Sixteen questions for eroge/visual novel fans~

Anything to drive away boredom~

To kick my self off rolling again I found some questions that all visual novel/eroge fans should answer from one of the many blogs I read daily. I personally find this the easiest way to start up my blogging activities again. Below are just my honest answers to said questions. I'm also willing to admit that I'm a newbie in regards to non mainstream visual novels so don't get all pissy at me for not mentioning more obscure titles and always enjoy~

1.Who is your favorite female visual novel character?
This is a really hard decision to make because there are so many female characters I do like. Since I'm only able to pick one it would be saber from fate/stay night.

2. Who is your favorite male visual novel character?
Hands down I pick Battler Ushiromiya from Umineko.

3. Which character is the cutest?
Given her personality traits I would have to choose Rika Furude from Higurashi

4. Which Male or Female character is the hottest?
Since I prefer the mature ladies I would have to go with Akiko Minase for Kanon

5. What is your favorite visual novel soundtrack (or song)?
Out of all the visual novels I've played it would have to be clannad.

6. Which is your favorite visual novel opening animation?
I'm going to have to go with Stein's;Gate PC port op.

7. What is your favorite scene in a visual novel?
You all know how much of sick twisted bastard I can be so this is pretty easy for me. I choose the Corpse Party chapter five prologue which left with some soupy feelings.

8. What qualities in a VN character do you gravitate most towards?
There is only one quailty I really search for and that's a main character who is actually given a personality or human traits/flaws.

9. Which character in a VN is most similar to you in terms of personality?
I really hate to say this since I am unable to explain why but I'm alot like Matoko from School Days.

10. Who is your favorite VN Artist? 
Itaru Hinoue who did the first three classic key/visual arts games.

11. Who is your favorite VN writer?
 That would have to be R7 you dumb ass.

12. What is your favorite thing about visual novel/eroge?
Overall it's the way in how the story is presented to you into a format that only works within this given form of media.

13. What is one thing you would eliminate from all VNs to make them more perfect?
Childhood friends that never age.. dacopo I'm looking at you.

14. Do you think you’ll ever stop playing VNs?
At this current state in my life I gotta go with no.

15. Are you open about the fact that you play VNs with people you know?
Yes I'm actually open about the fact I play these type of games with my close family and online friends.


16. Which visual novel was the biggest let down for you?
None as of yet.
 

Now follow the golden fairy out~

School Days HQ Goes Golden~

Collectors Edition~

Well it seems that things are wrapping up quite nicely for the offical release of School Days HQ so as promised I have info to share with you all. The School Days HQ offical site is finally up and the pre-orders are open for the limited edition for $59.99 and the normal edition for 39.99 on J-list. The limited edition version of the visual novel/eroge comes with a Kotohana oppai mouse pad, matoko head key-chain, the game and an art-box to store all of the goodies as shown above. So get off your lazy asses now and pre-order this eroge to show your support for this franchise to see other overflow games in the future

If you haven't read my review on the original version please feel free to do so you will have a general Idea of what expect when you do your first play through. Jastusa also sent me a few press release captures due to my affialte account, so feel free to take a look below and enjoy. If you wish to take a look at the uncensored work they have been doing, click over to jast-usa's twitter account and check out their photo gallery which is NSFW. I'll catch you all later and hopefully I'll be able to get copy myself~

Pre-order School Days HQ

Official Website

-Cecil The Dark Knight~

Visual Novel translation status

Yes Sena..Those Are Nice~

This is just a recent update for translated and official work on visual novels from certain groups. Please keep in mind this is for information purposes only. The games in italic are the ones that have seen the most recent activity.

Fan works

11eyes - 2nd partial patch out, very slow to effectively stalled for the time because of the main translator needing to deal with real life unless a new primary translator joins

Air - 25% translated and 23% edited

Aiyoku no Eustia - Fione Route- 99% through 1st pass, 40% through 2nd pass, looking for new translator

Akai Ito- Yumei's route released, Nozomi route fully inserted,Uzuki route 40% inserted, 14300/21674 (65.98%) overall inserted, last untranslated arc being translated by original translator

Apathy Midnight Collection - fully translated, one arc left to edit

Ayakashibito - ~60% translated, tonya's route translated, stalled while looking for a new translator to continue

>Baldr Sky - Chapter 9 of Rain's Route done

Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown

Concerto Note - C&D, continuing, translation at 39%, editing at 18%

Daiteikoku - 35% translated partial patch out

DraKoi- Initial translation complete

>Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 79% translated, second partial patch out

Fortune Arterial- Prologue completely translated, Kiriha route 99%, Erika route 60%, Haruna route 50%

>Hadaka Shitsuji - 39.02% translated

Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun - 3 scripts translated

Hanahira - 15 of 50 scripts translated

>Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 7132 / 7817 (91%) lines translated

Higurashi Daybreak - being translated

Hinomaru- 25% translated, main arc editing

Honey Coming- Prologue 100% translated, common route 80% translated. Yuma Shichiri's route 5% translated

>Hoshizora no Memoria -Patch Released

Hunks Workshop - ~25% rough translation

Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated

Imouto Paradise - 5% translated

>Irotoridori no Sekai - 25,051/51,100 (49.02%) lines translated, full common route translated, prologue patch released Kawakaburi No Cherry - "Meanwhile I am working on it, should be out in a few weeks." Koitate - Ren and Yukino’s route patch released Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + Wanko + teacher route patch released, Miyako route 15% translated M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 92% Mahoutsukai no Yoru - Trial patch released Milky Holmes - Being translated Mirai no Uta to Tsunagaru Hitomi - Translation planned >Monster Girl Quest II - 66% patch out, 97518/109225 (89.28%) lines translated Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01 >Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 81 of 111 tips through initial translation, 63/113 scripts through final translation, teaser patch on March 31st Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated Period- game total translation: 87.60% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane + Tsuzumi + Miyu patches released, next patch will be final Princess Maker 5- 44% translated Princess Nightmare - Translator said the project is still active, but very slow, nearly 50% translated Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 85.48% translated Rance 3 - 75% translated Rance 4 - 20% translated Rance Quest - between 4 and 5% >Rewrite -  22189/101228 (21.92%) lines translated Sakura Wars 1 - Project started Sapphism no Gensou - 46 scripts translated Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active Serifu de Kanjite! Seiyuu Doushi: Total: 185/5400 translated Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing

Damn Right! >Shinigami no Kiss wa Wakare no Aji - Common route translated, overall 6478/18147 = 35.70% lines translated Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated >Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo 8- 14/18 scripts translated Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated Suihensei Made Nan Mile - 32% translated, plans to get a patch out "soon" Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"Maho route fixed" Tenshin Ranman - 2% translated Togainu No Chi- 77% translated, partial patch out To Heart2- 63% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released >Tomoyo After - Partial patch released 30% from baka-tsuki., Doki-Fan-subs is looking for people to work on the new translation. Touka Gettan: translation status: ~40% translated Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation 35%, as it was found much of the script was originally not dumped >White Album 2 - 4/30 scripts from the introductory chapter translated Yandere - 55% translated Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 14% edited Yosuga no Sora - Roughly 40% translated, goal for greater than 50% patch around mid-to-late February Aroduc's ongoing secret project - "16800 'lines' remaining -- Story #1 Finished"

Official work MangaGamer >Magical Teacher - officially out now Ef - Scripts with minori right now, final movies with NNL Harukoi Otome - TL/Editing complete, Scripting in April, latter half of 2012 release expected OtoBoku - Translation ongoing Eroge - Translation ongoing Dengeki Strykers - Translation and editing complete, Demo Testing Done, expected to be out for AX Da Capo III - Mentioned at AX Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo Negotiations with age still ongoing Negotiations for Oretsuba are still ongoing Games from Denbonosu - "Hopefully in the future with MangaGamer, I can do something in the US too."[president of Denbonosu] Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers Picked up a Circus title with game-play JAST USA Yumina the Ethereal - "Script and images translated. Working on insertion and testing" Moero Downhill Night Blaze- 90% translated, fixing bug School Days HQ - April/May 2012, editing through 25% of chapter 5, porting though 30% of the final chapter."We hope to have it out in June." Saya no Uta - 99% complete Hanachirasu - 99% complete Django: Couple more months of translation Kikokugai - Working out issues Sumaga- Spring goal, demo soon, got new staff Seinarukana- picked up, ~35% translated Starless - Work ongoing Starry Sky- negotiations with voice actors Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project Steins;Gate - 2nd pass of translation complete, 33/175 scripts through editing, rough patch out, Jast may pick up the project Update: >Amagami - project starting up I wish to thank /jp/ as usual for the updates on these works and I have also edited some I found out on my own. Peace out everyone nipah~ -CecilTheDarkKnight

Finally Back

Like A Boss

Guess what assholes.. I'm back..Did you miss me?? Putting that getting aside I just want to let everyone know that I will be active a-lot more starting today. There are a lot of things going wrong in personal life right now, so I just figure why not bitch about it online while reviewing some of the winter 2012 line up. I sill have post that I need to wrap for 2011 "some reviews as well". Then my main focus will be on this month and those to come. 

To all of my co-posters.. sorry it took so damn long but I really had to get some shit straight. Oh i did finally get a e-mail back from Jast-Usa and they are interested in working with me. So look forward to a review of "My Girl Friend Is The President" which is their latest release as of now "go and buy a copy you cheap bastards" and review on that psp game Corpse-Party.. I Well you guys can kiss my white ass while I go off to bed, wish me will and let's pop this cherry for 2012 already.

YES MAM!

Trick or Treat: Have Some Free/Legal Visual Novels

Such Misfortune

So it's time for Halloween with many tricks or treats. Instead of giving out tricks this time I am going to be generous and give away links to free indie visual novels "which are English of course". This is the least I can do for everyone for being so generous to me so far, by hanging out in my live stream channel or just reading/commenting on my post as well. I know it's been a-long since I did a review/preview for any-thing but hang in there, I have just been a little to busy watching fall shows and playing through little-busters. I do hope you all enjoy these games and leave some feed-back on them.

Five Free Visual Novels
1.) Digital: A Love Story
2.) Brass Restoration
3.) RE:Alistair
4.) True Remembrance
5.) Katawa Shoujo

Enjoy This Character Song

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Visual Novel Translation Updates For October

Damn Girl, You Scary

This list is just for informal use only guys. It is to show what visual novels are currently being translated as of now, what the progress on them are and if they beta/partial patch out. If you really want to play the games then use Google and look around for the patches on various blog sites such as my own. If you truly want help to play some of these game just give me buzz and I will do my best to help ya by providing partial patch links or in some cases torrent links. Well use this wish as you list and I will catch you all around later, also thank @chan's /jp/ board for this update.

 Unofficial Patches:

11eyes - 2nd partial patch out, 2092 lines left to translate and 7444 lines left to edit before the third partial patch
Aiyoku no Eustia - Fione Chapter 40% translated
Akai Ito- Yumei's route released, Nozomi route fully inserted,Uzuki route 40% inserted, 14300/21674 (65.98%) overall inserted, last untranslated arc being translated by original translator
Amaranto - Trial released
Apathy Midnight Collection - fully translated, one arc left to edit
Ayakashibito - 25715/50995 lines translated (50.43%), common route fully translated, 23254/50995 lines edited (45.60%)
Baldr Force Exe - Project starting up
Baldr Sky - Translation ongoing
Cartagra - Initial translation complete, future is unknown
Concerto Note - C&D, continuing, translation at 35%, editing at 14%
Daiteikoku - 26,014/130,000 lines translated (20%). 20% partial patch out
DraKoi- Initial translation complete
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia- 65.2% translated, second partial patch out
Forest - Ixrec's upcoming project
Fortune Arterial- 52 of 122 scripts translated, 14 of 122 scripts edited, patch for the trial version of the game
Hanahira - 8 of 50 scripts translated
Heartful Kareshi - 22% translated
Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni - 2522 / 8082 (31.20%) lines translated
Higurashi Daybreak - being translated
Hinomaru- 19% translated, main arc editing
Honey Coming- Prologue 100% translated, common route 80% translated. Yuma Shichiri's route 5% translated
Hoshizora no Memoria - prologue patch out, common route fully translated, Isuzu's patch released, overall 33333/55183 (60.40%) translated
Hunks Workshop - Being translated, partial patch out
Ikusa Megami Zero - Project alive again, 5205 lines translated
Kawakaburi No Cherry - Being translated
Koitate - Yukino’s route patch released
Little Busters - 93.71% translated, 92.09% edited, patch out with Haruka' route and Kud's route
Love Plus- Fully translated, in the process of finalizing
Majikoi- Yukie + Chris + Momoyo + teacher route patch released, Wanko route TL: 13%
M&M Enchanting Magic & Sweet Charms- 84%
Milky Holmes - Being translated
Muv-Luv Chronicles - Work being done on The Day After 00 + 01
Never 7 - all 113 scripts and 28 of 111 tips through initial translation, 13/113 scripts through final translation
Nursery Rhyme - 9049/34410 lines (26.3%) translated
Ore no Imouto - 9.4% (28/299) scripts translated
Otomimi Infinity - 4130 /105610 (3.91%) translated
Period- All image/UI editing complete, game total translation: 66.60% complete, Miyu + Rin + Aoi + Kohane patches released
Princess Lover - 10% translated
Princess Maker 5- 39% translated
Princess Nightmare - Translator said the project is still active, but very slow, nearly 50% translated
Pure Pure The Story of Ears and Tails- Sachi Patch released, 80.04% translated
Rance 3 - 75% translated
Rance 4 - 20% translated
Rance Quest - 2% translated
Real Imouto ga Iru - translation: 4330/16108 (27%) editing: 3910/16108 (24%), demo up
Sensei Da-isuki 2- roughly 25% translated, still active
Serifu de Kanjite! Seiyuu Doushi: Total: 185/5400 translated
Sharin no Kuni, Yuukyuu no Shounenshoujo - Fully translated, someone has gone through all the scripts for editing
Sin- 65% of episode 1 translated
Shuffle Essence+ - group working on it
Sono Hanabira 7 - fully translated
Sorairo - 2755/48557 (6%) lines translated
Steins;Gate - Script and TIPS fully translated, being edited. Unedited patch out, 7/14 early scripts fixed
Suihensei Made Nan Mile - 32% translated, plans to get a patch out "soon"
Tenshi No Inai 12-Gatsu-"status: ~translating:active~"
Tenshin Ranman - 2% translated
The Second Reproduction - Fully translated, 90% edited
Togainu No Chi- 77% translated, partial patch out
To Heart2- 56% - "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", alpha patch with Konomi, Tamaki,Manaka and Yuma routes translated
Tomoyo After - Partial patch released
Toradora Portable - Being translated
Touka Gettan: translation status: ~30% translated
Umineko 8 - Translation: 65%, Editing: 50%, 50% translation patch released
Under The Moon- 6% translated/checked/programmed, still active
Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 - 1st draft translation complete
Yandere - 19% translated
Yoakemae Yori Ruriiro Na - 100% translated, 5% edited
Yosuga no Sora - 33% translated

Aroduc has been working on something new, though has yet to reveal the title. ~~40121/69752 lines translated



Official work

MangaGamer:
Conquering the Queen - October 28th release
Harem Party- Out of testing, end of 2011
Dear Drops - Translation and editing complete, Feb 2012 planned release
Ef - Scripts back to minori
Harukoi Otome - 6 scripts left to translate
Dengeki Strykers - Translation and editing complete, 2012 release
Sexy magic title from Score- off to script insertion
Da Capo III - Mentioned at AX
Innocent Grey would also like to bring over an upcoming title related to Kara no Shoujo
Negotiations with age still ongoing
Negotiations for Oretsuba are still ongoing
Games from Denbonosu - "Hopefully in the future with MangaGamer, I can do something in the US too."[president of Denbonosu]
Negotiations ongoing with Clochette, would like to bring over Kamikaze Explorers
Picked up a Circus title with gameplay

JAST USA:
Eien no Aselia- Golden Master
Osananajimi wa Daitouryou - Master probably a week away
Yumina the Ethereal - Final QC/post production, images being translated and edited, goal end of the year
Moero Downhill Night Blaze- "in final debugging and will be released "when it's ready"; probably before the end of this year"
School Days HQ - April/May 2012
Saya no Uta + Hanachirasu - Oct or Nov
Kikokugai + Django: Being released together
Sumaga- Spring goal, demo soon
Seinarukana- picked up, ~32% translated
Sa.Na.Ra.Ra - 8 completed scripts
Starless - picked up
Starry Sky- negotations with voice actors
Muramasa - Common route complete, 2 of 5 chapters towards true end translated, uncertain what will come from the project

Other:
LUDESIA- English release planned
Hakuoki - Aksys 1Q 2012
Corpse Party - Nov22nd X-seed Games

Being Generous So... Links For The Fate/Stay Night VN Torrent

Oh Look.. It's Saber.. GUH!!!

Still no reviews/previews are up yet and I apologize for that by sharing a torrent link with one of the most famous visual novels ever Fate/Stay Night. This is something I usually do not do, however I fell like it's a decent make up for the lack in the site lately. I also think this is decent timing with the new series that's out for the fall line-up so everyone can experience the series from the original source material. I hope you enjoy these gifts and please make sure.. Buy a copy when you're able to show your support, catch you all around later.

DS Version
You will need a flash card/Vn Scriptwriter to play this

PC Version W/ Voice Patch

Edit: Just to let all know  this is my first and last torrent hosted post. I am really trying to hard to get support from jast-usa, cruncy-roll and ann. If I do host any more links they will be ddl links from my media-fire account. These will usually be just hard to find partial or full english patches for visual novels/eroges that are removed or lost due to official releases/ C&D letters.

Fate/Stay Night Ova Op

Looking For Help WIth The Air VN

This is more of plea this time around everyone " I really need some help with this". Thanks to some very kind anons from @chan's /jp/ board.  Due to digging around I was able to get hold of the seen.txt that has around 30-40% of the Air visual novel translated. Despite there being problems with the font "as seen above", the game is playable for only one route which is fine. Now my plea is this.. since this did get a C&D from Key/Visual Arts, the project has long been abandoned since 09 from TLWIKI. 

I do have the all of the seen.txt as just stated that the translators where using before the C&D and I would love to see this taken off the ground again. So far I have only tried this patch wit the standard or orignal version of Air vn "which is 18+ and has no voice overs". So it will take some major time to make it compatible with the all ages and memorial edition, if that's even a possibility. Sadly as I stated before in some other post I don't know how to program nor do I know how to encode, so I need people that know how to do this.

Forever Wandering

Yeah I might be asking for alot however I willing to promote, host any files and beta test to see this project get done. I do realize that this will take a lot of work to do but I have some faith that it can be done, if enough effort is put in. Hell Kannon, Little Busters, Clannad, Planetarin, and One, All have patches. It's not out the realm of possibility people. I personally have watched the Air anime, movie and read the manga. Only 1/3 had a happy ending "guess which one", so I want to see if it's possible to obtain an happy ending in the visual novel as well.

I might be asking for to much but come the hell on.. It's no impossible, nothing is. If you want to help me out on this just leave a comment here in the GB or send an email to my gmail account. So hmm... sorry for the long dry out plea but this is something important me even with my limited skills. Even you can't do anything but just spread the word then do that for me every little bit helps. Well I will catch you all around later, here is to hope/successes of this project.

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Update One: Adding a link to the seen.txt so any body will be able to use it.

Updated Two: The seen.txt works with all versions of Air to certain point, the main problem is the h-scenes in the regular edition are going to need a separate translation. The same goes for the memorial edition since the script is changed with different routes/scenes/endings/.

Doing Reviews For Jast-Usa~

Jast-Usa's Official Banner

This is something really personal but I do feel like sharing this with everyone, I have been offered a small job offer from Jast-Usa, to review press release copies of their games. To be honest this is something that I need to put a-lot of thought into. On one hand I will be able to make some extra money doing something I already like to do. However I will be required to reviews up at a certain point in time so this will no longer be any time to waste on writing a review like I have been doing lately, " I am truly sorry about that". Well that's all I have to share with everyone I will keep you posted/updated if anything else major comes up.

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Below is the e-mail they sent me in response on the Call to The Press

 

A Review of Amorous Professor Cherry.."This Is My Fetish"...

As you might have guessed from the image above, the name of this eroge is called “Amorous Professor Cherry”. This review/eroge in no way, shape or form meant for people under the age of 18 “so leave if you are under-age.” So what is this masterpiece about??  If you have a half-brain “which I highly doubt”, this is about a high school senior named “Kouta Koikawa” that has a sexual desire to bang his home-room teacher “Chieri Hase”. This eroge is not going to win any awards for originality or character development what so ever but that doesn’t mean that I hated this eroge.

Professor Cherry was originally released in Japan on August 8th 2004 from ZyX Publishing and designed/drawn by "Tadayuki Kudo". The North American release was published by "Jast Usa" from the localization company "G-Collections" on June 31st 2008. The requirements to play this game are hardly worth mentioning however I will point one thing out, even a "Net-Book" can from 2008 can run this game just fine. That's all I can really say on this game info wise so let's get the review rolling.

Like most eroges from "ZyX" this is  just a standard "bishojo game" with little in the choice department. You do however seem to have a little more freedom/choices than earlier title such as "My Step Sister Hitomi" but even then for this genre it feel like it's lacking in some areas. With only three main story arc's don't expect to much in the way of replay value either. One example I can provide is use of overly generically used characters. Take for example Kouta's "Child-Hood Friend" Yorii Kiyoka, now being a child hood friend is generic enough but it's the fact that she is such a tsundere "basically she wants his dick" that it actually hurt my brain in some points. I am not going to lie to when that I have a fetish for tsunderes but try to make it less obvious.

Going back up for a bit, despite the fact that this eroge is nearly ten years old the character designs and v.a.'s are not that bad to look at/listen to. Sadly lets go back down again due in part that the music in this ergoe is just bad, just plain bad. I could not force myself to like any of the bgm tracks what soever, nor could stand to listen to the cheesy music every time an erotic scene popped up, "yes that was intended". The only other part that drags this down is the amount of arc's/story. Overall there are really only three main arcs in total, one for each girl of course and some do over lap for fun which levels out to be your average seven to ten ending fare.

On a personal note however, one of the stronger points in the game is due part that the two out of three of the ladies that you choose from are over the age of twenty this time around. I will not lie and say that I don't mind the "High School Girl Choices". However I just find it to be tad naughtier to see some older woman this time around "hence why this is my fetish". I will also give the game props on the other teacher in the game Kanai Mamiko who happens to be very aggressive and gets what she wants if you catch my drift. The last high point is the "corny dialogue", such as Cheri saying "wow so this is penis" or "You can suck on it?" This maybe badly written to some but I find it t be comedy gold.

What else can I say about eroge? It's average, non ground breaking and just plain "comfort food". I do like to go back and play some of these older eroges for the sake of nostalgia and do get some minimal enjoyment out them if at all possible. Now would i recommend this eroge to anyone?? Sure if your a beginner and haven't played that many as of yet feel free to check this one out  If you are more seasoned player "like myself" then don't even bother, unless you have thing for teachers. Well that's it everyone, I hoped you enjoyed reading this review and until next time, peace out.

Rating 3/5

Age Rating 18+

Buy your own copy

Hint Guide

 -Cecil The Dark Knight

..What did I just play..

Official Box Art

Cat Girl Alliance or Koneko Doumei as it is known in Japan is a eroge developed by Sekilala and published by CD Bros on February 2nd 2004 . The American Localization was taken care by CG Collections and Published by Jast USA on February 8th 2010 with a full uncut release.   The spec requirements for this eroge "like many in the genre" are a joke so I really do not see you having any problem getting this to work on any PC that is fourteen years or older that you may have lying around. 

So is there any thing good about this eroge?? Hmm.. Lets see I will give it three props on being the most kinky eroge I have run across in a long time but sadly, but having to much of erotica and no plot just makes for a badly conceived drivel. The second prop I can give that cg is very well done with any unnoticeable drops in quality. The third or last high point I wish to point to out that the erotica secession them selves are very well done "from the bondage to the wax dripping etc". If I was much younger this would tickle my fancy more, however these are only the high points I can even add for this eroge/visual novel.

A Typical High-school Club??

Okay enough BS Now on the plot "if one can be even be scrapped from this" is about our unlikely male lead Eiji Tachibana who happens to hear some weird noises one day after school, in the nurses station. To his amazement he sees to students on the sick bed, fucking of course but to Eiji's surprise it was two girls going at it. What makes it more bizarre is the fact one of the girls Rumi Takahata has a penis "yes there is a little futa in this eroge as well". So what does our sensible male lead do after seeing this??

Our wonderful male lead Eiji whips out his cock and beats his meat while Rumi is pounding shit out of our female lead Natsuki Misawa. After a few erotic scenes past Eiji shoot's off a huge load that hits the ceiling and runs away like a little pussy. The next day Eiji is called out by Rumi out to the nurses station to join there special "After-school club". Where a group of five high school seniors have nasty kinky sex every day..."Okay now where do I sign up for this" That's the original thing I can add for this eroge and that's saying a lot coming from a guy like me. 

At least it's pleasant to look at.

So with such a wonderful set-up like that you can guess where this is heading, if not get your damn head checked out already. Ninety Percent of this game is just sex upon sex with next to plot what so ever. I guess the high-light that I can give for eroge is that's not bad to look, but it's nice also nice look at the sun but we knows what happens if you stare to long. Not even the BGM or Soundtrack in this eroge is worth mentioning either but it's a tad better than Professor Cherry's bgm track, due in part  of the piano music pieces. So is there anything positive I can add for Cat Girl Alliance? Well if your a eight-teen year old kid in need of quick beat off then I highly recommend you play this or try to buy a hooker for the night instead.

Okay that's all I can bear to stand on covering this shitty game. If you haven't got clue that this game is shit then be my guest and buy it from the link below, or just torrent it if you wish. I know this review is not as long or in detail as the previous ones but this was just a damn pain to even write. I just needed to get this out the way so you do realize that I do not see all eroges/vn in the same light. To be a truly great eroge or visual novel in general you need a good story/plot that's also entertaining. You truly need to care for the characters, want to achieve a goal of seeing them happy, however Cat Girl Alliance does not have this either these requirements so hence my loathsome distaste for it... Well that's it for this review so excuse me while i beat my head against desk for the next three hours.

-Cecil The Dark Knight

Rating 2/5

Age Rating 18+

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Having Fun Now?? A Review Of The School Days Visual Novel

 

 Disclaimer 

The following review is intended for those over the age of eighteen or twenty one depending where you live. I do not take any responsibility if you choose to ignore this warning so don't come crying to me later on.

So what is School Days? It is a adult visual novel/eroge developed by "Overflow" and published by "Stack" game productions in April 28th 2005. An all ages version was released/published by Interchannel for the Ps2 by on January 17, 2008 as well. The Ps2 Special edition/normal version of the game came with a limited edition "ova" in-titled "School Days-Valentines Days" which is much more light/heart-full to watch than the dreadful anime series. Another ova came out in-titled "Magical Heart Kokoro-chan" which is just a magical school girl parody that came out March 26th 2008.

This visual novel/eroge also has an anime adaptation produced/animated by "TNK" that aired from July 3, 2007 – September 27, 2007. I have such a hatred for the anime adaptation that i will not, can not, or ever review it. So if any of the other reviewers want to review the anime be my guest. The only other related media is a two volume manga which I have yet to read, also the two spin off games "summer-days" and "cross-days" that re also available for the PC but no patches have come out for these games as of yet and it seems as if none will ever come out at all.

With the synopsis out of the way let's get down the the main portion of the review. School Days has to be the most interesting adult visual novel I have ever played to date despite it being six years old now. What I happen to love most about this game is the amount of possibility or endings that you can achieve within the game due to it being a "tree-branch game". This means that you the player have the ability to choose the ending depending on branching choices that can either lead to more open scenes with even more choices or cut off short if you choose nothing at all as well. Your ending that you get is solely based on these choices you made as far back at the beginning of of the game so tread carefully and save often.

School-Days main cast of three characters "two females and one guy" are also the ones with the most screen, sex and screwed up endings. The male leads name is Matoko Ikuto who just appears to be your average high school kid, nothing really special or great about him aside from being slightly aggressive. Up next we have Katasura Kotohana who happens to be Matoko's main crush and love focus for the series who rides the train with him everyday to school and is your very shy/timid type of character. Lastly we have up Sekai who is class-mate of Matoko who first learns about his crush on Kotohana and sets up their first date/meeting on the school roof for lunch and she has a really noisy/opinionated attitude about her-self which lands all three of them in hot-water down the road.

Something that needs to be pointed out is that isn't your standard eroge either. Everything in this title is fully animated, voiced over and split in to different episodes like an ova series. The choices that do come up are time based so you either you make choice or it will choose the default choice zero to where matoko doesn't say anything at all. I'll openly admit to this being one of the biggest surprises when I did my first play through. Personally I'm just being kind to give you all heads up now on the game-play mechanics now. You can pause the game, fast forward or rewind through previous read text or scenes once you have completed one route in the game.

As of now I've gotten over ten different endings so far out of whopping twenty one endings total. Not all of the endings are dark or creepy as in the anime adaptation, it's actually quite the opposite here. This eroge has taken away lot of my free-time, but to be honest I have had fun so far. I love ever character despite "Matoko" on how you play can be the biggest asshole in the world in which deserves more than a slow painful death. I know a lot of people out there hate this male lead so much for some reasons or other. I can not bring myself to hate him despite being the massive douche that he really his and still is through out a majority of the routes you choose to play.

Yet despite this flaw he has, for some reason I just feel some level of connection to him so I do understand why he did it. Matoko starts off shy, clumsy and in the end being pushed to be aggressive from an outside source and then loses all self-control becoming a self centered prick. Still I am sadly stuck at the point now in my life, thus making me a no worse than him on a lot of levels. I do realize this now but I am still wary of what could have happened to me if I knew a person like "Sekai", I would do the same things he did in the anime adaptation, however this is a review for the source material not the adaptation that spewed a famous 2007 famous meme keep that in mind.

I will just be blunt if you liked the t.v anime series or you are looking for a good romance eroge I hihgly recommend this title. So if you are interested in any-way, shape or form, please just click the links below. You will also need to go to my "previous post" to set up your PC to play this game as well. Just to let most of you know this game is coming to America from "Jastusa" so please support the new version "School Days HQ" when it does come to America sometime at the end of this year or beginning of next year. The game will be fully uncensored and will be for the PC of course "I have no word Mac Os Compatibility as of yet but it will be most unlikely".

This version that is come here legally is an updated version of the game that came out last year for the 5 year anniversary of the original release of the game. Also this version has even more endings with a new good/bad of course and a massive upgrade to the art work to near "High-Definition" quality so it is a warranted purchase in the end unless you want to pay over 200 dollars to import the original game. In all honesty no piece of IP is worth that much to me used no matter If really need it for my collection.

One of the greatest high points for music is really a great high point even with the tragic ending song that still makes me tear up a bit to this day. Hell it's the song Kanashimi no Mukou e that still sends chills down my spine every time I hear it on a an bad ending for a route I was playing. I haven't personally heard anything emotional powerful to eerier as this song in my fifteen years of being an anime fan which is saying a-lot coming from some like me.

Another high point is Everyone in this eroge is fully voiced over even down to the tiniest of the character roster which is still just amazing and greatly adds a lot to this genre. In all honesty I think school days is the first full eroge to have a voiced over male lead taking out that self-insert character they normally do most in the eroge genre overall Actually I think it's quite nice to control a character with a personality rather than a creepy insert character they usually write in for these games. One quick thing I do need to point out one other tidbit and it's this the partial patch from the sekai project only covers up to episode four of the game so I highly recommend using a guide if at all possible or saving before any major choices.

Now maybe I am praising overflow a little so much for this IP, however it was the first to break the mold of most standard games in the genre. School Days does suffer from some huge faults as well and those need to be addressed. So lets address them shall we are that some latter choices really don't effect the outcome that much it just adds some different scenes. However in one route your choices also go form one extreme to the other such as the best ending possible to the entire game, to the worst ending possible in just once choice. This is just highly unbalanced and I hope is fixed in the newer version because one choice should not effect your effort or outcome that much.

Overall this is a great Visual Novel/Eroge with so many possibility and out-comes it feels like the game of life. However I cannot recommend this for the faint of heart due the graphic sex or murdering that does occur due to your actions.These moments in the story where I just wanted to slap some of the minor characters across the face due in part of their horrible nature/attitude towards other people as well. Well that wraps up everything people, I hoped you enjoyed reading this review and you make sure careful what decisions in your life you choose to make. I'll catch you all later on my live-stream~

 

Animation: 5/5

Game Play: 4/5

Story/Plot: 4/5



Characters: 4/5


Music: 5/5

Overall Rating:4/5

Age Rating:18+

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-Cecil The Dark Knight

-Image credit for the nice boat banner goes to "Tamadachi-san"