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    VNs with nameable protagonist, are they actually saying the name you put in?

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    I remember someone on #tlwiki mentioned that he encountered once a VN with nameable protag and voice bank of common japanese names. I forgot title name tho, and cannot find it in logs.

    EDIT: actually, found it.

    Moogy: btw one of the gimmicks in the -cation series is that they had the seiyuu record hundreds/thousands of clips of themselves saying various common japanese male names so that the player can enter his own name and hear it

    So it was about http://vndb.org/v6682 http://vndb.org/v10288 http://vndb.org/v14005

    Sekai Project Official Grisaia Translation?

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    https://twitter.com/nekopara_pr/status/509350778197127168 "investigating" means "doing research", it doesn't mean they made up their minds and signed deals, at least from whatever info we have publicly.

    SP doesn't have infrastructure to sell 18+ games right now. Dovac complained in the past, that cc processing complanies he poked around either refused to deal with porn or demanded insane commissions. Then they would need to set up web shop from scratch, which isn't trivial task either. And then he'd need to hire support, anti-fraud and so on, which is really too much of a hurdle for single doujin game.

    Sekai Project Official Grisaia Translation?

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    they’ve had to drift away from what they want to release to survive. If they were doing good they’d be in a financial position to release the games they like.

    they’ve been forced to rush out mostly nukige because they sell better

    hardly comfortable

    pressured for time vs MG who are forced into releasing dodgy games and have been forced to rush games out the door

    Sekai Project Official Grisaia Translation?

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    I think it was last year where MG confirmed Boob Wars was their best selling title (this was before Steam) beating out Koihime Musou (which sold a little more than 2,000 copies) and Shuffle (which sold similarly.) These are very poor sales. To put it in perspective, Cinders sold 2,000 copies and Christine Love’s Analogue sold 30,000 copies. When the Japanese Eroge scene, with games of high production value, only perform marginally better than the Indie OELVN scene, it’s in bad shape.

    First of all, your numbers are not very correct. ImoPara alone sold more than 3k copies so far.

    Second, you completely ignored price. 45 USD per digital copy without distributor and 5 USD per copy with 30% cut going to distributor are entirely different things.

    And when will they all be released? MG takes far longer to translate story VNs than nukige, for fairly obvious reasons.

    Within 1.5 years since announcement. What this has to do with anything? Its not "MG takes far longer", its "translation time is linearly related to the length of text", no amount of investment would drastically improve translation speed without affecting quality.

    License fees are paid, translators and other staff are contracted and receiving their wages, so yes, all of them are in MG's portfolio.

    And I still don't understand how you inferred that MG is doing "not good" from fact that they rapidly increased amount of partners, licenses and translator teams. Each game brings them profit and they are growing fast, so how performs Christine, who is backed by whole gaming news industry, is irrelevant.

    Right now, MG is most stable of the trio, with SP being least (dovac admitted several times that he took tons of loans and burning through cash very fast).

    Sekai Project Official Grisaia Translation?

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    Like, if this fails for Sekai then we might as well kiss any chance of having a real wave of interest in official translations goodbye.  If GnK, an extremely popular and acclaimed work from the genre can't break into the English market, why would smaller companies even bother attempting it when one of the best couldn't do it?

    Yeah, MangaGamer with their dozens of partners and huge portfolio doesn't exist, rite? Every year we see steady increase in amount of eroge devs interested in western market, and unlike SP, they bring new, not yet translated games.

    If GnK fails, it will be solely dovac's fault, because he managed to piss off huge part of VN market with his terrible management and PR, and it will not affect anything except his retirement plans.

    Mangagamer polls VN fans about interest in Euphoria

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    It seems that you just can't appreciate the rarity of a good porn that satisfies the darkest desires of mankind.

    Are you seriously calling that trash "darkest desires of mankind"?

    Both games you claim to be dark are vanilla as fuck, and both are even more consensual than euphoria. There's no scat, gore, guro, cannibalism or extreme torture, there's no real mental breakdown, no real descriptions of suffering and anguish.

    Go play some real dark nukige, then we will talk. Considering you played only 14 vns total and all of them are english-translated, you don't have qualifications to judge quality of average nukige — you didn't read even single mid-tier or top-tier nukige after all.

    Mangagamer polls VN fans about interest in Euphoria

    in Visual Novel Talk

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    but because most of the so-called "extremities" are really just consensual torture, as in they subjected themselves to the torture in order to prevent each other from being killed

    Apparently you didn't play the game. Pattern you are speaking about takes less than half of scenes. Rest are genuine gang-rape, torture and sexual slavery.

    Compare Captive Market and My Sex Slave is a Classmate for reference.

    These two games are lowest-tier nukige. Complete trash in terms of everything. I'm quite astonished that someone would use them as reference for anything but "what cheapest no-effort-from-creators games look like".

    Grisaia no Meikyuu Translation Started

    in Fan Translation Discussion

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    It's not 1/3... But the h-scenes are rather major part of the grand route. Also a lot of sexual jokes and parts in the after stories.

    Big parts of the story is said partly with what the sex means. Yuji's fucked up relationship with his sister, seriously lol. His deep and romantic relations with Asako. Causing the broken relationship with Julia afterwards.

    Not to mention changing this stuff messes up Rakuen. You'd need some major rewrite to make it be the same story...

    All-ages fits for kajitsu, not meikyuu imo..

    Removing h-scenes is not same as redacting material to make them not happen. As koestl already explained, "removing" means once sex scene starts, screen goes blank and they skip through it. So its not going to affect Rakuen in any way. Every point you mentioned (abuse from sister, romance with Asako, failed romance with Julia) is backed with tons of non-h material and is actually thoroughly rubbed in reader, with everything spelled out clearly and several times.

    IMHO, importance of h-scenes is backwards: they are most important in Kajitsu, slightly important in Meikyuu and totally useless and unneeded in Rakuen.

    Grisaia no Meikyuu Translation Started

    in Fan Translation Discussion

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    And the after stories seemed to fill the purpose of stuffing in more h-scenes one way or the other, as is the standard fandisc fare

    Not all of them. Makina afterstory is story-centric, and was pretty fun and interesting to read. Michiru is really good comedy. Sacchi was similar to Makina's, althrough a bit worse. And in every of them I felt H-scenes were unneeded. At that point their relation is well-established and we got plenty of h-stuff in Kajitsu, so they were just interrupting flow of story w/out any benefit.

    As for Dave's corner, I don't even know why its there. No relation to story, absolutely pointless lump of h-content. Whoever needs something to fap to, could read these scenes with ATLAS if he doesn't know Jap, and there would be no difference.

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