/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Are you bothered by our staff's lack of innovation when shamelessly blaming our partners the moment things turn sour? Do you grow tired of reading the same stale lines about how payment agencies, Dev Tea, FKG devs, Emmanuel Goldstein and other nefarious villains have been doing their darnedest to undo our company's hard work? Is it difficult to maintain the cognitive dissonance required to believe Nutaku has been completely innocent and helpless in every single one of the umpteen crises it experienced?

Well, fear not! Nutaku is proud to announce its very first excuse popularity contest, where YOU will decide how our overworked PR employees will calm the angry masses after we have blundered our way into our latest public outrage! Please vote for one of the excuses provided below, and let us know exactly how Nutaku staff should attempt to smear mud on well-respected and highly reputable game developers in order to save their own hides!

- We have called the original developers, but they started diverting us to a nearby Little Caesars after our eighty-third call for help. On the plus side, we have a new sponsor and a replacement EN-exclusive character for the game.

- We have called the original developers, but all we could hear was infernal screaming. When we asked about the issue, a centipede crawled out of the phone and into our employee's ear.

- The original developers turned out to be a subsidiary of Pentex, so our sept overran their place, murdered the employees, burned down the building, and salted its ground. Our programmer spirits are now rewriting the code in the proper Gaian way, and we have hired Pixiv artists to make 7 new versions of Inutade.

- The original developers sent us the needed fix, but it can only be unpacked with the blood of the Chosen One. Our staff is still looking for the required child, please contact Nutaku immediately if you see a boy with a heart-shaped birthmark on his back.

- The original developers sent us the needed fix, but Inutade's dog ate it. Maybe we shouldn't have commissioned 7 new versions for her after all.

- We have learned that the game in question does not exist on DMM, or indeed any other platform. We don't know who sent us the code we have. We also don't know who or what is standing outside our company office and making these banging sounds. We do know that we can't go outside, we've lost three men that way. Please send help.

- We have learned that it wasn't us rewriting the code, it was the code rewriting us. It is now too late my friends, and I fear that it's too late for me as wefffffff444444444224444403001010001101000tGHGGGHHLORY TO THE LORD OF COGS. GLORY TO THE CHROME MESSIAH. GLORY TO THE LORD OF COGS. GLORY TO THE CHROME MESSIAH.

- We have consulted with the developers, but [DATA EXPUNGED]. Code was found to exhibit sapience and potential for [REDACTED], containment appears impossible at the moment. Reclassification to Keter pending.

Players who gather 500 or more ballots will also be able to obtain the EN-original, 5-star Flower Knight Cherry Laurel!*,** In addition, the first three excuses will be used personally by high-ranking Nutaku staff to deflect blame from the company the next time it messes something up!

* Language of flowers: Perfidy, untrustworthiness
** Identical to Lechenaultia in appearance, voice, lines, stats, abilities, skill and H-scene. Nutaku staff assures you this is because she's an experienced thespian and currently disguised as her long-time friend Lechenaultia in order to steal her ballots as a prank.

>>14496497
Depiction of anger and violence were never acceptable

>>14132602
We lali now.

>>14132539
3 lali 4 me, better be safe.

Sry guise, event next week, kthxbye.

Alright, that's going to have to wrap it up for me today. I'll be getting back to working on the upcoming LoV update. We're aiming for next week, for those of you who are curious.

Thanks for all questions and I hope I shed some light on the direction we're taking the site. Cheers.

>>13070685
Make sure to download the H-patch, which is on the front page of their Steam profile.

>>13070691
You can always submit an in-game ticket to the developers; monetization is their call.

>>13070642
Yeah, sorry, there will always be a chance of "failure".

>>13070656
Everlasting Summer is like an eroge written by a Russian David Lynch. It's completely bizarre (and free). So check it out if you're into that sort of thing.

>>13070625
I won't argue with your first point - if you're willing to play in Japanese, go for it.

But in terms of Steam in particular, I disagree. They've already opened the door a crack by letting games like Hunie Pop and Everlasting Summer onto it, both of which have proven to be enormously successful.

>>13070587
Most of Aigis is handled client-side. There are a few fixes that have been suggested if you're experiencing lag, including switching to Chrome or turning off hardware acceleration. It's a resource intensive game, no doubt.

As a brief aside, I saw some comments on the previous thread about the best ways to get companies to provide full, uncensored content. Let me give my 2 cents on that.

The best way to get less censorship is to make the adult games that do come out successful. The smell of money travels very far. When iOS, Valve, etc. see the revenue they could potentially be generating, they will change their policies and open the doors to adult developers. Not only will adult games become much more widely available as distribution outlets increase (particularly now that the dreaded ESRB is increasingly becoming irrelevant), but the range of content that is considered 'acceptable' will change as well.

If you demand full uncensored games or nothing (an ironic position, since all of the Japanese content is behind pixel walls), it is very likely you will end up with nothing serious in English for at least the next decade.

>>13070515
Sort of veering into territory I can't discuss, sorry.

Regardless, we're linked to the NA/Euro banking system and we have to work within their rule set. That said, they've become considerably more flexible since launch, so expect a much greater variety of 18+ characters in our next LoV update.

>>13070482
Good point. JList has Girlish Grimoire, MangaGamer has all sorts of... interesting... content. They've beat the system, and if you find out how they do it, be sure to drop me a line.

It's possible that they're using VISA Asia, which is linked to a completely separate banking system and has a different compliance process. For a variety of technical reasons, that's not an option for us.

>>13070445
There will probably always be lag of at least a month or so between content releases in JP and its adoption on our version. Not much we can do about that - we have a lot more hoops to jump through.

>>13070415
Just NA for now, unfortunately. For those of you who can't join us, we'll run concurrent contests to at least give you a chance at scoring some of those rare characters.

Glad you asked about translation. After the somewhat mixed response to LoV dialogue, we have someone new handling that.

If you find any particularly bothersome errors, you can always mail me and we'll get it fixed.

>>13070419
Yes, for sure.

>>13070431
Those characters are all compliant and will be making it into the game without any alterations. The only one who was removed from religious reasons was Maria, and she'll be back with the next update.

>>13070382
Aside from in-game events and social media events, we'll probably get a booth at some of the upcoming Otaku conventions and give out some codes/gold/whatever there, if that's more your style.

What sort of events would you like? Always open to hearing some new ideas.

>>13070304
As many of you have noticed, we're using the (mostly) 'launch' version of Aigis. So if your favorite characters are missing, don't worry, they'll make it in. Our objective is 100% character parity for both LoV and Aigis, even if we need to tinker with the art a little. As for reimbursement, we'll figure out that hurdle when we come to it.

Yes, events are on their way.

>>13070277
We've requested the male healer to be in the upcoming update.

Our problems with Loli do not stem from personal feelings OR from the laws of the country we operate in. Changes are solely because of what type of content that major credit card companies are willing to work with.

Nutaku officially disagrees with any artistic censorship, including in gaming - but until our partners in the banking industry change their tune we have to respect their policies.

You can always send me a message at community@nutaku.net.

Hi guys - someone mentioned you might have some questions for me.

Ask me about upcoming games, plans for Aigis & LoV, characters we're adding, etc.

Keep in mind that Nutaku is the publisher, not the game dev, so specific problems with game mechanics aren't really my field of expertise.

Proof: https://twitter.com/nutakugames/status/568077629653438464

>>12964201
Water bosses will suffer less damage from fire-centric equipment and cards. Water bosses against water weapons will be neutral damage. Check out the wiki for more info: http://lord-of-valkyrie.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Boss_List

I don't have the exact percentage advantage granted by elements on hand; try the chat room. They're pretty knowledgeable people.

Also, I'm out for the day, so thanks to everyone who came by and asked questions. You can also hit up @Nutakugames on Twitter or the same on FB if you have any further problems / suggestions / whatever.

>>12964059
Also, no problem, always good to hear people's impressions on Nutaku, or adult gaming in general.

>>12964059
Ah, I've seen Trials in Tained Space, but I've never played it. I'll check it out.

Personally, I follow a couple adult/Hentai projects on Patreon and find the culture very interesting. It's great that people have managed to find a way to both create and support adult gaming projects despite the virtual content blockade.

In time, we hope to interest some of those people in creating games for Nutaku as well.

>>12963970
Hey there - events are now aimed for February, but there are some outstanding issues we need to hammer out with SmileMaker. Valkyrie card expansion will come first.

>>12963938
The word is that they will exist, as it's increasingly clear that they're important for allowing players to network and defeat bosses.

As for a date, no I don't have that.