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Mojika, wow. Never expected this one.

I think the "silent majority's" opinion is quite clearly stated through the number of likes zaka's post has already received.

It's already confirmed to release in English.

Those dirty basterds, we'll show them!

I'm really confused but weirdly excited.

They don't, evenicle 2 is self-published in the west and Dohna Dohna is by Shiravune.

Most likely because gog didn't allow it for some weird reason, they have their own convoluted review process. It's called a tantrum. Where did all that animosity even come from, gosh, it's not like I was fanboying about steam or anything.

I'd say it's a 100% certainty that the games will be taken away from you in a hundred years even in the most positive outcome so we all better stock up on gog while we still have the chance! Though tbh, if you are so inspiringly set on helping the vn localisation industry, you really should only buy your games on their own stores which literally every major vn localisation company has. Don't settle on gog just because it's more mainstream and convenient.

Well, yeah, I was actually praising them, just not in a such "fixated-on-gog" way.

Weirdly, only danganronpa trilogy. I can already feel all the contemptuous gazes

Because they are trying to promote their parent company's own store (Johren). At the same time Steam is way too big and potentially profitable to ignore so it's more of a "necessary evil" for a company like that. In this regard you are just a bit misinformed, there was a sizable commotion when Shiravune's Meteor World Actor was banned on Steam and they are too censoring their games to hell and back (and offer restoration patches) to try and release on Steam. The same as anyone else in the industry. I'd say, in retrospect nekonyan are the luckiest (or most efficient?) in their Steam parleys. I think all their games ended up releasing on Steam even if some later than others?

Was waiting for shinsou noise since forever, even if on release it wasn't as well received as I'd hoped. I almost can't believe nekonyan are the ones who picked it up, good job you lot.

What is that supposed to mean. With Shiravune's connections, they can publish almost anything.

This is not "consistency", this is just a free pass to randomly ban literally 90% of the Japanese games ever released. The guidelines that broad are no guidelines at all.

No, read 428.

Dunno, in my slavic country in the official tls of Soji Shimada, Riku Onda and Natsuhiko Kyogoku novels they do use a glossary and quite a lot of footnotes, highly doubt those can be classified as "fine literature" by a sane person. All three are done by different pubs and translators but the style of translation is still largely the same. And I honestly love these editions, the prose flows well while you never get that weird feeling of "oh boy, that totally looks out of place" you often catch in a more adapted work. Because of that I always find it odd that I constantly see an obsessive need to localise stuff in a niche otaku media of all things but maybe it's just more of an american thing.

Great to see another Fumiaki vn translated. Vita is long dead, mate, that stuff is all switch.

Pretty unexpected and cool, kinda excited.

Nah, ZTD is just that bad, objectively the worst thing Uchikoshi has ever written, even if you count the barely coherent Punchline. I will never believe that he had this story in mind when he was working on VLR.

What an amusing discussion, I'm almost impressed. On another note, not that I care much, but it really feels like Sumaga is basically doomed at this point. They seriously should consider finally cancelling it.

When chuee was talking about the announcement that almost everyone will like, I expected a bit more than Kinkoi. Oh well. Maybe it's a sign that some of the older most famous SAGA PLANETS VNs can someday be localised too.

Didn't have much time for VNs during the second half of the year so I'm still yet to play all the potentially best stuff like Baldr Sky, Raging Loop, Nanairo Reincarnation or even Byakko. Among those that I did read, Damekoi was probably... the most entertaining? Himeo's route is great and the main romcom storyline with occasional work-related drama has been a blast to read.

Yeah, those good days of only releasing short nekopara-inspired garbage, I so miss the 2017|2018 version of SP . The 2019's SP with 9-nine-, MajoKoi Nikki, Nanairo Reincarnation and Baldr Sky are clearly redundant as the eroge localization company, pfft.

Except they never "went under", your hot takes are as brilliant as ever.

Ah, right, finished it last week. Surely not a perfect but still quite a read. Well, mostly. I would especially like to point out an absolutely amazing pace so rarely seen in eroge. Dialogue are short, snappy & to-the-point, main story arc almost never drags on for too long, changes of perspective are always very dynamic & narratively apropos, plus the overall structure is anime-like in the best sense. Looks like I'm in the minority but I have definitely enjoyed Himeo's route the most with all the engrossing corporate wars and cute baka tsundere shenanigans. And... Mitoko's the least I'm not against the age-gap romance in the slightest but the topic is handled so... tamely. Considering how relatively rarely this theme is raised in the quality VNs, it's a bit disappointing that the "epilogue chapters" are full of very lackluster drama which found its resolution in a random funny mini-arc. I honestly fail to see how "less effort was put in the other [non-Mitoko] routes" as Freestyle80 has put it above. Mitoko's unique chapters and all the presumably "controversial" story road is basically True, Kaya's personal chapters arrive a bit too early and are mostly filled with rushed and scarcely thought out drama so I can see how you might think that she needed more time and effort to be more properly fleshed out but Asami's and especially Himeo's personal chapters aren't any less developed than Mitoko's in any sense whatsoever. I'm not even sure if those are any shorter than Mitoko's personal part, they certainly didn't feel that way. Needless to say that I also strongly disagree the weird sentiment that some great minds are trying to spread here and elsewhere. Yes, I'm talking about a room elephant called "this a "pedo"-VN, you mustn't read Damekoi unless you are interested in the grown-ass men lusting after the middle-schoolers, other heroines are just for show and have no relevance or substance". Firstly, the structure of the VN is not a usual common=>heroine routes, Kaya and Himeo are cutting short the shared overaching main storyline so yeah, considering that Mitoko and Asami are the last to get a spotlight in the VN, their stories are TECHNICALLY the longest. But heck, I'm not sure how you can even perceive this as a sign that Mitoko is like the super main heroine that overshadows everyone else to the point that you shouldn't read Damekoi if you are not interested in the Mitoko end. If you want to grasp at technicalities, then she's not even technically the last, actually, Himeo has an extra scene after you play through the Mitoko's end. In reality, even among the "shared chapters" every heroine gets her own huge spotlight in the story so it's not like common route is about Mitoko and everyone else is an afterthought with a short epilogue. If you want to cut the game into the conventional routes then I'd say that every heroine's route consists of shared chapters which are clearly centered around her plus her personal chapters with an additional mini-story/epilogue. The same is true for Mitoko too. Yes, she's always important in the story for obvious reasons (the whole main point is about how Osamu tries to be her kind-of-guardian, ya know) and you always get a "heartbroken kid with one-sided love" part in every "route" but she didn't feel like the single important super central main heroine to me at all. Heck, if I had to rate "routes" (including the respective shared chapters), I would say that Himeo>Asami=Kaya>Mitoko. Mitoko's final lovestory is still good enough but I'd even say that if I dropped Damekoi after the Asami's epilogue, I wouldn't feel like I lost any of the impact. So yeah, even if you hate Mitoko and everything her love entails, I believe you can still read Damekoi and have fun with it. Great romcom, adult problems, amusing Osamu employment pondering, Damekoi is a very high quality and well written VN that has enough to entertain most people. Even if for me it's not really a kamige masterpiece contender but simply a good and fun read with its ups and downs. I'd gladly read any other Maruto eroge but I guess their chances to be decently translated don't look very good.