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Just saw this announcement trailer for Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York and it looks pretty interesting. Apparently it'll be a VN/RPG hybrid which will also have some additional game play mechanics like quests, hunger, feeding, disciplines and time progress. It's definitely it's own thing and not your typical OELVN that tries to emulate Japanese anime tropes, and I'm rather curious how this will work out. Will it get more attention from people who aren't into anime art or just miss the mark? I'm also a bit worried if they go too far with the game mechanics and hurt the narrative with it. Regarding the trailer itself, the backgrounds and atmosphere are great but the characters look a bit wishy-washy to be honest and they don't seem to have different expressions. But I'll definitely keep an eye on that title since I'm a big vampire fan and of White Wolf in particular (Bloodlines is one of my all-time favorite RPG's).

Thanks, and I hope so too I'm not as involved in that project as I should be, but I know the other folks are motivated to finish it. We talked the other day about maybe doing a patch for the second Noratoto, but that depends on TLer's motivations and other things. While I'd love for both of these to happen, I don't want to get anyone's hopes high just yet. I don't know what they are doing right now, but I pray to God they are not butchering my dear Cocoro Function

I don't know wtf is going on with the quoting right now, but uh, gonna have to leave this one like this too. Actually quoting breaks the whole site it seems :thinking: Infernoplex quote 1: Definitely true, and I wish it wasn't like this. Noratoto deserved more than a lackluster translation and a butchered all-ages release. Fair, I can agree on them partially being at fault for that. I just feel more angry at Harukaze than Fruitbat regarding all of this. I see them as the main party at fault here. Yup, it's a shame. Crossing my fingers you guys get the fan patch done one of these days, so people can at least enjoy the full game. Good luck on that, by the way. Right. Yeah, the whole Moenovel thing is... really weird. They just went for that 12 year old French girl money and never looked back.

There's one other thing about them to have in mind too. They let JAST license one of their older games back in the day. Or at least, JAST's subsidiary. So they definitely knew about one of the localizers at the time they released their first butchered translation (IMHHW). We can't say they didn't know at least something about the English side of localization business. Harukaze, maybe, but PULLTOP definitely wasn't completely ignorant on the matters of localization with their first western release. Actually... scratch that. Considering in what a poor state IMHHW came out, I guess their one partnership with JAST was for nothing. Definitely true, and I wish it wasn't like this. Noratoto deserved more than a lackluster translation and a butchered all-ages release. Fair, I can agree on them partially being at fault for that. I just feel more angry at Harukaze than Fruitbat regarding all of this. I see them as the main party at fault here.

Does this fix the borked formatting? Just think of this as a quote... Yeah, of course, there are companies that can be convinced to mend their ways. But for every such example, there's another counterexample. To this day, nobody managed to convince PULLTOP/Moenovel to give us 18+ releases of their VNs, and it's widely speculated that Sekai didn't manage to convince Giga to give them a license for the 18+ release of Baldr Sky. There are likely more examples that I can't recall right now. Yes, to many a fan's frustration, this is very true. Though, granted, Pulltop just self-published, and never reached out to anyone for help, outside of platforms to sell on. This is going back to speculation, but yes, that is one possibility. Another is that they simply didn't know anything about the English market, (happens often,) and they either A) got contacted by Fruitbat, or B) knew someone who had a connection with them, (seeing as they have done obscure doujinge like Seabed, this could be possible,) which got them in touch with Fruitbat. Do note that I have always specified them being partly to blame. At the end of the day, Harukaze made the final decisions here, but I personally feel like Fruitbat's involvement most likely had some hand in that, and as such, I see them as partly responsible. Of course, if there's actual proof out there of Harukaze just being like "fuck, nope!" then that's fair, but based on the situation and what we have to go off, I'd say the criticism is fair.

Not every JP dev is the same. Just because JAST managed to convince one doesn't mean anybody else can manage to convince any other JP dev. Granted, it's likely that Fruitbat doesn't have this negotiating power like JAST does (nor does Fruitbat look like they would care enough to bother that hard to get that 18+), but the final decision still lies at the JP side. If Harukaze had wanted it, they would've went a different route and got someone else to advise them. I mean... how did they even turn to Fruitbat of all in the first place :face_palm: Not necessarily true at all. While Fruitbat indeed has no real incentive to bother Harukaze about it, that doesn't necessarily mean we would have 18+ version had some other company like Sekai or JAST taken the role of the advisor. You're saying this as if it would be easy to convince Harukaze to do something they may be very reluctant to do, no matter who bothered them about it. JP devs can be both easy and difficult to deal with. Who knows what's in these people's minds over there...

Thank for the voice of sanity @Inflatable Lemon.

Pardon me, looks like I replied before you ninja-edited in that paragraph. However, I also overlooked a statement to that effect in the thread that I originally quoted: So it is quite clear that the discussion to release an all-ages version lies at the feet of Harukaze. While it is regrettable that FF were not able to persuade Harukaze to release an 18+ version, it is still silly to blame them for a decision made by another company.

Fruitbat only signed on as the publisher after Noraneko was announced, and they have been explicit about the fact that they did not license the game, so it is pretty silly to blame them for something they had no part in: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1010600/discussions/0/1639788130288331293/?ctp=7#c1643167006305644608

You want them to be imprecise about their shades of red? What a shameful attitude...

Sankaku Renai || Love Triangle Trouble || スキとスキとでサンカク恋愛 **Summary** This Walkthrough is based on the Official Western release of Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai, published by NekoNyan and is available for Purchase on Steam And NekoNyan Store as well as other 3rd party storefronts. The VN was originally Developed and Published by ASa Project. **Description** Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren’ai is a game by Asa Project. A game in which protagonist Sousuke, his stepsister Nanaru and their parents make up their small 4 person family. Living a normal life, and enjoying their school days. All of that changes however, once his real sister Suzu comes back in their life. A love triangle unfolds whereby both of his sisters try to win his favor. Nanaru being open and energetic one, while Suzu is more reserved yet gentle. Then the story heats up even more once his childhood friend Maho and the mysterious senpai Shiina join the battle. So with 2 different love triangles happening around him, what will become of Sousuke? **Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order** This VN has 4 Main Heroines and 2 Side Heroines. Each Route can be completed in any given order. The save system in this VN is slightly different from your standard save system. It uses Bookmark system. The Bookmarks can be further filtered according to various categories of your choosing. You will need 5 bookmark slots for the Purpose of this walk through. Note that Bookmarks cannot be overwritten, however they can be deleted. The guide follows the following Route order Shiina > Maho > Cara > Akane > Suzu > Nanaru. The Route order needs to be followed in order to make use of the Bookmark points used by this guide **Route Guideline** Kisu Shiina Narutaki Maho Cara Olivia ( Side Heroine ) Warota Akane ( Side Heroine ) Komorie Suzu Komorie Nanaru **Attribution** This Walkthrough was referenced from Seiya-Saiga, Chuee's Guide on Steam as well as my own playthrough of the VN