Happiness+

After reading a bit of the history of the people of this site, I have grown to appreciate and understand all the changes that has happened since the Great Pirate Era. I wonder how things are now. I wonder what happened to @Aaaeru after she left the site. Is everyone chill? How are you doing in particular user that reading this post? I am here to read all about it.

So, I finished Kara no shoujo and phenomeno. I plan on reading Subahibi in the Summer and The second episode of Kara no shoujo. But damn, those games are long as crap. It took me literal weeks to read through Fate/Stay Night. Took me a solid week to read through Kara no shoujo. So before I read those mammoths, I would like to read an visual novel that is no more than 10 hours please. A visual novel that is experimental, radical, artsy, bizarre etc. You know Avant-garde. Bonus points if the visual novel has any these: Horror Philosophy Mindfuck

With the help of your profile pic, it was really easy to imagine an old man telling a story as to why open sourcing a translation of an Japanese Visual Novel. Thanks for your story, it gives a lot of context to the reality of the situation.

Spring break is over for me, so I can finally calm down with my posting, and bury myself in lines code. I have only six weeks of school left! Yay! Then, I can read.... actually I don't know what to read after Kara no Shoujo. Maybe Subahibi..... *shrugs shoulders* So in the meantime, i figured I would lend you guys a brief scene of mine. Is the scene related to the VN I am working on? Somewhat. It's a scene of a prequel to the VN I am working on. Where is the link to that scene? right here. Scene Title: Hold my hand Genre: Romantic Drama Word Count: 1647 Words Feedback: Anything. How is that VN anyway? Will it be vaporware? My biggest fear is development hell. No seriously, I hate having to work on perpetual projects because I am too familiar with burnout. It won't be vaporware in fact. I am going to set release date soon and I need some friends to hold me accountable. I will post the status of the VN in a blog here and have weekly updates on it.

Yeah, I agree with that. But if Berserk 2017 has one thing going for it! It’s this jam right here. [Insert Clank Meme here]

Holy moly.

As someone with zero Japanese experience, I have to ask what is the harm in reading a bad translation? I mean what are the characteristics of a great translation. How would I know that I am reading a bad translation of a VN?

How so?

What’s good milktee? Your name is fascinating What kind of VN would you make?

I heard that this company is trying to market to 12 year old french girls, which is cool and all. But let's be honest the VN market is mainly a sasusage-fest of bros who like their 2D waifus uncensored. So, it perplexes me that they are keeping them censored, removing routes, and some cases redrawing CGs. But whatever, hopefully their sales figures make them wake up from their delusion.

Tell a joke involving the user above. Whether it be "<User> walks into a bar, ouch" or something more involving the user and who they are, it doesn't matter. Just tell a joke about them, any joke.

Nice to meet you, What would you consider your least favorite VN?

Less pointless H-scenes. For example, Kara no shoujo and F/SN has these sex scenes that add nothing to the plot. At least make them skippable in dialogue, like the character can just say "no thanks." Ever17, Higuarshi, Clannad, etc do just fine without these sex scenes. If you're a horndog, then at least have the sex scenes be consequential. For example, Like the MC gets in trouble for fornicating.

Here's something quick, easy, and lighthearted.

Howdy @Roland, why don't you tell us about yourself?

YESSS!!! When I think of Tsudere, I think of a bitch like asuka langley or fatora from el-harzard. While I do love Kurisu from Steins;gate. Tsugumi alone is why I kept playing Ever17. Rin being a tsudere is kinda werid to me. She's not really mean enough or distant enough in my opinion. Tsugami is a straight up ice cold bitch to you. You play as Takeshi and she does not give you the time of day. I mean damn, getting her happy end in Ever17 required some work. I failed like three times getting that bad end with her. When you do finally get past her bitchyness. There is a reason for why she's such a bitch to you and opens up. Rin ins't like that. She can be sassy, but about it. Because we don't know much about Rin's backstory in F/SN. Meanwhile, there's quite few flashbacks on Tsugumi's life. Kurisu is bit colder and warms up a bit more. She was my fav until I read ever17. All in all. Tsugumi is the best tsugami, because you have to convince her to like you otherwise she'll abadon you. Once you do have her, she is loyal and faithful any good waifu can be.

When there's a niche there's a market. When there's a market there's an industry.

Not gonna lie, I know people exactly like this, but making them out to be weeaboos is a bit oversimplified. I define weeaboos as japanesse nationalists who never been to japan; they have this fantaized view of japan from anime/manga/VNs/RPGs etc. It's literally a phase and then people wake up. This phenomenon happens during the early teen years anyway, and by the time you're in college. You shouldn't really be referring yourself as an weeb anymore. Personally, I feel like this guy does not know enough about the medium to even make that analysis. He cites what exactly, psychology and sociaology have been experiencing a reproducibility problem with their experiments. In other words, most often an experiment would be done to prove that X happens under these conditions with 87% possibilty. When reproduced by a team of different researchers, it turns out the experiment completely failed. Therefore, I take psychology studies that happened once with a grain of salt. Furthermore, the implications of this "study" seem inconsequential. Like, so people have some childish tendencies. Does this affect their lives significantly? No. Really? Oh. Then let go back reading my One Piece. I am curious to see what research this guy has cited what experiements did they do and how well their study design was. Also, anime is just animation that comes from japan. Could this man research the manchildren here in america? He would have the same conclusions, it's almost as if these people are missing their childhood? Could it be NOSTALGIA!? But what the fuck I know, I am just an Otaku working on my CS degree.

Is it really that strange? I was disturbed by DDLC, and I have been looking for a game to disturb me like that and a friend. Because it’s fun. Psychological horror is just a genre, but what makes psyhological horror work is that it is disturbing. If it’s not disturbing then, wtf I am puzzled that you find this puzzling. Why do people take people out on horror movie dates? Horror movies pale in comparison to VNs. I’ve seen all the great horror flicks, some I almost fell asleep on some of them. *cough* IT, The Shinning *cough*. I had dates where we read Air Pressure, Starwish, and ladykiller in a bind (disclosure: it was just the demo because I wasn’t sure how religious they would be.) Hell, I even included my OELVN. (Disclosure: It’s laughably short and craptastic, but it was something to talk about for like the whole time.) Why don’t you guys trying reading a VN for a date?

So, I have read Kara no shoujo (I haven’t gotten to a normal end yet. It’s like a non-normal end because it says end but I haven’t seen the credits and the gallery is locked.), saya no uta, all of the higurashi series, and DDLC. Here’s a scenario, I have a date with a normie. Besides doing what normie dates do, we decide to play a VN. Doesn’t matter if it’s a JVN or an OELVN, I am talking about a horror that is short enough to read through a date, but has psychological horror and disturbing. TL;DR I am looking for any short horror VN that is psychologically disturbing for a date night.

What's that supposed to mean?!

It feels like yesterday when I bought The Grand Design and fell in love with his explanations of the physics of our world. I read his stuff right around the time when I was a Kaku fan. Stephen explained in that book why String Theory did not make much practical sense. He also talks about why creationism doesn't work, and lays down the philosophy of science. Many people at like they know science. Some dismiss it as though it's some kind of religion. However, it's a methodology. A methodology built upon fallibilism and falsifiability. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and today one of those giants can now rest in peace.

I can tolerate investigation game play mechanics. I think Higurashi, Phoenix Wright, and Kara no Shoujo are ideal examples of this in motion. PW is the heaviest in gameplay of all, but it works because I like thinking through the story. I love the interactivity; I just don't like pointless puzzles, like they have serve some narrative purpose. Kara no Shoujo is interesting because all you do is pick evidence/suspects, go to locations, and investigate crime scenes. That's it. Those things determine your route. Just today, I was missing a certain item from investigating and therefore was locked into a bad ending. I am not going to lie, that's some good game design. Far FAR better than Ever17, but I can see how it annoys people. If that were to happen in a Ace Attorney game, there will be riots in that fandom. The higruashi VN series has the least amount gameplay because it's mainly absent until you get to matsuribayashi-hen, where you use everything you learned from the previous seven kinetic novels to solve the mystery. I loved it when I was 16. It was easily my favorite gameplay section, because it made me think. So it depends on the genre, if I am reading a drama or an action/adventure like F/SN. I don't expect any gameplay other than dialogue choices but that's assumed by default. Same goes for romance-centered VNs. DDLC is good example, the poetry creator minigame does just that. It's simple and it's tied to the narrative. TL;DR. The gameplay must be central to the narrative, if the player can move along in the story without said gameplay you know it shouldn't be there.

@Zalor is completely right. Every community needs a purpose. So, I know the goal is to make Visual Novels popular in the west, but let's dig deeper. How popular in the western world? Are we talking like mainstream popularity, like you could walk up to a random person on the street and tell them "So, I was reading this visual novel...." and they immediately know what a Visual Novel is? OR Your average anime mainstreamer is aware of the existence of VNs. I am not saying these outcomes are impossible or anything, but is that Fuwanovel's desired result? How would we do that? Are we a fan translation group? A community of English Language VN creators analogous to newgrounds? (I mean that's where I lost my VN virginity.) What are we? What is our purpose? I came here because I didn't feel welcome after posting on the VN subreddit. It would be horrible that we fade into obscurity over the next few years, while the ever growing salt deposit that is r/vns maintains relevance.

This is why we need Homura.