Well, Marunomi didn't really had much of a story in my opinion, though it definitely wasn't the ''loss, defeat, rape'' type of game. I have to admit, I didn't get the true ending, but I know what you mean by the emphasis this game also had. Nevertheless, Marunomi's main selling point is still it's gameplay system. The story is something I honestly didn't really care about when playing it, nor the CG's.
Hearing what this other game is like, it sure sounds dull, in comparison.
Why not?
I'm pretty sure a broader audience can be achieved, but nothing that can be done within the Visual Novel genre, but our society. Pointing at something in hostility and badmouthing it, yet having no clue what this genre is actually about is despicable, and I despise people for that way of thinking. Not because we don't think alike, but because others jumping to conclusions, blindly assuming things, accusing you of being who-knows-what and then not even questioning the actual thing. I just can't stand these kinds of statements, nor the people that make them qithout atleast questioning themselves afterwards. :/
By the way, now where we are at it, I voted for Marunomi at their survey, but I doubt many more people will have included it, if any.
I'm anticipating the blogpost with the survey results, I so wished a publisher would finally go down that route and bring more risky titles, like Marunomi. :)
I heard that Mangagamer is less likely to pick up a title that already has a fantranslation, will Jast USA does, but usually tends to not pick up these kinds of games, so there isn't really a clear alternative in my case, unfortunately.
Maybe I should simply import the Japanese version... but then again, I hope I don't have to pick it up from the customs and justify my purchase. ^-^''
I've never bought from DLsite, since I only buy hardcopy versions.
Most of their stuff just seems to serve your daily fapping needs, to put it bluntly.
For example, I believe they have a lot of softhouse-seal Eroge, but it has been ages when I checked out their catalogue the last time.
Either a hardcopy version, or nothing in my case.
People are just idiots.
A drawing isn't a child, and doesn't reflect a child. Someone mentioned in a thread at Mangagamer's forums a heavily loli-related Eroge called ''Yuzuminatsu'', or something like that.
Like I said, no problem with loli porn as long as it's just anime-related and in 2D, but in this case... the whole scenario was just messed up.
I believe one of the screenshots at VNDB even showed a playground as a background... no, no no nope.
I have to admit, the artwork was great, but the whole scenario... well, even the artwork, while being of high-quality, triggered a sense of uneasiness on me. If something like that ever gets localized in English, just heavily censored, or (and I would actually prefer that), not being localized at all, and that says someone who is totally against censorship.
Why would I want to pay the same price for ''less'' content, after all?
Regarding Littlewitch Romanesque, I thought at first they were around 10 years old, or so. To be honest, their approximately age span is quite obvious, in my opinion.
I bought it because I love the art style, and the dice system seemed neat, too (and I haven't been disappointed in my purchase).
The biggest indicator for me making that purchase was Oyari Ashito's artwork. It catches cutesy altogether with ''beauty'' just perfectly, I'm really fond of this aquarell-type of style, too.
He was also in charge of the artwork for the Princess Maker franchise, which I also happen to own a few games, and an artbook.
I liked Littlewitch Romanesque even so much, that I bought the limited edition of the Japanese PS2 release in still sealed condition, and I'm proud for having this.
I told my mom about this whole loli-stuff (she's actually relatively open about this), and when I showed her the cover, it reminded her of Harry Potter.
I was looking like crazy, but there aren't any pictures of the front sover of the PS2 version, just the ''regular'' one of the limited edition sheeth.
Oh well... the front cover has the characters drawn very small, barely visible to the human eye to separate them from each other, and they are in this gigantic tower made of stone... looks pretty atmospheric-dense, if you ask me.
I lost track of things after writing half of this comment and looking for half an hour for a good pic for the front cover, welp.
Well, loli, pettanko... I just like flatchests. If something is loli in regards to anime, I don't care the slightest bit about it, because it's the same thing as a pettanko - a drawing with flat-chested proportions.
If people can fap to that, why not, but the broad mass is just too shallow-minded, it seems.
Nah, if a game has something positive about it, it's a positive game, if the rest doesn't suck.
I'm open-minded about that, doesn't seem to be that bad of a game.
I also like the idea of an official translation of Irotoridori no Sekai or Ore wa tsure de Hitodenashi.
By the way, I didn't know about this, but since Littlewitch Romanesque succeeded that greatly, how about this here?
Just noticed it when looking for pictures of the front cover of the PS2 version.
Quartett
I like the humorous context in the screenshots, that's also what I like about the artstyle, it's so light-hearted. ^-^
