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Visual Novel Translation Status (10/29/2016)

This week’s header image comes from our six of our seven releases (including one 3DS version, and one late addition), starting from the top left in clockwise order: 

Happy Halloween… on Monday! Okay, so, if you didn’t tell us last week, let us know what you’re dressing up as come All Hallows’ Evening!

Anyway! Welcome to our weekly VNTS (Visual Novel Translation Status) series, in which we track visual novel translation updates in-house (we don’t rely on /jp/ posts on 4ch, for example) and post it for your enlightenment and enjoyment each Saturday. If you find any errors, or you think a project is missing from this list, please let me know in the comments.

The Short Version: Only the New Stuff

New Releases!

Removed from the Lists This Week

All the Game Updates:

Fan Translation Projects

Fan Translation Projects

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JAST USA Projects

JAST USA (Updates; Archive)

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MangaGamer Projects

MangaGamer (Updates)

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Sekai Project Projects

Sekai Project (Update Page)

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Other
  • Here’s a handy link to sort Sekai Project’s Steam releases by release date: link

Misc. Projects

Other Projects

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— Commentary Section —

Zakabox™ Commentary

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Decay’s Musings

Boy, this sure was a busy week. Seven releases are a lot. And I’m not particularly pumped to play any of them, oddly enough. They all seem fine, except for Dragon Girl, but I just can’t really get excited about them. I think I might play Myth some day but not anytime soon. The freeware doujin thing looks like the kinda simple quality you’d expect from such a thing. Dragon Girl has a pretty abominable-looking translation and it’s a porn-heavy game with the porn taken out and no 18+ option. Ne no Kami looks pretty good if you’re into that kind of thing but I’m not actually into Japanese  mythology/fantasy. Root Letter I’ve heard some very mixed things about and I don’t have a console anyway. And Corpse Party has had a billion releases so far. Apparently this is the best version of that game? I’m just not really into Japanese horror.

Yeesh, what big old fat blob of apathy that above paragraph is. I can tell you what does look exciting: Memory’s Dogma. I really like what I’ve seen of that so far. I haven’t tried the demo yet, but I’m eager to see it and what the rest of the first chapter looks like. I hope they manage to execute on the concept well. The early impressions I’ve seen have been positive.

And Steins;Gate 0 comes out in a month! That’s something I just might have to buy a PS4 for. Well, that, Persona 5, and a bunch of other stuff. It’s actually kind of tough for me to scrape together the cash for a console though, especially since I also wanted to upgrade my computer. But the siren song of Steins;Gate calls, and I can’t ignore it. S;G is easily my favorite visual novel, just as Persona is my favorite JRPG series; it would be mad for me to not get a PS4 at this point. Time to start pinching those pennies and start up my healthy diet of daily ramen again.

The Dies irae kickstarter is also happening soon. How soon? Well, supposedly within the next few days, but apparently the message on their site is kind of weirdly worded and not 100% conclusive. Basically, don’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen until next month or later, or maybe even expect it. Still, if the rumored crew of Conjueror, Garejei, Steiner, and GundamAce are indeed the translators, that’s a project they have been worked on for quite some time now and is probably nearing completion if it’s not already fully translated. A kickstarter very soon and a release not terribly far behind it wouldn’t be totally unexpected. I just hope they bother marketing it beyond occasional posts on their Japanese blog.

Oh yeah, and Corona Blossom Vol 2. We almost forgot about this new release, but we managed to sneak it in just in the nick of time (hence the lack of a banner spot). To be honest I don’t know anything about this series except that the purple haired girl never wears panties in the promo art. She’s a space pirate, right? Is that just the space pirate fashion? Is that part of the Metroid canon? Pretty sure I’ve never seen any of them wear panties either, now that I think about it. I guess that settles it, space pirates never wear panties.

 



TAYsteful™ Thoughts

I have but one thing to say this week:

Ding, dong, “Please Bang My Wife” is dead!

It’s off the list, it won’t be missed!

Good riddance.

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Have a good week, everybody!

Tay

I'm the Fuwanovel community admin and a big fan of Visual Novels. The easiest way to get a hold of me is via a PM on the Fuwanovel Forums, by twitter (@ArchmageTay), or by email.

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Solifar Estude
Solifar Estude
7 years ago

Wooo. Grisaia Phantom Trigger got me hyped good. Ninja girl confirmed best girl.
Let’s hope the complete *cough* adult *cough* translation of Meikyuu & Rakuen are finished before then~

Decto
Decto
Reply to  Solifar Estude
7 years ago

Yea, i’m quite hyped for that, although i do wonder if the original cast would make an appearance or not, who knows, maybe Yuuji would make a great teacher.

Solipso
Solipso
7 years ago

You missed Princess Evangile W Happiness. They got TL up to 66%.

Katie
Katie
7 years ago

I really wish I could get into Steins;Gate, but the protag is so Alex Jones level of conspiracy theorist, it just makes me hate him.

Decay
Reply to  Katie
7 years ago

It’s sometimes hard to tell what Okabe believes, and what he doesn’t, but it is clear that he exaggerates everything. Like he obviously doesn’t believe he’s talking to anyone when he’s talking into his phone that’s turned off, nor does he think (at first) that an organization is after him. He’s just putting on a front. There’s actually a lot you can say about the front Okabe puts on and for what purpose he does it, as well as how his friends handle it. It’s surprisingly deep.

Katie
Katie
Reply to  Decay
7 years ago

I wish I could see it that way. I know people that are that crazy and paranoid, so being reminded of them in the vn made it hard to separate the two.

wyldstrykr
wyldstrykr
7 years ago

and dal segno will be released first before princess evangile…..
not that im complaining or someething but still……

littleshogun
littleshogun
7 years ago

Sorry for late posting my VNTS Review for this week. As for Dies Irae, I don’t think October was possible for starting the kickstarter now that October was almost end, but let’s see it later.

http://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/1492-the-party-beneath-the-sakura-tree-review/

Mochisato
Mochisato
7 years ago
imcoming
imcoming
7 years ago

any one knows how to change fonts in Sakura games?

PhleBuster
7 years ago

Miniature Garden is now 50% translated!