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Sca-ji's currently writing his next work (although it's been stalled since even before SubaHibi's creation), Sakura no Uta. He says supposedly that it'll be "better than Subarashiki Hibi." U-uhh... let's not get too ahead of yourself Sca-ji, but... how can you top SubaHibi?! xD Jokes aside, he probably has something up his sleeve from what the information on the official website has to say. There's also... something else... but let's not get into that because it's really bad, an ancient relic of the long-forgotten age that should stay forgotten. Oh yes, I've been wondering about the English patch for a while before... and I ended up asking a whole bunch of people who've read the leaked patch then read it myself to find out if it was any good or not. I can safely say that it's quality, (only with the occasional typo instead of a mistranslation... which is even outside proper editing, QCing, and whatnot) and all the others who've read it said so, as well. SubaHibi isn't really that hard to translate to begin with, and the translator has relatively high level English to boot. The simplistic but poetic text is getting some good treatment afaik, with only maybe the last chapter possibly suffering... that's where the writing gets more complicated after all. Looking forwards to sakura no Uta as well. Didn't know sca-ji said it will be better than Suba haha. Maan, if it's actually that. I am somewhat scared xD I am interesting what kind of direction the game will go. Considering the old Tsui no sora laid the groundwork for subahibi. It might take another direction, I wonder.. I want to read it now dammit haha.

My choice is the 3.5 floppy. I remember I put games on them and exchanged those with my friends. usb drive? What's that? xD

Holy section batman! That's a lot of sections we have now. I don't really have problem with that if someone wondered (noone? ha! fine..) You might want to think about how get these rules out. Because I can see people posting all over the place with all these small rules. Luckily we got the great mods to move stuff if needed. Might as well just wait and see if there becomes a lot of posts everywhere development. I doubt that btw. Just a minor concern.

Glad you liked it so much as well ;D Another joining the Subafanclub~~ I honestly stopped reading vn's for like months afterwards. I just couldn't get into anything else afterwards. Suba was just so good. Hopefully the eng translation will be done something next year for people who can't read it in jp.

Key makes me a happy jelly. Happy jelly is good. I am kinda unsure how much I'll enjoy the angel beats setting and characters. But considering I am a vn of Key's works I'll prbly enjoy AG as well. Looking forwards to reading it ^__^

I ended up stalling the console rpgs I played and other vn's. What I actually wanted was just another Eushully game. A VN with gameplay elements, cool story, moderate hard writing, so on. I found Soukoku no Arterial to fit just that. Feels gooood, just the stuff I wanted. It's almost like reading IMZ again, but everything is different ofc. It like it fits into the same "Eushully recipe" you could say. I am about 5 hours into the game right now. And it's right up my alley as you might guess by now haha. There is a interface eng patch available for Arterial, I think it's a machine tl. So I am unsure if I should use it. I understand most of what is on the cards so far luckily.

Noosebleed-senpai, plz notice me ;__; Edit: Noosebleed-senpai noticed me!! <3

In the hive mind we trust Our right logo shall be chosen Regardless of the result Honestly I liked all of the logos, so I don't really mind which get chosen.

I have a feeling you might have used the same torrent as me... There is also the 1.1 patch, did you install that?

The art kinda rubs me the wrong way. But I might just need to get more used to it. I am somewhat surpised by the amount of praise you guys are giving it. Pretty much goes to say I should look past the art and judge it more fairly... Anyway adding this to my to-read/play list.

This is cool, but honestly I don't really have any need to get another version of the game.

Completed Ikusa Megami ZERO. (IMZ) Really good game imo. My only real complaint was the H-stuff. Otherwise I had a fun all the way through the vn. I ended up liking the rpg elements surprisingly much, I only needed to grind once very early in the game. Otherwise I could play on auto against easy units. Bosses were usually tense and fun. You had to think somewhat and apply tactics to kill them. The story was quite different from I am usually used to. I don't think I've actually ever played a game quite like this. It's more like one of these epic quest kind of games. But with actually interesting dialog and universe. The characters are at times too arch typical for me. But it didn't really bother me because how the story was setup and progressed. I ended up liking many of the characters, and even if I don't like all of them I got into them. Even characters with little dialog I could easily place in the world and personality traits. I felt I understood them fast. Also something that surprised me was the ratio of rpg gameplay and text dialog. Usually as you play you get starved for either. I never really experienced I had too much talking, or too much gameplay. There was a a few times I wish the dungeons were shorter, but I didn't really mind. I feel the vn was really nicely structured, or it just fit me very well. Honestly I am very glad I ended up playing this vn. It's one of those vn most people should have a try with. Other than the h-stuff, It's great. I gave it a score of 9/10 on vndb. I might give it higher, but I don't really want to fiddle too much with 0.x score here. Bottom line I enjoyed it a lot. As for what to play next.. I started to read Irotoridori again. I might read tokyo babel, but I have had enough action for a while. I can't really get into irotoridori as I did IMZ. Setting up playing Shin megami tensei and some other jrpgs. But problematic getting it work perfectly on the emulator, might just buy a hardcopy. I really lazy when things get annoying like this...

Multiple problems come to mind, you might want to try these. Asking just to be sure, have you changed your System Locale to Japanese? Have you applied a crack/no patch/nodvd to the game? (I don't think I needed to do that) Might be something wrong with the install, you might want to try to reinstall. Might be something wrong with your download, try to re check your torrent or download the game again.. IIRC, for me setting dracu went pretty smoothly.

I doubt there is a big difference in quality between machine translating Chinese to eng and jp to eng. So I'd just recommend going with jp -> eng. The most used jp to eng machine translator is arguably ATLAS, here is a guide for it..

Surprised you managed to get many bad ends.

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Dammit guys, Zaka is obviously a Kuudere. I voted on him anyway though ^^

Happy Christmas guys, and a jolly good hat lol.

I agree with OP, but. Even if the end goal of learning Japanese is becoming fluent. I believe you can get quite far in terms of thinking and speaking fluently without going to Japan. In terms of immersion, it's never really truly 100% only the new language. You might need to keep in contact with your parents. Paperwork, stuff always happens. It's terms of little to much. You can get a lot from just formulating all your thoughts in that new language, read in it, talk in it and write in it. Like replacing all of your eng vn reading, with jp vn's. Still, I agree going to Japan would be the ideal. But that's quite a big commitment. I honestly don't care much about being able to speak or write for now. I just want to read vn's. lol. As for the katakana words similar to English. I found it easiest to just consider them new words to learn. Only difference is that many are easier to remember. Bottom line, I pretty much agree with Chrono.

My favorites are Symphonic Rain, Rewrite, steins;gate and ever17

Man... I usually dislike the Op's and ED's so much when I start watching the anime. But after watching them they grow so much on me. I tend to love them if I love the anime as well. So they are all good for me xD (The ones I like ofc)

Kyou best girl no doubt. Other than kyou, I liked almost all of the routes. If you want to do all of them... I'd use a walkthrough guide, clannad got so many choices haha.

Great.... Now I got that song on my brain randomly lol. With the added benefit of having erotic thoughts if I eat watermelon lol. Been listening to this song waaay too often as of late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orY9Gv6iv7E