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I checked with FuwAccounting, and it appears that I have, indeed, made the prerequisite amount of drivel posts to qualify for the 500 mark. As such, tradition dictates that this thread be borne into the world. Being an old man (rivaling @Rookefor the title of Geezer) I clearly love tradition. First off, if I don't mention you specifically, don't take it personally. I don't dislike anyone here and your non-mention is likely due to my receding memory. Or you just didn't make enough of an impression. It's almost the same. (Those are totally not the same.) Secondly, this thread is here for you to roast me, ask me questions, tease me, taunt me, etc. Anyhow... checking out the boards here has become something I look forward to daily, as you get older it gets even harder finding people in the surrounding zip codes who share your interests. The internet is great because it allows me access to you guys and gals. For that, I thank you for your continued existence. @CeruleanGamer- thanks for letting me copy/modify your posts when I was feeling unoriginal... or at the very least not killing me over the interwebs for it. @Flutterz- I believe you were the only one to actually email me when I offered way back in the day. And you continue to listen to me while about FGO gacha. I still say you should shave your head and grow a goatee. @OriginalRen- I enjoyed the couple times you live-fed the new posters and stuff you ordered. Still waiting on the poster I bought from you. Not mad. @Kaguya- Hey, you put up with me being an idiot, so you should at least get mentioned. @Jade,@Rose, @Maxel, @Mugi- The FGO thread crew that deal with me the most besides Flutterz. @12kami- who would keep my silliness alive. There's a lot more... I'll make a part two later. Or inquire inside. Anyways, thanks for helping me get through the day.

The fair fight you call for isn't gonna happen because in order to be fair both versions would need to have an equal amount of marketing, and AA versions go to Steam so they have an overwhelming advantage. The reason why AO versions have modest sales at best is because information about them only circulates within certain communities that, in total, amounts to a vanishingly small pool of buyers compared with the Steam market and the gaming market at large. The only ways to get out of that slowly expanding but still fairly small group is to either go to Steam, which an AO version can't do, or exist in the larger gaming press, which so far has superbly ignored visual novels, especially AO ones. What Mangagamer shows though, is that it's very possible to make profit out of AO titles that only sell to a niche audience. Mangagamer doesn't sell a lot but sells at a decently high price and enough to keep running, whereas Steam dictates a race to the ever-smaller prices which completely deregulates normal price practices and perceptions and probably endanger those who can't hope to sell billions of copies even at a small price. In other words Sekai Project should probably be able to make some profit out of AO versions. Whether they want to or not is up to their strategic choices. But it's not comparable with selling AA versions anyway, the market's fundamentally different.

I actually think "romance" is an essential part of Higurashi. And I don't think it's strange that nearly every Visual Novel has some romance in it. After all, they are stories about humans and humans seldom work without emotions like affection for each other.

I've waited almost a year for this. Finally. I'm sure it'll be glorious. Now then. This year, I'll celebrate Easter by sharing my genuine and honest opinion of many Fuwanovel members. Mostly those I happen to remember. You can also request it yourself if I don't mention you by default. A fair warning, whilst I don't often think ill of someone, there are some I might. A thousand apologies. Besides that, I also have a little game (some of you may remember it, I tried it our last year, but due to circumstances, was unable to finish it). I've updated it a little (though most characters are still out of date), and this time I do have the solutions! If you've been pinged in this post, you're probably in there, unless you aren't. Can you find yourself? Each image represents a member (or two). Can you guess them all? GUESS WHO: Anything you say about this must be in spoilers. Many things can be seen as clues, so I'm adamant about this. Besides that, onwards to opinions. These are in a brainstorm thoughtspill format. Not coherent. Too bad. For you. OBJECTIVE OPINIONS OF FUWANOVEL PLEBS: Most of those people are in the egg. Some people in the egg aren't there. This all said, here's the solution, but be sure to at least try first. Even though some are pretty much impossible to guess. EGG SOLUTION: Now I'm off to have lunch and realise I forgot something really important. Happy Easter, people!

Nobody quoted DEARDRPOPS yet? omg

One Mr. Insemination, Lord of Escalator Subs or something of that nature, exhibited great progress in his undertaking of this translation (which some sources that I cannot name say went from Chinese to English), and in a spree of unlimited magnanimity, even went so far as to bestow upon us the partial patch of which you spoke. Thereafter he endeavored to translate some other routes, and, as it would appear, completed all but that of one Mr. Miu. Presumably, Mr. Insemination then came to the prompt realization that Mr. Miu does, in fact, hold fascist inclinations, and thus decided that it would act against the interest of his people to disseminate this particular aspect of the production. However, the other routes remained complete according to the progress page, and after a period of prolonged unrest, he announced that these would be made available to the public on one Mr. April 1st of 2016, in the year of our one Mr. Lord Jesus. Thus, it would seem that you have only a few days to wait to see whether the truth of his proclamation shall manifest itself.

That doesn't add up, you got an order of magnitude wrong here. Most people read between 150 and 400 words per minute. 10 000 words should take you between 25 minutes and an hour. Even an unskilled reader wouldn't be much slower. To give a figure easy to picture, an average book in english would have around 400 words per pages (around 40 lines with an average of 10 words per lines). That of course varies a lot depending on font, language, format, etc but let's settle with 400, 10 000 words make a 25 page "book". The 40 000 words limit Rooke mentioned would make 100 pages, which sounds reasonable. A 10 hour long VN is more likely to be, for the "average" reader (which is only a statistical entity, the dispersion is large), the equivalent of a 150 000 words / 375 pages novel. Visual novels are REALLY long. Of course the comparison is not very good, because I'm using a lot of averages and assumptions, the method of delivering the text is different, etc...

Congrats Now hopefully your luck in FGO starts to surface soon

So I finished G-senjou no Maou after a pretty long time reading it. (No real spoilers here, but just in case I'll put it in a spoiler tag:) Anyways, now that I'm done with this I will take a small break from long titles and wait for Tokyo Babel to come out. Currently reading Lucy - The eternity she wished for. Haven't gotten far, but I am really enjoying it.

Nah you arent discussing. Youre insulting those who enjoy the game. Leave out all your gaijen shit talking and you'd be perfectly fine

It would be more weird if you loved Finland after visiting it

?????????? good shit go౦ԁ sHit? thats ✔ some good??shit right??there??? right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self ? i say so ? thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ? ?? ?НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??Good shit grats val

Hello guys, I have great news... The visual novel One Thousand Lies is OUT!! You can download for free from Itch.io: https://keinart.itch.io/one-thousand-lies There's also the official website: http://onethousandlies.weebly.com Of course, is totally free. I hope you guys enjoy reading One Thousand Lies.

I'll exchange for video games But yeah~ in case anyone's wondering. I'm not dead, just been busy with the 3D world. I haven't even been able to complete Fire Emblem: Birthright yet, noooooo. (Currently on chapter15!) I hope everyone is doing well!

The writing is about on par with your average fan translation. Maybe a bit better? Well, the fruitbat guys were all fan translators and not super spectacular ones at that. "Thankfully" I've grown used to this level of English. The VN actually does seem pretty interesting and this is the type of game that will fly under a lot of people's radar. There's not much fervor for doujin all-ages chuuni games. The biggest problem it will run into is that it's releasing on the same day as Tokyo Babel. Ouch.

Art is definitely gorgeous here. Good eye, Rooke

That sounds like a great idea! In other to be completely fair I've made a list of every single member on this website and numbered them. Next, I've brought up a random number generator to decide who to get a gift for. As it turns out, my name came out! Entirely randomly and fairly. Guess I'll have to buy myself a gift them. Oh, of course I count.! I used a random number generator and I'm a person on the internet. That absolutely makes me a "random person on the internet". Ah, curse my short attention span! I didn't get to read the bolded statement before buying myself a gift. I guess it's too late now. As for those extra years, feel free to have them! I always give to the needy, and you clearly look like you need as many extra years as you can get, at this point. I won't elaborate too much, but I'm mostly referring to how Sekai, to the most part, isn't looking to cater to the Eroge Fanbase at all. They're trying to get the steam crowd, a perfectly valid target, and most of those care not for H-Scenes (and would actually be repulsed by them... probably, I don't really know). This present Fuwa loves their H-Scenes. How dare Sekai put the H-Scenes on the backburner?! How dare they make an All-Ages version for those who prefer one?! In a different topic, how dare they use kickstarter as a method to gauge interest! Those bastards who keep reinvesting their money and then making kickstarters. They must be filthy rich by now, greedy rascals. I'm exaggerating, of course. Even from my point of view I think Sekai's business decisions are not always sound, but I'm wholly against how everyone around here seems to hate on them or their kickstarters. Nobody's managed to convince me they truly are evil incarnate yet. I just think it's too easy convincing me. Every argument I get into I find myself agreeing to the other side's point of view or just saying "Well, that's subjective, so I can't really deny it.". I never get anywhere when I argue. I will keep it in mind that I should maybe think about getting into an argument sometime, although I wouldn't hold my breath. Unlike you, I don't go on the internet in scholarly pursuit of knowledge or enlightenment.

why are you talking about fate route here?

The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel for PS3/PS Vita(RPG) so The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel come out for PS3 and PS Vita in January 29, 2016 and it's very good RPG game to play. I really love this game very much and enjoy play it very much. It have very good story, character and sound but the music are not very good. I love the gameplay in the game very much and you can do much in the game. My favorite gameplay are Traveling System where you can do various quest and strength your bonds with your classmate. The part I don't like are it not much voice in the game and the voice suddenly stop during the game, so it's not everytime we hear character voice. My favorite character are Rean Schwarzer and Alisa Reinford. The character I don't like are Jusis Albarea since he it's so mean all the time. so The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel become my favorite game for PS Vita. That was all for now and I hope somebody join me to discuss about The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel for PS3 and PS Vita, since I want to hear what there think about the game. Love Novel21

The White World [1.0] Hey there! GENERAL: We are an Israeli team that have been working on this visual novel for more than a year. The White World was a voluntary project that people worked on in their spare time, between studying and serving the country. It was a FREE ONLINE visual novel you can play in any device and any platform with a browser of the last decade. OFFLINE VERSION is the only option now! (still browser based.) This version was voluntarily translated so if you find typos or bugs - please report to me on a private message with the content of the message shown when pressing F2. DO MIND THIS: Granted we didn't make it very Japanese but Otaku references exist to expose and reflect it's genre. This is the very first version of the VN and so it is the result of the project as it ended. So indeed some things could go better but I can promise you we did it whole heartedly and with almost zero budget (the only budget went into hosting it). Still, please look at it as a finished product with it's own level of authenticity rather then some budgeted project. It is an indie project, and the first to have done that in our country and language. Hope you enjoy =) PLAY: >OFFLINE VERSION<

Pretty sure that means no. "Impossible" is quite a strong word.

That was JAST USA's Japanese parent company, which went bankrupt a few years after JAST USA was established. I'm sure that had little or nothing to do with JAST USA's operations, especially since it's not at all uncommon for Japanese companies to look at English markets as a desperate remedial measure in times of financial trouble.

This would be very bad for people like me that live in countries where the dollar is expensive, honestly the regional pricing of Steam is almost a bless for me. If I had to buy in dollar the price of Nekopara would be enough to buy Grisaia on Steam, if I had to buy in dollar the price of Grisaia would be enough to buy two copies of Clannad on Steam. With patches the price is significantly low what is already something more affordable.

Wow, I met a person who actually liked Shiratori's route. That's so rare I have to make a note in my calendar about that...

Top 32 Name/Feels Train (PART 2) in Umi Score Match Round 17: As promised, here’s the PART 2 of the Name Train which involves more players using the same center. Some players may not have Snow Halation Rs even after trying and spending tons of Friend Points but still couldn’t get them so they will be using Wonderful Rush Rs instead. As for the Top 4, their centers are SDS Movie Promo Umi and Yume no Tobira Eli, Honoka and Nozomi respectively. (Reasons why they were chosen are very obvious.) That’s not all! Besides changing their name and center, we have also requested them to leave their farewell messages in their profiles. It can either be dedicated to the corresponding μ's member/line they were assigned to OR the μ's members that they like. Do check them out although some of them are still currently updating in progress as everyone is in different time zones. This is currently the longest name train record! Previous Name Trains I’ve coordinated were when /u/cychun87 (Nicocchi) retired and during Nozomi's Birthday. Lots of new event records have been broken so congrats to everyone on their respective achievements! This took me a long time of planning, asking around for suggestions, and then compiling them for players to vote for the best choice and lastly, executing the plan. I’ve encountered several issues along the way and had to find solutions to solve them but I’m glad everything turned out smoothly in the end. We, on behalf of the Love Live! EN Community, hope you will like this farewell gift as there are only a few days left till the Final LIVE! To those who are going, enjoy and have fun! *Holds back tears* The next Name/Feels Train will probably be next year for their 1 Year Anniversary. I would like to thank everyone in the Top 32 (Except Kintolesky, well at least he said beforehand that he wasn't interested to participate so we shall respect his decisions) for their participation and cooperation to make this a huge success! This would not have been possible without them. Name Train Captain/Organiser/Coordinator: Zehel (Me) Quotes: (Suggested by me) 1. Snow Halation Quotes (English Version) 2. Making Dreams Come True Together! 3. Farewell μ’s; We Will Always Remember You In Our Hearts! Song and lyric chosen: Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari (Kanji with their names in it and center sequence according to the Movie) - Suggested by Jazz Special Thanks to the following volunteers/helpers: (Helped with the planning and gave suggestions) 1. Makiss 2. Chishantee 3. Kiddlecorn 4. OTK*Lucina 5. artonico 6. hpulley Credits for the Name Train: (* denotes that it is a tie in event points) 1. Making (SDS Umi Center) - DiCi 2. Dreams (Yume no Tobira Honoka) – PizzaDino 3. Come True (Yume no Tobira Eli) - Time Tame 4. Together! (Yume no Tobira Nozomi) - Coolguy 5. Kintolesky - (Pretend this is a space/black/period) 6. Ahほのかな (Honoka Center) - luckyssl 7. 予感から始まり (Honoka Center) - @Lucina *8. Ah! 希望が (Nozomi Center) - Kotocchi/StreamBIG *9. 星空駆けて (Rin Center) - Zehel 10. 花を咲かせる (Hanayo Center) - artonico 11. にっこり笑顔は (Nico Center) - piapiabird *12. 小鳥の翼がついに (Kotori Center) - Annamarie *13. 大きくなって (Kotori Center) - hpulley *14. 遠くへと広がる (Umi Center) - baconator25 *15. 海の色暖かく (Umi Center) - Byaaakuren 16. 夢の中で描いた (Eli Center) - ♡MOMOCHAN♡ (Does not have Snow Halation R) 17. 絵のようなんだ (Eli Center) Maidable 18. 切なくて時を (Maki Center) - otakunopodcast 19. まきもどしてみるかい (Maki Center) - Pusheen 20. いまが最高! (Honoka Center) – umibrow (Does not have Snow Halation R) 21. Farewell - MVI_μ's 22. μ's, - ★Vanille★ 23. We - Celestia 24. Will - /u/arqeic 25. Always - tama@真姫推し 26. Remember - YiffMeUmi 27. You - Ninja 28. In - Kotolinsky 29. Our - μ'6-Chiaya 30. Hearts. - sonodank 31. μ'sic - OTK♡Samiha 32. Forever! - Vycksta

Well the tag was only created 8 months ago so it is probably missing from some titles But mostly all the VNs are focused on romance because #endlessmoeges

Congrats on finally reaching the 500 post~ Now if only you can obtain some luck in fgo As for title, Mirakuru Oni-san

More than 100 downloads already, thank you very much people! I never expected to get so many download in such a short amount of time!

Well, judging by Japaneses VN sales rankings like Getchu, the Japanese are certainly the last ones that should blame anyone else for wanting moeges...

Remember, less chatter, more pictures.

Umineko is magnificent. Play it. It's longer than 150 hours but there's nothing, nothing quite like it. It's unique.

I will wait for the offline version because I hate reading through my browser. The little I read was good, I don't mind the grammar mistakes xD

I won't go into too much detail, but overall I'm a rather humble personality, and there's only a few things I take pride in, my linguistic talents being one of them. I just despice the idea of someone teaching me on it. I'd much rather learn it myself, just by myself. You could say it's just useless pride and I'm just being too obstinate and prideful, and you'd be right. But it is how I'm hardwired and this is how I'll do it. Always have, always will.

Newsflash: all companies are after one thing and one thing only. What you seem to be implying with this statement is that all the companies you lump in that group are short-sighted. But having revenue be your motivating goal doesn't immediately make you short-sighted; far from it, long-term investments are also important. Capitalism is pretty great at this particular scenario. It's very clear from sales numbers and from level of engagement by consumers that the English-reading VN industry is growing by leaps and bounds. There will be associated growing pains. But when the dust clears, the associated companies will of course spend most of their effort on what can make them the most money, and right now they're trying to figure out what that is. I don't blame them at all for leaving ero content behind whenever it proves problematic, at the moment: the sales numbers right now are showing that it doesn't seem to be nearly as profitable as pretty art. The good news is, if the market grows enough, the niches within our niche market will grow as well, to the point that someone will find a way to make money off them as well (maybe the current licensing companies, maybe someone else entirely). Those niches includes both ero content (which was previously dominant, but is now starting to get left by the wayside in favor of the Steam releases) and well-written stories (which have never done well, but which a vocal minority keeps beating the drum in favor of). We're already experiencing this benefit with the latter case: in the last couple years, more of the licensing companies are experimenting with bringing over well-written stories. I just really hope more people start buying those, since that's the niche I'm interested in.

Allice in Dissonance. It has a bit of a different feel of OST compared to other VN's, but it's very nice.

Okay, I'll give you some of my favorites..Hope you like them aswell There we go (you may already know some or all of these but maybe not so just in casei posted them)

I think there's loud regular posters who make anti-censorship arguments. But Fuwanovel at its core is about promoting visual novels to a wider audience. Notice how much coverage different types of VNs get on Fuwazette. Covered frequently: story-focused games, original English titles, community projects, fan translations. Not really covered at all: nukige, censorship, pornographic aspects of eroge. That kind of shows the priorities of the site as a whole, which align pretty well with Sekai Project's current direction. Compare that to LewdGamer.

I think the silent majority never even realizes that content was cut in the first place. They're not given the chance to react. Raising awareness was half the reason for my project to document censored eroge.

I'm more about the story in VNs as well. The hentai is an added bonus.

I think what makes an OST amazing is what is going on during the scene, so the story adds a background to the music and that's why we get so attached to it. It makes us relive those feels. Edit: I just realized your VNDB list. It seems you already played some of these.. Little Busters!: G-senjou No Maou has some epic memorable music too: Sharin No Kuni:

I'mNotInHere/10. You even follow me, yet I couldn't get a small mention. I-I-I just-

omg, that's so true, what the hell happened to our favorite Rain x Cyr Cyr last log was Feb 23, RIP, prob busy w. the 3D world and Rains is actually still active 'round the forums, so it just means he ditched this thread too-cool-4-you-scrubs style

Jurnalizm at its finest

gonna show myself off again, because its a fucking awesome picture of me

NP. Hahaha, trying to remember all this from memory since it's been a month since I last played the game.

So simplistic, and yet hits all the right spots in me. I could of course list off Fate, or some other major work, but this is probably one of the most "heartfelt" tracks I ever heard.