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Sona-Nyl is waiting for Koestl. He must finish his Grisaia adventure, get some deserved break, and probably then start working on Sona-Nyl.

Mujintou Monogatari 3 - A.D. 1999 Tokyo is the only masterpiece of the month. 1. Sex 2 [960301] 1 2 Sex 2 has the same basic premise as its predecessor, which is easy to deduce from the game's title. It's all about engaging in the titular pleasurable activity, and doing it in various "creative" ways. Unlike the first Sex, there is only one girl in Sex 2: Ayaka, the cute flower-raising character from Satyr, another game by the same company. Comments are excessive. 2. Tsukikomori 晦 [960301] Banpresto A follow-up of sorts to Gakkou de atta Kowai Hanashi. The protagonist (default name Yoko Maeda) is currently not in school due to spring break. Her grandmother's seventh death anniversary (a uniquely eastern custom which is celebrated on the day of an individual's passing) has come, and several members of the family have gathered. In observance of the day, six of the family members each tell a different horror story. In addition, there is also an introductory scenario which can change based upon choices selected. Not hookable so did not even try it. 3. Ginga Ojou-sama Densetsu Yuna FX ~Kanashimi no Siren~ 銀河お嬢様伝説ユナＦＸ　～哀しみのセイレーン～ [960308] Hudson Soft 1 2 3 4 The third game in the Galaxy Fräulein Yuna series, Kanashimi no Sirene picks up where the last game ended. After having successfully saved the Earth, Yuna and her new friend, the ever-hungry female android Yuri Cube, return to their normal high school life - or so they think. Because her old enemies will do anything to destroy her, including wrongly accusing her of world domination plans. This draws the attention of a highly ranked female intelligence officer of the Galaxy Alliance, who operated under codename "Sirene" and who pretends to be an exchange student in the Shiraokadai High School, while her true goal is to arrest Yuna... Luckily there is a good English review 4. Merry Go Round メリーゴーランド [960308] Mischief 1 2 3 Merry Go Round is set in Yokohama, in year 2197. The city has turned into an international megalopolis, where crime prospers, and where justice is pursued by lone vigilante fighters. The hero of the story is a private detective named Brian. The first case is about an assault on a prostitute in the brothel "John Wayne". Further investigation reveals that the assault is connected to other cases, some of which involve dangerous biological experiments. With the help of the policewoman Akane, the bounty hunter Ridley, and others, Brian begins to gradually see the whole picture... There are two English reviews including mine. 5. Night Slave ナイト・スレイブ [960308] Melody 1 2 3 4 5 6 A terrorist organization known as Slave Dog poses a threat to the entire world. Steel Fox is the name of an all-female special squad, highly trained in counter-terrorist combat. Assisting them is the independent, state-unbound corporation Neo Logic, which produces assault suits -basically giant robots with their own heavy weaponry, which can be navigated by a skillful pilot. The young female pilot Rei from the Steel Fox is sent on a decisive mission, codenamed "Night Slave" - an assault on the terrorist base. Game has multiple English reviews. 6. Mahou Shoujo B-ko 魔法少女B子 [960315] Scoop 1 2 B-Ko is a princess from a magical dimension, who is having a vacation on the earth, masquerading as a student in the Catholic St. Rapahel High School. This peaceful (and pleasant) time-passing ends when the evil witch Saprinu appears in our dimension and attacks B-Ko. Saprinu's demonic plan is to steal precious energy from female virgins. Now it's time for B-Ko's faithful servant, a young man known as Alpha, to "intercept" the poor virgins (using his own methods), before they fall prey to Saprinu... There is an English review. 7. Mujintou Monogatari 3 - A.D. 1999 Tokyo 無人島物語３ Ａ．Ｄ．１９９９ ＴＯＫＹＯ [960315] KSS Inc. 1 Mujintō Monogatari 3: A.D.1999 Tokyo is similar in concept to the two previous entries in the series, being a "survival life" simulation game. However, its setting is quite different: rather than getting stranded on a deserted tropical island, the protagonist travels in subway when a terrible earthquake occurs. Climbing out of the underground tunnels, the hero discovers, to his horror, that Tokyo has been nearly destroyed and deserted. Teaming up with other survivors, the protagonist has to explore the ruins and stay alive. The masterpiece of the series trilogy. The game does not disappoint its fans as gameplay part got even more difficult. Shifting events from generic some island to post-apocalyptic Tokyo created much more opportunities for story development and heroes empathy. It's a long, serious and eventful game aimed at hardcore players. 8. Wedding Peach ウェディングピーチ [960315] KSS Inc. 1 2 Story based on anime series depicts the battle with the devils. There is an interactive adventure part and card battles with the opponents. Another obscure all-age anime spin-off. 9. Banana Club Mania バナナ倶楽部まにあ [960316] Xing Entertainment During Christmas, a virgin guy got a free ticket to the Banana Club. Once there, he can choose from 3 girls for custom play with him. Depending on how he plays, the girls might become his steady girlfriend. Nothing elaborate. 10. Chrome Paradise クロムパラダイス 銀白色の楽園 [960319] Acid Plan Space colony 30th century. High school student Shin Kanzaki has to pay for studies himself and he's constantly looking for well-paying part-time jobs. He applies to participate in experimental colony simulation program that simulates the life in the second half on 20th century. What a shock - there people have to carry their luggage themselves! And the hero becomes the delivery boy. Just from the setting you can guess what this game is going to be. Developing such a complex setting just to show everyday life and quite forget everything about the space stuff. The whole game is like that. 70% of it are gags that have zero meaning for the story. So there are 6 transport companies and we deliver stuff with occasional events on the way. There are girls from each of the company and to gain their attention you need first to work hard for the said company... The number of sub-characters in this game is among the highest. So if you can't stand coherent stories and just love to meet dozens of weird people while making deliveries and waste time on not funny gags then you're in the 0,0000001% of humankind and this game is just for you. 11. Liena Crystal - Adventure of Liena リィナ☆クリスタル [960322] Colossus Europe, 1895. Heroine Lina and Pes were on the way back home from the spring festival when a strong light hit both of them. Pes became a dog and Lina became a futanari. Shall they succeed in getting back to original form? Keenetic novel focusing on humor. This work hardly makes it to two hours, maybe for a slow reader. This is one of the litmus works that marked the transition from high and moderate difficulty to extremely easy relaxation ones. 1996 year was the time when moe games came to fashion and this work is seen as an odd one out and it was a brave move. In the end it's a fun little story with vivid sub-characters and the only drawback of volume. 12. Shinpi no Sekai El-Hazard 神秘の世界エルハザード [960322] TamTam Co., Ltd. 1 2 3 4 Hi, I'm Makoto Mizuhara, a normal High School Student from Shinonome High School. I've been working on a special science project for the upcoming annual school festival! It's a device that supposedly can transfer living matter through a dimensional gate... sorry, not that you'd probably understand what that means! I built it based on a theory I read, and I hoped it could move other people through time and space! The night before the festival, I completed the machine and took it for a test run. Very excited, I hoped for any kind of sign that the machine was going to perform the experiment correctly (I've tried this three times already). What I got was something I did not expect at all... I saw... a woman? Game is localized and has English reviews. 13. Sotsugyou Ryokou 卒業旅行 [960322] Apollon Create A guy went on a graduation trip to a ski resort with three of his friends. Once there, he has four quick days to chase after 7 girls and 1 guy. 3 nights and 4 days are given to win someone's heart. There's some comedy and decision making in first part and the chosen person H events in the second part. For me game's mostly notable for an ability to pursue a guy - that does not make the game yaoi since it's of totally normal style, but places a landmine. 14. Akai Suishou no Hitomi 赤い水晶の瞳 [960329] Fairy Dust Hero is a detective, but he has so few requests that his main occupation is a part time work at sports accessories store. In a gym equipment room he discovers a hanging mummified corpse. According to victim's older sister Makoto, her brother was alive just a while ago. Together with Makoto you are to discover the truth behind this suspicious case. Quite a light ADV detective work more about girls than about mystery. Hero investigates hand by hand with a partner girl and it's possible to choose between two assistant girls. There are many other girls on the way as well. There's also strong NTR presence. 15. Horror Tour ホラーツアー [960329] OCC 1 2 3 4 "Dare You Match Wits With the King of Demons?< IN A MURKY CASTLE, IN A HIDDEN WOOD, A HOST OF DIABOLICAL MYSTERY AWAITS YOU. Long ago, Rodvydel Castle fell into the evil grasp of Zeddas, who worked his foul spells upon the place to hide it from mortal eyes. Now you must walk these same haunted halls, trying to undo the harm this demon has wrought. Can you restore the castle? You must pit your own cunning against the fiend's treachery to unravel the sinister mysteries of this place. But beware - the King of Demons keeps a warm place ready for those who would meddle in his affairs! ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE! EXPLORE the labyrinthine corridors of the woeful castle DISCOVER clues to the whereabouts of keys and other mystical items that can help you in your quest SOLVE the nefarious obstacles created by Zeddas to foil would-be heroes SEE this interactive tale of horror unfold before your eyes in QuickTime movies and fully-rendered 3D graphics HEAR the eerie CD-quality music and sound effects that set the mood for this haunting adventure. FEEL the dread only Zeddas can inspire!" There are multiple English reviews.

Once in a lifetime a dream becomes reality. I'm making a Manga. This is based after the Visual Novel I'm creating. I'm raising a bit of money to hire some help to complete it and this will help with the game also. It looks great already!... Lots of images, a video, music, and a game. Check out the link and if you like what you see, donating even a dollar is a big help: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...d-visual-novel Keep the forum alive by posting on the topic. I'll get buried by the other well established and popular topics. Omni Link is AAA in quality and is definitely grass-roots. Even the theme song was sung by a family member. I should mention I'm so grateful to all those who helped me get this far. This is a brief copy paste about the story from the Kickstarter page: "Experience the journey of new and interesting characters with their own personal struggles and motives. Everyone is tied together in meaningful realistic ways although placed in an impossible situation. What is that situation? To defeat the "Virus". Code-name for the Apocalypse you think you know. However, this is not your average end of life scenario. The story will have twists and turns and unexpected plots. The story will suggest to you what to believe, and we hope you will be fooled. It all starts when our ace pilot Keb comes across a vessel of unknown origin. Through a misunderstanding, and a deathly explosion, he finds himself surprisingly alive and at the mercy of Dawn."

As for the Kickstarter, since Xeviax and co. (ie Sol Press) accepted our suggestion they decided to launch their Prefundia first, and then they'll launch the Kickstarter at 15th later. As for the date, the source was from their Twitter below. https://mobile.twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/892213455423287296 PS - I'll be looking forward to their Prefundia here.

Seeing how Dies Irae wasn't quenching my thirst for the #edge, I've decided to pick up Hanachirasu. I was about to just check out the prologue, but that has proven to be a huge mistake... you see, those few scenes before the opening we're all way more exciting and interesting than the entirety of Kasumi's route in Dies.Now this is a super unfair comparison, as I'm essentially putting two opposite approaches to action scenes against each other, but... damn, it only took a single scene to remind me why I like Narahara so much. The fights feel though out, with actual choreography and logic supporting the flashy coolness, and it's just so damn entertaining to me. I imagine this is extremely subjective, and I bet there are people who hate Narahara's style with a passion - but as soon as he started going into tangents to explain fencing theory, I was sold ten times over. I'll definitely get back to Dies to check out the story, but as far as action goes Hanachirasu will be my go-to for now.

As for the Kickstarter, they finally announced the exact date and it'll be at August 2nd at 7 PM PT according to their tweet below. So just in case you want to back it, go ahead. https://mobile.twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/892021875110330368

Finished S;G 0 Overall, pretty solid read. 8/10. Good mid-quel stuff for original Steins;gate fans like myself to enjoy. A bit disappointed that it didn't cover the future as much, at most it got like 30 minutes of coverage... I was expecting this VN to be ENTIRELY about the cast and the future >.> though, getting to see the little tie-ins in S;G 0's true end that led to Op Skuld was a pretty nice treat. Time traveling and its repercussions aren't the focus this time, so the overall thrill and hype that the original S;G had hopping between world lines is lost. Instead, we're much more invested in the characters - Another disappointment however is that it's pretty damn hard to keep track of what's going on; the original S;G had a simple and reasonable "D-mail = worldline shift" but S;G 0 had no concrete explanation of why the worldlines would shift; sure you know it all revolved around a certain (spoiler) But that still doesn't explain why answering Amadeus's call or not would cause a shift, especially since it shouldn't influence who would obtain said key items. Also compounded by the fact that there are multiple baddies, who each take the spotlight in whatever route they are prominently featured in, along with certain characters being used as red herrings and it's like oh come on!@# I get you're trying to build up some HOLY SHT revelations but stuff like ~~ But yeah, overall it should be a pretty fun read for people who enjoyed S;G. DO IT!

Not really... I just wanted to call myself an advanced weaboo.

So....I have a powerful imagination. I love a good story, and i always dream up alternate storylines of the stories i read, as if things had gone differently. And pictures like this, are fuel for my fire. I could dream up and write entire books of a girl with 4 personalities, or a different story with quadruplets. thx mate.

+1 I definitly would love to see the Fairytale trilogy (Requiem, Encore and Symphony) in english! Huge props to Liarsoft for demonstrating alot of originality and diversity in their titles as Liarsoft is one of the very few VN dev who don't try to ride the easy mainstream wave and go with school settings, I don't have anything against school settings but when literally 95% of VN have a school or school-ish setting it really start to become monotonous.

They have updated the 18+ info page. They are still censoring the game slightly by removing the beastiality CG, but they are NOT removing any text from the scene, apparently, so the only thing missing will be the CG. Still sucks that they are censoring the game at all, but at least now the only thing we have to do is just look up the CG, and we're fine. The removed text was my biggest issue, as that's something I would have to go into the JP game to read, which would have been a lot of effort for such a small amount of lines. I'm still clinging to the hope that they'll just cave and add the CG back in, though I doubt they will.

Most kids grow up watching anime and reading manga in Japan, but those who become true otakus number about three in twenty. VNs are generally only played by adult otakus, which make up a smaller percentage of the total population. Most VN players in Japan are already general otakus, from what my friend tells me, because ero visual novels are considered to be 'deeper in the otaku abyss' than manga, anime, or LNs. Non-ero VNs are more accessible but also are primarily on console or portable mediums, and so they are more likely to be played by younger otakus and even younger non-otakus there. However, most of those are otomege or all-ages ports of eroge, lol. Edit: Something to keep in mind about the fanbase here is that OELVNs are much more accessible in general than Japanese VNs, meaning that there are a lot of people who start from there and expand into Japanese VNs without having become anime or manga fans first.

For the last two years or so, I've gotten repeated requests to unequivocally name my top VNs made up until the present, ignoring objectivity, my vndb votes, etc. I've more or less just ignored most of those requests, because it is a pain in the ass to name a 'favorite' VN in the first place. I've made lists of VNs I loved from various genres, and I've also made lists of VNs for a specific purpose. However, I've avoided making a list like this one up until now, mostly because my 'favorites' switch out so often. Let's get this straight for those who are going to criticize my choices... these are the VNs I like the most, not the fifty best VNs of all time. I make no pretense to preeminence of opinion in this case, because I'm also discarding all attempts at objectivity. What a person likes is ultimately a matter of personal tastes, not a matter of logic. Why did I make it fifty? Because my number of VNs played, setting aside replays and nukige, is over six hundred already (with replays and nukige, it is closer to eight hundred...)... I'd be surprised if I didn't have this many VNs I considered wonderful. Keep in mind that these aren't in a particular order. 1. Evolimit 2. Dies Irae (the one by Light) 3. Ikusa Megami Zero 4. Nanairo Reincarnation 5. Semiramis no Tenbin 6. Bradyon Veda 7. Vermilion Bind of Blood 8. Hapymaher 9. Tiny Dungeon (as a series) 10. Bullet Butlers 11. Chrono Belt 12. Ayakashibito 13. Otome ga Boku ni Koishiteiru 2 14. Chusingura 15. Draculius 16. Otome ga Tsumugu, Koi no Canvas 17. Silverio Vendetta 18. Konata yori Kanata Made 19. Grisaia series 20. Akatsuki no Goei series 21. Reminiscence series 22. Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no 23. Harumade, Kururu 24. Soukou Akki Muramasa 25. Tokyo Babel 26. Tasogare no Sinsemilla 27. Komorebi no Nostalgica 28. Yurikago yori Tenshi Made 29. Izuna Zanshinken 30. Moshimo Ashita ga Harenaraba 31. Kamikaze Explorers 32. Devils Devel Concept 33. Suzunone Seven 34. Baldr Skydive series 35. Baldr Sky Zero series 36. Toppara Zashikiwarashi no Hanashi 37. Tsuisou no Augment (series) 38. Kikan Bakumatsu Ibun Last Cavalier 39. Shin Koihime Musou (series not including the original Koihime Musou) 40. Soshite Hatsukoi wa Imouto ni Naru 41. Tenshi no Hane o Fumanaide 42. Irotoridori no Sekai 43. Noble Works 44. Koisuru Otome to Shugo no Tate (series) 45. Kitto, Sumiwataru Asairo yori mo 46. Jingai Makyou 47. Sakura, Sakimashita 48. Abyss Homicide Club 49. Re:Birth Colony Lost Azurite 50. Owaru Sekai to Birthday