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Getsuya posted:Mother Goose no Himitsu no Yakata Blue Label/Mother Goose`s Secret Mansion Blue Label is a VN where you are drawn into your own bookshelf. Girls representing (indirectly) the old nursery stories you used to love so much are waiting for you in a mysterious mansion. Turns out you can`t go back to the real world until you have re-awakened in your heart the love for rhymes you used to have. How do you do this? Why, by taking quizzes on rhymes of course! CV: Kugimiya Rie, Hanazawa Kana, Tamura Yukari, Toyosaki Aki, Itou Kanae sold
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Episode 1 of MangaGamer's Higurashi-remake (new sprites, new translation, original music, no voice acting) is now available on Steam for $6 (-10% in the first week) http://store.steampowered.com/app/310360/ e: and by original music I mean the one music originally came with the game, not whatever garbage MangaGamer replaced it with in their first release. Tamba fucked around with this message at 02:11 on May 16, 2015 |
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May 16, 2015 02:09
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I'd rather have that generic art than the original sprites. This release has both  You can also switch between japanese and english if you care about that.
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May 16, 2015 09:50
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Nate RFB posted:Ugh, I see they still have that ugly UI in the bottom right hand corner. Assuming it's the same basic engine it might be possible to hide it by tinkering with the files. There's an "auto hide user interface"-option that hides it unless you mouse into that corner.
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May 16, 2015 15:30
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All games have doge memes now, welcome to the future of localization.
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Nov 26, 2015 10:55
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Ryoshi posted:And uh....what's the rewind/read previous text button (on the Vita)? There are two button layouts. It was Triangle in the one I used, no idea about the other one.
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Jan 12, 2016 18:31
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NRVNQSR posted:So anyway, VNs. Is there any news on when World End Economica 3 is coming out? I've been holding off playing the series for way too long now. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/world-end-economica-complete/posts/1480223 posted:So we'll first go with, yes we replaced translators again. The previous translator felt that they were not skilled enough to translate college level economic theory and making sure all the details were correct. This was in early January and we spent the month vetting a new group of three translators. Prepare to wait some more. LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i liked the first WEE but i've held off on part 2 because it was localized by a different company who decided to do straight phonetic translation of character names (e.g. "cerrow" instead of "serrault") and it'll really irritate me. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/world-end-economica-complete/posts/1481590 posted:We're also looking at budgeting this translation group to review episode.01 and episode.02 before we start working on the console port. They might redo it, I guess?
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Feb 22, 2016 10:27
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Isn't there a visual novel dating simulator where it does the VLR thing of remembering what you did on previous play-throughs and having one of the girls flip out on your for restarting and trying to date someone else, so she ends up murdering you and deleting your save file? There is, it's Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi (often abbreviated as Totono)
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Am I just reading to much time travel stuff, or do VN writers really love to explain special relativity? Screenshot is from Island, made by the Front Wing. Seems like an anime and a western release of the game is in the works.
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There was a translated letter or something by Ryukishi, where he said that he specifically put in a scene of of Battler going "Ah, now I understand everything" into ep. 05 because many readers were likepsy_wombats posted:To be honest though, there's so much junk going on in Umineko that it feels like theorycrafting is pointless because the next episode will just one-up the next anyways. I think just hanging on for the ride was more fun than overthinking it. That scene was there specifically to signal "You have enough information to solve everything".
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May 23, 2016 10:55
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Nate RFB posted:Arguably it could be a lot of fun in a LP with people who have never read it before Stuff like that never works because you always end up with the following types of people in the thread: - People who actually haven't played it - People who played it and who post spoilers as "speculation" just because they're assholes - People who played it and don't *want* to spoil anything, but do so anyway by steering the discussion into certain directions because they know what's relevant and what isn't. Eventually, someone in group 1 guesses a few right answers, then someone in group 3 accuses them of belonging to group 2, thus confirming that it's true and spoiling everyone. The first Dangan Ronpa LP worked because it was totally unknown in the west before the LP, which wasn't true anymore for the second game. Another example would be the Rokka no Yuusha thread for the anime that aired last year.
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May 23, 2016 14:42
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Are there any visual novels that actually have voiced narration? https://vndb.org/g836
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Aug 4, 2016 07:00
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Raxivace posted:Is that Root Letter game supposed to be any good? I bought it, but I haven't actually started playing it, because all the review were quite negative. You probably shouldn't expect too much.
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Sep 16, 2016 23:11
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Stefan Prodan posted:I think the game pauses on each of the subsequent ones except for the first ending. I looked very specifically when my wife played it to see if I missed an obvious cue to do the thing but I didn't, it just goes right past it on your first try (no icon or anything) so I think people would have to generally be pretty astute to not get the first ending. Your "click to continue to the next line" cursor changes when you have the option to do something with your phone (call/send a message).
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Jan 11, 2017 16:37
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Stefan Prodan posted:Yeah but does it on the very first ending trigger? I'm fairly sure it at least doesn't pause like the other ones do when you are skipping We're talking about the point where it splits off to Suzuha's ending, right?  It has that icon and it dropped me out of skip mode. Maybe it's a bug in the english and/or Vita version? (Saves for the PC version don't work across languages, so I can't easily check).
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http://steamcommunity.com/games/286260/announcements/detail/894345997988029146quote:Some of you already know but we and Sekai Project have been working on a second set of translations for milestone one that is 100% faithful to the original Japanese text. It is consistent with the tone of ms2a as well because they are both done now by the same person. This update has been in the works for a very long time now and we hope you all enjoy either a second read or the first more accurate dive into the world of fault. So they actually redid the translation for that game? The original release was really weird. It wasn't really bad or the usual "translation vs localization" stuff, it was more like "here's an original fantasy story based on the same plot outline and characters" instead of a translation. Like they completely replaced the magic system with something else, including the ingame encyclopedia entries for it. And they invented pseudo-german terms for everything, which was completely absent in the japanese original. Tamba fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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FractalSandwich posted:That's way overselling it. The two translations aren't so different that you'd really notice, and you certainly wouldn't notice any inconsistency between 1 and 2a. Looking into it a bit more, it seems to be a bit more complicated than that. I played the game immediately when it came out, switching between the japanese and the english text, and there were large differences, especially when it came to the magic system, which used terms like "shift", "commit" and "bless" to describe the process of casting magic. They also had entries in the encyclopedia:  The current version looks like this though, which matches the current english version.  Maybe the original release of the game included an old version of the japanese script, while the english translation was already based on a more recent, heavily edited version of the japanese script that only got patched in at a later point?
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Speaking of which does anyone have recommendations for untranslated games? Ideally one with voice acting to help. Try these:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnyyDt7jimEz-dgeMSKymRaT2r3QKBPm9AzqZ6oUWAs/pub e: No idea why SubaHibi is in the second chart though, that one has some tricky parts. edit2: There's also this thing an anon on /jp/ made. Sort by Hayashi 2, higher values are easier https://vnscripts.neocities.org/stats.html Tamba fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Speaking of S;G, I just got to the lab mem pizza party, and uh Of course, that's the whole point of time travel. What could possibly go wrong?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:aren't explicit dating sim VNs pretty rare these days? like the ones which are actually about choosing what to do on a date Yeah dating sim is a specific subgenre (the most well known are probably the Tokimeki Memorial series). 99% of the games called dating sims in the english speaking world really aren't, even if you end up dating one of the girls(or boys) in the end. Persona 4 is more of a "dating sim" than most visual novels. Tamba fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Apr 5, 2019 |
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Apr 5, 2019 10:15
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nabo posted:Heya all, any words on Fatal Twelve ?? I heard it's good, but I also hear very little about it so... It was okay, I guess? The story was interesting enough, but I didn't really like how the writing relied on hiding information from the reader (both via convenient amnesia or just not telling you things the characters know), coincidences and characters behaving irrationally, to move the plot along. There's a demo on steam, so give that a try if you want.
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PMush Perfect posted:Raging Loop, Also reading this right now, just got to the first ending (I'm assuming this is where the real game starts because I haven't seen any keys past that mandatory one at the beginning.) About that spoilered part, that just seems to be a lucky coincidence with the translation. I'm reading it in japanese, and the kanji for that plant translates to birds head/birds helmet, no relation to wolves at all
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Rockman Reserve posted:e: I have no idea how it would ever possibly work but reading Umineko has me really wanting some kind of adversarial 2p tabletop RPG along the same lines Tragedy Looper, maybe? It's technically 1 vs 3, but a single person can play the 3 investigators. e: oops, should have read the rest of the thread before replying
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There was a message from the author somewhere, where he explains that all "fair" mystery novels have a scene where the detective goes "I've figured it out". This shows the reader that all necessary information has been presented and that the solution will be revealed soon, so if they want to figure it out themselves, they can do it now. It was generally accepted that the first for chapters of Umineko would be the "question" arcs, and the following 4 the "answer" arcs, like he did with Higurashi, but since he was still seeing lots of posts to the tune of "don't bother, we don't have enough information yet", he decided to include this in episode 5.
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Sakurazuka posted:NIS does a ton of VNs and they never get localised and I've no idea why Because VNs are relatively cheap to make, but expensive to localize, and they think it's not worth it for the amount of sales they expect to get.
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ymgve posted:Not really. The games in Raging Loop are entirely fixed (but branch depending on your choices), so it doesn't have the "game" element of Gnosia. I wouldn't even call it "branch depending on your choices". The choices that lead to the other branches are locked until you reach certain points, so while the path looks like a tree, it's actually completely linear with a handful of instances of "you can do A, B or C in any order, but you need to do all 3 of them to unlock the choice that continues the story.  (japanese to minimize spoilers) The path down the left continues the story. To see it, you need to unlock 05,06 and 07, and 07 itself is locked behind 05 and 06 Tamba fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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Nyoro posted:Hell of a deal on the two spirit hunter games They're on vndb, so they count as VNs  Unless you're one of those people who insist that the Ace Attorney games are not VNs, I guess.
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mrfreeze posted:Holy poo poo Loopers is kind of a rip off at how much they sold it for. The game is only around 10 hours long and I kept waiting for a big twist or subversion of expectations and it never happens. Like I was sure the credit roll would be a fake out and ok now here's the rest of the story type thing it was such a let down. Less than that even. The average on vndb is 7 hours, including one "full auto" playthrough that was submitted with 6h27m. Tamba fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jun 7, 2022 |
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gegi posted:except I don't actually know what "K3" refers to. https://vndb.org/v5844
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mrfreeze posted:Holy poo poo Loopers is kind of a rip off at how much they sold it for. The game is only around 10 hours long and I kept waiting for a big twist or subversion of expectations and it never happens. Like I was sure the credit roll would be a fake out and ok now here's the rest of the story type thing it was such a let down. Speaking of short games that might not be rip-offs: I got ATRI -My Dear Moments- because it's on sale on Steam for 10€ right now and it's fun so far. I haven't hit the drama yet (and there's no way there won't be, when you have a robot girl who keeps counting down to a specific date), but I'd already say that the game was worth that price.
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woodenchicken posted:Is there some kind of breakdown as to who did what? Hayashi Naotaka: Hana route, most of the common route delusion triggers Takimoto Masashi: Common route (chapter 8, chapter 9 first half), Nono route Tanizaki Ouka: Uki route, Nono route help Umehara Eiji: Common route (chapters 1-2, chapter 9 second half, chapters 10-11), true route Yasumoto Tooru: Common route (chapters 3-7), Hinae route, Nono route, Uki route
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Paperhouse posted:so I "finished" Steins Gate! well, I got to an ending. Okabe and Suzuha getting into the time machine at the end of chapter 6. I'm aware that there are 10 chapters and many different endings. Does the plot have significantly different routes, or is it just the endings where the story diverges? The plot does what's called a "ladder" structure where it's linear with specific points where you can ignore the main plot and get off the ladder and see a character's ending instead. (Os opposed to the Common Route into Character Route split)
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There some kind of Visual Novel Fest going on at Steam this week.
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