Kame-Sennin

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Atelier Sakura is to NTR visual novel studios what Burger King is to a 4 Michellin Star restaurant.

Their's games are so generic it's not even hot.
I agree with you, but actually Atelier Sakura isn't like this before, I don't know what happened it seems that their game is losing quality when they changed CG artist, check their older games, it's much better and hotter.
 

Hentaifan232

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I agree with you, but actually Atelier Sakura isn't like this before, I don't know what happened it seems that their game is losing quality when they changed CG artist, check their older games, it's much better and hotter.
seems like the main issue was pure volume effecting quality, and a lack of writers. Early on they had a couple writers afaik and releases were between 2-4 months with the same writer. Nowadays its almost always the same writer (one of their main quit like 2-3ish yr ago and cited burnout) releasing a new title every month and 90% of titles is ntr or nts. Imagine if you had to make 12 new and different stories a year all within the same genre, honestly its mind numbing. So all we can do is avoid the slop and hopefully catch the bangers. Also length is also an issue as the game length leads to faster progression and lack of character building which imo is essential for any NTR/NTS. Look at their best ones, Marina was 3 games, and Mayumi was 2 games.
Edit: Also they lost some good artists like Gentle Sasaki and Nagayori
 

yhrtji

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I agree with you, but actually Atelier Sakura isn't like this before, I don't know what happened it seems that their game is losing quality when they changed CG artist, check their older games, it's much better and hotter.
Atelier Sakura started going down in quality after the marina and Hosaka / after story.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the translation of the 1st Soredemo Tsuma by Lune.
And that sht is soooo long to translate that I perfectly understand why no one wants to translate it for free.
I mean it's around 15 years now that the game was first released, the only time I ever got proof that someone was doing a fan translation was back around AIM, and that was long a** time ago.

But Atelier is still better off than Appetite, how many games have they had now that are basically 30-40min (20min if you're at reading) playthroughs? I'm sure it's past 200...
 
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Atelier Sakura started going down in quality after the marina and Hosaka / after story.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the translation of the 1st Soredemo Tsuma by Lune.
And that sht is soooo long to translate that I perfectly understand why no one wants to translate it for free.
I mean it's around 15 years now that the game was first released, the only time I ever got proof that someone was doing a fan translation was back around AIM, and that was long a** time ago.

But Atelier is still better off than Appetite, how many games have they had now that are basically 30-40min (20min if you're at reading) playthroughs? I'm sure it's past 200...
Not only the story, but it seems that the sex scene now is boring and short, just 1 cg and a few dialog and then it ends, I guess maybe they pay higher to the new artist than their old one and they can't afford it anymore, they are not even making a female pov anymore like what they did in the past (you know the one that you can unlock in the extra replay gallery after completing the game)
 
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