Rance IX

[Drkz]

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Getchu (http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=792315)
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Rance IX: The Helman Revolution is the title for the 11th game in the canonical storyline of the Rance series. It is confirmed to take place in Helman and will likely include a long-term goal of having sex with the Empress of Helman, Sheila Helman.

Concept art has recently been released, confirming the inclusion of various characters and implications of certain scenes (see below for some of the images and their details). Their official website is scheduled to launch on 14th November, 2013.

The game itself is currently slated to be released in the 1st half of 2014. (Taken from the wikia)

Gameplay. It will likely be an RPG game in the tradition of Rance, and will feature a turn based tactical RPG system like Pastel Chime 3 Bindseeker, while incorporating the system of Sengoku Rance and Rance Quest for deciding order of action.
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http://blog.alicesoft.com/ (Note some images are NSFW!!! You've been warned)
http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/AliceSoftWiki:Main_Page
https://sites.google.com/site/bbshut/home/rance-data (site is pretty much dead, but its still good)
http://tropes.wikia.com/wiki/Rance_Quest (Tvtropes nuked the old trope good thing for backups!)
http://alicesoft.com/ (Site needs a working proxy)

Sengoku Rance Manga 4+(?)
Rance Quest manga 2+(?)

Translated games. Rance 1-4, 7. Interface 8.

Backstory for three is really important since three is mainly about Helman.
Helman makes a brief appearance in 8 they're harvesting kalar crystals for the upcoming war.
If your played Kichi Rance you've pretty much spoiled the whole game. Kichi is considered Alicesofts "Final Fantasy." It was suppose to be their final game, but it became so popular they where able to bounce back.

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It's happening a rance card game!
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A stress test was released for nine. See how well your computer can run the game! Get it from the usual place.

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Alicesoft 3DS GAME! 3DS are region blocked...

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[Ravenblitz]

I haven't even played Rance Quest yet...

[chocolatemilkgod]

Rance Quest will be translated eventually at least. Sadly, I don't know if we'll ever see a full translation for Daiteikoku :/

Still, more alicesoft certainly isn't a bad thing :). I definitely like the look of some of the sketches.

[Drkz]

Its possible to beat Rance Quest without a translation its how through the walkthrough is. Plus the game mechanics have always been pretty simple.

[Xellos-_^]

Its possible to beat Rance Quest without a translation its how through the walkthrough is. Plus the game mechanics have always been pretty simple.
beating the game isn't the point. it is playing and understanding the game. Which requires a translation.

[Drkz]

http://blog.alicesoft.com/archives/3822345.html

Rance 1 getting remade! Wooh.

[Duo Maxwell]

Hmm....I actually wish for something like Sengoku Rance. That was brilliant.

[Drkz]

Hmm....I actually wish for something like Sengoku Rance. That was brilliant.

Uh, than I'd recommend Big Bang Age, Daiteikoku or Daiakuji.

Alicesoft probably won't be using that system anymore. It doesn't really fit the way to play Rance. I mean it fit the story for sengoku, but not so much the other stuff. They might put something like that in X, but more than anything IX will go back to its routes. Dungeons and nonsensical grinding....

[Duo Maxwell]

Uh, than I'd recommend Big Bang Age, Daiteikoku or Daiakuji.

Alicesoft probably won't be using that system anymore. It doesn't really fit the way to play Rance. I mean it fit the story for sengoku, but not so much the other stuff. They might put something like that in X, but more than anything IX will go back to its routes. Dungeons and nonsensical grinding....

I played them all, but for some reasons I prefer Sengoku Rance the most. It could be because it's my first eroge with that kind of system. I dunno. It's not like I dismiss the other games, though.

[Drkz]

I played them all, but for some reasons I prefer Sengoku Rance the most. It could be because it's my first eroge with that kind of system. I dunno. It's not like I dismiss the other games, though.

Sengoku was straight forward. Characters are likable and unlike the other games it didn't really have that many Bad End CG. BBA is probably one of the hardest game to date. Loyalty bad god dam.. Daiakuji was a little easier, but it was still a pain. Not to mention these two where somewhat on the (darker side of the spectrum). So many hidden parameters. And Daiteikoku is pretty much whatever. Other than the loli-hitler and the beat artist I didn't really find it that much memorable.

This kind of playstyle gives the player a time limit. But it isn't suited for Rance. In Rance it isn't the plot that takes up time. Its finding rare items and collecting heroines. This pretty much takes up majority of you time. Not to mention Rance started out as a pseudo-dungeon crawler and I'm pretty sure Tada is going to end it this way too.

[Drkz]

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Bring back Sil!

[Duo Maxwell]

Did her hair change again, or that's how her hair was in the first game?

[Drkz]

Honestly I can't remember really well. All I can remember was I think she wore glasses and went to school and Rance could actually use magic.

[hyl]

For the curious, the trial is out

http://www.alicesoft.com/rance01/download.html

edit: you still need to use a proxy , because the website of alicesoft blocks foreign ip's

[Drkz]

For the curious, the trial is out

http://www.alicesoft.com/rance01/download.html

edit: you still need to use a proxy , because the website of alicesoft blocks foreign ip's

Yup. They never changed that after the rapelay thing.

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Rance 1 ad. Cropping naughty bits out.

Is it me or does look like suzume?

For people who are wondering about IX you should play III. III has a lot of the background story. Since III is all about Helman. In VIII Helman made a brief appearance in the Kalar village.

[Drkz]

Unlike three in four you need to grind. Three you could abuse Ferris. Four especially the last level is all about survival. If your units don't have enough hp you won't last long enough for the next event to trigger and its game over.

[Drkz]

Tips for three.
You'll want to grind for the first key at a bare minimum. Buster Sword has a attack of like 42? Its one of the highest dmg swords in the whole game. You'll want to get Rance to a decent level so he has brute atk. Brute Atk out damages Rance Atk. I think I managed to do 1.7k dmg to the final boss. I'd also recommend you use all three jewels to raise Kanami's max level. Kanami is your lifeline. In boss fights you can't use items. In the final battle you don't got Sil unless you have Kanami passed maxed level your pretty much fucked in the fight. Kanami has a very high evasion rate, but she'll still die in one hit from the boss. The fights in chapter 6 are pretty much scripted. Its more survival than anything. If your party's hp is too low you won't be able to finish it. You need to get his hp below 2.5k or something twice. Its easier said than done especially since your party is weak.

[chaosprophet]

The website for 9 is open (http://www.alicesoft.com/rance9/). If you're not at Japan you need a Japanese proxy to access it.

There is a short teaser out too:
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On the system tab on the site, it explains about "Rance Mode". It says there is 7 heroines this time, with both new and old characters. Says that now Rance is a bit more of an adult so the girls he has a special interest in he treat them with more care than just caring about if he is feeling good himself. It also says other girls besides the 7 also will have H scenes. Here is a pic from Rance mode with the slots for the girls (only three ones revealed so far):

http://s8.postimg.org/wsfhme1kh/screenshot_243.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/wsfhme1kh/)

The leftmost girl is a new character. Rance saved a group of slaves under the road, but demanded the girls on the group to have sex with him as his reward, she tells him to not touch the others and she would do anything, then he makes her his servant. Then Kanami and Tillday (first appearance in Quest, an ambitious Leazas knight member of the royal guard).

It also mentions that depending on your progress with the heroines events you can get different outcomes. So we have more than one ending, with one probably the true route/end like Sengoku.

[Drkz]

Aww man, I'm guessing that Leila thing in Sengoku was really canon if childie is still there. I'm guessing one is Shizuka and the other one is Sil. Senhime might be in there too since shes back! Unless they changed it i'm guessing thats the interface for the affection meter for each girl. At the send of Quest he already got three girls prego I'm pretty sure hes not going to ditch them :uhoh:. BRING BACK OMACHI! :heh:

[chaosprophet]

On Tillday/Childie introduction in Quest, she does says Leila is her superior. The Rance World Notes on the main website also didn't mention anything about that optional event in Sengoku. Thing is, Leila is a character who actually have a solid love interest outside Rance (well, solid in her heart although it's still unrequited) so because of that, it's unlikely she would be a main heroine in the series, and usually appears late and joins late if playable.

From the Rance mode screen, you can see that each character "slot" has a color related with the character clothes/hair color. In that sense Sill would like be pink or white, so doesn't seems like she is one of the 7. My guess she will be free only by the end of 9 or maybe even on next game.

My current bet for the heroines is Shizuka, Senhime, and two new ones.

[Key Board]

Leila's love interest seems to be lending help to Patton's army
So maybe she'll make an appearance as well

but anyway, I'm excited

The best Rance games have always been the ones dealing with major countries:
Leazes R3
Zeth R6
JAPAN R7
and now for the last major country

We can expect Majin involvement, but I wonder who it will be.

[chaosprophet]

Leila's love interest seems to be lending help to Patton's army
So maybe she'll make an appearance as well

but anyway, I'm excited

The best Rance games have always been the ones dealing with major countries:
Leazes R3
Zeth R6
JAPAN R7
and now for the last major country

We can expect Majin involvement, but I wonder who it will be.
On enjoyment as a whole, i must confess the ones I liked the best were the ones with newer graphics, 02, 01 and Quest. But story wise, I agree with you. The ones with bigger conflicts were the best. It was Rance 3 that a couple of months ago made me get so much into the series that I went and played 4, 01, 5D, 6, Sengoku, Quest Magnum (currently on the middle of it) in a row afterwards.

Regarding Majin, people are guessing Red Eye at least will appear. Seems that in one of the scenarios on Kichikuou Rance he:
Takes control of a Toushin Toushi, and on the teaser/trailer we see a flying city.
I would also guess we would see one member of the big 4, maybe Kesselring (Kamilla is out, Kayblis will likely be left for a future game, maybe X, when Rance conquer the monster realm, and Silky being human friendly and from Hornet faction will also likely be left for a later game).

For those who can't access the website, here is Rick's disguise:

http://s8.postimg.org/6a6155hm9/screenshot_265.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/6a6155hm9/)

I guess that visor is enough for him to not activate his weak personality, but it does looks like something that would fall off easily. It would be lol if he has something like, every time he takes damage he may lose the mask and becomes unable to fight / retreats. They could even use this game for later make him beat his weakness.

[Key Board]

Red Eye has a toushin mech body, but I don't remember him taking over a city
it is within his skill set, though. He took over the magic barrier line before
also Patton's companion has a lot of connection with Toushin. They might do the Red Eye storyline now.

I just hope they are serious about it. The way they handled Majin Kaito's storyline in RQ was kinda disappointing.

And since it's taking place in Helman, I think Megalas might make an appearance, since the downed alien ship is north from Helman

oh, 2ch speculates that Rance's new "slave" might actually be the imperial princess's twin sister.

[chaosprophet]

oh, 2ch speculates that Rance's new "slave" might actually be the imperial princess's twin sister.
Some also speculates Russian is Sheila herself in disguise, although that one seems more farfetched. This is the comparison pic:

http://s8.postimg.org/nd8t0nyb5/screenshot_267.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/nd8t0nyb5/)

[Key Board]

oh wait, let's compromise

Rusian is the real Sheila
The one at the palace is a fake!

[chaosprophet]

oh wait, let's compromise

Rusian is the real Sheila
The one at the palace is a fake!
I did see that theory too. I do think it would be interesting is she is more than she seems, but for now, there are many options.

[Xacual]

It wouldn't be Rance if he didn't manage to make the princess of a land fall for him on his first visit.

[Xellos-_^]

It wouldn't be Rance if he didn't manage to make the princess of a land fall for him on his first visit.
It wouldn't be Rance if he didn't rape the princess (if legal age) of the land.

[chaosprophet]

It wouldn't be Rance if he didn't rape the princess (if legal age) of the land.
Ever since 6, he did make his objective to fuck all the princesses of major countries, even from the monster realm. So he will definitely want to do Sheila, and in that sense I guess it would be bad if one of his big motivations to help the revolution (my guess) would already have been given to him from the beginning without his knowledge. But again, who knows. Man, with Eiyuu Senki GOLD, this is one of the games i most looked forward too in some time.

[Drkz]

Red Eye has a toushin mech body, but I don't remember him taking over a city
it is within his skill set, though. He took over the magic barrier line before
also Patton's companion has a lot of connection with Toushin. They might do the Red Eye storyline now.

I just hope they are serious about it. The way they handled Majin Kaito's storyline in RQ was kinda disappointing.

And since it's taking place in Helman, I think Megalas might make an appearance, since the downed alien ship is north from Helman

oh, 2ch speculates that Rance's new "slave" might actually be the imperial princess's twin sister.

Red-Eye has slaves though. Something about needing their blood or he can't substain his body.

Yeah I feel like the Kaito thing was randomly added in... the stella thing was pretty random as well. And the gay bird turned female :uhoh:. Wonder if little princess will make a appearance. Not having Sil to heal is such a pain! Wonder if you'll ever get Ferris in a actual party. Kichi Rance was fun, but majority of the plot is still based off Kichi. WHAT ABOUT RIZNA! There was literally a whole game devoted towards her. A lot of people are worried about readding senokgu characters into Rance. Some say it might jepordaize the story. I wonder if yamamoto will make a appearance. But seriously wheres omachi?

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[Duo Maxwell]

It wouldn't be Rance if he didn't rape the princess (if legal age) of the land.

Does Rance even care about age at all?

[Xacual]

I think as long as the girl is somewhere in the 15-35 range he doesn't care.

[Drkz]

Does Rance even care about age at all?

Can't look like a loli can't be a loli can't be related or over 35(?). But there are exceptions like Rizna (http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/Rizna_Lanfebit#Personal_History) (Rizna's history is pretty dark...) or Copandon (http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/Copandon_Dotto#Rance_Quest). Pretty much he doesn't care as long they are his "women" :heh: well thats at least what he told copandon in RQ. Biggest issue is they can't look too young or old. Apparently he doesn't care about people who go from guy => girl. Unless the gay fire bird was the only exception. :uhoh: I think the youngest age was something around the 14 age range.

[Duo Maxwell]

I guess the girls from Sengoku Rance doesn't count? Since I remember there are at least 2 lolis that he made his way through (the glasses girls whose name I can't remember).

[Key Board]

WHAT ABOUT RIZNA! There was literally a whole game devoted towards her.

According to the Rance Quest epilogue she... becomes a Majin eventually

Probably from eating the Hanny Majin's blood soul later on?

Apparently he doesn't care about people who go from guy => girl
I think this is true. Remember the gender change spring in R7. He doesn't seem to have a problem with screwing your mob characters who change gender.

I wonder if yamamoto will make a appearance
She's apparently pregnant by the end of R7
Too busy raising a child?

[chaosprophet]

I guess the girls from Sengoku Rance doesn't count? Since I remember there are at least 2 lolis that he made his way through (the glasses girls whose name I can't remember).
He does tend to have a mix of age and how she looks to consider too young. But 15 years old he already is interested on. I didn't know if she is the one you're talking about but in Sengoku you have Yamanaka Kojika who is 20 but looks like a little kid. He didn't want to do her, although he do her once when he is drunk and by the effect of the alcohol he sees her with an older body.

You can see his thing about not doing girls too young with how he ever since Sengoku is still waiting for Kouhime to get older before he can do her, or Mill Yorks in other games.

Rance says his strike zone is 15-29, although the upper limit is more about how they look. so a 30+ that looks very young is okay, a 25 that already looked old / isn't pretty because of age isn't okay.

[Drkz]

According to the Rance Quest epilogue she... becomes a Majin eventually

Probably from eating the Hanny Majin's blood soul later on?


I think this is true. Remember the gender change spring in R7. He doesn't seem to have a problem with screwing your mob characters who change gender.


She's apparently pregnant by the end of R7
Too busy raising a child?

The child is the next ruler of japan so... last game is against all the dark lords I think :uhoh:. He'll need to use everyone. But yamamoto was such a badass...

Really? Thats cool xD. Now boinking Rizna is even more bad ass :heh:.

[Xellos-_^]

Does Rance even care about age at all?
it doesn't seem like it but Rance does care about age.

1. He didn't do kou at, while saying he wait for her to grow up,
2. back in game2, he regret doing Milly york when it was reveal she was actually a still a child.

[Xacual]

The child is the next ruler of japan so... last game is against all the dark lords I think :uhoh:. He'll need to use everyone. But yamamoto was such a badass...

Really? Thats cool xD. Now boinking Rizna is even more bad ass :heh:.

Rangi isn't the next leader of Japan, that was only in Isoroku route.

[chaosprophet]

They answered some questions about the series on the Rance World Notes site today. One question about Rance 9 and it answer was:

"Will Dark Lords appear in Rance 9!!? (ランス9に魔人は出ますか!!?)"
"No (でないわよ。)"

[Key Board]

"Will Dark Lords appear in Rance 9!!? (ランス9に魔人は出ますか!!?)"
"No (でないわよ。)"

oh.. bummer. Guess they're saving it all for the last game.

but wait.. maybe Devils might?

[Drkz]

They answered some questions about the series on the Rance World Notes site today. One question about Rance 9 and it answer was:

"Will Dark Lords appear in Rance 9!!? (ランス9に魔人は出ますか!!?)"
"No (でないわよ。)"

:uhoh: Lame... i'm guessing a append disc like what they did for Quest.

[chaosprophet]

No Dark Lords seems to me that there will be so much shit going on that there will be no need for them to be added to stir things up. Also some have been arguing that it's because of the story too. Helman is near the Hornet faction side of the monster realm, which isn't that interested in fighting humans. Also there is probably a full scale war between the two factions going right now for them to give another try at attacking humans at the moment.

[Drkz]

No dark lords would also mean no hornet or LP. Which also makes me wonder how he'll rescue sil... or did alicesoft completely remove sil from the game?

[chaosprophet]

No dark lords would also mean no hornet or LP. Which also makes me wonder how he'll rescue sil... or did alicesoft completely remove sil from the game?
Well apparently there is some artifact in Helman that may be able to save her. Which was the reason for Rance to head there. If it don't work, and he little need LP or gods then she will likely be freed only on 10.

[Drkz]

Devils could grant that wish too. I wonder whats so major that he needs help from the JAPAN side though. Rance should revive Suzume! He should just ask this person http://i.imgur.com/omM56rk.jpg

[chaosprophet]

If magnum hint happens to be true, that girl may be a half-devil... Anyway, there is many ways they could go regarding Sill, we will have to wait and see.

[Drkz]

Hopefully Rance doesn't need to seal her. All the good ones end up getting sealed :(.

[chaosprophet]

He tend to do that with dark lords / demons, but not really with devils. Or more like, he didn't fight many devils yet. Just like, Feirris who we won just by getting her name.

[Drkz]

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alicesoft2010/imgs/8/4/84c8850f.jpg

So apparently they're focused on few heroines with more scenes.

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alicesoft2010/imgs/c/9/c981c679.jpg

To tada's dismay none of the girls have glasses.

[Key Board]

I'm just going to guess that since Childe is a heroine maybe Alcott is one too?

[Drkz]

Yeah everyone on here according to TADA for now will have their own ending. Senhime might have a chance considering there are sketches for her since the beginning. Shizuka probably too considering how much Alicesoft loves to do to Shizuka.

[Key Board]

Maria is also a staple, but I think she's a staple support character and not really quite heroine material

Well who knows..
If I'm going to guess

Alcott
Amiran, the daughter of the Helman general
Cream, Helman tactician girl
real Princess

[Drkz]

Yeah I think they retconned Rance's red-stringed girls. Seems like Sil is probably going to be saved in the next game or the end of this :(.

[Key Board]

I'm not sure they retconned it.
IIRC TADA said there's now 10 (1 for each finger)
Instead of just 3 xd
but really, not having a go-to healer (Sil) is noticeable

[Drkz]

Yeah not having Sil is extremely horrible. I wonder if they'll ever bring Miki back. I mean they said there are no dark-lords... when are they going to have Dark lords than? Last game?

[Key Board]

That's the only arc left after Helman
Unless they split it into two games: Majin arc and Whale God arc

But we're close to the end of Rance series.
Which I think is a good thing
Many long series end up in permanent hiatus

[Drkz]

The only bad thing is they'll probably randomly write off Dark Lords like that did with Kaito in 8.

[chaosprophet]

Maria is also a staple, but I think she's a staple support character and not really quite heroine material

Well who knows..
If I'm going to guess

Alcott
Amiran, the daughter of the Helman general
Cream, Helman tactician girl
real Princess
At least Cream and Maria are out of the 7, as TADA mentioned none of them wear glasses.

[Key Board]

oookay.. I guess no Nozomi either, then.

Rizna? (leading to her RQ epilogue spoiler)
I'd like to say RedEye's slave/Ronah? but TADA confirmed no Majin involvement this time
Hunty Kalar!, wouldn't that be massive surprise?

[chaosprophet]

oookay.. I guess no Nozomi either, then.

Rizna? (leading to her RQ epilogue spoiler)
I'd like to say RedEye's slave/Ronah? but TADA confirmed no Majin involvement this time
Hunty Kalar!, wouldn't that be massive surprise?
Rizna doesn't seems to fit the color of any of the remaining spaces on the Rance Mode screen (but then the color may not really be related and just a mislead).

Hunty would fit the rightmost / black one, but because she is already listed in the "outlaws" part rather than heroine, she seems unlikely (but that may also be a mislead). Would be cool imo, but for now I wouldn't bet on it.

Anyway, on the 19th they will update the site. Hopefully they reveal at least 2 more heroines. I hope they reveal all soon though. Considering they seems pretty important, the longer they take to reveal the longer they will have to wait to sell goods related with them, to reveal the cover, release the trial, wallpapers, opening, etc. As all the 7 should likely have a focus and be obvious on all of those.

[Drkz]

Hunty strongest virgin in the rance universe!

[chaosprophet]

Hunty strongest virgin in the rance universe!
So for Rance to become the strongest pimp, he must claim that virginity!

EDIT: Next heroine revealed, Senhime:
http://s9.postimg.org/5o6mtrziz/screenshot_438.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/5o6mtrziz/)

[Key Board]

Senhime confirmed for a heroine

just made my year

[Drkz]

So for Rance to become the strongest pimp, he must claim that virginity!

EDIT: Next heroine revealed, Senhime:
http://s9.postimg.org/5o6mtrziz/screenshot_438.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/5o6mtrziz/)

Senhime is best girl :eyespin:. Now bring back SUZU ALICESOFT DO IT! SUZU WAS RANK #2 IN THE FRIGGIN POLL.

[Key Board]

Suzume's dead

or are you referring to another character? Rance has too many to remember.. xc

[Drkz]

Suzume's dead

or are you referring to another character? Rance has too many to remember.. xc

Hey Chinu was brought back to life! Its up to alicesoft and their trollness.

[chaosprophet]

Hey Chinu was brought back to life! Its up to alicesoft and their trollness.
For Chinu there was something about her soul not passing on. Suzume's soul already passed on according to her Quest epilogue. Of course, Rance series has the kind of universe where I wouldn't be surprised if she was sent back somehow, but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Drkz]

For Chinu there was something about her soul not passing on. Suzume's soul already passed on according to her Quest epilogue. Of course, Rance series has the kind of universe where I wouldn't be surprised if she was sent back somehow, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Seems like in the Rance universe anyone with a level 3 skill dies early or is bat shit insane :twitch:.

[chaosprophet]

Newest update on Rance 9:

http://s3.postimg.org/wrl2mmgjz/screenshot_536.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/wrl2mmgjz/)

Last two heroines revealed are Shizuka and Milacle Tou. Possibly related to Mysteria Tou (master of Shizuka's parent, Nagi's father, Ragishss, and later also Shizuka's master). Her skills are on the legendary level, although she isn't well know because she cover her tracks. Her objective seems to be conquering the world.

Other characters revealed:

On the Outlaws, Maria (http://postimg.org/image/4fzipkwnj/). Really like her design here.
On Helman, Rolex and his second in command. (http://postimg.org/image/3rqo6mxxr/)
On Others, Crazy scientist and his creations (http://postimg.org/image/k40pwdc9b/), commander and member of assassins group (http://postimg.org/image/rl9xbl1sf/), Nagi (http://postimg.org/image/v65sut6bz/) (looks like she is beyond help now).

They added a bunch of ero CGs. One of Russian, one of Shizuka, one of Tillday, one of Milacle, one of Pigu. There is also a CG of Kanami being horridly gang raped. They explain that there is hidden bad ends that you trigger if specific heroines lose in specific battles. A cool non ero CG added:

http://s3.postimg.org/h14l6qmof/screenshot_542.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/h14l6qmof/)

[Honoakari]

In that last CG, the guy to Souun's left looks like Nobunaga. Guess they're retconning him back.

[chaosprophet]

In that last CG, the guy to Souun's left looks like Nobunaga. Guess they're retconning him back.
It may be just Milacle's "vision of power". Having the greater man from all around the world in her hand.

[tsunade666]

http://s3.postimg.org/h14l6qmof/screenshot_542.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/h14l6qmof/)

Cool CG indeed. Can't wait to play it but I still need to wait for a translation or at least a machine translation. That what happened when I played quest ;_; too lazy to do text hook up now. I preferred to play it in full screen..... I just wish I can read the darn runes.

[chaosprophet]

Cool CG indeed. Can't wait to play it but I still need to wait for a translation or at least a machine translation. That what happened when I played quest ;_; too lazy to do text hook up now. I preferred to play it in full screen..... I just wish I can read the darn runes.
I will text hook, although hopefully by the end of this year I will be able to read Japanese by myself. I'm generally isn't a fan of full screen in VNs because they do end up stretching the game over it's original resolution.

[tsunade666]

I will text hook, although hopefully by the end of this year I will be able to read Japanese by myself. I'm generally isn't a fan of full screen in VNs because they do end up stretching the game over it's original resolution.

it depends on the quality of cg. True old games look stretch with full screen but the new vn games had already good animation that it looks good in full screen.

If there won't be any machine translation available online then I will eventually ended up using text hook program >_> its just annoying for me to use it.

[chaosprophet]

I agree, using text hook is a hassle. But now I'm already used to it and only use it in games I want to play a lot so the motivation trumps the hassle for me.

[Key Board]

IIRC... in Kichiku Ou, Nagi..

ended up being Majin Kesselring's maid

I wonder who they are going to kill of this time
and who they are going to bring back from being dead.. xd

[chaosprophet]

IIRC... in Kichiku Ou, Nagi..

ended up being Majin Kesselring's maid

I wonder who they are going to kill of this time
and who they are going to bring back from being dead.. xd
On current canon Nagi
already became his maid but then she escaped before she was turned into his apostle.

[Nvis]

Very interested in Milacle.

She looks like she will backstab Rance.....:uhoh:

[Xellos-_^]

Very interested in Milacle.

She looks like she will backstab Rance.....:uhoh:
then get rape by Rance :heh:

[Drkz]

On current canon Nagi
already became his maid but then she escaped before she was turned into his apostle.

Rance will still boink that :eyespin:. Chimera-mode...

http://i.imgur.com/PkigXdW.png

IF THEY CAN BRING BACK NOBUNAGA THEY CAN BRING BACK SUZUME!

Is Leila going to make a appearance anytime soon...?

[liemtodaisu]

I have just looked at some sample CG on Rance IX website.
Seems like there's gonna be badend gangrape for Kanami , hope that it's avoidable

[Duo Maxwell]

I have just looked at some sample CG on Rance IX website.
Seems like there's gonna be badend gangrape for Kanami , hope that it's avoidable

It was mentioned here.


They added a bunch of ero CGs. One of Russian, one of Shizuka, one of Tillday, one of Milacle, one of Pigu. There is also a CG of Kanami being horridly gang raped. They explain that there is hidden bad ends that you trigger if specific heroines lose in specific battles.

[chaosprophet]

^For more detail, when some heroines are defeated in specific conditions, you trigger two events, one is the safe event that let you continue the story (probably is an event where the heroine is rescued before anything happens). The other one leads to a a heroine bad end (with a hardcore ero scene), and a game over.

So yes, they're completely avoidable.

[liemtodaisu]

Wew that's a relief to hear :heh:

[chaosprophet]

By giving people choice they at same time are able to have the scenes for people who like them (like me) but also letting those who don't to avoid them.

Although as a Rance game, there should be at least a few non-avoidable more hardcore scenes during the game. Unlikely to be with the heroines though.

[Drkz]

By giving people choice they at same time are able to have the scenes for people who like them (like me) but also letting those who don't to avoid them.

Although as a Rance game, there should be at least a few non-avoidable more hardcore scenes during the game. Unlikely to be with the heroines though.

*Alicesoft game :bash:

Scenes like that exist in all their series. Maybe not the one where the characters are seriously disfigured.

[chaosprophet]

*Alicesoft game :bash:

Scenes like that exist in all their series. Maybe not the one where the characters are seriously disfigured.
True, they generally don't go too gory and the like.

[Key Board]

http://i.imgur.com/mA9kARJ.jpg

I have a feeling Milacle will be popular

[chaosprophet]

They posted a video showing various aspects of Gameplay. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFrgaHKKzVU)

[Drkz]

So the character interface didn't change. Those YT comments hahaha.

[Drkz]

Eushully X Alicesoft crossover I want.

[Key Board]

I wasn't sure before, but the trailer seems to confirm that Chaos is in this game. You can see Rance swinging it at 1:58

[Nvis]

They hide Milacle gameplay.......:sad:

[chaosprophet]

The Alicesoft staff scrapped the whole story for Rance 9 and decided to turn it in a high school romantic comedy, Gakuen Rance:

http://s30.postimg.org/hh8r2iezx/fcf96956.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/hh8r2iezx/)

But not so sure if that would sell, they're also considering a Jurassic Rance Park game:

http://s27.postimg.org/hdkrndeqn/5ec1eaa0.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/hdkrndeqn/)

[Nvis]

^

Say what?:twitch:

[Drkz]

The Alicesoft staff scrapped the whole story for Rance 9 and decided to turn it in a high school romantic comedy, Gakuen Rance:

http://s30.postimg.org/hh8r2iezx/fcf96956.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/hh8r2iezx/)

But not so sure if that would sell, they're also considering a Jurassic Rance Park game:

http://s27.postimg.org/hdkrndeqn/5ec1eaa0.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/hdkrndeqn/)

Finally a Rance anime to look forward too. THE GIRLS WILL FINALLY GET VOICED :heh:.

[chaosprophet]

That would be fun. Anyway, while a joke I really liked the school image.

[Drkz]

I don't want any dinosaurs in Rance. They are too OP unless we get Arms again :love:.

[chaosprophet]

I don't want any dinosaurs in Rance. They are too OP unless we get Arms again :love:.
Unfortunately, Arms was confirmed to not be in Rance 9 in a recent Alicesoft blog post.

On the good side, they gave us a very cool arms picture. (http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alicesoft2010/imgs/c/e/ce0d18a1.png)

[Drkz]

Unfortunately, Arms was confirmed to not be in Rance 9 in a recent Alicesoft blog post.

On the good side, they gave us a very cool arms picture. (http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/alicesoft2010/imgs/c/e/ce0d18a1.png)

Arms is best Waifu :love:

Too bad shes like ultra side character. :(

[chaosprophet]

The trial for Rance IX is out (http://sample9.dmm.co.jp/digital/pcgame/alice_0024/alice_0024t.zip).

[Drkz]

So are they saving Rizna for the tenth game?

[Key Board]

I love how this game is fleshing out Senhime and Tillday

and more Kanami and Shizuka are always welcome

So are they saving Rizna for the tenth game?

Unless they plan to split the story in half, Rance X should be the last Rance game ever. So everyone is going to appear

[runset]

Just finished this game with all of the ending and get the true epiloque.
Sill Plain is Back yeah!!!!!!!!!!!
and rance acted dere dere toward sill, a beautiful moment indeed for the 2 of them. The other girls get their well deserved ending too and we get to know 4 more destined women for rance in this game.

[Nvis]

Spoil me on Milacle(PM if necessary)

[Von Himmel]

Wait how do you get true ending? Is it even possible to get much orbs to get all the girl H scene in one playthrough?

[runset]

Spoil me on Milacle(PM if necessary)
I just post the true epilogue of every other girl on 4chan. Just check it out.

Wait how do you get true ending? Is it even possible to get much orbs to get all the girl H scene in one playthrough?
I got lucky and get many orbs from the rare enemy (i trained in helman raid 5 about 15 times) and was able to get 6 from the 7 heroine in my first playthrough. For the 7th heroine (miracle), i get her in my 2nd play. (2x difficulty).

[Nvis]

I just post the true epilogue of every other girl on 4chan. Just check it out.


I got lucky and get many orbs from the rare enemy (i trained in helman raid 5 about 15 times) and was able to get 6 from the 7 heroine in my first playthrough. For the 7th heroine (miracle), i get her in my 2nd play. (2x difficulty).

PM me a link:sad:

[Von Himmel]

I just post the true epilogue of every other girl on 4chan. Just check it out.


I got lucky and get many orbs from the rare enemy (i trained in helman raid 5 about 15 times) and was able to get 6 from the 7 heroine in my first playthrough. For the 7th heroine (miracle), i get her in my 2nd play. (2x difficulty).

Huh, you're the one who posted that? Thanks :heh:

So does this mean we can farm those orbs? Thank god that I don't need to replay this so many times orz

[runset]

Huh, you're the one who posted that? Thanks :heh:

So does this mean we can farm those orbs? Thank god that I don't need to replay this so many times orz

rather than farm it depend on your luck. As the story goes on, sometimes i meet this rare enemy (crystal like monster) that drop 1 orb if you defeated him. (note : you must pick it up with your character or it will not be added into your orb inventory).

I meet this monster about 4 to 5 times only in the story mode. As for the training in helman raid 5 for 15 times, i only meet that monster once.

[Duo Maxwell]

I just post the true epilogue of every other girl on 4chan. Just check it out.


Mind if I ask which section you posted that? I check /jp/ and /h/ but didn't see anything Rance related.

[aohige]

Wait how do you get true ending? Is it even possible to get much orbs to get all the girl H scene in one playthrough?

I just post the true epilogue of every other girl on 4chan. Just check it out.


I got lucky and get many orbs from the rare enemy (i trained in helman raid 5 about 15 times) and was able to get 6 from the 7 heroine in my first playthrough. For the 7th heroine (miracle), i get her in my 2nd play. (2x difficulty).

Hunting for Kikikaikai is pure luck.
You can also farm the boss mobs in free battle, they drop monkey ball every time.
However, they multiply in strength every time you beat them.

Running through the 2nd run is probably the fastest, it doesn't take very long anyways.

[runset]

Mind if I ask which section you posted that? I check /jp/ and /h/ but didn't see anything Rance related.

i post it in rance general in /vg/, there are more than 700 post in there right now.

on another matter, damn 4x is very hard to clear.... wonder how insane will fare.

[Nvis]

^
Got your PM. Thanks.

My response: :sad:

[aohige]

Unless they plan to split the story in half, Rance X should be the last Rance game ever. So everyone is going to appear

For the main story, yes. But they've said they want to do a Shin-Kichikuoh Rance afterwards.
Likely a remake of Kichikuoh but with canon characters and backgrounds.

That's gonna be the big closer to look forward to for a lot of fans. :heh:

Off-topic: the grind runset is talking about:

The trick to grind in Defense 5 is to send out a single sacrifice unit to immediately be taken out on the first battle.
This will bring all the enemies to the final battle, where you can use nearly all your units.

Killing all the enemies in the final battle (the 2nd battle) nets you about 15000 points for every character that participated.
You can easily get all the bonuses for all your characters by repeating this battle.
If you have trouble defending the core, go ahead and spam the fort's defense units. They are dirt cheap to make, especially the re-activation unit parts.
One your mages are trained, you won't need to use them anyways.

[Xellos-_^]

I just post the true epilogue of every other girl on 4chan. Just check it out.


link please or can someone post the summary here.

[chaosprophet]

link please or can someone post the summary here.
Okay, here is a summary of the full true epilogue. It's an agglomeration of scenes which don't necessarily come in an chronological order.

Kanami is at Rance Castle and tells Rance she got a letter from Lia. Seems like Lia discovered about their relationship, as the letter was saying she was fired. Rance was the one who told Lia because he wanted Kanami to become his own personal ninja instead of Lia's ninja. Kanami look at the letter again and sees more below the fired part, which makes she cries in happiness (implied Lia did accept it).

Hubert becomes the new supreme commander of the Helman army. Rolex and Oluole come in bringing the papers related with the 5th army reorganization. Some talk with Hubert being humble about his position.

Senhime is on the boundary of the monster realm as she wanted to go there but Rance is dragging her back. There is no way he will let her go at such a dangerous place while pregnant. Rance ties her with the help of Tillday and drag her back.

Tourin becomes a politician on Helman. He feels that country is similar to a country he would have liked to found. Cream wants to learn from him so she is currently working under him.

Shizuka and Nagi who turned into lolis are in the Rance Castle together with Maria. Rance wants to turn them back into adults and at the moment looks for Pastel to see if she knows a curse that would do that. Shizuka wanted to go back to Kathtom with Nagi and Maria right now but Nagi was having fun with Reset. So she tells the maid they would be going back tomorrow morning.

Patton asks Rolex to take care of the reconstruction of the imperial graveyard. Hunty says he doesn't need to make one for Freak as she already did one for him in the same place as Rune's grave.

Milacle stays with her tent in the Rance Castle courtyard for a bit. When Rance comes in she tells him she have an intuition that soon the world will go through drastic changes. In preparation for that she will continue her search for subordinates in JAPAN. In the next day her tent was gone.

Rick is saying goodbye to Hubert. Hubert thanks for the Leazas help. Rick say that at the time he fought as a member of the revolution army. They say goodbye and hope to fight together again. On the exit Rick meets Leila who asks how was the fight in Helman to which Rick's answer "I made friends".

Tillday is training at Helman under Rolex. After they pause for a bit Rance suddenly comes in. He wanted Tillday to participate with him in a tournament for trainers (in the sense of someone who "trains" a girl sexually) that he heard from Tamanegi. She doesn't want to but Rance pats he head to make her docile and drags her away.

Patton thanks Pitten for the help and Pitten thanks him for the opportunity of meeting all those people. Pitten tells Patton to tell Rance later to come visit his country when he have time, although they both agree he would very likely refuse.

Pigu is at the Rance Castle telling Reset and Athena about how after the revolution the doctor came after her again but Rance and Milacle saved her. As she was in the middle of the tale Biscuitta comes in saying the snacks are ready. The three forget the story they were talking about just now and rushes to the cafeteria.

Rance comes by to Siera's office. She just finished the presidential work for the week and was about to take a 2-3 days long vacation. It's a tiring but rewarding work. Rance asks which she finds more fun, to work as the president or as his slave. She likes both but being his slave is indeed more fun. Rance says she should come to his castle to work as his slave during her vacation. Siera accepts it happily.

Patton says goodbye to Hubert and Siera. He is going to travel with Hunty in search of the remaining artifacts of the Holy Magic Sect as they're worried some of them may have activated when Rune's soul was released from the box.

Rance sneaks in Helman's treasure (even thought he could have asked them) in search of an item that may save Sill. Crook finds it and they return to Rance Castle. Crooks says she is certain it will work but during the process Rance can't look otherwise things would go wrong and he wouldn't be able to save her anymore. He waits a few hours restless. Crook comes back saying it went well and she already explained things to Sill and give her clothes. Rance don't wait for her to finish the explanation and rush there. At the door he hesitates a bit. He then enter and there is a short and heartwarming scene of they meeting again.

[Xellos-_^]

thanks

so Rance has another kid on the way :twitch: where is Kenshin? And Rance did get to rape the Helman princess :eyebrow: that is a surprise.

[chaosprophet]

thanks

so Rance has another kid on the way :twitch: where is Kenshin? And Rance did get to rape the Helman princess :eyebrow: that is a surprise.

Kenshin should be training at JAPAN. She doesn't really appears in this game. Rance actually makes the empress his slave and fucks her since the very beginning of the game, although he wasn't aware it was her. Anyway, a lot happens.

[Darknemo2000]

Unless they plan to split the story in half, Rance X should be the last Rance game ever. So everyone is going to appear

I hope that Rance X is conquer game like kichikou or Sengoku Rance. Because quite frankly though RPG's are fun they just cannot hold a candle to those titles. Even now I would take Sengoku Rance over Rance VIII or Rance IX without even blinking an eye.

[Hooves]

The Rance franchise has definitely fleshed things out to have potential for a conquer style similar to Sengoku Rance. I mean, who wouldn't want to lead armies and build castles/etc at this point.

[rantaid]

well, more troops not just 30 generals, maybe more rts like if possible (like suikoden 2 and 5 major battle) or maybe introducing squad system like super robot wars alpha 2 and 3, more tactics and strategies involved, and more importantly in English . tired of reading kanji and hiragana.

[Key Board]

at one point Rance was almost a dead franchise
Kichikuou Rance revived it
Sengoku Rance was one of the most successful eroge

if I'm going to guess the last game is going to be based on something similar to those games.
(but personally a part of me wants it to be like super robot wars)

Anyway, R9 already showed that most of the interaction can be done outside of battle during the intermission

But I'm guessing we are getting Rance 03 and Rance 04 first before the last game

[Drkz]

I still think nine is going to get something similar to magnum. A three remake would be nice although very unlikely considering they'd need to use their main staff to work on it. Three is pretty big... They must bring back the sexualized monster girls! Not the cutesy 3d ones!

[Darknemo2000]

well, more troops not just 30 generals, maybe more rts like if possible (like suikoden 2 and 5 major battle) or maybe introducing squad system like super robot wars alpha 2 and 3, more tactics and strategies involved, and more importantly in English . tired of reading kanji and hiragana.

RTS is way too risky because it doenst seem that anyone in H market knows how to make a good rts.

Madou Koukaku had a very good potential but RTS was what killed it and made it fail. Seems like good RTS is a problem. much easier to make a good turn based than rts. Hell even Koei failed real hard with ROTK XII and you would expect authors of Nobunaga Ambition to know how to make a good rts but the game turned out pathetic caricature of itself...

[Destined_Fate]

Rance...

Not really my cup of tea, I don't agree with how Rance drugged and tried to rape Leila Grecni but only stopped because even drugged she was serious about Rick who has been a bro to Rance over multiple games.

[Drkz]

RTS is way too risky because it doenst seem that anyone in H market knows how to make a good rts.

Madou Koukaku had a very good potential but RTS was what killed it and made it fail. Seems like good RTS is a problem. much easier to make a good turn based than rts. Hell even Koei failed real hard with ROTK XII and you would expect authors of Nobunaga Ambition to know how to make a good rts but the game turned out pathetic caricature of itself...

Over ambition killed Madou. Tried to do way too much. Plus they probably had a bigger focus on the remake if anything. Main problems with too big of a cast? You'll run out of vas to voice your characters.

Rance has never been RTS. Its always been Turn Based Dungeon Crawler thingy. :heh:

[Darknemo2000]

I would not say it was overambition. The city building was well enough made also combining units to create new ones was interesting idea.

The problem was RTS battles. They were horrible. And in a game where majority of time you will spend battling thats quite a big failure. Story and characters were not interesting enough to help it either. Items and skills were lackluster as well.

Not as bad as ROTK because Koei after ROTK XI being very successful decided to change the course of the series and from turn based go straight into RTS. They also had less characters, less cities and less things to do. "Hey wanna buy a new game where you will have very small amount of characters, decreased number of cities and decreased number of features? Duels will be turned to shit as well! But its a new game, has more boobs and crappy mechanics! Go buy the game" Naturally, that one turned into a complete disaster and probably the worst game of the series.

Madou wasnt as bad. They did not have the series continuation to hold, only to show that Eushully's games are always top class. Well it was far from top class and one of the worst eushully's games but it wasn't that horrible. I think if it was turn based it would have even been slightly over mediocre.

Rance series is ironic in a sens that they are sticking to classic rpg most of the time while two most successful games of the series were in fact srpg. Makes you wonder why they did not do more of srpg. Well hopefully new one will be that. I dont mind rpg but for rance series it seems like srpg works the best.

[Key Board]

Yeah.. Madou Koukaku was pretty clunky
I think Eushully should stick with turn based

On another note, Tower Defense games count as RTS?
if so I enjoyed Custom Raid 4

[dragon1412]

Unless they plan to split the story in half, Rance X should be the last Rance game ever. So everyone is going to appear

i thought what Tada said was they will make it at least to rance 10 rather than Rance 10 is the last game of the series ???

[chaosprophet]

i thought what Tada said was they will make it at least to rance 10 rather than Rance 10 is the last game of the series ???
It was already planned for X to be the last one way back when VI was released (info on Rance VI Alice's mansion). If you look around on Alicesoft blog posts you will see it being mentioned here and there.

For example, this post from 12/24/2013 (http://blog.alicesoft.com/archives/3965456.html) does mention 10 being the last one.

[Honoakari]

News from Alicesoft:

- Rance 03 remake is scheduled for 2015
- Gameplay will be an improved version of that from 01
- Some details in the story will be modified

- Rance 10 is scheduled for 2016
- They're planning to add lots of characters, just like they did in Rance Quest (makes sense since it's the last game), hopefully with sufficient scenes for each of them
- They're getting rid of polygons and making it a 2D game
- They're currently debating whether to switch to 1920x1080 or stick with 1280x720 (I hope they choose the latter...)
- The gameplay will be different from the "territory conquest"-style of gameplay in Sengoku Rance (just don't make it like Rance 09... the gameplay was somewhat minimalistic, and the game felt more like a regular VN rather than an actual RPG).

[Darknemo2000]

Well since Rance X won't be "territory conquest" its pretty safe to assume that the game can only hope to be the third best in the series. No chances of beating Sengoku Rance and Kichikou Rance out with a plain RPG.

Alicesoft doesnt make great RPG's sadly. Its their conquest games that bring them the highest fame and profits while (Sengoku and Kichikou Rance, Dai series in general) their RPG's end up being either ok or just meh. This doesnt make me excited about the last Rance game at all. Rance Quest and Rance IX were just so so compared to SR or KR.

[risingstar3110]

I don't know why they didn't stick to the popular formula of Sengoku? It did not sell well or something?

[Darknemo2000]

I don't know why they didn't stick to the popular formula of Sengoku? It did not sell well or something?

No, it sold very well. Its their best selling game actually. It and Kichkou Rance really earned them cash big time.

In fact Kichikou Rance saved Alicesoft from closing down. Back then in 1996 the company was about to close down as their Rpg's and other games just were not selling well.


Bear with me as this post will be pretty long. I will also use EGS ranking scores as it usually reflects popularity and sales as well of the game.

As you know first game out was Hiroko-chan (unranked) in 1983 basic game, wasnt very big on market. Then during the four years they didnt release great games. They all were pretty meh, but because at that time game market was small it helped to keep them afloat. Then in 1987 came Little Princess (EGS - 50). Miki and Kentarou were the main characters in that game. It was pretty decent game. Cant say they hit the jackpot but it put their company on the highier tier eroge companies. For us, Rance fans, its important as the start of the Rance series even though Rance isnt present in it, its the start of Rance universe.

Then in 1988 came out Little Vampire which was continuation of Miki story. It had 48 score. So another of those poor games but again important to Rance universe.

In 1989 Alicesoft released its first game that first time gained 60 score. Its name? Rance 01. Was ok because of its main character - Rance but otherwise, rather poor game, yet the best of Alicesoft games at the time. In same year came DPS (a long lasting series had score of 30).

Another big game from Alicesoft came in 1990 - Rance 02, this time scoring 65 and becoming most popular Alicesoft game to date. And then it started rolling.

Toushin Toushi 01 was released in 1990 and Rance 03 in 1991 both games scoring amazing 70. For alicesoft at that time it was amazing scores.

DALK in 1992 and ProstudentG in 1993 scored allso big in 65 and 70. Between these titles they kept on releasing DPS which rarely scored over 30.

They needed more cash though so in 1994 came out their cash cow - another Rance title. Rance 04 had a score of 72 and was again a popular tittle. In same year came Toushin Toushi 02 with score of 85.

Alicesoft allowed those titles success get into their heads and started baking titles that cost plenty but didn't earn enough. Out of them Only You was decent enough. So suddenly, company, due to not distributing their resources well enough found close to going bankrupt.

So they decided to go out with a bang in 1996 and release Kichikou Rance which had all Rance ideas mixed into one because they didnt think they will release any other Rance game or any game for that matter.

It clicked. Was a massive success popularity and finances wise. It was, like sengoku Rance, a conquest srpg. Saved their company. Its scored fucking 90 too. (only Sengoku scored as highly).

The company was about to close and suddenly cash started to flow again. It sold like crazy. Then came Panyo (score 65), Type-0 (score 70), Atlach-Nacha (score 80) and Diabolique (scored 80). Pastel Chime 01 (scored 70) and Mamatoto (78), helped to keep the good wave going. in 1999 came Darcrows with a score 75. So yeah after KR Aliecesoft pretty much stopped producing below 60 score games. Even 65 were getting rare. Usually it was 70 or higher. Persiom in 2000 was alos 70 score tootle. SeeIn came out same year and was a bad game, scored poor 60. 2001 Square of the moon, SRPG game, with score 75 fixed it in.

Tendency is that SRPG saved Alicesoft and classical RPG or adventure games dragged it down. Not always though. There were some good RPG's that gived them big bucks Rance series or TT.

In 2001 the company realeased another SRPG - Daiakuji and scored 85. Beat Angel Escalayer that followed it with 75 score was almost a let down.

In 2002 they released Rance 5D it wasnt a very good game and scored 70. Mamanyonyo in 2003 scored higher with 72.

So in 2003 Alicesoft decided to earn some cash. So what did they do? Release another SRPG of course - Daibanchou came out and of course scored high with 82.

Following it in 2004 came out Rance 06. Though it was a classic RPG it was one of those successful Rpgs's with score 87. in 2005 they did Pastel Chime Continue with score 77 and Galzoo island with score 80. Yokubari Saboten scored 72.

in 2006 it didnt seem going taht well, three releases taht didnt break 70 scores and Tsumashibori with 80. So to make profit they once again released a SRPG. It was Sengoku Rance.

It like KR was massive sucess. Sales going wild, score is 90. Becoming Eroge of the year. Everything is going smooth.

After it came some drops. Few 70 titles, BAHaruka with 80, AliveZ with only 60 and TT 03 that alicesoft planned to be their bog tottle but it didnt make a splash with a score of just 72.

2009 was a bad year for them as releases mostly scored 63-65. In 2010 Shaman's Sanctuary scored 65. So yeah. After SR Aliecsoft had some bad aftertaste. 2006-2010 is pretty big period to go without great selling games when the game production cost is high.

Luckily Alicesoft was big company by now. And they also planned on releasing their big cash earner - another SRPG game. In 2011 came out three game production cost game Daitekoku. And boy it flopped. Hard. While score 72 isnt that bad you need to take into account that the game costed 3x times normal game would and it didnt feel like the game was that that good. Mostly because they planned it to be RTS but when halfway done they released that RTS is too sucky (again as I said its the problem with all eroges - RTs is just too risky) so they had to redo it. But it cost money. Lots of it and dint earn enough.

If Alicesoft werent that big this game would have ruined them.

But behold same year Rance game was coming out. Rance 08 cannot be bad? But oops alicesoft fucked up again. Rance Quest didnt sell well and scored 76. Now, it was becoming bit heated for Alicesoft.

So they decided to improve half-baked Rance 08 by releasing Magnum which instantly raised the games score to 85. Really, dont play Rance Quest without Magnum. It sucks.

Oyako Rankan and Pastel Chime 03 scored 78 and 71 respectively. So Aliesoft decided while preparing for Rance 09 to re-release Rance 01 as it was better than risking with new titles. It worked - game scored 75, but didn't cost much to produce.

So this year came Rance 09 finally and it scored 84. A good game. Better than Rance Quest without Magnum.

Not massively great like RK or SR but still works.

Now all that is left is release Rance X so that TAMA can finally leave the industry. He wants to finish Rance as he is getting older and now has more and more health issues.

My guess is if Rance X will be a RPG in classic sense it wont score higher 85. If innovative it will depend on how good innovation will be.

But since it wont be SRPG my guess is that Kichikou Rance and Sengoku Rance will still be much better game at the end. The only SRP that Alicesoft failed with through all these years was Daitekoku and that was only because it was originally planned to be an RTS and had to be redone.

[risingstar3110]

Wow, what's a history.

But if like you put, then it seems the reason they stuck with RPG seems to be inner politic rather than anything else? Maybe that Tama guy has something to do with it? Or maybe they afraid releasing too many SRPG will saturate the market?

[Darknemo2000]

I think in Rance case they go to Rance X as Rpg due to story. For strategy conquest, technically Rance already controls Leazas, Japan and Helman. Most of Free Cities are under his influence too. Even freaking AL Church.

The only thing that is not under his influence is demon realm. So conquest game where you already control most of territories do not seem that great of idea.

Unless they pull off Rance 03 thing with mind control or something but then the whole story before Rance X gets weaker...

Financially wise, Alicesoft had much better success as SRPG rather than RPG. In this case soem nostalgia may play too. Rance generally not counting Kichikou Rance and Sengoku Rance are RPG series. Its ironical that the two best games in the series are not RPG's, but 7 games are still RPG's though and story wise it makes more sense.

Rance IX story wise would have worked better as conquest though. Because really rebels are just a bunch of guys who overthrow battle hardened Helman like nothing... It seemed and still seems silly.

But since they didnt go with conquest SRPG in Rance 09 where it was asking for it, its seems more plausible that they don't go to conquest SRPG in Rance 10 where story limitations against SRPG is higher.

Personally, I think its a pity that last Rance game is pretty much destined to be inferior to Kichikou and Sengoku. But again though it will be last agme in the series doesnt mean you can't do alternative story like Kichikou Rance with conquest SRPG eventually.

[risingstar3110]

I think in Rance case they go to Rance X as Rpg due to story. For strategy conquest, technically Rance already controls Leazas, Japan and Helman. Most of Free Cities are under his influence too. Even freaking AL Church.

The only thing that is not under his influence is demon realm. So conquest game where you already control most of territories do not seem that great of idea.

Unless they pull off Rance 03 thing with mind control or something but then the whole story before Rance X gets weaker...

Financially wise, Alicesoft had much better success as SRPG rather than RPG. In this case soem nostalgia may play too. Rance generally not counting Kichikou Rance and Sengoku Rance are RPG series. Its ironical that the two best games in the series are not RPG's, but 7 games are still RPG's though and story wise it makes more sense.

Rance IX story wise would have worked better as conquest though. Because really rebels are just a bunch of guys who overthrow battle hardened Helman like nothing... It seemed and still seems silly.

But since they didnt go with conquest SRPG in Rance 09 where it was asking for it, its seems more plausible that they don't go to conquest SRPG in Rance 10 where story limitations against SRPG is higher.

Personally, I think its a pity that last Rance game is pretty much destined to be inferior to Kichikou and Sengoku. But again though it will be last agme in the series doesnt mean you can't do alternative story like Kichikou Rance with conquest SRPG eventually.
Fairly admirable if they limit the sequence to make the story fit into the franchise. Comparing to Western gaming i means. Triple A tittle like Mass Effect 3 or Dragon Age 2.... real piece of trashes (story-wise) really. Saying that despite i am quite a fan of earlier installment.


We won't see a grown-up Kouhime at this rate, don't we? Or are they gonna open up for the sequence of the next Rance game, maybe with of his child as main protagonist ? But i don't want to see my Kouhime as a MILF then T__T

[hyl]

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I don't think that EGS rank correctly reflect actual sales because there usually isn't a correlation to high selling games and the average scores. Like last year the best sold eroges were Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, Amairo Islenauts and Prism Recollection but the EGS scores of those games were fairly (above) average and not even over 80

You can try to check the getchu's or tech gian's sales rankings but those don't give exact numbers

[chaosprophet]

While not well received, Daiteikoku did sell a lot. From TG Ranking for instance, it was the best seller of its release year and third best seller between the years 2010-2013. So it wasn't a problem economic wise.
Now all that is left is release Rance X so that TAMA can finally leave the industry. He wants to finish Rance as he is getting older and now has more and more health issues.
If you mean Tada, the Rance series creator, I don't see any mention recently on a blog post or twitter about he being ill. He even mentioned in an Alicesoft blog post on the beginning of the year about all kinds of games he would want to make besides Rance X.

[Honoakari]

Official site for Rance 03 remake is up. The game is scheduled to be released on 2015-08-28.

http://i58.tinypic.com/k3w56c.png主人公以外フルボイス

Everyone except Rance gets voiced... :twitch:

[chaosprophet]

Everyone except Rance gets voiced... :twitch:
It's a common practice to have the main character not being voiced on eroge, unfortunately. Still, I'm really happy we are finally getting a voiced Rance game, fully voiced even (Rance aside).

[Honoakari]

I know it's a common practice. I'm just surprised that AliceSoft are breaking their "no voices for Rance Series" tradition so far in the game.

[ninjastarforcex]

how many years/decade left until translation of rance quest or whatever rance after sengoku?

[TheUniques]

how many years/decade left until translation of rance quest or whatever rance after sengoku?

Well the main fan translation groups are pretty much disbanded. They either don't want it to release to the public anymore and hope for GamerManga or whatever it's called to bring the Rance games international/official English version with AliceSoft's support, then sell their translation to GamerManga (I call it a sold out!), but it's been a year and still here is nothing, the others are busy to translate the other games. Here's the livestream to Rance Quest translated (not fully done they were just showing how much has been done): http://www.hitbox.tv/video/478636

But yes as I said they stopped. It's going to be YEARS 'till we see another bunch to show up and translate the game for us which kinda saddens me.

If someone who knows Japanese here, I would love to know what happens between Senhime and Rance in Rance 9. Senhime/ Tokugawa Sen is my favorite girl in the series and I'd love to see Rance and her to "romance" each other and is given more care to and not just bang then leave.


P.s: Don't know why this topic is in the Spin off section since Rance IX is the canon sequel after Rance Quest (Rance Quest or Rance 8 is sequel to Sengoku Rance). Anyone knows where the Sengoku Rance epilogue came from? All I knew is it's from "Alicesoft Users Club book Hanihon vol.7" , and from the title of it (vol 7), there must be more other volumes to read about, lore and what happens to some specific characters and such. Tried putting it onto google but couldn't find it.

[Honoakari]

how many years/decade left until translation of rance quest or whatever rance after sengoku?

You'd be better off learning Japanese... By the time they finish translating one game, you'll be able to read all of them, untranslated. :p

If someone who knows Japanese here, I would love to know what happens between Senhime and Rance in Rance 9. Senhime/ Tokugawa Sen is my favorite girl in the series and I'd love to see Rance and her to "romance" each other and is given more care to and not just bang then leave.

After JAPAN got unified in Sengoku Rance, Senhime left JAPAN in search for new battles, always joining the losing side. And somehow, she ended up in the army of one of the generals in Helman. Rance and co. kill the guy and Senhime joins the revolution group.

The girls are worried about Senhime's preference for losing battles, and Rance tries to solve her problem using various 'methods'. Unfortunately, none of them are effective. During her route however, Rance understands that Senhime's weird preference is just a natural part of her and not something that should be cured.

At the end of the game, we see the two of them in JAPAN, fighting a large group of youkai by themselves.

Oh and if I recall correctly, Senhime gets pregnant with Rance's child at some point.

:heh: To be honest I never cared much about Senhime. I just don't see the appeal... I only played her route because it was a prerequisite for unlocking the true end (unfreezing Sill, this time permanently).Don't know why this topic is in the Spin off section

The section includes visual novels as well. It's called "Visual Novels, Mobage & Anime Spin-Off Games".

EDIT: I just noticed, but the thread for Sengoku Rance was placed in the Video Games (http://forums.animesuki.com/search.php?searchid=18324045) section for some reason...

[TheUniques]

After JAPAN got unified in Sengoku Rance, Senhime left JAPAN in search for new battles, always joining the losing side. And somehow, she ended up in the army of one of the generals in Helman. Rance and co. kill the guy and Senhime joins the revolution group.

The girls are worried about Senhime's preference for losing battles, and Rance tries to solve her problem using various 'methods'. Unfortunately, none of them are effective. During her route however, Rance understands that Senhime's weird preference is just a natural part of her and not something that should be cured.

At the end of the game, we see the two of them in JAPAN, fighting a large group of youkai by themselves.

Oh and if I recall correctly, Senhime gets pregnant with Rance's child at some point.

:heh: To be honest I never cared much about Senhime. I just don't see the appeal... I only played her route because it was a prerequisite for unlocking the true end (unfreezing Sill, this time permanently).

So Senhime's route isn't canon? I'm glad to hear they eventually got a child maybe that'd make her to be more cautious with her life. Though I'd love it if they make the part where she's pregnant with Rance canon like they did with Yamamoto Isoroku.

Also, thanks a lot for hearing and helping me out. :P

So wishhhhh I know Japanese to play the game right now...

[TheUniques]

I heard Rance X is going to be the last Rance game and it's coming out in a year or so... (and we're still sitting here waiting for Rance Quest Magnum(8) and Rance IX translation...).

[NWJY]

Just curious asking>......who is Rance Destined woman???

[Honoakari]

As expected, no Rance X this year. Hopefully next one. More info about the game will be released at the beginning of 2017.

Announcement by TADA here: http://blog.alicesoft.com/archives/4686061.html (possibly NSFW).

[chaosprophet]

We got a sneak peak at Rance X on their current projects post for this year (http://blog.alicesoft.com/archives/4771534.html). The art looks pretty good!

With the next game they will release being the next beat game, then the earliest Rance X may be released is the last quarter of this year.

[Key Board]

They gotta develop it carefully.

fan expectations are tremendous with it being the "last" Rance game and all

Just curious asking>......who is Rance Destined woman???

There are at least 10 of them, but it's not clear what "destiny" means

Sill, Shizuka, Kanami, Miracle ...
have been stated to be such

[chaosprophet]

They gotta develop it carefully.

fan expectations are tremendous with it being the "last" Rance game and all

I think it's fair to say they are developing it carefully. TADA have been working on it since he stopped with the patches for Quest (February 2013). One reason Purin was the main director for 9 was so TADA could keep working on X. So while he had to get busy with other projects here and then and also got busy standing in as CEO while Hiro was sick, it's still a game they have been working on for a very long time and are not afraid of delaying it if needed, considering they originally planed for it to be released in 2016.

[Honoakari]

The long wait is almost over. According to the official site (http://www.alicesoft.com/rance10/) (Japan only), they're planning to release Rance X this winter.

Trailer here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFQHRkgQVk).