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Benoit to some people the graphics are everything there is to these games.
It must be nice to play these games for only half the content.
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Originally posted by Peter Gilis:
You're welcome, but keep in mind my little description is my personal opinion based on the CGs and babelfish translation. I don't know for sure if they are accurated or not.As for CLEAVAGE, to tell the truth monstruous breast turn me off, too. But unfortunately i think sometimes we need some brainless bgames in the market to help the sellings to rise.
On top of that, i thought the CGs of this one are kinda matured, compared to the others.
And by the way, i was thinking... If i remember well, CLEAVAGE has an h-anime version as well, right? Any chance we can see Peapri releasing some h-animes, too? You know, that Play-the-game-and-watch-the-anime thing. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
No problem, I couldn't really get anything decent with the translators so your little messages were helpful to make my decision. I really should try Babelfish though, hmmmmmmmmm.........
But I most definately agree with you on having some very sexually "active" Bishoujo Games, for like you said, to keep up the sales and of course, keep future interest so we can alteast get more hopes for future English translations. But still, I'll have to pass though on "Cleavage", and huge breasts really do turn me off. I like cute gals, etc.
Also, regarding the joke of "voice translation", I would happily do some "voicing" although if I do any voice shouting parts, I might end up sound like a Politician shouting out a speech.
I do think this topic and a few other threads lately does outline the two ‘markets’ (lets call them ‘sex focused’ and ‘story focused’ for the sake of my post) that seem out there within this niche of b-games.
If you come to these from a more general porn background, I can easily see why something like Cleavage would be of more interest. It is indeed the visuals that is important. I’d also note here the comments some have made about where are the more ‘realistic’ sex games.
For those of us who come to b-games from the anime or J-gaming side, there is a greater importance for the characters and the story which they inhabit. The whole moe and kawaii-themes are also things this segment appreciates and thus the differnce in the games that they want to see over.
If both markets can find some titles of interest, then that is a good thing. But, historically in the US, it seems the crossover from general western porn to elements of the b-games has not always been there. Perhaps for some of the reasons I noted above.
All that being said, my votes still go for the pulltop games!
Glad to see I’m not the only one here who likes ladies of the full-figured (i.e. humongous-hooters) variety.
Heck, I like MILFs! So I’d love to see some of the games which feature adult women.
Peach Princess would know better than I how well these have performed financially, having done “Gibo” and now owning G-Collections, should know how “Hitozuma Hime Club - Secret Wives Club” performed.
Not that I expect an answer.
As any experienced bishojo gamer should know, a great many games use a “shotgun” approach, which often includes an older woman, so it is clear there’s a market for it.
Some of these games look very interesting. Here’s my order of interest for these games. I have a question to throw in here too though if anyone can help… I’m heading to Iraq, who do I need to contact to update my address for preorders?
1. Summer Girl
2. Death Meta
3. Hello Spring
4. Yume Miru Kurusi (Dream Drug)
5. Cleavage
6. Yu no Hana
Hmmm…
I’ve actually played Death Meta before. Unfortunately, it was right after I finsihed Tsukihime and MinDeaDBlooD (two of the best “vampire” eroge out there), so I didn’t think too highly of the title and traded it away as soon as I could
IN HINDSIGHT HOWEVER… it wasn’t that bad, and I was just being “spoiled” at the time. If forced to only pick one in that selection, I’d pick Death Meta.
If the person I traded it to was still around, I’d try to make a review of it on my site… but alas, it’s not to be so…
Any game with a low loli count is my preference
My rank from most favorite to least:
1. Cleavage (…biggest lead; need to keep this in the running)
then these 3 about together:
2. Yume Miru Kurusi (Dream Drug)
3. Hello Spring
4. Summer Girl
then:
5. Yu no Hana (although this one is still quite good)
(Death Meta isn’t the artistic style I like.)
On Cleavage – I can understand where the nay-sayers are coming from since it’s normal for Western-otaku to look with skepticism at certain Japanese fetishes (and this is almost too obvious: few large breasts in Japan; let’s over-fetishize it with huge ones to the point of near absurdity) that don’t have near the same pull in the US. I sometimes feel that way, but nevertheless, Clevage is the only one out of this list that I noticed when the Japan release came out, and I wanted to buy it then, so of course I’d get the English translation. 2 main reasons/thoughts:
(1) the seriously first thought I had when I saw it’s Japan release was that my collection (and the English H-game market for that matter) needs a serious increase in more mature girls/plots, and this caught my eye right at that time. Say what you will about it being mindless (and it couldn’t be any more than Horny Bunnies, which I still liked), at least the jokes and conversations are adult jokes and conversations, and the situations look more work oriented than over-dramatic kid/high school stuff. High school oriented drama/humor just isn’t very convincing/funny for me unless I’m in a nostolgic mood or something, and it’s getting overplayed IMHO.
(2) Also, I really like Cleavage’s artistic style (large breasts or not), and since the large breasts aren’t a put off for me it’s only a plus, and one has to admit it catches the eye. It’s strange, though. I consider myself H-literate (if not a purist) and not a big fan of bigtit hentai generally, but for some reason I like it here and really want this game.
The others look vulnerable to a lot of the melodramatic high school stuff I want to take a break from. But anyway, that said, on the others:
I really like the artistic style of Dream-Drug, proto-realistic isn’t the right term, but attention to realist detail maybe is. A con, maybe: The girls all look pretty thin and “fragile” and from the CGs, look like they’ll get pushed around a lot which isn’t so fun, but since I don’t know the plot I can’t be sure. If it’s not so bad, then I could like this one.
Hello Spring has lots of characters, varied personalities, I really like the girls’ figures, and most of all it looks like a lot of fun as the different personalities interact. I know I’d have fun playing this.
[This message has been edited by Keido to Ido (edited 02-10-2006).]
I think that PP should make Cleavage, simply because it would sell well. Keep it in mind that we are just a small sample of PP’s market, and the X-C series have proved that mindless sex romps sell. And PP needs money, no doubt about it.
As much as some people on this BBS find games like Cleavage distastful, I think that a financially healthy PP is a plus. So make Cleavage, already.
[This message has been edited by kmusky (edited 02-11-2006).]
I’d love to see Hello Spring.
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Step by step there is no need to rush, case by case I don’t care if people laugh. Beyond the uncountable says she is there waiting for me
At the moment I’m so thoroughly spoiled by Ever 17 I’m tempted to go off the H entirely.
the others didn’t catch my eye that much.
From art style alone I’d rank them:
1 - Yu no Hana (Cute!)
2 - Death Meta (Nice looking designs)
3 - Summer Girl
4 - Hello Spring
5 - Cleavage (A bit too breast fetishy, but I’d probably buy it)
6 - Yume Miru Kurusi (Just looks a bit odd to me)
[This message has been edited by dco_chris (edited 02-14-2006).]
Personal opinion? Very very strong vote against Cleavage. Huge breasts are a big turnoff. As for the other games, I dunno anything about them storywise. Death Meta looks cute, I hear good things about Yu no Hana.
My tastes: no doubleplusungodlyhuge breasts; catgirls, bunnygirls, the more the merrier; strong story; low rape.
Just got some info on the games. My choices, roughly in order:
1) Yu no Hana. Storyline is basically: You get into some sort of accident. You wake up, girl floating in the air is like “Hi! I’m the local god. Fee for saving your asp is $2500.” The game’s genre is “shrine donation begging adventure”.
I think I want to play this game. Now. 
2) Death Meta: Something involving main char becoming a vampire. Cool!
3) Hello Spring: Looks to be some sort of comedy involving a school 10:1 as many girls as boys. Could be good
4, 5) Summer Girl and Dream Drug: Couldn’t find out much about them but they sounded kind of by-the-book.
5)
6) Cleavage. 
Nuff said.
By the way, Payne-sama, taking the chance you are asking about feedbacks for future bgames, any chance we can see translated someday ONE BOKU from Lucha, too?
1 - Cleavage
2 - Death Meta
3 - Summer Girl
4 - Hello Spring
5 - Yu no Hana
6 - Yume Miru Kurusi
I like BB games. Loli is kind of a turn off.
I see a post from another fellow who is also heading to Iraq. I’ll be seeing you out there sometime. I’ve been there once already, fun times. I’m at NTC right now in the desert, just stopped by the library at Ft. Irwin for a quick e-mail check and to look over some stuff.
On topic, I’ll probably buy any of these games. My track record so far is that I buy pretty much any game where the protaganist is a guy and he doesn’t get objects put in any of his orifices. Ouside of that, I can handle pert near any game, some I won’t like as much as others, but they’re all good enough in the end. I’d really like to see Summer Girl though. I’ve been craving something reminescent of Tokimeki Check-in, truthfully, and the visuals reminded me of it, for some reason.
Just based on the CG and character pages, I��d say that Summer Girl is my number one, Yu no Hana is number two, and Death Meta is my number three. The other ones didn’t really appeal to me.
I’m also drinkin’ that hateraide on Cleavage… ^^() Not my thing. But I also agree that sex romps like that with mammoth boobies are likely to sell some copies for people out there who couldn’t give two hoots about the story. So if you’re translating four games, I would take Cleavage, Summer Girl, Yu no Hana, and Death Meta. Of course, my taste isn’t necessarily going to sell the most copies, either… oO()
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“I’m just…collecting rings. The chocolate is just an added benefit.” - Tsugumi [EVER17]
1 Death Meta
2 Cleavage
3 Hello Spring
4 Summer Girl
5 Yu No Hana
6 Yume Miru Kurusi (Dream Drug)