Plk_Lesiak

Oh hey, it's you! Didn't think I'd see you posting again. ^^
So you're basically making a project for your portfolio? I wonder if anyone around here has the know-how that exceeds yours in any meaningful way. One person that comes to mind is @BunnyAdvocate, but I don't think they log in anymore...

~Necro Necro yay~
Been watching some conspiracy theory icebergs for fun and i'm surprised at the lack of "aliens are fallen angels" and "humanity has reset many times" theories. "Space voids were caused by alien singularity" and "God is a 4th-dimensional being" would've been neat to see too.

Hi, everyone. Although I created this account last year, I guess you could say I'm new as well. I just didn't bother to use it until now.
I speak Spanish, English and Japanese (I only started studying two years ago though, so i'm not THAT good yet) and although I technically started playing visual novels in 2014, I only started to gain more interest in the medium around 2019.
Some of my favorite visual novels are Sakura no Uta, Kara no Shoujo, Totono, Danganronpa V3, Muv-Luv, Chaos;Child, SubaHibi and Sumaga. I'm also playing Muramasa right now and it's very good as well.
I really like onee-san or senpai type heroines, my favorite genres would be Utsuge and Denpa and I'm a big fan of Nitroplus and Makura's catalogue. I'm interesed in Innocent Grey, Leaf and Liarsoft as well.
My current favorite artists are NamanikuATK, Sugina Miki, Motoyon, Inugami Kira, Ooishi Ryuuko and Kannuki Yoake/Amamura Kekka.
I do a few translation/QC things from time to time, as well as image and video editing (Mostly subtitles and/or karaokes). I also draw sometimes, although I haven't done so recently.

So, the recent release of The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass went pretty unnoticed so far, but currently seems to get some attention thanks to a comment on VNDB. It actually has a rating above 8.5 with over 60 votes there, which is unusually high for an OELVN. There aren't even that many JVN's that high. It's a scifi mystery thriller that actually looks pretty professional. It uses NVL style, which I personally don't like that much, but if the story is good it might not matter that much.
So, for everyone who isn't already jumping on Muramasa and looking more for a SciFi mystery VN in the spirit of the infinity series titles like Ever 17, this might actually be worth a look.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432500/The_Sekimeiya_Spun_Glass/?utm_source=vndb

Ace Academy. One heroine is low-key in relationship with protagonist's friend from the beginning, two others are either shown or implied to find someone if you don't choose them. A flawed game for sure, but it's still something I really love about it – the protagonist not being the center of the world and heroines having their own lives that go on if you don't go after them (or fail the romance arc).

Nice I like that kind of cheese 👍

Let's have some more 80's ID music! Vina Panduwinata sang these cheesy love songs that I somehow find really hard to resist...
 
 

Lol, yeah, that's also classic MangaGamer. Somehow they have all the right ideas and simultaneously absolutely suck at marketing.
Edit: Made some posts about it on Reddit, both on VN and vtube boards. I wonder what people make of it. Also, I think I just surpassed the advertisement effort MG itself put into this. 

Howdy, all! As the title suggests, I'm somewhat far from center of the target audience for most visual novels. I'm an oldtimer D&D pen and paper RPGer turned MMO junkie, FPS practitioner, Sims3 storytelling blogger and, now, avid visual novel consumer. I'm also now rediscovering anime for the first time since Ronald Reagan was president. I'm an imperfect but striving  husband, dad, programmer, teacher, and outdoorsman who seems to always find and hike the rocky trails. Those are the most fun! But it's murder on the knees...

Ah, so you're the dude who is on the top of the leaderboard.
Hey, hope we can get along!
I mean like, a little hell is fine, nothing could beat Twitter anyway.

Welcome! I hope you'll indeed find our little community relatively not hellish.

There's something fascinating with how this thread is evolving with every iteration though. Like, he never directly responds to feedback or discusses stuff in the way forums users usually do, but you can see the effects of our responses every time this pops up. The framing is always slightly different and new arguments are replacing the ones that were most violently rebuked.
It's as if this was some kind of spell, with the author looking for that one exact set of words that will magically conjure his dream project into existence. I haven't seen anything like it before.
And @Nenor5VB, maaaaaan... Above all, this is not really a dev forums. You can somewhat hope to find translators here, but there's very little chance that someone even capable of furthering you cause will ever read what you publish around here. I've said this before, but there are outlets out there that are way more fit to host this topic – particularly after it has been utterly depleted around here. Lemma Soft, VN Dev subreddit, maybe CloudNovel forums or other platform-related sites. You're just talking at void at this point and if you keep it up, I'll seriously consider removing all future threads for redundancy.

Heya all, I joined this forum because this seems like a really chill community.
That and I really need a friend to talk about VNs real bad lol. So yeah, I am perfectly open to be contacted over here. Though I mainly play romance VN, I am open to trying new genres. It's just, romance is my main pick most of the times.
Hope we can get along really soon.
 
Cheers.

There's something fascinating with how this thread is evolving with every iteration though. Like, he never directly responds to feedback or discusses stuff in the way forums users usually do, but you can see the effects of our responses every time this pops up. The framing is always slightly different and new arguments are replacing the ones that were most violently rebuked.
It's as if this was some kind of spell, with the author looking for that one exact set of words that will magically conjure his dream project into existence. I haven't seen anything like it before.
And @Nenor5VB, maaaaaan... Above all, this is not really a dev forums. You can somewhat hope to find translators here, but there's very little chance that someone even capable of furthering you cause will ever read what you publish around here. I've said this before, but there are outlets out there that are way more fit to host this topic – particularly after it has been utterly depleted around here. Lemma Soft, VN Dev subreddit, maybe CloudNovel forums or other platform-related sites. You're just talking at void at this point and if you keep it up, I'll seriously consider removing all future threads for redundancy.

There's something fascinating with how this thread is evolving with every iteration though. Like, he never directly responds to feedback or discusses stuff in the way forums users usually do, but you can see the effects of our responses every time this pops up. The framing is always slightly different and new arguments are replacing the ones that were most violently rebuked.
It's as if this was some kind of spell, with the author looking for that one exact set of words that will magically conjure his dream project into existence. I haven't seen anything like it before.
And @Nenor5VB, maaaaaan... Above all, this is not really a dev forums. You can somewhat hope to find translators here, but there's very little chance that someone even capable of furthering you cause will ever read what you publish around here. I've said this before, but there are outlets out there that are way more fit to host this topic – particularly after it has been utterly depleted around here. Lemma Soft, VN Dev subreddit, maybe CloudNovel forums or other platform-related sites. You're just talking at void at this point and if you keep it up, I'll seriously consider removing all future threads for redundancy.

Hi.
I've been reading visual novels on and off for a few years now.  That said, I'm reading VNs regularly for a couple of months now as part of my Japanese study. I probably should have written an Intro before asking for recommendations. Sorry about that.
  
 

I'm old visual novel player when the good old msdos games had english version of japanese game. But I missed a lot of good game because of lacks of translation or access to them. Now I am looking to see if I can do a translation. Now i'm looking if i can do a translation.
c-ya

All best wishes to @adamstan!
 

You kind of list a lot of Nakige or dramatic VNs... Trying to relax, I think I would aim for something light and comedic? Like Fureraba, Wagamama High Spec, maybe a Yuzusoft game like Sanoba Witch?

Okay, this is the most 80s thing I've found so far. :3
Edit: This is Malaysian technically, but considering the language is virtually the same, I'm not surprised Spotify mix these in auto-generated playlists. 😆
 

The exploration of Indonesian 80s music (AKA "Indonesian City Pop") has begun! Fun fact, if "love" is ridiculously overused in English song titles, "Cinta" is triply so in ID music, to the point it's kind of ridiculous. Also, Ermy Kullit's greatest hit is called "Kasih"... Which also means "love". I guess there's no reason to over-complicate things... 
 

One problem with the removal of adult content currently is that we go from porn scenes to no mention of having a proper relationship at all. Any indication of sex even happening seems to be a no go. That's going way overboard with censorship for younger audiences. It works for heavy plot based VN's, but for moege and such it just doesn't. Would be way too boring. Even if i skip most scenes after the first, i do like that the act is present in the relationship. I just wish they could move it into a more subtle direction with innuendo and the day after scenes like waking up together under the sheets etc. Bit of a ramble xD

+1000 this. All-ages version of Princess Evangile does this, and it worked great, at least for me.
Also, I wish they stopped inserting cringey, mood killing h-scenes in most random moments just to fill the quota.

School days