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Nice (even if simple) playing, however I'm not big fan of that singing style But overally nice song.

FanTL patch itself has been cancelled, but recently the group released patch for official version that adds subtitles to OP and ED videos.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, although I might have overrated it a bit, since it was maybe 7th or 8th VN I've ever read Certainly teacher's side route was complete waste of time, but when it comes to the main routes, from what I remember, I enjoyed them all back then.

Yesterday I finished true route of Tenohira o, Tayou ni first arc. It was very good although I have some issues with route system structure itself. I will post more when I finish whole game - for now I have second arc left, which features another protagonist and has two routes. For now I think it's heading towards ~7.5 score (which in my scale means "very enjoyable, but has some annoying issues")

FWIW, recently Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai english patch got an update.

And in the meantime, people are complaining about lack of h-scenes in KEY VN I was really shocked after seeing that. The notion that VN=eroge, and that whenever story involves characters having sex, you absolutely HAVE to show it in every detail, seems to be strong. (I personally find it ridiculous, and legendary bad quality of KEY's H-scenes only reinforces that ) On a side note - when browsing Steam reviews of Flight Diary, I saw some people who claimed that they could feel when h-scenes were cut from Akari's route

To think that few months ago I swore that I''ll never be buying physical editions of VNs... Today I received another package from amazon. This time it's Tenohira o, Tayou ni that I'm currently reading. With the price of 1500円 I simply couldn't justify going on with pirated version in any possible way

I see. Now we have some common point of reference at least. And it means, that after all there is some tiny chance that I might still like My Fair Princess (unless it's much worse)

I haven't read that many, compared to some of the veterans I've read one of the older PeasSoft's titles - Koi Iro Chu! Lips. While it was filled with popular tropes, I still enjoyed it, because they executed those tropes reasonably well, and I liked the characters. So I guess that's how it is with me - I'm okay even with seemingly overused tropes if they are executed well. It's a problem however, if the execution itself is also lazy. On a side note - recently I browsed my reading history on vndb, since I've been filling out start and finish dates. It struck me, that in 2018 I've read over twice as many VNs when compared with 2019. Incidentally, 2019 was the year when I started reading untranslated titles. And I guess it shows how much slower I am when reading in JP compared to EN. "Medium" sized VN would typically take me around a week when reading translated, but untranslated it can easily take one month or more - it takes around a week to finish one route

Well, they're nukige after all Ouch, that makes me sad I had high hopes for this title. Will try it when it comes up with some decent discount on Steam sale then

Yeah, it sits pretty high on my wishlist. But I guess we'll have to wait at least about a year for it to be finished - unless the author suddenly speeds up his work

They hinted, that translation of the new content depends on the succes of the base game. True, but I think that's a bit stupid attitude. That's like saying that Princess Evangile is incomplete without the "W Happiness" Besides, it isn't even released yet. It may as well turn out that new content is inferior to the base game Whatever the case, it definitely would be wrong to say that one cannot enjoy a VN without a fandisc, wouldn't you agree?

Definitely. I mean - why not? After all, the game has been released year and a half ago, and lots of people enjoyed it as it is currently. Reflection Blue seems to be kind of "extended edition", sort of big fandisc burned into main game. (It introduces new routes for and one new heroine) But after all it is just that - an add-on.

So, today I found some time to work on this thing, and thanks to that I've gotten past the first half of the script Next opportunity will be, I think, after Feb 17.

So finally they managed to release before FanTL (which apparently is scheduled for 2020-02-17 got cancelled in order to promote official version - thumbs up for the fanTL team for that )

That's indeed nice Reminds me of some of the Kayoko Yoshizawa's songs. I feel like Japanese popular music is essentially a mix of various pop traditions from all the world. From different time periods as well. And often it brings interesting and pleasing results

Last week I found great deal for Natsu No Ame on amazon.jp . It was marked down to 2900円 (from the regular 9680円) so it was hard to pass. It arrived today. Thankfully, there aren't any NSFW images on the box/cover

Today I stumbled upon this song (I heard it on internet radio): Love it That such songs are still being made in 21st century is why I fell in love with J-pop I know it is very formulaic. It's just that J-pop formula resonates with me really well.

I don't know - I use hooking only to look up unknown words. I send captured text to Chiitrans, which works as a parser and dictionary - after hovering mouse cursor over the word it gives me dictionary entries for it. And that's all. There probably have been some advancements in MTL, but it looks like not too much when it comes to Japanese. What I know is that Google Translate is still pretty bad with JP. (or rather unpredictable) Other free online services too. There are some people who swear by MTL (even on this forum...) and claim it's perfectly viable way to read untranslated JVNs, but I cannot agree with them. I've heard that some of the recent Japanese hardware electronic dictionaries/translators give considerably better results than Google, but those things are pretty expensive, and of course unusable with VNs

It looks like I have some perverted attraction to ancient charage For my next read I picked up a 2003 one - Tenohira o, Taiyou ni. (After figuring out how to hook it - in this case AGTH is the only way) It seems to have pretty good ratings on EGS, with the average score of 80. So far, it looks promising. Initial setup (MC getting reunited with his estranged childhood friends) seems a bit similar to the Amber Quartz I've finished recently, but this is much older title. I was about to say that I feel some Yume Miru Kusuri vibes as well, but this title is also few years older than YMK. Let's just say that one of the MC's classmates looks like a prototype for YMK's Antoinette. Truly horrible person. Initial apatethic state of protagonist also reminds me of YMK a bit. I'm really curious where will it all go. BTW - I said that Amber Quartz looks unpopular with 370 votes on EGS. Certainly it isn't much when compared with top titles. But then, out of curiosity, I checked out EGS page for Princess Evangile. Only 208 votes (and 2411 on VNDB, definitely thanks to translation). That shocked me a bit.

Maybe he was talking about Clover Day's

I just finished Amber Quartz I get the reasons why it might be not too popular, but for me it was great, and actually stands out among the VNs that I've read so far. I think that one thing that hurts it might be actually... misleading marketing? I mean, judging from VNDB summary AND official developers page, it looks like pretty generic high-school moege, with added theme of memories, and the Protagonist with the troubled past TM. What's more, it keeps up this disguise for first two or three hours nearly perfectly. However, considering the length of the whole game I think it won't be too big spoiler to say out loud that it's actually something quite different - since the end of the first chapter, action and fantasy kicks in (and also a bit of mystery I guess). If I had to compare it to the things I watched and read, I'd say that it is a mix of KEY's classics - I see the influence of Little Busters (group of friends!), Clannad (family), AIR and Kanon in various parts - and(please don't laugh)... Sailor Moon (!), when it comes to the action parts, and also the way it mixes action and fantasy fight plot with slice of life and comedy. Also when it comes to the design of the enemies/villains - they are more grotesque than genuily scary, just like the monsters in SM anime were. I guess that to appreciate it, you need similar level of naivety Horror plotge veterans probably wouldn't enjoy it as much. There is also quite decent romance added, but it definitely isn't main focus of the game, at least outside of the true route. Characters were very likeable, and there were many emotional scenes, which often made me shed some tears. Also, I loved art style, especially character design. Music was pretty good as well, especially one of the battle themes. So, after all, this VN was total surprise for me, as I expected something different, but it was a very welcome surprise The story totally sucked me in. I sometimes dreamed about it, and kept wondering how will it unveil. I loved it. 8/10

Now, that definitely increases my interest in this VN. I'm a sucker for marriage/family endings

Clover Day's official release, and by NekoNyan? Yaaaaay! That's probably one of the greatest translation news for me. (although I've been getting ready to read it in JP already ) If I'm reading things correctly, this release will be based on FanTL by @astro and @ittaku, right? Congratulations!

It was my least favorite route as well, even though it had many good elements. My two favorite routes and heroines were, quite unsurprisingly, I guess, Lily and Hanako. After those two there would be Emi and Shizune, and then Rin in the last place. Since each route had different writer (with the exception of Hanako's route sharing one of the writers with Lily's), it's no surprise that they're so different.