Rance Series

[Jacob]

Aren't the old games the easy ones anyway?

 

[TheEntitledOne]

If playing the original games is too hardcore for you, our gentleman and entitled poster here played them all* and the lps are available on his sig.

*Except Kichikou and Rance 4.5-6, sadly.

Aren't the old games the easy ones anyway?

The old LPs are dead, imgur, dropbox or whatever dropped the or something

About difficulty, Rance 1 is only difficult in the sense that you need to deal with the games weird logic to progress (just use a guide), but combat wise 1-3 are piss easy, only R4 has some challenge.

 

[Jaedar]

If playing the original games is too hardcore for you, our gentleman and entitled poster here played them all* and the lps are available on his sig.

*Except Kichikou and Rance 4.5-6, sadly.

Aren't the old games the easy ones anyway?

The old LPs are dead, imgur, dropbox or whatever dropped the or something

About difficulty, Rance 1 is only difficult in the sense that you need to deal with the games weird logic to progress (just use a guide), but combat wise 1-3 are piss easy, only R4 has some challenge.

I can only speak of the ones I've played, so to continue:
R6 is quite easy unless you try to go for long chains (just retreat and recover before you're running on fumes).
Sengoku is easy on the default difficulty, which is forced upon you for first playthrough.

 

[TigerKnee]

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnove..._x_decisive_battle_wins_ign_japans_goty_2018/

Looks like at least one writer for IGN Japan is

 

[Average Manatee]

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnove..._x_decisive_battle_wins_ign_japans_goty_2018/

Looks like at least one writer for IGN Japan is

Imagine being this monocled in a sea of the blind.

 

[KingDoofus]

I just read the Game of the Year post for 2018. Man, I don't want to sound like a fanboy but I enjoyed Rance X more than all of those games.

 

[Bohrain]

Sengoku should dominate this year's poll if it gets an official English release. According to Mangagamers they only have image editing left.

 

[Jaedar]

Sengoku should dominate this year's poll if it gets an official English release. According to Mangagamers they only have image editing left.

The question is if they'll release it on its own, or together with 8. 8 is at 87% editing supposedly, so it could be out this year too.

 

[KingDoofus]

I'm getting more and more certain that Sengoku is getting released with Quest. The translation and editing have been finished for a long while now. They're currently working on a UI polish but if they wanted to push it to be done by Christmas (a good time for sales) I'm pretty sure they could have. Bundling them would probably be a good move: if you know and like the Rance series there's a good chance it's because you played the bootleg translation of Sengoku sometime between now and its release almost ten years ago.

But honestly, what the fuck do I know?

 

[Haba]

I'd still take Sengoku box, if they do the god damn original release and not some dvd case shit.

 

[Jason Liang]

Perusing old Haniho threads, came across this articulation of TADA:

https://twitter.com/hanny_king/status/1090358229312229377

TADA likes three types of games:
-The 'Being able to find the optimal solution while under restriction' type
-The 'Enjoy yourself by entrusting everything to the RNG' type
-The 'Will definitely advance if you spend time working on it' type
That's how he mostly makes his games and wonders how many or which to make into his game.

Also, for Senhime fans

 

[abnaxus]

 

[Jason Liang]

Weird and funny Rance-related videos I found on bilibili, contains spoilers

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av83918/

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av28615607/ spoilerific summary of RQ, IX and X
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av932040/ superlong summary of 5D ~ RQ

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av217046/

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av3338119 History of Rance world part 1 (in Japanese)
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av3204719 History of Rance world part 2 (in Japanese)
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av3240624 History of Rance world part 3 (in Japanese)
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av3338178 History of Rance world part 4 (in Japanese)
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av8134751 History of Rance world part 5 (in Japanese)
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av8153348 History of Rance world part 6 (in Japanese)

 

[Nostaljaded]

TADA likes three types of games:
-The 'Enjoy yourself by entrusting everything to the RNG' type
That's how he mostly makes his games and wonders how many or which to make into his game.

Rance IX does it well.
In-game gacha weapon upgrading sequence and item drop sequence are randomly generated and fixed on a fresh 'Game Start'.
Both sequences will also be carried over to New Game+.

So besides game overs and unlocking optional story nodes, no reason for save scumming.

-The 'Being able to find the optimal solution while under restriction' type
-The 'Will definitely advance if you spend time working on it' type

Rance X probably fits the above 2 criteria.

 

[Jason Liang]

Orion answered several Rance lore questions on twitter earlier today for Rance X 1 year anniversary. No real bombshells except that Rance ended up having 100 children and that the name of the warrior woman is Noah Jesus.

 

[Bohrain]

https://boards.4channel.org/v/thread/453265095

Archieved thread where one guy claiming to be part of Mangagamer's localization team answered some questions. Estimated release for Sengoku is in spring or early summer. He talks about translation work in general, here is one snippet.

>Is it really that troublesome to get it to run without changing local?
Locale is the easy part. But making the game run in English results in some really weird errors, for example when testing on Sengoku started if the game registered too many messages in one session(which would happen after several hours of playing) it would simply crash. That was solved pretty quickly, but stuff like that keeps happening.
The hacker in our team is absolute beast, but he's just a one dude. There's a reason we need more reverse engineers.
...Also, rest of team was kinda busy too. I feel bad for Arunaru, he usually finishes translation really fast and then has to wait for others to catch up.

 

[Jason Liang]

...Also, rest of team was kinda busy too. I feel bad for Arunaru, he usually finishes translation really fast and then has to wait for others to catch up.

Sacre bleu, les devils! Oui oui

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[Haba]

God damn faggots can't get their act together.

WHERE ARE THE GAMES?!

 

[CyberModuled]

Soon™ https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1111809767314464768

(Also they mentioned something about going to a few cons mid-late April recently so I'm assuming at the very very least we'll get a Sengoku release date and hopefully a Quest date by then as well)

 

[Haba]

Spoiler

 

[lightbane]

Bad news. No Sengoku Rance on Steam, ever: https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/...dians-gods-of-hentai-banned-from-steam/81474/

 

[GrainWetski]

You had one job, Gay Ben.

 

[flyingjohn]

Bad news. No Sengoku Rance on Steam, ever: https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/...dians-gods-of-hentai-banned-from-steam/81474/

No surprise,valve is blackmailed by most major credit companies to deny anything ever porn related to release on steam.

 

[aweigh]

RANCE VI, RANCE 5D, STAR GUARDIANS, GODS OF HENTAI BANNED FROM STEAM
Posted on April 4, 2019, 3:35 am By Billy D

A handful of adult games have been banned from Steam, including the combination package of Rance VI and Rance 5D, as well as Star Guardians, and Gods of Hentai. This is all despite the fact that last year Valve said they would no longer be the “taste police” once the adult filters were implemented.

The games were submitted for approval but were denied from Valve, thus being banned from appearing on Steam.

First up, is the R18+ sci-fi visual novel from the same developers that brought you the BDSM title, Catgirl, which is actually currently available on the Steam store right now.



According to the Steam Spy for Star Guardians, the developers, Yumekakiya, had already finished and submitted a demo to Steam. The shows that the Star Guardians demo was added to the database back on February 22nd, 2019, but on February 24th, 2019 it was removed according to SteamDB entry. It then had a number of additions and removals for the adult content, making it difficult to determine if the demo was the R18+ version of the game or if it was the all-ages version.

However, both the demo and the base version of Star Guardians were banned from Steam on April 3rd, 2019, according to the Steam Database.

While the game may be banned from Steam, you can currently purchase Star Guardians from the DLSite store page.


The next game on the list is actually two games: Rance VI and Rance 5D, both of which were packaged together in a bundle.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much known about the bundle other than that it was submitted to the Steam database on March 22nd, 2019 and banned on April 3rd, 2019.

In North America and Europe, Alice Soft’s Rance games are typically published by MangaGamer. At the moment MangaGamer is currently finishing up Rance Quest Magnum and prepping it for release, along with Rance IX: The Helmanian Revolution. They’re also still beta testing Sengoku Rance and early into the translation process of Rance X: Showdown, as detailed on the MangaGamer blog.

Apparently they had plans on releasing some of the Rance games on Steam, but Valve put an end to that when they banned both Rance VI and Rance 3D on April 3rd, 2019 according to the SteamDB entry. The games’ store pages weren’t even approved to go live.

So don’t expect to see any of the Rance games on Steam, and Valve obviously hasn’t explained why the games are banned or why they won’t be allowed on the Steam store.


The same applied for Gods of Hentai, which was also banned without any discernible reason. Unlike Rance, however, it actually was approved to have a store page and even had a community hub.

The game was originally supposed to enter into Early Access on February 23rd, 2019 after getting the store stats in order, but then after February 24th, 2019, the store configurations began to change and the details and release dates were removed.

On April 3rd, 2019 the game was banned, according to the SteamDB entry.

What’s really interesting with Gods of Hentai is that this game wasn’t even that hardcore. In fact, an archive of the store page notes that it was themed more around erotic art than flatout porn…

“This game is a mmorpg hentai game, with adult content starting from the loading screen.
Graphics are more Erotics than porn, the global design is colorful and the characters are designed by a French artist.”

This is actually a fairly accurate description of the game based on the NSFW gameplay trailer, which you can view below.


Unfortunately, since Valve now deletes the entire community hubs for banned games it’s impossible to tell if the developers explained why their game was banned. And since Valve refuses to make announcements for the bans, it’s impossible to know what the actual reasons were for removing a game like Gods of Hentai, especially since it didn’t appear to contain any loli characters.

But at this point it seems like a crap shoot to get your game on Steam, as it can be banned or denied release seemingly for any number of reasons.

All of these games now join the ever-growing Waifu Holocaust 2.0 banned list. For some developers it seems like the only way to guarantee a release on Steam is to remove all fan-service, all loli characters, any school references, and all of the explicit content.