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English Translated Japanese Visual Novel/ADV Thread

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InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
Jintor said:
The OP's images are gone from my connection ;__;
Yeah, Min.us seems to be down right now so it should be back to normal once it's all 100% again.

EDIT: Looks they are all slowly popping back up so enjoy! I'll start putting up some new entries when it's all fixed though.
 
Lafiel said:
Just got all the endings in Saya No Uta. Damn it seems
there is no happy ending in this, unless living life as a slime is considered happy!
.

I got the
"worst" ending first where humanity becomes monsters. By comparison, the other ending is pretty damn happy. Of course the best ending is still the one that's basically a game over.

Anyway, I might start chaos;head too if everyone else is even if I already saw the anime. Would like to see some more reactions to Saya no Uta though.
 
Pretty funny that I was just watching my coworker play Chaos;Head a year ago and laughing at his ass for being such a god damned weeaboo and now I'm going to dive in myself haha
 

trejo

Member
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri said:
Pretty funny that I was just watching my coworker play Chaos;Head a year ago and laughing at his ass for being such a god damned weeaboo and now I'm going to dive in myself haha
Yeah, tell me about it. I used to think these were just glorified otaku masturbatory material until I was made aware of Saya no Uta. Now I'm a believer, so to speak.
 

Lafiel

と呼ぶがよい
trejo said:
Yeah, tell me about it. I used to think these were just glorified otaku masturbatory material until I was made aware of Saya no Uta. Now I'm a believer, so to speak.
The irony, considering some of the scenes in that might as well have been in a hentai!
 

Risette

A Good Citizen
I thought the
You/Saya/Fuminori
scene was pretty good.


Anyways, I'm glad Chaos;Head doesn't have h-scenes, so I can play it while my parents are awake. Although I'm not sure if the gore is any better. Will start tomorrow.
 
Niblet said:
So here is a question I have for you fellow Visual novel players -- particularly those that play eroge: How do you feel about eroges as masturbation material?
I don't think I've ever once read a VN sex scene and ideally I use fan patches to remove them if possible. Really, they're a blight on the genre and a big reason why they're not looked at.
 

InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
Septimus said:
Any of these games available for OS X or no?
You'll pretty much be limited to games that run in Nscripter for that since they have an executable for OS X. Otherwise you'll have to use parallels or Bootcamp for everything else.
 

trejo

Member
Ridley327 said:
This has never stopped hentai before and I doubt it soon will.
A valid point.

Lafiel said:
Sounds like most hentai.
Boku No Pico would like to have a word with you.

Anyways, I'm kinda buying into the 999 hype but it's kinda really freakin' expensive over here, not to mention I'd have to buy/borrow a DS. Just exactly how awesome is it?
 
trejo said:
Eww. If anything, those scenes are like the antithesis of arousing.
If there's one thing that the internet has taught me, it's that people are into some fucked up shit. And I'm sure in the grand scale of things, Saya falls on the tamer end of the spectrum seeing how there's fuckin' weirdos out there jerkin' it to guro and shit. In the case of Saya, it had to be there since the story depended on that aspect. In any other case though, I personally don't get it, just watch porn if you're feeling frisky. It's got way more frames of animation haha


trejo said:
A valid point.


Boku No Pico would like to have a word with you.

Anyways, I'm kinda buying into the 999 hype but it's kinda really freakin' expensive over here, not to mention I'd have to buy/borrow a DS. Just exactly how awesome is it?

.... Dude.... Just fuckin' get it. You WILL NOT regret it. I can promise you that.
 

Ridley327

Member
trejo said:
Anyways, I'm kinda buying into the 999 hype but it's kinda really freakin' expensive over here, not to mention I'd have to buy/borrow a DS. Just exactly how awesome is it?

It is a genuinely fantastic game from top to bottom, but how much are they asking for it in your neck of the woods?
 

zoku88

Member
InfiniteNine said:
You'll pretty much be limited to games that run in Nscripter for that since they have an executable for OS X. Otherwise you'll have to use parallels or Bootcamp for everything else.
Or wine.

<-- linux gamer.
 

Dresden

Member
trejo said:
Yeah, tell me about it. I used to think these were just glorified otaku masturbatory material until I was made aware of Saya no Uta. Now I'm a believer, so to speak.
All it took was the suggestion that it was Lovecraftian, even. It's odd how Saya is a better bait-and-trap than something more 'accesible' like Fate or Tsukihime.

And every time someone mentions 999 I feel guilty for not even unwrapping it. I need to get to it. Playing Chaos;head is awfully tempting though.
 
trejo said:
Anyways, I'm kinda buying into the 999 hype but it's kinda really freakin' expensive over here, not to mention I'd have to buy/borrow a DS. Just exactly how awesome is it?

<- This awesome!!
But don't go broke.

Septimus said:
Any of these games available for OS X or no?

Umineko no Naku Koro ni, for instance, is available for Mac from Witch-Hunt's website. (Download the first episode for free!)
 

Lafiel

と呼ぶがよい
Dresden said:
All it took was the suggestion that it was Lovecraftian, even. It's odd how Saya is a better bait-and-trap than something more 'accesible' like Fate or Tsukihime.
Fate/stay night was my first VN, and i couldn't even finish it. (due to how long it is). Plus the writing quality of it didn't seem to be that great anyway, to much exposition that seemed to drag for hours. I did like the characters and found some of the plot to be fairly interesting though. 999 + Saya no uta seemed to have gotten me interested in the genre compared to F/S/N & Umineko.:p
 

trejo

Member
Ridley327 said:
It is a genuinely fantastic game from top to bottom, but how much are they asking for it in your neck of the woods?
Bout 70 bucks or so, plus shipping. If it really is the best thing since sliced bread, though, I might have to bite the bullet.

Dresden said:
All it took was the suggestion that it was Lovecraftian, even. It's odd how Saya is a better bait-and-trap than something more 'accesible' like Fate or Tsukihime.
What can I say? I loves me some Lovecraft.
 

Dresden

Member
Lafiel said:
Fate/stay night was my first VN, and i couldn't even finish it. (due to how long it is). Plus the writing quality of it didn't seem to be that great anyway, to much exposition that seemed to drag for hours. I did like the characters and found some of the plot to be fairly interesting though. 999 + Saya no uta seemed to have gotten me interested in the genre compared to F/S/N & Umineko.:p
I blame that on a limp first arc. Never understood the love for Saber and quite possibly the douchiest version of the douchiest main lead ever.

UBW is all kinds of awesome, though.

trejo said:
What can I say? I loves me some Lovecraft.
You never did reply to the pm, so I figured you were so horribly disgusted with it you just didn't want to deal with it anymore. :p Was gratifying to hear you enjoyed it.
 

Ridley327

Member
trejo said:
Bout 70 bucks or so, plus shipping. If it really is the best thing since sliced bread, though, I might have to bite the bullet.


What can I say? I loves me some Lovecraft.
$70?!?

God DAMN that's twice the MSRP!
 

trejo

Member
Dresden said:
You never did reply to the pm, so I figured you were so horribly disgusted with it you just didn't want to deal with it anymore. :p Was gratifying to hear you enjoyed it.
I did distance myself from it for a while after the whole
Yoh transformation
scene. But something spurred me into going back and I got the rest of the endings in one go. Now thanks to you I'm starting to get hooked on the genre.

Ridley327 said:
$70?!?

God DAMN that's twice the MSRP!
No official presence in the region and import taxes are a real bitch.
 
If there is one thing I have to admit when I was still playing alot of these VN's is that their storylines tend to be extremely good or extremely mediocre.
 

Jintor

Member
trejo said:
Bout 70 bucks or so, plus shipping. If it really is the best thing since sliced bread, though, I might have to bite the bullet.

Jesus, even in Australia it was only about $40 from Amazon...

/edit anyway, I'm tracking down Saya no Uta now. If I get nightmares from this I'm blaming all of you bastards. 999 was bad enough and it wasn't even that bad!
 
Jintor said:
Jesus, even in Australia it was only about $40 from Amazon...

/edit anyway, I'm tracking down Saya no Uta now. If I get nightmares from this I'm blaming all of you bastards. 999 was bad enough and it wasn't even that bad!
You honestly thought 999 was bad? Oh boy... You're in for some real fun then...
 

hamchan

Member
Jintor said:
Jesus, even in Australia it was only about $40 from Amazon...

/edit anyway, I'm tracking down Saya no Uta now. If I get nightmares from this I'm blaming all of you bastards. 999 was bad enough and it wasn't even that bad!

lol!

Saya no Uta will be one of the sickest things you've ever seen then!

Seriously, 999 is a game for babies compared to Saya no Uta. Saya no Uta has stuff that is like 100x worse than anything in 999.
 
Jintor said:
Jesus, even in Australia it was only about $40 from Amazon...

/edit anyway, I'm tracking down Saya no Uta now. If I get nightmares from this I'm blaming all of you bastards. 999 was bad enough and it wasn't even that bad!

If 999 seriously disturbed you a lot, Saya no Uta is gonna put you in the fetal position.
 

InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
Glad to see some more followers in the church of Saya! Although my suggestion of Sharin no Kuni seems not be reaching others ears.
 

Lafiel

と呼ぶがよい
InfiniteNine said:
Glad to see some more followers in the church of Saya! Although my suggestion of Sharin no Kuni seems not be reaching others ears.
It doesn't help that sharin no kuni looks a tad generic? (based on the art and cover).

This picture is awesome though.

pl9N1.jpg
.
 

Jintor

Member
cosmicblizzard said:
If 999 seriously disturbed you a lot, Saya no Uta is gonna put you in the fetal position.

It didn't seriously disturb me, but I couldn't stop thinking about it when I was trying to sleep. I never dreamt about it but it did sap my sleeptime.

Actually the image of Clover's hand with the axe is imprinted somewhere in my memory
 

Dresden

Member
Lafiel said:
It doesn't help that sharin no kuni looks a tad generic? (based on the art and cover).
Art isn't anything special (it really is animu10), but the VA is top-notch and the VN as a whole is damn nice.

Also, Norio Wakamoto.
 

Jintor

Member
So are there any VN's with a cool visual style?

Also explain ADV to me, is it Adventure? And if 999's here why ain't Ace Attorney and Ghost Trick, eh
 

trejo

Member
Hey guys, so is 999 70 dollars good or not? Should I wait and see if I can get it at a more reasonable price down the line?

InfiniteNine said:
Nope, the only other lovecraftian one in English I know is going to be Demonbane and that isn't even out here yet. Same developer as Saya.
That's a shame. The themes fit so well with these. Chaos; Head looks promising, though. Maybe I'll look into it.

Lafiel said:
It doesn't help that sharin no kuni looks a tad generic? (based on the art and cover).

This picture is awesome though.

http://i.imgur.com/pl9N1.jpg.
Ever since that one Yahtzee review I can't not read that as mummorpegers.
 
trejo said:
Hey guys, so is 999 70 dollars good or not? Should I wait and see if I can get it at a more reasonable price down the line?

I would say no, but it is better than a lot of 60 dollar games. Doesn't mean much though since a lot are crap. I'd say wait if you can.
 

InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
trejo said:
That's a shame. The themes fit so well with these. Chaos; Head looks promising, though. Maybe I'll look into it.
Well I don't think you'll be disappointed in Chaos;HEAd. It has a different kind of dread in it, but it's great.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Finally got 999. As soon as I beat Dullahan in Golden Sun 3 (three attacks per turn + Djinn Storm FUCK YOUUUUUU) I'll begin that.
 

Jintor

Member
Yeah, I might convert to that instead. I feel like something light hearted...

I think what I crave is tension, instead of just constant nausea.
 
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