/vn/ - Piano Edition

Visual Novel General #1183

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>Having trouble with your VN? Try the following before you ask for tech support:
1. Be in Japanese locale
2. Read the Readme
3. Read the wiki below
4. Google it

>FAQs, Recommendations, and Other Useful Things:
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>Need a novel with a specific element?
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This general is for the discussion of Japanese visual novels.
Moe games do not belong here, take those into the /moe/ general.

Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.

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First for fuck off jops

She's hot.

If subahibi doesn't come out today I'm ending it.

>Y-you just don't understand it! I-it not trash!
You should always call things what they are, pretentious trash is simply pretentious trash.

Sekai Project will make it happen

Every time I've ever made a post someone called pretentious, I asked them "can you elaborate and defend that accusation", and no one ever responds, because they can't. Basically, it's obviously fine to call pretentious things pretentious, it's only a "problem" or something to be scorned when someone calls something pretentious as a buzzword without actually having a justifiable argument for doing so.

>both MG and SP are translating a purple soft game
>neither of them got the SINGLE good one
fucking lol

What moege are you playing?

>people playing moeges

Cross Channel

What's wrong with that?

>looks like cute moege
>first h-scene 10 minutes in game, manslut non-vrgin mc
>abortion, rape
>g-senjou route structure
Not really want

Good, it isn't supposed to be tainted by braindead moetards. Go back to your safe space.

Moeges rot your brain.

Literally proving his point

Is there recommend list with VNs, that really are making you think?

Who the fuck cares. His point is "don't call pretentious things pretentious because it makes me sad ;_;"

rly mks me thnk ;0

Did she died?

In her best route, she stays in coma, that was actually a really good ending for that VN, oh wonderful tragedy

Did you just ignore or what?

I always try ignoring shitposts.

Weak defense, considering you replied to . Seems like you're afraid to accept your comprehension of something is wrong. That's OK, fear is natural.

Does she at least get h-scenes?

Nice shitpost.

"It's my own invention" is starting to tire me out a lot, does this nonsense spam ever end?

Yeah, she's a very decent heroine in that sometimes shit show of a vn

Yeah, when you learn Japanese and realize it's profound text and not "spam".

Amazing writing for truly inteligent beings such as yourself jop

Can someone recommend me a visual novel that is good and similar to Fault Milestone?

>has to sabotage the OP because his shitty general has zero activity

pathetic desu, also Rise is best Evangelion

No sorry, all other visuals are just way better...

What do you mean?

>Moe games do not belong here, take those into the /moe/ general.
What /moe/ general?

The one you're gonna create

*pretentious text

Moege are some of the most thought provoking pieces of art in the history of the human race.

New /moe/ thread up

honestly i think we should just let it died until a new english release comes out. it's such a pain to keep it bumped.

wonderful idea to split a dead general into two even deader generals.

Nothing is probably coming out until DCIII which is likely some time in November or December. Though the demo is apparently about to go in to testing.
Well there is also Miu's route From Dracu Riot, but who knows when they will actually finish that.

>finally that day
>decided to learn japanese
>got through memorizing and internalizing completely foreign writing and reading system complete with phonetic extremities that are very much enemies of an english native
>spend months memorizing kanjis and trying to make heads and tails of foreign text that has no spaces or distinctive characteristics to differentiate from each other in addition to unfamiliar grammar
>after months of grind finally get to a level where i can coherently read vn while still looking up every other kanji
>some muramasa to begin with
>wtf is that chuuni shit i can't read this shit
>have to start with some fucking hanabira
>can't even fluently read a fucking yuri simulator
>I'VE TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO
>give up and go wave my dick on mongolian calligraphy association fan board

Any new moege?

Koiken Otome

Shut the fuck up, you colossal retard.

That was a while ago and I heard it was boring.

But /moe/, as dead as it is, has far less shitposting.

>moege
>boring
Oh, i don't know, what gave you that idea sherlock?

Well, yeah. Because /vn/ is only artificially alive through shitposting. If there weren't 24/7 shitposts here we would die too. And, hell, even with all the shitposting I still have to save this place from page 10 constantly.

Mostly because it doesn't have the anti Jap and moege autist.

Visual novels just aren't popular enough

>not just reading 4 days of tae kim and 2 days of kana
You had it coming tbqh famalamadingdong

I did that and couldn't make it through chapter 1 of Yotsubato.

Visual novels are a dead medium. Atleast in English. Just let this thread die too.

the antimoe shitposter is likely the OP of that moe thread, which is both hilarious and fucking miserable.

What killed visual novels?

>he can't read muramasa fluently after 4 days of tae kim and 2 of kana
How does it feel to have your mental ability impaired on such a colossal level?

Decided to try out Fata Morgana since people keep talking about it.
At first I thought that Nellie had cut the whole scalp from the white-haired-girl, but it was still pretty disturbing.
Currently on the second door, Bestia killed another bestia and Javi is being tsundere.

EOPs.

When I think about posting something in /vn/ I see all the shitposting and DJT shit and I feel like it's not worth the bother.
There was a short but serious discussion about Oyari in the last /moe/ right before it died. It's nice to have discussion without a bunch of retards spamming old memes.

SP will save it.

I related to Javi quite a bit

>liking Ayyari

The fuck was the point of Javi? Fucker never appears after the second door and barely did jack in it anyway Still has a sprite

Flooding Steam with low quality shit. Not that they were really alive before, just it killed off any chance of them being anything but a meme to the general audience.
At least we still have MG catering to the real VN audience.

nice joke haro

Releases just aren't frequent enough. EOPs are lucky to get ONE (1) visual novel a month. It's no surprise this thread needs to resort to shitposting to survive.

I need help. Are there any EOPs here?

I wish I was haro.

I wish I was Doddler.

>he thinks eops exist
There are no people in this thread that don't know japanese, it's only 6 days of learning after all to be fluent.

Anything newsworthy happen lately? Kinda tuned out after the Otakon announcements.

What went wrong?

I usually hide/report all shitposting in this general and just hope for the best.

There's still people here who want good discussion. I'm one of them.

He's basically a catalyst for more Pauline development and also to really hammer in the havoc that Bestia is causing.

It's also possible that they intended to do more with him in the final door, but plans might've changed. You have to remember it's a doujin release.

Other than Aroduc letting loose the bad news about Baldr, not really.

Aroduc giving the middle finger to Sekai Project

Spoilers happened.

What bad news?

>It's been two months since the announcement that BS would be officially localized, but the open question still remains: "By whom?" I remain under no contract to anybody. I learned about the licensing from the announcement from AnimeExpo, same as everyone else. While I have received a very small handful of e-mails from Sekai Project, and I have no doubt whatsoever that the license was obtained primarily due to the tools Doddler and Nagato created, as well as my own significant work on it, Sekai Project has yet to make any kind of substantive offer to work with us to translate/release the game(s). Or anything vaguely in the ballpark. We made an offer to them (which was flatly rejected for reasons that remain unclear to us even after expliclty asking), and they did make an 'offer' to give us a grossly inadequate sum of money to hand over everything we've done and walk away, after being told at the very beginning that doing so was completely out of the question. That was a toughie to consider.

>It's been over eight weeks now, and I have done literally no translation work on it, or anything else, in that time because I don't know what the future of the project is. Mostly, I've played Overwatch. Badly. The most recent communication from Sekai Project was that we should "step away from it for a little while and come back next month." This was in response to an e-mail from me saying not-so-politely that "I'm concerned about the lack of communication," which was itself a followup to a more polite e-mail from Doddler pointing out that we're frustrated because they're not communicating with us… which had gone ignored for the better part of a week. The solution to the issue of poor communication is, clearly, no communication. That's merely the tip of the iceberg.

So, basically, look forward to Sekai's shitty in-house team releasing Baldr in 3 years.

No surprise there. So is he just going to sit on the translation indefinitely?

tenka.seiha.org/2016/09/concerning-recent-game-translation-activities/
>While I have received a very small handful of e-mails from Sekai Project, and I have no doubt whatsoever that the license was obtained primarily due to the tools Doddler and Nagato created, as well as my own significant work on it, Sekai Project has yet to make any kind of substantive offer to work with us to translate/release the game(s). Or anything vaguely in the ballpark. We made an offer to them (which was flatly rejected for reasons that remain unclear to us even after expliclty asking), and they did make an 'offer' to give us a grossly inadequate sum of money to hand over everything we've done and walk away, after being told at the very beginning that doing so was completely out of the question. That was a toughie to consider.
>For me. So as of now, the project's in indefinite abeyance and I'm moving on to something else.
Basically Sekai it on their own when it comes to the translation meaning it will take years and be poor quality.

He can't really do anything else since it's officially licensed. He could get into legal trouble otherwise.

>Dive 1 at 100%, Dive 2 at ~35%

He has already started on a new project. Maybe he'll finish up the BB series?

Also, Aroduc's progress at the time, if anyone cares:
>Dive 1 at 100%, Dive 2 at ~35%, and PA at around 33%, although I did technically release that last one. It’s just in a nigh unusable format and mostly broken.

Why do I want to fuck her so much?

Why have we reached an age where something being picked up for translation means we can read it in english slower?

Sure he can, anonymous leak and while it might be obvious it's his, it's untraceable.

Probably would have been able to get Dive 1 out by the end of the year with a dedicated hacker being paid. Shame that is never going to happen now.

Because dovac is useless.
JAST also picked up some FanTLs, but they don't go after everything like their fucking lives depended on it unlike sekai.

What?

He has other people besides himself to think about. Doddler in particular, as he has written up a very detailed blogpost about his hacking job on Baldr and he's pretty much the only one who has been able to make tools on it. Not to mention that it's likely Doddler will be paid by Sekai eventually to work on Baldr. Considering how closely Aroduc and Doddler have worked together I really doubt he'd fuck over his associate like that.

Uuuuuu I donno what visual novel to play next, someone throw some visual novels at me please

School Days.

Shiny days.

Ikikoi

already played

>What?
Probably means it would be faster to learn Japanese to read some of the translations. Especially if you include JAST.

Fata Morgana

I'm so sorry.

Yeah, let's grind through a clusterfuck of an alien language to read them porn or alternatively do something else and read it comfortably in my native language when it comes out.
Hmm, tough choice.

>SP doesn't pick up Baldr
>fan translates it completely
>SP picks up Baldr
>fan translation goes on hiatus
>SP will translate it at a snail's pace releasing it far later than it would have before, if ever, probably butchered somehow too

Yeah, well it has always been like that. Nothing new.

There are more translations of decent titles being released nowadays than there were 3 or 4 years ago, at least.

I wish I knew Japanese well enough. If I did I would translate Baldr Heart or something for you.