I never even got slight horror vibes from it.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:999 was supposed to be horror? What? I never even got slight horror vibes from it. I'd personally classify 999 as a thriller rather than horror, since the overriding moods are suspense and paranoia rather than dread, but I can see how someone who likes horror VNs would like it.
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How exactly do you make that happen? I tried everything I could think of, and the main menu still kept telling me to try harder.
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FractalSandwich posted:How exactly do you make that happen? I tried everything I could think of, and the main menu still kept telling me to try harder. You have to go through the story and see all of the options for the choices
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I thought I did. I guess I must have missed one.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:999 was supposed to be horror? What? I never even got slight horror vibes from it. How do you define horror then? I'll concede the point that 999 is mostly a thriller, but it's definitely got some horror/dread elements like seeing the blasted body of Snake in the shower with entrails and guts everywhere, plus the Sub ending where you find literally everyone else is dead and you just feel numb inside before getting shanked yourself. I don't know how you couldn't see those as horror elements. (P.S., I love your avatar.  )
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FractalSandwich posted:How exactly do you make that happen? I tried everything I could think of, and the main menu still kept telling me to try harder. Yeah, do all of Yuna's choices then watch all of the extra apple scenes and you get that, there's not a ton of choices but it's kind of a pain to go through them all again, especially if you can't remember which one you did last time. At least you only get them in the main (bear) storyline path.
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http://gematsu.com/2016/03/3ds-adventure-game-chase-unsolved-cases-investigation-division-another-code-staff-announcedquote:Arc System Works has announced Chase: Unsolved Cases Investigation Division – Distant Memories, a new adventure game from Another Code and Hotel Dusk: Room 215 director Taisuke Kanasaki and former CING members coming to 3DS via the Nintendo eShop in Japan this spring. I should really play Last Window and the Wii Another Code game.. but I'm very happy.
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kirbysuperstar posted:http://gematsu.com/2016/03/3ds-adventure-game-chase-unsolved-cases-investigation-division-another-code-staff-announced I can't wait for it to never be translated.
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Woo, it even has bootleg Kyle Hyde
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kirbysuperstar posted:http://gematsu.com/2016/03/3ds-adventure-game-chase-unsolved-cases-investigation-division-another-code-staff-announced I found myself a video game.
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Is there any news on a Steins;Gate 0 translation yet? The write up on Kotaku piqued my interest and man I really want to give it a spin.
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Yeah, took me 27 hours according to Steam but some of that was idling while I did other stuff. For reference Steins; Gate took me just over 20 hours to platinum.
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Higurashi chapter 3 (Tatarigoroshi) is apparently 100% translated and edited.
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Sakurazuka posted:Yeah, took me 27 hours according to Steam but some of that was idling while I did other stuff.
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Dangan Ronpa 2 is coming out on April 18th. Man I hope Higurashi 3 comes out around the same time. That'd be an awesome way to spend the month. Tatarigoroshi (Higurashi 3) is probably my favorite chapter in the series because of how much it screws with your head about the story and makes you doubt everything you thought you had figured out.
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Tatarigoroshi for me is the first "real" Higurashi chapter, in that it starts to actually get to the meat and potatoes of the story and is better paced than the previous two. It's also a big hump to get over because it's long and chapter 4 is the shortest chapter by far so hopefully that won't take too much time, thus wrapping up all of the Question chapters. Then we get into the Answer chapters which completely own and hopefully won't take as much time to fix up because their original translations weren't too bad.
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Hello Vita friends. If you have somehow not played Code: Realize yet (WHY), it is on sale for $12 this weekend.
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Fru Fru posted:Hello Vita friends. If you have somehow not played Code: Realize yet (WHY), it is on sale for $12 this weekend. So is Norn9 (which I was waiting for to go on sale again so I could get it)
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theonlypie314SA posted:So is Norn9 (which I was waiting for to go on sale again so I could get it) True but that one isn't so good. Sale price might be about worth it.
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