https://x.com/ErogeAreAlive/status/1937460508732588475

We lost an otaku legend today...

I saw this news on x and then came to this shit site hoping for some discussion. It's sad stuff. Maybe China will do something with the company though. Maybe not. Maybe something good, maybe something bad.

I hope they don't pull their titles off JP storefronts if anything

GOOD
I hope NIS is next

This is what Steam is doing to Japan. I'd they were allowed to sell Dungeon Travelers and their entire uncensored library on Steam they'd be far more profitable

Download all their games while you can before they turn it into spyware

>>713519419
OY VEYYYYYYYYY stop drawing attention to it goy! you fucking anti-semite!

tencent won

>>713519206
Nintendo is part of the problem now. Do you really think they could release Dungeon Travelers on the console that just censored Tokyo Clanpool and kicked out Neptunia? THIS is why Aquaplus is dying; the entire fucking industry has turned hostile to them and the content they specialize in.

>>713520258
>inb4 the gaslighting glownigger shows up and claims CH lied with his only proof being a Asia only physical release
Still banned in the west over Nintendoy ew content policies btw

>>713520616
>Nintendoy ew
Nintendo's new*
I hate phone posting.

>>713520689
>Nintendoy
I thought for sure that was intentional.

>>713518449 (OP)
Fucking RIP, maybe this'll lead to good futures, but having to do that because they force companies to not make actually decent products and just shit out gacha, fucking tragedy.

>>713518449 (OP)
Good riddance, get fucked censorcucks.

>>713518449 (OP)
it's over

>>713518449 (OP)
Who cares
Leaf died with WA2

>Muh Steam
>Muh Nintendo
Face it, the era of this type of games is long over and gacha is the main culprit

>>713521391
Nintendo and Steam are doing fine, gachafag

>Visual novel
Not video games
>We here at /v/ decided, back in 2015 unanimously
No you didn't. Visual novels are not video games.

>>713520258
Or maybe they should have made good games for the Switch instead of shitting out abominations like pic related for the PiS5 because they were chasing an audience that doesn't care about them in the slightest.

>>713518449 (OP)
I fucking called it years ago as they kept self censoring while the dickriding cocksuckers would constantly defend aquaplus, should have continued making eroge instead

>>713518449 (OP)
LMAO
Get fucked incels. This is your future. Chinese dogs. I hope you enjoy it.

>>713521391
Gacha's ascendance coincides with these games being systematically shut out of the market starting from 2018. Of course bishoujo fags are all gonna migrate to Blue Archive when nothing else is allowed to exist.

>>713520258
The problem is they've been making slop for a decade. When was the last time these companies actually made a good game

>>713521391
>why would these games move to mobile when they're not allowed anywhere else?

>>713521816
The Mary Skelter trilogy was as recent as 2021.

>>713521672
Monochrome Mobius was better than Expedition 33
Not sorry

>>713518449 (OP)
China and korea WINS
Japan LOSES

>>713522135
Reparations for all the fucked up shit Japan did.

>>713518449 (OP)
>refuses to make games on Switch for the home audience in Japan, despite it's been the best platform for Japanese third-parties
>focuses on a gacha for Utawarerumono (don't think it did well but I could be wrong on this one)
>tries to port the old games for the western audiences but get actively screwed by the american/european storefronts
Unfortunate turn of events.
>>713521586
"Visual novels" are actually called ADV (Adventure) games in Japan, like it or not.

>>713518449 (OP)
>>713521365
What have they even made outside of WA2?

>>713520258
Blame their customers. Aquaplus was traditionally PC only and self-distributed but nip zoomers don't want to buy anything except phones and Switches. Same goes for Falcom.

>>713522376
>Aquaplus was traditionally PC only
They were Playstation Vita only for a while, and PS4.

>>713522376
No, I'm going to blame Nintendo/Sony/Steam because they can't even make games now for their still-existing customers. And that's a far worse problem than Japanese zoomer normalfags having abysmal taste. How are they supposed to build anything when they just get deplatformed?

They should have added Nekone sex

>>713518449 (OP)
if chinese money is finally gonna fund good games instead of gacha slop then I'm all in for it
last time something like this happened we got maitetsu

>>713518449 (OP)
All of this upcoming stuff planned, seeming like a revitalization of their brands, only for their source of finances pulling out, probably leaves their announcements that don't have a release date in a limbo. This shit sucks.

>>713522608
They can still make games on Nintendo, just Japan-only as it should be.
>b-b-but Nintendo Japan censors games
no it doesn't, you autistic rainfall glowie, it still gets To Heart remake and Nintendo even broadcasts Shine Post featuring lolis.
If you keep with this autism of spreading fake news, I hope someone stabs your neck for good.

>>713522680
Considering the only notable Chinese game that isn't a gacha is Black Myth Wukong, how likely do you think that is?

>>713522371
Dungeon Travelers is a trilogy of kamiDRPGs and Uta 3 was pretty good too. Anju and Nekone are godly.

>>713522830
Uta 1 is their best game. Prelude to the Fallen. It was really good except for when it turned into mecha battles at the end, but every Japanese game falls off at the end.

>>713522879
The Uta 1 remake just isn't as tight as the original desu, the 3D models don't hold a candle to the spritework either. Uta 1 on the hardest difficulty is kamige of the utmost order. It's on the same tier as Yggdra Union, VC4, Natural Doctrine and Hoshigami.

>>713522797

>>713518449 (OP)
I'd rather the koreans have it. China censors everything.

>>713523154
Koreans get offended by two fingers

>can very easily buy ToHeart + DT bundle on DMM
>Rayromano apparently has like 10+ entries

Gatcha utawarerumono incoming?

>>713523237
already exists

>>713523195
And the chinese get offended by everything

>>713523079
Insane that China made one souls like with nice graphics and people endlessly suck their dick. I guess that's the upside of having 1 billion nationalist retards with no media, they'll mindlessly promote the 1 serviceable one they create.

>>713523217
you need to play rayromano and white album for the bonus DT2-2 dungeons desu
you also need to play TH2 plus AD for the first dungeon travelers and you need to play TH1 before that for the multi references

>>713523237
>>713523263
I was actually gonna try it but you can't use MTL in Bluestacks

>>713518449 (OP)
Interesting. I just got White Album 2 working on my steamdeck, I tried getting To Heart 2 as well but the cutscenes aren't loading and are just black. I have so many VNs to finish.. Hisui's route in Tsukihime, Higurashi Chapter 8, Totono (only did Miyuki's route and just started the Aoi part. She like, reset the game or something?). Also Amagami.

I keep hearing great things but I guess I just gotta work through em. I also have the White Album 1 remake as well.

>>713519206
>want to try Disgaea games
>absurd prices for decades old games
why are japs like this?

>>713523217
What do you mean by DMM? I'd be willing to buy these games.

>>713523479
They released the ToHeart demo on Steam like 2 days ago. You can't save though so it was a waste of 3 hours.

>>713523479
the best version of to heart 2 is the PS3 one which you can emulate on the 'eck
that said getting VNs to work is just a matter of using winetricks to install quartz 90% of the time

>>713519206
jfky

>>713523285
Perhaps they're not so different from Americans after all

>>713522082
>why would these games move to mobile...
Because they make a lot more money by being a gacha, duh

>>713518449 (OP)
>ignores nintendo/switch for years
>somehow dies
not even surprising lol

>>713523672
Not him, but does the PS3 version also have an English patch?

>>713520258
please, explain how a random porn dev can release their game on Nintendo and IFI or memeasia can't?

>>713524678
No. And Another Days doesn't have an English translation either.

>>713518449 (OP)
Dishonest as fuck posts, HIKE are the ones selling themselves off and since the CEO is a fan of Aquaplus he's spinning them off into their own independent company unrelated to HIKE so that Aquaplus can still stay Aquaplus. Does it read retardedly, yes. Is this what's actually happening, also yes.

https://www.nikkei.com/nkd/disclosure/tdnr/20250623596970/

>>713524828
They go for the big guys, not the little guys. Why else do you think theres a bunch of ai porn slop

>>713524963
That's cool I guess.

>>713524963
なるほど
apparently then Aquaplus is still on the table for other companies with "greater synergies" then?

>>713524978
>Compile Heart
>big guy
Big girl, maybe

>>713525446
Internet Explorer-chama....

>>713522763
>>b-b-but Nintendo Japan censors games
>no it doesn't
Wrong, you lying glownigger, see: >>713522082

>>713519206
I love me my NIGGA games

>>713522082
Crazy this is happening and literally no one besides a few /v/ schizos are talking about it.

>>713525703
>virtually all examples are for the western versions
lol
meanwhile, Nintendo Japan approved pic related

>>713526208
We don't have Billy D and OneAngryGamer to shout it down from the rooftops any more. God I miss Billy.

>>713524828
Wait, bugma got a switch version? What?
I mean to be fair that one is actually a really solid puzzle game

>>713522082
Normalfags have been ruining the game industry from inside for a while now, sadly.

>>713526437
That is not remotely comparable to a pre-2020 Compile Heart game or Dungeon Travelers.

>>713526437
this game is literally nintendo being desperate the same way microsoft was in 2006 with the idolm@ster
it's still not too ecchi. nintendo wouldn't let bombergirl on their platform. neither would valve

>>713526437
>>virtually all examples are for the western versions
Prison Princess 2, Menhera Farm and Hundred Line are censored even in the Japanese version (two of those ONLY came out in Japan).
>meanwhile, Nintendo Japan approved pic related
Something completely tame? The fuck am I supposed to see here?

>>713526970
>>713527062
>>713527139
>rainfall schizos still shitposting about how Nintendo Japan is censoring third-parties despite the narrative has long become disproved
>while refusing to say anything about the western branches like always
no wonder why the multitude of Switch games like Shine Post and To Heart remake make you guys seethe like no tomorrow

>>713527802
shine post is tame and the to heart remake is more censored than the original PSE edition, no lewd ending CGs or anything
that said
>even redneg all stars gets censored
c'mon man you have to be joking

>>713527967
>shine post is tame because I say so like a sore loser
>gotta make things up about To Heart remake despite the thing is not even out yet
>redneg all stars is untouched in Japan
I really wish I could stab your neck just to have one less shitposter on /v/

>>713527802
>despite the narrative has long become disproved
When? Where? You haven't disproven a single thing in that list. Also you haven't answered what's noteworthy about >>713526437 yet.

Kek, japoids absolutely lost it. They should just become a Chinese colony at this point.

>>713528216
The game tells you she is 12 years old (there is even a 10 year old idol) and you can put them in skimpy bikinis as they perform on stage (in front of a bunch of adult men)

>>713518449 (OP)
>legend
>shat out budget title after budget title made by artists who are outclassed by college students
rip in piss

>>713528216
>You haven't disproven a single thing in that list
You haven't proved a single thing about Nintendo Japan in the first place, just inventing your shitposting narrative because it bothered you personally that the american branch of Nintendo was first targeted

>>713528359
That's implying those morons could read moonrunes in the first place, or even cared about non-translated Japanese games anyway.
There is a reason why I don't feed too much info here since anyone with a brain could do a few check-ups and see their anti-Nintendo Japan rhetoric is full of shit.

>>713518449 (OP)
>Snoy studio is getting bent the fuck out
good

>>713528419
>You haven't proved a single thing about Nintendo Japan
The evidence is right there, you literal retard. You covering your ears and going "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" doesn't mean the evidence stops existing, sorry to say. Now where the fuck is that disproval you mentioned earlier?

>>713518449 (OP)
Go ahead. Japan doesn't have the workforce nor the money to continue these legacies. Besides, china can still just make them games without care about legality anytime they want to anyway.

>>713528359
>and you can put them in skimpy bikinis
And you don't post them why exactly? All you ever post is the most normal and inoffensive outfit and going
>oh my science, Nintendo you spoil us

>>713527802
>>713528209
Nigger, Shine Post is CERO fucking B. Meanwhile, all three Dungeon Travelers games are CERO D. You know what else was CERO D? Tokyo Clanpool and Prison Princess Trapped Allure, and both were censored on Japan/Asia Switch.

Aquaplus never made anything worth playing

>>713528662
>There is a reason why I don't feed too much info here
Because you have no counter arguments, the rest of your post is just cope.

>>713527062
>neither would valve
anon, we literally had a PC beta of bombergirl on steam that got short due to server issues.

Will Chinks censor it then? Or does that only happen when it's marketed in China? Eg. Chinks own discord and there is tons of porn there, somehow that isn't a problem.

>>713522975
monky hands typed this

>>713528974
Funny how the glownigger ran away immediately lmao

This'll probably delay (if not outright cancel) the Aquapazza rerelease.
Shit sucks.

>>713529067
I'm more of a LEAF chad anyway

>>713519206
What is angin about?

>>713533012
Japanese meme that called them the 5 Heavenly Kings of Sony, it took until Switch for all of them to finally break free from being unpaid Sony exclusive developers, Gust and NIS were immediate, but Aquaplus, Idea Factory, and Falcom resisted for the entire gen until the last ~2 years.

>>713533012
Just an acronym, kinda like what FAGMAN (Facebook Apple Google Microsoft Amazon Netflix) is (or was?) Basically 5 prominent Japanese-centric developers who are actually Japanese that were too deep in the console wars. They ignored the Switch userbase in Japan out of loyalty to Sony and kneecapped their sales for years because management still thought they were fighting the console war for Sony in Japan even though it already ended when the Switch released. It's even funnier in this thread that the CH schizo is blaming NIntendo for Aquaplus supposedly being sold when Aquaplus' last major game (Monochrome Mobius) isn't even on a Nintendo platform. Time will tell when more info comes out because apparently they're not even being sold according to>>713524963 but it's not like it can't be true as well (Tecent bought Visual Arts in 2023 for example)

>>713534365
You're back, glownigger. So are you going to prove your claims from earlier or continue dodging like a cowering cuck?

>>713526653
unironically better than whatever Compile Heart created on the past 20 years lol

>>713521672
Switch trannies ability to blame every single flop on a game not being on Switch will always impress me. Delusion this severe isn't often seen.

>>713528974
>CERO B
like Neptunia wow

>>713535623
And yet even it couldn't get a proper western release on Switch. So what makes you think Dungeon Travelers, which are all CERO D, will be allowed unaltered if at all, let alone get a western release?

>>713535472
or maybe they understand that Switch having sold 29 million more units than PS5 in Japan is reason enough to make anything that skip it sell a lot less.

>>713536161
there's lots of cero d games that were released in the japan and the west without censorship so sounds like an excuse to me.

>>713518449 (OP)
Fuck PTW. They employ some of the most mediocre LQA testers in the industry. I didn't play MH: Rise because of those illiterate fuckers.

>>713536613
I liked Gal Gun Returns, but then again i'm not very knowledgeable of rail shooters.
Is this one good too?

>>713536613
Several years ago. What about NOW?

>>713536817
Double Peace is considered the best in the series.

>>713536817
Double Peace is the best game in the series to me. Maya, Shinobu and Kurona are reason enough to play it at least once.

>>713518449 (OP)
Utawarerumono is one of the best franchises in gaming today, and it makes me so annoyed that it's shackled by both the ridiculous untranslated name and also a developer who has no idea that we just want *more* of it.

not DQ-esque prequels or mobile trash or musou spinoffs nobody will play. just more VN + SRPG kino.

and now the ch*nks will banish them to the gacha mines and that's that

idiots!

>>713518449 (OP)
Japanese culture is dying. Used to be touhou, visual novels and niconico, now its vtumors and chinese gachaslop. Its over.

>>713537324
>>713537342
Best gameplaywise or because of the girls?
I will probably check it out then, i remember someone saying one of the GG sequels was bad and i was not sure if it was this or the other one.

>>713536613
That was in 2022, the same year that Seven Pirates also released globally uncensored. Then they changed their policies in 2023 and now not even B/C-rated Neptunia can get through.

>>713518449 (OP)
So is a Tenerezza remaster/remake off the table?

>>713537231
>several years ago
>Dungeon Travelers: released in 2011
>Dungeon Travelers 2: released in 2013
>Gal Gun DP: released in 2015, 2022 for Switch
trying too hard.

>>713537342
>...

>>713537665
>proves me right
What did he mean by this?

>>713537629
both.
Gal Gun 2 shares girls with Double Peace but they're mainly secondary characters. The main ones are just too inferior to Ekoro and the rest of GGDP cast.
fun fact Shinobu and Maya are referenced in Gunvolt series as being the Mother and Aunt of Copen and his sister.

>>713537961
>cry over Dungeon Travelers
>post other cero d being released
>it's too old so it doesn't count
so next you'll say that otome games also don't count despite being released this year.

>>713538778
forgot the pic

>>713538778
>otome games
Games for women and literal gays? That's your substitute for fan service games for straight men? Seriously?

>it doesn't count.

>>713518449 (OP)
they were never good

>>713539490
When the topic was about straight games gay shit in fact doesn't count, what you presented is a false equivalent. So will you stop sucking dick for a bit and present some actual relevant examples or nah?

>>713521672
This is worse than ps2 games lmao. Hell even ps1 games may look better.

>>713521586
they are games, and always be the games, now i shall go back to reading

>>713538862
Fagshit gets a pass that straight male-catering material doesn't. You can't have cute booby ninjas but you can have literal gay bear sex because catering to straight men is promoting rape culture or something.