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Yeah, it's the Call of Duty of VNS. They spend like 20M making the game, then 250M promoting the game, and it re-uses 60-70% of the assets of the previous game.

Sex sells, I said that already.

I dunno, I had zero idea I was owed money at all, then someone linked me to submitting a claim for DRAM. I got 101$ check, the same price I paid for RAM back in 2007, that I used until 2012. It was even what I thought a fair price, but they gave me back the full sum.

World of Sakura Online

https://www.accountholdsettlement.com/ Go here and submit a claim if you had an account between 2006 & 2015. Any and all. I last did this with a DRAM price fixing class action lawsuit. I got a 101$ check last month. It takes literally a minute or two to fill out. You never know what money could be owed to you.

Yeah, but the Sakura series is well known for it's cheap prices and high quality art work. It also has massive exposure on Steam.

It's like...naked catgirls and random animal / fetish stuff. Of course it sells like crazy. If I hadn't passed the point in my life where that's not enough for me to buy / play a game, I'd probably love the series too.

Super disappointed the way the cosmetics are handled though. You can get about 1.20 lootboxes an hour(Sometimes less, if you lose as well). You have a 0.5% chance of obtaining the Skins. (0.05% for Tracers, because Blizzard are greedy fucks.) You only have 1 chance for an Olypmic item per lootbox. Super disappointing. Even if I play 5-6 hours every night in a group during the event, well... Normally, it'd be fine, but these are limited to 3 weeks - and you can't use Currency. I have 4,200 currency saved specifically for skins and the like I'd want...yet Blizzard...bah. Also, first guy to hit Level 700: https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4w4qab/first_world_silver_starlevel_700/

Eh, I tried infamous, I think PRototype is way better. Much funner combat. Story-wise, both are crap.

My main issue with the Sakura series is that...well obviously they sell...and sell well on Steam...and most people think of the Sakura series as what all VNS are. Whenever a new VN gets release on Steam, there'll be a few topics saying to "Go get a real girl" or "Get this weaboo shit off Steam", and while that might exist regardless, I don't think the Sakura series helped alot with the image of VNs on Steam.

No more different than a having a gay characters identity being the joke, or straight person, or as I said above, all the archtypes of heroines in VNS. If we're to live in a world where there are things we can and -can't- make fun of, I don't want to live in that world.

Well shit.

No, why would it be? There's gag characters of every race, sexuality, gender, species, ect, what have you. There's clutzes, tsunderes, tons of stuff. Japan has a rich history of this stuff, look up Kabuki. It's part of their culture. I see nothing wrong with it, it's all done in the spirit of fun, not harm to intent. Why can you have a gag character of everyone else, except a trans character? Why can't a trans character be a gag character?

It's pretty average, and as I said, most of his review is fair. As people have opinions. I take issue with the fact that he seems biased against the medium itself. Eroge / Ecchi is a no go for him. Unrealistic, whacky characters are a no-go for him. True, if you just judge Extra by itself, it's only a pretty decent read - but with Unlimited, I think it becomes above average. Now, we can't include Alternative, as it's separate obviously, but that one is truly Legendary. I wouldn't have had issue with his review if he didn't mention that he dislikes unrealistic stories / stories with characters that do absurd things. That's part of the medium / Japanese media in general. @decay There is no can of worms. It's a gag in Steins;gate. There's nothing deep meant about it. You're taking what is meant to be a funny character and making it something it's not.

Nothing about it weirded me out. Shiroganes response was completely logical, regardless of your country. If your best friend, a guy, suddenly became a girl overnight, just like that, no lead up to it, you just woke up, and he was a girl now, you would not be a little put-off? That's all Shirogane is. As for Steins;gate, it's not transphobic at all. It's logical. If you're not gay or bisexual, it means you're not attracted to men...doesn't make you an awful person, just like being gay or bisexual doesn't make you an awful person either. It's perfectly fine for gay people to have Gay Only bars, but try pulling a straight only bar, and you'll get a law-suit so fast. It's pretty unfair, honestly. I guess you can call me transphobic, but if my best friend, who is a guy, became a woman and suddenly the prospect of being sexually attracted to them arose, yeah, I'd be freaked out.

Jesus christ, are you serious? I'm on the wrong forum.

The reviewer literally moans about transphobia / homophobia in the game because MC's friend is feminine.

Sakura Sakura?

Yeah, and so what? It's a VN about aliens, mecha, and all kinds of stuff. I'm just saying the medium is always full of impossible, unrealistic stuff. That's half the point.

Why should it? It's a Sakura game. Literally nothing about the story matters. Only skimpy naked girls.

That was clever. I like it...and if they see this, that'll probably be their next game.

Lucioball is quite fun.

Aye. Added the H-Scenes back in. No idea WHY it was removed though...I mean...September / October is still a significant amount of time away, are they saying it won't be out even by those dates? October extends all the way to the 31st, so...if they're saying it'll take longer than that...for a 18 patch...yikes. ||||||||||||| Also, Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Muv Luv and it's as awful as you expect. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/02/muv-luv-english-review/ The reviewer simply complains about Meiya's wealth and how unrealistic it is. They also complain that Unlimited "Doesn't change the story enough to be interesting." Also complains the game seems like it's written by a Teenager who is going through puberty. Not the Target audience for VNs, but still, disappointing.

Pretty easy when you use an automated story generator to create your plots.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4w1wy7/whats_going_on_with_sekai_project_site_has_been/ Info is here as well.