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Another update from Tsurezure, and not much to say here other than good job for they almost halfway finished with Rikka's route. Here's the update below: Common: 100.0% Sora: 0.0% Marika: 100.0% Natsuki: 0.0% Misa: 100.0% Rikka: 49.51% Touko: 0.0% Total: 45.12% That's all for this week update.

Oh hi, I don’t consider myself a senpai, but if you love VNs and actually discussing them vs r/visualnovels; you have come to the right place. Best part about here is that nobody can downvote your controversial opinions, if you have any. If you want a Santa hat, @Fiddle got you covered https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/21329-santa-hats-for-your-avatars-once-again/?tab=comments#comment-499749

Finally read Muv Luv and Alternative (which I don't understand why it's marked as 50+ hours when it's like 30+ hours, and I'm not really a fast reader). So, my overall disappointment for what many people overhyped aside, let's talk about the best point of both VNs: Sprite gimmicks. This is the most freaking amazing usage of the sprites I ever saw in a VN (well, not like I read that many anyway). Lips and eyes aside, the way the characters change expression and move during the conversation is good. The fact that they actually change their direction depending on who they talk to. The fact the characters you don't talk to also change their expression and even move in the background. The usage of the depth of the background. How cute Kasumi is when her rabbit ears move with a sfx. All these sprite gimmicks make the overall experience so alive and so much better that all the VNs I read so far (minus Bladr Sky, which is amazing in a different sense) feel like shit. And from now on the still sprites I'll see in all the VNs I'll read will feel really stale. I didn't read that much discussions about Muv luv, so I don't know if it's actually praised along the story and all, but I feel like it should be, because to me it's the most stand out point of the VNs and the only thing that actually left an impression on me.

I'm here to denounce the announcement announcement renouncement.

Our poll on the best VNs to read during winter just went up here if anyone wants to vote~ Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions! We've kept note of all the suggestions and those who didn't make it onto the poll are very likely to make it onto our recommendation list that we'll be posting next week alongside the poll results. We're still accepting suggestions for the recommendation list if anyone has any other VNs you think are great for winter.

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Tsujidou is out of the picture entirely. The translator hated it to bits, and it almost made him quit translating. Clearly his opinion is rubbish, but there's nothing to be done about that. Speaking of quitting, Trip says there's like a 50% chance he'll quit after this project, since it really was his ultimate goal. Hm. Not a cheery thought, but that's still a bunch of translations that came of it!

Just for that quote, welcome to the ignore list. I warned you. You can quote me however you want now, I don't give a shit. Not going to read your posts from now on. If any one else has something more meaningful to add, feel free. Otherwise, my ignore list is always open for troublemakers.

Yesterday I finished rereading Princess Evangile (+ after stories from FD), to check all-ages version. It was almost as much fun as it was the first time, almost year ago - it felt a little like returning to visit good old friends TL;DR version: - best girl: Ritsuko - best route: Ayaka - best epilogue: Chiho (in FD) Under heavy moege disguise, there lies another VN with family as one of its main themes. In every route the conflict is caused by family issues. It's possible, that all-ages version made it all clearer to me, as I wasn't distracted by h-scenes (which were numerous in adult version - 5 per heroine, each consisting of two "acts". I didn't remember there being that many of them ) PE has really great cast - both main heroines and side characters. Most of the Konomi's lines or Ruriko's comments are golden As for routes, I went with the order heroines are introduced - Rise, Chiho, Ritsuko, Ayaka. Chiho's route is kind-of stand alone, but it's connected with Rise's, so that order seems the best for me. Whatever, it's good to read Ayaka after Ritsuko. Rise is very nice girl, if a bit jealous Truly "sun of the school" I loved the scene in her route was when she That was really moving for me. Chiho gets bonus points for being childhood friend The scenes in common route (and in the beginning of hers) when she fights with Rise over Masaya are hilarious I also really liked caring side of her personality. Ritsuko - ah, Ritsuko, best girl according to many (myself included). On a surface, very serious and strict, but hidden underneath lies quite playful and sweet girl. I love how she gradually opens up in other routes as well. Ayaka - like her sister, hiding many surprises. Now let's talk specifically about All-ages edition. I was really curious how they handled it. It turns out to be somewhere between ASFOS and Sanoba Witch. All sex happens off-screen, but it's clear that it happens. However, some of the random scenes are just cut out - and it isn't noticeable, I was actually surprised by the amount of scenes when I skipped thru adult version to compare. First time in each route is handled similarly to Sanoba, meaning there's lead in, then black screen at the act itself, and then "cuddling (or morning) after". Introductions were slightly rewritten, and in case the scene in +18 didn't have the "after", it was added. So for each route there are new CGs for the first scene. In Rise's route, the lead-in is rewritten so Rise asks to take a shower. After she comes out we get CG of Rise wrapped in bath towel, then there's black out, and after that the cuddling scene that was present in adult version too. Beginning of Chihos first scene is handled in similar manner, so we also get her new bath CG (slightly NSFW - "steam censorship", but definitely most fanservicey among replacement CGs): She also gets absolutely cute new "morning after" scene, that wasn't present in adult version. In Ritsuko's route in the beginning there's new CG of her sitting on the bed, being a bit nervous. Masaya comforts her and then after blackout there's cuddling scene the same as in adult version. There's also replacement scene in bath later, where they just sit in the bath (Ritsuko wrapped in towel) and talk about various things. In case of Ayaka's route, in adult version there wasn't cuddling after scene, so it has been added (pretty nice, if you ask me): Also, similar to Ritsuko's route there's replacement scene in bath, where Ayaka in swimsuit washes protag's back. For other changes - in common route one SD CG was removed, and the scene with Konomi reading eromanga has been rewritten so she doesn't read it aloud. In Chiho's route rather explicit picture of the book they use for "studying" is replaced with the cover that reads "How to...". Also, the dialogue about creating martial arts club is moved from the night in the classroom (when there was random sex scene in adult version) to some other point later. In FD epilogues there are no replacement scenes (as in this case all-ages version was created by MG), instead there's just short description along the lines "and then we made love until the dawn" . All in all, it was really enjoyable version, and the lack of sex scenes didn't bother me - it was handled very well. It is much tamer than AA version of Sanoba, and a bit bolder than ASFOS. My score for the whole VN remains the same - 8.5/10, really enjoyed it.

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Thank God. I would say it actually is around 50 to 60 hours for most people. Did you keep track of the time? Otherwise it could be that you were so engrossed that time just flew by It makes me sad that you didn't get what you expected from MLA. I know how harmful hype can be to one's experience, that's why I always try to keep it to a bare minimum, even with the so called and widely regarded as 'kamiges'. Oh well, I'm glad that at least you enjoyed the technical aspects. For a 2006 VN (and even by today's standards) it's freaking amazing.

Thanks Lesiak. I guess I can be more smarter here ... Please guide me to the world god only knows hahaha.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, newbie! We'll gladly guide you on your way to even deeper degeneracy and weebness. Hope you'll have fun around here!

Hey, welcome! I'm pretty new here too but there is a lot to learn and discover so I'm sure you'll have fun.

Finished playing Chapter 1 of Chusingura. Wow, that was an incredibly long rollercoaster of emotions. Seeing Suguha's change into a proper samurai felt natural and was awesome.

Few days ago, Mangagamer did posted the comment from the director of Suki Suki himself. Apparently there'll be more in the future, but anyway here's the link to aforementioned Mangagamer post and I can say that it would be a nice read if you interested with Suki Suki.

Well, steam should act professional and actually give developers a reason for removing a game on steam. Deleting and ignoring sounds pretty childish.

Little late, but I would also suggest Eiyu*Senki.

And 6 years later, people are still shitting on SAO. Some things never change huh

*raughs*

Sengoku Koihime doesn't have a battle system. Koihime and shin Koihime Musou have a very limited battle system that is so simple a toddler could master it. If you just want to play a conquest srpg with VN elements and don't care about translation, Sengoku Hime V is my suggestion (best game in the series by far, though part of that is that the story mode is the best). The difficulty levels are explosively hard if you choose to play the non-story mode as-is, though.

Sold. EDIT: I was a bit hasty now I'm sold.

I just wanna say Narcissu.

Steins;Gate, yo. There's no high school in sight there.

And I'm leaving this post behind for the record, so that if I were to shamefully give up in the future you can humiliate me and rub it in my face to your heart's content. Please do if I fail. Starting from today, I'm gonna be putting a very considerable amount of time and effort into learning moonspeak to a level where I can stop learning it deliberately and just progress as I use the language. So, where's my current level at? Hard to say exactly, but let's see. I have a pretty comprehensive grammatical understanding of the language, but it's more on the linguistics side rather than the practical side. Not completely useless, since at least I won't have to beat my head against the wall trying to figure out how things work, but yeah. My active vocab is limited to the most basic day to day conversations. I know how to write the kanas and I should be able to at least recognize around 200 kanji with their meaning and hopefully some sample words. To sum it up, whilst I'm not starting from absolute zero, it's definitely still an early beginner level. So, what's gonna be my approach? Something that hopefully won't drive me to commit suicide, and the closest thing I've found to that that sounds like it could actually work, is the AJATT method, which is supposed to be an immersion based approach. You can read more about it on its website if you google it, but very briefly this is what it says: -First of all start off with Remembering the Kanji and learn all 2046 kanji and their meanings, without bothering with their readings. Use a SRS program like Anki to help you along the process. -Do not learn vocab. Learn full sentences in context instead. And not any sentences, but only those that could be considered "comprehensible input". That is, sentences where all you're lacking is one piece of vocab or grammar. Avoid sentences where you'd have to look up everything. Create Anki cards for those sentences, and at the beginning attach an English translation on the back, but don't go out of your way to try to memorize the translation: just focus on getting the meaning right and use the translation to check your understanding. Oh yeah, and the sentences won't have furigana, so you only know the flashcard if you are able to read it out loud, write it, and understand it. -As you get better you'll switch to 100% Japanese flashcards, describing every word in Japanese. -All this should be accompanied by frequent exposure to the language. Active exposure when possible. That means for example trying to listen carefully to movies and anime without subtitles and picking up on as much info as you can. And that's it. No magic involved, it just makes sense that it has to work if you are consistent. And with that said, I have some odd hundreds of kanji to learn, so I'll see you guys within 3 or 4 months, which is what I expect it to take me if I don't neglect my study. Oh yeah, and in case someone got motivated while reading this, feel free to join in. The more, the merrier. It'd be by no means to be taken as a competition, but it's true that turning it into a group activity would have its benefits. It's much less likely to give up on something when you're doing it together with other people, that's for sure.

Could you explain this rather inappropriate response? Honestly. I wish people wouldn't quote me at all if they're going to give me pointless replies like that. Saves me the trouble of clicking the notification. Really ticks me off. Just ignore my post if you're gonna reply like that again, m'kay?

Well, I don't know how they actually see it, but I get why at least on this side of the planet people would think of it as nothing more than masturbation fodder I mean, I know I do. And the reason is that sex scenes are usually so over the top that they often feel like a parody. I know I'd love myself some more intimate and romantic h-scenes, but heh, good luck with that. It's like in anime related media everything has to be exaggerated, including sex. Well, when you think about it and compare it fairly with every other aspect, like comedy, it actually makes a whole lot of sense.

Yeah, I'm planning on using VNs as a resource for getting my sentences In fact I've been reading VNs in Japanese for a while now, the problem is, while I do try to memorize the vocab and stuff, my focus is more on understanding what it says and moving onto the next sentence. That's mainly because I chose VNs way beyond my level, so the sentences couldn't be considered comprehensible input at all. If anything, comprehensible for Saint Google and several dictionaries and grammar books

What can I say, he he. I'd prefer them alive and in one piece Please don't ban me Dergonu-sama

Oh yeah, I didn't mention Basque now that I think about it, but I love it and have read my fair share of grammar books and papers about it It has way too many amazing features to go unnoticed. Morphosyntactically, it's one of the few ergative-absolutive languages in Europe; it features polypersonal agreement which is just the coolest thing ever and something you really need to move far from home to find (the Caucasus for example, look at Georgian); it also features surdéclinaison... a french term for inflectional morphology being used derivationally and recursively (e.g Bilbo-ra-ko bidea / Bilbao-ALL-GEN.LOC / The road to Bilbao), and a lot of other very cool features that I could keep talking on and on... It's beautiful, truly! As for the learning difficulty... it's just like any other language, really. Sure, it's not a indo-european language and if you've never left the family before it's gonna take some time to get used to it. The fact that every baby in every country in the world learns how to speak in the same amount of time on average, means that there's no "harder language". Just a matter of familiarity I mean, the "it sounds like they are angry" thing can be heard about any language people are not used to. I hear that all the time about Chinese and Arabic from people around me, for example. There's also the stereotypes and the contexts people often hear that language being used. To me, German sounds lovely, and I don't even frequently read german literature nor I'm particularly fond of any german band or anything. There you have it, my favorite butchered German in Anime. Just out of curiosity, how well can you understand what she's singing without looking at the lyrics?

I'm sure your memory is better than you give it credit for Just need some motivation man! Though I'm sure one to talk... I keep procrastinating my kanji studies because I'm lazy bum... Anyway, if it's only the kanas that are the problem, just give yourself a full afternoon to learn them and be done with it. As long as you keep using them they will stick. Then use your mighty chinese skillz and you'll be OP!