Chaos;head, Chaos;Child, Robotics;Notes, Steins;Gate 0... Pretty much any and all games set in that world. I want it.
Any Otome games would be nice. I loved playing Amnesia, Sweet Fuse and Hakuoki and am currently playing through Norn9 and Code: Realize.
I can't really think of any examples I'd like you to try to get atm, it's three in the morning and I'm about to go to sleep. I know you said earlier that getting Otome was difficult. So it may be nothing but a dream for yourself to get anything. So I'll just leave it at that.
I saw someone Mention Utawarerumono. I would love that game! It looks right up my alley. I love my strategy rpg's and Dungoen Crawling rpg's, they are both a tie for my favourite kind of rpg... It's like Aselia the Eternal, both a Visual Novel and Strategy rpg.... I would be so happy if it got licensed.
P.S the squeal game for Aselia needs to hurry up, I loved Aselia. :<
I hate it when I have to shoot down suggestions. No one who does business with Kadokawa once ever does it twice...if their games are to be brought out, it'll likely be by them directly, now that the "Steam gold rush" is on and every J-company is expecting to make millions (despite the fact that sales have already peaked and are headed downwards).
Otome games are nice, we'd love to do them...might try in 2017 perhaps. The big cockblock is the VA studios, who insist on being paid $200,000 for the Japanese voice data because that's what they do. Ero is easier in this way because the VAs aren't nearly as famous. Would like to give them a fair shake though.
Saihate no Ime, published by Xuse, made by the people behind Cross Channel - https://vndb.org/v1278
I can't see a fan translation happening any time soon. Seeing as you're partners with Xuse, you're our only hope, JAST. I just want some romance that isn't so straightforward. Bonus points due to there being a very recent re-release with additional content. Is basically a legendary game, may not be a mainstream hit but at least the diehard fans would love you for it, lol.
If you want something a bit more moe-ish, maybe you can try roping in Applique. I've been bummed out ever since the Concerto Note (https://vndb.org/v1052) fan project died, and Tasogare no Sinsemilla (https://vndb.org/v3938) looks good, too.
I would be interested if you all could acquire from Jellyfish, Sisters - The Last Day of Summer Ultra Edition, I know it’s not exactly a big title to acquire and I know you would have to get Jellyfish to bite but if at all possible, I would love to see it translated and uncensored so I can understand what is going on its a fairly small game as far as I know.
If possible, it would be cool if you could bring Dracu-Riot to the West, I just finished this VN recently and it was quite good, good art, quite fun and it also has some good moments, is a pity that only the Elina route was translated and whoever did this probably doesn’t have any plans to finish the translation.
Dracu-Riot is Yuzusoft. Sekai Project is working on one of their titles. Your best bet is to go pester Sekai Project about it.
Mahoutsukai no Yoru: https://vndb.org/v777
Phenomeno: https://vndb.org/v10526
Steins;Gate 0: https://vndb.org/v17102
Ever17: https://vndb.org/v17
@Nandemonai said:
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If My Heart Had Wings - I heard you say you were interested in bringing this over, Peter; please do. The game itself looks really interesting; MoeNovel just ruined it with censorship.
-cant see a company, in this case moenovel, giving up on their rights/license of a title that earned/-s them pretty darn good money so far, even in its ruined, btw. misshandled state.
as for i, except for izumi ban’ya’s latest work “Shi ni Iku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo”, which piqued my interest quite alot in more than one way, there’s no much beside my sincerest wish of you (JAST) possible deciding on bringing a few stunningly awesome-ish doujinshi over. as for some potential candidates for glory, here you go:
“Kurai Nichiyoubi - Sombre Dimanche” from zigzag
“Sono Hikari Sono Tsubasa ~Azathoth no Isan~” from T no Nijou
“Omega no Shikai Series” from Nekobanana
& finally a real gem that is “Lisbelluru no Ma” from Tokiteto. coming to that one, it’s girlish looking, has lots of mechas to it, it’s getting rather serious, can be considered a plot-ge & is basically everything one can possibly wish for these moe-infested days. so try it out, see for yourself & better strike the iron while it’s hot, more than sure some others will do the same rather sooner than later.
on another note you might want to look into (& you seriously want to) getting amagasas “virgin load” brought over, simply because it’s one of the most refreshing/funny/hillarious nukige i had the pleasure to read/experience since a real long time ago. btw. the website only showing ero-scenes as preview screens is by no means representative of all of their titles as a whole, definitely not.
Shi ni Iku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo Shiniyuku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo | vndb
Mirai Senki Slavenil Mirai Senki Slavenil | vndb
Junketsu Karyuudo Junketsu Karyuudo | vndb This one is probably too old but still looks interesting.
Any chance we could see the 2013 remake of Family Project? Not sure how much translation it would take since you already have the original translated.
Some Requests:
Straight:
Cross Days - Complete the series One of the more unique series in JASTs lineup
Black CYC Titles - Considering the deal with Poison@Berry, I wouldn’t mind seeing another try at Black Cyc or any other company under their banner. Mindead Blood and Gore Screaming Show in particular.
Sexfriend - CodePink’s first title and their most infamous given the h-ova. The OVA was also one of the first H-ova’s I ever watched so I’d like to see the original game it was adapted from.
X-Change Alternative 2 - If Crowd can be brought back on board then I’d like to see the X-change series continued
Yaoi:
LuckyDog1 - JASTUSA has already worked with the artist (who now runs her own studio) on Enzai and Absolute Obedience. Plus it’s one of the better yaoi games.
Nitro+Chiral titles - Most have already been translated but it’d be nice to get them done officially. Most of their titles have been updated for Windows 10 support too.
Shingakkou - Stone Heads owns both CodePink and Pil/Slash (among other brands) and I’d like to see this brought over. One of the better yaoi titles.
@shadowolf64 : “Yes, yes, a thousand times yes” on purtier Family Project.
@Lipp: Great suggestions all around… I’m not personally knowledgeable about Gore Screaming Show, but I do remember many of the regulars on the old JAST forums were big fans. I feel like it would have a bit of a built-in cult following waiting for it, and that style of visual novel is likely a bit easier to localize than the gameplay-heavy stuff. I would also love seeing an X-Change continuation – the first Yin Yang: X-Change Alternative is a favorite title of mine on the sillier, ecchi side of JAST’s lineup.
My ambitious suggestion would be Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena, but I can see the difficulty of localizing a mobage. My safe option would be Raidy 3.5. Jast is already doing the Raidy series, and from what I can see, it is a shorter game than the main games but IMO has better art.
I sincerely hope JAST doesn’t get into free-to-play games. Leave that sad and ugly business to Nutaku. Also, MangaGamer is the company that’s partnered with Lilith in the past.
It’s hard to comment on this thread without giving out hints. But it is safe to say that we’re not planning to go into free-to-play (or pay-to-win) games.
been awhile since the last suggestion of i, but here’s a new one:
title is called Re-Lief, an upcoming work of studio Rask, to be released in around a month from now and frankly speaking quite the ambitious one. as far as writing goes, and what i can tell from reading its trial-version, so far things have been pretty solid, which is no wonder since one of its writers is earu, who also did a damn great job coming to the free-doujin cyber-rebeat. this paired with mochas most mesmerizing visuals should be more than enough to make ones brains melt whilst reading. since Re-Lief is the studios first attempt in anything commercial, i’m tempted to doubt they would start asking of unreasonable sums there, that is if they are willing to have their title getting licensed in the first place, but honestly, who is not these days as i cant think of that many.
@Nicholas said:
It’s hard to comment on this thread without giving out hints. But it is safe to say that we’re not planning to go into free-to-play (or pay-to-win) games.
By all means, feel free to give hints. What could possibly go wrong? Why, a few years back, it took all of a few days for MangaGamer’s hints to prematurely reveal games they hadn’t even announced yet! Come on, what are you afraid of? We won’t tell manyone …
Chaos;head Dual, the Steins;gate spinoffs, Robotics;Note, Chaos;child, etc. PC would be most desirable, of course, but even just a translated Chaos;head dual for the vita would be great. Other sci-fi VNs would be cool, too. If you could do Tokyo Xanadu it would be good too, but I imagine Xseed is going to do that one, if anyone.
XSeed is releasing Xanadu Next in a week or two. Aksys is releasing Tokyo Xanadu sometime early next year. Also, Steins;Gate 0 is coming out in English for Vita in like a month.