Codesterz Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Sadly enough Winged Cloud are probably the closest to getting original english visual novels done right. They have the 18+ now you just need the voice acting and I might actually consider buying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 And in other news: Winged Cloud is now using the Steam forums for Sakura Swim Club to promote their donation page and their greatest hit ever: Sakura Clicker. This topic was so important they pinned it. http://steamcommunity.com/app/402180/discussions/ Begging for donations in the forums of a title they're selling on Steam. Whenever I'm feeling tainted, I can at least take small solace that Winged Cloud is in a league of its own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklord Rooke Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Interesting topic titles on that page: - Why do people buy these games? - Winged Cloud stop doing this please - When will Sakura games finally stop - To people buying this game as a joke – just stop it’s not funny anymore - Ok, this is getting ridiculous They should realise Winged Cloud delight in torturing people. The more they squeal, the more Winged Cloud will stick the poker in and laugh and laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Interesting topic titles on that page: - Why do people buy these games? - Winged Cloud stop doing this please - When will Sakura games finally stop - To people buying this game as a joke – just stop it’s not funny anymore - Ok, this is getting ridiculous They should realise Winged Cloud delight in torturing people. The more they squeal, the more Winged Cloud will stick the poker in and laugh and laugh. The titles sound like they might host some interesting thoughts, until you read what the OPs actually have to say. Who Do People Buy These Games? I can understand maybe buying one of these games just to try out the genre. But once you've played one Hentai visual-novel game, you've pretty much played them all. The storylines are always trash, so why would you pay for pictures of cartoons? This is the internet, and you can fap to hentai all day for free if you want. That's one of the more productive discussions too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 So posting a link to my patch installation guide on Steam has had a similar traffic generation effect as posting my most popular articles on reddit/visualnovels. Apparently the Steam forums are the new hotspot for VN news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 A video of the first 15min of Sakura Swim Club: I'm less than a minute in and this is possibly the worst writing I've ever seen in a VN--and I've played some pretty bad VNs. This has even Softhouse-Seal's platformers beat. It's little wonder that Steam thinks VNs are fanfic-level garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I initially decided to cover the game because Winged Cloud actually put out a 18+ title, and I sort of approve of that on ideological grounds. After that, it just comes down to my personal obsessiveness--once I latch onto a topic I have difficulty letting it go. Also, I never actually played a Sakura series title, so I'm vaguely curious just how bad it could possibly be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atorq Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I got the game thinking it could not be that bad, at least the h-scenes should be something. Well I started the game and got fed up and ended up skipping through most of the game, even the h-scenes, that is how bad it was. 0/10 would not start again, a waste of money, bandwidth, HDD space and most of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I'm struggling to figure out why Steam (Winged Cloud?) locked my discussion thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/402180/discussions/0/523897653301277709/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Blue Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 I'm struggling to figure out why Steam (Winged Cloud?) locked my discussion thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/402180/discussions/0/523897653301277709/ they blocked my narcissu translation countless of times, steam doesnt like when you post links that redirects to some random web specially blogs, I don't know if it was winged cloud in this case or not.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 All I did was link to an image of the cover of School Days. It's perfectly work-safe. You can't even navigate anywhere from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverLi Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Probably because you are mentioning JAST and MG and talking about an off plattform title (School Days/Shiny Days)? But that was a really good topic with a nice discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pabloc Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 But that was a really good topic with a nice discussion. And that's why it had to be closed. It would inevitably lead to a conclusion that Steam (with it's current "no-porn" policy at least) is not a good place to buy VNs, and could direct their potential customers to JAST or MG. Steam doesn't want constructive discussions, Steam wants people paying money for utterly worthless/censored crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Steam almost never moderates the individual game boards, I give it a 90% chance it was someone from winged cloud or sekai project who shut that thread down. sanahtlig 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosebleed Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I'd like to know if you personally felt like the writing was very padded and convoluted. I can easily get behind your review, but I was surprised to not find any mentions of how the narration is often just stuff like Kaede going "Yeah I can do it!" in 10 different ways. So basically 1/10 of the writing is just the characters internally repeating themselves to make the game longer. Or at least that's how it felt like to me when I read it, and that was a major gripe I had with it, because if you're going to have a barebones story, at least don't make it obvious that you've run out of ideas for things to write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I'd like to know if you personally felt like the writing was very padded and convoluted. I can easily get behind your review, but I was surprised to not find any mentions of how the narration is often just stuff like Kaede going "Yeah I can do it!" in 10 different ways. So basically 1/10 of the writing is just the characters internally repeating themselves to make the game longer. Or at least that's how it felt like to me when I read it, and that was a major gripe I had with it, because if you're going to have a barebones story, at least don't make it obvious that you've run out of ideas for things to write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuee Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 If you have the time and patience to go through every Sakura game you can get through a 10-30 hr moege. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeruleanGamer Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 I played Sakura Spirit and Swim Club and never again I'm touching another one with a 100 foot pole. Narcosis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 It seems Sakura series fans are demanding more from Winged Cloud. i for one am having a hard time justifying spending 10 bucks on what will end up with a small hand full of pictures from what i have gathered you only ever see these 2 girls the most you ever see of a 3rd is if you have the uncensored you see your own dick but if you feel that is enough to throw these guys a 10 that is up to you for 10 i expect some motion scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zfan111222 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I played this VN couple months ago and i cant believe that it received "Very Positive" Reviews on steam... clearly people who reviewed it havnt played many VN in their lifetime.. I personally think that it was an average VN... the art was good however i think thats the only pro i can think of... The storyline was very short.. i finished the game within 2 hours.. The story choices were irrelevant and it did not have any alternative endings... basically all the choices you made did not affect the storyline therefore it has pretty much 0 replayability... The story was poorly written and the dialog was average... If you want to wack off, still do not buy this game.. just search sakura hentai nudes on the internet... save yourself a good $10... Art:6/10 Story:3/10 Character:4.5/10 System：6/10 Personal VN Score:5.2/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanahtlig Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I played this VN couple months ago That's amazing considering it came out less than 3 weeks ago (Sept 11th, a fitting day indeed). Darklord Rooke 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zfan111222 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 That's amazing considering it came out less than 3 weeks ago (Sept 11th, a fitting day indeed). haha oops, maybe i played it on the day i came out... i really do have a bad sense of time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklord Rooke Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Or maybe it was another Sakura game; there's so many of them and they're pretty easy to confuse atorq, Canicheslayer and Narcosis 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverLi Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I played this VN couple months ago and i cant believe that it received "Very Positive" Reviews on steam... clearly people who reviewed it Reviews on Steam is like fishing for likes on Facebook. Your Internetego need a daily dose of satisfaction. And reviews which is positive and comment such as "Saw naked boobs 11/10" isn't really valid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeruleanGamer Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Steam is filled with wanna-be comedians trying to get a Funny upvote on their reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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