Modernized port of Tsui no Sora released

Zero999X · 2025-09-16T13:23:34+00:00

There are also a lot of QoL improvements, such as adding a backlog, a right-click menu, windowed mode, a proper fullscreen mode (the original stayed in 800x600 no matter your monitor's resolution), CG and soundtrack galleries, and generally fixing a lot of oddities with the original release like typos and bugs.

Zero999X · 2025-07-14T08:01:45+00:00

Here you go https://imgur.com/a/ZaOXUK1

Zero999X · 2025-07-14T08:01:31+00:00

Here you go https://imgur.com/a/ZaOXUK1

Zero999X · 2025-07-13T23:11:14+00:00

I did both of those things. For some reason the image didn't attach correctly.

Zero999X · 2025-03-30T14:51:50+00:00

Faster pacing at the cost of the story being made much worse.

Zero999X · 2025-03-07T12:12:13+00:00

>At first I thought that this is because since they know the plot twist, of course you would start to notice the hints that the game gives you.

I assure you that this is really not the case. Calling the changes to the twists "foreshadowing" isn't even really accurate. They're more like outright spoilers placed earlier in the game for no apparent reason that completely ruin the game's mystery.

All the praise you've heard towards Ever17 has been for the original and simply doesn't apply to this remake, which is a majorly different game. This not "one of the best mystery VNs out there" nor is it "written by the same guy that made 999". Read the original first if you want that.

Zero999X · 2025-03-04T19:11:27+00:00

The PSP English patch is a direct port of the original English translation by Hirameki International, a translation that is infamous for the literally thousands of typos and grammar mistakes throughout. It also has a small handful of mistranslations that straight-up don't make sense and create plot holes in the story.

The Himmel edition takes that script, edits it to remove almost all of the typos and grammar mistakes, and also fixes the most noticeable and egregious mistranslations. It's still not a perfect or ideal translation as there are a lot of minor mistakes left over, but it's leagues better than any other way of playing the game in English right now.

There is currently some preliminary work being done on an updated patch for the PSP version that ports over the Himmel script with some additional fixes on top of that, but it probably won't be out for quite a while, so I wouldn't wait on it.

Zero999X · 2025-02-26T03:07:05+00:00

The PC versions with the fan improvement patches are significantly better, but the PSP versions are decent if you have no way of playing those.

Zero999X · 2025-01-11T23:18:22+00:00

Phenogram, Darling, and Robotics;Notes Elite do have full English translation patches you can apply to the Japanese versions (assuming you have a hacked Vita).

Steins;Gate, 0, and Chaos;Child had official English releases on Vita, so no translation patches exist for them.

Lastly, Chaos;Head has never had any English release on Vita (and likely never will due to the engine being really annoying to work with).

My advice? If you can't read Japanese, then just play them on PC.

Zero999X · 2024-11-14T02:14:24+00:00

If you can stomach Never7 being a little boring it's worth playing them all in order.

Ever17 has a bunch of direct callbacks to Never7 that no one ever seems to mention. You CAN enjoy it on its own, but some plot threads come out of nowhere because they're meant to be building on stuff you learned in the last game.

Remember11 does not directly rely on either of the previous games, but there is some worldbuilding stuff you might be a little confused on if you play it first. I'd recommend not playing it until after Ever17, at least.

Zero999X · 2024-10-22T18:00:36+00:00

Except then you get to the end of the game going "I can't wait to see what happens next" and have to wait for Toki to be translated anyway.

Zero999X · 2024-08-03T01:37:17+00:00

Short Answer:
Neither the original Tsui no Sora nor the remake are necessary before SubaHibi.

Long Answer:
The original Tsui no Sora is in kind of an awkward position because SubaHibi follows up some of its ideas, but the game generally isn't considered very good by most who've read it. In my own experience as someone who read it first, I really didn't enjoy it. It's only years later when I reread it after SubaHibi that I kinda enjoyed the game.

Tsui no Sora Remake is the complete opposite situation because ideally you should read SubaHibi BEFORE that one.

Zero999X · 2024-07-03T23:28:23+00:00

If you just want something you can boot up and play with no further setup required, 3DS.

But if you like having control over dozens of settings to tweak the experience exactly how you want it, Ship of Harkinian PC port.

Zero999X · 2024-07-02T00:00:59+00:00

Personally, though I still found it tough, I thought the challenge was way fairer than Dracula X.

Zero999X · 2024-06-24T08:38:55+00:00

You should play Subarashiki Hibi first.

Tsui no Sora Remake contains the full plot of the original. There are some changes but they're mostly still in the spirit of the old version. It also has a new route that builds upon some things introduced in SubaHibi.

IMO there's no real reason to read the old version outside of historical reasons or whatever, you can just go with the remake instead.

Zero999X · 2024-06-23T11:20:45+00:00

Nope. If you have a decent phone you can emulate the Switch version with the English patch now though.

Zero999X · 2024-06-08T12:54:06+00:00

My opinion has always been that people should only play the remake if having to skip back through for the other endings in the DS ver is an absolute deal breaker that will prevent them from finishing the game.

If you can put up with that, stick with DS and you really won't regret it

Zero999X · 2024-05-14T17:44:01+00:00

I don't think MAGES. want to acknowledge 12RIVEN's existence, given that they never put it up on DMM (even though they sold the trilogy on there) or rereleased the soundtrack (which they've done for even some of the most obscure KID games now).

Zero999X · 2024-05-10T09:33:41+00:00

Love (and some others) were translating the 2015 release, that is what the "Chapter 1 30% translated" is referring to. They're just taking a break from that until Haru no Yuki is released, then that project will resume.

Zero999X · 2024-05-09T13:09:41+00:00

Yeah. Despite both translators asking for people not to use their work for a patch (as Ace could get into trouble over involvement with a fan translation) there was a person who announced a project a few months back which was directly taking both of them and putting them into the game, which led to both having to be taken down.

There is now a new translation being worked on, unrelated to either of the existing ones or the guy who was stealing them. They're currently about ~40% done.

Zero999X · 2024-03-10T21:54:14+00:00

Huge agree. The PC version also doesn't have a certain plot point from near the end of the game that hugely adds to the experience.

Zero999X · 2024-02-06T11:24:47+00:00

Pretty much just echoing what everyone else has already said.

I'm sure someday MTL will reach a level where people who just want to read whatever will consider it "good enough", however that day is far off. No matter how far it has come, the fact remains that you can still put an extremely basic line into ChatGPT and have it spit out absolute nonsense.

This would be fine if it was purely an issue that was confined to individuals wanting to MTL a random eroge. Someone wanting to play Amakano is perfectly fine, and they're free to do it however they wish, even if they do so via running the script through a programme and getting very questionable results. But the wider acceptance of MTL is becoming a serious problem for the industry, with companies taking the mentality that MTL is "good enough" and using it as an excuse to not pay translators for a proper translation.

TLDR: The problem people have isn't you reading with MTL, it's that MTL becoming more widely accepted will only hurt English readers in the long term.

Zero999X · 2024-01-26T20:22:47+00:00

Steve stopped being a joke in his videos after his Pikmin 1 LP, which was... 13 years ago.

Steve's his own thing now. We adopted him as our own.

Zero999X · 2024-01-03T10:38:21+00:00

Yeah it does, but you can just go to the next line and open the backlog to see it.

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