Any chance of the sequel getting translated?
Not until the current Nitro+ titles that they’ve licensed have been released. So your looking at another…2? Years at minimum
Yeah, unfortunately, Nitroplus is reeeeeeeally busy. Demonbane was delayed quite a bit because of delays on the Nitroplus side (by like a year) and now their next two titles have been sitting at ‘99% complete’ on the Jast USA side for six months or so. I’d expect them to finally release later this year. Then there’s two games after that which Jast is still working on themselves. If Jast is ready to hand them off to Nitroplus by the end of this year, maybe they’ll be out late 2013.
I hope Demonbane is doing well. I suspect it did well enough to license more games, but not well enough to make it a high priority. (Which, I mean, we know they don’t do nearly as well overseas as in Japan, so it’s not realy a surprise.)
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I tried playing the game again with the voice pack that included PS2 voices and I noticed there were differences in the voice dialogue. Though its nice to hear more voices the voice pack doesn’t capture everything. Some dialogue were omitted that were in the original VN (like swear words). Metatron’s voice in the PS2 sounded much more feminine and not like a muffled ambiguous voice. I think even some of the VAs were different though sounded close to the ones from the VN. Strangely enough though the voices in the h-scenes were retained.
nitro+ seems to really like g gundam
Well, I just started playing and I must say : what a marvelous game! What beautiful graphics. What interesting characters. Music’s not bad either. Those brassy jazz scores are what a friend of mine used to call 'heroin music." Grimoire meets film noir, eh? I think I’m going to have a lot of fun with this. I think I might even turn a friend of mine, who’s a Lovecraft fan, onto this, even tho he despises those high-pitched anime voices.
Demonbane is freaking amazing. This game has turned me into a Nitroplus fan basically without knowing anythign else about them. Am I interested in Saya no Uta? Hells yeah. Am I interested in Hanachirasu? Honestly, I don’t know all that much about it … but you say it was made by Nitroplus? Well, okay then 
The game is easily one of the best eroge ever translated. My backlog’s a bit big, so there are still a lot of games I haven’t played yet … but I doubt that will change. The music, the graphics, the writing … all of it top notch.
Yeah, apparently, the last remaining percent of both Saya no Uta and Hanachirasu is rather large. Although, if you want to get a Nitro fix in the meantime, in terms of officially released English games, you should play… BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend. As the Calamity Trigger Reconstruction was worked on by Nitro Plus: http://www.blazblue.com/?cat=3
I managed to get ahold of the PS2 version, and there were big differences, just from the 1st chapter alone.
That’s because there IS no PS2 version. You were playing a different game =P
Specifically, this one. There’s a PC version of it too.
Well isnt Kishin Houkou Demonbane an improved port of the original?
Oops, you’re right. I’ve never played Kishin Houkou, only Kishin Hishou, and I thought they were basically the same thing =P
The difference is there from the very beginning.The Prologue is a entire CG movie video instead.
You mean this prologue movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxY3UaMsLcw
Since it was a console version Nitroplus wanted to attract the market of that gaming medium. Mere texts and images would not have been enough even with the original VN game popularity. Not to mention the adult h-scenes also had to be removed/changed. Some images were given animation and the CGIs pics were integrated into full CG movies. It would be awesome if they could integrate those improvements and the added images from the PS2 version for a re-release of the PC version. Despite the CG movies were pretty good I appreciate the literature of the VN more.
Hmm i see you found it.
Unfortunately, it was more than just adding movies.I sensed there were additional lines and scenes.
Besides, for that prologue, it was our one and only chance of seeing Aeon and Liber Legis’s models decently.
Eg. There was an extra choice in chapter 1,but i doubt it would change much i think.
AFAIK the PS2 version wasn’t merely a port from the PC minus h-scenes, with animated images and CG movies. If there was any additional lines/scenes it was likely to compensate for the ones that were removed from the original VN. There was also new art drawn as well as some redrawn characters. As for the Aeon and Liber Legis models (as well as the other Deus Machina) I believe you can see them in an additional option in the opening menu once you finish the game. The sequel, Kishi Hishou Demonbane, also has the detailed models since you get to control the Deus Machina.
Where is Demonbane save data typically saved? Today, my computer profile reset for some reason (when I restarted my computer, it went back to the default Windows green hills background, and a lot of my shortcuts were missing from the main screen). Of course, my first concern were my files. After checking my school and work stuff, I went to check my games. The games were there (although for certain JAST games, I had to re-enter my activation codes). And I went to check my saves. My Demonbane game lost all the unlocked saves and images. My first impulse was “Agh, my precious porn! (a clear exaggeration)”, but when I checked my saves on both Raidy games and Fate/stay night, they were all safely there. In other words, of the games that I checked, only Demonbane’s save data was gone. I’m not sure where that data is typically stored, but that might help me get it back (or I could just replay, heh).
When you don’t know where the savedata is, %appdata% is a good starting place to check.
You won’t find it there. The save game files for the English release seem to be encoded with one of the other game files (probably the exe). I find it odd why JAST did this when the original Japanese release had a save game folder.