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When you do machine translation, Lia almost always translates to Rear so don't be confused by that.

Another common example is Satella --> Satera
 

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So I have finished Rance 6 and Sengoku, which game should I play next? Was planning on playing Rance 01 and 02 but that can take a while until release.
 

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So I have finished Rance 6 and Sengoku, which game should I play next? Was planning on playing Rance 01 and 02 but that can take a while until release.
Kichikou Rance probably and Daibanchou (Big Bang Age) if you want similar gameplay to SR
02 is English translated, the MangaGamer isn't going to be much different. It's like around 5 hours though.
I assume you also played 5D as well
Original Rance III, IV, 4.1 and 4.2 are translated as well if you don't mind the old gameplay

Other than that you just got to wait or deal with machine translation
 

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So I have finished Rance 6 and Sengoku, which game should I play next? Was planning on playing Rance 01 and 02 but that can take a while until release.
You could always play the originals. They're clunky, sure, but there's no issue running them on newer systems, they are all translated, and they're kinda charming in their own way. You'll also find out who all those characters you kept meeting in 6 and Sengoku are (and find out their massive backstories stretching over basically the entire series). You could always play Kichikuou, but keep in mind it's not canon and was originally meant as the climax of the series (when it looked like Alicesoft would go under, they made that game to sort of give stuff closure, then it was super successful and made them lots of money, and then they made it non-canon so as to be able to continue the series) and you'll meet a lot of characters from previous games, so the story may be confusing at times.
 

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TADA update
http://boards.4channel.org/vg/thread/280151742#p280397548
https://hannylaboratory.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html

>At the age of 50 or so, it's inevitable that some part of the human body will be broken. After all, the average service life of a human being is around 70-80.

>In my case, the part of me that's broken is my kidneys. I have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

>For many years I've been getting health checkups, but often they'd have to redo the tests. I'd be advised to take care of my body, as well.

>"Hmm..." I thought, "It's not like I live a terribly unhealthy life, so it's whatever..." I'm sure there are many people in the world who think the same way about that as well.

>One time I was warned about possible kidney failure, but I kind of shrugged it off because you know how doctors can be. Surely it was an exaggeration, right? An excuse to tell me to lay off salty foods, to keep my blood pressure low.

>It was not. I was recently informed I have CKD. Specifically Stage G3a.

>The kidney's an organ that filters the blood and basically makes pee. It's a simple organ, but a valuable one. If the filtration function wears down, then your blood will become dirtier and dirtier... You'll have more impurities in your body, and then you'll just die. The kidneys are valuable organs indeed...

>If it gets any worse, the CKD will cause my kidneys to steadily decline until a transplant will be necessary. Either that or I'll require regular dialysis. There are stages from G1 to G5, and I'm smack bang in the middle at G3a.

>Once it gets worse, it won't get any better... It won't get any better at all... It won't recover... I won't get better...

Not translating past that but tl;dr TADA has a chronic kidney condition. It won't get any better but he's changed up his eating habits so his kidneys won't deteriorate any further, so hopefully a transplant won't be necessary. He's feeling the effects of older age pretty badly these days.
 

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CKD is really common among AZNs

I'm pretty sure TADA knows of Satoshi Kon and he probably has Kon's passing in mind when he wrote that post (Kon was 47 when he passed away).
 

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Orion anniversary Q&A has started
https://twitter.com/ORION_PROJECT/status/1231234532168175616

Q: Is the reason why Omachi did not have a H-scene in SR, despite the other three having one, because her kimono was too tiring to draw?

A: There were no plans for her to revive after her defeat. Even if she was revived, without Masamune around, it was planned that she would destroy herself. Since the system of dying without a story did not go well, it was decided to let her live.

Sorry Omachifags.
Explains why Omachi is SO imba
 
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So after devoting some more time to Sengoku and seeing some of the other routes, I decided to branch out to Evenicle for a change of pace before circling back to playing through the rest of the Rance series. Have to say I ended up being fairly impressed, like most of my favourite H-games, the game really delivers on the humour front and the constant provision of ridiculous situations and that kept me playing through to the end.

Story was decent enough, a few unexpected surprises kept me playing all the way to the end. The Croix/Natal... "developments", being unavoidable wasn't great, and made me wish the game was less linear (or at least have some choices that aren't immediate bad endings). But, the dynamic between the main cast was really fun to experience and I'm again left coming away an AliceSoft game very impressed. I really wasn't sure what to expect going in, and wasn't initially sure on the low budget 3D models being used for the overworld and such but it grew on me, but the game's packed with cute waifus, lots of humour and enough serious moments to kept me trucking on till the end. Really felt like Natal was being set up as the next wife so many times through the game but I guess they didn't want to give you another combat capable wife and have to deal with switching the combat party I guess.

They could have ditched the loli content and random scene with Arthur as well and be left with a better game imo, I ended up skipping through a few Guri scenes & a Towa one as I didn't much care for them. Random difficulty spike for the last boss wasn't fun either, ended up cheat-engining some extra EXP just to save time.

Anyways, good game overall, hopefully the sequel will get localised at some point (no clue if it's a direct sequel or something else entirely), gonna get back to playing through Rance next. Apologies this isn't strictly Rance related, but I dunno if there's an active alicesoft thread on Codex.
 
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Replayed SR again, this time with MangaGamer's translation instead of the fan one. It's... different. Not in a bad way, just different – it reads a lot more "western" if that makes any sense, with a lot of the Japanese language leftovers and peculiarities being translated or replaced. Pretty solid work overall. There's also some minor polish added from what I've noticed, but nothing important.


Story was decent enough
Couldn't stand it, personally. It just seemed incredibly retarded to me. Though that was possibly just a side effect of me really, really hating Evenicle protagonist.
 

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Guys, I'm back on Sengoku again, I'm wrapping up my kill the monkey route run atm; got a few characters that I can't get a character clear for:

-Gon (Ryo mentioned lifting his curse but there were never any follow-up events that I could see)
-Mine (Ryo-whatever changed back to a girl and got together with the other guy). Guessing this character can only be cleared by making Ryo a man? No H-scene for her?
-Teru (stuck at Trust)
-Kiku (stuck at Normal)

Pretty much exhausted everything else I can do in this playthrough (except dungeons which I've slacked off on). Only got the Orochi dungeon and Eyeball clan to take over left in the route.
 

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Guys, I'm back on Sengoku again, I'm wrapping up my kill the monkey route run atm; got a few characters that I can't get a character clear for:

-Gon (Ryo mentioned lifting his curse but there were never any follow-up events that I could see)
-Mine (Ryo-whatever changed back to a girl and got together with the other guy). Guessing this character can only be cleared by making Ryo a man? No H-scene for her?
-Teru (stuck at Trust)
-Kiku (stuck at Normal)

Pretty much exhausted everything else I can do in this playthrough (except dungeons which I've slacked off on). Only got the Orochi dungeon and Eyeball clan to take over left in the route.

Do you want spoilers or what?

Gon cannot be cleared if you clear certain character before him.
You can't clear both Gon and Mine in the same game, if I remember right.
Teru: you need a specific item.
Kiku: you have to recruit her before taking over Mouri.
 

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Guys, I'm back on Sengoku again, I'm wrapping up my kill the monkey route run atm; got a few characters that I can't get a character clear for:

-Gon (Ryo mentioned lifting his curse but there were never any follow-up events that I could see)
-Mine (Ryo-whatever changed back to a girl and got together with the other guy). Guessing this character can only be cleared by making Ryo a man? No H-scene for her?
-Teru (stuck at Trust)
-Kiku (stuck at Normal)

Pretty much exhausted everything else I can do in this playthrough (except dungeons which I've slacked off on). Only got the Orochi dungeon and Eyeball clan to take over left in the route.

Do you want spoilers or what?

Gon cannot be cleared if you clear certain character before him.
You can't clear both Gon and Mine in the same game, if I remember right.
Teru: you need a specific item.
Kiku: you have to recruit her before taking over Mouri.
Spoilers are fine by me, but it sounds like I'll have to miss out on a few during this run.
 

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Anyone feel like convincing me to finish Rance 5D? Novel concept, heard it was short enough but wasn't very interesting so I just bailed.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/project-status/

According to this Rance 1 is out of beta and it looks like Rance 2 is about to be done. Hopefully that means it'll pop sooner then later.
 

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Anyone feel like convincing me to finish Rance 5D? Novel concept, heard it was short enough but wasn't very interesting so I just bailed.
That's about my experience with it too. Feels more like an experiment in randomness than a working game.

According to this Rance 1 is out of beta and it looks like Rance 2 is about to be done. Hopefully that means it'll pop sooner then later.
The people demand at least one rance game per year!
 

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I like 5D... Bird and Copa are a great comedic duo, and there's a ton of hidden side content

Only wish there was a Hard Mode since the default difficulty is a pushover.
 

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