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Whoever translates this freeware, vocaloid-themed yuri VN will be my personal hero for the rest of history. It should be pretty short and easy too.

It depends on case to case basis, but mostly the thing you risk by not using a playthrough is losing time and getting frustrated. I have very limited amounts of time and don't want to torture myself with getting stuck, so unless the VN is short and heavily oriented towards mystery (which means even seeing choices could spoil something major), I won't even bother to approach it without a walkthrough.

Random question: this is happening after SohL, right? Is Ceri's boyfriend acknowledged in her cameos? :] Anyway, the hype is real. Good luck on the final stretch, I can only imagine how taxing this have been for you.

Dorei to no Seikatsu -Teaching Feeling- is literally a game about taking care of a loli. Can get very sexual, but only if you choose to and the premise is nowhere as gross as Musumaker.

Virgin Sex. I understand some, or even most heroines in the story being virgins and that fact having some story relevance, but the way it is fetishized in eroge is fucking gross, on a few levels.

Do you have a convenient download link for it anywhere? I had trouble finding one.

I strongly believe there's never a need to hurry when it goes to games and VNs, but yeah, I think this one is worth checking out at some point, for anyone that's not fully against yuri and slight LGBT drama. The core story and characters are just THAT GOOD.

Studio Élan, a company founded by Josh Kaplan, one of the authors of the highly-appreciated yuri VN Highway Blossoms (check out my review of it here), gathered an unusually large and enthusiastic following since its formation in early 2018. Engaging high-profile artists for their projects, utilizing Kaplan’s renown within the VN community and brilliantly spreading its message through social media, the relatively small team managed to become of the most high-profile actors on the EVN scene before releasing even a single title (not counting demos and prologues, which, of course, also had a large role of building the studio’s profile). With follower counts and Patreon support that could make many veterans of the scene jealous, the company spent the last year working on two interesting and well-marketed projects, both of them gorgeously-looking yuri VNs, while seemingly only getting more and more attention. Considering the hype building up at insane rates, it was that much more crucial for Studio Élan’s debut title, Heart of the Woods, to deliver a compelling and memorable experience. While few people could doubt its stunning aesthetic – the demo and plenty of promotional material made that part perfectly clear – it was still a question whether it could create characters and story able to at least rival those of Highway Blossoms, to which the new game would be inevitably compared. Thankfully, I can quite confidently say that the full release, which showed up on Steam mid-February 2019, was pretty much everything fans could hope for – and maybe even more than that. Read the full article at evnchronicles.blogspot.com

Yeah, I'd say the casual parts are very well done and girls' personities really shine in their routes. But at some point the kitsch cartoon villains and the over-the-top nastiness of the drama take their toll on me...

For a long time now I'm watching regularly a playthrough of Shining Song Starnova. It's now on fifth route, which happens to be Nemu's and by this point I'm like 80% sick of this game. All the backstories and drama around the girls are just so over-the-top disgusting - they manages to be both cartoonishly exaggerated and genuinely disturbing to the point of being off-putting (I'd be pretty happy with literal shit-eating being exclusive to the clock-up games I read). Even in these small doses I find it occasionally hard to swallow and unlike a genuine utsuge, I don't think there's any real message or value within it (at least apart from compiling every horror story from the anime industry and then making all of them ten times more extreme). It's well-produced, has a lot of content and quite a lot of personality, but the longer I read it, the more I don't know what to think about it...

Wow, education through loli porn. Only in Japan.

1. Full-on immortality with some very specific loophole that I can use to end myself if it gets too tedious. 2. A giant stash of gold that only I can access. 3. Sending the lamp to the nearest black hole (sorry, but I really don't trust other people with that kind of power).

This looks super-cool. And the interwar-Czechoslovakia setting... Are any people on your team Czech? ^^

Yeah, that was a bittersweet experience, as both people that could actually care about it (you and Maggie) were both gone at the time. Glad to see you being alive and all. :3

Minus KS fees and whatever went into preparing the fake campaign. The page and promo material there doesn't look like something you can prepare in one evening.

True, but I think when people talk about realistic endings, they mean less this kind of statistical similarity to real world and more basic plausibility of the scenario within the game's own setting and rules. I recently had this experience with Heart of the Woods, as I think the bittersweet "bad" endings were more in line with what the game established up to that point than the positive "true ending" was. The game should, above all, respect its own story and characters - make them meaningful and consistent, rather than sacrificing everything for the sake of player's wish fulfilment. You don't need to include every shitty aspect of humanity and our everyday lives for characters to act like actual people would and the scenarios to be relatable. You just need to care about what you're writing about.

Aiming for literally the least profitable niche in gaming? Still sounds like a bit of a stretch. KS at least doesn't give refunds directly, and as Nandemonai suggested, if the author's broke you have pretty much no hope to get anything back. The Unsung Story is actually an interesting case of a fuckup of epic proportions, that ended with another company claiming the project, bit not any of the KS money and being unable to provide refunds because of that.

People on Kickstarter mentioned that she occasionally does some VA work for a YouTube channel, so that's probably neither from jail nor from afterlife. At the same time, she has set all her social media private and apparently never addressed the issue, so we'll quite likely never know, unless someone literally sues her out of spite (I don't believe you can recover more money a such case than you'll spend on a lawyer, even if large portion of the backers band together to do it).

Considering Kickstarter updates and authors Twitter account going silent back in 2016 (it looks like the Kickstarter campaign was run in December 2014/January 2015), the project is definitely long dead. Considering how abrupt the radio silence was, I'd suspect some RL disaster striking the dev and derailing the whole process completely. Purposefully scamming people on a VN Kickstarter and then delivering updates for the next years and a half sound like the most tedious way on Earth to steal money. EDIT: Just to be clear, the utter lack of communication and no attempt at taking responsibility for the failed project during the three years since it went off the rails is still absolutely disgusting. I just think it's very unlikely that was the author's original intent.

I think even if the site updates and following discussion happen, it will take a week or two before I believe I'm not just hallucinating it. ^^

Did you try Narcissu? It should be quite effective and I think like the whole series got an English release by this point.

Welcome again to my short series on the My Little Pony fan visual novels! In the last part (if you missed it, check it out here!), we’ve looked at six games of vastly variable quality, climate and state of completion, and this trend will definitely continue today. Also, this post will include a (un)healthy portion of fandom cringe, although mostly connected to embarrassing fan fiction tropes, common in the creative output of many online communities, rather than the sheer fact the stories are about ponies. On the other hand, today's list features one of the very few, if not the only MLP VN project that could be seriously interesting to people that are not avid fans of the show – the still-in-development Starswirl Academy, with its impressive (humanized) reimagining of the Friendship is Magic setting and characters. So, let's get this party started! *the Party Cannon rolls in* Starswirl Academy (demo) Most people agree that, apart from the randomness of internet memes, some of the main sources of Friendship is Magic’s success are its memorable leading characters – the six ponies that fuel the show with their memorable visual designs and vivid personalities. The people from Rosin Entertainment made a pretty obvious conclusion that this general characterisation, if transferred into a humanized, semi-realistic setting, would make a great basis for a moege, and started turning that idea into a reality. Thus, Starswirl Academy was born – an MLP fan game that, while still borrowing a lot from its source material, for an unassuming reader could easily pass as a normal, lighthearted romance VN. And, most importantly, quite a lovely and enjoyable one at that. Unlike many other “human versions” of MLP, including the official Equestria Girls, Rosin’s project is a total reimagining of Friendship is Magic's fictional world, including details like normal, human names for all of the characters and a modern-day, boarding school setting that makes logical sense. Game’s reinterpretations of the Mane 6 are cute and well-designed (with Twilight as an Asian over-achiever and protagonist’s childhood friend is my personal favourite), both catching the appeal points of their original versions and adjusting them to the context of a "normal" romance story. The dialogue is genuinely fun and while the game seems to focus exclusively on SoL content, it does so in a way that made me seriously excited for the full release. Even the protagonist (named Tom Stone – those familiar with the show should easily catch the reference), while rather average, it not a faceless hunk of meat, with especially his teasing of Tai (the already mentioned, humanized version of Twilight) being extremely fun to read. Of course, this wouldn’t be an MLP VN without its own development problems, although the team behind this game made a wise decision to not give any kind of timeline or dump frequent updates, but rather working on it at their own pace, with an explicitly stated “when it’s done” approach. For this reason, it’s rather hard to predict anything, although a 2019 release does not seem completely out of question – and if it happens, it quite likely be the one My Little Pony visual novel that I’ll be able to recommend even to those that normally would want nothing to do with the whole franchise. If they don't also hate moege, that is… Final rating: Highly Recommended Read the full article at evnchronicles.blogspot.com

If you're not violently opposed to the idea of reading an EVN, SoulSet is a nice mystery/fantasy story. It definitely has a true ending. Or three. Depending how you look at it...

Wow, what a wonderful circlejerk this turned out to be. I think you guys spent so much fuel you won't be able to read eroge for the next two weeks. But yeah, reading comedy VNs though an MTL sounds kind of miserable...