Chronopolis

Gwahahaha I lol'd. I don't know...most of the games I play I haven't found much discussion about at all, so underrated/overrated isn't even a thing. I did see that Houkago no Futekikakusha got low scores on EGS(60), which seemed somewhat lower than vndb (even accounting for differences in site averages). It's an easy game to get ticked off at or be let down by, not least of which being the slightly muddled plot device usage and lack of explanation of the setting, but I think it remained powerful in emphasizing the emotional states, thought processes, and relationship of the characters, from the start to mostly the end.

Arishii, meet the TL'er of HatsuSaku: https://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/5261-help-needed-for-hatsuyuki-sakura/ Oops haha, my mistake. Thanks Rooke. Weeell, if you would prefer not to work on eroges...there still should be some projects out there. I'm not If it's just the H-scenes that are meh, I think it would be possible to edit for all the other lines.

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I didn't have a clue about it, sorry. Oh, it's the on-yomi of 裸？　Well I don't know about the Japanese meaning and nuance, but from the context you'd just want some way to reference "being nude" in a way which is so general that no one would get what it meant out of the blue. "Being free", or "becoming free"

I thought it was a very promising looking otome game, and I love the art. Wish you all the best

At first I thought the review was super specific (haven't played either hosimemo or toridori), but you bring up some positive elements to look for in any vn

Blah, finished Houkago no Futekikakusha. The game makes you appreciate a lots of things that wouldn't be of much importance in most VN's by having you care for all the characters. The game's main focus and where it goes the fathest lies in human emotions and fragility: anguish, wishes, hope, solidarity, and most of all: togetherness.

Bajyaaaann!!! Congrats Nosebleed!

It's an explanatory tone の/ん . Originally it's a の, but it becomes ん　often where it's easier to pronounce. http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/nounparticles If it either represents an explanatory tone, パンを買ったんだ。　(explanatory tone: I bought bread) or if it's part of a question, it seeks an explanation. お前がやったのか？(seeking an explanation: Was it you who did it??) 寒いの？　(seeking an explanation: (you) cold?) どうして教えないの？　(seeking an explanation: "why won't you tell (me)?)

How I learned radicals was from learning vocabulary. For the first 2000 or so words, when ever I hit a kanji I didn't know、I would look up the stroke order. I started by writing the characters, but after a while I just traced the kanji in my head or with my finger on the table. http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E6%9A%AE%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B When I saw new radicals, I would try to relate them to some simple kanji that contains them, or I would give a name for it.　漢字（かんじ） the first character has a radical that I think I've seen before, so I type　難しい　（むずかしい）　and compare. Once I've seen a radical in two or more kanjis, I often name it. In this case I associated that radical with 難しい. Incidentally, I associated the right radical of 難しい　with 誰（だれ）, and the left radical of 誰 with 言う（いう）. After a while you can make a decent guess of stroke order for many kanji, so I stopped looking up stroke order unless I was curious. Simliarly for words, if I saw familiar kanji in new word I would try and recall an old word that shares a kanji. E.g　行動（こうどう）　and 動く（うごく）。 Once I've seen a kanji in multiple words, I try and associate it with a convenient word, in this case the word 動く（うごく）。I don't look up stroke order anymore, but I still do this exercise. It's also good to do this excercise to when you mix up kanji which are actually different. I see the word 塵（ごみ, trash）　but misread it as 鹿（しか, deer). "I guess I should look at the differences. It turns out 塵（ごみ）　has an extra ”土”　radical at the bottom. Now making this effort pays off more for common kanji, so feel free to only do as much as you are curious

I agree. There is a spoken conversational portion that all VN's share, easy or hard. That part is kinda relatively hard to tackle with pure grammar, and the dictionary only gives you the meaning of words. It's better to acquire it top down e.g. Characters sound like *this* when they are mad. A rhetorical question has *this* sort of tone. Notice the voice tones and common words that show up when a character is: agreeing or disagreeing with the other person encouraging them, or trying to get them to stop. When the speaker is insecure/uncertain and looking to the listener for agreement (そうだよね！？　ねえ？). Aside from continuing to study grammar, paying attention to these things while watching subbed anime is good. For an beginner VN: Spoken part -- Pretty similar to everyday anime conversation. Description part -- can be tackled with a relatively small vocab using dic, and basic grammar

Ah, I can't think of many suggestions. Steins gate is a pretty exciting story, and the struggles are easy to relate to. The only problem would be some mini info dumps about physics and pseudo-phsyics, but the harder stuff is just background info.

Houkago no Futekikakusha -- Starting the last route!

I like the graphics and interface, which usually doesn't happen for western made vn's. The pictures in the kickstarter make it seem like the game has a bit of everything, which is hard to resist but also makes me concerned about the execution. In any case, I think the structure they are going for has a ton of potential.

Huh. Well yes he's talking sexy about an 握り with 梅　filling. But what about the 紀州? 紀州 (きしゅう)　is another name for 紀伊国 = Kii Province? How is that a color?

I feel like this is turning into a gimmick...

I was curious, just how many translators are hanging around in this community, and what the breakdown of VN readers.

レジ　can mean "register", as in "cash register".　I don't recall it ever being used for "refrigerator" コーナー in 弁当コーナー only refers to a specific section in a store. This scene is probably at a convenience store. 半額弁当 is likely "half-priced/half-off" bentou 霊のカゴ Without the context Mephisto gave you the likely definition.

Yes, they are all very pleasant. I'm fond of Tsukihime (black), it's quite vivid.

Love myself some touhou once in a while.

Slowly got to the end of Muramasa Chapter 2. Hmm. I'd have to say I'm most interested in the main character. The others don't interest me nearly as much atm, though they do build the setting. Oh, and the "route-close" event scared the crap out of me. Finished chapter 3 out of 5 in Giniro. I thought I wasn't going to get into this chapter's story (they start out slow, and this chapter's setting wasn't my favourite, but there was some turning point that grabbed me in suddenly.) The third chapter was dominated by drama, unlike the previous ones. Seeing things unfold was like a cross between watching a train wreck in a disguise, and watching a train wreck. Please disregard my previous post on Giniro (it's rather misguided). Giniro is characterized by: Drama, Grief, Melancholy, Nihilism (in the first chapter), historical element/settings, utsuge, detailed emotions of characters, some word artistry, and likely some overarching themes. Played the prologue of houkago no futekikakusha. Oh my god. That was gripping. edit: That wasn't the end of the prologue, it was only the end of the diary. That was a ultimately unremarkable introductory premise sculpted into an unbelievably powerful intro. She is unimaginably strong. Heck, all the characters are. So I thought...

We're neighbors, and reluctantly joined at the hip. Er, not joined at the hip, rather, childhood friends. --- Hmm, this might work.

Kizuato (http://vndb.org/v184) is best thought of as some form of mystery novel. As you play through the routes you get more and more answers (even to things which don't seem like they need an answer (most of them didn't), until you could not possibly have any more questions. This is kizuato's strength. The scenario is pre-set and consistent, with minor allowances given to let the routes play out appropriately. The consequence of this is that each route only contains what is needed to advance the plot (the layer by layer revealing of the scenario, a good showcase of what the vn medium can do). Except in the first route, there is no classical build up and resolution. This is even more jarring when it comes to the romance. There is absolutely no romance as in "romancing" (a relationship developing) in this novel. Overall, I'd say the game is about a 7.8. It doesn't have any "great points", but it has many "good points", without many bad ones. However, it'll WILL seem alot worse if you don't don't accept the above qualifications. Minimal spoiler overview The fourth route is pretty crazy. While not in quality, in form, I'd liken it to a "mini-ever17". After a nice fireworks scene (I liked that.), it suddenly goes into this long eerie horror sequence, by the middle of which you are just dyying to get out of there. A number of baffling things happen, and then boom - the story goes into crazy explanation mode, the baffling things you saw, and some of the facts from the earlier arcs (that didn't seem like they needed or would have an explanation), all end up being symptoms of a larger-scale backstory, far-removed from the original setting. The past arc has some irrelevant past scenes, and then caps off the backstory with some explanation at the very top of the causation chain. Jeez, it's pretty out there. Girls in order of how much business they should have in liking Kouichi (Normal eroge relationship standards>>>Kaede>Chizuru>>>>Hatsune>>Azusa). Looking at the scenario as a whole, I can't think of a better way they could have layed it out. The irregular structure just followed from the scenario they had decided on before hand. Uhh, most of the rape wasn't neccesary. It was technically relevant, but they could have left most of it unshown or abbreviated. Oh, and to answer Aggressor's request.

I haven't played it yet. I'm just about to start it. Went through 2/3 of the omake skits and then took a break. For sure, I'll write an outline. As for what it's about... I thought it might cover the conclusion of the "alternate perspective" route, but that itself wouldn't make a route. It could be similar to the struggles from the earlier routes, except struggling for a better end. Either way I'll be sure to tell when I finish it.

Finished the 4 heroine routes of 痕　～　きずあと Started reading 銀色 (http://vndb.org/v915). I think I wanted to run away from the modern school setting as much as possible... and succeeded. Non-spoiler. Pardon the disorder in thoughts.