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That is not what happened. The person who contributed VNR subs is completely different. The patch that was released was done from scratch in 17 weeks. The translator, Triplicate, is a natural bilingual, being (I believe) a Japanese American. This gives him a solid understanding of both languages and making it so he doesn't have to constantly look up words. He also worked on this patch at 6 - 8 hours a day, a frankly unreasonable amount of time to spend on translation. At the end of the day, though, translation speed isn't the best measure of a translator's ability, and understanding a language doesn't mean that you're talented at writing in it. The Hatsukoi 1/1 translation is honestly pretty rough from an English prose standpoint. The language is very stilted and unnatural, and is worse than your average MangaGamer or Sekai Project script if you're comparing him to them. This is something the translator himself admitted on his blog, he says he got better as he worked on the translation, and the later routes are better written than the earlier ones, and he also eventually wants to go back and redo the first few routes he translated. I know that feeling all too well.

Not sure why there is no thread for this yet but here you go. MoeNovel is making visual novels popular in the west again with their latest title LoveKami -Useless Goddess-!!! http://store.steampowered.com/app/626510/LoveKami_Useless_Goddess/ No need to thank me.

Looks like everything's turning out for the better. My mom's insurance company is gonna cover the medical costs for the ER visit and the cost of my therapy, which my doctor recommended. I'm also allowed to do minor activities with my arm again, and to just slowly adjust into performing regular tasks. I am allowed to type with my left hand again too, though I'm not able to do it much right now. It's a work in progress, but at least it's something.

I'm not sure about otome games on PS Vita (if you have one) but Code:Realize is highly recommended. It's a steampunk story-focuses otome game with real-life and literary characters (Arsene Lupin, Victor Frankenstein, etc.) Steam has a variety of otome games. Amnesia: Memories, Nightshade, and Ozmafia are the best Japanese localized otome games. Amnesia: Memories A heroine with Amnesia who tries to regain her memories. It's kinda slice of life-ish but it can get really weird. It also has a lot of bad ends. Nightshade: I really recommend this one because the MC is really amazing. She's basically a shinobi princess but other than that, anyrhing else counts as spoilers. Ozmafia: Grimm's fairytale characters reimagined as Mafia members. A Korean company, Cheritz also has a couple of localized ones- Nameless and Dandelion. Both are also well-regarded. Both are fully voiced in Korean. There are also OELVNs that are quite good. Backstage Pass is fully voiced in English. It has stats-raising though. Games without voices that are good are X-Note, Area-X, The Royal Trap, and Mystic Destinies. There's a pretty notable free game on Steam too. Cinderella Phenomenon is free, has an interesting story and has maybe 25+ hours of content. Itch.io and the lemmasoft forums have a lot of free EVN otomes like Asagao Academy, Airis, and Lads in Distress.

You didn't especified anything so I'll just throw suggestions at random here: - DMMD (translated): BL starting point of a lot of people, upbeat but have some strange things. - Omerta (partial translation): Pretty cool BL about mafia guys. Usually serious, but have it's fun moments. - Shingakkou (untranslated): Very good BL with horror elements (not gore, more supernatural stuff). Very long and have some sensitive themes if you don't mind. - Luckydog1 (untranslated, but there's a blog around with translations of a few routes): Very stylish BL about guys escaping from a prison. It's violent though. - Dot Kareshi (translated): Funny otome that isn't just a date sim. There are three episodes (episode 2 is the best) - Norn9 (translated): A otome with a (messy) plot but it's more focused in romance. There's three protagonist to choose!

Links to buy the game digitally (warning contains H-CGs): DLsite DMM Also got triggered by this thread using Yuma instead of Yuuma. Anyone want to confirm which one the translation used?

Tsuisou no Augment, when I first played it, blew me away. Part of it was because it was so surprising, part of it because it was just that good. Thankfully, it turned out to be just as good on a second playthrough. First, this VN doesn't fall into any of the standard genres. Most of the game is hilarious, some of it is romantic, some of it is hot and sexual (seriously so), there is serious drama, and there is even some guro, though of limited scale. The game begins with Hideya, the protagonist, lying in an old folks home at the age of 80, unmarried and looking back on his life, seeing it as empty and meaningless. So, quite naturally, he takes up a nearby fruit knife and stabs himself in the throat, twisting so that the wound opens nicely, spraying his blood over his room. To his surprise, this isn't the end... he wakes up in a park, sixty-something years before, in his young body, with a hideous creature calling itself a shinigami floating in front of him. The shinigami explains to him that it, Augment, wants to take his soul at the peak of happiness, so having him die of suicide after an empty lifetime was inconvenient. As a result, Augment took him back in time at the moment of death so that he could find his happiness - mainly a romantic life partner - so that Augment can use his soul after death to purify his own. So begins Hideya's dramatic journey to gain happiness... or not. Hideya's personality isn't exactly Japanese-standard, so things don't really go the way you would expect with the standard VN protagonist. Hideya is a fast-talking young man who takes an unholy pleasure in derailing conversations onto random topics (which are disproportionately related to sexual fetishes), which makes most of this game hilarious to read, since Hideya absolutely cannot stop himself from derailing even the most serious of conversations. A lot of the choices in the game are worth exploring alternatives to, if only for the few hilarious extra lines they grant you, lol. The three heroines of the original game are Shiho, Satsuki, and Nami. Shiho is the protagonist's osananajimi, who began to distance herself from him sometime in middle school. She is a kind-hearted and generous young woman who studies obsessively. Satsuki is a girl from the next class over that Hideya meets on the street one day while she is stomping on her older brother's head. She is the game's tsundere, often saying the opposite of what she means, and she is a brocon that happens to beat up on her brother regularly because he is rather... annoying. Nami is the younger sister of the protagonist's class teacher. She seems quiet and mysterious on the surface, but she is actually rather expressive... though that expressiveness tends to come out in reaction to jokes, opportunities to put down her sister, and opportunities to blackmail her sister (the teacher is a total siscon). In Shiho's path, you confront the reason why she put a distance between herself and Hideya, and the reason is fairly... traumatic. It is a reason that is all-too-common but no less tragic for all that. In this path, there are too endings. One, the one that is available from the beginning and is the 'true' ending for Shiho, has Hideya borrow Augment's power in order to right the past wrong that so twisted Shiho's life. The other has the protagonist accept the current Shiho for who she is, loving her including her scars. Depending on the individual, it is questionable which one is more touching, though. In Satsuki's path, you find yourself confronting yet another issue common to pretty and friendly girls everywhere... in this case, the endings are slightly less distinctive, because the end result differs so little, though there is a third, bad ending you can get if you pick the path to the true ending and make the wrong choice at the last. Nami's path is a little different, and her true path is pretty guro (if you look too close at the CGs, the average person will probably need a barf bag). Nami is the cutest of the girls when in love with the protagonist, but that just makes the guro parts worse, lol. Her non-true path involves evading the guro events to reach a normal happy ending, and in that sense, hers has the most disparity between the endings. The Tsuisou no Aumgent FD (also pronounced Tsuisou no Augment) covers after stories (between the epilogue and the ending of the stories in the first one) for each of the three original heroines, as well as adding on paths for Augment, the protagonist's older sister Youko, and Nami's older sister. The after-stories are basically a treat for readers who wanted a little extra ichaicha material from the heroine paths and more Hideya doing his level best to prevent conversations from going anywhere. The Youko and Minami paths are both about two-thirds the length of the original heroine paths from the original game, and while they are good, I honestly preferred the original heroine paths. Augment's path is basically a joke h-scene. Overall, Tsuisou no Augment is one of the more memorable games I've played over the years... and one of the few games where I spent most of the game laughing my ass off but could still cry at the important parts. This is no charage - the paths are a bit too harsh on the characters for that - so this won't attract those interested in that sort of game. However, it does have nice romance with serious drama attached.

Haram Party ~Snicker~

Thanks.

At least you don't have to pay for it, but jokes aside nice to know your gonna be okay... I think idk

Was this intended

Rakuen is a linear story + after story for it. There's also an extra section for the events before Kajitsu.

This has been a viable business strategy for developers within Japan for years already. Since their experience stems mainly from working within extremely competitive and oversaturated market I don't see any sort of positive conclusion in our case either, as the market demand clearly prefers such games over full-blown titles spanning across 50+ hours. The risk involved in production of high-quality, ultra long titles often greatly exceeds possible gains; you'd have to be either crazy or insanely rich to ignore these as a japanese developer.

I don't remember Kanna being like this @Fred the Barber

You really think Moenovel is calling the shots at Pulltop and not the other way around?

Tsuyokiss's Satou Yoshimi (yandere) The younger twin in Devils Devel Concept Saki in Hapymaher Miyabi in Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no Towa in Koisuru Doll to Omoi no Kiseki Satsuki and Shiho in Tsuisou no Augment Tokitani Shinobu in Hatsugamai Most of the heroines of World Election The yanderes of Gun Knight Girl (there are two of them)

Da Capo has a pretty jealous heroine. 11 eyes also has one. Perhaps Shuffle counts too?

Chrono Clock actually had some interesting ideas though and the premise was a good draw for readers, nothing was really done with them, but at the very least there was a spark of creativity. Not to mention that there was actual sexual content for those who wanted it. This, just feels like they are selling the cover art. Especially, considering this is already the second all-ages spin-off of, if Clephas is to be believed, a much better title. I don't hate the title, I understand the need and the marketing decisions behind it, but it's hard to get particularly excited for it knowing it will be a short title, more then likely much shorter then Chrono Clock, with little substance.

This is what you're looking for.

Thanks @MaggieROBOT

You know a game is good when they literally won't sell the damn thing in Japan

I absolutely love this lol

Right up your alley @Fred the Barber

I'm looking into this currently, but I will say that our company Steam account is this one, so anything from any other account isn't something we've done ourselves. Also, keep in mind that this was posted during Golden Week, when pretty much the entire country of Japan was not at work.

Visual Novel Translation Status (05/06/2017) Since we had image header from Chuusotsu (Which was in the middle of Kickstarter), I think 'Prelude to the Graduation' would be nice here, except of course I added Chuusotsu here. By the way, prelude mean the something that came before, which mean my title would be meant 'The events before Chuusotsu graduation' because we had graduation word at Chuusotsu title. Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and unlike last week this time there's no VN releases here yet unfortunately (Correct me if I'm wrong here). But of course we still had some updates here (Duh). Lack of release for this week aside, I think May would be one of more interesting month to me here if only because there'll be planned release of two quite popular VNs in English (Libra the Vampire Princess and most importantly Dies Irae) at this month. I'll be looking forward to those two releases here. As for Sekai, after the releases of both Chrono Clock and Rakuen their activity was quite lacking ie didn't had much usual updates anymore. I mean most of their project was already 100% translated and it's been a while since that completion (Saku Saku and Maitetsu), also with their lack of progress for some of their other projects there. In the end, I'll just wait and see here as usual and also hoping that their engine work for the VNs would be going smoothly. Beside, at least for now Sekai was still had one usual updates here (Bokukotsu, which was at 64.09% translated right now). No much comment from Libra other than they released the prize edition of Libra, while the real release was still at 16th. As for the Chuusotsu Kickstarter, it was going well with the current situation that 11,496 out of 20,000 funds was gathered with 23 days left. There's also Little Busters, in which it was finally Greenlighted here . No surprise here, because to tell the truth I was expected that Little Busters passed it easily, considering that it was one of very popular VN that had anime adaptation. As for tge release date, while Visual Arts was promising it will be this spring (Japanese time, not Australian time) Steam listed it as 2017 so maybe there'll be some delay in regard of that. As for fan translation, there's some usual updates here. But first of all we finally had Bishoujo Mangekyou update here after long time we didn't see that. The update was goes like all of the translation process were already completed (Including proofread), and right now Arcadeotic was made a beta patch for the testers which mean that there'll be testing progress. For the usual updates here, here we finally had Majokoi almost reach three quarter mark translated (74.8% translated), and also was had some updates from both of editing (70.5% edited) and TLC (28.5% TLC-ed). Other than Majokoi, there's also Loverable in which it was at 63.31% translated, 18.79% edited, 34% TLC-ed, and 16.24% TLC-ed. Finally there's Eustia in which we finally had the prologue was fully translated, and for the overall progress it was at 9.21% translated, 5.83% edited, and 5.07% TLC-ed. Also the translator himself stated that he managed to get two QC staff candidates, and one of them was from Yandere which as we knew translated Eustia first. That's all for this week, albeit it was shorter one here. See you next week. PS - After almost half a year since the project was begin, finally we had Tsurezure released Yukino's patch for HatsuKoi which mean that the translation was complete for all of the routes (Except the append disc). For their next plan, they'll take a break before tackling at Tsujidou. Go get the patch from here, and have fun for playing HatsuKoi.

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Kanon Summary Yuuichi Aizawa, a high school student, returns to a town that he last visited 7 years previously to live with his aunt and cousin. For a reason he’s not quite sure of, he can hardly remember anything about his last visit, but initially this doesn’t seem to worry him too much. The day after he arrives he goes into town where he (literally) bumps into a girl named Ayu Tsukimiya, and Yuuichi’s memories slowly begin to return. Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order Route Guideline Minase Nayuki Misaka Shiori Sawatari Makoto Kawasumi Mai Tsukimiya Ayu Attribution This walkthrough is based on info attained on Gamefaqs.com with some adjustments made by me.