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https://j-addicts.de/master-magistrate/ After a couple months of wait, the full version of Master Magistrate was released! This review is an update of my early-access review. I removed or corrected outdated information, polished my thoughts a little and added my thoughts on the final chapter and the epilogue. Master Magistrate is a pretty cool murder mystery detective visual novel with a historical setting.You'd be hard pressed to find something quite like it, the closest would probably be Great Ace Attorney or Elf's Mikagura Shoujo Tanteidan. Overall, it has a bit of a weak start with its introductory chapter, with the pacing picking up on the second one. Third chapter is hands down the best for me, in terms of gameplay, plot and character development and the last chapter makes for a great finale, tying perfectly all the loose ends and expertly resolving all of the unsolved mysteries. Exciting revelations and myriads of twists await you. And if you're a fan of the more SoL parts, the heroine routes are nicely integrated in alternate epilogues for the story. There's porn too (it's optional, just buy/don't buy the Adult DLC).

I think it's normal for people not to discuss their fetishes or masturbation habits in public. I personally believe it should stay private.

I don't think these are rules so much as commonalities... You fail to mention why any of this makes the games good to begin with.

Because virgin writers don't know how women work.

Hi, haven't finished reading everything, but if you want to research the early beginnings of Eroge, I recommend reading エロゲー文化概論 by 宮本直毅 . If you can't find it, I could help you acquire it. Question, will this be a series?

Hi, thanks for the update. And wow, I wasn't expecting this. I was sort of skeptical myself, so... Hope everything goes well for you man. Unless you're actually an awful person and deserve the jail time. If so, then you may repent in hell (just kidding, of course, please don't take this the wrong way). Hope you find what you're looking for and manage to enjoy your remaining free time, if things happen not to go well. If they do, do enjoy yourself all the more. Cheers.

Didn't you say you were going to jail soon in your previous thread? Now I can't really believe that you are a smoker. Please be honest.

What do you consider to be the top 5 Kamige?

I heard someone is learning Japanese just so they can translate H2O.

I think @Asonn and @kokoro are on point.

Yes

Another day, another big brain post by ange. It's not exactly a bad thing for a hobby to be more closed off than others. There are plenty of VN communities. How about writing a book/manga/LN??? Yeah, well, that's what fan translation means, dude. Hello??? I think they're partially at fault for this. They could announce games only when they're closer to completion, not run update blogs, and not create things like discord servers where they're more easily exposed to toxicity. I imagine it's the same for something like anime. Anyhow who studies Translation will have their teachers tell them that literary translation pays the least. It's just the way things are. Not sure about this either. There are plenty of decent EVNs which are recognized by the community. But there's also a ton of games that are simply amateurish and sometimes try too hard to be Japanese. This is BS. There is more stuff being released nowadays than ever before. I've talked with several Japanese learners who say that if VNs were translated at the same pace as they are now back when they started, they would never have started learning Japanese. Had to re-read this a couple times to actually understand what you were trying to get at. Honestly, tell me what matters most: the amount of people you can talk to, or the quality of the discussions? I am completely fine with sharing my opinions with a restrict group of friends, though now and then I feel the urge to write a review or two. Perhaps you're the one at fault since you seem to enjoy sharing every little opinion you have with the wide world.

I thought all Fruitbat did was PR. It was quite explicit in the previous thread where the CEO himself intervened...

I wrote a review on MM here: https://j-addicts.de/master-magistrate-early-access-review/

Glad that you enjoyed both the game and the review! Actually Nagai reminded me more of von Karma (although a pettier version of the man). His son sure is a pushover, though. And yeah, they changed everything to vertical, which I suppose is the bare minimum they have to do. Still shows great effort on their part though, and I felt the transition was quite seamless. If you enjoyed the first case, I can only imagine that you'll like what comes next even more. Be sure to share your thoughts! Also, speaking of family names, that's something I criticized not in the review but on discord. It's very strange that they go through great lengths to preserve the setting (keeping references intact, food names untranslated (which is fine), pre and post-name honorifics, etc.) but opted for Western name order. I brought this up and they confirmed that it wouldn't be changed because they already made the trailer. You could say that's reasonable, but it's not like they couldn't change just the names in-game. Not the end of the world, but surely an odd choice.