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A new bl game general after the last one was locked because of the missing thread pic. What's your favourite? Did you play one recently that you'd like to talk about? Is there a BL game localisation you're looking forward to?
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>>361 No.5074
I just finished Sweet Pool.
>>4949 and
>>4952 were so right. Fuck Tetsuo and everything he stands for. How is it even possible for a character to suck so consistently? He's like proto Noiz except at least Noiz had an interesting backstory. Tetsuo is the most non-character I've ever seen. He's just nothing. Who decided it was a good idea for him be the main love interest?
Youji was also incredibly boring as a main character and a mega retard. I guess him and Tetsuo are a match made in heaven. I started cheering when
Kitani walked in on them having sex and shot them both dead. Fucking deserved.
It's such a shame that such a cool concept was wasted on such shitty characters. Every single time I explained the plot to my non-fujo and casual-fujo friends they were all taken aback by how dark and interesting the story sounded for a BL game. In a drunken haze I even played a bit of the game for them, and they all loved the way it looked and sounded. Not to mention how novel and strange the choice system was. I've never seen anything like it. Such a goddamn waste…
I loved both Zenya and Makoto's route though. They deserved a better MC than Youji.
No.5075
>>5040I'm currently playing it with Luna Translator using Google Gemini for MTL (you can register a free Gemini account and get 1500 queries per day), and the translation is surprisingly decent. Not as good as a human translation obviously, but I could understand the story and relationships in all of the routes, with only a few hiccups in the translation. Suggest you give it a try, cause I don't see Kichiku Megane ever getting picked up for an official English release. It's a very old game, and none of Spray's games have gotten official English releases… which is pretty sad, cause Kichiku Megane was quite popular in Japan and is one of my favorite BL games.
No.5076
>>5075I'm not worried about translating it, I want to practice my moon. Actually downloading and running the game is what I'm not sure how to do because it's so old. Are there still links on Aarin or something?
No.5077
>>5076I can confirm it's in the aarinfantasy BL game torrent. You might find some other stuff to practice with in it too.
Locale Emulator should be enough to get most things running on windows 10+.
No.5079
>>5076You can find links on Aarinfantasy, YaoiOtaku, or Anime-Sharing. I know the Aarin big BL game torrent is still being seeded. For running the game, you just need to set your system locale for non-Unicode languages to Japanese. This can be done in Win10 under Language Settings -> Administrative Language Settings -> Language for non-Unicode settings -> Change system locale -> Japanese. Then, download, unarchive, and mount the files on a virtual drive using a program like Daemon Tools or PowerISO. If you did everything right, the install screen for Kichiku Megane will pop up with Japanese characters correctly displayed. I tried all this recently and can confirm it works.
No.5088
>>5087His eyes were cute as fuck
No.5089
>>5082I went out of my way to try and avoid this in my own permawip BLVN project by only having the cute guys as dateable and everyone else is ugly or women.
No.5093
>>5092>spot sexy horned man on front page>click and immediately learn he's from a BL game but you can't fuck himARE YOU SERIOUS
No.5096
>>5094God I went apeshit when I saw his eyes
No.5098
>>5097I loved it, pretty dark with each route having an unhealthy and fucked up element
murder, suicide, blackmail. The 19th century setting also appealed to me.
No.5099
>>5097I played and enjoyed it some years ago. The novelty factor is that you can choose whether to top or bottom IIRC. Best boy didn't have a route but they gave him his own spinoff which evens things out.
No.5100
>>5098>>5099Thank you, nonas. I'll hopefully get around to it one day because it seems like something I'd enjoy. I think it's the lack of praise I've seen for it that's making me hesitate. I wonder why nobody talks about it.
>gave him his own spinoff which evens things outIs the spin-off any good? I don't own that one yet.
>>5082I thought about this more, and while he's not as high on the list of characters anons have already named, I'd like to add this guy. I don't know if "hotter" is the right word, but I wish he'd had a route or something kek.
No.5103
>>5101I guess in a lot of the marketing of them as a group they like to have them fulfill certain niches
>Akira’s the token seke so he gets more masculine clothes>Konoe’s the cute one so he’s always smiling >Aoba’s the giant slut (probably because he’s the most popular)>Towa’s the menhera so he always has guro or gothic motifs>Youji’s leftovers No.5114
"Low amount of rape" BL VN and yet every dude seems to be raping the protagonist's ass off wtf.
No.5115
>>5114But is most of it dubcon or just straight up rape? I don't really take it seriously unless the narrative itself does.
No.5118
>>5116Kintouka.
>>5115I have no problems considering routes with some dubcon scenes consensual overall but these scenes were reading like rape to me with the MC clearly begging them to stop during the sex. It didn't help that the narrative portrayed MC as a loser who would accept abuse from anyone cause of childhood traumas and not wanting to remain alone so he just felt like a pitiful abuse victim to me, which is why I couldn't keep going with the VN.
No.5119
>>5118Ahh, that sounds like it might be difficult to sit through, yeah. That's why I like the cocky kind of BLVN protagonist uke who can handle anything. It's too easy to feel bad otherwise.
No.5130
>>5118>MC as a loser who would accept abuse from anyoneYeah this just treads into humiliating and pathetic territory so I'm not into it either.
No.5134
>>5121Welcome to the club Matsudasister, did you like the slasher movie style bad end too?
No.5156
>Download English gay 18+ VN
>Has voice acting
>Check cast list
>Sean Chiplock is in it.
I guess it's no secret a lot of hentai and eroge use "real" voice actors but I've never seen in in an English work.
No.5157
>>5156I looked him up, and he's actually been in multiple yaoi games kek. That's pretty funny. I had no idea.
No.5180
>>5178I have a bookmarked list on VNDB that specifically removes trans characters and stuff like optional genitalia and nonbinary protags. I suggest making an indepth filter and then saving it so you can browse VNs and not get jumpscared by that kind of content.
No.5181
>>5180Is there any way to share that list because I need it. I play BL games for dick-on-dick action, not "cuntboys" or girls LARPing as men. Was so disappointed by that one cute goth dude in Dream Daddy who turned out to be a chick.
No.5182
>>5181Holy cow same, the only good "guy" in the game and you make him a girl? For what purpose?
Unfortunately there is no way to export the list or else I would have done it, but this is the setting I use along with utilizing the blacklist tag to add games which have something I don't want to see but also don't want to completely remove the tag. Note you need to specifically set it to disable blacklist it isn't active by default. You could also remove furry and bara though I haven't yet. It's a bit unwieldy to navigate their system, but it's worth setting up and bookmarking.
I've actually been chugging along at playing every game with M/M Romance and M/M Sex that meets my list! I should post them here as I play them.
No.5185
>>5182Thank you, Nonna. You have made my VNDB browsing experience much more pleasant. Have a smexy bishie Ugajin as thanks.
Please post about the BL games you've played recently! Especially lesser known or older games.
No.5186
>>5182>I should post them here as I play them.You should! I'd love to see more obscure recommendations posted in the thread, and it might make for some interesting discussion.
>>5179What VN is that? I thought it was Requiescence, which I've never read, but looking closer, the character looks totally different.
No.5187
>>5186The Frozen Kingdom, it's essentially a gay version of Conan the Barbarian.
No.5191
Ugh, need to vent.
I've been playing Shingakkou and I wanted to start with the Leonid route. I thought it would be extremely long since I didn't see any of the choices as being clear as to the impact it would have on the story. And then that fucking nasty ass bad ending came out of NOWHERE.
What the fuck… I spent so much time going through these convos. How could that be?!
And to top it all of, its censored. Maybe it was for the best in that scene. I have standards dammit.
No.5199
Well since people were interested in updates on my VN journey I'll just put a short "should you read?" as I go along, today's is
Angel on the Coastal Front though the .exe calls it
I met my True Love on the Eastern Front regardless you can read for free at
https://fuhero.itch.io/angel-on-the-coastal-frontIt's a very short (40ish minutes) story about two soldiers who are stranded during WWII trying to survive on an island after a battle. It has a very stark aesthetic of purely greyscale which sets a serious mood, but what really sells it is the reveal early on that
this is an interracial relationship with a white soldier being tended to by a Japanese medic. It's moody an hits a lot of elements I love in romance like
forbidden love on multiple levels so I'd give it a 4/5 and suggest checking it out if you enjoy military themes.
Next one on the list for me is
a love colored blackbird No.5200
>>5199I'm not going to look at your spoilers because you got me interested in this VN kek. I love historical settings, and the art style is a nice change of pace. I might try to read this one tonight or tomorrow because it's so short. Thank you for the recommendation!
No.5201
Today one the chopping block is
a love colored blackbirdhttps://fuwawuri.itch.io/a-love-colored-blackbirdThis one is a kinetic story about a suicidal MC and a blackbird who comforts him. It's not very clear if the blackbird is a guardian angel, a friend, or a figment of MCs mind. The best thing about this one is just the presentation, it looks pretty classy and has an interesting "split screen" layout that I haven't seen in any other VN. Unfortunately the entire VN is written in purple prose and I just didn't vibe with that at all. It's only 10 minutes but if feels like an extended poem instead of a narrative. 1.5/5
>>5200Hope you enjoy it, it had a ton of tropes I liked and the world needs more military themed yaoi.
No.5202
>>5201>a love colored blackbirdI ended up looking this up out of curiosity, and I was surprised to find that I've actually downloaded a different VN by this developer. I never got around to playing it, but it was on my list. It's disappointing to hear about the purple prose, but maybe the one I downloaded won't be written in the same style.
>extended poem instead of a narrativeUgh, I've read an indie VN like that before, and it can be super annoying. This doesn't even seem like one of those "funny bad" VNs. Just boring. It's a shame because I love surreal stories.
>Hope you enjoy itI did! I really like
forbidden romance stories in BL, and I enjoyed the build-up to their relationship.
I like the dynamic of two guys on opposing sides of a war having to work together for their survival. There was a tragically short science fiction BL manga I read a long time ago with a very similar premise. Coincidentally, I'm pretty sure one of the guys was a medic, too. It almost makes me wonder if this was inspired by that manga. The manga is called Blue Nathanael, and while I don't exactly recommend it, this VN really reminded me of it. I would have liked if it were a little longer, but I'm probably being a little hypocritical considering I read it specifically because it was so short kek. Also, I was fully expecting
a tragic ending since Christopher left Fumio on the island. I was confident Fumio was either going to die there or end up married. The fake-out at the end fooled me kek. No.5203
>>5202>The fake-out at the end fooled me kek.Same! I was so upset for a brief moment, really effective conclusion.
I'm a sucker for angst with a happy ending so I'm glad Fumio didn't die when Chris left. Agree it could have been longer, apparently it was a yaoi game jam title so the length makes sense, but I would be down for a continuation of it or an extended remake. I'll have to check out Blue Nathanial. I know you just said you don't recommend it, but since it's only a oneshot I don't see any reason not to!