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Sakurazuka posted:If by clean you mean no porn then yeah, all of the Science Adventure series started off as console games so no naughty bits. I'll play CHAOS;HEAD then.
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# ? May 31, 2024 14:06 |
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The final chapter is extremely weak, just as a heads up.
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# ? Feb 26, 2016 19:51 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Wow..VLR just goes on and on, doesn't it? It's been years since I played it, but I think VLR speeds up significantly in terms of unlocking endings at about 20ish hours. The true ending is very long and intricate, though, so be prepared and not too sleepy.
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# ? Feb 29, 2016 20:14 |
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the truth posted:It's been years since I played it, but I think VLR speeds up significantly in terms of unlocking endings at about 20ish hours. The true ending is very long and intricate, though, so be prepared and not too sleepy. I finished it yesterday and it does speed up in that as you eliminate the upper paths, the lower ones become shorter. But the final path took me about 2.5 hours to get through. Great sci-fi story, though. Just a bit long. Took 30 hours to play, of which maybe 5 hours was gameplay, and another 2 hours was watching a dot move around a map and doors opening.
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# ? Feb 29, 2016 20:32 |
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BeastMaster KS seems to be stalling a bit and results look grim. Otome may be more niche than I realize. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/688648305/beastmaster-and-prince-flower-and-snow
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# ? Mar 1, 2016 04:17 |
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Alder posted:BeastMaster KS seems to be stalling a bit and results look grim. Otome may be more niche than I realize. Honestly I think the "no Vita port" is hitting them really hard.
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# ? Mar 1, 2016 04:40 |
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Caitlin posted:Honestly I think the "no Vita port" is hitting them really hard. I partially agree but PSV is somewhat of a niche and probably would cost more. Doesn't mean I don't want it though.
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# ? Mar 1, 2016 23:37 |
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Alder posted:I partially agree but PSV is somewhat of a niche and probably would cost more. For what it's worth I don't disagree with you either, it's just that a big chunk of the (existing western) otoge market is already pretty invested in the Vita and I reeeeeeally hate mobile gaming. And if I'm in front of my computer I'm usually busy playing Diablo or something.
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# ? Mar 1, 2016 23:44 |
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Caitlin posted:For what it's worth I don't disagree with you either, it's just that a big chunk of the (existing western) otoge market is already pretty invested in the Vita and I reeeeeeally hate mobile gaming. And if I'm in front of my computer I'm usually busy playing Diablo or something.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 02:08 |
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i'll back one of these games when i can be a girl and date girls
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 02:56 |
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voltcatfish posted:i'll back one of these games when i can be a girl and date girls ?! i don't even know how you would program that...
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 03:00 |
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:?! i don't even know how you would program that... It's true, gay is uncodeable.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 03:04 |
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I've actually done some experiments with that in my spare time. People think it's really hard to implement, but it turns out to be pretty trivial once you know what you're doing.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 03:14 |
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Caitlin posted:For what it's worth I don't disagree with you either, it's just that a big chunk of the (existing western) otoge market is already pretty invested in the Vita and I reeeeeeally hate mobile gaming. And if I'm in front of my computer I'm usually busy playing Diablo or something. True mobile games are terrible and never worth it. I hear ya I hate reading hours and hours on my PC when I have a tablet. Also tons of decent otoge is being ported to vita nowadays.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 03:43 |
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I see that a game subtitled "The Eternity She Wished For" came out on Steam the other day. I know literally nothing about it, but it always makes me happy to see another name that could have come straight out of my visual novel name generator.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 09:15 |
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voltcatfish posted:i'll back one of these games when i can be a girl and date girls Kindred Spirits is out on Steam right now.
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# ? Mar 2, 2016 09:21 |
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Kindred Spirits is certainly the best yuri visual novel to be translated. It feels pretty different from most yuri crap I've encountered, although admittedly I tend to stay away from the genre. Mainly, it doesn't really feel creepy or exploitative.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 11:37 |
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it's a good damned game
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 11:44 |
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It's extremely good. I feel bad for talking so much poo poo about it earlier.
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# ? Mar 3, 2016 14:22 |
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To the person who was asking about Hourglass of Lepidoptera earlier: it just got pulled from Steam due to various fuckery by the Japanese devs, so, uh, I guess that makes your decision for you.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 00:29 |
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voltcatfish posted:I'll play CHAOS;HEAD then. It's bad. Steins;Gate was a fluke.
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Thuryl posted:To the person who was asking about Hourglass of Lepidoptera earlier: it just got pulled from Steam due to various fuckery by the Japanese devs, so, uh, I guess that makes your decision for you. Cool. I like having less decisions to make in my life. Also just chipping in on the yuri VN conversation from earlier: if you want a good clean yuri game without ickyness you need to spam the localizers to localize Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun/White Robe Love Syndrome because it is the best non-adult yuri game. It's about Japanese nurses and it was written with the help of Japanese nurses so it's half fairly realistic representation of being a female nurse in Japan and half really sweet love story. I think I've mentioned it before and I'll probably mention it again whenever yuri games come up because it's seriously really good. For those who can read Japanese it's available on both PC and PSP.
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Getsuya posted:Also just chipping in on the yuri VN conversation from earlier: if you want a good clean yuri game without ickyness you need to spam the localizers to localize Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun/White Robe Love Syndrome because it is the best non-adult yuri game.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 02:22 |
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FractalSandwich posted:I mean, that won't do any good if the rights-holders aren't interested. Who developed it? Did they have an external publisher, or did they do it themselves? I'm pretty curious how something like that gets made. It seems like a hard sell. It was made by Kogado (or rather one of the many teams they bizarrely have for how small of a company they seem to be). Before it they were mostly known for making Symphonic Rain and a few other musical-themed non-adult VNs, some of which were ported and some of which weren't. Before that (a completely separate group in Kogado) made a Atelier-rip-off game for PC and PS2 that did well enough to get an OVA (which isn't saying much). But Hakuisei was pure gold. They put it on the PSP where it scored huge sales, enough so that they then turned around and ported the PSP game to the PC as an enhanced version with new characters, then ported that enhanced version back onto the PSP and they all sold really well. Recently they just made a sequel for it for Vita but I'm not sure how that one did. As for publishers, it looks like they worked with Cyber Front for the 1st game, though CyberFront is now defunct, so for the 2nd game it appears as if they handled that alone.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 03:02 |
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Well, I've gone ahead and bent the ear of my friend who works for Sekai Project about it, so we'll see if anything comes of that, I guess.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 03:31 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJX7UcLwdec Here's the theme movie. Warning: contains very brief look at a girl in a bath so maybe don't watch it at work.
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# ? Mar 4, 2016 03:36 |
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Getsuya posted:It was made by Kogado (or rather one of the many teams they bizarrely have for how small of a company they seem to be). Before it they were mostly known for making Symphonic Rain and a few other musical-themed non-adult VNs, some of which were ported and some of which weren't. Before that (a completely separate group in Kogado) made a Atelier-rip-off game for PC and PS2 that did well enough to get an OVA (which isn't saying much). How old are the characters in this game? When you say "nurse", I tend to think of someone on the older side, which would be even more interesting, but that has to be asking too much, right?
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 03:05 |
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FractalSandwich posted:What a nice story. I guess sometimes someone takes a risk on something unusual, and it turns out to be good and people buy it. It really does happen. The main character and her friend are recent college graduates, 21 and 22. The head nurse is probably around 30 and one of the other nurses they work with who has a route is 26. Then there is a patient who is 20. There are also two younger characters but they don't really get into the romantic stuff, their routes are more like the main character is a beloved big sister and then when they grow up there might be romance.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 04:45 |
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Figures. Can't have everything, I guess. What's really crazy is that they're still at the higher end of the range for visual novel characters.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 04:54 |
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FractalSandwich posted:Figures. Can't have everything, I guess. What's really crazy is that they're still at the higher end of the range for visual novel characters. Any older than that and all you've got are ancient lolis.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 04:55 |
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We both know those aren't what I want.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 05:12 |
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Your cries break like waves against Japan's uncaring shore. If we want older women in a VN we're gonna have to make our own.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 05:15 |
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Are there any good Horror Visual Novels on the level of Virtue's Last Reward and especially 999? I really hate how Uchikoshi had to tone it down for VLR and think the upcoming third Zero Escape game looks promising, but I want to fill that craving in the meanwhile.
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Getsuya posted:Your cries break like waves against Japan's uncaring shore. If we want older women in a VN we're gonna have to make our own.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 05:36 |
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FractalSandwich posted:Let's do it, then. I could stand to learn Python. Actually there's tons of VN tools some of them don't require coding knowledge at all. I'd so date older guys though
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 06:21 |
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But I'm not a writer. I'm not an artist. Programming is all I've got! I can't believe computers are taking my jobs already.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 06:40 |
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Are there any good Horror Visual Novels on the level of Virtue's Last Reward and especially 999? I really hate how Uchikoshi had to tone it down for VLR and think the upcoming third Zero Escape game looks promising, but I want to fill that craving in the meanwhile.
The Zero Escape writer's other games are all strong as well, but they all have much less horror than the ZE games; they're generally more focussed on the mystery and science aspects.
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 10:22 |
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Please don't add more to the pile of terrible western VNs on Steam
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 11:49 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Please don't add more to the pile of terrible western VNs on Steam
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# ? Mar 5, 2016 12:35 |
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NRVNQSR posted:It depends what you mean by "on the level of". There are loads that are as popular as 999/VLR or more so, but they're not all going to be accessible/engaging in the same way. There are decent arguments for any of the following, though:
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