General Eroge Impressions & Discussion

[donthuang]

2006 sales data form 2ch (till 12/30)

1.SENGOKU RANCE 63,634　
2.マブラヴオルタネイティヴ(muvluv alt) 62,546　
3.D.C.II 61,306
4.Really?Really! 42,280
5.ef - the first tale 40,843　
6.Scarlett 37,453
7.PIA.GO 36,510
8.tumashibori 30,335
9.Circus Disk - Christmas Days 29,452　
10.MINI KISS 28,519　

[MeganeShounen]

As expected, Really?Really!'s on the top 10 last year..
And C.D.C.D.'s comparatively high on the chart for a fandisk..

Plus a 40K gap between the 10th and the 1st. Woah. :P

[Kaioshin Sama]

Originally Posted by donthuang

2006 sales data form 2ch (till 12/30)

1.SENGOKU RANCE 63,634　
2.マブラヴオルタネイティヴ(muvluv alt) 62,546　
3.D.C.II 61,306
4.Really?Really! 42,280
5.ef - the first tale 40,843　
6.Scarlett 37,453
7.PIA.GO 36,510
8.tumashibori 30,335
9.Circus Disk - Christmas Days 29,452　
10.MINI KISS 28,519　

Wow the best product actually won for once in its market.

[kct]

Looking at the field, the biggest jump must be between D.C.II and Really? Really!...

[luckyovermind]

Little busters! gets a release date, 27th of July (flat tone)

It's an all age game!

[Spuffy]

Originally Posted by luckyovermind

Little busters! gets a release date, 27th of July (flat tone)

It's an all age game!

That's like one year earlier than expected.




I got my Gekkou no Carnevale the other day.



After a couple of hours this is without doubt the best game I got my hands on since MuvLuv Alt (not that the rest of 2006 was *that* great). I grew really fond of Shinya Ohsakis artwork in Unknown's Abandoner, but he has gotten that much better since then and is definately among my favourites. I also like games taking place at different locations like, in this case, an italian inspired city rather than your average japanese smalltown. Throw in a werewolf lead, living dolls (automatae), music by Zizz (who also improve every time) and you get a pretty, so far, interesting product. Nitro+ has a nice habbit of having a male lead that stands out by being shown and also is voiced. And Romeo is really interesting, being voiced by Tomokazu Sugita an all. His conversations with Anna are a hit each time.


Anna is totally adoreable:


I'm pretty sure I'll have a good time with this one.

[nani]

Originally Posted by Spuffy

That's like one year earlier than expected.

Well, the release date of Clannad was initially announced to be 2002...... Anyway, I am keeping my fingers crossed.

[Enerccio]

Yin Yang X-change alternative

[Varion]

Originally Posted by luckyovermind

Little busters! gets a release date, 27th of July (flat tone)

It's an all age game!

Wow, that's surprising... would've thought they'd go for ero again. Oh well, I'm not complaining, but I may be in the minority

MORE motivation to get back to studying!

[Spuffy]

It gives them a "reason" to bring out a fandisc with pornographic content later on.
But, in my opinion, Key's games are better off without it.

[Cloudnine]

*dreams of a portable version for DSlite* I could do without voice so it could be possible...


I've only played the demo version of Gekkou no Carnavale, it's really nice to see Tomokazu Sugita take on darker hero roles. His narration voice is excellent, sadly though it didn't seem like he uses it much in the game since it's in the 3rd POV~

The tsukkomi-boke between Anna and Romeo is just to die for ^^

[Sushi-Y]

Originally Posted by Spuffy

And Romeo is really interesting, being voiced by Tomokazu Sugita an all.

So it IS him. That tsukkomi voice and that 「いや待って」 just screamed Sugita-san to me during the demo.
So he uses the name "Kayama Michinobu" for 18+ games, huh.

Maybe I'll buy it, I'm interested in his ero voice.

Originally Posted by luckyovermind

Little busters! gets a release date, 27th of July (flat tone)

It's an all age game!

You people and your lightning-speed news.

I gave out a sigh of relief at the all ages rating. I think something in me would break if I had to watch Kudo in an ero scene.

Besides, seeing the Dengeki G's 4-coma comics, you can tell Riki is not exactly fit to be an eroge male lead anyway, with that kind of personality (in a good way).

The game's info page has been updated with a new top illust and 1 screenshot as well:
http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/newsoft/index.htm

6 more months!
I mean, 6 more months + α (delays)!

[luckyovermind]

Speaking of news, the newest (oh god) deadline for narci2 is the end of feburary, fingers crossed for this one as well

[Spuffy]

Originally Posted by Sushi-Y

Maybe I'll buy it, I'm interested in his ero voice.

You just want a complete Kyon-styled narration of the event, don't you?


How interesting and different that would be...

[JarOfMayo]

lol sushi when I checked the LB's site and I saw at the bottom "...screenshots.. update!" I was OMG OMG OMG..

then it was just one picture... But I'm exciitttttttttttedddddddddddddddddddddddddd and glad with the all-age thing.

[Sushi-Y]

Originally Posted by JarOfMayo

lol sushi when I checked the LB's site and I saw at the bottom "...screenshots.. update!" I was OMG OMG OMG..

then it was just one picture... But I'm exciitttttttttttedddddddddddddddddddddddddd and glad with the all-age thing.

I said "1 screenshot" didn't I? ^^;

I'm was able to get my little buster fix by buying Dengeki G's every month and reading those official little buster SS and comics.... although the SS series came to an end with the latest issue. Understandable though, since there's a release date now, there's a lot more pressure on the staff to complete the game in time.

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Don't really have much free time to play anything recently, but still managing to work through Kanishino little by little (haven't touched it for the past week though). I wonder how many more months it'll take to finish it.

Currently working through Tonoko's story...

Just some general comments after finishing Shino's story,

Spoiler:

Personally, I believe this game (the home school routes anyway) really deserves the praises/high scores it received. One of the things that has made the home school routes so much more enjoyable is the portrayal of the story from the heroine's viewpoint alongside the traditional male main character perspective. Shino's route was a perfect example of this. To be able to see and understand the feelings and doubts Tsukasa and Shino had about each other throughout the whole story only made things so much more powerful when all the feelings finally came out into the open, be they positive or negative feelings. This would've been impossible to do if the story was only told through Tsukasa's view, like how the branch school routes were written.

Besides that, the home school routes are nicely written themselves to begin with. Although there are some developments which felt somewhat convenient, they didn't really detract from the characters or story itself. Shinoshino's marathon scene almost made me cry, among others. ^^;

Anyway, once Tonoko finishes, it'll finally be down to Miyabi-. Now, if I could only shake away all these annoying real-life works...

Speaking of which, the official site is holding a popularity contest.
とりあえず票をひたすら栖香にw

[donthuang]

Originally Posted by shadowplay

Well since we're listing things, here's something related to that late January rush of new eroge (releases of 26th of Jan to be more precise), think it's lot more promising than the one we had at the end of 2006, there are maybe 4-5 games I'm possibly interested in playing;


Gekkou no Carnevale (Nitro+)
- great art, promising demo, I'm always sucker for more darker games with european settings, hope this won't disappoint
.

Playing

really not bad,especially Lunaria route

[fto]

Wanted to ask, anyone know any Ero game with some action??

Example
Dai Ban Cho -Big Bang Age-
Dungeon Crusaders
恋姫†無双 (Although leaning toward more towards ero,i love sangokushi so i liked this game)
峰深き瀬にたゆたう唄

[MeganeShounen]

Uhh, I know it's been said before...

Dai Akuji (The game that went before Dai Banchou)
Sengoku Rance

And for something less ero, try out Gadget Trial.

Cheerio~

[fto]

Hmmm.... any other?