I have tried a lot of VNs but I haven’t liked most of them. Most of the ones I did like happened to be eroge on the PC98, ironically (yes yes, “I read PlayBoy for the articles” “I watch hentai for the plot” and all that, but actually unironically).

YU-NO is probably my favorite, despite some of the content being pretty disgusting to me (it was a different time and culture and I ain’t the culture police, its just offensive to me). Its pseudo-science techno-babble approach to time travel was super interesting to me, and the Epilogue was so crazy its like I got to play a whole second game after beating the game. Peak art and music as well.

I also remember liking DESIRE on the PC98, though it too had content I am not a fan of. It also had an interesting story, and the art style and music is peak as always.

I also liked XENON Mugen no Shitai, but I didnt get to play the whole thing because the English translation was incomplete. Still, the story was pretty cool to me.

Policenauts and Snatcher were both amazing too, though I played Snatcher on the SEGA CD, and Policenauts on the SEGA Saturn. They both incorporated lightgun controller shooting parts, which was pretty cool. Hideo Kojima worked on them too, which never hurts.

Danganronpa is maybe borderline VN, and I liked those. Well, except for V3, that games ending was trash, and some of the cases were meh.

But I also tried VNs I didnt like. I guess it just comes down to how much the story can hold your attention.

Anyone remember when a season was 27 episodes? And if the show was popular it got extended to 36?

It doesn’t because the game ends up selling poorly almost always.

The shareholders THINK it pleases them in the short term, but they almost always end up displeased.

It had a timeline and each converging path was displayed just like the one in NIKKE. But in YUNO one of the game mechanics was that you collect gems that act like save states. You leave a gem at a point in the story, and then later on you can instantly teleport back in time to any gem you left in the story. Then once you collected all the gems you beat the game and got the epilogue and true ending.

The “map” it was called only ever showed what you unlocked, but divergent paths were obvious.

Honestly, I think you should use them for anti-piracy DRM. Steam’s DRM is easy to crack, and so when we were thinking about how to make our game unpiratable, we just decided to use the Steam Achievements system like a save file. The game just loads the game state based on what achievements the player unlocked. You know, I never talk about this, but I used to work for Blizzard. I was the first second-generation Blizzard employee. But like, I never talk about it, so having worked there really taught me to think outside the box. So yeah, use achievements as DRM. Makes your game unpiratable.

A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World YU-NO did it great on the PC98 back in the 90s.

I guess its just that NIKKE isnt a visual novel game.

People here really love pouring cold water on this, don’t they?

Starfield wasn’t my favorite, and I was disappointed with quite a few things about the game, but I still enjoy it. At least it isnt permanently tethered to a server that Bethesda can shut off at any moment. Its good to see them.not completely giving up on Starfield, but I do wish they had listened more to feedback and given the game a true 2.0 update that improves it more.

Or clouded

Personally, I only watch dubs if its an action anime that I want to see the action when they might be talking. Like mecha anime. Personally I haven’t seen Frieren, but maybe this is something you can consider to make your choice.

Not exactly the words I would have chosen to say that, but I understand the sentiment.

Cover shareholders probably do care, and probably do want them to quit. Its a dead weight the company is dragging along. A liability. What happens if there is legal trouble with a HoloStars IP? Thats a alot of legal fighting and money being spent on something that the shareholders would rather not even bother with. Its all about money to shareholders, they couldnt care less if someone was starving on the street dying.

Most male VTubers will just never be able to make enough money to please shareholders, especially when compared to female VTubers. Even the top male vtubers like Vox or Roberu likely make less than half of what the top female vtubers make. The more or less reliable data I saw on just superchats from 2023 had like ~13 female vtubers before they got to the first male (it was Bettel I think) and then it was a huge gap to the second. Its just down to a matter of time, and how long someone in the company fights to stop this from happening. This is only one step away from just ending HoloStars completely.

And this isnt even considering competition from outside companies. Stars just doesnt bring in the money, and they are absolutely getting dropped hard because of it.

Male VTuber glass ceiling moment.

This is basically Cover “quiet firing” them. They are putting them in a corner hoping they quit on their own, which is extremely common Japanese business practice.

They just don’t make enough money. Outside of maybe the top 2 or 3 stars, basically everyone else will probably have to stream while working a part time job if they want to stay in holostars, which will inevitably lead to many just quitting which is exactly what Cover wants.

Kinda shocking it isn’t a British brand that contracted the likes of brands such as Lucas Industries. They don’t exactly have the best reputation among MG and Jag owners lol.

The only reason I might be okay with this is if this was a way for the platform to try and guarantee that the game actually releases and isn’t just vaporware. I doubt this is the actual reason for it, but that’s the only understandable reason, IMO.

An alien, obviously.

Good. Hope all of Nintendo’s software patents get rejected. Gameplay elements have been ruled to be not protectable. Only things like trade-dressing.

• He has run the company.

This sounds less correct than:

• He ran the company.

Both imply that “he” has been running the company from some point in the past until the present time of the statement or a past time. Neither carries an implication of anything happening in the future tense. Obviously, “he has ran the company” is improper English, but both examples above are correct for the context.

Surely Shifty will eventually be an Event limited unit, and Mecha Shifty and Mekami Shifty will be skins. Mekami Shifty definitely gonna be the rigged skin gacha skin.