Shaun

The choice is up to you but imho reading the first two routes can give you a good idea if the visual novel will even be something you will like, the translation is really good though, it's a Dark Fantasy themed visual novel just so you know. For me I'm glad I read what is currently translated, I just have to wait for the full translation patch now, I do have a lot of other visual novels I haven't finished yet.

The side stories aren't even close to being done so I doubt an ETA will be possible until they have a lot more progress, currently only 4.23% of the side stories are done (there are 19 side stories in total), I don't know how often they update the chart though: https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=2AA0C152F3ABC311!169&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!AMiZoMMtMwT6WaI. I've already finished reading through Fione and Eris's routes so I'm just waiting for the full translation.

According to VNDB page on the title there aren't any bad ends otherwise it would list them on the tags for it, it uses a Ladder Structure which I believe is a new tag they came up with since when I played Grisaia no Kajitsu (it's one of the titles that has it now) a long time ago I'm pretty sure that tag wasn't there, there aren't that many titles that have it though. I've noticed even if you choose what would normally be a bad choice it actually will choose the right one just with a little extra from the MC. About that website, I did find one from a thread on VNDB but it's in Japanese and can't be translated to English for whatever reason, I've come to the conclusion that a walkthrough guide isn't necessary for this title.

Is there any way to tell what chapter you're on when reading this visual novel? So far I haven't seen any indication of this, there isn't even a date/time display anywhere. I am enjoying what I'm reading however, wish I would've known about this project but I don't really browse that much on this forum. Does anyone have a walkthrough guide for this visual novel? It's possible I'm on Eris Chapter now since the focus is on her now.

I wasn't even aware of this translation project until now.

Wasn't that canceled? The entry for it on VNDB was deleted as well. Looks like they reverted it, it was deleted at one point.

That looks like it's an issue with your system, I play it on a desktop and I have never encountered that issue, it's possible you barely meet the minimum requirements to play it, while most visual novels will play fine on low-end PCs there are some that require more power.

That isn't the problem at all, I have that enabled and don't have hanging at all. Shadowplay never interferes with any game. Also if you don't even have GFE (Geforce Experience) installed you won't even have shadowplay to begin with, you need GFE for that but you need to manually trigger shadowplay for it to even do anything, it doesn't run on it's own.

My copy displays the same as your first image: I believe this is normal and doesn't mean anything is wrong with your copy. Your friends screenshot appears to have sections that aren't translated (the text you're seeing is Kenji), those shouldn't be showing up at all. About the hanging issue, I don't know about that because I've never had that problem before.

I'd like a walkthrough guide as well though I haven't read that much yet.

Go here https://nekonyansoft.com/shop/product/22 for the update, it's free, works on all versions. While there are other sources to buy it from NekoNyan is the main company behind it, all patches come from them. Steam will auto download the lastest patch of course.

Do you have the latest 1.04 update installed? Steam users should already have it. I just checked that FC replay and it plays fine, no issues at all.

Both Mashiro and Rika are main heroines not side heroines, calling them side heroines is wrong.

For this visual novel a walkthrough guide is actually unnecessary as the choices are very obvious, you don't need a walkthrough guide for it.

I didn't see a single problem with Rika's route.