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I find myself caught on a situation where the narrative is to be written in past tense, yet the past tense would make the narrative confusing. For example, "This is a technique I use to corrupt a target of mine, inviting them to a world full of manic pleasure... it seemed to be too intense for a virgin like [Redacted]."
If the entire line was written in past tense it would read like it "was" a technique he "used," implicating that the technique is something he no longer uses now. When I was over on Veeky Forums the basic understanding they gave me was that if it was something that is a constant or something that is still ongoing to what would be the "now" of the story then it is better to keep it present tense.
Sort of like: "I walked away from the explosion without looking at it -- as the rule of cool dictated." Compared to: "I walked away from the explosion without looking at it -- as the rule of cool dictates."
I went over this awhile back, I think it's called a "tense trap"? It's pretty pesky when having to overlook a lot of the text I've been dealing with, and I don't know if it is something I have to worry over of if it is.
Cooper Cook
as far as I know there's not an anime that's legit better than the VNs, not even S;G not that I watched it the only thing that matters is that I think you should read C;H before C;C (inb4 required reading drama), not that it matters as currently there's no english TL of C;C, but realizing parallels between the two are fun, and some twists at the end of C;C make much more sense
Lucas Sanders
And by "went over it," I mean "skimmed the internet."
Andrew Ward
I like lolis!
Landon Hughes
>majikoi still isn't fucking over
William Collins
Norn has the more lovey-dovey waifus. Miel's always been more about sex slaves.
Alexander Carter
majikoi was over once the common route was done. No reason to go any further than that.
>obligatory Yukie ass shot
Adam Brown
...
Joshua Wood
BLACKED
Xavier Garcia
Marilyn Manson, KEK, and a random negro...
William Watson
i would have liked it more if the protag was nicer to her but it was pretty good anyway
Grayson Johnson
You know for all the talk about anal in Yukie's S route there wasn't actually that much anal.
also is it just me or did Chocola's chest grow a bit?
Jaxon Flores
>getting turned on by slavery shame
Benjamin Ross
they dont look like slaves to me.
Nathaniel Mitchell
More like bestiality.
Nathaniel Wright
Whats the oldest Visual Novel you played /vn/?
Zachary Cruz
>getting turned off by slavery Shame
Justin James
>That twist in Aoi's route
alright I wansnt expecting that.
Also do they ever explain the weird texts from the prologue?
Matthew Campbell
She likes frog.
Oldest ever? Knights of Xentar, got it from pirated 'minigames collection' disc, along with some other DOS H games like Isaku, Doukyuusei (Titled nanpa in the folder), Time Stripper Mako, Seasons of Sakura, True Love 95, and other untranslated stuff that I've forgotten in it. It's not my first VN though.
Camden Stewart
Do I have to read DC2 before DC3?
Adrian Bell
5
Jaxson Powell
Yes.
Levi Moore
I forgot how good True Love was. Never actually played anything quite like it ever since.
Blake Phillips
>Never actually played anything quite like it ever since. Probably because most dating sim games are not translated.
Amagami translation soon.
Dylan Ross
Yeah it's pretty great. And you can play it from your browser
William Perez
>soon >IMPLYING
Jonathan Morales
wake up you fucks.
Christopher Wood
morning qt why are you in my bed?
Jonathan Thomas
...
Josiah Garcia
Do you?
Gavin Russell
1. No 2. The fuck is this
Adrian Diaz
The name is right there
Justin Nguyen
>Playing nukige from a series >Everything going from normal to mediocre >Suddenly fight scenes and like 30/45 minutes of references to another series Also scythes should be banned from appearing in all Japanese fiction. >scholarship What. This man gets it. What galge readers truly want is to think, after all.
Henry Ross
>choker
hnnnnngh
Chase Edwards
Too? She has another onii-chan?!?!
Brody Thompson
>ss+ Is that it?
Brayden Rogers
She walked in on MC and friends watching little sister porn. And she starts to imitate it.
One of the choices is what porn to watch, five options, five girls.
Yes.
Jaxson Lee
>one choice is what porn to watch, five options, five girls and they all imitate the porn? 10/10
Jonathan Williams
That is fucking awesome.
Landon Gomez
cute
David Baker
i never like it in vn especially when in almost every case they twist it into "we're totally siblings even though were not blood related" meme
Carson Carter
I really got to read this.
Robert Murphy
>I'm already... nn, fuahh What did she mean by this?
Brody Taylor
Writing the moans into the text box is ine of the dumbest things in voiced VNs
Thomas Barnes
i need to play this.
Samuel Rivera
It's pretty great, especially Chocolat
Jason Evans
...
Samuel Roberts
...
Cameron Fisher
She's already a semen demon.
Best girl.
Ayden Richardson
>reading H scenes
Jonathan Baker
honestly the only ones I liked were Charles and Aoi.
DC3 was kinda weird. all the side characters were pretty great but girls like Rika were awful
why was Rika marketed as the main girl, again? she was boring as fuck.
honestly if it wasn't for Aoi and the side characters I would've dumped DC3 pretty quickly
Jonathan Reed
i remember one vn that had option to turn them off it should be mandatory
Adam Ward
>Runa route Aw Yiss, the token loli always gets my ding dong expanding schlok
Carter Hill
2nd
Ryan Edwards
>all the side characters were pretty great I agree.
It kinda makes me wish for a good VN with lots of side characters and just... "friend" activities. Minimum drama. I suppose Majikoi kinda fits that bill, but that's always been a fairly polarizing VN for me since the characters are pretty extreme.
Adrian Murphy
But what about mangagamers uncensor which is known as #1 boner killer?
Chase Allen
exactly how I felt.
Jordan Long
>mangagamers uncensor You're saying that like they uncensor it themselves--it's just the original assets. They don't draw it themselves.
And in cases like euphoria or something the genitals look perfectly fine and even good. And I don't remember them looking particularly offensive in Boob Wars.
It seems like they're looking into optional mosaics from what I saw on their Twitter feed, but personally I never had a problem with bad uncensors because the alternative (a mess of pixels) is just as bad.
Oliver Sullivan
some vn's look decent, some look awful, and some look actually good like Beat Blades Haruka. Boob wars 2 falls into the decent category. While the penis's themselves don't look good from a realistic standpoint, they match the art style and don't look out of place which I think in BW2's case it's actually better this way since highly detailed genitals would look way out of place in the artstyle it has.
Gavin Kelly
I would rather leave it up to my imagination than look at poorly drawn genitals which can really kill a scene for me personally. Maybe it's just my autism.
Adam Butler
Depends on the mosaic, I think. Some mosaics are fucking garbage and even take away some detail from other than just the genitals.
Some VNs have it smaller and less offensive then others.
Carson Price
Is Daigo /ourguy/?
Asher Green
Man, you guys were right about Majikoi, I started it last night and its pretty comfy, I've played moege but I don't think I've played anything like this before.
Dominic Green
Rikka's route nearly made me drop the title all together, and I slogged trough shit like Koiken Otome.
The whole time I was expecting it to pick up and get exciting in some way since she was a lvl 5 mage, but that might as well be some random gibberish since they did nothing with it.
Even when the MC was constantly going to her room while she was researching I was expecting a ton of lovey dovey there, but NOPE.
Christopher Johnson
Are you dumb? it depends entirely on the original artist of the game, not MG. Purple Software's artist in particular draws some great genitals, look at those puffy vaginas and tell me you wouldn't want them un-mosaiced.
it doesn't really help either that the chemistry between her and the protag was practically non-existent.
i did really like Aoi, though. i felt like there was more there. wish there was more lovey-dovey, but it felt better in that regard than the other routes.
i'm not sure where she was hiding those massive tits, though.
Joseph Reyes
Too bad the fandiscs are the exact opposite of comfy. Everything is turned up to 11 and the dialogue reads like a comic books, it's whimsical 24/7 and it drives me insane
>Also do they ever explain the weird texts from the prologue?
It's like the last 2 sentences in the entire VN.
Julian Long
Some awful taste you have there, I don't have a problem with mosaics either way but those look good.
Elijah Cook
>Biggest mistery in the entire game >Only 2 lines at the very end Shit desu
Alexander Phillips
actually me right now.
WHAT THE FUCK
Kevin Murphy
I disagree, it still looks bad. I mean the cock drawing stands out and looks weird, doesn't look erotic at all desu.
Owen Hughes
Cocks tend to stand out, yes.
Parker Bailey
go watch gay porn if you want erotic cocks m8
Kevin Wilson
>Ryukishi07. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously. What did he mean by this?
Adam Brooks
This is still part of the common route, we haven't announced the next route yet.
Jace Wood
Can you get a trip so I can filter your e-celeb bullshit?
Xavier Kelly
Make a poll
Carter Thompson
Sorry, wrong choice of words.
The actress in the video used "Onii-chan" and so Runa started using it too.
Already did, but we said when we made it that we'd decide on our own regardless of the results.
Gavin Davis
>i remember one vn that had option to turn them off
I think Katawa Shoujo could have its adult stuff disabled on the fly. More VNs should allow you to switch between all-ages and 18+ on the fly. But that also means you'd miss the CG as well as the super annoying text.
But, funny enough, Katawa Shoujo was one of the *extreeeeeeeemely* few VNs that got off their asses and wrote out the sex scenes using complete thoughts and sentences, with no "chuchuchuchcu" and shit. They were written beautifully. Even though they added nothing to the lore, they were still worth reading because they told part of the story of the couple's relationship and intimate moments. They ramped up the lovey-dovey to the max without having virgins cum 12 times on their first go.
I really wish someone, anyone, would take a hint and get that trend going.
Logan Scott
Through determination, the dream became true.
Luke Brown
Pick whichever one has a cute accent.
Christian Thomas
Daigo is pretty cool
Tyler Jackson
>Wawawa
Isaiah Cruz
>it doesn't really help either that the chemistry between her and the protag was practically non-existent.
That. They only chemistry I felt in all of DC3 was between the puppet and her master. The protag didn't click with anyone at all. If anyone, the protag and Ian's maid seemed to spark a bit.
The entire thing was void of any real bonds. Just forced bullshit. I lot of people insisting they love each other in words, but nothing to back it up.
best girl in pic
Mason Carter
Are there any all-ages VNs with mana transfer sex?
