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  1. Larxe1

    What are you playing?

    Came back to playing VN's again randomly after a long hiatus and played Parfait Remake. Holy crap I expected this game to be longer, I felt so unsatisfied by the length because I seriously liked the heroines a lot, like I wanted to see a lot more of them. Its literally just navigating the map system and triggering events and then you can lock in a heroine after a few weeks of ingame time, and then the relationship forms, h-scene, and then an ending shortly thereafter. Why was it short and why was Katori Rea so perfect, rarely do I praise tsunderes a lot as they can be easily mishandled by a bad writer and make me hate the trope but Rea was just the perfect balance of tsun and dere, and her tsun isn't so annoying like most other tsunderes that make you want to bash their head in, Rea's tsun is just so cute, and you can actually see her getting softer and softer overtime and it melts my heart out. The game is actually quite good in of itself, It does everything well, it's a good light-hearted romcom and doesn't stray too far from it but I only finished Rea's route so far and some people have said that the other routes are quite dramatic, but I'll read them again when I have the time since I am still in the "why was the route so short" phase. I need more good tsundere content in my life lol, I really love it when it is well executed. Well aside from my Rea praising rants, I'll offer some thoughts on the other parts of the game The heroines are all good but maybe this is just personal taste but some of them are a bit lacking or maybe because I wasn't as invested in them, particularly Asuka at Kasuri. Asuka seems to just throw herself at the MC and she really has an obvious crush on the MC and Kasuri just lukes the kind of charm that would make me try to go into her route. I also really like Yui, I normally don't like air headed heroines but there's just something about her that's really cute and kinda grips your heart and the best part about her is that her character likes to sing a lot, she sings while working and it's often emphasized by the narration on how good she is and she does actually sing in the game a lot. The VA actually sounds like she's having fun singing, so its really endearing, unlike other VNs in which if a heroine sings, they just kinda gloss over it without the heroine actually singing and just said "she sang". Bruh let us hear the singing. Rikako and Ema seems to be what other fans consider the true route considering that both of them are the ones most obviously connected to the MC's past and both are fascinating, particularly Ema. Ema is route I am also most interested for, considering her personality and how unique her situation with the MC is in VN stories. Particularly she is the ex of the MC's dead brother so she is her sister in law, and both the MC and Ema might care a little too much for each other. I don't know maybe there is some unique circumstance about it but I was also intrigued because in VN's some people have a weird obsession with their heroines being pure. The story remains light and while there maybe some elements of drama present, it doesn't take itself too seriosuly with too much drama and just kinda plops the drama with a short resolution and i'm fine with that. (Note that I have only played Rea route lol) Edit: I was on the normal ending of Rea not the true, wtf that was why it was so short, goddamn map navigation system
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  2. There's something fascinating with how this thread is evolving with every iteration though. Like, he never directly responds to feedback or discusses stuff in the way forums users usually do, but you can see the effects of our responses every time this pops up. The framing is always slightly different and new arguments are replacing the ones that were most violently rebuked. It's as if this was some kind of spell, with the author looking for that one exact set of words that will magically conjure his dream project into existence. I haven't seen anything like it before. And @Nenor5VB, maaaaaan... Above all, this is not really a dev forums. You can somewhat hope to find translators here, but there's very little chance that someone even capable of furthering you cause will ever read what you publish around here. I've said this before, but there are outlets out there that are way more fit to host this topic – particularly after it has been utterly depleted around here. Lemma Soft, VN Dev subreddit, maybe CloudNovel forums or other platform-related sites. You're just talking at void at this point and if you keep it up, I'll seriously consider removing all future threads for redundancy.
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  3. Heya all, I joined this forum because this seems like a really chill community. That and I really need a friend to talk about VNs real bad lol. So yeah, I am perfectly open to be contacted over here. Though I mainly play romance VN, I am open to trying new genres. It's just, romance is my main pick most of the times. Hope we can get along really soon. Cheers.
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  4. VNDB lists unofficial translations as well - if there's even a slight hint of a translation in the works, you can bet that somebody will add it to vndb. What I meant is that it's very unlikely that any translation - official or unofficial - would not get noticed by vndb.
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  5. Yo. Just so you know, I'm the big daddy around these parts.
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  6. Ah, so you're the dude who is on the top of the leaderboard. Hey, hope we can get along! I mean like, a little hell is fine, nothing could beat Twitter anyway.
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  7. adamstan

    What are you playing?

    I think Rea and Yui. Rikako had perhaps the best and most fleshed-out route, but I think my best girl after all was cute tsundere Rea So perhaps it would be something like Rea=Yui>Rikako=Ema>Asuka>Kasuri. I'm not sure where to position Mizuna and Mio - I liked their routes, but they were kind of different thing. And besides, they are absent from the edition you're reading, right? So, to sum it up - my favorite heroine was Rea, and my favorite ending was Rikako's true end.
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  8. Welcome! I hope you'll indeed find our little community relatively not hellish.
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  9. adamstan

    What are you playing?

    It seems that we have similar impressions about heroines. And yeah - if the route gets unexpectedly short it means you triggered normal ending I don't know how it is for remake, but in original version, on the final map movement screen (on Christmas Eve) it indicated wheter you're entering "normal" or "true" route. In case of Rea's and Yui's routes, the difference between those two is one choice - to trigger true route for both heroines you have to choose Yui on 11/23. Here's the walkthrough Yeah, one of the better tsunderes I saw . And I had similar thoughts about Yui - she somehow tugged at my heartstrings. I found her personality cute, and her singing awesome As for Asuka's and Kasuri - their routes felt a bit flat to me, but maybe h-scenes in the remake version you're reading will make them better for you I feel like those two routes are seriously underdeveloped. Ema's and Rikako's routes are great, and perhaps it's Rikako's route having the most of the drama. Anyway I'd recommend reading her route last (I'm not entirely sure, but it seems that it might even be somehow locked until you complete Ema's route and Rikako's normal end) Yeah, that's the only element I wish they got rid of BTW, YMMV, but I found Mio's and Mizuna's routes from all-ages version to be very good despite having different writer. Also, I really dislike remake's changed character art style - I feel like the sprites lost all individuality and expression - in remake they can be differentiated only by hairstyle Also, one of the reasons I preferred all-ages version over the +18 one is that I'm not too fond of the "sex right after confession" trope. It feels off to me. Besides, replacement content in "Standard Editions" is quite good.
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  10. Oof. Well, rest assured that this community is far from hell ridden! Nice to meet ya too, hella
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  11. Well, I hope you're right. Been to some hell-ridden, blood thirsty, and batshit insane community forums before. While they're pretty amusing and charming in a way, it's pretty hard to get anything across. Nice to meet you Kitsune!
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  12. Welcome to the forums! I'd say its pretty chill here. I'd love to chat about VNs with ya
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  13. Darbury

    Data extraction thread

    What tool are you using for your extract? I'm assuming GARbro. Try using KrkrExtract instead. Just ran KrkrExtract on the trial version of your game and was able to get all the scripts, images, etc. out cleanly: ;マクロ//////////////////////////////////////// ; その夏最後の嵐の夜 ぼくは死んだ ;I died in the last stormy night in that summer. ; The TARHS Entertainment Presents ; 図書室のネバジスタ ; 統括・脚本 都志見文太 ; 河原に置かれた荷物、デジカメ。 ;原画・彩色 かずまこを ;流された靴と雨 ;音楽 鷹石忍 FROST ;背景 藍田望 ;制服・ロゴデザイン もろずみすみとも ;河川敷 ; ;=========================================================** *op|&act0[0] ;オープニング @title name=&title_act0[0] ; ;クリック待ちを表示しない @iscript sf.showpagebreak = 0; @endscript ; ;フラグリセット @call storage=flgreset.ks ; ;履歴出力 @history output=true enabled=true etc etc etc
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  14. I'm curious about something. This time around your stated goal is to have a character that looks like you that you can self-insert with. Why ask for black protagonist instead of a "dark-skinned Asian from SEA" whose skin tone is /exactly/ like yours? iirc in your previous threads you had asked for black representation in a way that made it sound like a charity project you were running on behalf of black people. Was that always a ploy to get a character that looks at least tangentially like you and not actually a way to increase black representation in VNs? As in, maybe you thought a black protagonist VN had a better shot at getting made than a "dark-skinned Asian from SEA" VN, so you asked for that and you figured the Venn-diagram overlap was good enough for your self-inserting needs? That's my theory about this saga. Please don't these threads are actually very interesting.
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  15. Penlight public release day is upon us yet again! This past month saw a little further development of the Villainous Devotion path, with several scenes being rewritten (one of them majorly) to go along with some fun new CGs added to it. But most importantly I managed to fully outline a path through the new-look "Zombie" storyline from beginning to end~ As ever, I'm interested to see what people make of it all. Another fun thing to note: As of this release, the number of unlockable CGs in the game has surpassed 100! Where will it end?! As always, you can find this month's release in PC, Linux, Mac and Android versions on my Patreon or itch.io pages. I've also linked the most recent flowchart guide on the latest public news post on Patreon. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the update! And there'll be more to come at the usual time~ What's New WRITING: Zombie storyline outlined through to a conclusion along one path, and scripted through to about a third of day 11WRITING: A scene on the Villainous Devotion storyline, using the new CG assets, has been majorly rewrittenART: New CGs for the Villainous Devotion (x3), Sayori Alter and Zombie (x2) storylinesART: Number of CGs is now over 100!ART: A small image depicting the "mind trick" now appears when it's usedMUSIC: Added one new music piece to the soundtrack, which plays during the Zombie storylineLOCALIZATION: Various edits and corrections to the existing Spanish scriptWord count is now around 293,000Minor typo corrections
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  16. Do you think anyone from USA or Europe would make a Visual Novel with a Black Protagonist ? We really need a VN like that fast and pronto. Because so far, there has been almost zero depictions of Black Male MCs being in a romantic relationship with any anime-style girl except for Bob Makihara in a very old anime ( Tenjou Tenge ), so I would very much like to play at least ONE VN with an MC like that. I may not be African IRL, but just a dark-skinned Asian from SEA, but I can relate and self-insert as any character that is either brown or darker(like Black people) because whenever I see characters that share my skin color get some love in anime-style fictional works, I feel comforted and satisfied, since I don't have a GF IRL and can't get one due to very complicated reasons. So, do you think anyone will make it so that I and other people of darker skin complexions can enjoy a lot ? Lighter guys already have so much representation, so can't you give us our turn for a Self-Insert Protagonist just for this one or few times for us to buy and play, pretty please ? Please pass this thread to the relevant companies that can help make this goal be accomplished. Onegai Shimasu ! I myself have enjoyed countless stories with a lighter-skinned protagonist, so can't you guys do the same in reverse, pwease~~?
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