Alicesoft/Rance General

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Last thread: Rance X Speculation Edition

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>Useful Links (More in pastebin)
Wiki: alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/AliceSoftWiki:Main_Page
Alicesoft Image Booru: haniho.booru.org/
Rance Game Translation Chart:
haniho.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2536
Rance World Notes (Translated): mega.nz/#!nRESUJYZ!ZqoypfshkozVBFpeFGI3Oi5xBtU22SjnrnfjIo2SUGY

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>Just Released

Rance 5D and Rance VI (English and Decensored) - Released
Orders open at $34.95 for bundle
mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=1004
Check pastebin for download links or for hints

Heartful Maman - MILF Eroge
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>Upcoming Games

Beat Game - Website to be opened on April 20
Rance X - Announced. Delayed to 2017
RPG - by the Evenicle team (New IP)
Modern Setting - by the Rance 03 Team (New IP)
Loli MILF Nukige - by the MILF nukige team
'Heartwarming' VN - by the Atlach Nacha writer

Haniwa Development Studio: blog.alicesoft.com/archives/4771534.html

>Released In Last Year (See FAQ for downloads and info)

June 2016 - Tsumamigui Extra (JAP)
January 2016 - Tsumamigui 3 (JAP)
August 2015 - Rance 03 (JAP)

>Mangagamer Most Requested Titles Survey Results
Rance Series (1st)
Evenicle (9th)
Daiteikoku (19th)

>Upcoming Events
DarknessHero Rance KR Mod - Beta FFA mod release within days
Drawfag Weekend - Kanami Weekend starting May 6th
Veeky Forums League 8 - Starting June 9th

Remember to use spoilertags when discussing and posting images of plot elements, especially those of untranslated Rance games. Ignore and report any blatant shitposting, including nameshit.

>Rance X Speculation Edition
Um. Okay, do you guys think Sill will need to serve tea to Rance and his tactician while they have strategy sex time? Additionally, do you think his tactician will need to serve tea to Rance while he has strategy sex time with Sill?

Rance will get Kanami to give him a blowjob as he discusses strategy and Sill serves tea made by Sheila.

Shizuka will be playing hide and seek with Reset.

Will Nagi mischievously steal a biscuit?

Arlcoate a cute

>tfw the beta will still have Redeye fighting for JAPAN

Elizabeth vs RedEye

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>always rape Kamilla
>Rick Maris hope
>Demon Maris
>Lia need little kids
>Kanami cute
>Kanami great
>Hornet sex
>Toushin Kayblis
>Noce needs sex

Based on Quest, Arlcoate is the same age as Tilde so should be 16.

Rance x looks like shit

Japanese wiki says she's 17 as of LP6, I didn't check their source, though.

For a lot of the characters that appeared in KR they just used the KR birthdate unless it was stated to have changed (like Sheila).

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blue has bigger boobs
blue

>Bare shoulders
Not even a choice. Red.

>that hair
>long legs, probably with thigh highs

Blue

I feel like the tittymonster ends up being the main heroine in 'Beat' titles. And kind of boring too. Narika wasn't a whole lot better, but Haruka was pretty bland.

But with tits you get paizuri. Blue.

Hiro loves blowjobs and there is nothing better than making a beautiful but arrogant woman suck cock.

So Blue.

>>Mangagamer Most Requested Titles Survey Results
>Rance Series (1st)
>Evenicle (9th)
>Daiteikoku (19th)

How did Daiteikoku get in there? It's kind of the weakest of the Dai series

Also, previews for Rance X already!?

Two screenshots.

Daiteikoku is shit but its hyped in the west.

The west doesn't know how bad it is and only sees Loli hitler.

I guess Space WW2 with waifus appeal more to the West than....

Yakuza Wars or School Wars I guess

Expect the beta within 12 hours.

Isn't daiteikoku the one with the catchy theme song on youtube, and the most modern?

pic related, TGM's character CG

Basically its the latest in the Dai series yes, but it had problems like being overhyped yet weaker in gameplay

Advertisements boasted about one of the biggest amounts of text in an Alicesoft game, pretty characters and all that, but gameplay was worse than the previous two, and most of the text were filler

Looking forward to it.

Yellow was worst girl in BBH, so I'll bet that she's best girl in this game.

If there's no yellow though, then blue. Haughty types are the most fun to break and corrupt.

Narika was good in her kichiku routes in my opinion. Or maybe I just like breaking the tsun out of tsunderes.

Haruka was bland overall, I agree. Except in one of Narika's kichiku endings when she becomes completely vengeful; that was pretty cool.

I think blue will be better by default if they give her a haughty personality rather than a subservient bodyguard personality, but we'll see.

>Expect the beta within 12 hours.
IT'S HAPPENING

>delicious armpits
how is this even a contest?

How big will the download be?
Will battle animations be implemented? If not will they transform or stand still?

I'm guessing 60mb.
If there's no attacking sprite, they either disappear or use an old SR sprite based on the character number.

That's going to bug me. I'm guessing I can just use ALD Exporter to fix it?

Would you let her command your armies?

Strategists don't have to command armies

I'll try a fix that prevents a battle CG from changing if there isn't a second version. Should be easy.

With the mod, I assume since you are changing the sprites and code in general, it will have to be installed on a different copy of SR if you don't want to lose your original progress.

Also, will the mod's functionality be affected by current progress in SR or won't it matter. (Guessing the latter)

It will definitely have to be on a different copy of SR

I'm also quite hyped for this.

I haven't tested it thoroughly, but you should be able to revert. You just have to rename one of the assets files to Rance7GA an delete the new asset files, and then replace the modified ain file with the original and it should work. I wouldn't trust it though.
FFA doesn't, or at least shouldn't, depend on your progress. I took out the check for the clear game flag so you can play it without completing the main game first, of course.

Anyways, taking a break and watching Rance 01 episode 3 with my girlfriend. She loved the first two, gahahahaha.

She turns 16 on LP6, 17 on LP7. She's from GI1006 same year as Tillday. It's info from her RWN entry.

Yeah and she's clearly quite young in Quest

She's old enough for snu-snu

I don't remember if 03 explains it, but Alicesoft did answer previously on a Tomino-memo. The Leazas castle stands at where the demon king castle from Gele era was at. Noce being a loyal Gele follower knew about a secret passageway (likely magic / teleport) that would take them directly to the castle.

Which also explains the constant monster issues the castle suffers from

It doesn't have that much of a monster problem

Nan doing the art?

No way to tell from those screenshots

I'm curious. How much Rance has the average hanny played? Personally I've beat I and 02, I've played SR to death, and I'm currently working through III. What about everyone else?

Every game.

In terms of the thread most people who can read Japanese have played every game + some other Alicesoft games while most of the English only posters have done all the translated games + the other translated Alicesoft ones.

I feel like blue will look better in the end, but for now red.

SR,VI,02 and now i'm playing 03

I've played I - II - 02 - III - KR - 5D - VI - SR and currently doing Quest

On average, I would say VI - SR, maybe I -- II digest, and 3/4 hanny have played KR

Every game before Sengoku except 4.x.
Did read their let's play on the codex though.

Every translated game aside from the digests.

Every game, many of them multiple times

Every game but the original II (but then only played 02 with the old script).

02, SR, VI, 5D, KR.
I would play I and III but I would rather wait for the remakes to get translated. I'm saving IV as an emergency game when I really feel like I need to play a new Rance thing.

>I would rather wait for the remakes to get translated.
You are aware that that might not happen in the current decade right?

Tried I, 03, and Evenicle
Played KR
Finished 02, III, VI and VII

Just play III already.

I'll can wait for the next game. I tend to play Rance games in waves anyway.
I'll probably leave again after the beta for the mod is released.

five years then

Nah, Sengoku or Quest will probably be announced either in 2017 or 2018.

>MG releases Sengoku
>nobody buys it because everyone has already played it
>they never translate another Rance game
They better either bundle it with Quest or sell it for $10

I just wanted to say that I'm having a blast playing Rance VI. It's simple, mindless and I like it; I've been having problems playing AAA games for more than 2-3 hours before getting bored, and this is a great change.

Thanks for the FAQ and download links, anons.

VI is great fun.

So I'm trying to update my Rance characters list, will post it here in case anyone is interested and/or would like to help by pointing characters I missed.

I'm going to list characters by their first Chronological appearance from 01 to IX, with KR only (so far at least) and possible some other related game in the end.

For 01/I :

+Already on RWN:
Rance, Sill, Lia, Kanami, Maris, Menad, Jericho, Heidi, Klin, Necai, Reiheld, Murara, Keith, Otama Otoko, Leila

Willis, Miki, Nami, Patty, Millie, Yuki, Aki, Pulptenks, Yulang, Hikari, Lavendar, Hazuki, Yenyen, Niu, Wensding, Calpis, Bobz, I Com, Mi Lordring, Ninja Master, Luis, Jean, Hubli, Kongo, Kugutsu, Alexander, British, Arios, Perverted Mouse, ALICEMAN

Also the two bandits with a prison girl may still exist as character as you can see their back on the Colosseum audience CG.

The wiki has a list of all Rance characters, so use that if you're afraid of missing anyone.

You forgot Fuburi

How about doing it in thread for something to discuss before the mod release?

That's "Hubli". Yeah, I have no idea what his name is supposed to be.

If only there was Rance X news

We discussed to death those two SS already.

Played and completed:
I, 02, III (There's the Hanny King, but he's pretty much impossible), IV, 4.1, 4.2, 5D, STB

Played with things still to do:
KR, SR, VI

Other Alicesoft games:
BBA, Mamatoto, TT1, TT2, Kaeru nyo Panyon, Little Princess, Haruka

Which generated an extremely impressive posting speed last thread.

But what more can we derive from two images?

It might be easier to categorise characters by things other than game.

>Kaeru nyo Panyon, Little Princess
W-wow.

I want to see Am.

I use the list as a way to save the RWN character info, but like to populate it with all kind of characters already like in pic. But I haven't touched it in a long time and didn't properly update it after 03.

I played Little Princess on stream late last year and then Rance I to IV.

Might pick up from there with 4.1 and 4.2 all the way to Sengoku and then maybe the non canon route and KR.

For Rance: For other Alicesoft games I completed Daiteikoku, Blade Briders, Evenicle, Little Princess.

Played but didn't finish: Daibanchou, Escalayer Reboot.

Kaeru nyo Panyon is not that bad and I do love that kinda TRPG thing.

Helps that I managed to get a good number of correct maps the first playthrough, so it was easy to tell the right path.

Rance I
Rance 01
Rance II
Rance 02
Rance III
Rance 03
Rance IV
Kichikuou Rance (Played about 3/4)
Rance 5D
Rance VI (Currently playing. Played first in Japanese, this is my second run. I'm at epilogue)
Sengoku Rance
Rance Quest (Finished Quest before Magnum release. Stalled at Magnum)
Rance IX

Code for new characters has been put in.

To-do list:
Rename something like 70 images
Add SECRET features for athena and rouga
Test SECRET features
Update AL Church background to have Alice instead of Oz Tortoise or whoever
Check that I didn't make any glaring errors
Upload

every english release aside from Haruka

in jap

Rance 01
Galzoo Island
Evenicle
Rance Quest

Hyped

How about Crook for the AL Church background?

ALICE makes far more sense because 1. she's actually the head and 2. Crook probably isn't even a Bishop in LP 3

Isn't she supposed to be old?

She's basically an immortal undead.

Interesting
How did she do that?
Will she be one of Rance's woman?

She has 100% soul pollution so is removed from the soul recycling system.

>tfw Alkanese won't be in X
>even if she's in she won't have H

Good

So by being out of the recycling system you are immortal, didn't know that
I though that Rathowm is taking the soul if that were the case

No. Rathowm takes the soul if you are a devil worshipper and you die.

100% soul pollution takes you out of the system but there is an inbuilt safeguard which sparks suicidal impulses if someone starts approaching that.

She's really strong and talented too.

Someone who reached 100% soul pollution become real immortals, like Keikoku. As in, there is no way to kill them, only seal. Most become like mindless zombies or become mad. Only those with a very strong willpower are able to still keep their mind.

Does that make her a glitch?

So that's what is Keikoku, I see

>That level, those skills, former pope
I don't want to fight her or her organisation in-game

No because it wasn't an accident.

She's actively an enemy of the gods and a pope who went rogue so she's not high on the list of favorites anyway.

Keikoku is completely different. She's just cursed.

Keikoku was cursed by a Yokai. She's another thing entirely.