That 18+ Persona 3 game (released before Persona 3 too!) by alicesoft is getting a remaster. JP release only for now.
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How can I apply an uncensor patch to a vn on steam deck ?
I’m pretty sure it involves protontrick but I don’t know more.
To be precise, the patch is for Nanairo Reincarnation, it is to be placed in the game’s folder and it come in the form of a folder containing the patch and a .bat file.
LEANIJA ?
I’m pretty sure it involves protontrick but I don’t know more.
To be precise, the patch is for Nanairo Reincarnation, it is to be placed in the game’s folder and it come in the form of a folder containing the patch and a .bat file.
LEANIJA ?
Trying to revive the thread so here is a quick question.
When playing a VN, do you listen to the dialogues? My habit is to wait till the VA completing the whole sentence before moving on. I feel that VAs' performance is a huge part of the whole experience so I don't mind the resulting long playtime.
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When playing a VN, do you listen to the dialogues? My habit is to wait till the VA completing the whole sentence before moving on. I feel that VAs' performance is a huge part of the whole experience so I don't mind the resulting long playtime.
Not sure if you find the answer yet but this is what I found. Yeah, protontrick is involved.
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I can't imagine playing those games and skipping the dialog before the voice actors finish speaking. You're supposed to play games to relax and have fun, not to min max the time needed to finish a game
I can't imagine playing those games and skipping the dialog before the voice actors finish speaking. You're supposed to play games to relax and have fun, not to min max the time needed to finish a game
Ty. Apparently I have a few psychopath friends...
I definitely let the voice lines play all the way through. The only time I would skip it, is when there are H-scenes that are awful.
Answered months later but hopefully better late than never!
I checked out the patch format, and it's xdelta, so you can use the native xdelta patcher on linux. If it's not installed, just use pacman to do so.
Cross posting from the VTuber thread...
Lately I want to think up ways to utilize my Japanese more as well as practise writing, so I aim to write some demo impressions and final game reviews for VNs that I am going to play. Here's a demo impression of the JP Switch version of Iwakura Aria. The game will be localized and released on Steam and Switch in 2025.
Last year, when I walked into this gaming store in Japan, Iwakura Aria immediately caught my eyes: the cover art is beautiful yet creepy, grim yet colorful. The character on the left shows no emotion on her face whatsoever. But her eye is so piercing that it may even see through souls. The other character on the right, surrounded by flowers, is sleeping peacefully with a notebook in hand. Knowing virtually nothing about the game, I had no idea how to interpret this scene. But at that moment, my gut murmured: this one looks special.
And so, another game into the library. Although I have the final game on the shelf right now, my old habit of checking out the demo of a visual novel first leads to this post.
Illustrated by artist 100 Nen and written by Nemuru Gogo, Iwakura Aria is indeed a beautiful game, starting from the UI. Upon launching the demo, I was greeted by a minimalistic menu. Being a gamer for ages, I entered the config menu out of instinct. There is this beautifully-drawn CONFIG banner decorated by flowers. UI has a crucial impact to how we perceive a game – for example, Persona 5 feels stylish and absolutely trendy because of the red, black and white UI. Here, in Iwakura Aria, the UI gives the game a classy, elegant, but very distanced feeling – just like the box art itself.
The demo has three story segments available on the main menu. The first segment “Iwakura Mansion” (岩倉邸) is the beginning first hour of Iwakura Aria, whilst the remaining two “Her Body” (彼女の身体) and “Time Between The Two” (2人の時間) are short snippets further into the game. The story of Iwakura Aria began with our orphan main character, Ichiko Kitagawa, recalled the eventful summer of 1966. Her life was completely stuck back then – being jobless and disappointed with the world. When she was reluctantly helping the orphanage’s fund-raising bazaar, she met a man whose attention was caught by Ichiko’s handy drawing – a rare thing that Ichiko truly enjoys doing. Amano Iwakura, the richman passing by, happened to be searching for a resident housemaid. Learning that Ichiko was jobless at the moment, he proceeded to hire her. A week later, Ichiko stepped into the luxurious mansion of Iwakura house…
Unlike the art, the opening of Iwakura Aria did not leave a strong impression but only an interesting glimpse of what’s to come. After arriving at the mansion, Ichiko was greeted by Amano, introduced to his daughter Aria, briefed about her upcoming work tasks and asked to familiarized herself with the mansion. A friendly and handsome ex-Kazoku member (華族, aristocracy in Japan prior to 1947) and his gorgeous daughter who seldom leaves the house, on the surface the two seems to be no different from ordinary fathers and daughters, albeit their social status and beauty. However, after Ichiko falling asleep inside her room at night, I was shown a peculiar scene – Aria and Amano were conducting certain affair in a room full of knives and medicine bottles. Aria was unhappy with not being informed by his father about the hiring of Ichiko, and Amano cheerfully suggested that Ichiko can be fired whenever they want. ...Looks like these two are not as perfect as they might appear.
Despite the uneventful writing, how the writer depicts Ichiko’s reaction to Amano left a positive impression on my mind. Ichiko was a victim of sex abuse – she was harassed by her ex-employer and other men at work. This past trauma surfaced when she, before being introduced to Aria, learnt that she is the only resident housemaid. Being alone with a man in the mansion, friendly or not, exposed her old wound, and she was afraid of getting assaulted by Amano. At that instant, I know the characters in Iwakura Aria will be dimensional and have proper personal history – a quality which many good visual novels possess.
Instead of being a pure visual novel with story scenes back-to-back, Iwakura Aria allows the players to move within the mansion between scenes. Players are expected to explore a certain room in order to further progress the story. In the demo, I visited the same room twice and was greeted by an alleged foreshadowing of a future event. Due to a lack of time limit, in the final game I will definitely attempt to investigate the mansion thoroughly before moving on.
Although the other two episodes available in the demo illustrated a change in character dynamics compared with the opening hour of the game, they are merely a few minutes long, so I am not dissecting them here. Apart from the excellent art and intriguing story, Iwakura Arai is fully-voiced by a league of high-profiled VA: Sayumi Suzushiro for Ichiko, Toshiyuki Morikawa for Amano and Chie Nakamura for Aria. Be sure to prepare your earphones or headphones for a nice auditory adventure in this beautiful game.
Overall, after playing the demo, I am ready to dive in, to see if the story and everything else can live up to the art. That’s a tall ask, but I remain optimistic.
And so, another game into the library. Although I have the final game on the shelf right now, my old habit of checking out the demo of a visual novel first leads to this post.
Illustrated by artist 100 Nen and written by Nemuru Gogo, Iwakura Aria is indeed a beautiful game, starting from the UI. Upon launching the demo, I was greeted by a minimalistic menu. Being a gamer for ages, I entered the config menu out of instinct. There is this beautifully-drawn CONFIG banner decorated by flowers. UI has a crucial impact to how we perceive a game – for example, Persona 5 feels stylish and absolutely trendy because of the red, black and white UI. Here, in Iwakura Aria, the UI gives the game a classy, elegant, but very distanced feeling – just like the box art itself.
The demo has three story segments available on the main menu. The first segment “Iwakura Mansion” (岩倉邸) is the beginning first hour of Iwakura Aria, whilst the remaining two “Her Body” (彼女の身体) and “Time Between The Two” (2人の時間) are short snippets further into the game. The story of Iwakura Aria began with our orphan main character, Ichiko Kitagawa, recalled the eventful summer of 1966. Her life was completely stuck back then – being jobless and disappointed with the world. When she was reluctantly helping the orphanage’s fund-raising bazaar, she met a man whose attention was caught by Ichiko’s handy drawing – a rare thing that Ichiko truly enjoys doing. Amano Iwakura, the richman passing by, happened to be searching for a resident housemaid. Learning that Ichiko was jobless at the moment, he proceeded to hire her. A week later, Ichiko stepped into the luxurious mansion of Iwakura house…
Unlike the art, the opening of Iwakura Aria did not leave a strong impression but only an interesting glimpse of what’s to come. After arriving at the mansion, Ichiko was greeted by Amano, introduced to his daughter Aria, briefed about her upcoming work tasks and asked to familiarized herself with the mansion. A friendly and handsome ex-Kazoku member (華族, aristocracy in Japan prior to 1947) and his gorgeous daughter who seldom leaves the house, on the surface the two seems to be no different from ordinary fathers and daughters, albeit their social status and beauty. However, after Ichiko falling asleep inside her room at night, I was shown a peculiar scene – Aria and Amano were conducting certain affair in a room full of knives and medicine bottles. Aria was unhappy with not being informed by his father about the hiring of Ichiko, and Amano cheerfully suggested that Ichiko can be fired whenever they want. ...Looks like these two are not as perfect as they might appear.
Despite the uneventful writing, how the writer depicts Ichiko’s reaction to Amano left a positive impression on my mind. Ichiko was a victim of sex abuse – she was harassed by her ex-employer and other men at work. This past trauma surfaced when she, before being introduced to Aria, learnt that she is the only resident housemaid. Being alone with a man in the mansion, friendly or not, exposed her old wound, and she was afraid of getting assaulted by Amano. At that instant, I know the characters in Iwakura Aria will be dimensional and have proper personal history – a quality which many good visual novels possess.
Instead of being a pure visual novel with story scenes back-to-back, Iwakura Aria allows the players to move within the mansion between scenes. Players are expected to explore a certain room in order to further progress the story. In the demo, I visited the same room twice and was greeted by an alleged foreshadowing of a future event. Due to a lack of time limit, in the final game I will definitely attempt to investigate the mansion thoroughly before moving on.
Although the other two episodes available in the demo illustrated a change in character dynamics compared with the opening hour of the game, they are merely a few minutes long, so I am not dissecting them here. Apart from the excellent art and intriguing story, Iwakura Arai is fully-voiced by a league of high-profiled VA: Sayumi Suzushiro for Ichiko, Toshiyuki Morikawa for Amano and Chie Nakamura for Aria. Be sure to prepare your earphones or headphones for a nice auditory adventure in this beautiful game.
Overall, after playing the demo, I am ready to dive in, to see if the story and everything else can live up to the art. That’s a tall ask, but I remain optimistic.
Great impressions. Thanks for posting!
The UI indeed looks great. It reminds to be seen if the localisation will use good typefaces to match, since the kanji characters fits the theme very well,
Also VNDB tags says it's an ADV, but you said it's a kinetic novel? Or perhaps there will be ADV mechanics to be introduced later on?
There were dialogue choices in the demo! Not sure about if there're any consequences from those two yet so I didn't mention them.Great impressions. Thanks for posting!
The UI indeed looks great. It reminds to be seen if the localisation will use good typefaces to match, since the kanji characters fits the theme very well,
Also VNDB tags says it's an ADV, but you said it's a kinetic novel? Or perhaps there will be ADV mechanics to be introduced later on?
Edit: Looking at the vndb page, so it has multiple endings... Guilty, I just went in completely blind.
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I was just messing around. 
I have completely stopped reading VN (other than Ace Attorney) since 2023. It seems that many VNs with highschool theme (especially those romantic ones) can't really grab me anymore. I tried reading Grisaia, Sakura no Uta, Hajimeru Sekai no Risouron but nearly fell asleep during the early chapters of all three. I plan to return to them though because I know the highschool stuff is just a backdrop at best.
Anyway, I plan (want!) to write an article every week but covid trashed my plan this week. Another demo impression / preview article coming next week because I haven't done reading Iwakura Aria yet.
I have completely stopped reading VN (other than Ace Attorney) since 2023. It seems that many VNs with highschool theme (especially those romantic ones) can't really grab me anymore. I tried reading Grisaia, Sakura no Uta, Hajimeru Sekai no Risouron but nearly fell asleep during the early chapters of all three. I plan to return to them though because I know the highschool stuff is just a backdrop at best.
Anyway, I plan (want!) to write an article every week but covid trashed my plan this week. Another demo impression / preview article coming next week because I haven't done reading Iwakura Aria yet.
I don't have much time to game during the week, But I can squeeze in a couple of hours of VN reading each night at least.
Although doing the GFL2 dailies since January eats up that time too
I was thinking of reading a few short titles that I've been meaning to catch up on (Loopers, Lunaria), but most likely I'll end up rereading old stuff again (AIR, Umineko Chiru).
I was thinking of reading a few short titles that I've been meaning to catch up on (Loopers, Lunaria), but most likely I'll end up rereading old stuff again (AIR, Umineko Chiru).
Aphelion Part II todayI don't have much time to game during the week, But I can squeeze in a couple of hours of VN reading each night at least.
Although doing the GFL2 dailies since January eats up that time too
I was thinking of reading a few short titles that I've been meaning to catch up on (Loopers, Lunaria), but most likely I'll end up rereading old stuff again (AIR, Umineko Chiru).
I still haven't read many dusty stories in GFL2. Waiting for some characters to make an appearance in main / event story...Sounds like a good plan. I know you are reading Kanon lately. Looked up Lunaria and noticed that the writer was a lightnovel writer before. I read one of his books but forgot everything about it already lol. Looks like it is good enough that Key is hiring him again to do another one.
personally I enjoy reading the occasional VN but only tend to read like 1-2 a year
my most recent was playing through all the main Higurashi chapters(1-8) in the summer, I don't really have much to say about it both because I already read the first 5 chapters of it back in 2017 before i stopped when I got caught up to Mangagamer's release schedule and didn't feel like waiting so much of it was a re-read of stuff I read years before and because to be honest I stumbled upon some spoilers for the stuff I hadn't read in the intervening years too
overall though I did have a good time with it, I kinda want to read some of the console arcs at some point but i'm kinda lukewarm on the idea so I haven't yet
not really sure what I want to get to next, I have a pretty long VN backlog since even ones i'm interested in tend to come out faster than I play them
maybe i'll finally get around to the first AI game at some point this year since new ones of those keep coming out, I do also want to play more Ace Attorney at some point since I played most of the first game of that a couple years ago and then just kinda stopped
my most recent was playing through all the main Higurashi chapters(1-8) in the summer, I don't really have much to say about it both because I already read the first 5 chapters of it back in 2017 before i stopped when I got caught up to Mangagamer's release schedule and didn't feel like waiting so much of it was a re-read of stuff I read years before and because to be honest I stumbled upon some spoilers for the stuff I hadn't read in the intervening years too
overall though I did have a good time with it, I kinda want to read some of the console arcs at some point but i'm kinda lukewarm on the idea so I haven't yet
not really sure what I want to get to next, I have a pretty long VN backlog since even ones i'm interested in tend to come out faster than I play them
maybe i'll finally get around to the first AI game at some point this year since new ones of those keep coming out, I do also want to play more Ace Attorney at some point since I played most of the first game of that a couple years ago and then just kinda stopped
Finished my replay of Kanon last night.
The official localisation flows much better than the fan translation. I always thought that the all-ages version of Key VNs resonates with me much better than its R18 counterpart. Uncultured, perhaps. But the eroge parts aren't the main draw of Key VNs anyway, imho.
Ayu's route is still my favourite, but I always thought there is something special to Sayuri's route. My only wish is that she deserves a much longer route.
Up next is Loopers, maybe?
Thinking of mixing it up a bit with an ADV game too.
The official localisation flows much better than the fan translation. I always thought that the all-ages version of Key VNs resonates with me much better than its R18 counterpart. Uncultured, perhaps. But the eroge parts aren't the main draw of Key VNs anyway, imho.
Ayu's route is still my favourite, but I always thought there is something special to Sayuri's route. My only wish is that she deserves a much longer route.
Up next is Loopers, maybe?
Thinking of mixing it up a bit with an ADV game too.
Which one? Personally, I thought the haeleth TL was pretty much of a professional quality.
Looks like I am just too cynical for high-school stuff. Tried reading Memoria by Purple Software for the upcoming post but felt sleepy after 20 minutes. It has a rad Patlabor-esque opening cutscene but followed by your mundane student chitchat about cute girls and relationships. Nope, I am out.
Give the cutscene a watch. It's great. I also like the opening theme.
Give the cutscene a watch. It's great. I also like the opening theme.
I don't think it was bad by any means, and furthermore I feel it has aged more gracefully than other fan TL from the same time period. Granted, it's been years since I've read it, so maybe it's just my memory playing tricks on me.