In my experience, people who ask the source for a CG image generally only have that one or a mere handful of CG’s from the game in question. If they got the image from a torrent download, the torrent would name the game… or have a shot of the title screen of the game.
A few days ago, someone asked me the origin of the following picture (and I told him). I’m sure it’s possible the person might have gone to pirate it… but then, he might have been sincere in looking for a legit copy, since not all titles are well known. I generally assume people have positive intentions, when asking the source of an image. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t do anymore damage. It’s also impossible for someone to identify every eroge out there… even those who are fanatical legit collectors.
On the other hand, I have reservations against search engines and eroge because they tend to put priority on sites which get a lot of hits or link backs. Pirate sites top the list in a lot of cases. I did a random search of some screenshots I had on my hard drive, and the ones that got a positive return, replied with pirate CG galleries.
About the game that the image belongs to, is it any good (as dark ero go) or am I better off with just sticking with the Mayonaka series and Crusade when it comes to Tacchi’s stuff?
It’s a good game. No supernatural stuff like Mayonaka or Crusade: real world evil and whatnot – but far superior to that in Virgin Roster. The story isn’t anywhere as “deep” as Mayonaka’s though. It’s all about the sex (and there’s some kinky positions and great artwork). Honestly speaking: I think all the “old school” Touchy/Tacchi games are excellent stuff. They were a leader and pioneer of brutal dark eroge. They seriously set the standards for the early 2000’s.
The only problem is that many are out of print and they don’t work with Vista (32-bit or 64-bit… doesn’t matter). You’ll have to have XP or earlier.
It’s probably obvious and doesn’t need mentioning, but use iqdb for a similar function, as it’s a bit more ‘targeted’, and at the same time indexes a lot of things probably more relevant to what you want than tineye does. Tineye is more as a general image search tool.
