aliciarune
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Can someone tell me how certain other games haven't been taken down? I mean The Ditzy Demons Are in Love With me and Sabbat of the Witch seem to have loli characters or young looking girls, but haven't been taken down.
Also maybe it's because I've watched anime for a long time that I don't really see them as underage. I mean some girls I do see they look too young, but Fureba they looks 18 to me. Is it because I've watched anime for a long time and have just become use to the style?
I do agree that steam is being stupid. They can't seem to make up their minds. Honestly maybe they shouldn't exist if they can't even hold up to their own rules. All this censorship has been sad lately, from Tumblr and now this. I'm not into these things, but I find freedom of expression important.
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23 hours ago, Narcosis said:
I have nothing against Clannad or Hoshimemo, but as far as stories go, Key vns work a lot better as anime adaptations (they are actually very good, especially whole Clannad), while Hoshimemo is just an awful eroge with little to no redeeming qualities and superfluous plot. I simply wouldn't recommend any modern player to plow through the entirety of Clannad to get to those few memorable scenes, especially considering it's length (it's damn long and gets damn stale at times), not to mention the game aged rather badly.
Actually, I remembered. I'd recommend trying Ori, Ochi, Onoe; it might not be the best written or most graphically impressive evn out there, but it definitely sports some really interesting adult romantic developments. That aside, if you haven't played Cannonball yet, I'd highly recommend that game, since the game's main protagonist duo - Filho and Foxy - are something I consider one of the best vn pairings ever, complete with both charming and honest relationship development you rarely see in eroge. Expect a very long read intermixed with gameplay fragments, tho. If you don't care about the game parts, I honestly recommend the official walkthrough.
Kk, if I can, I'll give it a try. I admit it would be nice to see visual novels show more of adults relationships. That would help a lot, but sadly most I've got are either high school or not focused on romance
10 hours ago, Okarin said:Man, there's more people who know about O3 (Ori, Ochi, Onoe)? I never finished it, but it was one of my first VNs, yes, I actually started with some EVNs.
It was interesting because, although loosely set in Japan (but fictional city, of course), it was Western through and through, and thus untouched by typical Japanese clichés.
I'd say it was more interesting by the themes (there's some obsession, and mental disorders applied to relationships) than by the romance itself.
That sounds interesting. If I can, I'll give it a shot. I also read EVN's, so I'm sure I'll find something if I don't do these or finish one of them.
1 hour ago, Sparteh said:I can't really suggest anything since I prefer fantasy-romance over pure one so I will only drop my opinion here. Key works does the trick if one wants some emotional moments, but they aren't always related to romance. Another problem is that the majority of them are long and contains a lot of SoL which is not really related with the main storyline. I read LB pretty recently so I remember it quite well. Heroine routes were readable with true route being the best in terms of story, but focused more on friendship rather than romance.
As for Hoshimemo, prepare for one of the most annoying heroines ever. If only someone game me a dollar each time I heard onii-chan while playing it... However, IF you want romance, I would recommend this one from those 3 choices.
If you ever want to switch to fantasy-romance, go for something like Steins;Gate first.
I prefer fantasy too or stories outside of high school. I have still yet to read the Mu Luv Trilogy and Stein's Gate, so I need to get to those. I wanna read Higurashi and it's partner series, but I'm not a fan of the nvl mode.
As for Hoshimemo, I started it and thought it was okay. At first, I even thought the little sister was kind of funny. But sadly, the more I read of her, the more annoying she became. I do find it interesting about people's opinions on it though. Just read a review from someone who found the characters believable and story good. I try though to read many reviews to get an idea. I do know Clannad will likely have a lot of filler and that's okay. I'm not someone who will do every route, just the girls I like. I doubt I'll get to the Nagisa. She's not horrible, just a bit boring.
The visual novels I have read are Princess Evangeline and Wagamama High Spec. I found reading both to be okay. Kind of relaxing. I'm not into Fanservice, but something about the slice of life elements in these stories I liked. As someone who is depressed, they did a decent job of getting me out of it a bit. I really didn't think I'd like Wagamama High Spec, but it's better than I thought.
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2 minutes ago, Xykros said:
Exactly. Some gags that involve Chinami (the little sister) can be funny and hilarious and sometimes just feel over the top.
She kind of reminds of Excel from Excel Saga actually. Both can be a bit too over the top. But a positive I can give is what you said, she can make one laugh from time to time
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3 hours ago, Xykros said:
I've read Hoshizora no Memoria before and I thought that it was pretty good. Now I'm reading it again and it kinda feels a bit lackluster. It's still a good read though, but I wouldn't go ahead and say that it's the best read for your needs.
Thanks for letting me know. I've actually tried both, just a little bit. I admit, reading through Hoshizora no Memoria was okay, but the main character's little sister was a bit much for me. Still, it seems to be the kind of vn that may be a good/decent read not only to learn the structure of visual novels better, but also to help cheer one up.
40 minutes ago, solidbatman said:Key VNs have garbage romance because every damn route is romance. There is little consistency in quality and even if the romance is good, you are forced to get through 500 bad routes to get to them
I'm not the type to go through every route, but I can see how this can be true. I see that Key Visual Novels are a bit too long
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10 hours ago, Narcosis said:
Awful, awful choices. For starters - I probably wouldn't ever want to date someone like Nagisa in real life. Key's vns are a particularly bad choice, as they suffer from insurmountable characterization plot convenience with people randomly bumping into each other and deus ex machina supernatural occurrences (destiny?
) that force people together. Cliche.
If you really want to learn about writing romance, you'd have to drop vns to start with and take some good prose instead. You might learn a thing or two from Jane Austeen (holy shit, how surprising).
The closest thing that can make you learn something in terms of romance in vns might be The Sweetest Monster... in a very twisted, albeit good way. I can't even really recall of anything, that I could consider good romance, when it comes to english or english-translated visual novels, as silly it may sound. Maybe I'm just that old and crooked. VNs are mostly porn and everything either starts with porn or ends up on it. Otomege are even worse.
Well, I am surprised to see you say this, given how people say good Clannad is. But then again, I can see what you mean honestly. That's why I tend to want a more honest opinion, than someone just praising it entirely. I will say I've read a lot too, so you're right it likely better to read romance from novels. I guess I want to read some visual novels to, to get a feel with how they do it. Maybe I'll try Sweetest Monster though, thanks.
9 hours ago, Okarin said:If pure romance truly belongs in VNs, I guess it hides somewhere in the valley of otome and yuri VNs.
The other piece of advise I can give is, pursue your fantasies. It will be more fun that way. Create the kind of characters, love interests, and relationships that you would like to have ideally. That's how Twilight was born, I guess you can do better than that.
Thank you. I'll likely read good romance novels or fantasy novels with romance. I'll still read visual novels though. But that's why I do Yuri, because it sometimes feels more pure in terms of love.
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I'm writing my own yuri visual novels (Reska) and an upcoming one, and both have to deal with romance and drama. However, I've been having some writer's block and dealing with issues on certain things with conversations, so I thought maybe reading some pure love stories would be good. Also, I'm in the mood for a good romance with drama and not much fanservice at the moment. I've listed my top three, but if you've got any other suggestions, please let me know.
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4 minutes ago, Silvz said:
You only need to use Japanese locale if there is no official english release. If there is one, it is not necessary.
Kk, thanks for letting me know =)
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7 minutes ago, Silvz said:
Yes, you have to buy the original game in Japanese, install it and then install the patch over it. I don't know websites where you can buy them, but someone else may help you with this. The patching system is usually very simple. The fan groups upload an exe file that does all the work by itself. If not, there are other easy ways to install. You should look into each website for more information about patching, as the methods may vary.
Speaking of Rewrite, although it's been a long time since we've heard about it, there is an official release of it in English in the future. Maybe you should wait a little more before reading it.
Since you got interested on it, why not try other games from Key, the developer, that are already available in english? Clannad, Little Busters, Planetarian just to start.
Hey Silv, thanks for letting me know. Got Clannad and Little Busters, but didn't know Rewrite was coming. I'll wait. I would like to go Hatsukoi 1/1 because it does look good. I just don't know how to go about that. Do you know if I need to change my computer's location?
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Hi, I'm new to translation visual novels and was wondering how I download the english versions of them, like for Rewrite. Do I have to buy the Japanese version and then download the english version? And if so, how do I go about buying the Japanese version? Also, how do I patch the Japanese version, for the game to be in English? I'm sorry, I'm new to windows and downloading fan translated vn's.
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11 minutes ago, Kaguya said:
It's pretty scary so I wouldn't blame anyone for being worried about it. Still, it's a disease that's been around for 4 years, less than 2000 people have ever been infected with it and only about 1000 died. At the risk of sounding condescending, China is a huge place. There's over 1 billion people in it. It's unfortunate that in the last outbreak almost 700 people had to deal with this disease, and even moreso that a large portion of them lost their lives, but this huge, incredibly densely populated place with poor hygienic conditions and a lot of birds being killed on the open is the perfect place for a disease like this to thrive.
That so few people have been contaminated by it still with every single thing going in favor of the virus should show it's no big concern for most of china, much less to the rest of the world.
Still scary though. Always is. But hey, nice that you brought it up anyway. Probably something people should know about.
Yeah, it is rare from how you put but still scary...And who knows if they're telling the whole truth. But yeah, it's good for people to be aware off.
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19 minutes ago, Kaguya said:
Hey, I read about that before. The world health organization has a page on it.
According to that, it's pretty hard for the virus to pass from person to person, and we can't get it from eating chicken or eggs either, thankfully.
It's an unfortunate fact that news reporters usually want their articles to be seen, and end up exaggerating their stories pretty often to cause fear or rage or any number of emotions that makes ideas stick in people's minds and makes them want to share them. There's a lot of fearmongering and very little truth to be find in a lot of articles because of that. It also often ends up helping radicalize people into extremist ideologies, which is always pretty rough.
It's still important to know about and really shitty since it does cause hundreds of chinese people to get sick once every year. Then again, people who do get sick seem to be those that have a lot of contact with birds in marketplaces with poor hygiene conditions and lots of live birds. I wouldn't worry about it too much unless you're in a position like that.
Hey Kaguya, thanks for taking the time to read this and answer back. I'm really grateful and you words make me feel better. I guess I never thought about articles doing this fearmongering stuff. I've heard about, but it doesn't always click with me. It's a terrible thing to do and just makes people like me panic =(.
And nope, I don't live with live birds, thankfully. I guess I just remember how ebola was and is still a major problem. As for the passing on from each person, what scares me is they say it's mutating to being able to. That's the scary part.
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I'm not sure I want this to be my first post, but I kind of just wanted to get it out of the way. Warning to those who don't like this stuff, don't read if you're scared by these things.
Anyway, as for the topic, I decided to post here since I find a lot of people here to give good posts both on and not on visual novels. To be honest, I need some help to calm down I guess (if it's possible), after reading about this today. You see I suffer from severe anxiety and it's hard for me to calm down when reading things like this. This is why I try to not read the news or posts on things like politics and so on. Sadly, sometimes I end up doing what I use to do and read the news foolishly. This time it happened because an artist/friend I'm working with told me she was sick and there is some concern there.
Anyway, I read some things about H7N9, a sorta of new flu virus caused by birds again. I've learned a lot about it from articles like this
and this
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6541824/new-strain-bird-flu-h7n9-kills-nearly-half-contracted-china/
and opinion articles like this
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
I've also read articles on how the flu that dogs get may end up becoming transmittable to humans.
I know these articles are true. I get that. But sadly, I'm not too smart when it comes to things like this and politics, nor do I read the news (when I can help it), so I don't know how severe this is. I guess I'm hoping someone can put my mind at ease a bit. I'm finding it hard to do so myself. Or if you can't, I guess I really have a lot to worry about...
(But i often wonder how people don't talk about these things. Does it worry them as well?)
Any help is appreciated.
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Okay, that makes sense. That's for letting me know. And I also agree what you're saying about people not into visual novels. My mom let us watch anime very young and she never saw anime art as something with underage girls, though I admit we watch series like Chrono Crusade and FMA. But I've had people who say I'm weird for liking such an art style, which is sad. Anime style is just another form of art. It's not meant to make girls look underage, that just the style of how they look sometimes.