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The fact that Hou was going to be translated by MG got under my radar too, good to know.

It had, that I can remember, simple animations for lips, eyelids, walking movements during close ups, the two openings made by Shinkai Makoto and an animated ending. --- I noticed on db that a patch for Higurashi Hou was released in january... has anyone tried it?

^ Getting the 5 main endings is enough to play Agave, there's no need to play the sub-routes to unlock it. About that, I'm done with the 5 girls too and was surprised by Wanko's route, I liked it. I'm reading the sub-routes first to keep stuff like Momoyo vs Shakadou for last. I'm pissed off for Kuki Ageha though... why does this thing have a sequel and 354 FD and not a route for her? Isn't her HAHAHA! good enough?

Fate arc is 25-30 hours of repeated kitchen sketches and Holy Grail war rules, if you were able to go through that or the first part of Muv Luv to get to the interesting parts you can probably do the same with Rewrite or Clannad until the comedic parts are over imo. It will take a while, but it should be feasible. I wonder if mr. "since pokemon games are in kana if you know the language well you can read whatever in kana" and other such bullshit is getting the implications now. I'd guess he doesen't, but I'll lurk the chat to find out.

Majikoi I didn't expect this to live up to its reputation and in fact it's not really surprising me, but still I'm enjoying it to some degree. The Kazama Family bunch is nothing I would spend time talking about, but this game has a lot of side characters that probably won't appear on screen long enough to get boring. I've played Yukie and Chris and now I'm starting Momoyo's route. The prologue part was about fine and I have at least mixed feeling toward Yukie since in her route there's that Wakamoto's voiced badass of the prime minister (and, well, I'll admit that I found the Matsukaze thing to be quite funny), but Chris had no such saving grace. I noticed that I basically like people from 2-S more, Jun is fav chara alongside the prime minister and Kokoro is my fav girl despite not usually being into that kind of character, which is quite strange considered that in this medium I have a bit of a soft spot for genki heroines. Also, I won't name them all but there are a lot of side characters, like Azumi, that strike me the right way. Also, thumb up for the OST since while I don't really care about voice acting in this medium as long it's somehow proper, in genres like comedy it makes the difference and bgm isn't bad either. Art looks good, especially the sprites but it has a somewhat low number of CGs that to be fair -when taking into account how expensive this thing got because of voice acting- it's easily forgivable. I wonder if this game is really 50+ hours long, doesen't look like that for now.

If you managed to read Fate and Muv Luv you can go through both Rewrite and Clannad all right.

For Utawarerumono I'd like for someone else to confirm if , since it has been a few years for me and I don't really remember but I can tell you that About Romanesque, you can see the gameplay for example at 18:00, point being getting the best combination of spells in order to make more points... to get more spells required for the quests you have to go through to reach all the endings A lighthearted one, it's mainly a comedy/slice of life and imo is very nice. I'm sorry to hear that about MGQ and Kikokugai, but if it's any consolation I can tell you I found the second game of MGQ to be a lot better than the first (that truthfully wasn't as bad as I expected). Ah, if you liked Demonbane there are two short games from the same author that have a translation, Guilty Crown Lost Christmas and Dra-Koi. Lost Christmas is a youtube translation though, here's the first I, for one, liked enough Demonbane, liked Lost Christmas even more (I really disliked the anime, but the vn does what the anime tried and failed to do) and disliked Dra-Koi despite it having a nice idea behind it.

Utawarerumono and Girlish Grimoire Littlewitch Romanesque have both gameplay, great art and nice characters. They are both medieval/past-tinged fantasy (japanese the former and european the latter) and both have sexual contents, without rape and such. Another fitting game would be Monster Girl Quest, with a few drawbacks -bad art and the reverse-rape/torture when you lose- but looks a lot like a game you might like. If you can bear comedy rape and a rapist MC that isn't kind, funny -though a lot of people find him funny- or interesting then there's also Sengoku Rance that has both great art and gameplay and a fantasy medieval Japan -warring state period- setting. Changing completely genre, there's Kikokugai that features great characters, fights, a very cool cyberpunk setting and great atmospheres. It's very dark. There are two version avaiable: the original one has graphic sexual contents while the newer is almost ten years younger and features completely redone graphics, voices and doesen't graphically show sexual contents. For the first experience I'd suggest the original. Furthermore, if Cartagra is one of your favourites you should really get your hands on Kara no Shoujo since Cartagra has ties with it. Kara no Shoujo has pretty much all of Cartagra qualities -but better- and shares none of the defects. That said, Cartagra is easy-going to some extent while Kara no Shoujo is not and that might not be a positive thing for some people. Also, long story short, Muv-Luv Alternative, Steins;Gate and Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO. There are also things I won't say about one or more of these titles because of spoilers, but yeah, there's more.

Last time I forgot to drop a comment about Romanesque, I'll do that now It was slightly different from what I expected but nonetheless it was a cute one. Ooyari managed to stand out even more than usual imo, I ended up rating the artwork a full 10/10. I feel like Quartett! charades at times was able to reach slightly higher peaks but this one has so many styles mixed in and all are so beautiful that in the end it probably edges over a little, and the backgrounds were awesome to say the least, they managed to drive my attention away from the characters amazing me each time a new one showed up. They are the very best I got to see in this medium up to now. This game also features a good OST, more than proper. The game itself is actually pretty short, I think I got to reach all the endings reading about 15 hours worth of text, might have been more but not by much, planning about how to go about them efficently probably took me more than reading half of them all. All in all it was a fantasy themed comedy/sol, with short stories for each heroine that were a bit longer for Kaya and Aria. It's a game that really doesen't ask for anything other than being cute and gets the job done, as it is something that gets to make the player smile here and there. I appreciated the approach, because it's actually really hard to make something genuinely funny and is still something really personal, but felt that Romanesque wasn't so "mild" as to be boring, though it wouldn't surprise me to hear about people that might have gotten a bit bored with it along the way. The only little letdown was that most epilogues were too short, but I didn't particularly care for most of the stories anyway. Won't even count the fact that Domino was a pretty presenceless mc (I prefer that to reading wot about what's going on inside the head of the usual moron) and overall I enjoyed the cast, Aria probably a bit more of the others. The minigame grew a bit monotonous but as I often say I'm really easy to please when it comes to gameplay, I still had fun for most of the game.

Eden Cheesy, uninspired, boring and whatnot but with good backgrounds and Tenmon, who even alone could make trash* look good. The man who wrote this knows better than that, ef proves it. *note that I'm not really talking about Eden when I say trash

I'm on the verge of dropping a vn for the first time, Comyu. I don't like chuuni and started this one ready to close an eye about that in deference to its other qualities, but at this point chuuni doesn't even register as a problem anymore in my book. I'm pretty much at the start of the last third of Benio's route but I don't think I can win this battle.

About YU-NO, the walkthrough on vndb isn't bad at all. I came across a couple of problems using that, the first time in the shed (you mustn't click on the door in the back while it says something like "click on everything") and then, probably in Kanna's route, when a certain someone wasn't showing up in front of her apartment (moving around aimlessy solved that for me), but is otherwise fairly reliable. Back to DC, I've been conflicted about moving to DC 2 for a long time now, it looks fairly appealing but I found the first one to be an excruciating experience... still haven't decided what to do.

A couple of days ago I read on db that Mahoyo tl project was most probably dead edit: found it https://vndb.org/r23839.8

Ty. I hope for a patch to come out eventually, iirc someone was interested in making one.

Atm I'd vote Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas (that isn't listed).