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You could easily cut out Sasa and nothing of value would be lost. However, the way the game updates the main menu by "unlocking" silhouettes would be awkward if one heroine was missing. See pic for what it looks like blank.
Austin Powell
>Sasa is crap Well shit, she looked cute.
Tyler Lewis
Here's what it would look like with the silhouettes uncovered.
Colton Cruz
Konami a qt.
Connor Nguyen
warms my heart to know that awaiting them is a life of being pariahs, hated and scorned by everyone
Asher Adams
vndb.org/v20622 Hmm. Seems interesting indeed. I should research further at some point.
Luke Rivera
I have heard you can permanently fuck up your playthrough of KT without a walkthrough, is that true?
Evan Collins
Couldn't they just move somewhere else?
Colton Nelson
One thing Sasa does have going for her, is she has above average h-scenes, imo, because she has a wide variety of sexual positions. Compared to, say, Ushio who kinda got screwed with h-scenes; why did Ushio need multiple doggy scenes when there's no cowgirl/mating press?? Really disappointed me.
Samuel Long
Not 'permanently fuck up' so much as 'permanently miss scenes without any way to see them besides restarting'. You can only get the Hisui/Kohaku threesome scene, for instance, if you choose it the first time the option comes up, and if you don't then you have to restart the playthrough.
That said, here's a walkthrough, good luck.
Tyler Ramirez
WTF
Logan Wright
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i lost the scene fuck
Nicholas Jenkins
>all in nip WHY
Daniel Green
I'm confused, according to I was being trolled with regards to this being translated, but then there's this guy who seems legit. Is Mashimaro happening or not?
Jordan Price
Don't worry, if you get 99% completion, and are literally only missing that scene, you'll get a special "teach me ciel-sensei" scene where they give it to you. Also there's a hidden scene select that lets you watch any scene in the game regardless of whether you've seen it or not but I'll never tell how to access it.
Ryder Peterson
It's a Schrödinger translation
Parker Gomez
To start out with are you an optimist or a pessimist? This is important in regards to what answer you get.
Kevin Watson
For a moege it is pretty good - side characters that actually do something and have tons of sprites, excellent H and voice-work, etc. The untranslated eroge general on /jp/ was basically mashimaro general for a couple weeks in September.
Carson Brooks
Oh that's great i'm still fucking around trying to finish the first chapter only with the basic tips bu it's still nice to know that i don't need to replay various time to see everything
Hunter Sanchez
It could still be getting translated, but those pictures were not legit from a translation because the text was white, meaning they were made via the sprite editor Mashimaro includes in the Extra section.
Jaxson Rivera
>The college student has no route
Kevin Clark
I'm surprisingly enjoying hatsukoi 1/1. Part way on yukino, after I finished maya's route. Bit too many h scenes, and they're too vanilla, but I sorta like the characters and the voice work. Normally I do prefer more serious stuff like looseboy's VNs.
Chase Gutierrez
>mashimaro and sukisuki have a similar artstyle that i like >neither are likely to be translated or be released
life is suffering
Ethan Garcia
>Part way on yukino
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Cameron Morgan
What about the student council president, tsukiyono usagi? She seems relevant to my interests. I expected way more perverted stuff. I have low expectations on that with just one or two scenes left.
Oliver Edwards
>see this in the CGs What is this expression called? It's hot and I need more of it.
Jonathan Morris
Fucked silly.
Easton Carter
That panda looks sad :(
Chase Baker
The big flaw with Mashimaro, in my experience, is that the girl's route become a sex-fest too quickly. It starts out fairly slow until the confession scene, but after that you start reaching a point where the game literally becomes: H-scene -> short filler scene -> lead up to next H-scene -> H-scene -> rinse&repeat. There's a LOT of h-scenes, and it quickly overpowers what little plot the game has in favor of more ecchi time. So while the game is quirky and funny in the common route, the individual routes feel like 70% ero, 20% filler, 10% plot.
All in all, it's a great game for faps and group banter - although, once the "gang" has all gathered together they kinda fall into a rut of playing their role and become one-note in the process. So it does kind of drag on, once you've seen Raiha tease the MC for the 50th time, with Sasa apologizing profusely AGAIN, Kanon making some random usagi comment, and Ushio with her onee-chan stuff.
Brody Sanchez
"The worst MC in a VN"
Austin King
any donkan MC
Ayden Thomas
Rance
Ethan Wright
Taichi Kurosu.
Ian Lee
The "I'm denser than a black hole" MC
Ethan Perez
>not fapping to all of Tina's H-scenes
Alexander Price
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Ian Davis
Fuck pandas. Those pieces of shit won't even fuck to save their species on their own. They deserve to be extinct
Isaac Turner
I'm sure there's some really awful cheap obscure VN out there with a complete neanderthal of an MC.
My vote would go to the MC of Hatsukoi, he's by far the dumbest I've experienced. The problem is that he's inconsistently stupid, which makes his low moments that much more infuriating.
Benjamin Baker
>the individual routes feel like 70% ero, 20% filler, 10% plot. The only exception to this is Kanon's route, which, while still a sex-fest, has quite a bit more plot than all the other routes, due to being the main heroine.
Charles Brooks
Whoops, wrong pic. Here's the one I wanted to post.
Jonathan Morgan
The weakling MC who allows himself to be cucked by fat ugly balding sumbitches
Joshua Murphy
Then they shouldn't have made it 50 hours long.
Henry Cruz
You mentioned Tina? Here's the best Tina!
Dominic Martinez
I agree, but that's just the reality of eroge - there's a ton of filler. Almost every single VN could lose 1/2-2/3rd of the bullshit and turn out better, but then they couldn't charge as much as they do.
The longer the game, the more they can charge.
Nolan Hill
And lastly, the H-scenes in Mashimaro are actually very long. So not only do you have a ton of h-scenes, each one lasts for a good 20-30 minutes. So there's a ton of "ahh, dame, kyaa, kimochii" repeated over and over. Anyone who plans to translate Mashimaro should be warned, and I sincerely hope they've played the game beforehand to understand what they are getting themselves into.
Brayden Young
fucking hell, fags like him don't deserve qts and should get kicked in the nuts
Alexander Martinez
I want to believe this is an edit and there is no MC this retarded. I know it isn't but I need to believe it to preserve my sanity
James Anderson
every moege MC without exception
and Shirou ofcourse
Leo Nelson
> So there's a ton of "ahh, dame, kyaa, kimochii" repeated over and over.
that's what ctrl+h then leaving it to your editor is for
Christopher Phillips
is the fat rolling cat a metaphor for a philosopher rolling himself up sisyphus's mountain only to eventually die and roll back
Carson Bailey
I'm honestly shocked there's even people interested in translating Mashimaro given how recently it came out. What even prompted this to begin with?
Julian Barnes
It's a moege with a loli onee-chan
Brayden Nelson
One guy and his mission to spam post Ushio
Nolan Myers
Well, considering that's the reason I picked it up myself, I suppose I can't argue with that.
Jacob Perez
The hero we don't deserve
Zachary Gonzalez
>loli onee-chan
Kinda defeats the purpose.
Connor Hall
>loli >onee-chan did you mean imouto
James Hill
So a random JOP posting untranslated VN pictures caused someone to pick up said untranslated VN and start translating?
Interesting.
Hunter Perez
No, Ushio is actually a loli onee-chan. She's older than the MC by 1 year. And she's not really his older sister, she just plays the part so she can 'spoil' him.
Ethan King
Time to start spamming KKK
Robert Phillips
every day until you like it
Landon Reed
It'll most likely get dropped anyways. I wouldn't get your hopes high.
Brayden Jenkins
Very interesting.
Brody Ward
トロ顔 / torogao It's as big as "ahegao" in Japan but in the west it didn't catch on for some reason.
Angel Jones
>there are people in this very thread that can't appreciate loli onee-chans
Aiden Sanders
It seems that since the anime aired the steam version of DI got 12k more downloads so there is a chance actually
Justin Russell
Considering how Ushio crushed the official Mashimaro polls - both 1st and 2nd - apparently a lot of people liked the loli onee-chan. The 1st poll was strictly for the trial, the 2nd poll was for the full game. Here's poll #2.
Nicholas Martinez
This actually. Spam enough and you'll get someone interested.
Jaxon Sanders
fug. That's a big difference.
Lincoln Watson
#3 is a side character.
Dylan King
>Half-finnish last Worst girl can't be like Maya. Hope it's one autist's spam.
Samuel Rogers
>imouto with no route is more popular than half of the heroines
Jose Cox
Poll #1 was even more of a blowout for Ushio, see pic.
Hudson Clark
Torikori is like 50-60. She still looks good but she's got to have saggy tits under that kimono.
David Lewis
>japs >ever having good taste Never take a poll as an indicator of best and worst girl
Noah Parker
>Torikori is like 50-60.
So is Karula though.
Aaron Mitchell
Don't underestimate lolis.
Michael Jenkins
To be frank, I was honestly shocked Raiha was so low in the final poll. The fact that even Sasa beat her was too WTF for me. I think it might have had something to do with her MarySue-ness, as she and her uber-rich daddy often seem to save the day. The Japs probably didn't like seeing their pure waifus having to rely on some dirty foreigner.
My personal ranking are: Ushio > Raiha = Kanon >>>>> Sasa
Kanon is a ponkotsu heroine, so she's quite a bit like Kaoruko from Wagamaa except she's all about baking cakes and shit instead of seitokai business.
Ushio is a loli onee-chan who often fails at being an onee-chan in funny ways. For example, during one of her and MC's dates where she was leading MC around, someone pointed them out and them and called them a cute 'older brother and younger sister' pair, which didn't make her happy to say the least.
Raiha is literally Maya from Hatsukoi (same voice+attitude) except she's a foreigner and acts a bit more arrogant.
Sasa is a picture book author who habitually apologizes over everything. She is downright insufferable and I honestly don't know how anyone could vote for her unless they really liked her H-scenes.
Benjamin Morgan
What's the other loli about?
Isaac Fisher
No route so no point
Hunter Reed
Karura is in her early to mid 40s and doesn't wear granny clothes, so we can tell she's still fit. Also, giriyagina body types don't really change, so she wouldn't sag. Urthoriy is clearly getting saggy though because she doesn't have the muscle to support her like Karura does.
Jace Ross
Shizuka and her brother are side-characters who pop up quite a bit for comic relief. She's VERY precocious and openly flirts with the MC, calling him dear husband and what-not, openly says she wishes she was 10 years older, etc etc. She's basically weapons-grade moe.
See pic, one of the many, many times she calls MC her "danna-sama" aka husband. MC never takes her seriously though, and they are basically a boke & tsukkomi routine when you get down to it.
Parker Wood
Do the other girls get jealous in their routes because of her?
Alexander Wright
i guess fucking another woman?
Luke Butler
anyone care to explain the end of subahibi to a brainlet who didnt get it?
Jaxon Gutierrez
The girls do not get jealous over Shizuka, but they DO get quite jealous after you pick a heroine, but it doesn't last long. They don't dwell on it but every now and then they make a snide comment about being jealous or envious of heroine X, wishing they had a bf, etc etc.
Cooper Jenkins
All of humanity has one soul that sees events through different perspectives, the world has already ended and time is looping, Ayana is a supernatural being who retains her memory when time loops.
Jace Smith
Yuuma from Hatsukoi 1/1. He brings down the entire VN with his stupidity, ranging from "what? these things on your chest, they're getting hard? naples?" to being unable to make a fucking sandwich.
Well, it's still a VN I really like because it has Maya, at least.