According to VNDB a game called Saimin Yuugi was released.
Whoa. It’s the Saimin Yuugi I was thinking of, too- looks like Octopus found a studio for it instead of releasing it under #define. I’m a bit apprehensive about this game, though; I assumed it would basically be another title in the same spirit as Saimin Jikken but the advertising doesn’t really suggest that… who knows though. Its EGS score isn’t exactly bad, but it looks kinda nukige-ish.
also, the Deep onE website has a recent update saying it’ll be out this year.
Edit: Maybe DoguraQ is Nitro+'s next game???
Since I’m guessing DoguraQ has no relation to Dogra Magra I’m less interested than what I could be
Whatever happened to ABHAR Rousalka’s Mahonyo? It was listed on getchu for months. And now there’s a new title by a different company with the exact same character designs.
I suspect what happened is exactly what you’re thinking. ABHAR went bankrupt and the developers continued elsewhere. Mahonyo became LOVE&PISS and Boku no Ikiteiru Sekai became Ushina Wareta Mirai wo Motomete.
Another game that will never exist: Kizuato 2.
According to wikipedia, Takahashi had plans to continue the game, and maybe make it kind of his life work; the characters were also made thinking in a series (and indeed, Hatsune route leaves a big sequel hook). However, in the end he and Minazuki left Leaf and the idea (it wasn’t really a plan at that point) didn’t go anywhere.
Some points:
The setting would have moved from the rural town to the night of the city, from summer to winter
Concept: Oni vs man made Oni
Multiple start: each route would follow one of the routes of the original (maybe like the Galaxy Angel games do, only not sucky)
New heroine: meganekko Saki, around whom the first half of the game turns.
All this makes me think a bit on the also probably never existing Tsukihime 2. Maybe it would have become full chuu2.
Damn, that would have been neat. Those PLAYM games weren’t really the right sendoff for those two. At least Leaf is respectful enough to not give those games a sequel in the vein of Suigetsu 2 or Suika Niritsu or Konakana2* (unless TH2 counts, but I’ve never thought of it like that. Shares at least one writer anyway.) I’ve had nightmares where I saw an update about a ? -?- and I looked at it and it said ??? ??? or something like that.
*I believe looseboy used the term ‘???’ to describe games like that. ironically using it to say Kourin no Machi wasn’t one. (it was)
I’m guessing the Rikka scenario in the 2009 version doesn’t count because is not a full fledged sequel.
And it seems I made a right choice never playing Suika Niritsu.
Yeah, and I didn’t really mind it. At least, I don’t think I did. I remember some of the sillier scenes in that route but don’t remember feeling that it was either strong or weak, just maybe a bit out of place.
BTW, have you tried the PLAYM games? How are they? (I’m guessing not too impressive).
Looking at IRC logs, it seems I was fine with the Rikka route, although a little amused about how much longer than the other routes it was. Kizuato was a very concise eroge. The Shizuku remake it came with did not hold up at all, though. I’m actually a bit confused as to why I don’t like it at all because they didn’t change anything much really (apart from throwing in some silly text censorship) - maybe it’s more that the new modern look of the game doesn’t match with the very ‘traditional’ story style.
I’ve played some of Reinana but never came back to it. If there’s a decent story hiding in there, it’s behind awful SIM gameplay and I pretty much put it in the pile of eroges I’m probably not going to get to again.
I’ve not played Realise. It’s supposed to be much better but who knows.
That’s the word I was looking for. There wasn’t any waste in the main game, and the plot, and how it was distributed between routes, were very well thought off (it may have the best route structure I’ve seen). In contrast, Rikka route is longer, and feels like a bad sequel of a movie, with new enemies that are far stronger for no good reason.
After playing them I had actually read a review that also considered the original Shizuku better; I didn’t like it very much, but maybe I should try the original at some point. And also go directly for Ruriko’s route (which I think is possible? I’m not entirely sure if Shizuku has locked routes); in the end the other two ones don’t add much more than just breaking the flow.
Realize has a pretty good score and it looks kind of like Narutaru.
I could play something like Narutaru.
More sequels that won’t:
Tsukihime 2: Nasu said that were this to exist it wouldn’t necessarily follow that, but the preview in Kagetsu Tohya, and the Talk and Prelude short stories, would point to the plot centering in the conflict between Dead Apostles Ancestors / Church / Magic Society, with the DAA planing something big, and with Shiki now Satsujinki entering the war and probably being all around a badass. Probably following Arcueid True or Good (Good could seem more probable, but the epilogue of the Tsukihime manga -which BTW is so awesome it should totally be canon- shows a continuation of True that could be very well be possible, and Talk is ambiguous on which end it follows). Ciel would be important, and Len could very well be present (even if without KT she wouldn’t become Shiki’s familiar, or would have done under different circumstances). There wouldn’t seem to be much place for the Far Side heroines, though.
Fate/Stay Night 2: No, I don’t think it was ever said anything about this. But on some fanbook a few years old there was an interesting bit, about how ten years after the main events the Magic Society starts a plan to reactive the Greater Grail and make a new Grail War, and Waver teaming up with Rin to stop them, starting a war as intense as any Grail War, finishing with final destruction of the Greater Grail (obviously this couldn’t follow Heaven’s Feel). And all this could make a sweet game.
Sakura’s Ulthar doujin VN doesn’t look like it’s going to be released anytime soon.
I know of 2 unreleased BL titles.
AF ??? and White Shadow. Both titles were from Blue Impact, the BL branch of Studio e.go. They released the infamous Angel’s Feather series before ceasing production after 2 titles. AF ??? was supposedly a fandisk or third title in the series while White Shadow was meant to be a spinoff set in the same world.
Apparently both were far enough along in production that preorder bonuses were planned.
2 different bonuses were announced for AF ??? and White Shadow. The first was a 3 piece phone card set. The other was an Angel’s Feather Calendar with column collection set. The column collection set was some special colored paper you could take to them at a signing event they had planned. If you had one on you, you could take it up to them and get it signed for free. The idea being that you could order both from different places and get both preorder bonuses.
So one of the composers (Blasterhead) for Shoujobyou has been missing for months now.
His last tweet was about him attempting suicide too, and he never showed up to an event that was supposed to be at.
Normally one composer isn’t crucial to the completion and release of an eroge, but if Blasterhead is gone I doubt Shoujobyou will ever be released. Seriously hope that hasn’t happened.
Apparently he was taken off the project.