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It will be released on September 6th, 2024, on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, and Steam

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> Everyone says you can keep going on, but nobody asks if you want to keep going on... > > Inspired by a quote on u/Mayczal's recent KS Alphabeth to update a reaction image made for this meme. > > Then again, "He who has a Why..." > > ! > > Source: Katawa Shoujo, Emi's Route, Act 2 Scene 4

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> > ::: spoiler spoiler > "At least our free countries don't have morality police controlling what people can wear" - "Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist... maybe they're just better dressed and better hidden... they don't have to control what you wear if they can control what you see..." > ::: > > > A quick and dirty meme after seeing the latest updates. Saimin? Really? But 50SOG with its dubcon (at best) is fine? Hmm.... I wonder why. u/kaigyuu2016 would probably have a field day with this. > > I mean, I'm no fan of ryona/guro myself, but I don't go around telling others they can't access it (even if they might need a bit of Touhou Jesus after that). > > Then again, I guess when you have money and monopolistic/duopolistic power in a market/industry, you'll try to reshape what society can see according to what you think is right... just like Steam. > > I wrote some time ago that "this isn't stopping at looks = age, but going beyond that. It's anyone's guess where it'll stop." > > If they don't stop at saimin... what's next, timestop? > > u/Jaggedmallard26 nailed it pretty well... "You can launder money from drug cartels so they can buy heavy weaponry with a bank but god forbid you use their service to see a titty." > > Fortunately, it seems like some in Japan are taking notice of this "make Japan and Japanese media conform to Western standards" and trying to stand up. > > My condolences to our German weebs, though. > > Sources: > 1. Pixiv Announces Transaction Restrictions For 'Unethical' Content > 2. DLsite March 2024 Tag changes for Japanese and English after the Mastercard and Visa credit card incident > 3. Dl Getchu bended knee to credit card companies. > 4. Movie: Star Wars The Phantom Menace >

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> Those that want to know. > > Those that want to know why. >

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> Hayami out there with the armor-piercing questions. > > Reading that post triggered a memory about there being a similar line in this game... went digging for it... and found it. > > > "Why do you lie...? Why do you lie to your own heart...?" > > > > "...this way, no one would be hurt..."I'd rather lie than hurt others."...that's what I thought." > > > > "Your feelings would hurt others... is that what you're saying?" > > > > "...my feelings... or... my existence, maybe..." > > Translations improved from whatever Google Translate + DeepL gave. > > Sources: > 1. Oof 1 > 2. Oof 2 > 3. VN name in title >

Where would I need to go to acquire legal copies of Append 01 and Version 2.00 patch, preferably as a downloadable? I would rather not have to wait weeks for physical disks to get shipped internationally if at all possible

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> The last game-based meme made in support of the game/dev. Do note that at the time these memes were made, I didn't receive anything and it was done purely to support the dev's unfortunate situation. The dev has recently reached out to me and provided me a key out of their own goodwill, so going forward, I'll make memes about the game as I've done so for other VNs if I get around to playing it someday. > > That's a shit-eating grin if I've ever seen one. > > Peaches, probably: "No, I don't think I will." > > Source: "Order Us!" VN by u/Argent_OU, free demo here >

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> Another game-based meme made in support of the game/dev. > > Expectation > > Reality > > First the man drinks a drink. > > Then the drink drinks a drink. > > Then the drink drinks the man. > > Stay sober, weebs. Many things can be a coping mechanism, but some are healthier (and lighter on your wallet/waistline) than others... > > Source: "Order Us!" VN (link NSFW) by u/Argent_OU >

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> "Ah, yes, I'm familiar with this string of characters. It appears frequently when the male and female characters are entwined in the heat of passion. Strangely, she keeps saying "Go!" "Go!" even though the dictionary indicates that she should be saying something like "I'm arriving!" "I'm arriving!" instead..." > > Sentence taken from a random Japanese article on a website I saw recommended at r/LearnJapanese, NHK's Easy Japanese News service. It's pretty good as reading practice, but the slow reading speed (even with Yomitan) makes me feel like a Stellaris researcher trying to decipher the stories of a long-lost civilization... and getting it wrong 90% of the time. > > But 10% of the time, it works, and you feel pretty good about that. Hopefully it gets easier and better the more reading is done... > > Source: "Kyoto Prefecture, Uji City: Mimurodoji's Plum Blossoms Bloom Prettily." >

GOG, the DRM-free game store, is having a new year sale until February 5th. It includes discounts up to 90% off, and encompasses over 4600 games and 386 visual novels.

Here are some interesting picks:

• Eliza (50% off)
• Higurashi Hou Series (50% off), Dual Language; the first game is Free.
• Umineko Series (40% off) Question Arcs | Answer Arcs - this series is slow, but really good, and includes the original Japanese script.
• Baldr Sky (40% off)
• A Tavern For Tea (16% off), Dual Language
• A HERO AND A GARDEN (10% off), Dual Language: This is mostly an idle game, but it has a great story. Be sure to check out other games from npckc that aren't on sale right now too!
• eden * (50% off)

Yuri:

• The Expression Amrilato (50% off), Dual Language
• Flowers Series (40% off)
• The House in Fata Morgana (35% off), Dual Language

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And there are plenty more on sale!

Alternate Link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=K_hHrpAp8rU

MangaGamer is having a sale for many of their games until January 31st, up to 60% off. This sale is also happening on Steam if you prefer to buy your games there.

Some notable dual-language titles:

• When They Cry 5 (Ciconia) Phase 1 is 40% off
• The Expression Amrilato (This game is good! Really good! Only 20% off, though)

Some big sales (these games are English-only):

• Kindred Spirits on the Rooftop Full Chorus is 50% off (Yuri)
• Trinoline is 50% off
• DearDrops is 50% off
• The Shadows of Pygmalion is 50% off (Yuri)
• Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome is 50% off (Otome game)

There are also some Drama CDs for sale.

Alternate links: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2183430/My_LoveyDovey_Demon/

Taiki is your average guy. He’s nineteen years old, in his first year of university, and he’s just starting to learn what it means to be an adult.

During the summer vacation, Taiki goes to the countryside to stay with his grandparents alongside his siblings: the haughty, fashionable Chiharu; the tomboyish troublemaker Nene; and the sweet, shy Reza.

Taiki wants to have a relaxing summer, but his hopes are dashed when Nene breaks into their grandfather’s study, which is strictly out of bounds. Inside his study, Nene finds a treasure trove of dusty old books, including a tome full of instructions on how to summon demons.

Nene sets about this demonic summoning ritual at once, and calls upon a fearsome figure from the deepest, darkest depths of Hell…

Who just so happens to be a cute girl with pink hair and an impressive bust?!

Now Taiki’s in a real pinch. Not only does he have to look after his siblings, but he also has his demonic guest, Elisabeth, to worry about – and she’s completely besotted with him! What in the world is Taiki going to do now?!

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> Coming digitally and physically in 2024 courtesy of Eastasiasoft Limited and Idea Factory

Almost a year ago I decided to try GNU/Linux and I absolutely loved it, however there was thing that as a novice took me time to get running: Visual novels. Now after some time reading and trying I can run almost every VN on wine, and I must say that there is no better feeling than getting things done, I can enjoy GNU/Linux at 100% since I can play VNs with textractor, it took time, but it was worth it ! :D

Young Sorata finds himself in the past, with no way of going back other than meeting the entity that governs the Earth. Let’s travel along with some friendly Espers to meet them, and shall our journey be full of love and answers! Will they make it there, and most importantly, will they all find love?

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Subarashiki Hibi (Wonderful Everyday in English) was released by Frontwing in 2017 following a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was released on Steam and JAST.

With one catch: the Steam release only includes the first chapter of seven.

In my experience, it takes about 6 hours to play the first chapter, and the other 6 chapters take another 54 hours to complete. Essentially, 90% of the game is missing. The reason the game was released on Steam in this incomplete state is due to the adult content present in the other chapters. Certain adult content is not allowed on Steam. Not that chapter 1 is free of adult content anyway...

So, Frontwing offers the other 90% of the game as a patch you need to manually apply to the Steam game. You need to find out about this patch's existence from this vague Steam announcement (the store page doesn't mention this at all). If you play through all the routes in chapter 1, there's nothing to suggest you haven't just played the entire game. You get a pretty end credits scene and you're kicked back to the title screen. Because every chapter has its own ending theme.

This announcement links to their Kickstarter Updates page. Because there are 58 updates on the page, you need to click "Load More" 3 times to find this page. It tells you that you then need to go to this special page to download the patch from JAST. If you clicked the link, you'll notice that it doesn't work anymore.

That's because the link was changed a year or so ago and doesn't redirect. The patch is now offered on this page. I did not discover this from any of Frontwing's announcements. I found this out from the comments section of a community guide on the Steam forums.

The instructions on the JAST page are wrong, too. It tells you to "Extract the patch files from the archive and run ".exe" file to install the patch." What you actually need to do is go to the game's Steam folder and replace all the .arc files with the ones from the patch folder.

I wouldn't say this is easy to find. Some people can't find it. It's scary to imagine how many people don't know this patch exists at all...

If you want to play Subahibi (it's a great game, seriously, play it), it makes sense to just buy it from JAST instead. They give you the entire game and it just works, no patching required. Though, fair warning that these releases are only in English (no Japanese option), and there's a lot of disturbing sexual content. The second chapter in particular has various kinds of disturbing sexual content. So much that I can't enumerate it all... The game is also very dark. But hey, it's a kamige, and I thought it was a good read...mostly in spite of that stuff.

This is easily the worst experience I've ever had on Steam. Are there other strange Steam releases like this where you need to scour the web for the rest of the game? I want to know! Or, conversely, has a Steam release actually been better than a GOG/JAST/MangaGamer store release?

This feature proposal from the VNDB beta has made it into the live site! We can now start tagging VNs known to have DRM:

> Alrighty, still not really polished or finished yet, but it doesn't look like the main data model or guidelines will change much so I've pushed it live now.

If you want to filter for DRM-free visual novel releases, you can do that now.

I consider this mission accomplished. \o/

The wording "Digital Restrictions Management" was almost snuck into the guidelines proposal, and unfortunately I can't claim to have had anything to do with that :)

The official guidelines are available here. Interestingly, the final wording is:

> Some releases have DRM (Digital Rights Management or, more accurately, Restrictions Management)

Now for the fun part: documenting which releases are encumbered with DRM. If you know one of the VNs you've purchased has DRM or is DRM-free, please help by editing the VNDB releases entry to reflect this!

Hopefully, we'll all be able to make more informed purchasing decisions now.

Yorhel added preliminary DRM support to the VNDB beta site on September 12th, 2023.

> The goal of this beta - aside from some testing - is to pre-seed the list of DRM types. So go ahead and add and edit DRM types and figure out how to best name and document them. While I can easily transfer the list of DRM types to the main site when it goes live, I'll probably not transfer the DRM info added to releases, so don't go overboard with that yet.

List of all known DRM types: https://beta.vndb.org/r/drm

If you've encountered a type of DRM that isn't listed here, please add it! However, don't bother with documenting which releases are encumbered with DRM just yet, as this data won't make it over to the real site.

This feature has been in Beta for three weeks and it seems pretty close to releasing. Outstanding issues:

• It's possible to search releases by DRM type, but not yet by DRM property
• Guidelines & documentation (some progress has been made, but it's not done yet).

Although they may not be DRM-free 😉 , Steam is offering Sekai Project games at a discounted price.

TYPE-MOON's Mahōtsukai no Yoru (Witch on the Holy Night) visual novel is getting a release on Steam on December 14. The release will support Japanese, English, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese text.

Hi, Lately I'm using a lot GNU/Linux and my luck with wine has been bad, but fortunately I can use Ryujinx (Switch emulator) for some VNs, and I would ike to use them to learn japanese. What I'm searching is something similar to "textractor" but for extracting text from what appears on the emulator window and send the text to the clipboard. Is there any software like that?

I've created a Visual Novel series and I'm trying to reach more people and get feedback. 🍻

Let's dive into free visual novels on itch.io and try to keep our sanity.

There are over 1,000 games tagged "Visual Novel" for sale on Steam until August 14th.

Here are some notable dual-language titles:

• Muv-Luv & Muv-Luv Alternative are more than 50% off. Both games are dual-language.
• Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 are 60% off.
• Aokana is 50% off.
• The House in Fata Morgana is 35% off.

Localization-only releases (i.e. they don't include the original Japanese script):

• Wonderful Everyday (AKA Subahibi) is 40% off. Remember to get the patch for the other 90% of the game afterward though, as the publisher provides it separately to the Steam purchase.
• Baldr Sky is 60% off.
• CLANNAD is 70% off.

There are plenty of other great games here, too. It's a huge sale. I recommend Muv-Luv.

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We've been working on a guide to help players on all major GNU/Linux distributions play visual novels for the past few weeks. This guide is designed to be used by both beginners and experts, with minimal need to touch the command line.

openSUSE wins the award for "never had to touch the terminal" and "simplest setup instructions", but Fedora is a close second.

While there are a few existing visual novel guides for GNU/Linux around, we've tried to fill in the gaps we noticed. We've put a lot of research into this guide and ensured it is accurate while remaining simple and approachable.

If you're interested, start here!

We have an extensive Troubleshooting section on our Problems page if you're having trouble getting visual novels to work, too.

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I wrote this guide with a lot of help from two other people, including /u/[email protected]. It’s available on our community wiki, https://wiki.comfysnug.space. As with all pages on our wiki, it’s licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, meaning you’re free to share, remix, and build on the content as long as you credit us.

We also have some other pages you may find useful:

• If you're looking for something to play, check out our Recommendations page.
• If you want to know where and how to buy a visual novel you want to play, our comprehensive Buying page will help you out.
• And if you want to read a visual novel in Japanese, our Reading in Japanese page offers a lot of advice and points you to some useful software to make the process easier.

This one is in a slightly different format than the others but the symbols should actually be consistent somewhat.

All are welcome to join. I look forward to seeing you guys there~!

Mine:

Mayuri's ending in Steins;Gate My Darling's Embrace: As one of the rare Okabe/Mayuri shippers, finishing my S;G experience with this is one of the best story payoffs I experienced.

Tomoyo After true ending: Very heartbreaking and IMO much better than the canon Clannad After Story ending. If I have infinite money, I'll have an anime produced out of it.

Not actually 100% sure when this is from. pls gib sauce

2012 edition. It's quite interesting to see what visual novels were popular 10 years ago.