It's their side project with much lesser budget made by new branch of their company, that's why have just 2 girls and god awful 3d cgi opening (reminds me of ex-arm). And you know nothing stops them from translating main games to English at same time as Jp release, they just need to send script to Nekonyan/Hikari before games comes out.

Originally posted by Corinarh:

It's their side project with much lesser budget made by new branch of their company, that's why have just 2 girls and god awful 3d cgi opening (reminds me of ex-arm). And you know nothing stops them from translating main games to English at same time as Jp release, they just need to send script to Nekonyan/Hikari before games comes out.

At the core it is about the profit. August stopped making VNs because their web games are more profitable, Key indicates to shift their focus to rapid and "indie" releases instead of big titles. I hope it ends up encouraging their main titles to embrace the international markets instead of, at best, treating the international market differently, at worst, shifting their focus entirely.

Maybe it's just a try to looking for bigger market.After all VNs with r18 content can just be popular with the little crowd.But it doesn't mean the industry will give up producing VNs with r18 content.

Phoenix Wright series shows how an "all-ages" (granted it had murders but nothing worse than Detective Conan, which were an all ages segment) visual novel does have a market.

Originally posted by Meyers07:

Phoenix Wright series shows how an "all-ages" (granted it had murders but nothing worse than Detective Conan, which were an all ages segment) visual novel does have a market.

So are Key's visual novels, sciadv series, or occasionally high-budget VNs like Island. But if yuzusoft just do the same thing except without 18+ contents, their VNs will be missing something.

If you're talking about the studios which went defunct in the last 2, 3 years then your take is not quite right. The industry was in a grim spot, but for better or worse, anime, manga, JP games suddenly became mainstream or global if you prefer to call it that way.
a good 5 years ago we had only mangagamer and Jast for localization and translation, not to mention a painfully slow fantranslation scene.
Now there are so many publishers and so many titles coming soon that I can't keep up with everything. I even have a VN backlog, ffs, when was the last time that could even happen to western readers?
R-18 content in VN should be your worry tho. That is in a truly iffy spot given the current woke/puritan agenda pushed on every piece of media.

Originally posted by helvetica_standard:

R-18 content in VN should be your worry tho. That is in a truly iffy spot given the current woke/puritan agenda pushed on every piece of media.

Niche genre mostly released on DRM free sites that mainstream media has never heard off. Honestly, nobody cares, this is a none issue

On steam it's easily circumvented by an offsite patch

I want more all ages visual novels. Yes.

Dont care as long the story and the characters are nice and they didnt made a special western edition, which has removed content from the japanese vers.

No free H, no buy. And definitely not if it's less than 20 hours long.