Japanese company「ILLUSION」dies. They are ceasing game development and publishing.

squiddysquidsquid

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In summary, people just need something besides Daz3d that is easy to use for making porn games on Ren'Py and comics, but not janky or ugly like Sims 4.
As putty faced as the Sims 4 is, I'd much rather look at my poorly dressed male character giving it to Miko Ojo or Alice Lewis than see some Daz3d 10,000 yard stare model with some 20+ year old hair model. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

I feel like RenPy stuff is really old now that we have GPT models and SillyTavern.
 

Hypocryte72

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Apparently, there will be some movement after the activity is terminated.



The above account was used by the illusion development team, but has been reset and has been replaced by a new account in preparation.


Hmm? What does this mean?
Soo, the ILLUSION grief cycle continues..?
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boulder5

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I am looking to buy Koikatsu Sunshine, Honey Select 2, AI Shoujo, PlayHome, and VR Kanojo before the studio's closure.
Can you all help me understand the all-in-one mod installers provided by the community?

As far as I know, there are two main ones: ManlyMarco's HF patches and ScrewThisNoise's BetterRepacks.
Which is the better mod installer for each of the games I am interested in?

Also, please let me know if there are any other Illusion games with full VR mods that I should be aware of.
 

Uthuriel

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I am looking to buy Koikatsu Sunshine, Honey Select 2, AI Shoujo, PlayHome, and VR Kanojo before the studio's closure.
Can you all help me understand the all-in-one mod installers provided by the community?

As far as I know, there are two main ones: ManlyMarco's HF patches and ScrewThisNoise's BetterRepacks.
Which is the better mod installer for each of the games I am interested in?

Also, please let me know if there are any other Illusion games with full VR mods that I should be aware of.


I use this.
 
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Artemissu

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As far as I know, there are two main ones: ManlyMarco's HF patches and ScrewThisNoise's BetterRepacks.
Which is the better mod installer for each of the games I am interested in?
BetterRepacks is pretty good, it's the one i play. Never tried ManlyMarco myself, so cannot comment on it
 
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Ousawa

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Well it's sad, that Illusion is dead, but I'm not really suprised, because their games (especially for past few years) were pretty bad (boring). Personally I think that their last good game was Artificial Academy 2 and that was in 2014... Well Koikatsu from 2018 was not that bad, but for me this game was 6/10 at best.

Just as same other people said, Illusion for past few years didn't make games, it looked more like they were making character and scene creators. Their games were just lacking in gameplay mechanics that would make their game more interesting.

It's a real shame that we won't be able to play games like Artificial Academy 3 or Artificial girl 4, because for that games I was really waiting all this years. Now we can just hope that some other company will replace (and surpass) old good Illusion.
 

chainedpanda

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Personally, don't care about the games themselves, but this still saddens me.

Even if I didn't play their games, I did play games made in their engines. So, that's generally sad. Honey Select 2 is actually pretty good, and I preferred Koikatsu over DAZ. Furthermore, it's also sad that a legit studio is shutting down. We don't have enough of them in this industry, adult or otherwise. All this really does is dissuade other groups or individuals from trying themselves.