Visual Novel translation status >11eyes - Released Amagami

Sekai/Denpa
WEE 3 - Late December release
Grisaia no Meikyuu - Uncut release late December
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam release March, uncut release early Summer
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
>Maitetsu - 78.8% translated
Nenokami - Part 2 98.27% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
>Chrono Clock - 71.25% translated, kickstarted finished
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Tenshin Ranman - 82.07% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
>Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, early 2017 release. Editing/Engine work ongoing
Koikuma - 19.28% translated
Hoshizora no Memoria - 81% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - Engine/QA work ongoing
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
Fatal Twelve - Picked up
Project Lux - Picked up
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 11% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
Unannounced Project 1 - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Unannounced Project 2 - 22% translated
Unannounced Project 3 - 100% translated


Frontwing
>Grisaia no Senritsu - Released
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - April 28th release for Volumes 1 and 2
Corona Blossom - Volume 3 IGG starting around December 20th, early 2017 release
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter ongoing, goal reached, August 2017 release
>Island - Translation in progress, release expected around when the anime airs


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Picked up
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Period Cube - 4/25 release
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
>Hakoniwa no Gakuen - March 2nd release
Seven Days - Late 2017 release


Other
>LoveKami Divinity Stage - Released
Taisho Alice - December release for the 4 chapters planned
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common/Mari/Calen/4 Bonus routes translated, Aoi 70%, Lycoris 50%, March 2017 release
Dies irae - Prefundia up for upcoming Kickstarter, May 2017 release planned
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Hyakka Hyakurou - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Short Whirlpool title scheduled for Spring
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

is 11eyes any good? EGS median 78 (n>1000)

>>16276443
>Dies irae - Prefundia up for upcoming Kickstarter
The Kickstarter launched a few days ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences

MG mentioned on twitter that a VN will go up on preorder as soon as Rance is on sale.

Since the Propeller game is out of beta, it's probably that. It'll probably flop because it's a chuunige, but it's also Yuri and Sono Hana has been hanging onto 3rd place for quite a while.

>>16276480
I played through the stuff Thule Society did a few years back and it was alright. A little hokey but I enjoyed it.

>>16276520
So hows it looking? Gonna beat muv luv?

>LoveKami Divinity Stage - Released

Wait, since when do shitty OELVNs count?

>11eyes

Goddamn I haven't heard that title in such a long time. The fact that it actually came out is pretty astounding. I remember watching the shitty anime 7 fucking years ago.

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

>>16276941
Order Number - 241293
Order Date - 2016-12-16 15:38:26

>>16276683
I have a tough time deciding if a japanese company making a game specifically for an english audience is OELVN or not... I mean, by definition it probably is...

>>16276520
They really need to respond to the comments and make an update soon regarding what is going on with stretch goals and additions to the tiers otherwise it will not be succeeding.

>>16276814
The anime was good right until the end of episode 11.

>>16276440
>Mangagamer
>5 unannounced projects

I wonder what they could be? I am betting there will be some interesting surprises here and there.

>>16277484
It's probably just short crap to put out between their major releases.

>>16277574
Probably a mixture of short nukiges and one or two longer stuff.

Depending on sales and negotiation, they will probably pad it out more for next year's Otakon and Anime Expo.

>>16277484
CONJUEROR
EUSTIA

>>16276649
Not even close. At this rate, it might just barely reach its goal. They have to make some major incentive announcements if they want to realistically reach any stretch goal.

>>16276941
Order Number - 240974
Order Date - 2016-12-12 23:27:50
Rance 5D + VI

The Year 2048 chapter of Himawari is so fucking good, holy shit.
I get the feeling that what is left in the game won't top it though.

>>16277831
Begone, all-ages reader.

>>16277871
?

>>16276480
78 is very high for nearly 1500 votes, especially consider it's a very dark chuuni game that can't stand up to the pressure of the broad audience it slowly expanded into.

Unfortunately, 11eyes will probably not get as much attention as it deserves in this era of constant successive localizations.

>>16277871
you know that the original psv release didn't have any ero? and the eng version is a port of that with updated art

>>16277992
At least it stole the spotlight from Himawari.
That's something.

>>16276523
It's 15+, so it could really make good numbers on Steam due to yuri. Kindred Spirits sold quite well on Steam and even Remembering How We Met did really well there.

>>16278001
What does that have to do with anything I said?

>>16277187
I can't believe that worst girl won.

>>16278023
crying over 3 badly drawn h-scenes is pathetic

>>16277831
It's basically the same as what came before it except with a different setting, I don't really get why people praise it so much. Not to say that it's bad, since it has some nice elements, but it's also more than 50% useless SoL and boring narration. A lot of the character development reminds me of young adult fiction.

>>16278055
He's talking about it being all-ages garbage, not it being censored.
Anything all-ages is trash, especially if it was originally all-ages.

>>16278055
Crying over people crying over 3 badly drawn h-scenes is pathetic.

Chances of dies irae's kickstarter succeeding?

>>16278174
73.58%
I have my sources for this number.

>>16278174
They'd be much better if they'd post an update with stretch goals and added some better rewards.

>>16278174
85% i believe it will succeed but getting through the stretch goals is another.

I give the stretch goals a 47% as it is on prefundia. But if they move it down enough and actually make updates on their tier's it will be about 78% it has enough of a broad audience to succeed.

Speaking of Kickstarters Sharin is on its way to $100,000 with 3 days left. Hopefully the stretch goals are met in that.

>>16277831
I know it's amazing!

Anyone playing Moekuri ?

>>16278249
EVN trash

>>16278255
Its not even a VN but is moe.

>>16278255
Looks like a doujin, but it's not marked as a OELVN, so it's probably Japanese.

>>16278277
100% murrican

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Conjurer seems to be hinting one of his titles is something he is excited to be working on.

>>16278279
Stop making shit up.

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Also on his Twitter are two blanks. One is for Mangagamer and is a secret project.

>>16278281
Could it be that conjueror is the only guy who gets excited for his own releases?
Judging by the lukwarm reception of Tokyo Babel, Himawari, Enigma and Dies Irae.

>>16278281
Eustia confirmed.

>>16277037
I think even if it's not the primary language, if it has Japanese language option, it shouldn't be counted as an OELVN.

>>16278249
It's fun.

The type and tile system is a bit convoluted, the interface looks like shit, and some of the portraits are deviant art tier.

It's still addictive though, and even the early mons you get lend themselves to some fun strategies. It does it's one job of being a moe, fun game.

>>16277484
WA2 is what I always hope for. Make it happen MG.

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>>16278255
>>16278279
http://www.mokyusoft.net/
Mokyusoft is American?

>>16278281
>>16278296
Tanukisoft project confirmed.

What? They need to take advantage of the fact that they have someone ready and willing to do loli VNs.

>>16278279
It's Japanese, CS picked it up on Comiket.

>>16278291
>>16278281
See:>>16277626

>>16278057
Pretty much this
>>16278281
>tfw it's another Higashide's VN

>>16276440
>MangaGamer
>5 unannounced projects
How can MG even top 2016? This was a superb year for them.

>>16278566
They can't and probably won't.

It's not a knock against them, but 2016 is a really good year for them.

Unless they announce Sengoku Rance, Quest, Eustia and OreTsuba, it probably wouldn't top 2016.

>>16278295
In his defense he didn't really hype Enigma, unlike the other titles which are all quite average despite the hype.
But DI and Himawari are also well-received by both the elevens and the moogysquad.

>>16278281
Please be Bullet Butlers.

Rance has overtaken Himawari again in MG's top 5.

>>16278566
Except Rance and Himawari there is really nothing good they released in 2016 though.

>>16278311
>if it has Japanese language option, it shouldn't be counted as an OELVN.
Does it, though? VNDB only has it as an English release. Also, the description on Steam is English-only.

Besides, if Sekai's 'Japanese School Life' doesn't belong here, why would the same sort of shit from Sekai's even more retarded cousin?

>>16278675
A Kiss for the Petals: New Generation, Kindred Spirits, Tokyo Babel, Fata Morgana, Please Bang My Wife, Funbag Fantasy

>>16278689
Only Kyonyuu Fantasy was good.

>>16278689
Not a single of those games is good.

>>16278566
>>16278675
Oh, I was actually talking about the announcements.

on Fuwanovels they started translating Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana https://vndb.org/v19658
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/16367-karenai-sekai-to-owaru-hana-translation-project/

>Galactic Rolling Dynamite Pancake's current team:
>Translator: Nosebleed
>TLC: [Recruiting]
>Editor: [Recruiting]
>Image Editor: [Recruiting]
>Hacker: Binaryfail

>>16278748
What's the translator's track record?

>>16278752
>Nosebleed
>Scanlation projects: Akita Imokko! Ebina-chan
>VN translation projects: Dracu-Riot! ; Lilium x Triangle

>>16278752
the same faggot who promised to finish Dracu Riout in summer (still not finished btw) and dropped some lolige. Dont expect anything from him.

Majikoi A-2 here I fucking come.

>>16278794
>>16278755
I thought work on Dracu-Riot was just supposed to be editing and QC. Absolute majority was done by Insem.

>>16278830
>Insem
His work such garbage that even fuwanovelers ended up retranslating much of it.

>>16278830
Nazi girl's route was only halfway TLed iirc.

>>16278794
>being this entitled
And they wonder why the fan TL scene is dying rapidly.

>>16278689
Only Fata Morgana was good desu senpai

>>16278918
Eat shit, Nosebleed.

The 11eyes translation should be how all fantranslations should work. Keep your project a secret so that it can't get sniped at the last minute by companies like Sekai Project, and make it a pleasant surprise when you do release it.

>>16279381
You need a team to start a fan-Tl though.
Announcing a fan-tl is the best way to recruit members.

>>16279381
>>16279394
Fan translator here. I make a point to announce projects when possible because keeping it secret means some other group may start translating the same game which leads to a huge waste of time for whoever group doesn't release first. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "disrespectful" to keep a project secret but I would definitely say it's not being very considerate to other translators who may end up wasting hundreds to thousands of hours working on a game.

>>16279423
Where is my sansha mendam man?

Man, what's up with the Dies Irae kickstarter? It's like they don't give a shit.

>>16278566
Probably impossible. Even if the games next year are individually better than this year, they can't beat the hype of Rance with Eushully or even Leaf.

It'll take Fate/Stay Night or maybe them NTRing Baldr Sky from Sekai Project for them to outdo the hype from this year's announcements.

I'd honestly be happy if all they did was announce more Sono Hana and another Alicesoft game though. 2 Alicesoft announcements and I'd be ecstatic.

>>16279510
>NTRing Baldr Sky from Sekai Project
Best announcement they can make.

>>16279502
It got put up on a Friday, then presumably the PR people have the weekend off.

The LoveKami spinoff looks to be on track to be a disappointment for Moenovel, having thus far peaked at just 19 concurrent players. Its launch appears to be comparable with Wild Romance, which is going to be comparable in length and price, appeals to a similar audience, and peaked at 23 concurrent players.

Difference is though Wild Romance was cashing in on an existing nukige made for the Japanese market, while LoveKami Divinity Stage was created from the ground up for Steam (although Pulltop could end up releasing it in Japanese, being a situation like Harmonia). Not to mention that Moenovel is coming off of a huge hit that approached 6 figures on Steam, so their expectations would have been somewhat high.

While crowdfunding makes the direct comparison of the concurrent players less useful, both KaraKara and Corona Blossom seem to have been a good deal more successful as titles created to chase Nekopara's success.

Launching it the day before they go off for the weekend. Launching it in December. Launching it before the anime. Little in terms of rewards worth spending a ton of money on. Honestly, if it weren't for correcting the cropping and censoring I would think they were actively trying to fail.

>>16279539
What?

Sharin just got 100 new backers and is nearly at 105K.

I wonder if that Dies Irae KS is actually going to take off, it likely would get its funding and the translation team seems credible. However, to release it at May 2017? Thats extremely ambitious there

>>16279502
Word on the street is that you have two companies involved that are either the English speaking PR people or the Japanese only kickstarter people. And while the English people were going through the prefundia improvements, the Japanese kicked off the kickstarter.

So the "not caring" part is very true for the Japanese company, as they just think it is press button, fund game. PR guys seem to honestly care, but now they have to cover up this mess before christmas.

>>16279700
Limited Run Games is shilling for them, it looks to be working.

>>16279729
They get paid for something right?
If it fails is the PR fault.

>>16279702
They've obviously already started the TL, plus there's multiple translators on it.

What's the best release of 2016?
Fata Morgana?
Himawari?

>>16279905
Fata Morgana. It's kamige.

Himawari is a close second.

>>16279905
Rance

>>16279905
fata shitkana a shit.

>>16279905
Himawari
Funbag
Tokyo Babel

>>16279905
Better question would be what the best ero and all ages releases are, as you will never find a consensus between prudes and porn addicts.

>>16279905
Haven't started Himawari so I'll say Fata for now.

>>16279905
http://www.strawpoll.me/11885181/r

>>16279905
Umineko, duh!

>>16279988
> What was VNOTY 2016? Himawari/Fata Morgana
None of them.

>>16279905
11Eyes and Stein Gate; 0

>>16280157
sasuga esl

>>16280161
Steins,Gate0 is a huge disappointment to be honest.

>>16280188
Isn't Himawari bad even by ESL standards tho?

>>16277484
Please be Caucasus, my hunger for InnoGrey titles is getting out of hand.

>>16278281
That's bad news, this guy have shit taste. I don't understand MG policy to pick up visual novels because the translator said he liked it. It's fucking stupid.

>>16280243
Who knows now that JAST licensed Flowers.
>>16280254
It motivates them to do a better job, since the pay is low.

>>16279918
>Fata Morgana. It's kamige.
what is up with this meme, you people keep hyping this you're just gonna make people angry if it doesnt deliver

>>16280333
>if it doesnt deliver
It's been out for a while, dumbass.

Also, when did liking things become a meme? Is pizza a meme now?

>>16280360
Saying that all ages trash is kamige is a meme in itself though.

>>16280384
This.

>>16280234
There are ESL-style mistakes with plurals or tenses, but considering the size of the script they're really not that many. Editing or QC should really have caught them though.

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>>16280410
>typos in important scenes
Is there a quicker way to kill a scene?

>>16279905
tokyo necro?

>>16280410
One thing that really bugged me was one line about midway through 2048 where Aqua says "how many percent," nobody would ever say that. Most people would say "how much percent" (which is still wrong, it should be"what percent(age)").
Shows that really no care was given to the edits. An ungrammatical sentence like that should never get through a proper editing pass.

>>16280447
That's the real problem with it. It's only natural for there to be some errors in a long script translation, but for presumably multiple people through editing, QC and testing to miss typos, missing words and overlook bizarre word choices is just poor form.

Poor Conji-poo is copping flak for other people's failures.

Conju-poo clearly shines the most when writing chuunige. Even Ginga's lines were clearly more comfortably translated than the rest of the dialogue.

I still think he did a fine work in Himawari anyway. I've never read a translated VN without its fair share of typos, so yeah.

>>16279905
I liked both but I'll have to say Fata since it doesn't really mess around and gets right down to business. Himawari gets pretty good later on, but it's a bit too easy going in the beginning for my tastes. It doesn't really get interesting until 2048.

That said I'll probably end up dumping the most hours into Rance overall. It's been a pretty decent year for releases.

>>16280205
Completely agree. I'm pretty amazed it's been well-received. I keep going into various other threads about it, and the reception is mostly positive--hell, people even say it's better than the original.

>>16280234
The translation [mostly] reads well. There's things like that infamous "oniichan" scene that really bring you out of it, though. And there are various typos and other issues. It really just needs another editing pass, and perhaps more attention paid towards some of the inconsistencies in the localization.

>>16280384
It's 17+ though :^)

>>16280683
Just saying, if you're referring to oniichan as an "inconsistency", that was actually done intentionally because it was an otaku joke that would be greatly obscured if he had gone with plain "brother". Obviously it backfired but it wasn't overlooked.

>>16280692
What the hell is an "otaku joke"? That just sounds like an incredibly flimsy excuse.

>>16280724
It's kind of sad to see that the western VN scene is so abused by bad translators that they treat even good ones with such ridiculous suspicion.

>>16280736
It's more like Conj-poo was hyped up by e-celeb shitters as some amazing translator, but Himawari comes out and the script is full of issues.

Of course people are going to be hard on him.

>>16280692
Yes, I already read his explanation for that, and I thought the way that they handled it was pretty weak. Even if it was intended as a joke, it certainly wasn't perceived that way by many others. When you see "oniichan" go back-and-forward between untranslated, localized, and then untranslated again--in the space of 3 lines--it's pretty jarring.

Also I didn't particularly understand why they chose not to localize "oniichan" for that, um, "joke," but left in the localization for "oneechan" (localized as "Sis.") When Aries says, "Oniichan? Oniichan?" And, almost immediately after, mirrors it with "Sis. Sis.?@" (the localized Oneechan) It really bugged me. They're supposed to mirror one another but they didn't bother to keep them both untranslated, even though I think that was supposed to be apart of the purported joke.

Anyway, nitpicks aside I didn't have many issues with the translation. Though I cannot help but be slightly disappointed since I expected more refinement from a project that was years in the making. Though that isn't really entirely the translators fault, but also due to the fault of Frontwing's QA (they were handling QA, right?)

>>16280788
Frontwing handled QA, yes. They had those scripts forever and even a brief run through them would have shown some typos that needed fixing. They probably didn't care enough to put work into it

>>16280799
Just like MG doesn't do QA, apparently. Shitkai and JAST don't do QA either, so every company is fucked up.

>>16280384
Mindlessly screaming that anything that isn't porn is shit is more of a meme, though.

>>16280809
MG is usually fine about typos, I think. The only one in recent memory where it got really bad was Funbag Fantasy. I think I counted 30 typos.
I guess that isn't the worst when you consider that there's tons of lines, but it still bothered me.

>>16280823
Did you miss this whole conversation about Himawari?

>>16280821
Not everything which has sex is necessarily porn, idiot.

>>16280837
I meant aside from that

>>16280846
So aside from the 2 big recent releases which should have the most attention.
Go ahead and read the side project nukige they release. Terrible.

>>16280857
>Funbag Fantasy
>Big release
Ayyy

>>16280868
A big nukige release, in comparison to FuriFure2, Fuck my wife and other nukige they released this year.

>>16280842
Oh, my apologies monsieur smut sommelier. Allow me to humbly correct myself.

Mindlessly screaming that anything without sex scenes is shit is more of a meme, you goddamn bonobos.

>>16280997
Go read a real book, you fucking nerd.
I want to see developing relationships and that's what eroge is for. Eroge without ero is just a game. That puts you on the same level as /v/ermin.

>>16280752
The secret truth of translation is that every translator's script comes with issues, it's just that competent translation companies don't let those errors make it through to release.

>>16281056
It's funny how you're trying to shame him, and yet you're the one so concerned over a 5 minute wank.

https://curiouscat.me/MangaGamer/post/57370271?t=1482110205

hopefully a good title

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>>16281056
>read a real book
>Eroge without ero is just a game
Please, tell me more of these strange "book games".

>sperging over cartoon sex and calling other people nerds

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>>16278249
Haven't started yet but seems like fun.

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>>16276480
It's pretty fucking good. Starts a little slow when you're stuck with the shit childhood friend but picks up once other characters are introduced. The slice of life scenes with the monkey faced friend and Shiori are hilarious.

>>16278689
Myth was good

>>16279905

Please bang my wife!

>>16281510
Myth was good until the very end, at which point it completely shit the bed.

>>16279905
Tokyo Babel. It's a shame we'll never see Evolimit or Bullet Butlers.

>>16280447
I'd say "how many percent" over "how much percent" anyday and speak English as a first language. Might be a regional thing. "What percentage" is better though.

>>16281548
Nah MYTH had the potential to be good until the very end, but it turns out they were just finding ways to make this confusing with nothing to show for it.

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>>16281548
It completely resolved itself in the most logical way.


- Everyone in real world is dead
- Everyone in 'Myth' is fictional and part of an AI
- Odin failed
- MC returned to world without shadows
- Creator of Myth dies

They still plan on doing a supplement game to Myth once W-Standard is finished, anyway. That'll probably expand on this more.

Django when?

>>16279905
GnM or Root Double.
> MankoGamer all-ages shit being ever good
> shilling this obviously

>>16282226
>GnM
>all-ages shit being ever good
lol

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Doesn't look good, is it going to fail fabulously despite great launch only because japs were too greedy?

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Dies Irae finally responded in the comment section in Kickstarter.

>>16282247
Finally.

>>16281680
The thing is, there's two things that don't make sense. First, is 2016 real or not? On one hand, it all fits with Loki's story, but on the other hand there's everything Protag is involved in. Speaking of which, how much of him is real? I mean, one would think that he's the 'echo' of the 'real' him before making his decision, but Valkyrie made it sound like Odin made him wholecloth. And on the topic of real, since the 'real world' is like our world, did Odin make Aguni for shits and giggles? Second, what the hell was Odin's plan supposed to be? The given explanation, of the inside world somehow becoming half real, makes no sense.

And also, both the 'past' and 'present' plots were resolved in the laziest way possible. Past: Protag and Yuri both die in the apocalypse. The end. No conspiracies being taken down, or hell, even being taken down by conspiracies, it just peters out.
Present: You've got to convince the creator to stop Odin! <next scene> Okay, you did it, now either the creator or Odin is dead, depending on whether what you saw was in MYTH. It felt like there was going to be some kind of climatic confrontation, but then it's over.

Also, why the hell was Odin's goal depicted as the "bad" choice (not that we even get to choose)? The alternative is serving as a digital graveyard which, considering that Odin was trying to get 'original things' to happen, I'm interpreting as reenacting their mortal lives for all eternity. Yeah, yeah, glitches. Glitches smitches. Isn't that what you've those shitloads of AIs for? Seems like the occasional glitch hunt is preferable than eternal stagnation for all that remains of humanity.

>>16279510
I don't know. The only title people were actually hyped about turned out to be Rance after all.
Even the 11eyes release caught more attention compared Himawari and most of the other MG titles.

You mentioned Eushully but considering how well Kamidori was recieved I'm sure it would be hyped up a lot even if they brought over Sankai or something.

>>16282350
>Even the 11eyes release caught more attention compared Himawari and most of the other MG titles.

Now that's a tall tale if ever I've seen one.

>>16282247
>inb4 vita port and reaching every stretch goal

>>16282371
https://vndb.org/v210 199 votes, released 10 days ago
https://vndb.org/v729 337 votes, released 4 days ago

Nobody cares about MG shit, its not even worth to pirate it:
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=878706 1772 downloads
https://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=2196010 2500 downloads

>>16282388
Not sure why you thought those VNDB links would help you, Himawari has close to 50 votes post TL release, 11eyes has 6.

>>16282388
>chuunishit more popular than pseudo-moeshit
Did we enter the twilight zone?

>>16282406
Himawari is not "pseudo-moeshit", its typical "edjy doujin" shit, with characters dying and lots of bad endings, and some pseudo-philosophical bullshit that makes mugi neurons to fire. Outside of mugi wank circle, there's zero demand for these games.

Sounds like you lacked the reading comprehension and education necessary to understand Himawari on anything but a surface level. Conjueror-dono's efforts have been wasted.

>>16282426
Except, you know, the thousands of people in Japan who liked Himawari.

You seem irrationally upset about this kind of game.

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>>16282388
>Nobody cares about MG shit
>Posts links of those that are on welfare and are too poor to afford supporting the game. Basically NEETs

Well I guess they do care because MG sale more on their own site and on Steam compared to their pirate counterparts.

>>16282458
Nice, didn't know they were MG's market.

>>16282464
> Steam Owners: 532
> Pretending that MG ever sell more than 100 copies on their own site

>>16282464
If people cared about the game why would MG lower the game's price just on release?

>>16282471
You said no one cared about the game. I was simply informing you that there are people who do.

>>16282489
Keyword is demand.

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Lmao.

>>16282478
>using Steamspy as a reference
You're an idiot.

So, are some EOPs eager to see the western market fail, or are JOPs falseflagging? Why would anyone want MG to fail?

>>16282499
>Not using anything and talking out of your ass
Who's the bigger idiot?
>>16282500
Why would you support mediocre releases and even pay for it though?

>>16282488
A lot of games have lower price on release to reward the buyers for purchasing the first week. Even Danganronpa and Steins;Gate did it.

>>16282500
It's just general shitposting. Someone probably wandered in from /vg/ and still thinks it's the correct way to post.

>>16282500
> if you don't buy our niche shit only we care about, you are ruining entire market!11
Looks like MG staff is taking PR lessons from dovac, nice guilt tripping attempt.

>TB failed
>Himawari failed
>DI kickstarter falling
Is Conju-poo cursed?

>>16282497
Lmao like Dood weed omg 420!!! I'm original lawl!!!

>>16282506
The Steamspy creator has said that it's unreliable for any sales under 30k. That you toss those numbers around like they're some sort of authority makes you the idiot.

>>16282512
Getting upset over niche shit is just as retarded

>>16282513
don't forget Enigma

>>16282506
For sure, using a tool for something the creator explicit states it should not be used for (i.e. games with low numbers) is far more idiotic than talking out of one's ass. Better to make a guess and be wrong, than to use meaningless data to try and pretend to have a solid argument.

>>16282515
Why are people seriously mad whenever someone points out how much of a failure Himawari is?
It's one of the worse releases this year and that isn't because the game is legit bad or anything.

>>16282512
Nice strawman. Certainly you get around trying to twist context no?

>>16282513
He should stop being such a contrarian and translate something more mainstream if he wants any sales.

>>16282523
That belongs to Myth.

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>>16282529
Cant wait for him to start translate mindless moege after DI fails.

>>16282522
If you are going to make a wild guess, wouldn't it be better to use available data, even if shit.

>>16282520 >>16282522
Reminder that you provided no data or any other evidence whatsoever to your claims and just keep shitposting in response to numbers other side posted. Certainly biggest retards of the thread.

>>16282539
It does not mean the data is perfect and can be used as a factual argument. It's like tossing numbers out of our ass.

>>16282529
All of his relevant translations have been dropped randomly on Steam with zero marketing or awareness outside of the core VN community. The error lies with MG. Doddler literally blamed the poor Himawari sales on "the cult of Moogy."

Send pre-release copies to e-celebs, big and small. Problem solved. Hundreds of thousands of people now know your product exists, and it won't just disappear in a sea of shit the moment it hits Steam. You're welcome.

>>16282478

If one is even to take aconservative estimate of giving himawari say, 10% of orders over the last two weeks where it has held second place on MG's charts(even overtaking rance at one point), that is still more than a hundred sales. With a more realistic 20%+preorders, I would imagine it currently has 300 and change copies on mangagamer's site.

>>16282547
It's about building hype not posting an OP and wait 4 months. Why not post gameplay and scenes to hype it up after awhile.

>>16282547
>Send pre-release copies to e-celebs, big and small. Problem solved. Hundreds of thousands of people now know your product exists, and it won't just disappear in a sea of shit the moment it hits Steam. You're welcome.

It's cute that you think no one does this already

>>16282561
Name 5 VNs that have been sent to the press a week or so early. Press that targets a demographic that doesn't already know this medium exists.

>>16282561
You forgot to fill name field.

>>16282568
You know that is not a bad idea really. Then news sites can start giving reviews on the games and it can then help others make a decision whether or not to buy it.

>>16282568
Pretty much every SP game was getting pile of "early review", appearing immediately when game launched.

So in other sunflower news, the sharin no kuni kickstarter is in it's final push and somewhere in the last few days it jumped up to 110k. I guess that silly vita port is happening.

>>16282575

The only problem is that visual novels are long. The dirty little secret that everyone ignores is that when it comes to "early" vidya reviews is that they're done based off of 2-3 hours of gameplay at most. You can't reasonably play a VN in that time, and VNs are so niche that no site is going to give a shit to put in the effort to read the whole thing.

>>16282496
If there were people in Japan who enjoyed Himawari, one may infer that there may also be people in the west who will potentially enjoy Himawari.

Even in Japan it started off by selling like 200 copies at Comiket. Give it time.

>>16282597
Sending copies to sanathlig and fuwanovel isn't exactly a serious attempt at marketing or generating awareness.

>>16282521
I don't know how well Enigma sold, but it is a fairly decent game. The man just picks non mainstream games to translate with usually results in poor sales. Himawari also seems to be doing a bit better now, so it most likely isn't a flop.

>>16282627
Only released on Steam, and it's a few hundred copies below Himawari on Steamspy a month after release.

>>16282635

It's actually on MG's site too, but it didn't chart at all.

>>16282513
His games don't do well because they receive literally no marketing. I didn't even know Tokyo Babel existed until release and I actually do follow this shit.

You can rely on 18+ games receiving a baseline level of sales because no matter what the rest of the game is like, you're guaranteed that it will have ero content and you can jerk off to it. Non-H games don't have that, you need to actually put a bit of effort into showing your customers what makes it interesting.

Why are people so convinced Himawari is doing terrible?
It's been in the weekly MG sales ranking 2nd/1st for weeks, Kyoryuu or whatever you spell it said it's doing okay, it was on the top seller ranking for VNs in Steam, and nobody really knows how it's doing in MG's own site, and most people that support them buy from there, not Steam.
This all look like some marketing campaign or something .

>>16282657

Kouryuu has a bit of a vested interest in saying a game published by the company he works for is doing okay.

That said there are a lot of people that seem hellbent on making himawari out to be some huge failure for some unknown reason.

The truth is really more in the middle, we can make a pretty accurate guess how it's doing on MG's site from the order numbers, and traditionally 500-1000 copies was where the breakeven point laid, and it seems like it'll probably reach that at least. You can't really call breaking even a success, but it's not a flop like myth.

>>16282643
Really? I wasn't aware. Like most people, it seems. Something definitely has to change. Awareness is key in expanding the market.

>>16282689

Fruitbat's games are always sleepers. You can't really expect mangagamer to give a shit about promoting a third party.

>>16282676
I don't know, MangaGamer usually doesn't shy away from their games doing bad, don't see why this is any different.

Or did everyone forget that when Cartagra/KnS2 was doing poorly, Doddler flat out said that it was.

>>16282704
>MangaGamer usually doesn't shy away from their games doing bad

You mean doddler doesn't. Kouryuu is (supposed to be) PR, he would never say anything to that effect.

Even after all this time I still don't understand why some people seem to have some kind of arbitrary hatred against Himawari.

>>16282784
I think it's just because it has a lot of shitpost potential. Guaranteed (You)s

>>16282784
Hatred or just plain indiference?

>>16282801
Do you not frequent these threads?

>>16282568
What press are you thinking of then?
Most press won't even touch someone like MG.

Just look at Siliconera or whatever. They'll frequently cover the likes of Sekai Project, but practically never someone like MG, since they do eroge and ero is bad.

>>16282875
The previous post mentioned e-celeb coverage. "Press" is probably not the right term. It's pretty funny that all these devs try emulating the Sakura/Nekopara success, all while failing to understand why they were successful in the first place. Frontwing banning all YT coverage entirely for that... whatever the fuck it was called, then expressing complete surprise when it bombed was pretty entertaining.

What the fuck is going on with Dies? Prefundia launched with all potential problems adressed right from the start, and yet nothing fucking happens here. it should have been funded within 24 hours.

Seeing how dies irae,himawari and soon subahibi flops make me happy.

Pretentious shit doesn't sell.

>>16282933
Shitty rewards
Also literally 0 PR

>>16282933
Funded in one day seems a little much for something that is only hyped up in the small visual novel community, has no anime, is launched in the Christmas season and honestly, seems to put less effort into advertisement than Libra.

>>16282933
It's a niche within a niche. Even moege with high sexual content and high quality art assets just barely make their initial goals on time. If DI fails, it's likely over for chuuni in the west. Why should anyone make the extra effort in localizing a difficult title when they could be crapping out 10 moege in the same time, seeing higher profits from each individual title than any chuuni?

>>16282784
People hate being told what to think, and in this case we were told that we'll probably think Himawari is good

>>16282547
>Send pre-release copies to e-celebs
That's a bad idea, one of the reasons why I haven't purchased Himawari is because Moggy recomended it (the remake over the original) and because Conjueror (another e-celeb) "localization" was pretty annoying like mixing oni-chan with brother.

>>16282933
Give it time. If they actually make the goals fundable and it reaches all the goals then it will not matter how long it takes.

>>16283049
It's not. It generates awareness. The point is to introduce the medium to more people. Releasing something on Steam out of the blue doesn't work; especially not now that the market is flooded with F2P and mobile port garbage. Sakura Spirit succeeded because countless gaming e-celebs took note and introduced it to hundreds of thousands of people.

Isn't it funny that the best-selling VNs on Steam are all-ages, and that barely anyone even knows that a few of them have 18+ patches?

>>16282933
>with all potential problems adressed
As an example I will no contribute to the KS because I don't like preorders and the idea of purchasing it in three parts (+$ adult patch) isn't very attractive.

>>16283093
>and that barely anyone even knows that a few of them have 18+ patches
If you are talking about Steam then you're wrong because this is the first place that where they go viral with posts like "no tits no buy".

>>16283123
That's the vocal minority. Aside from Nekopara, the top 10 most played VNs on Steam don't have sexual content in them. Normies don't care. It's not what makes or breaks a game on the platform.

>>16283149
There's a difference between all ages and 18+ turned into all ages.

>>16282704
Doddler said Himawari is doing bad and moogy is to be blamed too.

>>16283157
Without awareness, only the preexisting community will even know what most of the quality stuff being released on Steam is anyhow, and they're beyond unreasonable when it comes to no pee-pees and vagos. Call me someone has released something like this on Steam with an actual marketing plan and we'll see.

>>16282933
>What the fuck is going on with Dies?
Its typical chuuni VN. With exception of Fate, none of them ever did well in the west. Everyone who cared about DI already shelled out as much as they can on day 1, so unless PR team goes out its way to false-advertise it for lewd/moe elements, there's no way it will ever reach goal.

>>16283149
That's only your opinion and regardles the top 10 most sold VN's in Steam don't forget that these are the most cheap releases for that platform or with anime adaptations.

>>16283196
The only way to succeed is to honeydick Vita users, and then later cancel the port.

>>16282784
Maybe they're disappointed with it, after all the hype the e-celebs tried to generate. I know I found the title to be quite lackluster, but I'm also not going out of my way to shit on it or claim it's a flop. Could also just be /vn/ shitters that never left after the last bit of drama, so they're just shitposting.
We knows. All that matters is that it's annoying and it caused this thread to go over 200 posts already.

>>16283149
Casuals will always move a lot of games but they never stay around forever. Look at the WII when it was succesful and they decided to not buy the WII-U its practically the same deal really.

Relying on casuals for sales is like relying on something that is temporary. It will never be permanent.

>>16277630
Nah. They'll hit around 200k, no problem without them lifting a finger.

Generally speaking, the initial funding surge is roughly equivalent to, or less than the ending funding surge. It's pretty much guaranteed to easily meet it's 160k goal if you top that off with the 30k-40k that will accumulate between now and the last few days.

>>16283379
It's sad to think were they'd be at were this properly managed, we're receiving an update soon and I hope they adress some of the issues people have.

This kickstarter could have been so much more ;_;

>>16276523
> It'll probably flop because it's a chuunige, but it's also Yuri
> Yuri.
> Flopping.

Not happening. It might not do insanely well, since it's a chunnige, but the yuri alone should propel around 2k-3k sales, making it profitable.

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>>16282309
One thing to keep in mind, while it might not excuse all its flaws, is that Myth is a doujin game. The second game by the writer, actually. Maybe a bit too ambitious for a second game. There are a lot of signs of things changing over the years regarding the plot (you can see several in the OP) so I think it's impressive how well it worked out despite all the possible rewrites.

>Speaking of which, how much of him is real?

Valkyrie said he had his own will, right? So I'd imagine things he wasn't forced to say as part of the 'plot' are all him.

you did it, now either the creator or Odin is dead

I'm pretty sure Odin can't actually die.The creator is though, I'm pretty sure.My memory is already fuzzy.
I agree, the side plots were just kind of quickly wrapped up in not very satisfying ways. The Gundain and cult conspiracy stuff was half baked and the only section of the game I didn't like.

>>16283373
The only reason to release anything on Steam is to get the casual market, and the only way to be noticed in that shitstorm is modern marketing, i.e, YouTube and Twitch. If you're not trying to sell your products to the casual market, then there is no reason to release anything on Steam.

>>16282933
Japan thought the West would give a shit about a title that most people have never heard of before and didn't put any effort in to continuing PR. Though, honestly, I would rather this get funded than Sharin. Now THAT was a mediocre title.

>>16283630
>Japan thought the West would give a shit about a title that most people have never heard of before and didn't put any effort in to continuing PR
Is Conjueror's rigged poll to blame?

>>16283641
According to 3 people whose names won't be spoken of, he's to blame for all of society's problems.

Remember folks - if something goes wrong, it's all Moogy's fault.

No matter what.

>>16283655
>You’ll also have to deal with knowing that the vast majority of people who read visual novels in English don’t have the level of reading comprehension or education necessary to really start to approach interpreting and understanding SubaHibi on anything but a surface level, so your efforts in translating it will be mostly wasted.
- Moogy, KeroQ marketing division

>>16283675
>your efforts in translating it will be mostly wasted

Says the fucker that can't translate for shit.

>>16281461
the UI is terrible

Dies Irae kickstarter hit the halfway point. Only 80k to go. Once they announce the new stretch goals and new rewards they're sure to make at least the base goal.

>>16283797
Still won't reach the spin-off stretch goal. Maybe they'll use the profits from DI to translate it later. Hopefully, they'll want to bring over the rest of their relevant catalogue as well. This could be a one-time thing because of the upcoming anime.

>>16283388
It's all ages yuri though.

The all ages Sono Hana did well, but that franchise already had an established fanbase. I can't assume the yuri propeller game will do well since yurifags might be turned off by the chuuni.

I'm confused about the kickstarter. Is it for the complete game or just part 1?

>>16283828
Complete. It'll be split upon release (both parts at the same time), but $35 gets you both parts.

>>16283828
If you back the kickstarter you get both parts for $35. They''ll most likely cost $20 each once they hit Steam. Backing gives you the full game.

>>16283834
>>16283835
Thanks.

>>16283797
But they already have almost 1000 backers. I doubt there would be much more people who want to back DI. 500 people more at most.

>>16283675
Wait is this an actual quote, link please? I refuse to believe that this is something someone would say.

>>16283897
They can land whales with better reward tiers.

>>16283901
You must not kn ow much about moogy-dono, then. He's said far more outlandish shit.

>>16283797
Sharin would also do well from new rewards. But I may end up buying some trash out of pity.

moogy doesn't know Japanese.

>>16283897
Nah we can get way more, most people wait to pledge until the last days and if they make some improvements we can probably go up to 2000.

>>16283897
Even Root Double had over 2,000 backers.

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Himawari made me cry like a fucking bitch at the moon scene.

Haven't cried this hard in a while.
10/10

Kek. Looks like Dies shitty PR is because they hired the PR tards from Shenmue 3's kickstarter.

>more proof that this is by Awesome Japan from this Kickstarter update on Shenmue: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/posts/1336892

>Awesome Japan has a track record of asking for feedback and sounding positive, then doing nothing and letting fans work hard on their behalf

>Notice how they haven't gotten a single campaign funded on that account (they do use others) since May of LAST YEAR.
https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1287579779/created
>Their success rate is overall ~30%.
>Their success rate in the last 18 months is 0%.


>Wataru Dies irae Kickstarter Communication Team
>Thanks! Joel & the Dies irae Team
>That might sound familiar to some of you...
>Joel & the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter Team

>>16283524
Being a doujin game doesn't excuse fucking up the plot, it excuses technical quality. While it may be a little unfair to compare it to Higurashi, R07 managed to create a mystery with a coherent plot and a satisfying conclusion despite it being both a doujin game and his first ever attempt at making a VN.

>Valkyrie said he had his own will, right? So I'd imagine things he wasn't forced to say as part of the 'plot' are all him.

Nah, I meant how real the Meito in the 'real world' is, what with Valkyrie's talking about how his parents aren't his parents, making him out to be more 'artificial' than the other cyberghosts, and the fact that 2016 Meito is described to have appeared because of Berserker regaining his memories. It's pretty clear how much of what he says and does is his will.

>>16284009
>Every successful visual novel campaign to date had an update posted within the first 24 hours. Muv-Luv had *three*. We've had zero after FIVE days. That's just how Awesome Japan works. They promise you things and keep you strung along until it's over, and nothing ever changes. They're masters at promising things and keeping backers complacent until it's too late, and then they don't have to actually do their jobs.

It's impressive how poorly run this Dies Irae Kickstarter is. The comments are getting real ugly.

>>16284312
Is it just me that thinks they're overreacting a bit? I mean, I'm pretty sure Light aren't active on weekends and we're like 4 days in. It's not like the kickstarter is doing bad either.

>>16284343
It's Tuesday in Japan

>>16284346
It's like 4 am over there bruh

>>16284352
Yeah so they had all of Monday. The "I'm pretty sure Light aren't active on weekends " excuse doesn't apply.

>>16284343
They are overreacting. But that's what happens after 5+ days of silence. The job of PR is to calm the hysteric backers that you always get. This Kickstarter is still fine when it comes to making the base goal, but they're leaving money on the table by not doing anything.

>>16284343
At this rate it will only get triple of what it'll gather for the first 5 days, which is not really something you can call a success. Libra of the Vampire Princess Kickstarter started with no fanbase and got 180+k, so Dies irae getting only 200k-250k is pretty much a huge insult to its fanbase, especially the passionate translators.

>>16284360
Pretty much this.

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Did you know that Myth is a kamige?

http://advgamer.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2298.html

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>>16282537
good DI is overrated shit

>>16284613
That killed what little interest I had in it. What a pretentious little dude.

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>>16284638
>lose interest in a book become some else likes it in a weird way, not because of anything to do with the book itself
So this is SJW irrationality...

http://www.strawpoll.me/11913852

Important poll, who's the best character in Himawari?

>>16284728
>not listing Aqua at the top
Not even the guys who did the cover knew who the real main heroine is

>>16284728
Is anyone even going to pick anyone other than Aqua? She's the only reason to read Himawari, even though her route was average.

It could just be backers redeeming their codes from Mangagamer, but Moekuri beating Himawari is hilarious.

Sono Hana is miraculously hanging in there though. It'll probably fall off by tomorrow though.

>>16283935
When does it become good? I'm reading 2048 but I still find just a little above average.

What could MG realistically announce next year to beat this year's announcements?

>>16284844
Rance Quest+Magnum and Maidens of Michael

>>16284718
gb2 le reddit, /pol/shitter meme master

>>16284859
>Maidens of Michael
That wouldn't help beating this year's announcements at all and it is something we can expect them to announce soon.

>>16284825
2048 is as good as it gets.

>>16284869
How long is 2048 anyway?

>>16284866
Shinigami no Testament ~menuet of epistula~
https://vndb.org/v7650
Would be good. It has both an 18+ and 17+ version.

>>16284874
I couldn't say since the game doesn't have a timer, but quite long

>>16284844
Sengoku Rance and RQM spaced only a few months apart or Evenicle, Escalayer or Oyako Rankan, Maidens of Michael, a Chuable soft lolige, and Fairy Tale Requiem come to mind.

>>16284613
>goethe, nietzsche
God, animu porn game readers never stop making me laugh. No self awareness whatsoever.

>>16284947
How about Pastel Chime 3 followed by Evenicle?

>>16284947
I don't know if Fairy Tale Requiem's art would appeal to most vn readers.

>>16284971
Dies irae does unironically have a lot of Nietzsche wankery, though. The writer is a huge germanphile, after all.

Are people making their yearly licensing poll request lists? I just started since Christmas break felt like a good time to do so.

>>16284844
They are my noble masters. That anime train is starting to be so far off now, but it doesn't get better by waiting longer.

>>16284986
It's from Minato Soft, which isn't too likely to come out. Wasn't JAST in talks with them over Maji Koi, but it broke down when the fan TL was released?

Himawari's remake's OST is dogshit. I'm so glad I read it with the original music.

>>16284973
Pastel Chime 3 wouldn't garner that much hype. Maybe Blade Briders or even Galzoo Island.

>>16284975
Fairy Tale Requiem won't sell well, but it'll appeal to a vocal group.

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>>16284980
>Nietzsche

>>16285007
>Fairy Tale Requiem won't sell well, but it'll appeal to a vocal group.
That would only work if the numbers lined up, otherwise no reason to license something that will lose them money.

>>16284874
Way too long.

>>16284866
>What could MG realistically announce next year to beat this year's announcements?

There should be more Alicesoft announcements considering the success they have seen on MG. Quest would be particularly noteworthy. Also with the Alicesoft success, MG's biggest potential for a new big deal pick up probably comes from other titles with gameplay. There are a handful of licenses that would be a big pick up if Alicesoft's sales could impress other companies, such as SofthouseChara or Ninetail/Dualtail. It could also justify grabbing Sengoku Koihime as well. Eushully is the other obvious company as far as gameplay goes, but good luck convincing them.

Beyond that, there are plenty of more notable moege out there up for grabs, especially if SukiSuki does well. Although they'll be competing with Sekai for any title that could have a Steam version made. If MG is still working with Moonstone, Sakura no Mori would be an obvious title, although what Moonstone is doing is up in the air since talking about Love Sweets went quiet.

More titles in the Kyonyuu Fantasy series, and other high profile nukige, also seem to be possible if not likely.

There are a handful of decent size companies with a noticeable title or two out there up for grabs, but speculating which of those licenses is realistic difficult because it is hard to say why any particular company has stayed out of the market. But the titles are out there that could make an impressive set of announcements. Shame that Tokyo Babel did poorly, as a successful Propeller partnership could have meant a lot.

>>16284844
Anything by Leaf.

>>16284595
It's a game that could have been kamige if it actually had an ending.

>>16285136
Leaf has already worked with XSeed and probably would want to work with a big company (or do it themselves) if they were to bring over something like White Album 2. At the very least, MG is probably on the bottom of the list of companies that would end up with a big Leaf title.

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>>16285136
JOP here, I don't think you understand how much garbage leaf made. You want to say "anything good by leaf".

are the side stories in himawari any good?

>>16285148
>Leaf has already worked with XSeed
They have?

>>16285163
Maybe he meant Atlus.

>>16285163
Whoops, I had meant to say Atlus (with Tears to Tiara II, although technically with the Aquaplus part of the company). Not that it changes things, considering that Atlus is the bigger company between them and XSeed.

>>16284595
Alright after seeing this image i am going to pick up Myth now.

>>16285159
Absolutely necessary. All sci-fi lore stuff is in them.

>>16285159
Nothing related to Himawari is good.

Bump limit reached so soon...

>>16285159
There are side stories? Aren't you forced to go Aries, Aqua, Asuka anyway

>>16285294
After completing all routes they're avaible in separate menu. Spoilers below.

Daigo's wife had Lunar virus and his amnesia is probably because he got it from her. Also when he was busy molesting Aqua in space she slept with other guy. Aliens exist and can take control over infected.

Sharin No Kuni needs another 24k in the last 55 hours to get the final stretch goal for the fan disc. I wonder if they can do it.

>>16285557
Hope they get it. I'd imagine there would be some pretty upset people if they weren't getting the entire thing.

>>16285557
$140k is quite symbolic, as it gets them to their original goal. $145k of course is the last stretch goal.

Having a Vita release makes a big difference, the promotion of the Vita goal yesterday drove the surge on Sharin, it was the sole thing which saved Root Double, and accounted for a large portion of the backers in the other projects that had it.

Sharin has only picked up steam after hitting the Stretch Goal, up to $125k now.

>>16279587
>The LoveKami spinoff looks to be on track to be a disappointment for Moenovel, having thus far peaked at just 19 concurrent players

Is that game even passable as a shitty harem moege?

>>16285973
Is this the power of vitafags?

>>16285982
Someone upload the game and I'll tell you.

>>16286018
I mean it looks pretty bad. But I'm a sucker for boobs at the same time.

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>>16285204
Good boy. It'll be nothing like your expectations.

>>16285986
Partnering with Limited Run was smart. LRG attracts the craziest of Vita fans, collectors who are obsessed with owning everything they print because they put sequential numbers on the spine of the game cases.

>>16286054
Just Vita alone does a lot as well though regardless of who is publishing, adding the Vita tier on Root Double is the sole reason Root Double isn't remembered as a failure. But yeah, Limited Run gets you the biggest boost.

>>16283757

Your Turrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbRUTHGLu9s

>>16285557
It still has 51 hours, and it already closed 30% of the gap between the Vita goal and the final stretch goal. The early predictions ofreaching the Vita goal will give it the boost it needs to hit the final stretch goal seem like they are going to play out, even if they managed to trigger the Vita boost $25k early.

i love you

>>16285629
>it was the sole thing which saved Root Double

Besides Sekai throwing in their own money at their own kickstarter?

>>16284844
Nothing. SP already won announcements war for good when they got Baldr Sky and Maitetsu.

>>16286900
Maitetsu is mediocrity incarnate with the only thing special about it being its production values.

>>16286916
Still better than the trash MG released.

>>16285986
Why do people like the Vita so much anyways?

>>16286997
Because they bought it and only afterwards realised that all the good games on it are untranslated.
So now they want to find a use for it.

>>16286990
You could at least try to be a little subtle, Dovac.

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How will Dies Irae face the criticism from humanizing evil nazis like this?

>>16287289
Nobody is going to read it except some vn nerds, so it will go unnoticed.

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>>16287295

>>16287302
Its not like you can't find heil-hitlers in movies or books. When you are depicting nazis, its reasonable that they will act as nazis.

>>16287289

Kickstarter goig fail, nobody going read this garbage.

Only a few vocal pretentious austic fucktards hype this shit up.

>>16287489
Why are you so mad about people wanting to read a visual novel

New "update"
>So where are we going from here? One of the big questions everyone is asking on that front is, “are there going to be Stretch Goals?” The answer to that is a resounding yes! We hope to unveil the Stretch Goals next week, so please stay tuned.

>>16287601
Because he's mad that EOPs will be able to read his kamige.
>>16287652
Obviously, they already said in the kickstarter that vita port is a stretch goal.

Are they dead https://alternativeprojects.wordpress.com/ ?

https://youtu.be/8S6REu6xJyk?t=28

Grisaia Phantom Trigger OP.

>>16287882
Hopefully.

>>16286900
Da Capor 3 is better than Meitatsu and I doubt that they will release BS next year, and less after the Aroduc drama.