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3 hours ago, MaggieROBOT said:although those videos don't go through the worst meme in the old translation.
Holy Mother of Horrible Translations, this is kind of hilarious, but mostly I'm just baffled trying to imagine what the original line looked like. I don't think it went according to keikaku.
3 hours ago, MaggieROBOT said:this person (not me) goes through one of the routes, I won't take responsability for any hearing damage.
Wow, it's the 90s all over again, with Japanese devs having no idea how to localize stuff... "How can we appeal to this mysterious Western audience? Maybe with CHEAP TRANSLATION and EVEN CHEAPER DUBBING! That sounds perfect."
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Holy damn, a crappily-dubbed Engrish localisation? That's kind of amazing in its stupidity. Will have to look for some playthrough of that, but also happy the game received a second chance after being mistreated like that. :]
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17 hours ago, aliciarune said:On one hand, I'm glad they finished the game. On another, it doesn't seem to be a very good one. I mean, for me, it likely wouldn't be the worst, but it's sad that it's not what it wanted to be. I backed this game when it came out and was excited to play (I was the girl for the protag). Cute story but with darker elements can be a great game. Sadly, it appears the devs weren't able to get the story down right. I don't regret backing, but wish I got a better game. Also, sad that the girls are so unlikable. I mean, when I played the demo, they were nothing amazing but okay for me. I loved the art and the premise of being game devs too. Like How to Date a Magical Girl though, they are trying to copy Doki Doki, and though I don't mind if they take some elements from that, neither game did well enough to pull it off. And this one seems to have bad love interests. Well, I do hope they can make a better game next time. I know it's not easy, especially writing. But, good review.
Thanks! The likeability is pretty subjective so my experience might be unusually negative... But even a poor first impression can be a plot device and be compensated for by interesting character development. Here it was a downward spiral even harder than with the How to Date a Magical Girl, as there are basically no high points, especially outside of Lissa's route. I never really regret backing projects because its always a gamble and I have yet to see a case when dev of something my pledged to showed bad will or lack of effort... This one just really didn't pan out as most people hoped.
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47 minutes ago, Bruhmp4 said:Hello mate. Do you mind telling me is there any link to the translated version? Its been some hour I tried to find it.
I'm afraid you'll never find one. We'll see a translated version years from now, if ever.
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Reading this kind of stuff always makes me realize what a weirdo I am. I never saw school as oppressive. I'm still very fond of pretty much every bit of "useless knowledge I've gathered there and was too oblivious to most things around me to even stress out about my outsider's status. Maybe also because I never experienced negative parts of school life beyond mild teasing.
But I'm also the kind of person to whom rebelling against their circumstances is pretty foreign concept. Or rather, it took something extremely f***** up for me to actually act out. School was comforting. Clear rules, clear goals, clear future. I could stay in such system forever. You get a lot of "freedom" when you get out of it, but I feel it serves l best for people that have the energy to conquer the world. I have yet to find any use for it.
So, if I read this VN, I find it quite likely I would feel nothing. I wonder how many people like me are there..
- Dreamysyu and Mr Poltroon
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7 minutes ago, bakauchuujin said:
Next step covering loli porn?
I'm kind of doing that in an indirect ways? I'll definitely delve into it if I continue with this project, as it's a major source of shitstorms. Plus there's the issue of constant threat from anti-child-porn laws which is interesting for multiple of reasons and I wrote/talked about it in the past.
Plus there's so much fan porn with underage characters in fanfiction that it can seriously compete with eroge industry...
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3 hours ago, Templarseeker said:
Greetings! About this Visual Novel... Does the hentai scenes has sounds or voice acting or does it just stay silent whenever the naughty stuff happens?
I actually had to do some digging as I never keep partial voice acting up in the long run and had no quick way to check it out now... But it seems the h-scenes have moans and stuff like that voiced, even if there's no full dialogue included.
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6 hours ago, kokoro said:
You got balls of steel bro. I wouldn't talk about eroge in public.
I still don't know if it's a step up or step down from talking about My Little Pony fan porn. ;]
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8 hours ago, solidbatman said:
wait, mac and cheese is something kfc didnt offer before? I could have sworn that they did when I last ate at one like 10 years ago.
Maybe they reintroduced it. All I really know that they market it as something new and the marketing push is REAL.
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10 minutes ago, kivandopulus said:
I value any other review over mine, so the most important thing for me is to feel alive. That's best done with either trying to inspire or just having fun trashing something irresponsibly.
I can relate to that last part. I started my blog with the idea I won't touch bad games unless they're very notable or there's something in them that represent broader issues with the medium. But when you write stuff for fun, it's simply that enjoyable to trash games that really deserve it and dissect their failures mercilessly.
Why I stopped being irresponsibly harsh is because while you can have your day repeatedly with old Japanese VNs, EVN scene is something of a community. By being an asshole to a developer that actually made an effort and is reasonably likely to see your review, you gain nothing but burn bridges. If you're harsh, but constructive and respectful at the same time, you can actually build connections and help people improve. It's what differentiate being a review in a highly-niche, indie scene from being one for mainstream games. There are still companies that deserve no consideration when you cover them, like Winged Cloud, but more often then not devs are actually well-meaning and it's best to be as respectful as possible even if you have to tear their work apart. :]
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I guess if your bias suggests to you that nearly everything sucks, it's pretty important to make sure it doesn't dominate your writing, but I'm always a bit on the line when it goes to how much you should fight your instincts when reviewing stuff. For me, it's at least as important to state your biases clearly so the reader can know where your opinion is coming from and how much it might differ from theirs. An honest review can be more interesting, and maybe even more useful than an overly-analytical one in the end, as enjoyment from the media is not simply a sum of its parts. :]
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32 minutes ago, Emi said:
The typical cursed monetization version that all of them start using nowdays due to it earning them tons of money.
this whaling have started get issues in pc market with lootboxes and so, but the mobile market are free to allowed to make it worse. even tho the mobile market gain ALOT more money on it. they give you awards for a certain amount of time to get you feel invested and forced to pay. wich sadly many do. they´ve "invested" 2 weeks on it so.
but yea, i agree. its horrible. i would stay away from any Shall we date? game.
Peeking at unfinished posts and pre-release comments, such abuse of admin powers. ;p
Seriously though, I was really shocked how you can monetize a VN when I encountered Moe! Ninja Girls. I kind of expected their otome to be similar, but they somehow manage to be even worse... Masterclass con-artists, truly. And the otome community is kind of desensitized to it, so it felt right to remind everyone how f**** up it is and warn those that didn't have the displeasure of encountering these games by themselves. :>
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3 hours ago, Rastafoo said:Its not crap. Stop being a turd. There's a reason you're not an admin.
I am now, so please refrain double posting in the future.
PS: I've hidden these two comments because I indeed went a bit overboard back then (and today too – I apologize for that), which is a bit problematic in the context of my new role. Double posting on both forums and blog is not technically forbidden, so it's not something you can get penalized for. However, as you can clearly see, it's not a thing considered in good tone around the forums. It makes it less, and not more likely for your content to be treated seriously and starting any kind of reasonable discussion. Please be mindful of that in the future.
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10 minutes ago, aliciarune said:
Also, I'm iffy on the developer...He's been shady and you can't buy the game on Steam. It's sad. This game could've been good, even if it was short.
It seems there's some kind of internal drama within the studio (I'm mostly basing this on gossip, as there was no official communication about this). Steam versions of their games are impossible to buy, but not completely delisted curiously enough (store pages are still up). Versions on other stores are still available. I imagine their latest Kickstarter project, which I even backed, is effectively dead. Kind of sad but kind of fitting too.
42 minutes ago, adamstan said:Also, timeline in Megumi's route doesn't compute at all.
And the only thing I'll remember from it long-term is the fact that they just went and had sex in the shower with Megumi covered in blood and a dead body in the hallway... The plotholes become kind of irrelevant by comparison.
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9 hours ago, littleshogun said:
Spoiler for Megumi's route here below.
Honestly I REALLY want to know if Japanese (Or whereever the setting is based on or where the writer live) education system is really messed up and corrupted or not. Granted that we can say the teacher can use the power of money, but I think no sane principal want to hire a murderer teacher even with the money unless they want to get many critic from the public (The murder in the school should be caused some major uproar). While you can still argue that the victim family might be decided to not pursue the case, there's no way that they didn't pursue the case if the killer is manage to get into the jail. While it's also possible that the killer's family is a powerful family who can get anything that they want, I believe that the writer should also elaborate on that as well and yet there's no such thing that showed in the VN (And neither the guarantor). So in the end you can say that the killer here is only act as the plot device for Megumi's route in order to have dramatic moment, and that plot device is got shoved in the very harsh way by the MC.
I guess that's all for what I can say here, and yeah my concern here is only in Megumi's route.
SpoilerThe game "addresses" this in like one sentence, when the guy says he doesn't have the money to get away with murder for the second time. Pretty laughable, but the actual circumstances of the crime are so stupid and over-the-top incriminating that no spin could really make it work.
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10 minutes ago, solidbatman said:
There are two english visual novels that are seared into my brain from their announcements. Sakura Spirit and NOBY. Both looked super promising with really nice art and what not. But alas...
Damn, you made me think for the first time how good Sakura Spirit must have looked when the only thing people really knew about it was Wanaca's art. I came to the community too late to experience such misery, but approaching that game with expectations of it being at least decent? Even thinking about it is depressing.
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3 minutes ago, Dergonu said:
It does what it needs to. Show them lesbian tiddies!
True, but it seems even many long-time Winged Cloud fans are somewhat disgusted by what they put out by this point. You can only cynically milk your fanbase for so long before people see through it and lose all interest...
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11 hours ago, Ranzo said:
Not up to Wing Clouds standards, is there a standard below zero?
There's no such thing as rock bottom when it goes to shitty games. The moment you think you found the ultimate stinker, an even bigger atrocity waits for you just behind the corner... Plus some Winged Cloud's games were actually somewhat fun in their trashiness, but not this one.
3 hours ago, Dergonu said:Lmao the summary. They ripped off Overlord so hard haha.
2 hours ago, Dreamysyu said:The premise reminded me a bit of A Wild Last Boss Appeared!
It reminds me the most of that Demon Lord anime from last year, with the protagonist being an OP player roleplaying a villain (rather than actually being one). But even that makes it sound way more fun than it actually is – it does nothing interesting with the premise, nor does it know how to implement the tropes in a fun way.
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116 hours ago, Narcosis said:
You don't need to be a weeb to create good visual novels with anime aesthetics, nor is being one a requirement. The core people responsible for KS weren't weebs; they were mostly troll extraordinaries, which is a norm for many respectable 4c users.
Maybe, but who outside of weebs even know what VNs are? KS couldn't happen without an intimate understanding of the medium and it's not something people gain by chance...
Though I guess the distinction makes sense if we use the super-pejorative definition of weeaboo, that is a person shallow, obnoxious obsession with Japanese popculture. I'm kind of used to applying the term in a broad sense, simply as "a fan of JP otaku media".
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13 hours ago, Narcosis said:
The lead dev and creator behind LiS is a hardcore weeb himself; expecting some sort of a miracle in this case was a bit of a stretch.
Sure, but I think many EVN developers are weebs and LiS stuff still manages to stand out with how unbearable it is at times. I mean, Katawa Shoujo was made by a bunch of 4chan weaboos, I'm pretty sure many of them quite "hardcore", but ended up looking and feeling quite differently than Sunrider. ;p
Plus there's a much bigger problem with LiS storytelling, only loosely of at all connected to weeb sensitivities, and that is constantly going over the top with their plot developments. The second Sunrider game derailed itself with that and while SSS wasn't as bad, it's now clear that it's just the inherent part of this developer's style. That wasn't fully obvious after just one instance of botching a game's ending with grimdark nonsense IMO. No one expected SSS to not be weeb, but other things about it could go in many different directions. Especially considering how long and complex it is. :>
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2 hours ago, adamstan said:
Very nice review. Nevertheless, I think I'll skip this VN
You titled your thread on r/vn "Shining Song Starnova - the most "Japanese" EVN ever created [Review]", and after seeing that I obviously immediately thought about Katawa Shoujo. But comparing my impressions of KS and what I read in your review of SSS, it seems that they approach the issue of being "Japanese EVN" very differently. KS managed to fool many people into thinking it was translation of JVN (which is pretty big achievement, I think), and in my memories there are Japanese voices even though it was unvoiced
However, it didn't went over the top with "weebness" as SSS apparently does, and it was very good decision (they even presented quite decent in-story justification for dropping honorifics 
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The most obvious example of "over the top weebness and edginess gone wrong" is probably No One But You, and I'm quite sure that SSS doesn't drop to such horrible levels of atrocity, but while I probably could somewhat enjoy it two years ago (after all, I enjoyed some aspects of NOBY back then), today it would be too much.
Yeah, if I was writing about Katawa Shoujo I would probably drop the quotation marks. It captured the spirit of JVNs without overdoing it or cynical pandering, sadly can't say that about SSS (although I still don't think it kills the game unless you're really not fond of weeb easthetic).
And right, No One But You! You reminded me what my next VN playthrough to watch on YouTube should be. It's not like me keep skipping on a disaster of these proportions.
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40 minutes ago, Mr Poltroon said:
I 100%'d this game. And quite loved it, in fact. Yes, weeb stylistic choices and all that, but I was otherwise fond of the writing.
I don't think there's any point in arguing about it, it's very much a matter of taste. I found this game too much all over the place - the amount of paedophile executives, psychotic fans and literal shit-eating in the middle kind of didn't let me believe the happy endings. Kamijou was a cool antagonist, but he was an outlier in this regard. It's my personal impression, but that is inevitably the main basis for my review, otherwise it would be dishonest. Same goes for the weebness - some people will find it appealing, some people will get grossed-out Zaka-style and I don't think any of them are "right" about it, enjoyment-wise, but it's still fair to point out how much it is on the extreme end of the spectrum, and that it bothered me from time to time.
I don't fault anyone for loving this game, but for me it did way too many things wrong to be considered great - and it's not just me trying to be an "objective reviewer", they seriously detracted from my enjoyment. It's impressively-made, to the point I kind of feel guilty bashing it, but just OK overall.
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1 hour ago, Zakamutt said:
I wonder if they changed any of the things I memed about in the trial https://twitter.com/i/moments/887601776240857089
...probably not any of the weeb language, to my despair... Oh well, I'm a JOP, it's not like LiS would ever make anything I'd want to read at this point.
Well, they polished the writing bit and removed a few most brain-mangling weebisms (ex. that freakin' izakaya became a hostess club), but most of it stayed. Including the Mika's line about being a weeb... Since when that term applied to Japanese otaku?
Still, I kind of accept all that as LiS' formula, so didn't bother to beat that horse too much in the review. It's also still not the main thing that made me want to burn it to the ground sometimes, after the initial cultural shock the weeb becomes more or less invisible, the eadgy teenager sensibilities of the plot never do.
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30 minutes ago, Mr Poltroon said:
Haha, well, it wasn't even that, or at least that's not what I had the biggest problem with. It's more that it sometimes felt like that Madoka fanfiction written by patricularly edgy, goth 14 years old. It was desperate to be dark and dramatic and quite often it turned out being distasteful or impossible to treat seriously because of that. Love in Space usually have cool ideas, but they have no idea when to slow down to keep their stories on track...
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Yup, it's the original post, but I also cheated on the publishing date to jump it to the top of the list when I added the two extra titles.
...but I'm also kind of apathetic about making stuff visible on Fuwa lately, not many people seem to browse the blog posts any more. BTW, which game on the list stole your heart? :3