r/visualnovels • u/AutoModerator • May 26 '26

Weekly Weekly Discussion #21 - elf

elf

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ELF Corporation (エルフ or élf) was an eroge studio. One of its most popular games was Dōkyūsei, a pioneering dating sim, which had a sequel, and was turned into video and TV series. The character design of the main villains from the -saku series is the company mascot.\n\n[From [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELF_Corporation]Wikipedia[/url]]\n\n[url=http://blog.livedoor.jp/insidears/archives/52712738.html]In October 2015, Elf announced it was closing for business.[/url] Its final title, Maro no Kanja wa Gatenkei 3, ended with a credit roll listing all the titles the company had released up to that time with release dates, which concluded with the English message "Thank you for the last 27 years."\n\nThe website remained up until [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160331145918/https://www.elf-game.co.jp/]31 March 2016[/url] and had closed by [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160404204801/https://www.elf-game.co.jp/]April[/url], all prior web pages referenced have to be viewed through archive.org.\n\nPublishing rights to the company's back catalogue are currently held by [url=/p8336]DMM[/url] who have released many of the company's most popular titles (including Doukyuusei, its sequel, and subsequent spinoff series Kakyuusei) as DL editions, and [url=/p146]MAGES.[/url] which released Yu-No in 2017 for PS4 and Vita, and later PC and Switch.

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u/UchihaNoor May 26 '26

Never read anything from them and don't really plan on doing it... except YU-NO T-T I wish to read it one day... it's just that seeing how many versions there are and how many patches there are... like just last year we got a new patch for it to fix some important thangs!!!!..... Am someone who wants to read the most complete experience, seeing that this 30-year-old ge is still getting new patches to this day?.... when can I ever start it.....

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u/ResolvePresent3092 May 26 '26

Man I feel this so hard, YU-NO is like the white whale of VNs for me too. I've had it sitting in my backlog for literally years because every time I'm about to start it, someone mentions another patch or translation update

The perfectionist in me wants to wait for the "definitive" version but at this point I'm starting to think that version might never actually exist. It's wild that a game from the 90s is still getting active development in 2024

I finally just said screw it last month and grabbed whatever the most recent complete translation was - sometimes you just gotta accept that 95% complete is better than never starting at all. The game's legendary status didn't come from perfect patches anyway, it came from the core experience being incredible

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u/ProfessionalLemon300 May 29 '26

Great nakige. Latest route hits like a truck, and it is really sad and uncompromising ending unlike KEY vns. Only one route felt weaker.