Visual Novels(eroge) translation progress [update 9/26/2012]

[pandahao]

within time they will :O hopefully lol

[Rednal]

And in the meantime, I'll be waiting for Mahou Tsukai no Yoru to get patched fully... >.< Do want!

[RozalinLover]

I've played my fair share of visual novels. A bunch of which I won't mention, but some of them include:
Shuffle! (my first VN)
Baldr Force(on DC)
11eyes
Princess Lover
Air
Clannad
School Days
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Pastel (irrelevant to the next two)
Pastel Chime
Pastel Chime Continue
Chaos;Head
Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu
Steins;Gate
and the recent one I played was Katawa Shoujo.

Heard of a few other good ones out there that I might consider playing, any recommendations?

[Aphrah]

Just got around to finishing Muv Luv Extra, now.. it's time for Muv Luv Unlimited! :3

[raspberrylicious]

Apparently Rewrite is set to be done within two months.

[Alice Twilight]

I've been going through Katawa Shoujo lately.

[Beedlebud]

So I finished the Onikakushi Arc of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni.

*exhales* Wow, I know just about everything that happens and it still freaks me the hell out. Spooky.

A few things bother me though, I know they'll get solved much later:

~MAJOR SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU DIDN'T WATCH/READ TO KAI~:

Spoiler:

Why were those men chasing Keiichi? Why were there dudes just waiting out there for him?
Didn't most of the arcs not go much longer than the festival? I thought Miyo launched her plan on that night or the night after, but this one continued for days afterward. Why the delay?
Was the object that Mion was holding before Keiichi killed her a marker? If so, why was it taken when the strangers ransacked the place?
Keiichi got Hinamizawa Syndrome right? How and when?

Uguu...I almost feel like I haven't watched both seasons of the anime, so many questions.

Even so, I felt like the anime did a good job capturing most of it. I'm assuming it's later where they start butchering the VN?

[pandahao]

updated the list

[Aphrah]

I wonder what Aroduc's secret project is.. o_o

And Muv Luv Alternative is amazing. As is the whole trilogy. God Tier stuff right there.

[pandahao]

yeahhhh would def buy it if it wasnt 20,000 YEN!!@!$@!%!#

[raspberrylicious]

I 100%'d Kanon.
It was okay...

[Aphrah]

yeahhhh would def buy it if it wasnt 20,000 YEN!!@!$@!%!#

The LE? I heard people say the normal ed. on amazon.co.jp isn't that expensive..

[pandahao]

yeahhhh would def buy it if it wasnt 20,000 YEN!!@!$@!%!#

The LE? I heard people say the normal ed. on amazon.co.jp isn't that expensive..

yeah the LE XD

[Aphrah]

Well, yeah.. the LE has a fucking figure/figma of Sumika in her Eishi suit.. *_*

[magusgs]

A lack of good story-driven JRPGs with romantic elements initially drove me to sample Japanese VN-RPGs about 7 years ago. I was already a fan of visual novels, but I soon exhausted the catalogue of games available in English, and was more interested in games that wove story, romance, and gameplay together. Back then only a couple of mediocre VN-RPGs had been translated, so the only option was to play them in Japanese. I found a tool to capture the text in most PC games and managed to play through a few using automated machine translation with decent comprehension. I took a year of Japanese, which taught me hiragana and katakana as well as basic vocabulary and grammar. This provided a foundation for self-study—basically learning words and kanji as I play, alternating between complete machine translation and word-by-word lookup.

Years later I know hundreds of kanji and can understand a good deal of common dialogue without assistance—and more importantly, can grasp the gist of untranslated text in menus and tutorials. Visual novel translation has picked up significantly, although translated PC VN-RPGs remain rare. By the time Sengoku Rance, Aselia the Eternal, and Kamidori Alchemy Meister had been translated I’d already enjoyed them in Japanese with little loss in comprehension (however the colloquial and highly stylized comic banter in Rance just became gibberish when passed through the translator).

I’ve played a large swathe of VN-RPGs, with Eushully being my favorite developer, and Softhouse Chara behind that. Those who’ve played Kamidori Alchemy Meister know that Eushully can craft a highly addictive gameplay system, but since the game’s story was nothing special they probably don’t realize that Eushully is also capable of weaving captivating and surprisingly dark fantasy epics. I highly recommend War Goddess Zero, which is a prequel in a chain of games exploring a unified fantasy setting (the War Goddess and Princess General series). Good and evil, law and chaos, angels vs. demons are common themes in Eushully’s games, and many of their games have alternate routes depending on your choices that are distinct from simply choosing a heroine. To facilitate this, their protagonists usually bear a fundamental personal conflict, whether from being a half-breed, a soul residing in an unnatural host, or just an ordinary human faced with extraordinary circumstances.