Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as for this week I combined 'Ritter' from Eden's Ritter and 'Chronicle' from Evenicle 2 so we have 'Ritter Chronicles' as this week VNTS Review because we have those two announced. Another reason for the title is that I parodied Valkyria Chronicles, in that apparently both that game and Eden's Ritter have the setting place on German although it's very loose at that (In Valkryria Chronicles Germany was supposed to be an imperial). As for this week, what I can say that it's quite an exciting one with all of the announcements and updates that happen here, while at the same time I don't think that the release is not as big as the announcements that we have. In any case, let's see what I can write for this week as well.

Back at last Friday we have Sekai give some updates, and for the updates we have Slobbish Princess was at 90% translated (I guess Sekai really aim for simultaneous release), Kimagure was at 60% translated, Nekopara 4 was fully translated along with halfway edited, and Nine Episode 3 was fully translated and edited and currently they started the QA (Hopefully it mean that Sekai will release it at this year). From Sol Press we have Nukitashi was at 26% edited, and Irotoridori was fully edited with the current progress was move into programming (I just hope that Sol Press will find a way to get around FAVORITE pesky engine). From JAST we have two exact release date announcements which obviously very good, and for the releases we have Shoujo Dominance release will be at tomorrow (22nd) and Flowers Autumn release will be at 30th later. What I can say is that JAST should be announce Flowers Winter as the last part of tetralogy if they want a complete release, although when they'll announce it I don't know.

Fan Translation

For the update of fan translation section, it's in regard of Matsuribayashi in that finally we have the patch that will add both of PS3 graphic and voices to the Steam version of it (The post if you want to download the patch). So if you want to play the original finale of Higurashi and yet you prefer to wait because the graphic is not quite up to nowadays standard, you can play it and have fun. With this now we have the original Higrashi available with voices and PS3 art, and all that left is the side stories which currently being worked on. Speaking about Higurashi side story, currently we have Miotsukushi Ura was at 71% translated. For the next plan, apparently they'll release the patch along with new fragments from PS3 version at September later, so let's wait and see.

For the rest of the updates from fan translation, we finally have Majikoi A-4 starting the translation with 8 out of 62 scripts was translated, 14,945 lines of Pure x Connect are translated along with 7,808 lines are edited, Loverable was at 89.13% edited, Taimanin Yukikaze 2 was at 85% translated, and Ginharu was at 65% translated with Yuzuki's route was at 15.94% translated. Lastly, we have surprise update from Harugi in that finally we have some progress on Branch after more than half a year, and with new updates currently we have it was at 56% translated with Branch route was at 20% translated along with some updates on Branch heroine routes as well (Misaki's route was at 4% translated, Sumika's route was at 6% translated, and Yuna's route was at 5% translated).

From Alka we have an unfortunate news, in that they need to delay Miagete FD release because they need to resolve some game breaking bug that was apparently happened in Hinami's route. No much to say other hopefully they'll be able to get around this and manage to have this released. We also have Reflection Blue translation was going smoothly with the current progress was already past a quarter (26.9%) translated with Umi's route was fully translated, and they started to work on Miki's route in which currently it's been at 9.4% translated along with they also have some progress with Shizuku's route with the progress was past halfway (54.2%) translated. That's all for fan translation section here.

Other

We have Trap Legend release, in that it could be summarized as BL VN with the hero dressed in a very cute outfit. Not exactly my interest here, but if you like BL or trap heroes (I prefer trap MC with the heroines) or perhaps both feel free to get the VN and have fun. We have a surprise announcement from Shira VN in that they manage to get a dark nukige from Waffle which as we know is one of Mangagamer's partner, and the dark nukige in question is Eden's Ritter. As for the premise, we have a cowardly priestess who decided to draw out the power in order to fight the evil and the power was supposed to be very strong. Although of course there's a catch to the power, in that the power will cause the priestess to be quite horny the longer she surge with power, and obviously the enemy will took the advantage of it causing the dark sex scenes which to say will be quite a lot. We also have the release date for this, and it'll be at 31st later.

Fruitbat announced the VN that was supposed to be the last work that was translated by the late Conjueror, and the VN in question is turned out to be Jiangshi x Daoshi in which it's a doujin VN with the place setting was at China. The premise is gong like we have MC who work as an assassin who already retired, and one day he encountered a man eating monster. Luckily he was saved by a mysterious wandering dao priestess, and from there both of them are supposed to work together in order to facing some unknown hardship. Currently we have the first and second episode available at Steam, and the third episode will be available in the future at this year. For the info, this VN was previously banned in Steam because of some violent scene or something like that. Feel free to try the VN if you interested, and have fun.

Other than Waffle, we also have another Mangagamer's partner decided to change the partner in order to release the translated VN by themselves, and the partner in question is Alicesoft. As for release, it's Evenicle 2 in that it's been one of the VN that people been wanted to translate the most (At least if we look at Mangagamer 2019 survey result). Alicesoft also assure us in that while they decided to localize Evenicle 2 by themselves, Mangagamer still responsible for Rance VNs release in the future. What I can say about Evenicle 2 here would be while I did say that we didn't really need for the sequel seeing that Evenicle is complete enough, I'm still interested with it if only for more gameplay VN and more importantly more Alicesoft VNs. The premise is like we have a MC (Alex) who instead aspired to be knight in order to marry his two childhood friendlike Aster, Alex himself is someone who have blessing to be able to cure someone with a deadly disease through his body fluid and decided to start the journey in order to help more people. For the plan, Alicesoft will release the demo that will cover up to Chapter 1 at Steam later in the following weeks, so for now we can only wait in regard of this.

That's all for this week VNTS Review and sorry for being late here. See you next week.