The English demo for Ciconia no Naku Koro ni is now available via Witchhunt:
The price of the Steam version is going to be $40 and will feature both English and Japanese language support.
It took me half an hour to read.
I want this to be localized so so badly. I wonder if Nintendo would allow Spike Chunsoft to publish in the west?
The translation is horrible.
Pretty sure it has a wonky translation.
Shame, how about root letter?
Damn, it's one of those?
I beat recently Kara no Shoujo and having to use a guide each 5 minutes to avoid triggering the wrong flags ended up souring the whole experience
i share this sentimentit's just that I'm not the kind of person that enjoys trial and error in my visual novels.
At first I play without a guide until I get an ending. Usually it's pretty obvious what is going on with the choices.
After that I look up a guide and see what other routes look interesting.
Every now and then though there's a game that has a million bad endings, you pretty quickly figure out that a guide is needed!
Not sure if there is a list but filtering by platform and English language on VNDB might be helpful.This is what I do, too. I'll play on my own, then when I get an ending, I'll use a guide.
Has anyone compiled a definitive list of English-language physical visual novel releases on PS4/Vita/Switch? I try to keep up, but sometimes I weave in and out of games based on whatever hobbies tickle my fancy at a particular time, and I'm always afraid I miss something. I wish there was an easier way to track it than just trolling Amazon and doing Google searches.
I play all the traditional VNs (Steins;Gate, Clannad, Fate-like) with a guide. What I really want is to enjoy the story, the setting and the characters, I am not interested in finding the sequence of correct choices to get a specific ending.
Not sure if there is a list but filtering by platform and English language on VNDB might be helpful.
VNDB probably does what you want.
For example, here is list of complete, English-language VNs released on PS4, Vita, and Switch, sorted from newest to oldest and only including stuff that has been released:
Just be aware that the list includes a lot of duplicates, since it covers every version of each VN (both the EU and NA version, for example).
If you sign up for a VNDB account and rate the novels that you have already read, then you can also use VNStat to get automatic recommendations.
People have played and enjoyed the game without one, it's just that I'm not the kind of person that enjoys trial and error in my visual novels.Damn, it's one of those?
I beat recently Kara no Shoujo and having to use a guide each 5 minutes to avoid triggering the wrong flags ended up souring the whole experience
Yep, this is me. First route blind and then straight to the guide, unless there's sufficient hints dropped on the game over screen to work it out (428 and kind-of but not really Root Double)I tend to grab a walkthrough the moment it becomes clear that I have to engage in trial-and-error to get onto routes or get specific endings, though I almost always do the first route blind.
The game is perfectly playable without a guide, but the guide will speed things up drastically. It's basically Majora's Mask: The Visual Novel. You need to re-do the same time loop repeatedly to determine which character is where each day. The game keeps track of this for you and puts character icons on the locations the character is at provided you've seen them there in a previous loop. If you're determined you can abuse the save/load feature: Save, visit somewhere, and if it's not to your liking reload the save. The character locations are tied to the system data and not the save file so it'll remember the person you just saw and show them on the map immediately.
That ironic VN thread on Gaming Side is a doozy
Seems folks still have their own preconceived notions of what VNs are