Visual Novel translation status Amagami - 1st day patch Released

Sekai/Denpa
>Narcissu 0 - Released
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title Steam released, uncut 35% of new content done, 3rd 50% translated
2236 A.D. - 100% translated
>Maitetsu - 21.12% translated
>Nenokami - 99.96% translated, Indiegogo finished
Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora. - 100% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
WEE 3 - 100% translated
>Chrono Clock - 27.25% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Tenshin Ranman - 35.75%
Darekoi - 100% translated
>Wagamama High Spec -Demo is 100% translated, overall 22.79% translated
Hoshizora no Memoria - 18.38% translated
Memory's Dogma - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - picked up
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
SakuSaku - Picked up
Koikuma - Picked up


Frontwing
Corona Blossom - Vol 1 released, vol 2/3 upcoming
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter halted, will be restarted
Island - Picked up
Grisaia no Senritsu - Picked up


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv - Released, uncut patch still to come
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Collar x Malice - Picked up
Period Cube - Picked up
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up
Bad Apple Wars - Picked up


Other
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
Root Letter - 2016 release
ChuSingura46+1 - Ch 2+3 released
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 75% QC
>Dead End Junction - September release
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + Mari route translated, Calen 25%
Taisho Alice - Picked up
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
Hakoniwa no Gakuen - Picked up
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Mangagamer's announcements at Otakon just now just might be their most impressive lineup ever.

SP on suicide watch

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Not really related to any recent numbers(especially as the sale muddies the recent ones), but looking back I would estimate supipara had sold 300ish copies on mangagamer's site by the the first of this month(when they updated the fundraiser). That in and of itself isn't too interesting, but if one were to assume it atleast sold similarly on steam, the numbers would then lend credence to doddler's words that minori fundraiser only tracks minori's cut of each sale(otherwise the first update's numbers would have to have been higher).

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/LrrvJBG6
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/J6gpTeqz
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/e9KpsWvZ

As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.

>>15684902
Damn that's a nice image.

We did it, /jp/! We got Sukisuki, made dovac ragequit, and gave MangaGamer enough Harukabux to get Rance. VNs have been saved for all!

>>15684902
Such a nice lineup from Mangagamer, how can other companies compete?

>>15685018
Don't forget Purple Soft abandoning Sekai before CC release.

>>15685024
> how can other companies compete?
Announce Muramasa, Dies Irae, White Album 2, Eustia, Fate/Stay Night, etc.
The most kamiest of gems are yet to be claimed.

>>15684941
This year is definitely their best so far, and they still have another con to announce shit at.

>>15685032
When is Yuzusoft going to do the same? Senren ＊ Banka looks too cute.

>>15685060
Do you have to take VNs this seriously?

>>15685057
Next year at earliest. Only SP is crazy enough to pick up freshly released major titles.

Hmm, there's a couple seconds of tits in the 5d promo on youtube.

Eh, I guess the odds of it getting flagged are pretty low.

>>15685205
Considering that Maitetsu LP with loli nipples is STILL up on Youtube I'd say there's a good chance it'll stay up.

>>15685220
>tfw Youtube is more eroge friendly than Sekai

Sona-Nyl is going to be damn amazing :)

>>15685235
I can't help but be excited for it after seeing koestl's excitement about it. Genuine passion is contagious.

>>15685170
Isn't minori trying to do that though?

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>>15685260
Yeah, they are.

I'm kinda hoping Moonstone will let MG do Sakura soon and stop trying to get into the localization business by themselves.

MG should inform idiots at lewdgamer that Rance is going to use original HD assets instead "upscaling".

>>15685279

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, the actual game shots haven't been horrible and frontwing had an engrish page to start too.

>>15685290

I'm pretty sure it is an upscale since it's double the size.

>>15685323

Oh, and also arunaru literally says it is.
https://twitter.com/Aru_Naru/status/764658815899873280

>>15685323
Not that guy. But it's not. Supposedly it's the original source assets. Which also explains why they aren't exactly HD resolution, just much larger. No one was making actually HD assets back then.

>>15685323
"Upscale" is when you take picture and use resizing alghorithm to make it bigger, resulting in shit quality.
Process here is completely different: they take original source images, which were produced in HD back then, and downscale them to 1280x960.

>>15685331

original assets is likely referring to the uncensored nature.

>>15685340

Anonymous, arunaru literally posted years ago about using waifu2x to upscale the art as a way to argue back when /haniho/ was riding his ass about about how it was too old there's no way mangagamer would do it.

Given that it's literally 2x, I'm pretty sure that's what happened here.

>>15685331
>>15685327

My understanding is that we're using original, higher resolution assets except where they no longer exist. I believe got high resolution assets for most things but some things will be upscaled and the UI is probably being recreated from scratch.

I'm not 100% on some of the details, but I believe it's a bit of both (original higher res stuff and upscaled assets to fill in the gaps).

>>15685367
>I believe got high resolution assets for most things but some things will be upscaled

Do you have most of the CGs atleast?

>Upscaling

How horrifying

>Sorcery Jokers
I hope you all enjoy vndb getting spammed with 10 votes.

>>15685383

Let me go check with the team again before I put my foot in my mouth and end up saying something completely wrong (if I haven't already... wouldn't that be embarrassing).

>>15685392
Waifu2x upscaling is pretty good.

>>15685469
But when I think about upscaling mosaic censorship, I'm not entirely sure how it would look like. Maybe they get original demosaiced art?

>>15685487
>Maybe they get original demosaiced art?

That's already confirmed https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/764659963922780160

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>>15685353
Did someone shit on Tsukihime or something? Honestly I never took Moogy for a Tsukifag.
It makes me slightly re-evaluate him

>>15685392
When waifu2x works, it works pretty good.

It can be variable on some images though. I've done some upscaling of Melty Blood assets and I always do touch ups in photoshop itself because it can sometimes get smudgey. They key is being careful with how much you denoise. Sometimes it's better to go in and clear up the noise artifacts by hand.


It works better the higher res the source is, of course.

>>15685469
It's not bad when compared to other upscaling methods (for 2D shit), but it still produces poor quality results because that's just how upscaling is. Some images get away with hiding it but I would never trust it in a professional product.

>>15685503
>Some images get away with hiding it but I would never trust it in a professional product.
I feel a bit of unease regarding it as well. Hopefully Haro is right and that they primarily are using original higher res images.

>>15685503
The art in Clannad and Muv-Luv HD is worse than waifu2x conversions.

>>15685496
Thing is anon, the quality of your image there is fine for posting on imageboards, but it's nowhere near the standard for sale, especially not in a medium that is heavily focused on looking at pictures.

>>15685531
So what? Upscaling is the equivalent of SP translation. What I like about Mangagamer is they release quality, not simply something that is 'good enough'.

>>15685412
And where is the ntr/loli VN that was hinted earlier? Or was something related to PurpleSoft NTRing SP?

Sekai Project fan here. MangaGamer thoroughly owned SP this con; their announcements were better than SP's announcements in this entire year combined. I was expecting another disappointment like Anime Boston or Anime Central, but this is by far the most amazing set of titles they've announced yet, even more impressive than Sekai's initial rush for kamige (acquiring licenses like Clannad, Grisaia, etc). I'm especially hyped for Sona-Nyl, which is apparently the best Steampunk game.

Still, I'm a bit worried about MangaGamer still licensing Sona-Nyl and Sorcery Jokers. Games like these keep failing for them; is it really a commercially viable decision for them to do this?

>>15685564

>>15683588

Next con

>>15685564

I said I didn't know when it would be announced when I gave that hint.

>>15685548

Ain't no one got time for 640x480 these days. Besides, I don't think it'll end up looking that bad. Anything that comes out too wonky'll probably get cleaned up.

>>15685573

Could you please just narrow it down to one or the other? This shit is killing me here

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>>15685548
>Thing is anon, the quality of your image there is fine for posting on imageboards, but it's nowhere near the standard for sale, especially not in a medium that is heavily focused on looking at pictures.
I don't disagree. Upscaling images like that is more of a novelty than anything else. It honestly looks too smudgy overall.

I'm trying to be optimistic about this though. If Haro's right and they're keeping it limited to just a few pieces of art where they no longer have access to those higher resolution images, then I'm down with that so long as it doesn't look bad.

Going through the CGs on exhentai and upscaling them--some of the CG respond pretty badly to waifu2x, so I'm hoping it isn't entirely a case of upscaled images. You could probably clean this up with a decent amount of effort, but as it stands it's smudgy as fuck.

The one they posted on Twitter didn't look bad though.

>>15685571
>>15685573
Sorry, I haven't seen that thread.

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/08/13/gahkthun-prequel-sona-nyl-of-the-violet-shadows-announced/221067/

>>15685570
What is a Sekai Project fan doing here ?

>>15685591
The lack of people reporting on Rance is odd

>>15685600

Given ithe content, it's not that odd.

Kinda weird that nichegamer doesn't give a shit though.

>>15684902
>Sayonara wo Oshiete - project resuming

Who is working on it ? Cafe ?

>>15685583
>smudgy
Did you try upscaling them without any noise reduction?

>>15685583
waifu2x is pretty shit though

It doesn't matter, my dick is hard. Rance will singlehandedly save the industry, I'm positive he will. And I will be able to fuck Sill some more, Ahh.

>>15685622

Yep https://twitter.com/CafeDX/status/764215938077962240

Mangagamer just owned this con didnt they?

Rance 5/6 in a bundle for 35$ and Sona-Nyl

I even noted to Aru about how he can FINALLY get that off his chest and he talks about how he really has been waiting for 14-16 months after the Haruka deal and announcement for this

Today is a good day I say

>>15685626
It does look better that way, yes. Kinda slight though.

Are all the releases digital?

>>15685634
Nice. I don't know why he decided to leave MG but if it's for SayaOshi i don't really care.

>>15685645

Yes, but that's always the case with mangagamer.

>>15685652
>>15685645
I remember that they sell physical copies at times, but that was when I visited their booth in Anime Central last year

>>15685682

It's digital first and if it sells enough they'll pay to get a physical version printed. If it sell like shit, whelp...

>Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
>Root Letter - 2016 release

I was thinking of getting these two on my vita. Are they any good? I enjoyed Steins;Gate.

This is the first time I am interested in and willing to buy every game announced at a convention. Even got a game featuring sisters, even if it is Yuri. I haven't even finished playing all the games I bought during the summer sale. Thank you based MG-dono.

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>>15685412

Okay, so I wasn't totally wrong. There is a mix of higher res original assets and upscaled ones like I thought, but it's more upscale than not given the game's age. I'm not sure what process is being used but it does look quite nice (here's the example Aru posted on Twitter earlier).

Sorry for the confusion. I'm an idiot who didn't think to double check with the team first.

>>15685850
As long as you guys don't leave anything that looks obviously bad in I'm down with it. I'll trust you guys on this.

>>15685850
Dont worry Haro we will always <3 you.

>>15685850
When are you going to start whipping Doddler to make him finish DC3 faster?

Anyone staying at sekai discord? What's going on there, are they committing collective suicides yet?

>>15685910
They said MG did not win since they are going in a different direction and are looking for accessibility while MG is staying "traditional".
They also pretend that they are not mad about Purple Software.

>>15685878

He's working pretty hard on it right now. I'm not sure he can go any faster.

>>15685930
>since they are going in a different direction
Yeah. MG is staying on the road while Sekai is driving off a cliff.

>>15685878
have some pity on poor doddler

DC3 is fucking huge. there's a lot to do

>>15685955
The beta-testers seems to have it worst. Beta-testing something as big as DC3 is probably maddening.

>>15685955

I don't really think its script size has any particular bearing on it's porting difficulty

>>15685875
;)

>>15685966
Doesn't it have a shit gazillion images? He was saying something like that. 4GB of just standing sprites alone.

>>15685974

Didn't you get banned last thread?

>>15685976

That also wouldn't have too much bearing, I imagine, outside of irritations like https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/760521252977057792

>>15685878
Send him another anahole with loli pics to motivate ot traumatize him even more.

>>15686003

Please don't bully Doddles

>>15685999
I really have no idea what all his work entails so I guess I'm talking out of my ass.

>>15686017

He's taking the game's existing scripts and assets and making a unity engine that can interpret them. That's what porting is.

>>15686003

While hilarious, I think going to canadian prison would probably have a deleterious effect on the game's release date rather than speeding it up.

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>>15685570
>Sekai Project fan here

>>15686006
>Please don't bully Doddles
But it's fuuuuuun

>>15686071
He is probably here just cause the fuwa thread is not up.

>>15686093
I am here because I've always been here, since before the VNTS threads even began. I just don't jump on bandwagons, and MangaGamer was very disappointing until recently (2013) (and JAST has always sucked). With these announcements, though, MangaGamer seems to be back to its glory days.

>>15686203
Just wondering, what's considered MangaGamer's glory days to you?

>>15686203
>back to its glory days
Why normies make up ridiculous shit when they try to fit in?

Is conjueror secret project a meme now?

SekaiProject was the necessary evil we needed to kick other companies like MangaGamer into gear. You should all be thankful that Dovac took on the role of a villain to save visual novels in the West.

>>15686203
Maybe you should try and rate companies by something else than their titles. Like translation quality, speed, censorship, lies, PR, greed, etc.

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>>15686301
Thank you, Dovac. You gave up dignity and self-esteem, all to save our medium. You will live on in my heart

>>15686301
Yeah, without SP MangaGamer might have rode the Steam gravy train instead and not completely crash the market. The money from it and the lack of SP might mean that they get Purple Software earlier, as well as Yuzusoft, Favorite and Union Shift.

>>15686283

conjueror himself is a meme

I am starting to wonder, when did it all start and when did we started seeing big name VNs and eroge being localized and what caused it?

I imagine theres a lot of factors that I did not see but it just seems miraculous that we are seeing wave after wave of 'impossible' announcements and localizations and not just in the eroge and VN market

Pretty disappointing announcements unless you're Rance fag. Sorcery Jokers is the only game I'm looking forward to. AX was much better for me, Maggot Baits alone is better than everything they announced at Otakon.
Oh well, at least its better than last year.

>>15686349
It all started when Jast published School Days and Steins;Gate some years after. Sekai Pro's successful kickstarters and Nekopara also helped. Steam granting our modest games decent sales helped a lot too.
Aroduc kickstarting his own translation was what made SP possible though, it gave Dovac the means of getting the money he needed

>>15685726
0 is good if you like S;G.
Root Letter not so much.

>>15686365
So Aroduc was the impetus for SP and he's also responsible for its fall?

Almost poetic.

>>15686360
>Maggot Baits alone is better than everything they announced at Otakon.
literally shit taste

>>15686377
But there's no shit in Maggot Baits, its gore, tentacles and futas.

>>15686377
Shit taste is more Euphoria's thing.

>>15686399
surely there's at least some poop

>>15686409

No, there's no scat in Maggot baits because the witches don't poop (no really that's a thing).

>>15686416
deepest lore

>>15686375
>>15686365
Somebody or one of you want to explain to me about Aroduc and Dovac and SP? I never got the story behind that other than one people I know eventually got a job at SP

He was one of the ones fired though...sadly

>>15686460
There's no story, its just jaypee being autistic and making up things out of few bits leaked out.
There's no confirmation that there's something happening with SP. They fired 2 PR people, but both EU and NA PR people still working and writing retarded press-releases.
There's no confirmation that Aroduc refused to give translation or had any issues with dovac/SP at all.

>>15686476
>or had any issues with dovac/SP at all.
actually there is, he clearly seems discontent and even said that things could be better.

of course it could be something very minor, but there's at least something going on. he'll eventually write up a post about it.

>>15686480
He didn't say he was discontent with SP specifically. May as well be discontent about fans reaction, I'm sure he didn't think that announcement of one of biggest things would immediately turn into controversy and calls for boycott.

>>15686491
You obviously have no idea about Aroduc.

>>15686491
Dovac was pretty terrible at announcing it. "We got a deal! Uh, you wonder what the deal is about? I don't have that information yet. Please wait 6 months so we can research what deal we have."

>>15686301
Shame it did little for JAST. At best it might have gotten us a better translation of Flowers after people woke up to bad official translations. Everything else is stalled as usual.

>>15686480
The talks between Aroduc and Dovac were described by Doddler as "both parties seem willing to self-destruct."

Assuming that means they were positive is asinine.

>>15686519
"I -just- signed it right before the con started so there's no way I would have already know what I've agreed to. There's so much to read yet and it's in japanese btw"

>>15686544
Hm? Was this an online convo that Doddler was merely invited to or something

I wonder how Sekai will cope. Their forum is pretty dead, and the only life they seem to have really is people asking for 18+ patches, or for adult VNs to be localized.

Then again they can just shut it down since all their customers only exist in Steam and in physical stores.

>>15686576
>I wonder how Sekai will cope
Judging from their performance at Otakon, it's possible they might seriously be exiting the VN market. Manga/Anime bullshit and OELVNs nobody cares about.

>>15686544
Its nothing more than jp's delusion that Doddler's comment had anything to do with SP or Aroduc.

>>15686581
so full grisaia triolgy in English never?

>>15686552
Doddler's on Aroduc's team. He did the tools. He wrote a long post about it.

>>15686576
Hopefully they go on to being another publisher of indie trash nobody cares about like the dozens on Steam and they leave VNs alone.

>>15686639
>>15686552
He probably got involved after Dovac clued him in after being left in the dark that SP was trying to go for Aroduc's translation.
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/749868025608712192
I think it was on this tweet that Dovac said he was going to fill him in, but that comment doesn't exist now he deleted everything. Maybe someone saved a cap of it?

>>15686594
In the worst case scenario, Frontwing can localize it themselves.

Sekai's probably obligated to finish the main trilogy though. I don't expect them to announce any new VNs next year, but I expect them to finish their most important VNs before ditching the market entirely.

>>15686542
>Everything else is stalled as usual.

That was my cute VN company name for JAST. JAST - Just Another Stalled Title.

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>>15686718
The cache also was purged, now I only have this pic. I'll miss his weekly shitposts.

>>15686779
Here's to me taking bets on how long will they take for Eiyuu Senki, it did surprise me they got it though

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>>15686864
All I have is this

>>15686914
how long does it take to translate h-scenes anyway?

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>>15686864
Google cache managed to pick up the bit where he said he would loop in Doddler. This is where I expect he was asked to get involved in the negotiation and found it wasn't going to go so well.

>>15686914

Fruitbat Factory has some involvement with that, don't they?

I would assume less than the usual eternity then.

>>15686864
I do hope Dovac delivers on his promises and sets equal pricing. It is still offensive to me that they try and give people who support censorship a 50% discount.

Abuse your economics for moral bullshit elsewhere Dovac.

I'm going to post old dovac tweets in the other thread since that one has already reached the bump limit.

Based MG, please safe Yuzusoft from SP's hands!

>>15686914
All they have to do is to translate the H-scenes. I'd say 3 years.

With Sekai Project and JAST increasingly becoming irrelevant, Mangagamer doesn't really have that much competition any more. I wonder if Mikandi Japan will rise and start doing more eroge (just so MG doesn't have to release everything).

Even if all of the big companies start self-localizing, there should be more than one big middleman company around.

>>15687101
Frontwing could become big. They are Japanese so they could easily do all the loli shota games they want without being bothered by payment processors.

Though it isn't the biggest market, but as I understand it isn't the biggest license cost either.

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Is he right?

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>>15687130
Yes. Rance is only good game MG announced. Everything else is kusoge.

>>15687130
West doesn't care about "story" and gameplay of both is outdated as fuck, you cannot impress anyone with it in age of photorealistic 3D with hours long cutscenes. Consider AAA price tag without AAA marketing and quality, and Baldr is guaranteed to fail, while Rance will enjoy mangagamer-standards high sales of 5000-10000 copies still being niche as fuck.

>>15687130
Even if SP manages to release BS without completely poisoning the well, it's not going to be some game changer. Rance will do well for MangaGamer and likely influence their licensing decisions, but I don't see how it's the big deal he's making it out to be.

>>15687170
At the moment, SP can't even actually localize BS without Doddler and Aroduc's help, and they've successfully alienated them by Dovac being a humongous asshole.

>>15687130
Rance, since uncensored I agree

Baldr, not so much cause there are TONS AAA-AA games on STEAM which looks,plays and reads MUCH better than this censored garbage.

>>15687149
Agreed. In the age of Metal Gear Rising, Tomb Raider, Deus EX, Witcher 3.
Here comes censored Baldr Sky with same pricetag, kek.

>>15687219
Same? Dive 1 plus 2 combined will be more.

>>15687327
> combined
I doubt dovac would do both at once.
Most likely he will throw Dive 1 at Steam first to see how it sells.

>>15687363
Now that dovac is out of SP I wonder what will hapen with BS.

>>15687401
you're retarded if you think dovac is no longer with sp

>>15687401
Can we stop this meme already? Its not fun anymore. Dovac isn't going anywhere.

>>15687401
I dont think that he is really out, probably just out of public picture. If the got a new CEO they would have to say something.

I am sure Dovac was just a puppet in Peter Payne's hands. Sekai Pro's a subsidiary for JAST and their slow output doesn't lie. Dovac's probably failed to meet PP's lose standards with his latest tantrums.
Looking forward to what happens next

Spotted on twitter that you can buy some stuff from one of sekais kickstarters backerkits for "The Human Reignition Project".

What caught my interest the most was the 50 dollar pricetag on a EOP. I'm sure that will work out well for Sekai, since the Steam people LOVE to pay 50 dollars for a English produced story VN.

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>>15687219

And in the story department they've also got to compete with cheap titles like Undertale, to the moon, etc

>>15687566
I'm a fan of the Mother series. Is Undertale even good? The fanbase is really annoying. I just get the feeling it's a shitty Mother ripoff without any of the charm. To the moon is actually very good. Not much in gameplay but good storytelling.

>>15687593
undertale was fine, but the fanbase is shit like you said. I think it's worth playing.

>>15687477
'Human Reignition Project'?
Is that a project to light Dovac on fire? Because I might back that.

>>15687593

Undertale is very good, just stay away from the fanbase because they'll spoil you on shit and demand you play the game a certain way. It's gotten to the point where nearly every post about UT (including this one) has to mention the cancerous fanbase.

Anyway, it's only $10 and you get $1 back in steambux from the trading cards, so might as well give it a try.

https://aww.moe/rcyrxd.jpg

>>15687477
Sounds like bullshit. The game was $15 in their Kickstarter and even SP doesn't increase the price that much from crowdfunding, usually they launch with a sale price on Steam that's the same as you would have paid there.

SP has licensed some Korean mobile game, MG eat your hearts out.

https://sekaiproject.com/products/connie-amarance/

>>15687593
>I'm a fan of the Mother series.
Play the Towelket games.

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>>15687687
Which one is it?

>>15687726
Dovac is a Wizard so obviously both.

>>15687687
... I thought you meant mobage. Disappoint

Short haired girl from Sona-Nyl looks incredibly cute. Description also seems much more interesting than Gahktun's.

>>15687726
>The story of this visual novel is told from a first-person perspective and has music, character CGs, and character voices for you to enjoy.

Holy shit! First person perspective? Music? CGs? Voices?

Wow! So few VNs have those things, and even fewer have them all together like that?

How fucking little must they know about the game for them to be advertising it like that?

>>15687905
Remember that visual novel players is not their target audience and they never really wanted to do visual novels so they have to explain these oddities to normal human customers.

>>15688044
His tweet here: >>15687049

What are your predictions for announced games sales?
>Hapymaher
Mild succes. Cute girls but too much plot for moecrowd to get trully succesful. Also no Steam release for some reason.
>Sonohana Nyuu Jene
Good.
>Sorcery Jokers
Either tanked or perform really good. Depends on Steam.
>Shiei no Sona-Nyl
Tanked harder than Gahktun unless get popular with fujo
>Rance
One of the best selling MG's game

>>15688187
>Hapymaher
I think this will do well.
>Sonohana Nyuu Jene
Will definitely do well. Yuri title with a lot of H.
>Sorcery Jokers
I honestly know nothing about this or its developer. Just from reading the VNDB page it makes me think it won't do so well.
>Shiei no Sona-Nyl
Will probably be the worst performer out of this list
>Rance
Will sell so well that everything else on this list could do tank and they'll be fine.

>>15687687
>>15687726
Is this meant to be like Dragon Providence, and al those other Nutaku games, only just almost erotic instead of fully erotic?

Also. I wonder how Nutaku feels like about Sekai Project invading on their "turf" so to speak.

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>all the Rance games will get translated in your lifetime

>>15688187
I'm probably the only one predicting Rance will sell poorly. I just don't feel like the adult visuel novel market is strongest on gameplay purchases.

Sonohana will probably be most succesful because of low price, fast access to H-scenes and easy to fit in a packed schedule and finish it. Sure it is yuri, but I think most people actually buy eroge to see girls, not penises.

>>15688384
People bought Haruka because of Rance and is one of the best sellers in the year. Rance has the potencial to be not only one of the best seller in MG history, but also one of the VN scene in the west.

>>15688384
Rance will do good, aside from the fact that the series has a lot of fans it also targets HRPG players which there are plenty of. If marketed to those people it will probably bring a lot of new traffic to MG site. Also other gameplay titles have done well for MG before like Haruka or Demon Master Chris which has been on MGs top selling list for 2 years in a row.

>>15688187
>too much plot for moecrowd
Hapymaher has about as much plot as Eroge! does.

>>15688431
>it will probably bring a lot of new traffic to MG site

They seriously need to upgrade their hosting plan before Rance is out. Or at least do it for the first 2 or 3 months.

>>15688354
>all
I am NOT looking forward to the first one https://vndb.org/v1414 and they said it's from 5D forward

>>15688445
There are remakes for 1 and 3

>>15688450
The second one too. That was just me nitpicking

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>Haruka will always have the notion of having been bought for Rance instead of having been bought for itself
I-I l-like Haruka! I like the game a lot! Please don't bully Haruka, she is worth buying too!

>>15688445
I like the first one. It's kind of short, but the gameplay is fast and the pacing is high which keeps things moving forward. It's fun.

Also if they eventually do indeed localize it at all. I'd imagine it would be bundled without extra charge with the 01 remake or something.

>>15688563
It was good, I enjoyed it. But if you have limited budget then go straight for Rance and don't look back

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>>15688563
No, be quiet. We don't need to talk about that game anymore.

>>15688585
>not on Youtube

https://twitter.com/LewdGamer/status/764661208322547712

Why is this allowed?

>>15688589
>But if you have limited budget then go straight for Rance and don't look back

Today, MangaGame'sr twitter giveaway is actually Haruka. Take your chance and try to win.

https://twitter.com/freshsnug/status/764903270317907968 lol

>>15688614
Who the fuck is that and why should I care?

>>15688636
Its just funny how people accepted censorship as something normal.

>>15688614
>Only an idiot would assume such a game would get released uncensored. This is 2016.
Are these people even serious?

Fucking Dovac. All he had to do was be nice to Aroduc and Doddler and we might be getting a non butchered Baldr Sky, but he couldn't even manage that.

A few years ago I would never have expected that we will be seeing "NukigeGamer" save VNs in the west.

>>15688445
>>15688585
I - IV is freeware, best they can do is grab the remakes or direct people to the freeware games

>>15688679
>All he had to do was be nice to Aroduc and Doddler and we might be getting a non butchered Baldr Sky, but he couldn't even manage that.
He's the one who wanted it butchered to begin with.

>>15688714
If you think Aroduc wasn't going to release work he's already done, you're crazy.

Now we're getting only a censored version 'translated' by SP internal staff.

>>15688614
What the hell needs "censoring" according to these people anyway? It's not like the series has any sexual content that needs censoring especially when you have stuff like Euphoria out, the series is pretty mostly vanilla.

>>15688728
I just hope Aroduc just releases the fan translation because Dovac has said it himself that not a single person who downloads an eroge and plays it is part of his customers and is not a lost sale.

>>15688563
I also like Haruka. Lost count how many times I fapped to Narika's whipping scenes. Also loved scenes when you whoring girls out. Hell, pretty much everything apart from vanillashit scenes was top-tier.

Where the fuck can I pre-order Rance from Mangagamer? I want to buy 10 copies to ensure it succeeds

>>15688733
Obviously lolis. You know, those things that are illegal in 250 states and are known to have created space mutants.

>>15688733
>take 99% translated fan project
>delete scenes and content that make the game Adults Only to turn it into Mature or even All Ages
>Start fundraiser because why the fuck not
>Publish on Steam for the Steam audience whatever the fuck that means.

>>15688744
But 5D and VI don't have loli content, Hell Rance literally slaughters a entries establishment that whores out children to rich lolicons/shotacons in VI.

>>15688700
>NukigeGamer
People are stupid to not realize that MG needed money and that nukige could take care of that because story titles don't. Even at that time MG released some story titles.

Now MG has fortunately established themselves and the result is as we see.

>>15688758
They still do that though. MangaGamer just has a formula of "minor cons/start of year = nukiges and doujin stuff, major cons/end of year = big stuff". That and their big stuff is getting substantial.

https://twitter.com/HadlerER/status/764667178360705024
https://twitter.com/Habluka/status/764670473925828608

What do they mean?

>>15688758
> and the result is as we see.
To cater to moefags, fujofags, yurifags and whoever buys their shit? There is still not a single fucking kamige MG licensed.

>>15688783
The original has a lot of typos from what I hear.

>>15688783
They mean Habluka is faggot who dropped Supreme Candy.
The game probably has weak and inefficient writing and it seems it has typos too

>>15688802
And the writing is the most tedious bullshit imaginable. I can all but guarantee it started out as a nukige but then they decided to pad the fuck out of it to meet a word count requirement and nobody wanted to edit that shit.

>>15688801
Sona-Nyl says hi

>>15685850
I like this. Even if CGs don't end up looking that impressive the clearer text will easily make it better.

>>15688824
Not a kamige.

>>15688801
If plotcucks actually bought games, MG would be more willing to spend big money on a plot license. But hey, you still got based SP and Baldr, right?

>>15688859
Too bad SP's not willing to spend any money on a decent translation and has no idea how to localize an actual game.

>>15688871
>SP's not willing to spend any money on a decent translation
In theory. If SP doesn't get their hands on Aroduc's translation, and Aroduc simply refuses to work for them.
Would SP even be capable of translating Baldr?

>>15688801
Sweet Sweat is kamige.

>>15688614
Wait, why do they need to wait for anything? The site itself says that it's uncensored.

>>15688880
Absolutely not. Since they've alienated Doddler too, they don't have the tools to do it either.

>>15688891
They got used to Sekais crap.

>>15688909
I wouldn't rule out that they think Sekai are the publishers.

>>15688776
MG no longer porsues nukige with cheap licenses to make money. They still porsue nukige but they are of better quality or of a specific fetish.

Regardless of what people say, there's interest in nukige. I even buy some myself and I want MG to keep releasing them.

Also, look at MG line up of titles being worked on and count how many nukige they have.

>>15688899
What did they do to poor Doddler though?

>>15688921
Not my cup of tea but what's so wrong with nukige? I mean it kept MangaGamer afloat long enough to get higher quality games. Just have a variety of genres so everybody is happy.

>>15688921
Throb! The GreatePeriodst Inventions of the Sexy Era! was nice, I still hope they do the other one too.

>>15688922
Shit on Aroduc and his team.

Guess who's part of Aroduc's team.

>>15688899
You're projecting your wishful thinking a bit too far here.

>>15688922
They announced Baldr without talking to the fan tl team.

>>15688928
There is nothing wrong with it, people were just annoyed since back then nearly all of MG VNs were nukige.

>>15688928
Nothing is wrong with nukige, people just don't like it when it doesn't cater to their fetishes

>>15688801
I'll drink so many tears of disappointment of people one day reading Dies Irae in english and thinking it's actually boring.

>>15688944
Isn't that what's Baldr is for?

>>15688944
Go away, Conjueror. Le flop of Tokyo Babel is not indicative of that!

>>15687137
I don't think there is a matter of right or wrong with preferences of titles, however the typos in Hapymaher really lowers its value.

>>15688728
That has nothing to do with the fact that Dovac was the one who wanted it gutted.

>>15686914
Why would it take long? The russians already modded it.

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>>15688961
>>15688944
Conjureor already thinks that reading Dies Irae in Japanese can be pretty boring.

http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/137827187163

>>15688935
It's well known that Nagato couldn't solve some of Baldr's technical problems when he was working on it for Futsuu. He's the only hacker SP has working for them.

>>15688999
It's fucking JAST.

>>15689057
There's no reason to believe Doddler would refuse SP checks to do it.

>>15689057
I though Nagato went full normie years ago
Besides they can receive technical assistance from Giga themselves

>>15686957
Seminarians proves that having other translators doing work on it means nothing.

Why all the hype about sorcery jokers? From vndb it sounds like a chuuni harry potter

>>15689080
Oh my sweet summer child. You think Japanese companies are willing or even able to provide anything.

>>15689084
Seinarukana, that is. Autocorrect is a bitch.

>>15689092
Harry Potter would have been improved by being more chuuni.

does anyone have an invite to sekai project discord?

>>15689092
Dude, I love mages. In WoW I can only have fun playing as mage.I hope there's some chants.

But I have to say that I'm not seeing on here, reddit and fuwa much hype although from what I saw on the Otakon thread with EGS scores its reception wasn't bad.

>>15689161
https://discord.gg/e2PX3

>>15689189
<3

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>>15684985

>>15689092
It's a regular chuu2, the hype probably just comes from /jp/ accurately predicting it weeks/months ago.

>>15689248
>It's a regular chuu2
Better or worse than Tokyo Babel? As Tokyo Babel was pretty mediocre beyond the VA cast and some of the visuals.

>>15689256
It won 2015 Moe Awards for Scenario, so probably better.

>>15689256
I'm not a big fan of Tokyo Babel so I can't really compare them, but Sorcery Jokers has an over 80 EGS score, that's something.
I'd say it's probably better but since I don't have a great opinion on either title I'm not really sure I could offer any insightful comparisons.
It's not all-ages, at least. I would say that Sorcery Jokers is better but whatever.

>>15689293
Where's this from? Pretty interesting that MangaGamer's good karma is slowing working especially since Haro was complaining nobody was paying attention to their efforts.

>>15689306
It's from Fuwa

>>15689293
Is this an after AX poll, or now?

>>15689313
This is most certainly NOT after AX LOL

>>15689306
Fuwanovel. MG goodwill towards the VN scene is spreading

>>15689293
So what is MG in comparison to game companies? Platinum?

>>15689382
I can't even think of a good game company that hasn't betrayed their audience at a point.

There is no equivalent.

>>15689396
Xseed?

>>15688801
>Kara no Shoujo 2

>>15689396
So Platinum's accurate right?

>>15689270
Right next to leyline. Not sure what to make of that

>>15689434
Leyline won for Series though, Sorcery Joker tied with PureXConnect.

>>15689406
They let down everyone with how much they delayed Trails in the Sky SC. They said something like mid-2014 for a release and it came out in winter 2015. Not quite JAST levels of delay but it is pretty bad.

>>15689457
That was because the translator killed himself/was trying to. Nothing they could do about it.

>>15689457
The big delay came because they outsourced the translation and the editor was having a lot of troubles meeting deadlines >>15689469
They had to recall the script mid edit and hand it to another freelancer. Then after that was done they also had troubles with the programming on both PC and PSP.

>>15689469
They created a situation where the entire project was bottlenecked by one person and they didn't keep a close eye on the project/his progress.

There's plenty you can do about that.

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>>15689457
>Trails in the Sky SC

Heh, I'm playing that right now.

Why is tlwiki down ?

>>15689469
It was the editor, not translator. And most of the delay was from the game being in QA hell for a year. But they only have one programmer and it's hard to blame them for that.

>>15689503
Probably because it stopped being relevant years ago.

>>15689506
Towards the end it seems they had a lot of trouble with bugs with the PSP version though, and that one was handled by Falcom themselves.
The game was just a mess to complete. But now that it's done they continued the good work with both Cold Steel II and 3rd. There's not much to hate about.

>>15689503
Because Dovac's an asshole.

Is that fan translator for tits still asspained? that shit was hilarious.

>>15685032
Just here to provide some insight from a developer's perspective. I've worked with Jast and MG but not SP, but that's not how licensing a title works. Just because a Japanese company is working with a western publisher, it doesn't necessarily mean they're partnered with them. Sure, they may be "partnered" for that certain game, but that's not the same as say, MG's "partnership" with Circus (they are the same company). I don't think Purplesoft was partnered with anyone in the first place. They just outsourced the localization work to foreign localization companies. Most Japanese companies know almost nothing about the industry here and see neither MG or SP as partners. They just work with whoever approaches them and shoves money in their face. It's very much the same with companies like Akabei and Innocent Grey. Innocent Grey did not break off a partnership with MG for Jast, as a formal partnership never existed to begin with. It's just that Jast approached them with a better deal.

>>15689514
It's now sayonara wo oshiete's main hub for updates.
https://twitter.com/CafeDX/status/764216055120015360
https://twitter.com/herkzzz/status/764684509442736128

>>15689544
He's got a new secret project

>>15687170
I could see Rance being successful being the gateway to more HRPG's like Eushully. Xuse has been around in the West for a while, I suppose, but their gameplay is honestly irritating at times.

>>15689565
Rance saved VNs in the west, MG will get lots of money and will be able to get even the most expensive licenses.

>>15689604
lol wishful eop thinking

>>15689565
does eushully really have anything aside from kamidori worth giving a shit about, all their EGS scores have been awful

Bokuten release when?

>>15687363
>I doubt dovac would do both at once.
Wouldn't surprise me if they do one prolonged Kickstarter for Dive 1 and then one year later proceeds to doing a prolonged Kickstarter for Dive 2.

You know. For them crowdfund bux!
The "You aren't our audience, but please for the love of god donate to our Kickstarter! The Nekopara audience doesn't want to donate!".
Actually. I wonder if they really have the guts to do a kickstarter at this point.

>>15689615
The one that got machine translated should be fun, not that I m going to read it unless it gets a proper translation.

>>15689615

apparently their pirate game turned out to be shit sadly, looked cool.

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>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
Is someone going to save Mahoyo? I know that the fanTL scene is dead and that all the competent translators are now working with pros but isn't Type-Moon one the biggest VN community in the west with Muv-Luv? How come nobody want to translate it when it's so short? Is it that hard? Or maybe the engine is too hard to hack?

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>>15684902
>Sayonara wo Oshiete - project resuming

holy shit

>>15689636
Nobody give a fuck about Baldr because SP ruined it with theirsteam all-ages bullshit policy. The hype died after the announcement.

>>15689636
Where is this from?

>>15689651
Price kills it completely to me. All-ages only and SP being the publishers are just pluses.

>>15689665
Sekai discord

>>15689565
>but their gameplay is honestly irritating at times.
And Rance 5D is going to change that by being much much worse!

>>15689634
>How come nobody want to translate it when it's so short? Is it that hard?
yes, Nasu is difficult to translate

>>15689675
yeah, but at least 5D is short as hell and it has 6 to make up for it, which is good as long you enjoy a jRPG.

>>15689620
I would like to know too

>>15689634
I'll do it after Tsukihime remake but I don't really want to work on any other fan TLs. Maybe pray that one day TM will grace EOPs with an official localization.

>>15689681
>yes, Nasu is difficult to translate
Not really. TM stuff is just in a weird state where it's extremely popular but barely anyone wants to work on fan translating stuff. There's an endless supply of untranslated Fate spinoffs that aren't "difficult to translate" in addition to Mahoyo itself.

>>15689681
An extremely dated, shallow, grindy one. I don't know why 6 is held in such high regard when Quest was played in spite of the gameplay, and it's almost the exact same plus a few more bells and whistles.

It's old so it's good, and TRU FANS, I guess.

>>15689636
Degica announced nothing other than KGNE this year, why would they rank on the poll?

>>15689668
The price didn't actually bother me, but I wonder how SP will react to something like Rance, which has gameplay as well-regarded as Baldr and popularity probably on a similar level. Rance also has several translated works to help with its publicity.
$35 for two Rance games (and one of them is quite good) vs $50 for one Baldr game.

>>15689696
because muh age.

(they also announced a VN maker software, but yeah)

>>15689691
>Not really.
you say this but they have yet to have a good translation on most of their works

>>15689634
mcjon is lazily doing it all.

>>15689706
Nope, that lazy jew stopped at chapter 5 and he will never continue.

>>15689544
Tits?

>>15689770

Trails in the Sky. Try to keep up, dear.

>>15689787
Thanks babe

>>15689700
SP will bundle Dive 1 and 2 and charge $80

>>15689885
in 2023

>>15689885
muv luv kickstarter charged $60 for both

>>15689885
More like Sekai Project will run a Kickstarter saying they need $500,000 and then charge $50 each.

>>15689902
While promising that the hardcopy will be the 18+, only to turn around later on and say that it was all in our heads.

So, does MangaGamer not have a game for August? Yurirei Drama CDs count as a release I guess, but no game after a streak of releasing a game every month for 2+ years seem a little sad.

>>15689691
>I'll do it after Tsukihime remake
Is this a toxx?

>>15690300

That OELVN is probably this month's title.

Just bought the Fata Morgana soundtrack from Mangagamer. All the tracks are under 200 kbp/s, which I find a surprising quality to offer to paying customers.

Is the Kindred Spirits soundtrack bundled with the last drama CD also in an inferior audio quality? I wish there was some indication on the sales page about the bitrate before purchase.

>>15690610
>All the tracks are under 200 kbp/s, which I find a surprising quality to offer to paying customers.

From one of the developers:
>The game audio is ~128kbps Vorbis, and the OST is V2 MP3 (with a few exceptions, such as "The Symphonic House in Fata Morgana," which is 320kbps CBR). I would have loved to offer FLAC, but unfortunately, that wasn't possible. I can promise you, however, that the OST was not transcoded from the game audio. Most of the tracks on discs 3 and 4 are entirely different mixes/arrangements created specifically for the OST.

>Aside from cleaning up the metadata, the files in the OST are exactly what we received. This is an indie game with work from a number of external sources. For reasons I can't get into here, sometimes raw materials simply aren't available.

It's a common issue in doujin titles... there are still Umineko tracks which aren't available in lossless either (though many are). You can buy a few of the tracks directly from Yusuke Tsutsumi in lossless though, but it's on bandcamp.

Still, the bitrate that they provided should have been made clear. Bit of a shame. Without getting into audiophile wankery, I like to have lossless files myself just for archival purposes.

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>>15690610

The KS OST comes in two flavors, MP3 and WAV.

>>15688899
Why would they need him? It is my understanding that when you partner up with some company to translate their game, they wouldn't hand over the executable and tell you "Here's all you will receive, have fun". There should be no need for massive tooling with access to the raw files.

>>15690731
>access to the raw files

Your assumption that Japanese visual novel developers have all the original files for a 7 year old game is woefully naive.

Why do you think Mangagamer has to keep rebuilding engines from scratch instead of doing some quick updates to the source code to make the engine region agnostic?

>>15690673
Thanks for the additional info anon, very informative. Sucks that it's like this, music's still good enough that I'm happy I paid for it.

Is there a link to your source? Interested in reading on the game's development.

>>15690826
From a discussion on the Steam board:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/303310/discussions/0/357287935539460173/

>>15685607

Looks like nichegamer were just slowpokers. Though they literally only reported on rance, completely disregarding everything else, but that's pretty much to be expected.

>>15688187
Rance - top 1 of its year, possibly top 1 ever.
Hapymaher - mildly successful
Sonohana - mildly successful
Sona-nyl and Sorcery Jokers - TB/FM level of sales, ~1000 units on steam and few hundred on MG shop.

>>15689293
50 votes sample size of the majority, you are getting pathetic shitting on sekai /jp/

Sorcery Jokers will probably do well since everyone is talking about it everywhere. And lol why does everyone think that Sona-nyl will fail ?
Gahkthun bad sales don't mean anything to Sona-nyl as it is the superior VN in every way.

>>15691082
I can see Sonahana bringing in Kindred Spirits sales numbers if they get it on Steam.

>>15691098
Quality =/= Sales

>>15691098
Sona-nyl will translate even worse than Gahkthun, the porn is even more tame, and it's a lot more girly overall, so I don't really see it doing well.

>>15688187
>Rance
Best selling.
>Sorcery Jokers
Can perform well.
>Hapymaher
Sucess.
>Sonohana
Mild succes
>Sona-nyl
Who knows... Otome vibes = Gahkrum sales.

>>15691118
I'm sure Sona-nyl will translate fine. Koestl is talented and he's very passionate about the work.

>>15691127
We should try to hype it up as thanks to MG and Koestl.

>>15691138
They'd need to pay me for that :^)

>>15691127
>>15691138
hi moogy

>>15691144
M*gi is irrelevant.

>>15691118
>the porn is even more tame
>it's a lot more girly overall

I think that's a plus actually. Look at the support it's getting from the otome game people on Twitter. The kind of people who will likely resonate with the Steampunk series aren't people who want something to fap to. I honestly think Gahkthun's art might have worked against it in terms of setting up false expectations (turning off the "serious business" readers and giving the fap-fodder crew hopes that ultimately went unfulfilled).

>>15691098
Sorcery Jokers also has anime titty and good art, qualities which TB lacked.

>>15691092

I don't even really have a dog in the antiSP crusade, but I get really pissed off whenever people argue on the internet BUT SAMPLE SIZE because they're almost always wrong as hell. A sample size of 50 would only be about a 15% moe assuming everything else is fine. The argument you're looking for is confidence level.

I don't really get why /jp/ keeps saying gahkthun tanked. From the order numbers back during when it launched, it did breakevenish on sales on mangagamer's site, and that was before it even launched on steam. Now that it's been nearly a year since it's launch, and it got a steam release, it's almost certainly made a profit.

I hope that Sona-nyl success means we will get the first one too. Celenaria is the one VN I wanted to read since the time I first got into VNs. Also really hope we get Sona-nyl hardcopy, would pay double for it.

So if Sekai is really gone that means MG no longer has any real competition unless a miracle happens and JAST gets their shit together.

Remember that company that made tokyo school life /jp/? I was look at famitsu and saw an article for a sale they're having(which is a bit surprising itself), and apparently they've really been churning out the titles.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&publisher=Dogenzaka%20Lab

12 titles in 16 months

>>15691377

18 months*, I'm retarded and can't count

>Sayonara wo Oshiete active again
>the translation will only work with the 2016's re-release which is not uploaded

ayy lmao enjoy your useless patch

>>15691427

You could just, like, buy it.

Haro get the Project Status page updated. It's been over 3 weeks.

>>15691633

Next update set is scheduled for Friday.

>>15689256
It has pretty cool system where you pick different POVs from a flowchart. Magic is pretty low key, no flashy incantations or anything like that, it's more of a skill like in Mahouka. Also there are some ridiculous outfits (check vndb for masked bikini), lots of tropes (protag gets an emo scarf at one point) and the final act and boss is meh. Think Chusingura - good beginning, great middle part, ending you wish to pretend that doesn't exist. Also it's in Full HD and uses more than 1.5GB RAM.

>>15691377
1) It has published TSL, not created.
2) 8 out of these 12 are otome games.

>>15691715
Thanks for the information. I'll be cautious to not expect great things on the end.

But still...
>uses more than 1.5GB RAM
What the fuck.

>>15691802
>What the fuck.
nip coding

Did MG say anything about why they are not bringing their VNs to GOG ? I m pretty sure that Gahkthun would do better on GOG then on Steam since unlike Steam most people on GOG are playing games for the story.

>>15691805
Pretty much, I'm on 3GB and game was pretty laggy whenever special effects showed up. Might be something wrong on my end though.

>>15691735
>1) It has published TSL, not created.

Fair enough, I originally assumed it was a glorified tech demo for emote so dogenzaka was just a branch of m2, but I went and did some digging and it looks like dogenzaka is actually part of d3publisher(or atleast the site is on the same ip as http://d3p.co.jp/) and the m2 thing was just an agreement.

I guess that explains how they have the pull to have glorified ads on famitsu, and why they seem to be expanding so fast.

>>15691897
>>15691715
>Also it's in Full HD and uses more than 1.5GB RAM.
>I'm on 3GB and game was pretty laggy whenever special effects showed up.
Can see lots of people with toasters complaining after being use to low requirements for nearly every other VN.