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Nekonyan's next release will be Riddle Joker on the 18th of December, so we'll have something new to play over the holidays which is always nice. More Yuzusoft Moeges . Havent completely finished Senren yet though lol. Blogpost: https://nekonyansoft.com/blog/aokana-extra1-riddle-joker-release-date I wonder if they are having issues with Hello Lady's engine or something since the base game has been done for months now and i believe even the fandisc is almost done (already TLed/Edited), hopefully thats their February release

Damn, It's fucking sad when the stuff you wanna read gets censored, What's the point of censoring an Eroge anyway? just going to refund and wait till the patch is done, Good luck with the patch people, Stay safe.

Happy belated 26th birthday to @Flutterz, and I hope that you'll have a good birthday.

Hey just checking in again, hope you guys are doing well and staying safe.

Hello there, I'm an interested lurker, I'm sure this applies to myriad people who frequent this forum without registering, but I've noticed that both the TL and Editing have both been completed now, that's a pretty fantastic effort. A little incentive assuming you're interested - in the event that you do manage to get this project completed and released before the New Year I'll gift $100 (US) to the Paypal account of your choosing. Should this occur you may send me a direct message here on Fuwanovel to work out the details, how this is split amongst your team will be a matter for you guys to decide. Assuming you're open to it, perhaps some others might want to do the same considering the effort put into this project, but either way, my offer stands. Dark

If I can tolerate waiting for both Amayui Castle Meister (progress unknown but not dead) and Gin'iro, Haruka (on Hiatus atm due to Trip being burned out) to finish being translated then I'll gladly wait for Aiyoku no Eustia to finish translating. Goes to show Stormwolf being negative in this thread was entirely unnecessary, no one agreed to his negative stance to begin with.

Absolutely stoked. If this comes out during winter break this year, it'll be a real treat for us during the holidays. If it doesn't the wait will be a little more painful, but with the amount of care you're putting in, all will be worth it. Congrats!

I personally think that VNs right now are in a sense stuck in a cursed loop. VNs as a medium just really lack variety and as a result appeal to a small number of people. Even most all-ages titles follow the same story structure: even in non-adult titles a male protagonist always has to be surrounded by a lot of female love interests; it almost always has to take place in high-school; even in plot-focused stories there are a lot of slice-of-life scenes, which aren't even well written, and mostly just serve as a way to stall the story for some time rather than developing the characters; finally, the personalities of the protagonist, the heroines and even the side characters typically just follow certain well-known archetypes. So, if you just happen not to enjoy some of these titles and just want to find something more unique, you're much better off watching some anime or reading a manga. Otome games are a bit different, but, from my limited experience with them, they seem to have a bag of different, though slightly similar, problems. There are indeed some unique and experimental VNs that do things differently, but most of these are doujin titles and don't get that much exposure. Most of them aren't even that good, since good authors are likely to join some company at some point and start making a lot more standard VNs, or leave the medium altogether. Also, we, the current VN fans, enjoy these tropes to at lest to some extend, and a lot of us actually prefer them. As a result, in a short run it's not a very good strategy for companies to experiment with story structures, since they don't know if the fans would like these changes, and they just stick to the strategy that worked thus far. And VNs are also expensive to make, so they don't allow for much flexibility. Nowadays, manga and light novel authors don't even have to make any initial investment at all, since they just can start posting their stories online and see how people react to them, or even completely stick to episodic online distribution. In case of VNs, even a single financially unsuccessful product can make a whole company go bankrupt. I personally think that if VNs somehow let this loop, there's a good chance that they would start appeal to a bigger number of people. They probably wouldn't be the same people as the current VN fans. Will they ever do that? I doubt it, but I don't know. EVNs might actually lead to something interesting at some point, who knows?