Dies irae Kickstarter
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@Fezu They actually stated that they're going to release an 18+ patch for free for all backers, so everybody wins!
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@Sorujin Sadly, they're being ambiguous about whether or not it's fully uncensored or not. If this issue is fixed, at least we won't need to deal with so much negativity during the campaign.
"Furthermore, a free, separate patch restoring the full 18+ version content
will be available for backers at no additional cost. Details concerning the
patch are forthcoming."Basically there's no guarantee they will provide unmosaiced assets and I doubt it, very much.
By the way, I hope I am wrong. But let's wait and see what the campaigners are going to say. I hope it satisfies everyone as running a campaign with these issues at hand is probably going to prove very.. very badly for the campaign itself once it starts and I don't want this opportunity to be gone forever. This is a golden opportunity to get a very and I mean very, unique VN to the west that a few years ago I could've only dreamed about happening.
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Ah, I suppose I prematurely interpreted the word "full" in "full 18+ version content" as meaning unmosiaced. I would hope that they'll release it in full. The phrase they gave in the paragraph before
"Scenes of explicit violence that were altered in the original Japanese version of ~Amantes amentes~ will be fully uncensored. Such CGs will appear as the creators originally intended them."
Makes me hope they would pursue the integrity of full uncensored ero scenes and maintain the standard of the creators' "original intention."
Suppose we'll have to wait and see! I'll likely back it either way. I've been wanting to give this VN a play.
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Any idea when the kickstarter will go live?
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@Rahul-Balaggan Who knows, I'd expect something from a week from now to two weeks. Most likely they're just doing some smaller fixes before pushing it towards Kickstarter. Again, I don't know myself. But, that's what I expect.
The Kickstarter was supposed to start in October, so take it as you want. I'd expect it very soon though! So smashing your piggyback is appropriate right now.
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I'm not really into games, but I read on the kickstarter website, the one you linked, that there is going to be an anime for it in 2017; I'm pretty excited for that.
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@Anthony A visual novel is more like a book than a game. It's basically all text and voice acting, and your interactivity is usually limited to choices.
There's some great VN narratives, like Ever17, Clannad, and Steins;Gate. I liked Root Double a bunch too. 999 has puzzle gameplay, but that has can't miss novel sections too.
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I'm kinda confused now.. what is the kickstarter for? I though it was to raise money so that a game can have English talking etc.
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@Anthony Think of it as a book with images, the characters will be speaking in Japanese but the text will be fully translated into English. They're raising money to bring it over with english text to the western fanbase.
Yeah, the anime is going to happen in Fall of next year, we were thinking they would do the kickstarter for the game during the anime airing. But instead, they went for this option.
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Ohhh, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
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@Anthony Yeah, I hope I wasn't too vague there. Light Novel fans I think would like VNs. They're a bit more of a time sink though (Root Double for instance is about 50 hours if you wait through the spoken dialogue; Steins Gate and 999 are probably both about 20 hours?).
A few VNs have English voice acting, though those tend to be the puzzle oriented ones (Danganronpa, Zero Escape series). Majority have JP voices only.
I try to stay as blind as possible on VNs besides knowing how long they are hour wise, so if I find that out for this, I'll go on blackout for it.
Edit: 60 hours? Ok. Blackout time. xD
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I don't think I would be able to do that, I'd get confused and get lost.
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@Bryan Good news Bryan, they've announced that they are taking away the blurry stuff. Everyone's happy for once. Never thought Light would do that. But here we are.
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You know that Japanese publishers don't like to mosaic their work either. I think that the younger company execs are finally beginning to realize that its better for overall to release things as they are intended for worldwide releases even if it does hurt sales a little at home.
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@Sam-Pinansky it doesn't make sense how it would hurt sales at home lol. Sales in Japan are declining overall. That's why many are looking to the west now.
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@Fezu if they put that information into official news, I'll be getting a physical edition!
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Dies irae has launched and it looks very different from the prefundia. I think they took some of my feedback a bit too literally.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences/
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I was actually very excited for this but sadly I am out of date with the times. It is only for windows I hope for a successful campaign nonetheless.
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Pledged for the 65 dollar tier! Hopefully we get that art book too!
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I don't know if anyone has been following this one, but apparently there was some drama involving Vita tiers / goal. They reworked the goals a bit I guess recently.
Some don't think they'll make it now, as some pledges had been removed before these changes, though those final few days of a campaign are usually some of the strongest, so I don't know.
