This is a Kinetic Novel, not a Visual Novel.

[Kats]

I see bad reviews complaining about no choices so making this thread hoping people realize what they are buying before they buy it and make bad reviews.

Can people add the Kinetic Novel tag and flag Visual Novel tag for this title?

Kinetic Novel is a type of Visual Novel without choices in the game, all you do is click through or use the auto scroll feature and just read and listen to it.

[Hainiryuun]

"Kinetic Novel is a type of Visual Novel," I mean, by definition, it IS a VN =p

Regardless, my guess is that people that aren't a part of the VN community wouldn't have any idea wtf a Kinetic Novel is anyways. People are going to not do their research before a purchase and make bad reviews, regardless of what is tagged.

[Kats]

Originally posted by Hainiryuun:

"Kinetic Novel is a type of Visual Novel," I mean, by definition, it IS a VN =p

Regardless, my guess is that people that aren't a part of the VN community wouldn't have any idea wtf a Kinetic Novel is anyways. People are going to not do their research before a purchase and make bad reviews, regardless of what is tagged.

True.
One can only hope the bad reviews are kept at a minimum, so we can hopefully get the rest of the games.

[Hainiryuun]

I mean, reviews on Steam aren't going to matter too much, tbh. Hanahira! is the only other All-Ages VN in the series, and despite Yurirei making it onto Steam (which is likely due to no genitals ever being shown), I'd find it rather difficult to see any of the other Sono Hana games making it to Steam.

Would be nice to know the sales figures, regardless, though. Kinda hard to tell with people that ordered through MG and not Steam.

[Kats]

Originally posted by Hainiryuun:

I mean, reviews on Steam aren't going to matter too much, tbh. Hanahira! is the only other All-Ages VN in the series, and despite Yurirei making it onto Steam (which is likely due to no genitals ever being shown), I'd find it rather difficult to see any of the other Sono Hana games making it to Steam.

Would be nice to know the sales figures, regardless, though. Kinda hard to tell with people that ordered through MG and not Steam.

True.
However, if sales on MG/Steam aren't good enough in the eyes of the devs and MG then we won't see MG releases of older games either, which is one things I'm really looking forward to.
While most games won't see a Steam release, if we're lucky with sales then we'll at least see a mangagamer release.

Still hoping for a hanahira steam release though, that game is too cute<3

[Hainiryuun]

Absolutely, I just wish we knew the actual number of sales and/or what they're looking for. SteamSpy has it at ~2.3K sales, but no idea if that is actually good or not.

Certainly want to see all the other games released ASAP, so hopefully the numbers are good.

[CPU IrisHeart]

Originally posted by Hainiryuun:

Absolutely, I just wish we knew the actual number of sales and/or what they're looking for. SteamSpy has it at ~2.3K sales, but no idea if that is actually good or not.

Certainly want to see all the other games released ASAP, so hopefully the numbers are good.

Yes, I'd definitely like to see more of these visual novels. Btw do you know where I can download / buy the other sona hana games with translation?

[Kats]

Originally posted by DarkRockShooter:

Originally posted by Hainiryuun:

Absolutely, I just wish we knew the actual number of sales and/or what they're looking for. SteamSpy has it at ~2.3K sales, but no idea if that is actually good or not.

Certainly want to see all the other games released ASAP, so hopefully the numbers are good.

Yes, I'd definitely like to see more of these visual novels. Btw do you know where I can download / buy the other sona hana games with translation?

Just google fuguriya DLSite and you can buy them there (untranslated.)
Obvious but, 18+ website with naked pictures all over, so look around you before entering the website hohoho. :P

Then google sonohana translations and look for websites like yuriproject, axypb and fuwanovel and you can download translation patches from there.

For translations you can also use http://vndb.org.
Search for the particular game you want translations for and then look around the bottom of the page of that game and you'll see what systems and and languages it's been released for.
Look for the English one, click it and then go to the translators website.

[Hainiryuun]

AXYPB actually took down all of the patches off his site, since he works for MG on the series, officially, as the editor. You're not likely to find them any legal way, right now.

[Kats]

Originally posted by Hainiryuun:

AXYPB actually took down all of the patches off his site, since he works for MG on the series, officially, as the editor. You're not likely to find them any legal way, right now.

Oh he did?
Didn't think of checking before posting, sorry~ xD

[Hainiryuun]

On that note, steamspy now showing 3.4k owners, which is nice to see.

But yeah, the translations were taken down back in July when RHWM was first announced. Ralen stop posting his translations for Maidens of Michael at the same time, as well.

[Kats]

Originally posted by Hypsicratea:

I don't get it. I would think that all Visual Novels are just that, visual novels. Short stories or novels with visual elements, and no choices to make.

Nah there's different types.
Just Visual Novels have choices you can make. (All other sonohana titles fall into here)
Kinetic Novels don't have any choices at all. (This game)

Basically, they are both Visual Novels, but "Kinetic Novel" is used to differentiate the two, so people know if the game has choices or not.