Tyr

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

I read it.
It's pretty much the prototype to Sayonara wo Oshiete.
It's hard to recommend the game because it feels very unfinished. Literally 30 minutes after stuff begins to get interesting the game ends. The ending itself is a huge letdown. But to be honest, that doesn't matter much.
Everything before the last few minutes is simply perfect even though it seems like only a big prologue building up to something (which in the end will disappoint).
The depiction of the life of the protagonist, his rise to madness, his interaction with other people and the other people themselves are all written brilliantly. There are so many scenes which I can now, 3 years after I played the game, still remember clearly because they had such a big impact on me and are still haunting my subconscious. (I think it's even better than Sayonara wo Oshiete in that regard, but Sayonara is clearly the better, more refined game overall and features much more themes than just being socially retarded.)
A special mention deserves the fantastic soundtrack which nearly only consists of creepy arrangements of Beethoven's "für elise".
To sum it up; I recommend it to every fan of Sayonara wo Oshiete. You won't find a better, more realistic depiction of madness and social anxiety in any other eroge (the closest would probably be Sayonara). Just don't expect a "full game" or a satisfying conclusion.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

EDIT: Look at dovac's twitter page.  Every tweet from almost a year ago is gone, he's following TweetDeleter (lol), and he's apparently scrubbed all mention of SP from his description.  This situation is still incredibly confusing.  It's possible that they are actually forcing him to shut the hell up on the internet (something everyone should be happy about, SP employees included), or he's leaving.  Still not back on the staff listing on their site, but that means nothing alone, and there's no supporting evidence of that yet.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

Sanahtlig's article has been posted and discussed in several communities, but I feel many people don't understand the actual point Sanah wanted to make. The main point isn't that Nutaku has censored their games (this is old news); it's the cover-up.  They don't want people to know that they've EVER censored their games.
Actually, I believe Nutaku when they say they won't censor anymore. But only time will tell, we can't make assumptions yet.
No, the point of Sanah's article is this: Nutaku wants to clear its name, tarnished by their own hands. They don't want to be associated with censorship. And to do that, they use every option at their disposal, ethical or not:
Never announcing when games are censored or what was censored Making up payment processor issues that don't seem to impact other Western eroge companies, or that they've even mentioned, ever Complaining to Sanah when they stealth-reverted the censorship and he dared to still feature the game in his censorship list DMCA takedown for Sanah's perfectly legit comparison gallery on imgur Not fessing up to the takedown and ignoring Sanah's inquiries about it They don't want to talk about this. They simply don't want "Nutaku" and "Censorship" to be mentioned in the same sentence. But now Sanah exposed this behavior. And what are they doing? Being Nutaku of course:
Implying Sanahtlig tampered with evidence Making up weak excuses Sanah had already proven wrong in his article Telling Reddit and Operation Rainfall that they took down the gallery .. because it wasn't linked to a review!? That doesn't even make any sense! To summarize the issues that Sanah tried to expose in his article, Nutaku:
has not been transparent about changes in their games Silences people who associate Nutaku with censorship Lies and selfishly cover-up evidence to hide that I hope I could clear up some of these misunderstandings. I feel people are taking away very superficial impressions, on both sides of the debate. But the actual message is probably best condensed in the title of Sanahtlig's article: "Nutaku caught abusing DMCA takedowns to censor evidence of censorship". And that's what people should be aware of.

noone ever beats shusaku in the category of the most manliest man on earth. never ever. utterly impossible.

lol, sold. Installing right now.

lol, sold. Installing right now.

I am a fan of Banya and actually I really like the "writing" in this game too. Right from the start, the description in the beginning how mankind was doomed was pretty good, just as I expected from Banya. Also, Mia's inner monologues, the description of pain and suffering, all the good stuff Banya is known for, is here too. So that is not the problem.
The problem is the concept Banya was given by Bug System and has to work with. He makes the best out of it, but personally I just can't find it very interesting.
The problem is easily summarized: Killing has no consequences.
I like gore in eroge. Mainly because gore means in most cases "story". Like in Kara no Shoujo. When you see a scene with a normal hentai CG, it's probably filler, but when you have a scene with a gore CG, it's probably a thrilling and interesting story scene.
In Nikuniku ... it's not. It's essentially a gore nukige, because every killing scene is essentially a filler hentai scenes .. just with gore instead of sex. That's a legit concept, if you have a gore fetish. Sadly, I have not. I like seeing innocent girls die horribly, of course, ... but not because I like to see the act of dying, but instead because I like to experience the tragedy. With Mia's gore scenes, we have no tragedy, because there are no consequences.
I'm not necessarily saying the game is bad ... it's just that it does not cater to my fetishes. What a pleb reason, I know.
I hope you guys can tell me that there is some actual story in the later half of the game. Would be a waste of potential if it really was "only" a guro nukige.
Good point. Normally, screams are the worst parts of a seiyuu's performance because she doesn't want to ruin her voice. In this case, it's actually reversed; the screams are the best part of the performance! What I miss instead in Mia's voice acting are the feelings of despair and anxiety. She acts way too cool in most cases!

I am a fan of Banya and actually I really like the "writing" in this game too. Right from the start, the description in the beginning how mankind was doomed was pretty good, just as I expected from Banya. Also, Mia's inner monologues, the description of pain and suffering, all the good stuff Banya is known for, is here too. So that is not the problem.
The problem is the concept Banya was given by Bug System and has to work with. He makes the best out of it, but personally I just can't find it very interesting.
The problem is easily summarized: Killing has no consequences.
I like gore in eroge. Mainly because gore means in most cases "story". Like in Kara no Shoujo. When you see a scene with a normal hentai CG, it's probably filler, but when you have a scene with a gore CG, it's probably a thrilling and interesting story scene.
In Nikuniku ... it's not. It's essentially a gore nukige, because every killing scene is essentially a filler hentai scenes .. just with gore instead of sex. That's a legit concept, if you have a gore fetish. Sadly, I have not. I like seeing innocent girls die horribly, of course, ... but not because I like to see the act of dying, but instead because I like to experience the tragedy. With Mia's gore scenes, we have no tragedy, because there are no consequences.
I'm not necessarily saying the game is bad ... it's just that it does not cater to my fetishes. What a pleb reason, I know.
I hope you guys can tell me that there is some actual story in the later half of the game. Would be a waste of potential if it really was "only" a guro nukige.
Good point. Normally, screams are the worst parts of a seiyuu's performance because she doesn't want to ruin her voice. In this case, it's actually reversed; the screams are the best part of the performance! What I miss instead in Mia's voice acting are the feelings of despair and anxiety. She acts way too cool in most cases!

I enjoy listening people who know what they're talking about. Unfortunately VN reviewers who are insightful are few and far between. I don't mean that as a criticism, it's just that to criticise a story effectively you really need a solid understanding of writing techniques and not many people in the VN community do.
Except I just found one. He reviewed Gahkthun and shit he's good. And oh look, he's a writer as well. Totally not surprised.
Koestl posted a remark on twitter about the review page, I should point out the remark he was referring to was in the comment section and not in the review itself. What did the review say? It was harsh. Harsh but fair, IMO.
Now, yes it's harsh but it's also interesting. I think (and I'm ignorant here on Japanese writing, but I do know a thing or two about its English counterpart) that the differences between what is considered good in Japan and good in English is one of the most interesting things about translated works. And this article seems to show the extent of those differences.
It also reveals one of the reasons why most translated works are looked down upon. Japanese is incredibly different to English, incredibly so, and a lot of translators wander into the field of fiction translation without fully understanding (or even partially understanding) what makes 'good writing' in English. And no, it's not all about 'grammar'. And if a translator doesn't understand, then they may very well be caught by surprise at claims of substandard prose.
And yes, I have heard the statements saying "Gahkthun's a poem" and "the repetition is intentional", but that does nothing to invalidate the points made. It's really a very insightful article. Insightful article's make me giddy with motivation, and I must confess I'm kinda bouncing up and down in my seat right now. Very inspirational article  
http://wrongeverytime.com/2016/08/01/gahkthun-of-the-golden-lightning/ 

I think everyone basically agrees that the imouto works guy is totally at fault here, and he's handling this situation just as poorly as dovac in his own way. He doesn't have the right to demand an email or other forms of conversation from SP, a richer company would have let the lawyers deal with it without the CEO ever saying a word to the guy. Imouto works would lose and have to shoulder all the legals fees of SP then and that would sink them i think. 
The things dovac says on his twitter amazes me though, "I can't wait to exit this market. Jesus Christ" for example, [also referencing the other things you guys have mentioned]. I get that you're mad and you put a disclaimer up saying that it's your own opinion and not that of the company but come on. You are the face of Sekai, if you say something like that openly on your acc, your supporters are going to feel let down and cast aside. Knowing that these thoughts may be a possibility or a goal to you after all the support you've gotten from consumers...
I know a lot of people hate on SP for whatever reason and I'm not going to argue those points. I'm saying that he should focus on all the positives and just learn from the negatives. Not harp on it in public spaces for all to see and provide ammunition for the people that hate you.
It would be disappointing if he just snaps one day [what if? scenario] and decides to scrap SP's involvement in Vns and reset to something else. They've brought in some great games, and i'm sure they'll keep getting more in time. [not going to mention the negatives, everyone has their own points on those]. This Dovac guy just needs to learn how to deal with haters or hire someone else to deal with them. Also not put everything out in the open. That disclaimer doesn't mean a thing when you're the CEO of the company.

You should apply for a job at Sekai Project.  You'd fit right in.

You should apply for a job at Sekai Project.  You'd fit right in.