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This thread is for the discussion of untranslated Japanese visual novels.

What are you playing? What are you looking forward to? What have you finished?

>>49844518
>鼻の穴　
any games where this happens?

>>49845338
Sorry I only know Deneb, Altair, and Vega. Do I need to get a degree in astronomy for this game?

>>49845340
kirin-san

>>49845641
it doesnt matter, also this vn is ass anyway

>>49845733
But... But Moogy said...

>>49845733
>this vn is ass anyway
Explain why

>>49845733
>vn is ass anyway
uhh no!

>>49845733
>>49845743
>>49845751
>>49845753
Wait till I finish it.

>>49845751
it’s the ultimate meme visual novel — 95% of it is utter garbage, but people gaslight themselves into thinking it’s good because of the so-called “prose” and a climax that recontextualizes the whole story. all the heroines are trash despite showing potential during the common route, the entire first route even sidelines the main heroine thanks to the plot twist at the end of common. said plot twist basically makes everything you learned during the common route mostly pointless thus the entire first route is really just there to establish the actual setting, so it ends up being nothing but one info dump after another. i’m not exaggerating when i say there’s virtually no normal dialogue in futami’s route, aside from one scene where the protagonist urinates on a side heroine or something, so it just feels awful to read for the most part. the actual chuuni elements are terrible too—shumon couldn’t write a fight scene to save his life, and it’s especially obvious in how contrived the protagonist’s main ability is so it just feels like one asspull after another, and while some people like to praise shumon’s prose, these parts are especially awful to read.

honestly, i don’t think there’s anything worth saving in that visual novel, aside from maybe the overall production values and konome being wife but it’s hard to say it’s worth slogging through all that just for her, especially since her route isn’t anything special either. most of the complaints i have about itsukatodokuanokusoni apply to most of shumon’s works anyhow, such an awful writer.

>>49845939
But what if I like it?

>>49845949
Then you have good taste.

>>49845939
>said plot twist basically makes everything you learned during the common route mostly pointless
LMAO

>>49845939
Anon, the problem here is clearly you, not Shumon.

Witchge?

>>49846451
Have you already played 大海原と大海原? It's really good.

>>49845939
i played the first route of asairo and i mostly agree. the boring parts are the most enjoyable. tryhard writer. he's the primary example of "if you can't do traditional art, don't get experimental". the mood is pleasant at some points however. it especially hurts because his main heroines are charming and attractive

>>49845939
>aside from one scene where the protagonist urinates on a side heroine or something

>>49846735
Now this is art.

Which VN does this MV take its inspiration from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iUgKH8c7p4

is amagami best of its kind? is there a vn that's better at what it does than amagami

>>49847154
Need h-scenes in this art style

>>49847407
It literally looks like cheap flash animation. Get help.

>>49846497
statements by the utterly deranged

>>49846497
I started it but found it quite boring and mind numbing
she cute though

>>49847768
If you're interested in giving it a second shot, it does really pick up in pace towards the end.

anyone know how to add yomitan to lunatranslator? I cant find firefox extension

Bros, how do I stop myself getting hyped for new Yuzu? Maybe I just like Bocchi The Rock too much, I guess.

They should release a trial soon.

>>49847924
Trial should be out before the end of the month

>>49847924
read the Amakano trial and realize you'll have to choose one
>b-but I can like two games
no

>>49848008
Don't like the art, sorry.

It's a bit of a longshot to ask but does anyone have a copy of the Japanese version of Root Double? All I'm seeing are dead links or just the English version. I want to read it but no way in hell am I going back to English translated VNs.

>>49848008
>read the Amakano trial
This
Then you realize amakano is gonna be superior experience so you won't care about yuzutrash anymore.

waiting patiently for new Muv Luv

>>49848150
lol

>>49848150
I would bet on all parts of avesta being released before anything actually substantive in muv luv

Can I fuck yuumi in sakuuta?

>>49849580
No, unless you self-insert as Rina, then you can even lick her panties!
You can, however, fuck Yuumi in majo koi nikki

>>49849681
is she a lesbian too?

>>49849681
>unless you self-insert as Rina
least autogynephilic yurifag

Maruto must be the artist where the quality of his best work and his 2nd best work is the biggest.

Maruto must be the artist where the gap in quality between his best work and his 2nd best work is the biggest.

>>49849580
>>49849681
>>49849714
i didn't like any of the heroines except toritani so i skipped all of the h scenes and just jerked off to kei using my imagination

>>49850007
>best work
they are all slop

>>49850041
You're not wrong

>>49849681
How about sakutoki?

>>49850996
Any time you ask the question of
>hey does Sakutoki include something that was clearly missing from Sakuuta and should have been in the sequel
The answer's no.

>>49850007
True, I felt the same way. I got both Konnyaku and Parfait together because you need to do some woodoo magic with hex editor to get them running, and I read konnyaku in one breath, what a pure litbus tier SOL group of friends KINO. And then I started parfait and wasn't feeling any characters or setting and deleted it once all characters got introduced...WA2 was garbage, every single dramatic moment when I was supposed to be feeling something, I was laughing my ass off insted, I guess it passes as comedy, but it's nowhere near Konnayku. Didn't play Damekoi because I heard it's more like WA2 and I be damned if I'm forced to sit through that nothingburger again.

>>49849580
No, but she sucks Naoya's dick in sakutoki. She doesn't even got him hard though.

>>49851843
Hot.

>>49849681
The only thing I remember from it is that 永遠の魔法使い is great. Rip monet.

>>49851656
its hilarious how true this is. what the fuck was scaji thinking?

>>49851745
>Didn't play Damekoi because I heard it's more like WA2 and I be damned if I'm forced to sit through that nothingburger again.
I'd say damekoi might be worth it. There's some wholesomeness to it too, in romance it's closer to WA2 but in terms of down to earthness of it all it's closer to Konnyaku.

Beforing diving into Subahibi, can somebody explain what Tsui no Sora has to do with it and why it's included in the 15 anniversary edition? Is it required reading?

>>49852671
tsui no sora was keroq first work. they wanted to remake it but the project got more ambitious and eventually turned into subahibi

>>49851656
>something that was clearly missing from Sakuuta
And? What was that?

>>49852731
kei route

>>49852731
Kei turned into a futa because of the Thousand Year Sakura's power and Naoya has to fix it by drawing the perfect male body for him. But Naoya can't bring himself to do it because Kei's futa form is too perfect for this world.

>>49851843
Lame as fuck

i hate how koichoco doesn't have sensei as a route. any sensei recs?

>>49852634
I'll add it back to the list, I once saw couple CGs of that one girl in just white shirt that almost made me do it ...and she's stuck in my head ever since


On a completely different topic, I'm reading Demonbane and I'm kinda disappointed...I was withholding reading it as last absolute Nitro+ kino I will ever read, but it turned out more of a totono/axanael/hanachirasu type of experience, slightly above those actually, where I'll just remember it being "solid but not quite my thing".
Standout points for me are: quite unique cool prose, Al is one of the hottest anime women ever with good personality and seiyuu too, Kurou seiyuu also doing good job, Elza is cute robo, that's about it.
I never liked TTGL that much because of it's structure of having to have random mech-improving fights with no real tension every episode, and it's sort of similar. I also know from how popular black souls and subahibi/tsui no sora are because of lovecraftian horror, people love that and I never read anything by Lovecraft, so it doesn't hold as much sentimentality or weight, so when I see Nig Niggeroth or Nyaratotep mentioned it doesn't cause onions response within me.

That being said, seems like Sumaga is gonna be my last Nitro+ kino unless someone is willing to claim that Hello World is actually never before seen kamige and make me read it eventually. I have my complaints with Sumaga, but looking back and listening to some OST songs in my playlist, it was soooo much fun and I miss it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-QiygD-mXI&list=PLoJ9jNq-9XayZLTXgFzHgwA5QFVzW6s9F&index=256

Speaking of which, there wasn't a single track in Demonbane I had a desire to add to my list so far, also a bit of a letdown

>>49852731
After you do the Rin route a couple routes later they reveal Rin was basically magically lobotomized and had all of her personality and talent ripped out and put in a doll, and then when she gets it back she basically becomes a different person. Said different person not only doesn't have a route in Sakutoki, she's barely in the game.
Also I wanted to tittyfuck Nagayama's wide mountains if you know what I mean.

>>49854338
I 100% believe the main reason Rin got shafted in Sakutoki is because her philosophy is something scaji doesn't agree with. The man is incapable of exploring viewpoints that are different from his own.

>>49854378
>The man is incapable of exploring viewpoints that are different from his own.
but he spent a lot of time exploring the viewpoint of the guy raping his own underage daughters

>>49854378
I think it's because he wanted yuri

>>49848015
It's on AB. I'll get it for you if someone can tell me how the f to download this 9 nine chinese patch from 2dfan. https://2dfan.com/downloads/26681

That said, I recommend tempering your expectations for root double. The first route is kino and then route D is bloated with slow-ass pacing and constant frodo moments (why didn't they just do x). I have an outlier opinion though based on vndb votes.

>>49848015
>>49854542
Actually never mind regarding me getting it from AB. You should just get it from anime-sharing instead, even though it will take you a week to download, since you should probably trust that more than a zip file from a random guy on 4chan. https://www.anime-sharing.com/threads/2012-regista-root-double-before-crime-after-days-%EF%BC%88%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%80%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB-before-crime-after-days-%EF%BC%89-special-cd-crack.1385937/

Note: The AB upload comment states "Don't forget to mount the image as SCSI, otherwise you'll get a license error."

>>49854542
I'm pretty sure any regular pirated steam version has the option to switch between all 3 languages, why do you need that Chinese patch in particular?

>buddy drm
I bought something I wanted to play but it has buddy drm attached and it doesn't seem like the DRM site even works nor does it let me download the buddy launcher.
Has anyone used anything with buddy lately?

>>49854603
My understanding was that this was the only way to get the new 1080p assets while also having the 18+ content. The list of changes are here: https://vndb.org/r133400

Assuming one was ok with 720p, presumably both the original JP release or the steam version with the 18+ patch would be fine.

>>49854378
>本当は、私もそうだけど
MTL?

>>49854338
The part with Rin I agree with, she deserves more love, she didn't become so different though, but how would a Kana route even work?

>>49854603
It's not a translation patch, it's a patch to restore 18+ content on the full HD version of 9 -nine-.

>>49854587
>a zip file from a random guy on 4chan.
I trust the anons here more than my family and friends.

even doe people are are cool*

>>49854587
The links there are what I'm currently downloading. I found the game Girlcelly uploaded on an obscure japanese site on duck duck go go where they have a direct download option available since every other seeders are dead. I'm stuck on the key thing I already tried multiple CD mounters but they all say the same error "key belongs to another CD". I think it's has something to do with how windows 10 works since they never updated the base game. CD's are automatically mounted on a virtual SCSI drive now nearly all of them are even daemon according to Google. Later on I found that anime sharing link. I can finish downloading in 4 hours it says it has a special crack but has no comments on whether it works. I'll update later if it's actually true.

I'm actually just going to read root double to learn some words related to sci fi and escape games since I'm more interested in reading secret game. This entire debacle of me trying to find an old ass Japanese game which has an updated English version available has taught me one thing the Japanese are even more awful than English companies when it comes to game preservation. I don't know why they never bothered to port the Xtend version to modern systems in Japanese. It's still stuck on the PS3 and Vita in Japan.

The other cool thing I've learned in all of this is that they used to make cool ass bonuses for CDs. The root double copy I found has some cool screensavers and their official Japanese web has icons and backgrounds they made for people to use for Twitter. Alright that's enough nerding out from me.

>>49848015
https://www.shinnku.com/files/galgame0/4/2012%E5%B9%B49%E6%9C%88/%5B120928%5D%5B%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%5D%20%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%80%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%20-%20Before%20Crime%20%E2%80%9B%E2%80%9B%EF%BC%8A%20After%20Days%20-%20Windows%E7%89%88%20%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E5%90%8C%E6%A2%B1%20(mdf%2Bmds%2Biso%2Brr).rar

>>49854542
>>49854667
>>49855309
oh okay. Here you go then
pixeldrain /u/DZnSQhUP

>>49855956
I think your issue is mount-related, probably due to W10, since when I read it on W7 I don't think I had any issues.

I just downloaded the version on AB to test, and using the usual WinCDEmu it failed, throwing a wrong key error. So then I reinstalled Daemon Tools Lite for the first time since I needed it for Muv-Luv, making sure to avoid the malware VPN opt-in, made an SCSI drive, and sure enough it worked. If I had to guess, there's probably nothing special about the AB version, and it's just that sometimes these stupid finicky installations need Daemon Tools, or JP system region, or other random bullshit.

But, just in case the AB version is special somehow, I have uploaded it for you here. Expiry is in 3 days. I probably should just upload it to nyaa for the greater good but I can't be assed. Also be aware that the catbox servers are shitting the bed right now so your download might get interrupted, it took me like 20 tries to upload. You probably will also need to rename the 7z parts to the same filename.

Also,
>old ass game
Damn, 2012 is old now... I'm getting old...

https://litter.catbox.moe/ryzb34svxwmzjp7r.001
https://litter.catbox.moe/45r5ybu9nx2cayie.002
https://litter.catbox.moe/xh3vslku3htwm6dm.003
https://litter.catbox.moe/x551uj9ffl0e4kji.004

>>49856391
Very much appreciated, thank you. I didn't know about pixeldrain, would have saved splitting that other guy's download into four parts.

>>49856396
Alright I finished downloading through animesharing and I can confidently say this is the best crack since its drag and drop compared to having to install daemon tools. I'll check the files you and the other anon shared but most likely they're the same since the included key from this copy is the same as the GirlCelly one. I have no idea how and where he got the crack but it is hilarious how an animesharing link with no comments was the key to solving all of this.

Here's the crack if anybody else is interested in playing. Someone should make a torrent from this in case an anon 20 years from the future suffers from the same problem I did of not wanting to play the English version.

https://files.catbox.moe/pv8zkh.rar

>>49853407
>Sumaga, but looking back and listening to some OST songs in my playlist, it was soooo much fun and I miss it.
based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2CIGNTSP2s
Actually I should re-read axanael since my first time was prior to reading sumaga, so while I spotted obvious over the top references, I probably missed a lot too.

god, I miss axanael too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2v-HS3tfs
was one of my first vns in japanese too

does anyone have a copy of this? https://vndb.org/v7093
tried on nyaa but i found nothing. don't have access to private trackers either.

>>49856853
ab only has anime adaptation

>>49852671
Don't read it before subahibi

>>49856843
>was one of my first vns in japanese too
Same.
It took me a week to do the first 3 routes and a couple (or maybe 4? don't remember) of bad endings.
That was the game where, instead of grammar, I got fucked over by the names of the prefectures and regions during the food live show.
>>49856396
>I probably should just upload it to nyaa for the greater good but I can't be assed.
So, it's this the right one to upload to nyaa? or should I download the one on a-s?
And yes, I too am having carbox disconnecting constantly while downloading it.

>>49856926
Took me 50+ hours back then, got true ending/route on my first run thanks to rng choices

every time i start losing interest in ruitomo it pulls me back in with great strength. i was thinking of putting it on hold for minute to do something else, but i'm already ready to go again. i should read &, afterwards

>>49856932
>got true ending/route on my first run thanks to rng choices
That was really lucky!
Unfortunately, I dropped after doing the 3 routes and those bad endings, it was starting to feel too repetitive and lost interest.

>>49856926
Neko box is fucking up on my end too so I can't check it yet but it should be the same as the one on a-s. Theoretically all of these copies are the same except for the newer crack which is only exclusive on a-s. It should be faster to download anon's copy rather than waiting for a-s links cooldown to be over.

>>49856940
I manage to download it.
Can you confirm it's this version:
>[120928][イエティ] ルートダブル - Before Crime ‛‛＊ After Days - Windows版 デスクトップアクセサリー同梱
or it's this one?
>[2012][Regista] Root Double -Before Crime * After Days-（ルートダブル -Before Crime * After Days-） [Special CD] [Crack]
I'll also add the crack >>49856666 to the torrent.

>>49857039
the one from anon's link is missing the special cd bonus that comes with the anime sharing and 120928. Here's the bonus CD

https://pixeldrain com/u/jyqMNWtH

>>49856853
This link looks like it still works.
>https://www.anime-sharing.com/threads/own-bought-team-yokkyufuman-%E5%AD%A6%E5%9C%92%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0-special-gakuen-handsome-special.1328876/

>>49857184
It does. Thanks!

>>49856666
>having to install daemon tools
went on a vacation recentrly and had to install that on my laptop since you don't know what will require it and what won't

what are some visual novels with a stand out route? i like taking my time to do the other routes and then getting hit by greatness

>>49857338
Silverio Vendetta
Ayakashi (True route is Eimu and there is no enforced order, beware)

>>49857338
Senshinkan
Shizuku (do Tsukishima last if it's not obvious)

I want to play 男娘便女 ～妹みたいな弟と弟みたいな妹をイジめる夏休み～, but the torrent from nyaa has been stuck at 95% for two months now, does anyone know where to find a working link?

>>49858926
looks hot hope you find it

>>49858311
Imagine adding "san" to an okama

>>49858926
https://www.shinnku.com/files/galgame0/4/2012%E5%B9%B46%E6%9C%88/%5B120629%5D%5B%E3%83%94%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A3%5D%20%E7%94%B7%E5%A8%98%E4%BE%BF%E5%A5%B3%20%EF%BD%9E%E5%A6%B9%E3%81%BF%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84%E3%81%AA%E5%BC%9F%E3%81%A8%E5%BC%9F%E3%81%BF%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84%E3%81%AA%E5%A6%B9%E3%82%92%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%82%81%E3%82%8B%E5%A4%8F%E4%BC%91%E3%81%BF%EF%BD%9E%20(iso%2Brr).rar

>>49859354
It works! Thanks

>>49843957 (OP)
Hi people.
Can anyone share an screenshot of where to disable close ups in Guilty Games?
I was just wanking to an anal titfuck gangbang scene but annoyingly the dudes cum fast and most of the scene is wasted on closing up to the girl's face.
Want to disable that. Cheers.

>>49857197
You're welcome! Seeing it run on modern Windows is kinda surreal.
I really enjoy how half of the cast just have their face behind the logo.

>>49859354
Why are Shinku fans always the most helpful and friendly people in the eroge community

Based imouto, keeping a whore away from her oniichan.

>>49856396
>>49856666
>>49856940
>>49857039
>>49857121
Asking again before preparing to uploading to nyaa: which is the correct version for the 4 catbox uploaded files?

>>49854647
Update to the one person who might read this in the future, as I couldn't find any other information on the DRM anywhere. It seems that the service really was down for about 2 days, and is working now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411510/Stellar_Code/

New title from Ihanashi no Majo creators released

>>49860978
This >>49856396 is just the base game +CD key
This >>49856666 is just a crack
This is >>49857121 just the bonus CD which contains screensaver and wallpapers

So this one is >>49856396 correct the others are just a bonus.

>>49861287
So, do I put it down as:
>[120928][イエティ] ルートダブル - Before Crime ‛‛＊ After Days - Windows版 デスクトップアクセサリー同梱
or
>[2012][Regista] Root Double -Before Crime * After Days-（ルートダブル -Before Crime * After Days-） [Special CD] [Crack]
I'll add the additional files and description in the torrent notice.

>>49861310
>[120928][イエティ] ルートダブル - Before Crime ‛‛＊ After Days - Windows版 デスクトップアクセサリー同梱
This one

>>49858311
gyaru shouldn't have penises

>>49861330
Alright, I'll post a nyaa link between today and tomorrow.

i will never get over the tenkaichi art tournament in toki
i was super checked out during chapter 5
also getting cucked since rina was my favourite heroine from uta

>>49861402
but there needs to be a penis to have that ホモセ背徳感

a lot of classic VN not longer on sale on fanza,like Kazoku Keikaku and Kana from D.O
https://www.gamespark.jp/article/2025/08/15/156046.html
remember to backup your VN anon

>>49862406
That's really concerning. Why remove them from one site but not the other though?

Since it was mentioned this thread are the nine games any good? I dropped the anime because it was bad.

>>49863095
Dunno, but I want to try them cause sibling sex.

>>49863103
As an avid imouto sex enjoyer that's precisely why I'm interested as well.

>>49863095
They're okay overall. They get super overrated for some reason when they don't do anything amazing. At the very least it's worth reading up to the second game for the imouto who is really good.

>>49862725
I would assume that the reason would be that the two sites use different payment processors, and DLSite's are less censorship-prone than Fanza's.

>>49863144
>>49863103
>>49863095
I don't see any reason most VN enjoyers wouldn't enjoy those games. The highlight is definitely the imouto. Don't expect to be mindblown though.

>>49861220
>1782円
>$36.90 aud
lmao

>>49863144
Sora is best imouto

>>49863845
She could easily throw herself at any high school boy she wanted, and she chooses her own brother??? I don't get it.

>>49864205
It's hotter that way.

>>49864215
It'd be hotter if she threw herself at all the other boys first before settling with her brother.

>>49864236
gross

>>49864236
that isnt very moe...

>>49864236
100% american

>>49864236
Now we're talking. Maybe she can record herself with all her boyfriends and forget that it's still saved on her phone, only for Onii-chan to stumble across something that he should never see... Oh, the kino practically writes itself!

I just got a 4K monitor for misc uses since everything is crisper and it's easier on my eyes. I was wondering if anyone here had Magpie settings to share for 720p/1080p to 4K.
I had been reading a 720p VN and the jump to 4K is rough with the settings I was using to say the least.

>>49864281
I swear there was an atelier sakura game with this premise.

>>49864331
Cunny is the best rn iirc

>>49864331
single iteration of cunny scales 2x from original res
so a single cunny 4x32 pass should be more than enough for proper 1080 -> 4k

720 is gonna be harder because single cunny iteration only gets you 1440p, the rest is needs to be either stretched with something like bicubic or lanczos which isn't gonna look pretty on 4k
so idk try to do apply cunny 4x32 two times and tell us how it looks
don't forget to set scale override to app in properties, you need to upscale from original window and not already sloppy utter garbage-tier window upscaling
and don't forget to install update for big performance boost https://github.com/Blinue/Magpie/releases/tag/v0.12.0

>>49846497
The dev for this recently had some sort of mental breakdown on Twitter (though if you ask me this happens every few months or every year) so I highly doubt Gaiden will ever see the light of the day. That whole commission incident ruined her.

>>49865183
>That whole commission incident ruined her.
qrd?

>>49865219
Scammed people out of a lot of money for art she never delivered on

Guys did someone actually buy this/have steam and can upload the latest update?
I downloaded this from Ryuugames and work without it with my current pc
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3326660/Sofia_in_Exchange_for_Lies/

>>49862725
Seems it is because of the DRM they used no longer works. I guess DLSite will do the same sooner or later if it can't be fixed

>>49852634
Yeah, this one's a keeper. I'm interested in all 4 girls and it's enjoyable to read

Sensei heroine or school nurse heroine?

>>49867291
Loli heroine

>>49867291
JK heroine

>>49866714
Don't they use the platform's DRM rather than their own? Anyway, pretty dumb to stop selling instead of just removing DRM or updating it.

>>49867291
school nurse is more seductive and they are a more FWB type, but I prefer sensei if there's a well established relationship

>>49864655
>>49864848
>don't forget to set scale override to app in properties
>and don't forget to install update
I had done both of these things already, but thanks.

>so idk try to do apply cunny 4x32 two times and tell us how it looks
2x cunny 4x32: https://files.catbox.moe/28sf1c.png
Text looks surprisingly very good to me, and the sprites look decent.
That said the VN is running at 6 FPS since I'm still using my GTX 1070, so I don't see myself playing like this for the time being.

cunny 4x32 + lanczos
https://files.catbox.moe/1avtt2.png
I can tell it's a bit blurrier but performances are normal on my end, so it's playable.

cunny 4x32 + bicubic
https://files.catbox.moe/pnahza.png
Worse than lanczos, perfromances are normal.

I'll go with lanczos for the time being I think.
Thank you anons, that was really appreciated.

>>49868509
I use 8x32 and just downscale for performance

>>49868509
Looks good enough. You can also try 4x42 + some smaller cunny on top of it like 3x12, should be lesser performance impact, but dunno if result is gonna be much better.
>>49868660
So like downscale for stretching image? Does it even work that well?

Finished Otochika.

>Maho > Mare > Yuyu > Chami

It was a decent enough game but I think it's one of Ensemble's weaker recent games. I'd recommend pretty much anything they've released in the last five years over this except for Secret Agent. Not bad, just not as good as they've done before. The magical girl premise was neat, I just wish they did more with it, Yuyu's route is really the only one that played into it at all. It felt like it could've had a lot more plot going on but they cut back so it was all relegated to the last minutes of Maho's route and the after story. I'll definitely remember this VN for them seriously ramping up the gay though, they've been trending gayer and gayer in each ensemble game, sooner or later they'll go full homo. I'll also remember it for Mare getting cucked by her clone, what a weird route.

>>49868660
>>49870974
For 800x600 games I use 8x32 > 8x32 > Cunny Downscale. This works well on my 5070. (Not so much on my previous 3060.)

You can get the Cunny Downscale here.
https://github.com/funnyplanter/CuNNy/tree/master/magpie

>>49871399
Okie, nta so I don't have 4k display yet, but recently been thinking a lot about getting one.

What's in the oppai bunny append?

>>49871839
>Additional scenario for the school chairman.
>Mother and side character blowjob animations.
>Voice drama.
a few scenes like the other appends for milk games

>magpie added the option to keep the scaled up program windowed
holy fuck finally

reading cross channel now, i didn't know it was going to be a loop story. Just finished the second loop and does the scenario text just stay similar? there were some small differences but everything was treated as unread text

>>49875379
i dropped it during loop 3 iirc but from third loop i remember it starting to diverge a lot

>>49875379
i dropped it during loop 3 iirc but from third loop i remember it starting to diverge a lot

>>49875379
There is a lot of repeated text, but I recommend rereading the repeated scenes; they might be being repeated for a reason...

is either memoff 6 or 9 a must read?

>>49876452
Wouldn't call them must reads, but 9 ras pretty solid main routes. If you will read it I suggest either reading side routes before or not read them at all(cause they would feel really awkward after main routes revelation)

>>49876469
nene and marie are the mains? and also it looks like i'll have to do sae for nene and setsuka is my type so i'll do her too. i usually skip side routes for memoff if the girl isn't my type desu not worth it.

>>49876519
Nene and Sae are mains.
Marie is side heroine.
Also, I hope you've read memoff 2 if you're going to read Setsuka

>>49876573
I see, thanks for your help, anon. I appreciate it. The only memoffs I haven't read are 6 and 9.

Anemoi release date is january 30th
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0FLNVDFKN

>>49876702
>the day before my birthday
kino

>>49876469
What's the appeal of memoff compared to other moeges? I've seen it shilled a lot in this general but I know nothing about it other than being made by KID.

>>49876729
it's a vanilla romance drama. the main appeals are the passage of time theme across the titles and some of the heroines. they are not an outstanding set of visual novels, but 2 and 4 would be worth it for most people here.

inori, shizuru, noel, tsubame are excellent heroines for me

>>49876729
They are not moege lol(in fact some titles have heroines with ex boyfriends which won't be allowed in moege)
They are grounded love drama, like wa2, kiminozo, etc. Unlike those not all titles contain love triangle, but there is always some messy situation around relationships.
For example memoff 4 MC gets dumped by his gf right at the start of the game and she tells him she never loved him since beginning. Is this truth? Or is there another reason behind those words? Will he move on to another girl or try to get her back?

>>49876765
>They are grounded love drama, like wa2, kiminozo, etc
what other works do anons here recommend for this?

>>49876765
Gross

>>49876768
NIKO/MORE stuff. Writer likes to include supernatural shit at last moment, but 99% of story is grounded.
Koi de wa naku also fits the bill.
>>49876775
It might have given gross impression, but memoff games still feature pretty idealized outlook on love even if it doesn't seem so from description

yeah maruto clearly loved these games, didn't play 6 but there are lines and scenes in wa2 clearly inspired from memoff

>>49876793
non-virgin heroines are perhaps the farthest thing from idealized outlook on love that you can find

>>49876810
they are not non-virgins

>>49876826
so their ex boyfriends were just friends?

>>49876826
Eh, pretty sure Mizuho in memoff 5 is a non virgin she's a widow after all and she loved her husband, so it's very unlikely she didn't fuck him at all

Which game would you recommend to cheer someone up?

Playing Re:Lief, currently on Momo route as the third and supposedly the last route before going True ending.

And man, this shit is too boring. I started this because of the artwork and music (which is still very great), but playing for 35+ hours and nothing happens. I'm almost dropping this by now. Will the true route give anything that makes this vn worth reading?

>>49877999
>Will the true route give anything that makes this vn worth reading?
Uhh...
True route will surprise you but not necessarily in a good way lmao

>>49877908
Reread your favorite of your favorites, listen to the ost

>>49854946
this thread is so full of weird contrarians and retarded takes, I'm genuinely convinced half the posters here read mtl or larp in other ways
not like the /vg/ thread is any better

>>49878276
half the posters here are from /vg/

>>49877822
i was thinking of sensei in 7

Does someone know if there is a voice patch for Bittersweet Fools? Couldn't find one but since Google is getting shittier by the day maybe I missed it

>>49878276
>thread is so full of weird contrarians and retarded takes

Contrarian retarded takes in question every time: someone didn't like eroge I really liked

My vacation is approaching, and I would like to play a game that has especially good romance. Which ones can you recommend for good romance specifically?

sense off
konata yori
da capo 2
meguri hitohira
startrain
hoshiuta
aonatsu line
hikoukigumo no mukougawa

I was thinking of replay ef a fairy tale of the two + tenshi no nichiyoubi fandisk since I missed many context of the VN I played years ago, but the kuze x mizuki "romance" is so gross that I refrain myself of doing so. Come to think about it, renji in chapter 3 is one of the big source of my headache, and I think kyousuke x kei relationships won't last long lol. The anime was better though except the cause of yuuko's death, she got hit randomly by a car lmao

>>49878753
Aonatsu line. It's also fits with current season

>>49878790
remember, seasonalchads always win

New key op
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqqfdG_QbDc

>>49878886
Meh OP
The VN itself feels like a bad ripoff of Summer Pockets

>>49878886
This will be the first official chinese key VN

>>49878944
I don't see similarities aside the fact it happens during summer.

>>49878886
>CLANNAD of Reiwa
Let's see if they at least remember what made CLANNAD good in the first place.

>>49878706
kek

>>49878785
ef was very good, I've replayed it recently and it didn't diminish the feelings I had on my first play. still remains a top 5 VN for me.
Haven't played the fandisk though. Is it worth playing?

>>49878886
keybros are eating good

>>49878663
That needs to be patched for voices? It's deeper in my backlog so I haven't looked at it in detail but I had just assumed the copy I downloaded had voices.

Any eroge with this feel? Summer vacation sex in remote inaka with local bratty cousin

>>49879225
If you want to see yuuko doing well, yuu going out with nagi (dw yuuko is doing well), or renji going out with the Original Mizuki (水姫), then yeah it's worth it I guess.
But just like the main game you have to play through the 4 afterstories first, all of the 4 are taking place in a same day and so it's repetitive but with different POVs. I've played the fandisk years ago but my japanese was hetakuso without any texthook so there's part I missed. And then suddenly I remembered a certain scene in fandisk where kuze tries to lift up mizuki's skirt and so on, so, ah, I don't think I would reread the VN. Seriously this pairing killed my rating for ef - the latter tale eventho chihiro's and yuuko's chapters are kino. It's not like I hate age gap, but alas how terrible the romance between them built up was

>>49879384
https://vndb.org/v48724
imouto > cousin
And you don't need summer vacation when you can just live there alone with her.

>>49879428
>Deredere heroine
yuck

>>49879428
>deredere heroine
Yum

>>49879409
if you can't handle it just skip the mizuki's part then? if you remember the plot skipping that part wouldn't matter much.

>>49878785
I don't remember it very much, but the scene of Yuuko's death was phenomenal in the VN. It's a shame minori died, no one can replicate their "atmosphere".

I WANT TO READ AVESTA

>>49878886
https://x.com/SuzumiSakura305/status/1957382018406265222
Rikka's seiyuu just opened her twitter account!

>>49880294
I'm thinking I'll just buy the books some time.

>>49880371
the steam page still says 2025
trust

>>49878805
I read WA2 IC a couple winters ago and wanted to read CC the next year but was reading other stuff the next two winters and never got around to it before the season ended so now I don't care about seasonal autism anymore, I'll read whatever whenever.

>>49878886
Looks good, Spica and Hiiro are my favorites.

>>49879347
PC version (even remaster) is unvoiced, only the PS2/Dreamcast are
They are easily findable on Myrient and the Internet Archive but console port means no H scenes

>>49881082
CC takes place in spring though. You could have just read it in march. Also I binged it all in a december in 20 days, but I wouldn't have been able to keep myself after IC.

>>49882003
>>49882003
>takes place in spring
It starts at the end of November and ends at the last day of February. That's not spring

>>49882008
Oh, my bad.

>>49879542
are great!

>>49878886
>"imouto spotted. Dropping payload"

>>49881957
Damn I had no idea. Thanks for the info.

>>49880391
You do know that it will be in 2 parts and 2025 is only for part 1, right...?
See you in 2030 for Part 2

>>49878790
>>49878805
I recommend Tasogara no Sinsemilla for summer.

>>49878886
>>49882502
>imouto
>non-romance route

WTF???!!!! Imoutos are for loving romantically and sexually.

>>49883402
It's even worse since she has the best looking design.

>>49883402
Steam release please understand

>>49878663
Does not exists. Read it on emulator, skip through pc version for h-scenes later.

>>49878753
startrain

>>49883407
Nah, that dual color.hair from the gen z era is utter shit

Does modern eroges still have bonus features like screen savers and wallpapers? I haven't played an eroge past 2017.

>>49884950
Not as far as I know. I only play about 1–2 new games a year though

>>49885032
Ah shame I guess eroges really did peak at mid 2010s.

>>49884489
Wrong.

>>49884950
Idk about screensavers (I haven't used a screensaver since Windows XP) but surely you can find wallpapers from the official sites of these games.

>>49884489
>gen z era
lol

They're taking so long to reveal Hakoniwa.

>>49854647
IIRC Buddy DRM is super easy to circumvent once you have a legit license. Once you launch a game it runs off an unprotected exe file you can just copy.

So did manosaba just come out of nowhere as a kickstarted title and make the best all ages game of the year?

>>49887508
>best all ages game of the year?
Hey, there's still a chance for Avesta to come out! Even if it's a very low chance

I doubt it's better than Hundred Line

>>49887508
Yep.

women can't have complex personalities, cast being all women always turns me off because of that. i know there won't be a great character. literally the best female character of the medium is beatrice and you know the deal

weak bait bro try harder, not giving (you) either

>>49887560
hundred is slop th0

>>49887733
I dunno much about it but 155+ hours readtime does make it look like it's bloated for the sake of it
>No "Keep Voice on Click" Option
seriously? in current year? lol

>>49887563
>>49887524
Did anyone expect this? Nobody on the staff seems to have worked on anything else bug

>>49887984
hopefully I'm wrong but you seem to have this eceleb cocksuck disposition in your brain
if I'm right consider getting rid of this kind mentality
sorry if I'm wrong tho

>>49887984
I for one had no expectations, actually I was going to skip it entirely had I not stumbled across an insert song from it coincidentally that gave me some interest in it and was pleasantly surprised. Hopefully they still have more good ideas left and aren't just going to try and eternally milk the premise in a series of games with deteriorating quality in each new title.

>>49888020
Usually people don't put out a hit on their first try

>>49887733
This. Hundred is woke gaslit slop unlike Dangan, the mentality of dude, many hours le good is dumb when most of that content is pure slop.

xher right doe

>>49887508
>>49887563
Is it actually good? It has the same vibe as one of those edgy games popular with middle school girls.

Anyone know the hook code for Amakano 3 trial? I found one that had the text but it has a bunch of system messages clogging up the output. I wonder if someone found a code without the system messages?

>>49888303
>Is it actually good?
It's not suba. The game is actually good

>>49888335
shove it up your ass

>>49888335
https://github.com/Chenx221/Textractor

Is kamikimi a decent read?

>>49888782
I put that one on my to-read list solely because the artist is Kantoku, did I do good?

>>49889095
nta but I did the same, hopefully it's a bit better than samenana tho

>>49889218
>hopefully it's a bit better than samenana tho
why? I was planning to read that. the girls look good

>>49888782
I hated the protagonist, but the girls were mostly cute.

>>49889399
I really don't like loser protagonists or hetares or blank slate boring no personality protagonists because this dude don't deserve all this cute girls around him. In what way did you hate the protagonist?

>>49889280
Because I fucked up reading order, read route with most plot first, most of leftover routes sucked as result. Fun read otherwise. Anyway do not repeat my mistake and do not read Remi route first.

>>49890313
any recommended route order / any routes that are a waste of time?

>>49890313
This is bad design

anonbros what would you recommend between tasogare no sinsemilla, apeiria, sakumoyu and senshinkan? they all looks pretty good

>>49891206
I'd recommend Senshinkan since it's my favourite chuunige and aside from the great battles the SoL is genuinely enjoyable and funny.
Apeiria is also great if you're interested in sci-fi stuff and mind games, part of your enjoyment will depend on how funny you find the sexual jokes (MC uses his dick as a sword stuff like that).

>>49891206
sinsemilla because it's the only one I didn't drop

>>49891206
play phantom instead

VNs really are better with text covering the whole screen. I've been reading Itsusora for a couple days and it's bringing me back to my early VN days reading old games like Tsukihime where the text got top billing and the visuals were just for extra context, instead of the other way around with fancy art getting all the focus in so many new games.

>>49892703
NVL is great when the writing is strong enough to support it.

>>49892703
>VNs really are better with text covering the whole screen
Agreed, but it's even better when it's vertical.

>>49892703
True, I find it more engaging when a VN is NVL, and I can focus more on reading the whole text on screen compared to ADV.

>>49892751
>Reitou Kizakura
Looks interesting, how'd you like it?

>>49892765
It's a pretty good short chuunige for a doujinge. Great fights, good presentation, and decent OST. There's a deus ex machina in one of the fights, but I can overlook it because of how kino the ending was. If you like Kizakura, you can try other games by the same developer like 黒曜鏡の魔獣and ヴィザルの日記 . They're set in the same world and also have great fights, though only in the second half of the game since the first half focuses much more on building the plot.

>>49892854
>ヴィザルの日記
Oh yeah, I had this on my backlog and completely forgot about it. Guess I might give some of these a try after my current read.

>>49892739
Does it take a bit of an adjustment period to read vertical text like this or is it pretty easy for you guys?

Needs correction

>>49893041
Just wait until you read her route.

>>49893037
It was always about the same for me but I was reading books from the start. There might be some speed loss when you first try it but it feels mostly the same desu

>>49893037
It took an adjustment period, but it's like reading manga right to left. You'll read way slower at the start but it'll become second nature faster than you'd htink.

>>49890437
>any routes that are a waste of time
Not really, no.
> route order
You're gonna be fine as long as you read Remi after the other two main heroines.
>>49890913
Yes it is. Was still a fun eroge either way.

After finished 3 main routes in kiminozo I'm sure I'm not the only one who confused how on 8月27日 Takayuki never mentioned (probably forgot) Mitsuki's birthday in Her Own Route and yet he remembered in Haruka's and Akane's route...

>>49893044
what's her route like?

Started KiraKira just now. seems pretty enjoyable

>>49894585
>ラーメンって、なんだか嫌い
Literally me

>>49893037
Personally I needed to do eye exercises to be able to read vertical faster because my eye movement speed was the limiting factor.

>>49892854
looks interesting, can you share a DL for the VN please?

>>49893037
Not really, it feels pretty natural to read Japanese vertically

>>49894856
I went to look for it after he posted it and it's on the shinku site someone shared earlier in the thread

>>49894856
It's on shinku and zi0cc, make sure to rename the folder and delete the Chinese patch (the file with the .tmp extension) so the game can run in Japanese.

>>49894870
>>49894908
got it anon, thanks!

dang this thread still here?

>>49895599
we outsurvived atrisister and are just enjoying the peace

>>49895599
what are you reading mister?

I'm currently trying to get through the Bishoujo Mangekyou series. Only the first game is translated, but I'm really liking the artwork and fairly depresso story so far. It's bittersweet.

>>49896405
I like this series a lot. I read 2, 3, 4 only, but all of what I've read were very socially sensitive or insightful.

My apologies for not responding sooner. I feel asleep. I'm really liking it so far. I never thought a nukige series would make me feel so many emotions. Sorrow covers me when I read it, but at times it's genuinely upbeat while maintaining a level of melancholy. It does make me dread how the ending might turn out, but I'm hoping there will be something happy. And the soundtrack is incredible as well. Kiries theme so far fills me with a feeling of longing and sadness, with a small mixture of hope. The psychology of the protagonist is genuinely depressing, and I wonder if that will be a theme going forward. The idea of a man longing for that he can never obtain, then getting it, but still finding little relief.

>>49893037
Is in unexpectedly? A few seconds to adjust.
If you mean overall it took me a while to get used to it when I started reading LNs.
I remember picking up accelworld and it felt unreadable.

>>49894585
This is the band one? I remember reading this way back when and really liked it. I don’t remember much though. I know that the MC crossdresses so the band could be a girls band. The black haired girl I think was my favorite route.

>>49894518
massive spoilers
relateable and depressing

Why does my text suddenly look like this in tsuushinbou and how do I fix it?

Looking forward to Manomura

I’ve been thinking about how Key’s new VN Anemoi is priced at 10780 yen for the first edition with all the extras, while Amakano 3 and Limelight Lemonade Jam are like 20000+ yen with all the extras. Does anyone know why the pricing is so different? Is it because of the sweet Tencent money that Key is basically selling at a loss to flex? Or maybe 18+ games have more fees or regulations they need to pay?

>>49897871
I thought 18+ games were basically monitored by the honor system and the eroge ethics community (also the honor system).

>2 piece swimsuit changed to frilly non-swimsuit
what the fuck

>>49897867
i think all elf remakes are nearly doomed to be worse than the originals

>>49897924
Compared to what mages did to Yu-No? I'd rather count my blessings and buy all the shit from FG remake.

>>49897939
yeah its not that bad, but im still worried about the art and the voice acting is pretty much guaranteed to be worse, though i guess they do say the original was partial and this is gonna be full

Anyone got 夢幻廻廊? I can't find any proper dl links

>>49897884
I see. In that case maybe it really is just a flex. They know all their money is coming from Heaven Burns Red and Tencent so a VN is basically just fan service, not for money. Kind of like Tsukihime Remake in relation to FGO. By contrast, Nexton and Yuzusoft are dependent on VNs for survival. Eroge companies need more support.

>>49897867
Really funny how this remake cancer from videogames make its way here, except its worse here, and the fact that they keep doing it means its successful
This medium is doomed

>>49898354
remakes aren't inherently bad, there's little to no point in doing that to VNs besides action stuff though, like what happened with tsukire

>>49898359
>remakes aren't inherently bad
You know the medium is dead when instead of making new stuff and innovating they are selling the same garbage from 20 years ago with a new coat of paint, actual stagnation.

>>49898359
>there's little to no point in doing that
Do you forgot there's the annoying map movement and other hidden shit in the original game that makes it hard to complete without guides? Although I want in game notebook of a girl's schedule, date places they like, gifts they love, etc, instead of instant jump to events that doukyuusei remakes had.

>>49898373
its not an issue with the medium, everything's been going to shit. Worse graphics with bigger performance issues, worse physics and games in general. Shit movies with visible CGI while old movies like LoTR and Aliens had better special effects.
It's all stagnating, I'd rather have a decent remake of something confirmed to work than a company pumping out another episodic garbage

>>49898382
Eh, I was talking in general since I didn't play it. I suppose its an improvement but changes like these can be controversial

>>49898392
>I'd rather have a decent remake
Or you know, you could just read the original, art does not age

>>49898411
Good luck finding a zoomer whose willing to buy a hard game for their gooning material.

>>49898411
It doesn't age, but it might've looked like shit. But yeah as I said it's mostly useful for action games to add more sfx and other interesting stuff the engine might not have been capable of. And what the other anon mentioned with clunky map or gameplay parts. Its a good reason to reread something anyhow.

The fact that this game's hidden route is not for picrel is a travesty. Gimme my bespectacled sadistic meido heroine pls

>>49898701
Pic related hurts more. Especially with how bad her sister is compared to her.

>>49897649
So it's not going to just be a clone of Manosaba's premise, that's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdy9p_BURy8
not bad

>>49899060
Woah, a full animated OP. Haven't seen one for a while.

>>49898759
Sensei's route in that game was the best one though so I'm not too mad about that.

Oh my fucking god, If I've gotta stare at these puffy nipples the whole time I'm gonna bust mutiple times before the H-scene even starts

>>49899398
I love slutty sprites.

>>49899446
Cute Ouka.

How do you guys decide which heroine to chose? I always go by the rule of 'Which girl benefits the most from my love?', which typically means I pick shy, friendless girls, injured girls, girls who have never experienced and shun love or girls with significant promises made to the MC.

Any girls who seem well put together, happy or overly insistent on being flirty towards the MC are invisible in my eyes and I don't care if they suffer afterwards also for girls who have suffered but still pretend to be happy, I don't like people who are decietful and pretending to be happy when you're not is deceit in my eyes, those girls deserve to suffer alone for the rest of their lives, you get what you ask for.

>>49899446
Don't call her that she'll get mad.

>>49899567
usually:
(first) sister >= childhood friend > smallest breast size > ... > biggest breast size (last)

>>49899567
Read tsundere route
drop game

>>49899567
>engages in (sexual): pissing

>>49898354
Um there were plenty of remakes in the early 00s. Hell even in the 90s. What kind of ridiculous joke is this pretending remakes are a new thing? Now to mention, they're far more warranted now, almost 30 years into the future, than back when they got a remake 5 years after the original. And yes, all the excuses you will make up for why it was okay back then also apply today.

>>49899567
The one with inverted nipples.
i simply pick the one that i like the most.

>>49899567
I picked the childhood friend route and drop the rest unless I really like the VN or it leads to true end with more childhood friend content in it.

>>49899567
I just choose whoever i like

>>49899713
Cute nadenadeshikoshiko

Are there any NTR in Ars Magna? I want fantasy theme that's also vanilla and has childhood friend main heroine in it.

>>49899567
Pick whichever heroine that has the best chemistry with the protagonist (rare because default faceless no personality protagonists are the norm unfortunately). Otherwise I go with the one that is most interesting to me which varies game by game.

>>49899744
Just looking at the non-spoiler VNDB tags, yeah.

>>49899567
The one with the most appealing design. Usually they also have the most appealing personality for me. Or maybe I just feel that way because I like looking at them. Sometimes I also pick based on voice.

Reminder that 白髪赤目 girls are special. And especially cute.

>>49899567
Based empathic gentlemen
>>49899620
>>49899637
>>49899650
>>49899659
>>49899690
>>49899733
>>49899748
>>49899757
cinge superficial appearance monkeys/cringe childhood friend slopeaters

>>49900079
I said nothing about either appearances or childhood friends though?

>>49899751
The problem with VNDB tags are I can't be sure if the NTR/Rape is the main character or one of his monsters doing the raping because evil route tag, or defeat that leads to rape, or unavoidable rape. I can tolerate the first two because I can just alt+f4 away from the consequences, but I can't tolerate unavoidable shit.

>>49900079
Sorry, I don't want the doormat cum rag girl to win, if anything those shy weak spirited girls don't deserve MC.

>>49900092
Shy girls deserve anal sex.
Non-shy girls too though.

>>49899567
I like the shy ones most and then second the really flirtatious ones.

Years ago I would say that I love VN's to the point that I need them to be happy, that the romance in them is the most valuable thing I have in my life and that I would want to read VNs as much as I could every week.

Nowadays I'm no longer interested in their stories, when I think of playing a VN I now feel like it's a waste of time. It's scary. It's so scary how my interests I once though of as immutable are completely wiped away out of nowhere.

>>49899567
>I always go by the rule of 'Which girl benefits the most from my love?',
This. I'm sure other girls can find someone to love them, but I don't want that poor girl to be exploited.

>>49899567
those games were another girl literally DIES if you choose a route different from hers

worst was probably Luka ending in Steins;Gate, just despicable

>>49899567
I generally read all routes, so I don't stress out about the decision too much; I'm really only picking the order.

My criteria for my first playthrough is usually putting myself in the protagonist's shoes and making the choices I think I would make in their situation and seeing how my decisions would have worked out.
In games where the routing isn't just pick-a-heroine, sometimes this means I end up with a heroine who wasn't necessarily my favorite, but often I'll end up liking her way more than I thought I would. The feeling I get from arriving at a heroine "organically" instead of strategically arranging our romance can make a big difference sometimes.

Like you I also tend to favor heroines who are obviously struggling in some way where the protagonist can help them through it, but I disagree about the second half of your post. All heroines are deserving of love.
Pain is subjective and experiential; everyone's a victim of something. And love isn't a reward you get to balance out suffering, it's a beautiful part of life that everyone gets to experience.

>>49900393
the fragility of personality and mind is a scary thing.

>>49900393
What book is this quote from? I've searched but no results. Sounds almost like the beginning of a short Lovecraft story.

>>49899567
I go for heroines who are either high status or antagonistic towards the MC. I like to conquer.

>>49899060
Better than Tenshi op. Yeah, not exactly a high bar but still.

small interview about shigatsu no youka remake
https://automaton-media.com/articles/reportjp/4gatu8ka-20250821-354401/

>>49899060
I like it.
Still think Riddle Joker had the best OP.

>>49900594
>下品な表現やネタが割とあったので、そこは商業版らしくきちんと修正していきたいと思います。
Sad!

>>49900664
Don't be hard on him(her?), he's aiming for steam

>>49900664
>>49900775
Pretty sure it's supposed to be all ages so it's was inevitable.

>>49900664
>There were a bunch of nasty things in the original so I cleaned it up and made it all family friendly
I hate sellouts so much.

>>49900775
Lets hope it get rejected and they autocensored themselves for nothing
Anyone who betrays nippon shall suffer the consequences

>>49900664
is that just about sex or did the game have anything else that's likely to be cut?

Alright, I'm trying the sca-ji meme for the very first time finally after all these years. Wish me luck.

>>49901175
keep us posted

>>49897871
There was a big section in henpri where they talked about how eroge are getting more and more unaffordable to the point where the only people who can afford them are whales. It's a cycle where games get more expensive -> only hardcore fans can afford them -> games get even more expensive. Because KEY has a bigger audience, they can afford to price cheaper (and because they're pricing cheaper they have a bigger audience, repeat).

>>49899446
Inre games are great because they'll be almost naked women engaging in high historical drama played completely straight.

I hate to beg to be spoonfed, but I can only find downloads for the trial/first part of Ooe. Where can I get the second? I know it's gay, but I need to know if it's actually that good.

>>49902078
https://mega.nz/file/pH8ClLoK#0uoWYPS9lPnG2q_wspeb3oklWkJ5-2SbeM161PvdyEg

>>49902080
what the heck, I was expecting only to get replies calling me a faggot, not the actual game
thanks anon, I should've known my gaybros wouldn't let me down

yjk

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>>49901555
Shit sometimes I buy eroge. Am I a whale now?

>>49901555
I guess that makes sense. I mean, even if you check the prices compared to even modern triple A games in regular consoles or PC, rarely do they ever break 10000 yen. That makes even Key expensive in the grand scheme of things.