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Broski's back, y'all. Denpasoft (full 18+ release): https://denpasoft.com/collections/newest-releases/products/9-nine-episode-2 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033420/9nineEpisode_2/ Denpasoft (free patch for the Steam release): https://denpasoft.com/collections/dlc/products/9-nine-episode-2-18-dlc

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I was wondering today, during my daily complain about how I hate VNs time, why do people read VNs? What do VNs offer that other entertainment mediums do not? For example, some visual novels are able to play with perspective in a unique way that other mediums cannot match to mess with how one interprets the story. Personally, I think many visual novels, if not nearly every single VN, fails to actually do anything with the medium itself and instead relies on tradition (for example, "VNs have always had X or Y so this VN has X in it too!") to push copies. Sometimes I see stories being pushed as a huge selling point for a VN, but that has me wondering often, why does it have to be a VN for the story to exist? Could the story work just as well as a novel/LN/manga? So my main question isn't so much what is a VN but why is a VN a VN? Yes I know, stupid question but it is something I'm curious about.

Well it just came out 15 hours ago so I don't expect many people to have completed it but who ever finished it, what are your thoughts and what would you rate it? Personally I am extremely bias towards this series since kokoiro was my first visual novel and I am still very new to the community. 和泉つばす, the character designer and CG artist is my favourite artist. Since I don't have much experience in visual novels I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure this would be one of the few games out there where it had a sex scenes which succeeded in making struggle to hold back by tears, whilst another made me laugh my ass off. The bad end was pretty rough; Feels got me pretty good. It didn't give me the heavy feeling after I finished it though since I know there is Haruiro coming up next and 2 to follow after that. I'm looking forward to Haruiro which would probably be translated in half a year (?) I'd give it a 8/10. It was better than kokoiro in my opinion.

Yuuna Misaki from Ace academy https://vndb.org/c22077

https://vndb.org/c4656 https://vndb.org/c26309 (These are more than your regular cuties.) https://vndb.org/c73711 (This is more like your regular cutie.)

Hello there, The engine is WillPlus/AdvHD, so you'll have best luck looking for compatible tools (Pulltop) There are numerous people who worked on both scenario (retranslation) and graphics patches for If My Heart Had Wings (IMHHW) or koirizo DAT is probably just the extension for bitmap files. ARC is the extension for archives (but it is NOT required to repack modded files IIRC, you just put them in the EXE directory) [1] See thread and (WillPlus) [2] https://github.com/ZudoMC/AutoSpriter [3] https://github.com/Inori/FuckGalEngine/tree/master/AdvHD [4] https://github.com/Amarillys/MaikzJsRepo/blob/master/advhd-mkz.js [5] https://github.com/marcussacana/WillPlusManager MeruP has private tools apparently, so you may want to ask (nicely).

Inamuma Rio from Dracu-Riot would fit the description perfectly, I also think she had the best route in the vn.

Lots and lots and lots of updates! First, a few links! Steam ♦ Discord ♦ Newsletter And now some new screenshots a fair amount has changed, namely the sprites have gotten updates and GUI has drastically changed! And here's a character intro trailer!

https://vndb.org/c76126 https://vndb.org/c25696 https://vndb.org/c12468 https://vndb.org/c18314 https://vndb.org/c34521 https://vndb.org/c48080 https://vndb.org/c9704 https://vndb.org/c50404 https://vndb.org/c63986 https://vndb.org/c40541 https://vndb.org/c32429 https://vndb.org/c34901 https://vndb.org/c34955 https://vndb.org/c52656 It keeps going and going and going...

* Sachi from Grisaia is an obvious pick. I just love her sensual voice and her NOT very subtle innuendos. * Yuzuyu from Fureraba. Yeah, she's a Tsundere, and an extremely verbally violent one at that. But all Tsunderes have their cute side. * Tamase from Muv-Luv series. She's about as DereDere as they come. She wears Neko accessories too. * Asahi from Sorcery Jokers. I absolutely adored her for her singing Christmas carols randomly. Not to mention her utter fearlessness.... * Mihiro from Wagamama High Spec. For an Oppai Loli, she's cute. Her theme song is also super cute. * "Ruuko" from To Heart 2. She's certainly unique, that's for sure. * Rise from Princess Evangile. I liked her random jealous skits. * Kirari from Kira*Kira. Ever wanted to see an adorable punk rocker girl who changes her hair pink? Well here you go. * Hikari from Under One Wing. Like Sachi, she's rather prone to sexual jokes too.

Oh hey, thanks

We don't want the r18 patches purely because we want to jerk ourselves off to the H-scenes. We don't want to see censoring just because we want to get off on the CG's. We just want the full experience. Remember the purpose in why your licensing these titles. To give us, the western audience, the same experience the locals are getting. To share the full experience with us so we can connect with the local counterparts and bond with them over these titles. And I can assure you friendship had been born because of this. But censoring and cutting out parts of the game isn't going to achieve that. Remember there are always r18 versions and all age versions available for the local (Japanese) community/market, so why not for us too. I'm talking to you MoeNovels. To you SakuraGames. To you Fruitbat Factory. From now on when I mention r18 ver of the game, i mean a fully untouched game, only translated, not censored, with nothing cut out. Hey MoeNovels, Give us the FULL version of the It My Heart Had Wings Series and A Sky Full of Stars, with H-scenes and all the stuff you cut out. Nothing changed, nothing added, nothing cut out, just translated with quality into English. That's all we ask. You can keep satisfying Steam with your censored stuff like the ones you're doing now, but please. And I really beg of you. Please release a r18 ver of it. Hey Fruitbat Factory, Please. Please give us a full version. A r18 version. A non edited, non censored, pure original version just translated with quality into English, of The Princess, The Stray Cat and The Matters of the Heart. A game that's fan service centered and filled with H-scenes should not be censored and given to the West like this. It's like serving a spaghetti without the pasta. It just doesn't work. Or at least do what you did with Eiyuu Senki and hand the censored, cutted out stuff and H-scenes and everything to another company. Please I beg of you. This is an extremely good title. Don't mess it up. Again it's fine if you want to make a censored game, but at least give us an option to experience to fill version of the game. The full experience. I beg of you. There are many good titles that have been picked up from you guys. You can still fix them. There are also titles yet to be picked up. Don't make the same mistakes you've done and give us, the audience, the consumers, what we really want. I can say for a fact that we are loyal to the medium, but we are not fools as well. We know when the consume and when not to. You don't need to change stuff and add things. Just keep it untouched and do good translations. By all means am I not belittling how hard it is in this industry but please. Make it right.

I'm afraid the only thing that connects those vns are tears.

Well, to make it even better, Deardrops could have ignored Curtain Call. Everyone would be better off if we just forgot Curtain Call ever happened.

Are you the kind of guy that loves stews but hates having to prep all the shit going into them? If so you’re uncomfortably close to being me holy shit stop. Anyway if you try to google up recipes for a pork stew using wine you inevitably get something that could be much simpler. Here’s my attempt at such a thing; I’ve cooked this twice and IMO it’s excellent. INGREDIENTS (serves 2 if you’re me and my dad) ~500g pork meat cut into medium pieces 1 bouillon cube ~200ml red wine ~100ml water 1 onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, chopped chili flakes to taste LITERALLY THREE PLUS ONE FUCKING STEPS BECAUSE I PUT THE PREPARATION STEPS IN THE INGREDIENTS PART 1. Brown the meat in your fat of choice on high heat in a saute pan. Salt and pepper those shits for good measure, though honestly idk if it matters so I cba to put them in the list. 2. Turn down to low heat and add wine, water, onion, garlic, chili flakes, and crumble in the bouillon cube. I usually mix it all together but who knows if this is even needed? Not le watakushi. 3. Let stew w/ lid on for as long as it takes for the meat to be nice and tender. 4. Serve with magically appearing rice I didn’t tell you about. QUESTIONS How do I know how long the meat will take to cook? Since this is a general recipe I can’t tell you, but pork chops took ~1h 15m and store-tenderized pork chop meat took like an hour. Tougher cuts made for stewing might take as much as 2 hours 45 minutes or more. I also recommend the “google it” and “ask your mum” options if available. On your first time using a new kind of meat, I recommend sampling the meat at likely points. This will fuck with your rice timing which sucks, but so does life so nothing new there really. How do I make this efficiently timewise? The main timewaster is the slow boiling process, so the goal should be to get that started as soon as possible. Start by cutting the meat into pieces unless it is already. After that use any downtime, for example when the fat’s warming in the pan or when you’ve just put the meat in and are letting it rest for some surface, to chop the onion / garlic. It’s not particularly important to add the garlic or onion or really anything to the stew at the same time as you add the wine, just get them in once you finish processing them. Ok but I have beef not pork Then do the exact same things and it will probably still work lol. Ok but I have chicken not pork Then make this high effort recipe instead. Or just try anyway. Cooking time will be much shorter though. Ok but I have <other kind of meat> We live in a society, dear reader. I’m sure you can figure it out. That’s still too many ingredients Fair enough. I don’t think the garlic is essential and chopping it is annoying so take it out if you wish. The chili flakes are also a bit of a flourish and you might not even like them so omit them if you want. I would not omit the onion but if you’re a hater it probably won’t kill the dish entirely to take that out too, I’m never actually going to try that myself though so good luck. Ok but I don’t have a bouillon cube I will assume you have liquid broth then, use that. Otherwise supply your goddamn kitchen. Since broth will increase the total amount of liquid you probably want to cut down on or use no water at all. I have not tried this at home but like it’s a stew it’ll work out. Actually I think a few more ingredients would be ok I would suggest looking up more traditional recipes at this point but here are some things I have not tried: mushrooms seem like they’d fit in well. Carrots are also often mentioned though idk if I like the idea as much. I can also see bell pepper but I have a bell pepper fetish. As for spices you could try grated fresh ginger (obviously ditch some or all of the chili then I’m not responsible if you kill yourself with this) or maybe szechuan pepper. Where’s the obligatory shitty picture? View the full article