Visual Novel Translation Status (30/07/2023)

Welcome to this week week VNTS Review, and for this week since we have Venus Blood Gaia release, I changed 'Gaia' into 'Persona' simply because in Gaia we have Tarot Motif, which if we know Persona series is the category of personae (Plural form of persona) that the player could get. Although there won't be personae in Venus Blood though as interesting as it is, but instead the player will insert Persona Arcana and Shadow Arcana to the general unit. Anyway for this week, let's just say that we have a number of releases compared to the last week, so in theory this should be an interesting week. That said, my interest here is only toward Gaia release in which it's still has interesting gameplay. Overall, this week here is more or less another above average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it.

Frontwing released PC version of Chronos Rebellion, which as we know is their failed Grisaia gacha. From what I see at least there's some original story in it, and the art is still nice looking. Go get Chronos Rebellion if you want to see more Grisaia even after the trilogy and Phantom Trigger eight-parter, and have fun. We also have Radiant Tale otome VN release, and from what I see it's about the female MC who work in an unsuccessful circus troupe (Or rather an organization called CIRCUS) wishing for their next performance to be successful. Unfortunately though, Idea Factory here is not making the PC version of this so you can only play it on console (Switch). Go get it though if you have Switch and been waiting for this.

Cherry Kiss released their nukige (The one that parodied Super Smash Bros), and well feel free to play it if you interested with the nukige. Speaking about nukige, Shiravune just announced they'll release the third game of their sadistic nurse nukige (Nope Nope Nope Nope Nurse), which tell the story about the poor male who got intensive care in a hospital full of sadist nurses. Not my taste, but at least it has some veteran eroge VA. Oh yes, it'll be released on October 13th later in case you wonder on when it'll be released. Shiravune also just released Kara no Shoujo (Translated as very non-indicative The Shell) on Steam, with the version is HD version. Once again I still not change my mind that it's redundant release, especially with the patch that can insert Mangagamer translation into HD version on top translated the additional scenes, but at least people can now purchase it on Steam if you find purchasing Japanese version of it is quite bothersome.

Some fans apparently like nukige Shabura Rental, and the fans did show their love by released the full translation patch of it. From what I see, Shabura Rental is about the MC who is live in his older sister dormitory and quite lucky that no residences of it are not mind of the MC because they want younger brother. As the MC luck is not ended yet, all of the residences (Including his own sister) are willing to help with the MC sexual need. Go get the VN if you want big breast nukige, and have fun.

For the rest of fan translation, we have Shin Koihime Musou is at 67% edited, Akagoei FD is past three quarter (77.01%) edited along with 40.23% in QA, Chu Singura is at 29.88% translated, Tsuma Netori is at halfway translated, Kud Wafter 18+ version is at 43.2% translated, 981 out of 2499 Fate/Extra CCC main scripts are edited, and H2O is at 30.7% in QA. For the last fan translation update, finally we have all of the sex scenes from Aojashin has been translated, so in case you hold back from playing it because the lack of sex scenes now you can do it. While I know that Aojashin sex scenes not in line with what the author want, I still say at least the reader should have the choice to skip the sex scenes instead of just removed it altogether. If anything else, now with Aojashin sex scenes has been restored, at least there shouldn't be any issue if the author want to localize his all age works. Also note that there's some typo in the patch, so the translator will fix it in the future.

After several times of delay, finally we have Sugar Sweet Temptation released by Love Lab. For the premise itself, is about the mysterious MC Crow who came into the town after Meru who is the granddaughter of an older baker wishing to the star, and turned out has amnesia. As for Meru, the reason on why she make a wish to the star is because she's need some help after her grandfather injured which render his bakery closed down. Seeing Meru really need help, Crow decided to help with his knowledge of bakery. It should be mentioned that while it has Kirikoi writer and the mystery in regard of Crow's memory, obviously it's far more lighter than Kirikoi. Go get Sugar Sweet Temptation if you've been waiting for it, and have fun.

Last but not the least, we have Ninetails manage to release Venus Blood Gaia on time. For the premise, we have the world where it has the Holy Empire that view anything else against their belief as heretic with them will do their best to get rid of it. Our MC Theofrad did work very hard to do the research on the alternative energy called ether, although the Empire did view it as heretic which obviously lead Theofrad to fight against the Empire because the Empire are about to crush Theofrad. As per Venus Blood MC, obviously he'll make good use of the tentacles to get his job done. For the gameplay, unlike in Frontier and Hollow this time we have dungeon defense gameplay with the party tried their best to repel the intruder. While I did initially think that it's not as much interesting as previous translated Venus Blood, in the end it's still an interesting VN on it's own. Go get Gaia if you want to play more Venus Blood, and have fun.

That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.