Fucking why?Adabana is blocked in Poland and, apparently, in many other European countries. ¯\(ツ)/¯
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
Because Aniplex is shit, regionblocking is why I left manga and anime and now I mostly focus on VN, ofc Aniplex and other publishers had to fuck it up as well at some point.Fucking why?
Surely there's a reason why Adabana is blocked but ATRI isn't.Because Aniplex is shit
If it isn't blocked in NA I expect the reason to be because of licensing (and thus because Aniplex is shit), if it's blocked in NA as well Aniplex is still shit.Surely there's a reason why Adabana is blocked but ATRI isn't.
Will be up on nyaa 10 minutes after they go up on Steam, so if the publisher actively doesn't want your money, I don't see any reason not to passively give them the middle finger.In that case it is probably just an oversight that ATRI isn't region-blocked on Steam.
Damn. I was looking forward to both of those titles.
ATRI is region locked for you?So I'll probably just take a wait-and-see approach if Adabana and ATRI are still region-locked by the time they launch on Steam.
Right now the store page for ATRI isn't region locked, but the websites for Adabana, ATRI, and Aniplex.exe are all region locked.ATRI is region locked for you?
Put it on your watchlistAh I was late to the Galaxy Dragon party lol. I always forget about this thread, sorry. >_<
I finished Marco yesterday and while I really loved the presentation, humor, and basically everything else, I found myself mixed about the story-telling:
Marco finished! Around 6 hours to complete, I could see some folks taking less and some a bit more, especially on auto mode. All around just an extremely fun read, great music, amazing animation, awesome CGs (the over 1000 is no joke), lots of options, and overall high quality. I think I would have liked it to be a tinge longer, though only because I enjoyed my time with it so much. The story is not necessarily going to go down as a classic per se, though the high quality of everything else is going to be a hard shake for any VN to follow.
I can definitely agree with your issues with the story.I finished Marco yesterday and while I really loved the presentation, humor, and basically everything else, I found myself mixed about the story-telling:
Oh, and a quick heads-up in case anyone likes physicals:
The Japanese version includes English support, so you can import that if you want a physical edition of Marco.
I would completely classify all of those as visual novels. I consider Ace Attorney and Death Mark as a VN with gameplay elements. Though I would be completely receptive to folks arguing to the contrary.I wonder, do the following titles classify as visual novels? Ace Attorney, Death Mark, Doki Doki Literature Club, Tokimeki check in? The first two still have a decent amount of gameplay, the latter ones are more akin to dating sims.
Can you recommend a shorter VN that is not too japanese in its writing?
Long Post Incoming:I'd like to dip my toes into visual novels. I like narrative games with interesting characters, dialogues and an engaging story: Firewatch, Red Strings Club, Tacoma or even Soma.
I wonder, do the following titles classify as visual novels? Ace Attorney, Death Mark, Doki Doki Literature Club, Tokimeki check in? The first two still have a decent amount of gameplay, the latter ones are more akin to dating sims.
I'd like to point out that I really like my first four examples, from the other four I only fully enjoyed Ace Attorney (zany courtroom drama) and DDLC (the genre twist).
Can you recommend a shorter VN that is not too japanese in its writing?
With "not too japanese" I mean clunky english translations, prudish humour or sexism and that obnoxious 'tough guy' stereotype - all those turned me off Death Mark.
I hope someone has an idea. Available platforms are Nintendo Switch and Mac/Steam.
In addition to the recommendations you have already gotten, all of which I second, I would suggest also looking at the recently released Murder by Numbers. It is a detective story inspired by Ace Attorney that features picross mini-games during the investigation segments. I haven't finished it yet, but the reception has been quite positive. It is available for Windows and the Switch:I'd like to dip my toes into visual novels. I like narrative games with interesting characters, dialogues and an engaging story: Firewatch, Red Strings Club, Tacoma or even Soma.
I wonder, do the following titles classify as visual novels? Ace Attorney, Death Mark, Doki Doki Literature Club, Tokimeki check in? The first two still have a decent amount of gameplay, the latter ones are more akin to dating sims.
I'd like to point out that I really like my first four examples, from the other four I only fully enjoyed Ace Attorney (zany courtroom drama) and DDLC (the genre twist).
Can you recommend a shorter VN that is not too japanese in its writing?
With "not too japanese" I mean clunky english translations, prudish humour or sexism and that obnoxious 'tough guy' stereotype - all those turned me off Death Mark.
I hope someone has an idea. Available platforms are Nintendo Switch and Mac/Steam.
I can second the aforementioned Aviary Attorney and Analogue: A Hate Story. They are short and don't have the issues you described.I'd like to dip my toes into visual novels. I like narrative games with interesting characters, dialogues and an engaging story: Firewatch, Red Strings Club, Tacoma or even Soma.
I wonder, do the following titles classify as visual novels? Ace Attorney, Death Mark, Doki Doki Literature Club, Tokimeki check in? The first two still have a decent amount of gameplay, the latter ones are more akin to dating sims.
I'd like to point out that I really like my first four examples, from the other four I only fully enjoyed Ace Attorney (zany courtroom drama) and DDLC (the genre twist).
Can you recommend a shorter VN that is not too japanese in its writing?
With "not too japanese" I mean clunky english translations, prudish humour or sexism and that obnoxious 'tough guy' stereotype - all those turned me off Death Mark.
I hope someone has an idea. Available platforms are Nintendo Switch and Mac/Steam.
What about Reincarnation tho?The PC version of FataMoru Remastered is going to be available soonish.
What about Reincarnation tho?
It was published by Dramatic Create, so they might be the ones owning the rights.It'll be forever stuck on the Vita.
Joking aside, who owns the worldwide publishing rights for the Revenants Edition? I imagine it's yet another legal minefield to navigate since Reincarnation was a joint project between Novectacle and another company which name escaped me.
Is there any new content?The PC version of FataMoru Remastered is going to be available soonish.
Nothing that I know of. This release contains the redrawn art in the widescreen aspect ratio released in the Dream of the Revenants edition, with the exception of Reincarnation. It might have the QoL improvements from the console version as well, though.Is there any new content?
Unfortunately Valve must have rejected it or MG didn't want to submit it for whatever reason.Soon after after graduating to grade two of high school, Shinji Fukigami saw a spirit. He had seen her before, but didn't know her name, and of course hadn't talked with her before. She was a student in his class.
Why had she died? What happened?
Even if she couldn't speak in words, she could show him what happened. The thing that laid it's hands on her was a monster in the skin of a human, a "bodach."
From the beginning of that incident, the town that Shinji lived in, "Sakura no Mori," was the stage of repeated incidents. The only ones who could stop this tragedy were themselves. Shinji and his friends got entangled with the supernatural.
The stage of the battle was in dreams. In that deep place, the monsters lurked there inside humans.
To protect their town. To protect the people they love. Sakura no Mori Dreamers went forth to battle the unknown.