Zenophilious

Wow, I can't believe I forgot about this. Also from Hoshizora no Memoria, I cracked up every time Okaizumi went into his berserker rage and screamed "SHIIIIIT!". The first time it happened I almost fell out of my chair because it was so loud.

I really liked the fighting music in Fate/stay night. There were enough songs for the fighting scenes that they didn't get boring, and they really made the fights seem more epic. I especially liked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTcPaBt_pFA. I actually liked that it looped; I listened to it for about ten minutes straight lol

No problem. I had forgotten about the terrifying Emi Face of Weirdness already, and that was only 2 VNs ago.

As a happy coincidence, I already have it downloaded :3 I checked out the list of top 50 VNs someone here posted, and thought it looked interesting. Thanks for the suggestion, though! It might be a while until I get to it, since I have around 10 VNs to read, not including the Muv-Luvs :/

Ahhhh. I thought that you were speaking for the whole of Zap Apple. Well, I hope that you guys will keep working together, but you should definitely put what you want before what some random people on the internet want

Dem puns...it hurts... Oh yeah! That was hilarious! I forgot about that. Such a weird face.

Yeah, I thought it might have been the translators, since it's probably safe to assume that VN translators are semi-familiar with internet culture. Even so, I didn't expect that at all. Yeah, FTW is definitely an English term, but other languages have adopted various forms of internet slang into their own languages. I seeing someone in a multiplayer game say something close to "JK" in Chinese (I asked a friend what it meant afterwards), and I know that didn't originate from China.

Really? I thought that if you were dedicated enough to make a full MLP VN that you'd want to do more, or at least keep working together : / Regardless of whether or not it's about MLP/influenced by it/whatever, I hope you guys do keep working together. Even though the demo was a little rough, the base elements were solid. It'd be a shame if nothing else came out of your partnership. As a brony, I'd definitely recommend watching it. It doesn't feel quite the same as the past seasons, but it's still the show it was. The humor is still ever-present, and there's still a lesson to be learned at the end of every episode.

Just wondering, since I'm going through Hoshizora no Memoria, and I just got to the part where Komomo says, "What is this I don't even......" I laughed my ass off at that; the last thing I expected was to see internet references in a VN.

I thought it would be standard to keep the honorifics in...you know, since most people reading the translations are semi-familiar with them already; what are the odds of someone reading a VN that hasn't seen an anime or read a manga? Besides, it lets you know how familiar/close the characters are with each other, which is definitely lost in the translation.

Ahhhh. Strange, but it makes a little sense now. Thanks for the responses. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. GEEE EYEEEE JOEEEE! [/lame reference]

I started playing Hoshizora no Memoria, and I really got confused when Chinami started referring to herself as Chinami instead of "me" or "I". At first I thought it was an error in the translation, but since it was consistent, I decided to look her up. Apparently this is the explanation: http://tropes.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Person_Person About how common is this? Just wondering, since it was a little strange to see at first.

Ooooh. Well, that's good, then. I thought I was doing something stupid for about 10 minutes when I was trying to save xD Sorry about wasting your time, then. Thanks for your responses.

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. There isn't a lot of realistic fantasy literature out there, so it'd be a logical conclusion that there wouldn't be many VNs of the same type. Oooooh. Duh. Sorry about that, I thought that Extra was a separate VN from Unlimited. Herp derp. I really gotta look more carefully at the descriptions, I guess. Grisaia no Kajitsu sound intriguing. It's now on my list of downloads. That one's gonna take a while, since it takes me a few hours to download a 1 GB VN, and holy hell, Grisaia no Kajitsu is big.

Oh, I've heard of Muv-Luv before, but wasn't sure if I should check it out. In what order does it go in? I tried to guess, but I failed pretty hard, and VNDB wasn't that helpful. Those two sound familiar...I think I've heard them mentioned. Two more on my list to check out :3

Hai! Pretty funny that the VNs I suggested were the ones that you suggested to me, huh? Glad to have been of some help, Trident. If you want to know more about them, I'm not the one to ask, since I've never played any of them :/ Flutterz seems to be fairly knowledgeable about them, though.

Do I ever. Lets see...I've read the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series, the entire Ender's Game series, I played the crap out of the Mass Effect games. Those are the books and games I like that have to do with fantasy off the top of my head. Regarding parallel worlds...can't really say one way or the other, since I haven't had that much exposure to it as a plot device. I'll check out your suggestions. Well, that's a coincidence. I was reading one of the Top 50 VNs list here on Fuwanovel and started downloading Kanon. I'll have to check out the other Key VNs, too.

I can't give you any recommendations from personal experience, but I can list a few popular Key VNs that I've heard about. The Spoilers just have the descriptions of the VNs in them. Clannad Little Busters Kanon

I made a thread like this a while ago, but since it's been so long since I was active (excluding today, of course) that I thought I might make another thread asking for recommendations. I started getting into VNs with Katawa Shoujo, with my second VN being Fate/stay night. I have a few others downloaded but haven't started playing them yet, including Hoshizora no Memoria and Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo. The last two were recommended to me by someone in my last recommendations thread, so I'm not sure if they're in the same vein as Katawa Shoujo and Fate/stay night. Anyway, for the types of VNs that I prefer, I guess you could say that I like nakiges, as long as they aren't too depressing and have a decently good ending. Anything that ends badly tends to get me down, and I have a hard time coming out of funks, so, again, I prefer to keep my VNs not too sad. For example, Katawa Shoujo is pretty much ideal in it's lack of any material truly deeply depressing, at least outside of the bad endings. I can handle some slightly more intense content, but I'd prefer if it wasn't that common, or at least was spaced out throughout the story and not all at once. I like most of my VNs to have explicit content, but if the story is good enough, it's okay if it doesn't have any 18+ content. I do need them to be translated into English, since the only other language I can speak (brokenly) is Spanish. If I left anything out, feel free to ask! I'm a little new to VNs, so I might not be up to snuff with all of the lingo. Thanks for your time, and if you gave me a recommendation, thanks again! EDIT: I didn't expect this thread to get replied to after 12 days. I have more than enough VNs for now, so while your recommendations are still appreciated, I only have so much room on my Parallels virtual hard drive, and may not even be able to download them any time soon.

Well, Wavedash, I downloaded the new demo, and the autosaves and manual saves from the old demo showed up, but unsurprisingly they couldn't be opened. The manual saves that I had tried to create hadn't shown up when I tried to make them in the first demo. The autosave worked, but other than that, I'm not quite sure what went wrong. I could have just been saving over them, but I don't think that was it, since I could only see the autosaves. Kinda pointless pointing this out now, since I'm able to save and load in the new demo perfectly fine, but oh well, better late than never. The current saving system seems to work fine on Macs, or at least on Mavericks.

That is strange. I think I had OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 installed when I tried the demo; that's the only potential problem I can think of with my limited technical knowledge. I'll have to try the current version of the demo out to see if the issue persists.

O.O Wow, I didn't expect Wavedash to pop up in this thread. Not every day one of the creators of a VN shows up. I tried the demo on my Mac, and at least before the demo was updated with the new names, I was unable to save. It didn't crash, it just wouldn't save anything. Not a huge problem, since it was just a demo, but I hope that won't still happen in the Mac release.

Sorry for my increasingly large amount of posts, but I thought people might appreciate a list of the characters with their new names and their appearances, in case they don't want to go looking around for them. Tom Stone, the protagonist Tai Saito, aka Twilight Sparkle Paulina "Polly" Parks, aka Pinkie Pie Faith Summers, aka Fluttershy Annabel-Jean "Anne" Smith, aka Applejack Robin Douglass, aka Rainbow Dash Rosalyn “Rose” Montgomery, aka Rarity Side Characters: Dixie Hayes, aka Derpy Hooves Headmasters Selena and Lynette Solomon, aka Princess Celestia and Princess Luna Also, if you're interested, here's some NSFW commission art Zap Apple did for someone, featuring Annabel-Jean "Anne" Smith (Applejack) and Robin Douglass (Rainbow Dash).

Sorry to reply again without an official source, but I remember Zap Apple saying they didn't want to use an official Hasbro MLP character for the protagonist, rather that they wanted a "blank slate" to work with. Dat rock pun. You hit it right on the nose with Tom's origin. "He" appears in the first episode of Season 2; Rarity is hypnotized by Discord into believing that a giant boulder is a huge diamond, which she proceeds to carry around and call Tom. Yeah, I thought the new names were a little strange, too. To be fair, though, they probably were under pressure to release the new names as fast as possible after Hasbro's letter hit the net. If it makes you feel any better, Zap Apple pretty much said that you can mod the names back in; they had to hint around to avoid getting into trouble again. I'm sure someone will have the edited files available a few days after the release. EDIT: Confirmation of name modding

Definitely prefer VNs on PCs. I've never really liked tablets, and feel that they're overpriced for what they offer. I will never buy one, but I'll use one if I have to, at least if they aren't iPads. I decided that the last Apple product I'm going to use will be my new iPod Touch, which was a gift. I don't like Apple's business practices, the quality of their products for the price, or the way the newer OSs are heading. [/rant] Anyway, I don't like letting people see what I'm doing on a computer, even if it's not embarrassing. I'm a rather private person, at least in real life with people I don't know. Getting a tablet would be weird for me.