Anonymous asked:
What's more degenerate, handholding or ntr?
That depends on the nature of the handholding. For example, you could hold your wife's hand with a glove made of aborted fetuses, which is probably further along than NTR on the whole degeneracy scale. Or, you could hold her hand between the pages of the Bible, and squeeze it really hard for being a cheating whore.
Anonymous asked:
Which Lilith VN from what you’ve played has the greatest writing in your opinion?
I barely remember more than two games before whichever one I'm doing, and I struggle to think of a single game that was solid enough to mention. The closest is probably TA3, but even then, it contradicts itself on several plot points.
Anonymous asked:
Are credit card companies still going after lilith? Or was that just a fad? Asking because it seems like lilith has relisted a lot of their old games on their site
I think that's died down, but it doesn't really matter at this point. Lilith dumped VISA and MasterCard from their own site months ago, but they still haven't put all the game pages back up, or decensored the ones that are there. Currently missing are 22 Black Lilith titles and 10 regular Lilith titles.
Anonymous asked:
Is there a certain kind of music (for example, jazz) that you prefer to listen to while translating?
I've found it helps to listen to certain kinds of soundtracks. There isn't any consistency to it, apart from picking ones which are neither too boring nor too distracting. Ones I've added to the playlist include the FF5 Pixel Remaster, the Sam & Max games, the entire soundtrack to Mario & Luigi 1 (including the classic awful GBA soundfont), Age of Empires Online, and Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997).
Anonymous asked:
What do you think of Reddit?
I'm glad that there's still something akin to a forum in existence, but it would be better if they got rid of the upvote/downvote system. All that does is encourage people to try and get upvotes by playing up to common sensibilities in the userbase, and avoid saying anything to the contrary for fear of being downvoted and hidden. It essentially creates the conditions for an echo chamber, and once an echo chamber is established, its primary effect will be to produce the stupidest people imaginable.
Apart from that, I'm not crazy about the branching discussion trees, and I absolutely hate the useless "new" design. If I ever have to go there for any reason, I use the old layout.
Anonymous asked:
Out of all Lilith vocal songs you’ve heard, which one would you say is the weakest? For me it’s most likely "You Know? My Heart!"
Either that, or Kimi de Ippai, from Poyopoyo Oppai Summer. Those are the worst ones on the vocal album, at least. I've forgotten most of the mobile game songs.
Anonymous asked:
what's the scariest thing about canada?
That would probably be the fact that IT'S CREEPING UP BEHIND YOU RIGHT NOW.
Which is fine. It just wants to tell you what a good job you're doing.
Overall, Canada is not interesting enough to be scary. Even our paranormal stuff is dull. I once—and this is not a word of a lie—had my computer possessed by ghosts next to a haunted graveyard back in 2003, and all they did was type rambling, nonsensical messages. It was like a stoner who kept forgetting the deep philosophical meaning of what he was saying every ten seconds. If that's the quality of our dead people, you have nothing to fear.
Anonymous asked:
How much of RPGX are you planning to translate?
No idea. It's probably not going to be all of it, as I'll almost certainly be made redundant by advances in machine translation sooner or later. But I feel a certain level of responsibility, because I spent years saying no to people who requested scenes, on the basis that there would eventually be an official localization. Which there was, but I couldn't have foreseen the absolute blunder that its launch would turn out to be.
As I stated when I began, I don't want to move away from VNs entirely. However, I have been encountering a problem for a few years, where all the companies and series that once seemed largely safe from localization are, in fact, proving not to be. Every time I look into something like Orcsoft or Inyouchuu, the localizers then move in and remove that option. Shiravune is especially industrious, and there's no way I can compete with that. At the very least, RPGX is probably not going to be brought back, with the possible exception of some of its scenes being put into some other kind of gacha. It would be useful to have a "safe" project that I can rely on not to be picked up by anyone.
Anonymous asked:
What project are you on besides rpgx?
+1 for Boku no Elf Onee-san
It's just RPGX for a while. I'm going to do 3-6 months' worth of it before starting anything new. It might still be slow, because there's always stuff taking my time away, but under ideal circumstances I would be hoping for a release about every 2-3 weeks.
Anonymous asked:
greetings rattan man. I have found an spelling error in Alice.
Rosalia: Master Jester's orders are absolute. Beside, I'm no incompetent.
It should be *not* incompetent.
Thank you.
Thanks for the help, but that's actually correct. It's "incompetent" in the noun sense of the word, i.e., an incompetent person. As in the sentence, "The Prime Minister is known to be a halfwitted incompetent, and that's why my country's gone to shit."
Anonymous asked:
What made you want to start translating eroge?
There were games that I wanted to play, and nobody was putting them in English for me. This was back when Dark Translations/Sanity Ends was already a thing of the past, and nobody else was going for Lilith's catalogue. So, the second I realized I had gotten to the point where I could understand them well enough, I started doing private test translations for myself. I only started releasing some of them for public consumption because I figured that if I had already gone to all that effort, then it wasn't worth anybody else having to.
Anonymous asked:
Is there any way I can read the visual novels you've translated on an Android phone or tablet?
The ones made prior to TA0 are all on the KiriKiri2 engine (with TA0 itself being KiriKiriZ). There are programs for Android which are specifically intended to run KiriKiri games, but I'm not sure how well they work, or if they're free.
Anonymous asked:
What do you think is the appeal of NTR? I swear every other eroge that gets released has something to do with getting cucked
It's basically a gateway fetish. It fits bizarrely well with anything. Just look at the Taimanin series: Nowadays, it has this weird reputation among secondaries as an NTR franchise. But, back when Taimanin Yukikaze came out, it seemed bizarre to mix the two, since it has nothing to do with ryona, orcs, gangrapes, or anything the series was associated with up to that point.
It can be done in realistic settings, comical settings, fantasy settings, and so on. It crosses over with fetishes like degradation, moral degeneration and corruption, can involve tentacles or beasts, and works in basically any setting where there is at least one character attracted to another. It also adds a fetishistic edge to sex acts that would otherwise be vanilla, which is what you see with it most of the time. Giving a blowjob: Vanilla. Giving a blowjob under duress while also having a husband: "Dark".
So essentially, once it gets put together with the things you like, and it hooks you with the idea that the cheating aspect gives it a certain edge in and of itself, it's basically got you. I can remember a time when I would play some of the early translated VNs, and any game like Secret Wives' Club would turn me off because of the infidelity. Then I played Discipline because I liked Bible Black, and in spite of that game not having really built up any romance with the heroine properly, four out of five endings were NTR. The one involving her becoming mind broken, and the one where she's tied down and impregnated with a sperm sample while you watch, really stuck in my mind. And so a mental parasite was born.
Anonymous asked:
Do you ever jack off to the games you translate, or does your professional sense of ethics prevent you from doing that?
By the time I'm done, I know them so well that I'm basically sick of them. And there's no way that you'd get aroused during the actual process, because it's so slow and tedious.
Anonymous asked:
Would you say the first Kangoku Senkan has the worst writing out of all Lilith games you’re familiar with? If not, which one do you feel has the worst writing?
It doesn't have the worst writing in terms of whether the story makes sense. Kurenai had logical, even geographical inconsistencies. TY2 used mind control to squeeze months' worth of training progress into one day, and still tried to have the typical NTR clichés, like Yukikaze remarking about how small Tatsurou's penis must be in spite of never having seen it. TA0 involved characters (primarily Asagi) making decisions that seemed to have no logic behind them at all.
But I would say it has the worst writing in the sense that the protagonist is weak, the heroines are unlikeable, and there's so little story that an entire day can pass without anything happening whatsoever. The basic training format isn't structured that badly, but it's horribly repetitive, and in need of something else to spice it up. Later Kangoku Senkan games use the exact same format and a similar premise, but manage to do it a lot better.
Anonymous asked:
Do you think we will ever see another taimanin VN from Lilith?
I swear i've mever seen a company have so many failed projects and still not be bankrupt
I don't think it's the case that we'll never see one again, but if we do, it will be heavily influenced by the gacha universe and its tone. For the foreseeable future, I expect that the only games they'll produce will be for the normal Lilith Soft brand, since that caters to a somewhat different audience.
Also, do these nipples look right? Rather than AI, I've photoshopped these ones based on his actual nude CG. However, I didn't have a nude CG for this pose, so I just copied and pasted one of them twice. I've tried to figure out where they should be positioned, but I don't have the artistic eye for it.
EDIT: For reference, this is where his nipples are positioned on the nude sprite, and where they appear in a similar pose:
Anonymous asked:
Yo, Happy New Year! Thanks for the Taimaseiko Alice patch. What's the next target on your list? I think I read that you were considering Mafuru Yoru no Rin sometime before...would that be it? If not, I want to drop a vote for that one. Regardless, keep up the great work!!!
That's decently high up on the requests list, but it's not in the top five yet. I'm going to be alternating between gacha content and VNs for a while. I'm currently committed to doing a couple "seasons" of gacha stories, but depending on how long it takes, I might end up reneging on that and just doing one for now.