No.5277[Last 50 Posts]
Post and discuss games you're playing that fall into the BL genre.
Prior BL games thread
>>3281 No.5283
>>5276>Man, woman, or bothI'm glad there's a toggle for anything geared towards hetshit but even so, the bl purist in me would just get annoyed that it's even included but that's just me
No.5285
>>5283Do you ever play VNs with a 50/50 gendersplit? I feel like the only thing weird is that it's ths singular het option in an otherwise gay game.
No.5286
Tbh Animamundi is a very plot-heavy game, I would hesitate to call it a proper het route. It's more like… the game takes places in fantasy medieval land, a lot of these people are expected to have children even if they're turbo gay.
No.5290
>>5276>a ton of questions right at the beginning like you're playing Pokemon Mystery DungeonThis description is really funny. I'm curious about what this affects in the game outside of the male/female preferences.
>>5285>singular het option in an otherwise gay gameNTA but this is what struck me as weird, too. I know a lot of otome games have a yuri route, so I guess it's the BL equivalent to that? I wonder if the company's otome game set in the same universe has a lone yuri option.
No.5345
Today's VN was "Another Rose in His Garden" I normally try to link to them but the Itch.io page I got it from is gone now…This one is clearly not aimed at me, it's Omegaverse themed and actually the first Omegaverse thing I've read since I have negative preconceived notions that this did not remove.
To start I think any one of the elements could work in isolation knotting, mpreg, heat cycles, somehow there being female ABO as well? it's really just weird in a contemporary setting with no magic or alternate races that might exhibit the traits. Again not the target audience but I couldn't suspend my disbelief and this VN didn't really seem interested in worldbuilding.
Ignoring that though I still didn't like it, this is a very "straight" BL and by that I mean it's 50 Shades of Grey and every single one of those abusive business bastard smut novels. Your character is Abel an omega who is pretending to be a beta (which I guess are "normal people?"), and he is taking "heat suppressors" to hide his scent which the strong alpha Mars immediately notices and then forces himself upon you. The whole smells along with knotting is so weird to me, maybe if you establish the character as a werewolf or something I wouldn't find it as off-putting. Anyway the game then becomes a nukige with him coercing you for sex, slapping you around, getting into some pretty heavy bdsm, and public humiliation like fucking you infront of an entire boardroom meeting. It's very much PWP, but there are 3 endings, each of them bad! Mars is just an absolute bastard and I hate him, the worst ending in my opinion is when he forces you to get pregnant after telling you he'll look after you but when you leave your job and family he just abandons you with a bunch of other fucktoys at his mansion.
I get that this is a very popular type of relationship, but I'll never get it. Dark and abusive relationships work best for me when twisted fucked up feeling grow out of them. Like a stalker or serial murderer who kidnaps MC but loves him even if he's objectively being abusive. In this case it's hard to tell what the feelings even are because there's this constant aura of "heat" and being drawn to "scents" that I don't even know if the MC has any meaningful connection to Mars, that bastard doesn't have any feelings outside of "must rut"
Well whatever, I'd give it 1/5, it might appeal to people who are more into this fetish. The salsa soundtrack was good at least and it's short only about 3 hours for all endings. According to the extras there's another VN with the MC Abel but who knows what or where since Itch is being retarded.
No.5349
>>5345If I actually did have this fetish, the fact that they made the alpha dude sound like the omegaverse version of a RL manosphere guy would put me off even more than it already does. Once you bring realistic 3DPD shit into fictional men it ruins them.
No.5354
>>5353What started out as a kinkmeme thing that let cis dudes have animal hormone driven no-prep anal sex was eroded into "let's feminize the one who can get pregnant".
No.5357
Tonight's VN Anteholic
https://qbstudios.itch.io/ante-holicThis is an hour-long kinetic VN about a demon and cop duo trying to track down a murderer, but really it's a prequel to a still-in-development VN and seems mainly interested in setting up its world and characters. The whole thing has the feeling of someone playing with their OCs, which isn't bad; it's just not exactly the deepest story since the murder mystery takes a back seat to the author explaining her universe's soulmate-identifying marks, and how angels, witches, and demons work. I liked it; it's ridiculously easy to sell me on detectives, so I'd give it a 3/5, but it's too short to really recommend. It might be better and/or worse if the full thing ever comes out.
>>5349He's more Mr. Grey than manosphere. Again it very much feels like a smutty bodice ripper aimed at housewives moreso than BL, very off-putting and weird.
No.5359
>>5358I've been waiting for this for years so I'll get it day 1. Trying to temper my expectations since the screenshots look iffy.
No.5363
>>5358Maybe I'll get it, but not as soon as it's released because I have a lot of games and visual novels in my backlog. Once I've completed all the visual novels I have I'll buy more of them during sales.
No.5368
>>5358I think it'll be an accurate if somewhat awkwardly worded translation. They keep using the word "flight" in promotional material which means nothing in English but corresponds to the Japanese word 高跳び which can mean flight from authorities, like in a car chase, which the game has plenty of. Plus, MangaGamer has a much better reputation for accuracy than JAST. As for the text itself, you can change the font to your liking in the options menu, so it shouldn't be a problem.
I hope people buy it so we at least have a chance of seeing a bad egg translation within the next decade. I know the Japanese fans are excited at the prospect of the fandom getting a bit more lively these days too.
Also… I want new ivagian fanart. It gets treated like a boomercore ship in Japan and is brought up near exclusively in a nostalgic context. It hurts my soul.
No.5370
>>5368>I hope people buy it so we at least have a chance of seeing a bad egg translation within the next decade.Yeah for me this feels like a potential lose-lose situation cause if it sells poorly they have ammo to blame fujos but if the translation is bad and it sells well it could come off as fujos buying something regardless of quality.
No.5387
>>5384The only problem with the PSP version is that its sanitized. As such, Yukihito didn't get a hot explicit sex scene and that is incredibly disappointing.
No.5398
>>5396One of the screenshots on the store page is worded strangely.
>>5248 It may not be a big deal in the long run but it could also be a bad sign.
No.5399
>>5398The game took years to be released - perhaps it's the early translation?
No.5400
>>5399That's what I'm hoping, going to buy it regardless as I want to support them bringing over games and this is one I've been waiting for.
No.5410
Another day another VN
https://chanimk.itch.io/a-pact-with-me"A Pact with Me" was the next one on the list, and it is a perfectly fine 5/10 VN. It was about four hours long and had three main routes with multiple good and bad endings for each boy. The story follows Belial, a demon who 100 years ago fell in love with the man he had made a demonic contract with. After the twenty years of the pact were up, he had to collect his lover's soul and ate it, leaving no trace of the man in existence. Now heartbroken, he avoids making any more pacts, but after years of no contracts, he is weakened and starved, on the brink of death. Lucifer tasks you with forming a pact with someone to eat a soul so you don't die.
The game is spread out over six days, with one scene for each route given each day, though you can sleep to skip the rest of the day if you don't care about a character.
The main romance options are Renan, a struggling musician who was probably the least interesting. His father hates him, and he's dealing with a stalker and self-consciousness about his ability to perform. Shilo, a businessman who is the sadist psycho option, has some Light Yagami energy and was my favorite as he cuts down people who get in the way of his company. And lastly, Lior, a very shy boy who is just seeking friends. His route starts really childish as you basically help him go viral on a social media site so he can make friends because everyone who see him hates him, but then it reveals
he's actually hated because of demonic possession by Lucifer, and the route gets substantially better in the last few days.
I don't think I'd recommend it even if you like demon stories. Most of the routes just kind of feel derivative and lack an extra "punch" that would make them unique. It has a good core concept, and I like Belial as a protag, but none of the routes are gripping.
No.5411
>>5410Thanks for the review! The art could have looked better…
No.5412
>>5411Yeah, I'm actually cherry-picking the screenshots too, some of the CGs especially the kissing ones were a bit egregious. Given that it's a small game with two creators it feels mean to comment on
. Personally speaking if a story is good enough I'll overlook lackluster art, this one just didn't excel at either so it makes the art extra… not good.
No.5419
>>5418SOURCE??? Are they going to bypass JAST? That would be so weird.
No.5421
>>5418SEX WITH YUKIHITO
>SEX WITH YUKIHITOSEX WITH YUKIHITO
>SEX WITH YUKIHITOThey should do a special edition and add a sex scene. Even if its just a wholesome one, dammit. Hell even the good route with Shiki needed some improvement but whatever. Stuff I will continue to carry in my heart…
No.5432
>>5431Found a fuller shot. Looks like the Hub is a British style Pub, which is I suppose slightly more interesting than a pop-up cafe.
Akira is my favorite here I really like the necktie, followed by Youji, the hat is cute nonna!
Aoba is almost good, I like the glasses on Ren, but whatever pleated garment he's wearing (skirt?) just looks ugly as does the see-through overshirt.
No.5433
>>5421Was his good route/worth it even without sex in it ?
No.5434
>>5432Glasses are so not cute, not even on Ren!!!
No.5448
>>5447Yeah even before I noticed the literal buff furry I felt that this artstyle is too "gay/bi male" coded for me.
No.5449
>>5447>>5448This is easily my most anticipated VN. I get the "bara" complaint, but personally I think it looks cute and the premise is right up my alley.
No.5451
>>5447looks like it was made by western gay guys, really doesnt look appealing
would be even gayer if the mc is the seme
No.5452
>>5447>I find the MC cuter than the LIsI could instantly tell he's Haiki's art, but the designs of the LIs read as other artists from your pic and sure enough, it's another GYEE situation of bara artists banding together to try to reel in the gays
I did find pic related LI hot, and the mascot character is really cute… sure enough, Haiki did their designs too
I've liked some of his oneshots, I think at this point he gets my pass as the current only acceptable bara artist, especially with how much better his characters look than Mentaiko Pedo's LIs
No.5453
>>5452Tbh I don't care about the furrys at all but the human looking LIs are hot enough to intrigue me.
No.5454
>>5449I think they're going for a NTY thing where it's targeting fujos and gay men, not my taste personally though.
Only furry character I've seen that fujos were mildly interested in is the wolf guy from ZZZ (I liked the deadpool clone robot though…) and a bit of legoshi.
No.5455
>>5452I'm sorry for saying this but he's my type.
No.5456
>>5452I'm interested in this guy and the armored knight. I don't mind a bit of bara here and there.
No.5457
>>5456Same as long as the porn CGs aren't grotesque and it isn't hyper muscles I actually like the more "mature" look the guys in games like this have. I don't know, is there a term for "light bara" character types? If the tiger wasn't there I wouldn't have even lumped it in with bara.
No.5463
I just read a VN I found on VNDB, and there was surprise, untagged cuntboy. It's bizarre because there is a tif character, but the cuntboy is not a tif. The tif character (who doesn't have a route) had titchop scars, and the other character did not, so what the fuck? Before you ask why I played this, neither of these things was tagged on VNDB, and by the time I got to the tif, I was already like halfway done, and I figured the only guy with a completed route would have a penis since he’s not a tif. I'm so fucking pissed. It wasn't tagged on VNDB, and it's not even in the content warnings (which I checked after being jumpscared). The game was already on thin ice because it was written in second person (not my preference because it feels an inch away from a self-insert), but this made me lose it. Tag your fucking shit. I don't see how you make that mistake unless it's an intentional and malicious attempt to deceive your reader.
No.5468
I'm not the nona who usually posts reviews, but I wanted to talk about Start;Again and maybe encourage some of you to try it. I just finished it, and I thought it was pretty fun for a short VN. Essentially, you’re playing as a young guy named Sebastian who wakes up in an unfamiliar place with three other people. They are all given two hours to escape.
If that description didn't tip you off, it's very reminiscent of Zero Escape, and it's made even more similar with its flowchart function. I love it when VNs incorporate flowcharts because they make it easier to navigate routes, and this flowchart is integral to the plot. There are also puzzles, which are pitifully easy. It initially led me to suspect the 8-year-old was the mastermind because they seemed like the kind of puzzles a child would make kek. It was a short-lived thought, but man, it would've been awesome foreshadowing.
The mystery was easy to figure out, and I had correctly guessed all of the twists before reaching the true route. However, I still had a lot of fun with it. The ending was very satisfying, and I'm glad I played it. Also (major spoilers, although you can figure this out long before it's revealed), the fact that in retrospect, Rinne is having to watch a past version of her dad (with full knowledge he is her dad) and his dead best friend go through their awkward tsundere romance bullshit while trapped in a life-or-death situation is incredibly funny. It also makes any situation where she's teasing them about having feelings for each other while they vehemently deny it so much funnier.
I will say that the story can be kind of disorienting when you start. You're not given much context, and the characters' relationships change depending on where you are in the flowchart. This is further complicated by how much you'll be jumping around the flowchart. The VN is sort of light on romance, but I personally enjoy the "you’re given X hours to seek a way out of this life-threatening situation" genre of VNs, so it was still nice to see a BL interpretation of it. Also, one of the boys has a giraffe neck, and it bothers me.
No.5479
>>5478My backlog is full
and personally the Alicesoft/Rance associations make me ehhh but it's always nice to have more VNs translated in english, especially BL ones. I'll try it if I have time later this year or next.
No.5480
>>5478Neat. I don't care about Rance but I've always been interested in this for having actual gameplay, which would set it apart from most BL games. There's another gameplay BL called Angel's feather that had a fanpatch in the making from the person who did Phantom thief Jade's patch but progress was slow and it's been a long time since I last checked it.
No.5523
Luckydog1 is officially released on MangaGamer.
Hope you guys enjoy it. It's a lot of fun.
https://www.mangagamer.com/r18/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=1494 No.5525
>>5524I wasn't as much disturbed as just grossed out by it. I genuinely don't get fujoanons who find it unironically arousing, every character including the protagonist was an annoying uggo and even the fetishes I could've found hot in another game were executed in such an unerotic way they did nothing for me.
No.5526
>>5525I don't find it arousing it's too intense, but the characters are cute and I think MC is funny despite being a sadist.
>>5523Thank you for the reminder!
No.5527
>>5522From what I've heard the English censored version deleted all vanilla sex scenes but left the tentacles rape scenes from bad endings which … was definitely a choice lmao.
No.5529
>>5527Whaaaaaaaaat? What were they thinking
No.5530
>>5523I'm playing through it right now using a guide (
https://terracannon876.wordpress.com/trivia/lucky-dog-1/lucky-dog-1-walkthrough/) and planning to go Bernardo->Ivan->Luchino->Gulio. I'm only an ESL so take my opinion with a grain of salt but for the most part the text doesn't seem as awkward as in the store page screenshots. Just some wording in the prologue was off to me. When the game transitioned from the prison section to the escape I thought the game got stuck on the score screen cause clicking, enter and space bar did nothing. Turns out I had to press the Escape key so I wanted to mention it here in case anyone else wants to start playing too.
No.5531
>>5530To be completely honest I think the amateur translator went overboard trying to make the dialogue sound "natural" and added way too many stock phrases and too much period slang too. They're also clearly not a writer and it shows - I wish they'd just let the characters speak like actual humans. But if you can tolerate the injected corniness it seems like a serviceable translation. Lucky Dog 1 is a pretty lighthearted game for the most part so it's at the level where I'd say that level of corniness is tolerable, but if they ever get around to doing Bad Egg I'd absolutely want them to use a different translator.
No.5532
I can't with the art of this VN. I'd hope for something like Haiiro no Arcadia, Galtia or Tokyo 24ku to have been translated, but I guess MTL it is for now.
No.5534
>>5533It seems like they basically remade the game from scratch rather than just modified the original text, so I'll excuse it like any other post-launch indie game. Write up a bug report.
No.5547
>>5522glad to see nie getting mentioned, wish there was more discussion about it. i think the hype died cuz of the censorship and then the steam price filtered out the rest. shame too cuz the vn honestly works fine without the sex, i even thought the change from the bj scene to foot licking was hotter kek. story-wise its a 7/10, a lot of the routes have pacing issues and some endings feel really abrupt. mio was my first route and i liked him a lot (partly cuz he’s voiced by netoru).
his return ending in the base game was pretty bad but the fandisc expanded it into peak amnesia-fuelled angst that actually ends with hisora and mio getting engaged. can’t think of another blvn where the couple straight up gets married in the end. koko’s probably my second favorite, i love the ending where he chops hisora’s legs off and hisora age regresses kek. asuku and naruomi’s routes were the weakest for me, their endings just left me confused. naruomi especially got ruined for me by how his route wrapped up still need to read their fandisc after stories to see if they fix any of that. fandisc overall was stronger anyway (iirc they brought in one of the nty writers).
No.5550
>>5549In the 2000s switch stuff in BL games was actually pretty common, Togainu no Chi for example also has a route where the MC tops
No.5562
>>5561I just got 100% on all the guys so I consider myself done with the game now even if I'm apparently missing some CGs on the final page. I've been enjoying myself so it's been worth it for me personally but the artwork is wonky at times so it may be distracting to some. The credits bug is fixed now and apparently they fixed some typos as well but I still spotted some after the patch.
Writing-wise, Giancarlo is up there as one of my favourite BL game protagonists alongside Tamamori and Rei Tengenjibashi. I ended up liking all of the love interests generally speaking though Luchino's route gets a minus for me because I find piss fetish disgusting. Bernardo is relatively vanilla and has the bro factor and there's an age gap element though I'm pretty sure he's only in his 30s despite being treated like an old guy. I initially thought I wouldn't like Ivan but he's grown on me and he's a pretty funny male tsundere. Also for some reason Ivan's route turned into a Mercedes advertisement. Did someone on the writing team have a boner for cars? Giulio is my favourite cause I really have a thing for menhera autists. There's not an enforced route order but personally I think Giulio's route is appropriate to save for last. There's some characters in there who have a bigger role in other routes so if you play those first you won't be in a situation where you go "Huh? What was the point of this guy?"
As a sidenote, there's a certain plot point involving Gian that was brought up but never fully explored so I wonder if Bad egg goes into that.
No.5563
>>5562Ivan's route was all about them being these wild and rebellious youths so personally I felt the whole fast car fixation was appropriate. It stuck out a bit more to me in Bernardo's route but it was also pretty well implemented there. There's also this really sweet scene in the first drama CD where Ivan
buys the same model Mercedes and says he'll never drive a different car again because of the memories he shares with Gian in it. No.5565
>>5549ngl id buy the game just for the scene where he fucks that gay cop, is he a recurring character?
>>5550we gotta bring this back i love switches
No.5566
>>5565nah he's a one-off character that only appears briefly in one route, fun game I recommend regardless though
No.5575
>>5566aww thats a shame i thought he was really cute, is he in bad egg? regardless it looks like a fun story, will take a look once ive completed more of my backlog!
No.5576
>>5575can't say as I haven't played bad egg yet (i'd appreciate anybody who has using spoiler tags to talk about it here) but I know it brings back some other minor characters so it wouldn't surprise me
No.5593
Are any of y'all nonnas translating BL VNs with Textractor or another similar program ?
No.5595
Has anyone here played Lkyt? I've been hesitant to buy it cause I disliked NTY and Room 09 fundamentally didn't appeal to me but the setting of Lkyt does intrigue me so I wonder if anyone here played it and enjoyed it.
>>5593I've tried to use Textractor in the past but my JP wasn't good enough for it to be helpful cause there was too much stuff I had to constantly look up. I tried it with Uuultra C and the program worked fine from what I remember but I couldn't get it to work with LD1. I'll probably go back to it one day for games that I don't expect to ever get an official english release like Taisho Mebiusline.
No.5596
>>5595I hated NTY and loved Lkyt and the stories are so different I don't even think the writers are the same ones for both visual novels. Lkyt is way more serious than NTY and has a more "normal" protagonist so it's easier to read without want to turn off your computer entirely.
No.5598
>>5595I loved Lkyt, but I also really enjoyed NTY and RN9, so I may not be the person to answer this. It definitely has a different tone from RN9 and NTY, so I don't think it's impossible you'd enjoy it. I think it's worth a shot, especially if you like
utsuge. It's much more grounded than Parade's other titles, and it has a more somber tone.
No.5612
>>5611I have not but I'm intrigued by the idea of a timeline where KEY broke into the BL market instead of Nitro+. Is it supposed to be any good?
No.5613
>>5612shota nakige. Consider this!!!hdjdhs
I haven’t finished yet but there’s some silly kinky stuff and a lot of shoujo plot beats. Also brocon heads up if that’s not ur thing. It’s way way dirtier than anything KEY has put out… p sure they let Hinoue release her inner freak
No.5614
>>5611I want to read ever since I knew from it's existence, just to know what a BL from key would be and because of Hinoue's art
I love it, even if a lot of people hate it kekUnfortunately, aside from Hinoue's art, there doesn't seem to be a lot of classic key themes and the pv gives me less hope but the dudes look pretty cute so maybe I'll try it before the year ends
Who knows, maybe there's something akin to LitBus' KyoRi waiting for me No.5615
>>5611Add me to the list of people who are intrigued. I'll have to textractor this one day when I feel more confident about my japanese.
No.5621
I finally finished Hashihime of the Old Book Town. I loved Minakami's and Kawase's routes and the VN is worth it at least just for them but after that I stopped caring. I didn't like the other guys nearly as much but I think my real issue is that almost all the mysteries are solved and explained in the first routes, so everything else becomes repetitive. However it's one of the first times I manage to read a VN without seeing any spoilers by accident beforehand so I still had fun overall. I only have otome games and actual games in my backlog now. I will check what I can buy during this winter's steam sales and see if I can finish more games before that.
No.5622
>>5619I have vague memories of seeing screenshots of the original and not wanting to play it cause the dialogue made me cringe. Though for all I know maybe I was being too judgemental.
>>5621Nice. I personally liked the professor too because he's such a cutie even if his route got questionable at some point.
No.5623
>>5621>I think my real issue is that almost all the mysteries are solved and explained in the first routes, so everything else becomes repetitiveI feel silly for never noticing that this is one of the key problems with the later routes
The remaining mysteries aren't nearly as interesting as the initial revelations in Minakami's route, and Kawase's route fleshes out so many of the B-plots while having the biggest "climax" in
the hallucination chase sequence with Shopkeeper trying to prevent his NOTP, it always gave me Mamoru Hosoda climatic vibesI always thought the biggest problems were that the last routes were simply too short and that I didn't like Hanazawa or Professor as much anyways, but those are just symptoms of their stories only serving to iron out remaining questions
Anyways I'm in the process of reading Uuultra C after finishing the first chapter, and it reminds me how ambitious Rinko Kurosawa is with her BLVNs, I'm excited for Ooe in English
No.5624
>>5622What I didn't like with the professor's route was
that Tamamori doesn't end up with "his" professor, the one who helped him the whole time but with some random guy and he has to make shit up to explain why he doesn't remember him. It could have been so much more romantic if he went back to the one who helped him and who he kind of dumped to then meet him as a child.>>5623The only real mystery that mattered to me at that point was
if the old guy the professor met as a child really was Tamamori but at that point the answer became obvious already.
No.5626
>>5625I didn't mind it in the previous routes because
the former Minakamis and Kawases usually die anyway. Or something else terrible happens and it's actually presented as terrible so Tamamori escaping to another timeline is perfectly understandable. With the professor's route the last timeline is presented as funny with Tamamori waking up in his bed butt naked with a hangover, it gave me a very different impression. I was like "wait, that's it?" when I reached the end of that route and expected more, it wasn't as satisfying as Minakami's route and Kawase's route. Unrelated but
I really didn't like Kaoru. I was curious as to what or who he could possibly be and then it turns out he's the shopkeeper's adopted son. Then it turns out he's basically an unattractive, annoying drooling retard and it removed all the air of mystery around him. He's by far the most disappointing part of the VN so I'm glad his route was short. And I expected Kawase to have a secret weird crush on Minakami so I felt vindicated when he joked about wanting to have a threesome with him and Tamamori kek
No.5627
>>5611I played it for a bit a year ago and then I got so bored
No.5635
>>5623Sadly, the second chapter of UUUC has an insufferable LI and the 'romance' is written to shit. Was that supposed to be a troll route, because it feels like it was written solely to irritate?
The third route is the best by far.
No.5636
>>5635I remember dropping it cause the seme of the first couple was weidly forceful in the first H scene despite people saying this was the vanilla couple. Same reasons I dropped Munesada's and Kyou's routes from Kintouka as well.
No.5637
>>5635I think the love interest would have been okay if got more screentime, way too much of chapter 2 focuses on retarded shit like the fakeboi and futa characters (I love you Rinko but why did you insert this? Fujos don't enjoy this shit).
No.5641
god, why does h-suki refuse to archive bl games. site literally prides itself in archiving vns and has almost everything on vndb but every bl game ges refused. site literally have some of the most obscure het vns + mountains of shovelware (in the name of archiving) but they refuse every bl, even stuff like n+c. fucking absurd lol
No.5664
>>5636>I remember dropping it cause the seme of the first couple was weidly forceful in the first H scene despite people saying this was the vanilla coupleI dislike Kozuka. He is so high-maintenance and immature. He keeps on lying to Shou (never revealing his side job), yet when Shou dares to interact with other people and have his own life outside of Kozuka, he throws jealousy tantrums.
>>5637Where is the evidence of that lol? Her own words? She knows that Shirou is a fag and clings to him, because she's a ho. Announcing that you have a dick to get him curious is a tactic to get laid. When Shirou catches her having sex with the FtM, there is no dick to be seen - only a strap-on.
No.5674
Back again with another small VN, and another Omegaverse one "A/B/O Speed Dating." A small Game Jam title with Live 2D sprites and partial voice acting. No CGs
https://bigmamafatcat.itch.io/abo-speed-datingOur MC finds himself filling in for his friend at a government sponsored speed dating event which is being held due to declining birthrates. Unfortunately when he gets there it's reveled that anyone who isn't hooked up by the end is facing prison time, so he needs to find someone fast! There are three options an Alpha, Beta, and Omega respectfully who you can date and "exchange pheromones" with.
Once again I just find Omegaverse bizarre, this game lets you pick a "Secondary Gender" from ABO which gives flavor text to each character respectfully, the Alpha option talking about how two alphas can't be together for instance. You could just talk and answer basic questions, but the more efficient way to guarantee a good ending is to click the "Share Pheromones" option which pauses the conversation and activates a new dialogue tree allowing for new conversation options and the ability to send over a specific amount. Once the pheromone option is done you can immediately reactivate it.
The game has a large amount of unique dialogue options depending on what type you selected and 10 endings so while there is a little jank like the live 2D and skips not always working I thought it was good for what it was. Didn't covert me to the Omega cause, but I liked it better than the last one I played.
The three options were an Omega mouse boy who is a watchmen that feels looked down upon because of his type. Beta was a movie star who can't smell pheromones but wants to, and Alpha was a bear boy from a remote village who wants to start a family. If I had to rank them it'd be Omega>Alpha>Beta
No.5675
>>5674This is a really nice art style and it's wasted on omegashit. Can you actually do alpha/alpha or omega/omega or is it not allowed?
No.5676
>>5675You can, there is some unique text for each interaction. Alpha/Alpha in particular has the idea that two alphas aren't meant to be together and it's played like homophobia. Theres also multiple endings and a few are associated with specific dynamics.
The art style is nice, it's got some Live2D which is a bit janky, but the base characters are very cute.
No.5679
>>5674Fujochan's strongest soldier. I really like reading your posts, and I hope you keep doing this because it's exposed me to a lot of OELVNs I wouldn't know about otherwise. I still don't get the appeal of ABO, so I doubt I'm the target audience for this, but picking if you're an alpha, beta, or omega is at least a creative idea.
>it's reveled that anyone who isn't hooked up by the end is facing prison timeThis sounds like a lower-stakes version of The Lobster kek.
No.5681
>>5680>At least nobody likes Nano so I'm not alone in thatHey, I like Nano.
>Dramatical Murder: I liked it, too bad I already saw a lot of spoilers on tumblr back in 2013You don't read DMMD for the story, but for the fun.
>No Thank You: I disliked it a lot. Why?
>Hashihime of the Old Book Town: I also loved it.Read UUUltra C next.
>Lamento, I'm still made Jast Blue said they won't localize it anymore but the fan translation is complete so it's whateverTheir company is unreliable like that. License-hoggers who can't deliver.
>I heard Ooe will be translatedYes.
https://mangagamer.org/ooe No.5682
>>5680I actually started playing Tokyo Onmyoji yesterday but it seems like a standalone VN and it's even said to be as much ?
No.5683
>>5680Room No 9 isn't trashy…
No.5684
>>5682I thought it was a sequel to Taishou Mebiusline but I must have misread what's on vndb. It says they just have the same setting. If it's a standalone VN I'll read it then.
>>5681>Read UUUltra C next.I'm not sure I'll like it based on what anons here
and on lc have said but I'm not totally against reading it. I'll see if sales are interesting on Steam and if there's a good price for it.
>Their company is unreliable like that. License-hoggers who can't deliver.I know, I still can't get over how they kept saying on twitter that if we support them enough they will licence and translate more VNs but then they said nope, not Lamento though. I remember these weird tweets where the CM was asking if fans would be fine with VNs if they removed the voice acting because that could be very expensive for them but they didn't say which VN it was about so I assume it's about Lamento. Where can I pirate it by the way?
No.5685
Another small OELVN from a game jam "Antonym Obscure"
https://ebihime.itch.io/antonym-obscureKinetic.
Our MC is the angsty Haruto who we first meet annoyed by the current pop hit "Eternal Autumn." A way too mainstream song for an outsider like him, but we quickly learn he used to go to school with one of the members of the band and the real reason he hates hearing it is hang ups from their time together in school. The art and UI are nice, but it was a bit too melodramatic for me. MC-kun has sooooo much internal monologue that's very woe-is-me and somewhat repetitive. There is a dual conflict in that Haruto feels like he's been left behind and is aimless in life, but also the fact that he's jealous of his friend Akira who has succeeded and become a famous musician whereas Haruto has failed. Been there, done that, but it's short so it's fine. There are a lot of name drops of real punk and alt bands so that's fun.
>>5681>You don't read DMMD for the story, but for the fun.Agree, but I also kind of wish I didn't know the Virus and Trip ending before I experienced it lol.
No.5686
>>5684>I thought it was a sequel to Taishou Mebiusline but I must have misread what's on vndb. It says they just have the same setting. If it's a standalone VN I'll read it thenTokyo onmyoji is standalone but from what I remember, there were two minor side characters who had weirdly unique designs even though they only briefly showed up in one scene so I assumed that they were cameo characters from another VN.
About Uuultra C: I enjoyed it myself but the writing can get schizo sometimes so I acknowledge it's not for everyone. Same with Luckydog1 but it has the exact opposite problem where I enjoyed the writing but the art is rough.
No.5693
>>5684>Where can I pirate Lamento by the way?NTA but I remember getting it from here last year and it worked fine for the most part:
https://archive.org/details/lamento_btvAny troubleshooting solution, look it up on aarinfantasy.
No.5696
Weird one today, "A Small Encounter" 18+ game jam title.
https://amiableapp.itch.io/a-small-encounterThis one was interesting, very short only about a half hour for two endings so the relationship wasn't super deep but I liked the concept. Percy the spider one day finds a butterfly trapped in his web and takes him into his home, they fuck and from there you have either the good end or the bad end, again very short game jam title.
One thing I thought was cool was the fact that both Percy and the butterfly, named Danaus, are actually insect-sized. There is a CG for spider-kun in particular where he is on the shoulder of the witch, it's just kind of neat and I always like miniboys. Another fun thing is the fact that the author was willing to include "weird" anatomy and gave the butterfly a proboscis which is used in the sex scene. There's some other worldbuilding with the butterfly actually being
a fae and there is talk about how they basically merge with a bug, interesting stuff that'd be cool in a longer work.
My only complaints are that the art is a bit jank especially in the H CGs, and that since it's so short the relationship doesn't feel deep enough for the choice that decides good/bad end. The worldbuilding is more interesting than the romance. Probably a 3/5
No.5697
>>5696>The worldbuilding is more interesting than the romance.Your review is enough to pique my interest; downloading now! I really enjoy when authors go out there and try something weird, whether that's strange worldbuilding or strange anatomy (I see that Mr. Spider has four arms as well).
Thanks for the rec!
No.5698
>>5696I've had this one downloaded for a while, but I haven't touched it yet because the art is so rough. Your review did move it up on my list!
>>5680>Tokyo OnmyojiNona, I am begging you to read it. It's so good. It's one of my favorite BL games, and like other anons have said, it's not a sequel to anything. It can be a little annoying to muddle through without a guide, so be warned, but it's so genuinely delightful.
>Tokyo Onmyoji never goes on salesI'm pretty sure it went on sale in early September on Steam?
No.5699
>>5698>I've had this one downloaded for a while, but I haven't touched it yet because the art is so rough. Completely understandable. I've done that a few times where the tag of something puts it on my to-read list, but the art style is amateurish/ugly it just sits unread. It feels unfair when it's a solo creator and they're clearly more of an author than artist, but I'm shallow like that.
No.5729
>>5728They changed the art style cause the first artist stepped down and I think this new one looks even better.The demon guy with a mask looked hot too but I got the impression from his CG that he may be a rapey route or bad end.
No.5730
>>5727I've been very excited for this one. The plot looks super interesting, although I'm not a fan of some of the character designs.
No.5734
>>5338So I ended up playing his route and it was okish. Had some cute moments but overall not that memorable. I tried to play Diago's too but got bored of it and dropped it. Grisedge VNs seem to have a fetish in humiliating their protagonists as much as possible, even more so than other BL VNs.
No.5741
>>5729Oh I just remembered that Holicworks VNs only have 4 LIs per VN, so yeah, the demon guy will probably only get a bad ending at best.
No.5758
This vampire game is coming out in December:
https://vndb.org/v50467https://www.dlsite.com/bl/announce/=/product_id/RJ01489941.html/?locale=en_USIt's interesting that some indie nobody could get Zizz Studio and Kanako Itou. Any chance it will be translated?
No.5759
>>5758>Zizz Studio and Kanako ItouOmg added to my backlog!!
>In a certain location in Tokyo, where thefts of corpses were rampant, one morning, Minazuki, an employee of a funeral company, arrived at the funeral home to find that the body that should have been in the coffin had disappeared. In its place was an unfamiliar, beautiful doll-like corpse. Enthralled by the scent of death, Minazuki, who had an attachment to death, immediately became captivated by the corpse, adoring and cherishing it. However, what appeared to be a corpse actually began to move—>A tale connecting humans and vampires, seeking eternity, rejecting it, and shattering it. Time, stand still. The woman is beautiful.The description sounds interesting but if it's unvoiced I can only see it getting a fantranslation or from the developer.
I hope to be wrong lol.
No.5761
>>5760On my own playthrough I was totally expecting meguro to be a N+C style edgy rapechad but I was pleasantly surprised with how they handled him.
No.5809
>>5808Suehiro my beloved… I'll need to read this.
Unrelated to Yumeno Kyuusaku in particular, but it's wild to me how many Japanese novels aren't available in English, when I went through a Bungo phase a while back I was super disapointed.
No.5812
>>5808>Why was Dogra Magra never translated into English.It's a little confusing. To make a good English translation, you'd have to put some effort into the language you chose.
No.5813
>>5808There's a French official translation of Dogra Magra and the book is in several libraries near where I live and where I work. I also looked that up because of Hashihime and I considered borrowing it but I need to get a new library card for this year. I don't remember all the books mentioned in the VN so I have to check that out and see what else I can read. Once I can read these books maybe I can go more into details about them here but that will take some time. Dogra Magra seems pretty long.
No.5842
I just realized that when it comes to JP VNs with official English translations I've only played Noiz's route from DMMD and UuultraC (which I dropped in the middle of the first route) and the others just didn't appeal to me (either art style and/or plot). Most of the JP VNs I've read are still untranslated … Unlucky for me damn.
No.5844
Regarding Yumeno Kyusaku's books after reading Hashihime of the old book town, I managed to borrow a copy of Dogra Magra today and started reading it. It's a big book but it's not really divided in chapters. I finished the first part which is a long introduction to explain what's going on and the big mystery to solve and what comes next are different documents written by one of the characters that may or may not help the main character get his memories back, but they're not really presented as separate chapters, technically. So it's pretty mysterious and I have no clue where this is going despite some really obvious foreshadowing. It feels like the foreshadowing is so obvious it has to be a trick to make readers jump to the wrong conclusions. It's narrated in a first person pov but I don't mind it in that case. Anyway, all of this to say that I'm not sure how long it will take me to finish reading it.
No.5881
>>5844Thanks!
I've made a thread for Japanese /lit/ discussion
>>>/ot/12140I'll be awaiting your review there!
No.5883
>>5881Thanks for making the thread! I haven't read more of the book yet but once I will I'll post more on the new thread.
No.5891
>>5418Is this still coming ? We're already in December.
No.5922
>>5883Nice! At least there will be the 2 of us!
No.5950
>>5891Oh well Togainu no Chi True Blood just released randomnly yesterday.
No.5951
>>5950Is Jast Blue involved in this?
No.5952
Steam sales just started. I bought a few games and VNs, and when it comes to BL I bought UuultraC, Paradise and Tokyo Onmyoji. I'm going to focus on games I bought a long time ago and put aside for years though so I won't start these VNs just yet but knowing they're on my laptop and that I saved money is good enough. I hesitated to buy Luckydog1 but the sale wasn't interesting yet for that one so I'll wait for next sales. I noticed that Tokyo Onmyoji is never on sale after checking several times the whole year so I thought I may as well just get it with everything else.
No.5953
>>5952>Tokyo OnmyojiFunnily enough it was half off during the beginning of September. But you’re right that it’s super rare seeing as it was only on sale once this year and not a single time last year.
No.5954
>>5951Doesn't seem like it, they're not listed anywhere on the Steam page.
No.5955
>>5952I tried to read Tokyo Onmyoji but couldn't get into it sadly :-/
No.5956
>>5955I quite like it personally tho I only did Meguro's route as the other guys didn't interest me.
No.5985
>>5951I heard someone say they might've used AI to translate it.
No.5988
>>5985I was going to say it sucks if that's true. But then I remembered the bullshit that was Slow Damage's localization and the translator bragging that she managed to insert her own unfunny jokes in the script. I have lots of games and visual novels in my backlog so I won't give that one a try yet but I'll keep it somewhere in my mind for later, I already read the original Togainu no Chi when Jast Blue made it available in English.
No.5989
I thought translation is the one thing AI is supposed to be good at, no ?
No.5990
>>5989If by "good" you mean a fast translation, then yes it's better, but the quality leaves much to be desired.
No.5991
>>5989I wouldn't trust them, they tend to lose track of the pronouns and can't accurately do stuff like wordplay. But I do think that overall they're good for quickly reading doujins that never stood a chance at getting picked up and I'd take a machine translation over no translation for VNs.
No.5992
>>5989From translators I know irl, when a client makes you work on editing a machine/AI translation it's just as much work as translating things yourself because of the many mistakes the AI software can invent if both languages are unrelated but it pays less. On top of that it pays less than actual translations so that raises the question of whether Nitro+Chiral even paid someone for that or if they wanted to save as much money as possible.
No.5993
I mean AI translations are far from perfect either but like … Human translations were already pretty controversial by themselves from what I've seen, the already mentioned Slow Damage TL being a perfect example.
No.5994
>>5993The ideal case would be competent translators being paid for their labor, I would be willing to pay more for that. It's annoying how it's not the case when Americans and sometimes British translators translate or localize video games or visual novels, I usually expect decent professional translations for novels and essays instead. TV shows, movies and anime have more restrictions because you have to take into account lipsynching and if there's enough space on screen for the translation for subtitles and enough time for the audience to read subtitles, especially when the languages are different enough that one word can be a whole sentence when translated. It's frustrating.
No.5995
>>5993The whole thing is so frustrating. I know that there's probably plenty of human translators out there who aren't clout-seeking memelords who ruin VNs on purpose but they're the ones who get noticed so they ruin it for everyone else. And current year internet discourse is often focused on extreme opinions so some people assume that if you don't like meme localisers it automatically means you want games to be shoved through deepl.
No.5996
Best VN y'all played this year ?
No.5997
>>5996Hundred Line, but I don't know if I'd consider it a true VN. In terms of more traditional VNs probably
>>5996Hundred Line, but I don't know if I'd consider it a true VN. Most of the VNs I've read this year have been pretty bad, I don't know what the best traditional one is.
I'm the anon who's been cataloging the ENVNs above so it's been a lot of those short middling ones. No.5998
>>5997Oh wow, embarrassing failure to type there, don't know how that happened, whoops!
Was the best one you've read nonna?
No.6000
>>5998I posted mine as well in this thread, for this year Taishou Mebiusline was my fave and Tokyo Onmyouji was my fave from the ones with an English TL.
No.6005
>>5996Luckydog1. Technical issues aside, I had a great time with it. Giancarlo deserved to win all those popularity polls.
No.6015
So Jast can translate the fandisk for Paradise but not Reconnect ? Did they get in trouble with Nitro Chiral for them to not get this localization ?
No.6017
>>6015Maybe since Reconnect is technically a separate game Jast needs to negociate for yet another contract to localize and release it? Or maybe Jast realized that not everyone who bought the original DMMD will bother buying Reconnect as well unless some time passed? I wonder what's going on from a business point of view because of how they planned to release Lamento but then hinted that they won't unless they remove the voice acting to save money and then way later they confirmed they won't release it anymore until further notice. I also wonder if Nitro+Chiral is aware of what happened with the abomination that was the Slow Damage localization. I know they knew about it and were asked by Jast if they were fine with changing so many things with the narration like making it a first person narration instead of a third person narration which ruined the entire thing imo, but I wonder if they realized how poorly received that was among people who read it in English and they decided to not trust Jast anymore, which caused them to translate and release the SFW version of Togainu no Chi without Jast's help. iirc Jast argued with Nitro+Chiral that changing the narration would work better on a Western audience and Nitro+Chiral probably agreed because they didn't know if that was true and they assumed that a Western based company would obviously know better than them. I know manga publishing companies can be really strict with their contracts so I assume it's the same with video games and visual novels studios. Who knows at this point.
No.6018
>>6016They’re so fucking bad at managing their BL stuff, I still have no idea why they chose a dogshit outdated VN like masquerade instead of fucking shingakkou.
No.6020
>>6018>I still have no idea why they chose a dogshit outdated VN like masquerade instead of fucking shingakkou.The japanese digital version of shingakkou doesn't have voice acting so my guess is that there's licensing issues with the seiyuu and JAST doesn't think people would want to buy the game without voice acting.
No.6021
>>6020What the hell, Japan… Even they can't afford the seiyuu costs? What's even the point? Bet everybody either got the disc release or pirated it.
No.6022
>>6017Lamento is hella long and probably outdated by today's standards so I assumed they just didn't want to go through the effort with that one in case it doesn't end up as profitable as other Nitro Chiral games. But Reconnect shouldn't have been that much of a hassle to translate comparatively and you'd think it'd be a sure bet to be profitable, I mean even non-fujos know about DMMD.
No.6028
>>6023Lmao it just released today. Wish I hadn't started playing Bewitching Sinners so I could've played this before my college session started. Maybe I'll put that one on pause for this if a walkthrough gets released quickly.
No.6030
From what I'm reading it looks like the TL for Paradise Musubi is a mess, as people are accusing it of being translated with AI/MTL. Same thing with the Eng translation for the game at
>>6023 looking at the current Stream reviews. I guess us eops are just cooked atp ugh ?
No.6031
>>6030>Companies guilt trip people into obtaining digital media legally to support the industry>They're rewarded with a bad experienceMany such cases. I heard the original dramatical murder fanpatch had some issues but at least you weren't expected to pay money for it.
No.6051
>>5451I heard that MC in that game is full bottom and people were complaining about it lol.
No.6052
>>5433From what I heard his route doesn't have any real romance, the most romantic thing Yukihito does is lick Akira's wound on his hand, it's a "bro" route lul.
No.6086
>>6085I haven’t gotten the chance to because of work, only read to the second sex scene in Matsuda’s route kek
No.6088
>>6085i'm kinda interested, are any of the new love interests any good? Takara's dad is pretty nice looking
No.6110
Can nonas tell me the best BL games that are currently available on Steam?
No.6114
>>6110Hashihime and UUULTRAc
No.6119
>>6110The last one I've been playing recently Bewitching Sinners has exceeded my expectations, probably the best Western BL VN I've played so far.
No.6120
>>6118Seconding Luckydog1. They should really bring down the price for the English release though. The original version was on sale recently for like under 3 bucks USD.
No.6126
>>6111I just started this the other day. Got the Keisuke good ending, which feels like a fanfic Keisuke wrote while he was crying on the floor of the coffee shop lol. It's cool getting around to playing this when I remember peeking at the CGs and doujins over a decade ago.
There were a notable amount of spelling errors early on which was kind of annoying–it's a visual NOVEL, editors you have one fucking job!!!
My favorite character so far is Rin but I don't vibe with the idea of Akira fucking him(which I vaguely remember being the case), sucks that he's not also a top. Akira is a really cute bottom. I'm gonna try to bag Motomi next or accidentally get a Keisuke bad end. We'll see!
No.6127
>>6126I blame Keisuke's bad end for putting me on the path to become a gurofag later in life. It felt shocking to me at the time, but I kind of loved it.
Rin is one the most compelling of the options imo, since I feel like he gets a lot of spotlight on his personality and background that isn't entirely based on his relationship to Akira.
No.6132
>>6126>KeisukeI think he's kind of a dipshit but by the end it was hurting my heart that there was no way to save him outside of his good ending. I think his good ending should have been the "secret" one instead of Nano's route. The desire to save him should be nagging at you while you play the rest of the game, not something you can trip over on the first go!
>RinI read the previous threads for snippets of convo about TNC and agree with everybody who, like
>>6127, said he is the most developed. Rare instance of favorite character not being in the favorite ship. I think there should have been an extra scene of him topping Akira after being reunited.
>MotomiCute! Love that his route is kicked off by him catching Akira's punch (hot!). I loved the teasing and how sweet the sex was. Second favorite route.
>ShikiThis dude lmao. I like how he acts but so much of what he does lacks the narrative weight to make it compelling to me. His bad endings just had me like "okay man". The good ending secured the #1 ship spot for me, but only just so. I think I would have been crazier about this ship if I had read it when I was younger haha.
>NanoBecause of his backstory he's allowed to be an off-putting weirdo munching on tree bark but twisting that into a romance with him was too much of a stretch for me. I think fleeing with him could have been wrapped into Motomi/Rin's ending, he could become an extremely ironic son/brother figure to replace the one they lost.
>AkiraI've always loved his design, so I'm glad I ended up liking him. I like it when bottoms are tough but beautiful men. His backstory makes his wooden dialogue and stoicism believable, which was nice because ukes who are just cranky for no good reason are fucking annoying. I love how the initial misunderstanding with Keisuke went.
>>6127I wish I had been able to go into this blinder because getting jumpscared by the Keisuke bad ends would have ruled. The "meta" narrative of "childhood friend never wins the MC bowl" so he goes apeshit and kills the MC is so funny.
I really loved the "Akira is one wrong move away from noncon bad end" atmosphere that stayed the whole game (does anybody have any BL game recs with a similar vibe?). Ultimately I liked TNC but I also think my expectations were too high. I would love if they did yet another version with more meat on it (and way more CGs). Thanks for reading my blogpost. <(￣︶￣)>
No.6133
>>6132Slow Damage, Paradise (MC gets raped by pretty much all LIs + side characters), Pigeon Blood (same thing with Paradise), Shinggakou Noli Me Tangere (first 3 routes are vanilla leaning but the 4th route and some bad endings have some very bad non-con), Galtia (lots of rape in the white haired and black haired Kings routes + rape in true route + bad endings rape with side characters), Kichiku Megane (lots of rape scenes, both done by or done against MC depending if you choose the seme or uke personality), Bara no Ki no Bara no Hanasaku. Only the first 2 are officially translated in English tho.
No.6137
>>6133My goat, thank you for the spoonfeed.
>choose the seme or uke personalityNow that's innovation. Glasses that make you a top.
No.6138
>>6137I mean unless they’re a scrawny nerd aren’t glasses usually a seme trope?
No.6139
>>6138Are they? I'm a meganefag and I'd say it's about equal, but who knows what other factors drive my own experience toward this conclusion.
No.6141
>>6111>>6114>>6118>>6119>>6120>>6121I'm the one that asked!!!
Thank youuuuuuu ♥3333333
Got a new computer now i'm going to be playin games und stuff…
SUPER EXCITED (how do you even spell excited?)
Anyway i'll check ALL of these out.
No.6142
Ouch these games are expensive i'll wait for a big sale
No.6143
>>6142Nonny you can check places like
fitgirl or f95 for free downloads if you're okay with having to dig through gooner stuff to find them.
aarinfantasy still has old translations for Togainu and Dramatical Murder if you want to play the non-JAST versions too. No.6144
>>6142I'd have to dig, but I might have DMMD and DMMD2 english fantrans on some old pc somewhere. I could try and stick it on catbox if you're interested.
No.6146
>>6144You are too kind! They are expensive but I love to splurdge and show off on my Steam profile thereafter.
Also is this bundle
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/56460/MangaGamers_Yaoi_Collection/ worth buying at at least -25% price or so?
No.6147
>>5277Whats the name of the game in OP's image if anyone knows?
No.6150
>>6149That's Bakshi and Gian from Bad Egg in the middle, the FD for Luckydog1.
No.6152
>>6151I've only ever dropped otome games so far and I haven't even started Paradise so it's a more general comment. But if I were you I would either just drop that VN already or make it run in the background while doing other things at the same time in case some later scenes could be a bit more interesting.
No.6153
>>6151imo drop it, even something popular is not for everyone and your time and enjoyment are valuable. i played it all, the art is cool but the plot is retarded, there are only 3 routes, one is memetic for how cliche it is and the last/true is a troll ending.
No.6154
>>6151If you have a non-con/rape/seeing the protagonist suffer kink then it might be worth it to power through, but otherwise you're not losing out on that much dropping it.
No.6155
>>6150Thanks! I vaguely recognized the artstyle but had no idea who the characters were.
>>6151Overall Paradise is probably one of my least favorite BL VNs, but I still had fun with it. I really enjoyed Azuma's inner monologues.
The only route I liked was Mitsugi's, and even then that was just because of the banter. H-scenes were cringe.
Matsuda's route is alright. Decent H-scenes, but
his personality sort of does a 180 though, so unless you enjoy the rape-is-love trope, you're not missing out on much.Takara's route is laughably dogshit.
All the other ends are rape kink material.
No.6156
What were the best H scenes have y'all read ?
No.6162
>>6085Do they ever address why that big buff guy was plapping that one incel-type guy? Do they get a cg or any mention of their fling?
No.6163
>>6162NTA but I finished reading Paradise Musubi last week and no, that detail is never mentioned or explained from what I remember at least. In fact, the island side characters sans Hongou and Shimada are barely present aside from the prequel reverse pov chapters/extra scenarios.
>>6156From the ones I've read recently, I enjoyed the ones in Lkyt. and Room No. 9 because of the voice acting and the sfx kek, found them hot.
>>6151If you're not enjoying it that much I'd recommend dropping it. Unless you love rape/noncon or like any of the LIs for whatever reason, you're not missing much.
No.6168
I finally finished UuultraC after procrastinating for way too long after the first chapter
It was… just good! The way certain plot points are left as huge open mysteries and the lack of a final epilogue feel as if Rinko was exhausted from drawing so many CGs so she wrapped up the story ASAP to be done with it
First couple is my fave, I love established couples and how much smex they have and Shou is such a classically lovable MC, Akira is funny too
Third couple was awesome and had the overall best story, and I'm such a sucker for KawoShin/Yoshikaru type ships, too bad their ending was so abrupt
Second couple… I agree with
>>5635 from forever ago, but a lot of reviews seem to like them the most??? Their chapter could've been removed in favor of making the other two chapters stronger and I'm sure the story would've been immediately improved, you barely even learn anything about the LI aside from the fact he loves Shirou
Still a really fun and interesting VN, if enough fujos tried touting it as some deep, "peak fiction" masterpiece it could probably build up a cult following despite having some major flaws
No.6174
>>6168"if enough fujos tried touting it as some deep, "peak fiction" masterpiece it could probably build up a cult following despite having some major flaws"
U just described Hashihime nonna lol. At least it used to be that way back in the day, dunno how popular it still is.
No.6178
I don't want too many westoids to find out about Uuultra C in case some spergs deem Kurosawa Rinko a terf and start a harrassment campaign after they read the second route.
No.6179
>>6178I have seen tifs praise it for pro-transgender content but I haven't played Uuultrac myself. Is it actually gender critical? The crossdressers in Hashihime made me think she is supportive.
No.6180
>>6179I'm surprised any of them would praise it. I was referring to the scene with the sexual predator transbian. I found it surprisingly based.
No.6181
>>6153>>6154I don't own this game, just had it on my wishlist for a while, but that's unfortunate to hear. The premise sounded promising as someone who's into horror but it sounds like Paradise doesn't actually do a good job at psychological horror.
No.6182
>>6180They claimed it was good trans representation kek I have to play it sometime and see
No.6215
Can anyone who's played through Uuultra C tell me if the second route love interest is actually a tranny because I really don't feel like finishing it if that's the case. Also am I just stupid or is the story intentionally vague and confusing? Does it make sense by the end of the game?
No.6216
>>6215No, he's a fruit. He isn't even a drag queen. His character was written in such a pointless way.
>Also am I just stupid or is the story intentionally vague and confusing?It's intentional. It forces you to replay to fully understand the whole story.
No.6225
>>6215>Does it make sense by the end of the game?Pretty much, but the other nona is right that a second read through will solidify your understanding of the whole thing
I read back through a chunk of the first route to clear up a couple questions I had and even with understanding what's happening, the pacing is still notably bad
Anyways, I liked the third route much more than the second, you should stick to it! I feel like if the second route was taken out and the other two were fleshed out more, the final product would've been much stronger
No.6229
2 solid routes and then everything goes off the rail, sounds like an Adelta VN alright.
No.6232
>>6229I'm reading Hashihime right now, does that one also go off the rails after the first 2 or so routes??
No.6237
>>6232I've seen so many people straight up recommending to only play the first 2 routes of Hashihime lul, but who knows, maybe ur gonna be a contrarian and think they're actually peak.
No.6239
>>6232I was going to say yes but it's subjective so I recommend you read all the routes. The worst one for me was the last one but it's very short so read it anyway and form your own opinion in case you could like it. I was going to the say the third route isn't that weird but the way it ends… Just read it yourself. If you ever see anyone telling you only the first two routes matter it's because they're the ones with almost all the explanations on what's going on and why.
No.6241
>>6239>>6236>>6237Thank you for your replies!
I haven't reached any route but this is reassuring. Regardless, I'd still finish it even if the later routes were a mess, since I quite enjoy the characters and the story.
No.6250
>>6168>but a lot of reviews seem to like them the most???Do those reviewers have trans flags in their bios or use the word 'queer' in every paragraph? That would explain it.
>Their chapter could've been removed in favor of making the other two chapters stronger I would just rewrite it and make Shirou have sex with anybody else, crack ship or not.
>>6180>>6182>transbianProof? She's just a sex-starved bislut with a dildo.
No.6257
>>6256They messed up Hanazawa so badly ughh.
No.6259
>>6252No, IMO opinion OOE routes are a lot more varied and the last few routes are good too… BUT I am biased because I like the first one the best.
No.6262
>>6260Agreed. I'm pretty sure she is a shotafag too but wants to avoid anything too controversial. Fans used to send literal letters to mangakas back in the day we should bring it back. She needs to know how many incestfags there are to support her. I'll check out that fanfic now thanks for the rec anon
No.6268
>>6262A blvn like slow damage with an actual shota route would be amazing
No.6269
>>6268Agreed. Incredibly based opinion. I'd even love a shota for the main character for once.
No.6270
>>6268It just occurred to me, I dunno if Rin from Togainu was supposed to be a shota or if he's just freshly 18. I do recall that there was a timeskip in his epilogue that made him grow considerably.