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Hi everyone! I recently finished putting together the Unhack 2 digital artbook, so I wanted to show it off today. Hope that's cool . Unhack 1, Cursed Sight, Without Within—just about all of my titles come with a digital artbook available as an add-on. Unhack 2 will be no different, so let’s take a sneak peek at what we can expect to see. First, the artbook will include your standard set of character sprites, CGs and backgrounds. Each image will come coupled with a brief commentary on the thought processes that took place during development. The Unhack 2 artbook will also feature a power chart that shows how capable each programmer and AI is in combat. A² always says she is the strongest AI, well, we will see about that, because characters from Unhack 1 are also included in this book. Players have mentioned they wished these artbooks would include early sketches used during development. I want to honor that request, so Unhack 2’s artbook will feature behind the scene sketches shared between Rosuuri and me. Thank you everyone !

Aaaaand I'm locking this before it turns into the usual fest.

This VN includes a Phoenix Wright reference. It is automatically a superior VN.

Well, if the tournament is to determine which VNs all westerners want translated most, "anything Type-Moon" is a pretty fair winner, their fan base unmistakably dwarfs all others, to the extent where I have no doubt in my mind that both Mahoyo and Fate/Extra CCC have more demand than even the seeded ringers like Baldr Sky and DIes irae. And they'd probably sell way better, too (if CCC was ported to PC, that is).

Just a heads up, translators will very rarely just pick up a translation project because someone asked them too. A fan translation takes a long time and a great deal of effort, and it's something people usually do because they honestly want the game translated for others to enjoy. It is rarely something they do just because a person told them to. They are much more likely to pick up something that motivates them on a personal level.

hello my name is Ken Ken! so i am kind of a beginner at making visual novels and like playing visual novels!! my first visual novels can be found at BASS but i warn you that they are terrible since they were my first ones... anyways, about me now!! i am 17 years old and have a lot of ideas and have no idea what to do with all of them (which led me to making visual novels). i really like guro and i also love horror. i am in love with yandere characters and even characters that are just straight up psycho. um!! i think that is all that you all need to know for now...

So, the trial and op is out for moonstones newest game, written by Kure that also wrote princess evangile. And holy shit are they trying something new with this one mystery, horror, superpowers and everything, this is gotta be a total hit and miss tbh, havent seen Kure write stuff like this before. The op is really good though but im pretty biased on it since my favorite japanese group Denkare wrote it , anyway, is this gonna be good, are you hyped for it?, do you hope that mangagamer is gonna pick this up? Im totally gonna try the trial out later for sure.

I was going to post this yesterday but lol IPB Anyways This went exactly like the last week's update, life sucks, I know Sigh Nothing much else, here's hoping that next week will go a bit better, but who knows? I certainly don't. Progress: 'Till next week, unless the whole world explodes now - Arcadeotic

I like NVL format. I enjoy reading books as well, so I am not afraid of the walls of text. But Nasu tend to write tons of text, which have no meaning, not adding anything to story and just extend the time. I think if remove all the repetitive pointless cooking works + similar descriptions of same places from Fate - it would be at least 1/3 smaller and indeed more enjoyable. Same for Tsukihime "I am lying in the bed whole day, another day where I go into school, speak with this and that and come back home" (all these sentences go for 5-10 minutes, of course). So it is not the format to blame, it is writer who do not know when to stop. Like, Saya no Uta is also NVL. And it works great this way. I think it would work much worse in traditional "tons of same character sprites over 3 same backgrounds" style. And immersion would be nowhere near the one it have in NVL format.

Confession: I also have a very deep case of general lazyness and lack of ambition. The only things I ever work hard toward are practical jokes and getting easy attention.

Hype! Also, the first thing written on the screen was "Did why dead gone?"... Engrish or am I missing something?

Hey, I might be wrong, and it could very well be general laziness, but that doesn't explain your lack of enjoyment from things that use to make you happy. You've also expressed certain strong feelings that can't be easily dismissed either. About your therapist, do you tell him the same things you tell us in this thread? Any individual in any kind of analysis field won't be able to tell if there's something wrong with you if you're not giving the full story. If you haven't done so yet, I'd highly encourage you to ask your therapist if you're going through depression. That way he can ask some clarifying questions and make a better analysis of your situation. And before your ask him, do a little bit of research on depression so you can explain your situations to him a little better. Contrary to what you might think, you actually can be happy while you're depressed. I'm the same way when I talk with most of my friends about stuff. The thing is, it is not normal to be in any kind of despair, because life really isn't that bad. When I was at a younger age, I had a certain sense of urgency when it came to studying, and I was always proactive in extracurriculars (even when I didn't have to be). I was on the fast track to success until I hit a speed bump. It wasn't until after I experienced what I did in the Army that I started losing motivation and my sense of self. I remember you saying how you use to excel in your studies before your parents stopped helping you. And they were right in doing so; by the time you get to high school, you should be mature enough to do things on your own. It's not an unusual idea at all. If you're failing now, it's not because your parents stopped helping you, and it might not even be your fault. There's a good chance that something else is barring you from progress. I found a thread started by a guy with a similar situation to yours. Give it a read. There are some insightful comments here that should help to improve your judgment on this. https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/comments/24loeh/part_of_me_thinks_im_depressed_part_of_me_thinks/

Yes but now we can sit back and look at the TM fans tearing at each others to figure out if they want Mahoyo or CCC. And they're pretty mad:

I had to use Edge so I could post on the forums during the chaos. Let me tell you, Edge is fucking awful.

Using the ACP on IPB4, allegory: What's funny is Kaguya apparently made more significant changes without asking anyone before and that doesn't seem to have broken shit. NB is out of luck

This thread is pretty pointless. Fan translators won't translate a visual novel that somebody else wants them to and will want to translate something they themselves would like to. Translating something the translator doesn't like will end up in slower progress and probably a weaker translation.

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing well . Unhack 2’s script has gone through several rounds of revisions, and after receiving player feedback, I have decided the story needs further editing. I have passed the stage where I desperately try to please everyone, but in this case, almost everyone has raised the same issues, so I have to address them. Previous games like Cursed Sight and Without Within are ultimately about the relationships between people. I am used to handling that. The link between human and AI, however, provides a new challenge. Unhack 2 is longer and more complex than the first game, which means more opportunities for mistakes as well, and I have definitely made plenty. I will allocate an extra month or so to revisit the story several more times. Nobody likes delays, especially not the person who has been staring at this script for the past six months, but I am already thinking of solutions to the problems raised by readers, and the potential excites me. Rather than bragging about how awesome this game is going to be, once in a while, I want to share my struggles and failures with you. Not for long, though. I am heading back to work, so please look forward to the result. Thank you!

Sweet baby Jesus, I can post again. Praise the sun.

Well, NVL works the best to horror-oriented stories. It gives better immersion, and we all know that things we're affraid the most, are the ones we don't see and don't know. Imagination over sprites, everytime. Also in fight oriented VNs, nvl could be a really good way to tell how fight looks. That work really, really good in Tsukihime. But SOL elements were soooo dull. On the other hand, moe stuff, or comedies are much, much better in AVL.

I like TM's writing to some extent, though at some point I just get tired of it, not like it doesn't happens with other great works anyway. I find it kinda lazy to just dump everything on the artwork, specially since sprites are heavily limited when you compare them to other visual mediums such as manga. Dozens of well written paragraphs will make things clearer than a line stating the character's current mood coupled with the same facial expression used throughout the whole story. If the MC's loved one was killed by the antagonist right in front of him, I want more than just a line or two stating that he's angry and the same angry sprite that was used when someone stole the chocolate he was saving for the weekend. If the visuals weren't so limited, I surely would think more highly of ADV. Still, I love books so NVL will probably be my favorite forever. Now that I think about it, Quartett might be a good example of good "ADV", maybe I should try reading it to form a better opinion on the matter.

A victim of feature creep maybe? I was a little surprised by the decision to make this entry paid after the first two were free.

Confession: Our neighbor's kitty left us a dead rat outside of our house. She likes us Ahh, yeah, I had that yesterday. Had to go to work in the rain and everything. Enjoy~

I went into the first game expecting a cakewalk, and got my arse handed to me over and over again. It's a pretty serious little strategy game.

Mahoyo and CCC are supposed to be the best things Nasu wrote (but ofc that comes from english jp readers who are pissed off at the english TM fanbase).

I don't think most of the people clamoring for them have even tried them either. They have played Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night and based off of their love for those VNs, they want more Type Moon over here.

The hype is pretty real; Fate/Stay Night is well worth your time. It's standing at #7 overall ranking at VNDB, and from my (admittedly limited) experience, it deserves a ranking around there.

UPDATE My Lucy walkthrough has been finished. I covered literally everything there is to unlock in the game. Hope you find it helpful. HUGE SPOILERS:

At last, I finished Sekien no Inganock. It's difficult to describe my present feeling. On the one hand, I felt frustation (chapters 5, 6 & the final) and weariness (almost as repetitive as Comyu...oh WAIT ! what a coincidence ! Another Ixrec translation...). But on the other hand, this VN was clearly magic (and deserves the word masterpiece) : Ooishi Ryuuko's work (art) is gorgeous, the OST is fantastic, the main characters are unforgettable (Ati ), the atmosphere is unique and bewitching (because of this, I want to discover Lovecraft) and I really, really love most of the plot...even the erotic scenes (To my mind, it's nothing hentai) are good 9/10 (Who says I'm a Hard Masochist ? ) Edit : Now It's Kara no Shoujo 2 and/or Gahkthun

Just wanted to mention I've fixed a bug in the "vaconv" tool from RLDev (used for converting from and to the proprietary .g00 image file format of the RealLive and SiglusEngine game engines). The bug is that if a .g00 file contains multiple images, vaconv places these over each other in the resulting .png, leaving only the last image visible and the others obscured partially or completely behind it. This typically makes editing impossible. Some people have found a workaround involving Crass, screenshots, manual image stitching and RealLiveMax (the all-Japanese RealLive SDK)... But this is a quite involved process. Instead I fixed vaconv so it properly places the various images of a .g00 below each other in the output .png, allowing an editor to change all of them without the manual hassle mentioned above. (And by "fixed", I mean "rewrote from scratch in C++", since I gave up on trying to compile the original OCaml code after half a night) This new tool is named "vaconv-cpp.exe" to distinguish it from the original "vaconv.exe" in RLDev. ("cpp" for "C++") Example with a file from Hanasaki Workspring: vaconv.exe _config_system_hscene_select_btn.g00 vaconv-cpp.exe _config_system_hscene_select_btn.g00 Download (includes complete source code as a VS2015 project). VS2015 runtime is required.

Vibrantly colored eyes is definitely something that can really catch someone's attention. Some of my favorite characters in anime/VNs/mangas/games have those brightly colored eyes that stand out. A great suggestion.

To be honest, I thought his wall of text of hate, was unbiased and detailed review of the whole thing. The game was great imo but not perfect. It is also an acquired taste, and filthy casuals can't appreciate it if this is their first time reading a steampunk work or they have only read a handful of VNs. But truth be told, I love this VN just because its h-scenes are very unique to be told from the female perspective and they don't ever mention "pussy", "dick", "cum" like 100 fucking times.

Is it done yet? Is it done now? Have you finished it now? Will it be done tomorrow? Was it done yesterday? Hello? Nah, keep working at your own pace man, if someone starts pestering you just tell me and I'll get them がんばれ！

Fuwa seems to be quite unstable..sometimes it will load and others it won't prompting to try again later..sems things are breaking left and right and being fixed at the same time. At least now i can type and see my messages and notifications again as before i couldn't unless i used Edge which sucks major ass. Hopefully things will be better or back to normal soon enough, i know Tay and everyone is giving their all to fix it

This helped me to understand the freaking "ゆく" that I constanlty read and hear in lyrics all the time http://forum.jisho.org/discussion/comment/4520#Comment_4520 this is for for the use of じゃない LINK which can be a bit tricky at first EDIT: I will start posting some links that were useful to me when I remember them

I know what you mean! I have a hard time with how some people perceives things, too. Being Japanese/Korean, it can be a bit confusing. Culture differences and all. It can't be helped. No problem! Best of luck with Bloody Chronicles. I have also sent you a private message of encouragement. Hope it helps. I plan on backing your project when the funding is available!

Wait, wait, wait. I just saw Madoka is on your list. That show is one of my very favorites (somewhere around #3 overall?), particularly because the ending is so complete, but I'm surprised it's enough of a happy ending to merit your list. Amazing ending, yes, but... for me, at least, it's incredibly bittersweet. At any rate, I looked through stuff and found one more worth adding: Welcome to the NHK. Great show, although a little bit dark at times, with a very satisfying happy ending.

there is nothing new there, is like saying that age has a big community supporting it and a huge fan base here in the west (if making more than a million dollars wasnt enough proof already), some people even liked the anime and that's a lot to say... If I were Type-moon I would kickstart the shit out of all my games xD yes it would be a shitty thing to do but hey why not, everyone else is doing it...

Sadly season 2 of the anime leaves out everything that was good about the plot. There was a whole arc dedicated to the locket and how it functions and it gave you a ton of hints on what's to come and what you should expect. Instead the anime was pandering so much to Chitoge fans that there was no room for anything else. Haru's arc, one of the BEST in all of Nisekoi was completely overlooked and skipped over in season 2, just to give you the bullshit open ending with Chitoge. Haru, in the manga, is the perfect compromise between Chitoge's tsundere personality and Onodera's bashfulness, and reading her arcs brought me utmost joy. Watching the anime though, all I got was disappointment and more disappointment. Make no mistake, Chitoge will undoubtedly win in the end, and the recent manga chapters are a clear indication of that, but at least in the manga all characters had their fair share of arcs whereas in the anime it was all about Gorilla-ge after season 1, and it was a damn shame to witness. I fear season 3 won't touch upon all the important stuff season 2 skipped over and Nisekoi will turn into a mess of filler episodes that make little to no sense. Nisekoi is a series that grabs your attention in a very peculiar way. Hate it or love it, most people end up sticking with it just to see who will win, but right now the anime is clearly biased towards Chitoge and I fear that will impact Nisekoi's perception in the future. Well, I may just be salty because my favorite Nisekoi girl already got rejected, but I think it's pretty common sense among fans that the 2nd anime season was a huge disservice to the series overall. If you're expecting some really crazy twist in the resolution though, I'm afraid to inform you Nisekoi did things in a pretty generic way: rejected girls one by one, giving each of them about 2 chapters of closure.

Hello Ken Ken I hope you enjoy it here... There's so much "activity" here at fuwa, you'll love it. And you get free sweets Please, don't be afraid to hop into fuwa~

There were no rules against sharing the poll so I don't see the problem. I did want White Album to make it further, but Mahoyo is another VN I want to play. Both are being translated and both have problems with those translations which is why I'd like to see both, but the likely outcome is we'll either see Mahoyo, Dies Irae, or Muramasa win the tournament. Sorry @CeruleanGamer, even if Baldr beats Muramasa, it wouldn't be able to handle the Type Moon fans or Dies Irae.

I mean, the whole thing is completely fine considering the rules but still... TM is kinda unfair.

I think a lot of long time followers of the tournament would constantly harass Conjueror if that happened based on the last match of White Album 2 vs. Mahoyo.

The server is running at about 60 times more load than it can handle. Something is seriously fucked up.

what you mean are long term choices, I haven't played a vn like that, most of the time a choice you pick will have some kind of effect really soon not at the end of the novel specially with a common long route, like picking something at the beginning and after 20 hours of reading watching a different result depending on that choices. I can't think of any vn like that i'm sure there is .

Welcome to the forums! glad to have ya.