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If SteamSpy is accurate Sakura Spirit sold ~290K, more than Nekopara vol 1 (~250K). Although the Sakura sales are falling hard compared to Nekopara (Sakura Dungeon is ~28K, Nekopara vol 2 is ~140K). That's very telling of Nekopara's quality if it's able to move that many copies admist the glut of VNs on steam. A good chunk of Sakura Spirit's sales are due to it being released in July 2014 before the VN boom. Karakara or Corona Blossom probably would had been just as popular had they been released in that timeframe.

They were AJTilley, now they're Dharker Studio. Highschool Romance was a bland "boy crossdresses to enter all-girls' school" plot with weird artwork. Divine Slice of Life squandered its own premise, had too many routes and was way too short. Beach Bounce had stupid plot, stupid characters, stupid "h-scenes", stupid artwork, stupid writing, stupid stupid, stupid everything!

Thankfully I have a burner twitter account just for this purpose. They beat Dharker Studio on the VN DLC front by about a month. That's good for Dharker; it means their DLC might receive less of a backlash because WC is soaking most of it up right now. The DLC in this case is password protected, so all you need to do is find the passwords somewhere.

I did a little bit of digging and they have even more VNs in development. Sakura Nova: Isolated cities use barriers to keep monsters out. Male MC is training at an academy to become a knight. Sounds like a futuristic straight Sakura Fantasy. Apparently WC is now ripping off of their own VNs. Sakura Adventure: According to /u/ its going to have a loooooot of H-yuri. Sakura Dragon: Male MC trains female dragon-girls. Sakura Demon "Sakura Maid 2" As long as the profit is good enough the Sakura train will never stop.

Found the banner.

Not surprising considering most of its competition starts with "Sakura".

They also have a kickstarter going and plan on releasing ~6 VNs (and a remastered Beach Bounce) by the end of the year. I wonder how many of those six will actually be good?

I think all of the Phoenix Wright is skewing my tags, just a little. Battle of Wits Courtroom Character Profiles Murder Mystery Interactive Adventure Game Mystery Drama Homicide Detective Work Crime

I tried dual booting and Parallels. Eventually I just went "fuck it" and got a cheap windows tablet.

Yes, it only shows boobs and apparently that is tame enough for Steam.

Ayaka > Ritsuko > Rise > Chiho Ayaka has the combination of a good route and a good waifu. I like you Ritsuko, but damn your route has a bullshit resolution. Rise's route is pretty good, mostly due to her mom. Rise's yandere traits should have been played up more, like a milder version of Yuno. The love triangle wore out its welcome around 7/8 chapters ago. Chiho was more of a tsuntsun than tsundere.

Finally! Some Progress!!!

They do need to have the poll open longer; I didn't even catch it the first time it happened. I checked, the trick still works. I didn't think it would be that easy.

They weren't counting Steam sales in their rankings. It looks like it did sell pretty well on their own site.

I wonder how many of Evangile's sales were from affiliate links? I'm surprised Eroge! did so well considering it was released a little over two years ago, and I don't really see anybody talk about it.

They did it! With 5 days to go too.

1 Billion, that's a lot of Sakura games. Since you'll have all of that money, you can give the games away for free, right?

I can't bring myself to play it because of the derpy fish eyes.

The spelling and grammar are actually pretty good. It's a shame. Sakura Beach was unintentionally hilarious due to the complete lack of editing that it badly needed.

If Boobs Sakura Santa really was psychological horror it would be the most interesting Sakura game to date.

Any notable voice actresses? Can't find any info on the VAs. The Denpasoft page only says "Japanese Dub". I don't own the game from Denpasoft so I can't get the patch and see if they've added that info on the credits, maybe someone else can. I wouldn't personally bet on any major names though, but we'll see. Steam version got the update too. Nothing extra is listed in the credits.

Now that they have two artists they can churn them out twice as fast. Even faster if they reuse the assets like Sakura Beach 2.

Guy crossdresses and sneaks into an all-girls school to score with the girls. Finds out entire school population is crossdressing guys trying to do the same thing. Doing a search on VNDB doesn't lead to anything, so probably not. Its a really rare genre; I've found a two-shot manga that has it and that's it. Princess Evangile really needed some yuri in it. Chiho/Ruriko Mitsuki/Rise Ritsuko/Konomi; all good pairings. https://vndb.org/v7816

Have an on/off option in the settings for desu and other verbal tics with a TL note explaining what they are. If it's set to "on", put them in untranslated If it's set to "off", just ignore the tics entirely.

At least now the script will get run through a spellchecker. And maybe somebody will do some QC on it too. I can actually read it without my brain melting from the spelling/grammar errors. Still no Sakura Fantasy Part 2 though. I wish they'd do more Yuri games instead of having these dense male MCs.