/vn/ - Visual Novels

>>154
Lonely Yuri is fucking great. It's a god damn masterpiece.
I kinda want to reread it now…

Currently reading Dies Irae.

It's something I've been building up to for a long time and was one of my goals when I started learning Japanese and so far it's living up to the hype. I'm really impressed with the way Masada's text reads here, it feels significantly more polished than Senshinkan and it strikes a chord with me in a lot of ways. Mercurius and Heydrich in particular have some absolutely incredible lines that just boggle my mind when I read them. Another thing that I feel that I should mention is how good the voice acting is, the entire cast does an outstanding job and it's seriously probably the best I've ever heard.

I'm only halfway through the second route so I can't speak on the plot too much but so far it's very interesting and seems to be building up to some really great stuff. I just hope it delivers. Will report back with more thoughts when I'm a bit farther.

Also in regards to all the talk about Grisaia, they've hired koestl (the original translator) to do the sequels. He's a great translator and really loves the games so it's nice to see him getting paid for the huge amount of work that goes into translating something as large in scale as the Grisaia series.

I feel that there's kind of a misconception about how difficult it actually is to translate eroge, it's really not like subbing anime. Not to diminish fansubbers' efforts at all, but the language in Grisaia is a *lot* more complicated than 99.9% of anime and its also extremely long. All together, the series ranks in at well over 6mb of text which is like, nearing a 1000 page novel.

About the 18+ material, I can pretty much guarantee a patch to add the sex scenes back in will come sooner rather than later, if SP doesn't release an 18+ version on their own. If need be I'll translate the h-scenes and have a patch thrown together, and then everyone can be happy.

>>146

Monobeno is great, I hope you enjoy it. I found myself very attached to the characters and emotionally invested in a lot of scenes, which was somewhat surprising because I just went into it for the porn. There was plenty of that, but I was also quite pleased with everything else as well. Looking back, my favorite part was probably the atmosphere. It's so relaxing and the OST is so fitting for all the scenes that it makes for a really nice experience.

They also did a fantastic job of worldbuilding. It made the reader feel like they were actually in a sleepy, rural Japanese village full of youkai. And how can you not mention the production values, they were seriously top notch.

I really hope Lose announces a new project in 2015, I'm sure Monobeno basically printed money for them and I'd like to see where they go next.

>>211

Yeah well like I said I wouldn't be too worried about it. Grisaia is popular enough that there WILL be a translation for the h-scenes.

Just finished with F/SN and had previously done KS

Recomendations? themes I like:
Fantasy, fights, romance, multiple heroines, slice of life.

Of course I don't expect to find all of that in a VN, just suggesting themes.
Strong dislikes: enforced playing order. I would have totally hopped right onto Unlimited Blade Works if I had had the chance. Not a huge fan of gore, either, but I'll take if it comes with the package

Thanks in advance, sorry for my autism

I just reread Kikogukai The Cyber Slayer using the remake.

Just as exciting as I remember. I like it a lot. I'd say that there's nothing significantly different from the remake, all of the important lewd is in there, just without private parts. The better art and additional CG's are worth it.

Just finished Eroge!

I'm kinda new to VNs and it was really good. I made a thread on /v/ so I'll just crosspost some of my thoughts here.

Only problem is, after playing it all I want out of life is to be a 20 something japanese flunky working at a struggling eroge company with four women and teaching them about sex.

I liked the way it kinda catered to everyone with a whole bunch of different fetishes/activities.It kept the characters really fresh. I'd like to know more nukige that do stuff like this, but I haven't found much so far. Still looking though. If anyone can recommend something, I'd really appreciate it I also have a soft spot for femdom, especially if it's gentle/loving

The only complaint I have is that they had two tsunderes, which hurt the variety a bit. I feel like I would have enjoyed the big boobed blonde girl's path more if she was all "ara ara" and motherly. Black hair is enough tsun for me already. Or maybe make the company owner loli who is supposed to be 32 fucking lol an actual christmas cake. Oh well, still great.

Iori is absolutely the best girl and I would literally cut off my left arm if I could have her as a girlfriend.

>>417
>after playing it all I want out of life is to be a 20 something japanese flunky working at a struggling eroge company with four women and teaching them about sex.
>not wanting a serious relationship based on emotional connection
If I could, I'd post 1000 costanzas.

I understand your pain of looking for new material for your fetish though. Even though KS was pretty mediocre, it made me realize I have a massive boner for amputees. Unfortunately very few VNs cater to my tastes.
It is suffering.

>>429
Did you miss the last spoiler? Sure, I'd spread the seed for a few weeks, you'd be an idiot not to. But I'd be more than happy forming an exclusive relationship after the fact.

Reading Monobeno, towards the end of the common route and I'm fucking loving it. The art, music, characters, atmosphere, everything is so nice.

Recently finished Bishoujo Mangekyou 2. I also love the art in that series. I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one but I'm looking forward to the next one, it looks pretty cool.

I finished KKK (https://vndb.org/v5844) over last weekend.

It was a pretty neat game once it was all said and done. It's relatively unorthodox compared to other eroge, in a lot of ways. For starters there are 4 protagonists with 4 heroines. The relationship statuses are pretty much set before the game. Each couple fits quite well and I had no complaints with this at all. Also in the sense that it's structure is pretty much completely backwards, but it all works out in the end. I don't really want to say anymore on that because it gets into spoiler territory, but it was a neat experience and it was all tied together very nicely.

The art in this game is absolutely amazing, it's probably the best I've seen in any eroge, and it makes reading this a real pleasure. It sucks you right into the 和風 atmosphere and doesn't ever dissapoint. Pic related.

The story is overall pretty insane with some very meta elements, especially in regards to the final boss who is pretty much the biggest piece of shit ever. I liked it quite a bit in the later parts due to it actually explaining a lot about the underlying system throughout the universe it's set in (Paradise Lost/Dies Irae/KKK) and elucidating on some points that I was somewhat confused on.

Overall I don't think it was anywhere near as good as it's predecessor (Dies Irae), but it still had a lot of really good moments with a few that were absolutely outstanding. The penultimate and final fights in particular delivered the hot blooded reality bending madness that I expect from Masada and that was a really nice payoff.

Definitely worth a read in my opinion.

>>504

Yeah the art is really something, I just cycle the CGs as wallpaper now.

For the record I found KKK to be much easier to read than Dies Irae. Not that's saying much since it's still very difficult and you have to read Dies first for the game to make any sense at all, but the people who go around posting screenshots of the 詠唱 making it out to be an indecipherable mess of Sanskrit and kanji spam are most certainly exaggerating it.

The final fight and some of the very end of Habaki/Rindou route are the only times that it ever really reached that same level of difficulty for me, come to think of it.

Finished Gothic Delusion. The presentation in it is really impressive. It's entirely CGs, the website boasts that there are over 300 of them, and most of them have elements that change as you advance. Even the more static scenes usually have some sort of filter to add an atmospheric effect to the shot, like shadows cast from clouds on the moon drifting across the scene.

The quality of the art is a little off at times, but considering that a lot of the images only remain on screen for a short time before changing to a different one I can understand not wanting to put as much effort into things that aren't going to be seen for more than a few minutes. This is the first commercial work Cura did all the art for so that might have been a factor as well.

The biggest problem is ultimately that it isn't finished. It basically ends once things get started. As such it's difficult to really pin down what was done well and what wasn't in some regards because of that. It wouldn't feel fair to complain about some of the characters being largely useless, as they're clearly intended for use later in the plot, but currently some of them don't get to do a whole lot. The protag is a big ol' hetare up until near the end though. I'd still say he was a pretty alright protag in general, but maybe I'm just building up a resistance to hetare characters. Pacing is also weird at times. I can only assume Lose spent so much money on this (it's fully voiced and there are a pretty large number of characters) that they couldn't actually afford to finish it. Hopefully they can bring themselves to spend some of the boatloads of money I have to imagine Monobeno must have made on a conclusion.

Anyway, it's listed as only being eight hours long on EGS, but I can't read that fast so it ended up longer. It's still pretty short and I would definitely say worth it if only for the presentation and Lo. Lo is cute as heck. I do hope it gets finished one day, but considering it's been five years…

Finished Princess Evangile and playing it's Fandisc for some much-needed Tamie love.

>>611

Protag was annoying in Fate but I felt UBW/HF made him better by making him deal/abandon his ideal's

Finished Bishoujo Mangekyou 3. I quite liked it. Cool setting, great art, and MC was entertaining.