I made this list personally to help as reference for the planned vote "what vn we should translate next." The qualifications for whether specific titles can make it as a candidate for the final vote are:
Translation difficulty isn't an issue, since Ixrec enjoys challenging himself. The titles are separated to six groups:
Basically these titles will be filtered through discussion at this thread or our IRC channel (#Ammy@irc.rizon.net); how many titles will make it into the vote, etc. Genres (most have drama so I won't include it), pros, cons, links to English-language reviews and other details will be filled in later.
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Useful links and updates
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Extracted script size listing:
http://notazsite.hp.infoseek.co.jp/main/soft/size.htmlEasymodo /jp/ archive discussions:
2934792,
2937465,
2998562,
3032542,
3103832,
3122383,
3189494,
3198063,
3200205,
3200804,
3207739,
3209437,
3212922,
3214774,
3217448,
3226240Easymodo voting time:
3227481,
3230616,
3234181,
3242398Easymodo final phase voting time:
3252106,
3254891090726: put script stats on each titles to list script size (MB), lines, word count, etc later. Will be helpful if you guys can help me fill the details (and genre) here. For quick comparison, Narcissu is 0.11MB, Cross Channel is 1.32MB, and Fate/Stay Night is 4.29MB
090730: added more game recommendations to the list (3 Alice Soft titles, Lisp doujin game, etc), located at bottom part of second post
090801: moved MuvLuv due to news regarding translation status from /m/
090822:
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Primary vote contender
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[Le.Chocolat & Flying Shine] Swan Song
vndb review youtube erogamescapeGenre: disaster-thriller (utsuge)
Pros: writer - Setoguchi Renya (Kirakira), autism moe, kr2 engine
Cons:
Script Stats: 1.16MB
It is a snowing Christmas Eve… Everything seems so peaceful when a huge earthquake occurs. The earthquake causes the city to be in ruin, and the surviving people need to find ways to stay alive. Some go crazy and rob others, some cling onto God, some gather to live together. The 6 main characters meet at a church while they were trying to find shelter from the snow. What will they see and experience in this extreme situation…?
[Blank Note] Himawari
vndb review1 review2 youtube websiteGenre: sci-fi
Pros: 1000Yen game, regarded as best doujin game after Tsukihime and Higurashi, writer - Goo (Narcissu 3), kr2 engine
Cons: non voiced
Script Stats: 2.08MB
That's one small step for man-kind, one giant leap for a man.
But now, two years after the crash of the SA-DAN080; the catastrophe that stole my parents and my memory, with Asuka and the director by my side, these painful memories are all but forgotten..
..or so I thought.
Until the the girl with the name of a constellation fell from the sky. [Translated from Official website]
[Black Cyc] Gore Screaming Show
vndb review youtube erogamescape erogeshopGenre: horror/mystery
Pros: elements of guro to rape; engine already hacked
Cons: elements of guro to rape; popular but still argued as not the best Black Cyc title fit for translate
Script Stats:
Two hundred years ago an unspeakable evil roamed the Japanese forests of Kurehito, slaughtering women and unleashing catastrophic havoc beyond the boundaries of human imagination. Finding no possible means to effectively destroy this primordial horror, the surviving victims began to appease the entity as a deity, creating an inadvertent opportunity which made it possible to imprison the monster within the confines of a consecrated site. Freed from this terrible nightmare, the people rebuilt their community and lives, prospering through the decades into modern times as a vibrant (though somewhat rural) Japanese town. So too has the forgotten malevolence continued to evolve and change, unbarring its jail and forging unlikely alliances, all the while seeking to sate a grisly hunger that has endured for two centuries. [From Erogereview.com]
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Non popular
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[Xuse] Saihate no IMA
vndb youtube erogamescapeGenre: 'computer network'
Pros: scenario designer - Romeo Tanaka (Yume Miru Kusuri, Cross Channel),
engine currently being hackedCons: extreme translation difficulty using cross-discipline materials
Script Stats: 2.27MB
This game tells the story of seven long-time friends. How they grew closer or further apart as they got older. Story is told from the perspective of one of these characters and all the dialogue is presented using a blog-like interface. [Edited from White Masq]
[Favorite] Hoshizora no Memoria
vndb review youtube erogeshop getchu erogamescape paletwebGenre: sci-fi
Pros:
engine already hacked; candidate for 2009's best eroge; high production value especially visual design
Cons:
Script Stats: 2.02MB, 55206 lines of text
The protagonist You Kogasaka is moving back into his hometown for the first time in several years. He meets a mysterious girl who resembles his old friend. She introduces herself as Mare, a shinigami. She also likes stars and appears at the observatory which is the best place to see the stars. You also likes to see stars, so they often meet at the observatory and enjoy seeing stars together.... There is the astronomy club at his school and he belongs to it. The club isn't, however, recognized as an official club because of a lack of members. To turn it into a fully-fledged club, You and other club members are coming up with battle plans to enroll new recruits... [Edited summary from ErogeShop & official summary]
[F&C] Suigetsu
vndb youtube erogamescapeGenre:
Pros:
Cons: no voice
Script Stats: 2.05MB
On a summer afternoon, I woke up in a hospital bed without any recollection of the past. I was suffering from severe amnesia, and the ones who saved me as I trembled with doubt and fear through the night were my friends and my maid, Yuki. Through their kindness, my life began once again. A new life filled with joy and happiness.
However, the nightmare that haunted me ever since I woke up that day continued to torment me. In my dreams was a woman with pure white skin and black hair so lustrous it seemed to fade into the dark night. And within a few weeks, on the night of the Star Festival, I would meet this beautiful girl.
Makino Nanami...
The girl whom I killed with my arrow each and every night ...
[Littlewitch] Shoujo Mahou Gaku Little Witch Romanesque
vndb youtube1 youtube2 erogamescapeGenre: fantasy
Pros: director/artist - Oyari Ashito, considered the best Littlewitch title
Cons:
Script Stats: 1.12MB
An alternate world ruled by swords, magic, and monsters where four moons can be seen in the sky. The dark and chaotic twilight of the “Age of Tower” ended for this world called Stellamund and it entered the prosperous “Age of Crown”. But the wizards who triggered the great war during the Age of Tower no longer hold the power they used to have, and quietly researched the great magics that were lost, in a magical academy called Grimoire.
This is a story expanding three years of an extraordinary great wizard who was born in such age, the girls who become his pupils, a ruin from the old age, “Black Tower” that they live in, and the people that gather around them. [Edited from Akihabara Channel]
[Akatsuki Works] Ruitomo
vndb youtube erogamescapeGenre: occult
Pros: translation difficulty lunatic (yes, pros); trap protagonist
Cons:
Script Stats: 2.27MB
Tomo Wakutsu was brought up by his mother as a girl due to a small mark he has on his body. After his mother's death, he discovers via her will that she emphasizes Tomo continue to live as a female, and following this, Tomo starts to go through more troubles in his life. Tomo soon discovers that he is linked with five girls who are around his age as a second year high school student. These girls happen to have the same mark he has, and also have been going through hardships in their lives. Tomo and these five girls decide to form a pact to stay together and support each other to solve each of their problems and to bring peace to their lives.
The title Rui ha Tomo o Yobu is also a Japanese proverb equivalent to the English proverb "birds of a feather flock together" when written with the kanji and kana 類は友を呼ぶ.
[Liar-soft] Sekien no Inganock -What a Beautiful People-
vndb review youtube erogamescape erogeshopGenre: action/sci-fi/fantasy/mystery
Pros:
engine currently being hackedCons:
Script Stats:
Inganock, a city isolated from the outside, a city where everything is distorted, even the sun. It all started ten years ago, at a day called as 'rebirth'. Then residents of the city slowly changed into beings that are partially human and partially animal.
To this day, only a few still look fully human on the outside. One of these is Gee, a former medical student, now an illegal doctor that walks the city and cures the poor for free. He changed too, but only in the inside and his change brought him a mysterious ability that he uses to heal people that keep mutating further every day.
He has a few 'friends' if you can call them that. One of them is a black steel cat girl called Ati. Another one is an old friend from his medical school that he just met again after ten years, Salem. And the games story really begins when he encounters a little girl called Keea... [from vndb]
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Unlikely because of length, difficulty, or quality
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[Regista] I/O
vndb youtube1 youtube2 erogamescape (PS2) erogamescape (18+ Version)Genre: action/sci-fi/mystery
Pros: director - Nakazawa Takumi (Ever17, Remember11) and Tanaka Romeo (YMK, Cross Channel), music by Onoken
Cons: extreme script length
Script Stats:
April 26th, 2032 A.D. - Megalopolis Tokyo - 00:12 in the morning
A total lunar eclipse occurs for the first time in 3 years. Even though it's supposed to be a simple astronomical phenomenon, it soon sets off a series of unexpected events. Unexplainable mysteries, terrorist incidents, and network crime surge as if in unison. The truth mixes with lies, as if the world is awake but still sleeping.
Something has begun. Somewhere no one can see. Something no one knows about.
This is a story of the chance meeting and tragic parting of the young men and women living in this world. Players get to play the game from 4 different points of view :
Route A - Hinata, a youth who has lost his sister and himself .
Route B - Ishtar, a freelance programmer and leader of a hacker team.
Route C - Ishtar, but seems a bit different from the Ishtar in Route B....
Route D - He, a man completely shrouded in mystery.
And thus..
"The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning"
[Elf] Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO
vndb nico OP review japanese wiki erogamescape Genre:
Pros: beyond god-tier, same writer with EVE Burst Error
Cons: 1996 ANCIENT, extreme script length
Script Stats: 4.56MB
Takuya Arima is a young student whose father, a historian who has conducted various researches, disappeared recently. During a summer vacation Takuya discovers a strange orb in his father's room, along with a letter containing information about the existence of a parallel world. At first Takuya doesn't take it seriously, but soon he realizes that he possesses a device that allows him to travel to an alternate universe. Is his father alive, after all? If so, where is he?
