#doujin game

[arimiadev]

(flashing lights)

got a real gem in the mail today - Fatal Zero Action, a 3D hack-n-slash rogue lite Fate doujin game released by Light's in 2012. you can play as Saber, Kiritsugu, or Rider from Fate Zero

the difficulty ramps up a lot but every time you die you get skill points that can be used to permanently unlock certain things (like increasing your health, increasing the skill slots you have, etc)

[mugenfinder]

Someone uploaded the final patches for the Mai-Hime fanmade fighting game.

There's an upload of the game itself on Internet Archive.

It's not a perfect upload since it's missing some of the files for the manual, but the movelist is there. To patch it to 1.02, you just drop the files in the folder.

[sakuraghosttown]

Mayushoot / まゆしゅ～

2002/08/11 by Harukaze はるかぜ

A horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up game, the player must avoid opponent's bullets and shoot back at to progress through the stages and beat each boss, and get the highest score possible. Each enemy drop bonuses when hit and the player can chose to throw the companion to hit groups of enemies.

The game follows a story that plays through 6 levels, featuring bosses and mid-bosses, there are 7 playable characters (some of them lockable) all comes with their different magic and bullet patterns.

Featured Characters:

『Personal Review 〜 One of the best UKGK fangames. The music is good, the graphics are correct with cute pixelated sprites and portraits of each character who are all voiced. The lockable characters makes the game somewhat replayable, new enemies are introduced with as the player progresses through the game and all the bosses have different attacks and mechanics, making each level unique and offering a bit of a challenge. The animated intro and song is the cherry on top.』

Game Sample ☆ Original Soundtrack ☆ DownLoad

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Art from a small visual novel called Unicorn Contract, by artist 弘司.

[bluegad]

chill lowkey sai who dun gaf about anything

[arimiaromage]

looking for lost media - Secret Garden

thought I'd make a formal post - I'm looking for a doujin d.gray-man fangame that was made in Japanese by the doujin circle moonlight cafe. the circle no longer has any online presence and the game is lost media.

things we know about the game:

was made by the doujin (i.e. indie) circle moonlight cafe, who produced at least 2 other d.gray-man fangames before this one (Strange house, which I own and will release soon, and Infinite Melody, which is also lost media aside from the guide book)

originally released December 29th 2011

LaviYuu sound novel / visual novel (sound novel is an older term that visual novels are sometimes called in Japan)

completely in Japanese

received a physical release

moonlight cafe was ran by a user named rindou as per the Infinite Melody guidebook

the old moonlight cafe was this site when they were making Strange house, but this site somewhat still works

most of this info comes from the only source of info I have found for this game, which is a suruga-ya store listing. I've yet to see the game pop up anywhere else.

we also have this fuller image of the key visual which was uploaded to photobucket some years ago with no helpful description.

I would love to find a physical copy of this for sale on any Japanese secondhand sites but haven't yet. I have yet to search on torrent sites or the like, so if you know of any JP places where someone may have uploaded the original game, please let me know. this game and basically everything about the circle is lost media so I'd like to preserve this bit of history.

[kon-kon-kon-kon]

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[nearlymello]

Second Bound Prince research essay.

"Why is there a second one", "why did you make two seprate ones that are completely diff levels of quality" I got bored. I like to research a 2005 - 2012 doujin flash game, so two were made when I found new imformation.

I started my research at 4am on the 10/01/25 and I am still researching into 12/01/25 due to me enjoying the peak mystery that comes from researching this type of thing. I didn't like to play the game due to some of the topics but I like the people who were dedicated in making and translating it as it's a great bit of fandom culture that really shows you what these spaces were like if you weren't active.

Also It gave me a reason to look into livejournal again. I am thinking of doing something with fanlore as this would be liked on there but I need to learn how to use it, and what it's like.

So, enjoy the 3,317 words and the imformation that took hours to get and than write into such a google doc. Enjoy!! If theres a tag I should add or remove, just tell me and I will.

[moedaily]

Yet Another XX With Nanika by F-Team

I actually don't remember downloading this game, lol.

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[kakikudoku]

[arimiadev]

browsing doujin game listings is always so interesting, like what is this collection of azumanga daioh minigames. someone made this and then got it printed on physical DVDs

[mugenfinder]

I just think he's really cool.

[sakuraghosttown]

From UnyuUnyuu

[raym-reimu]

[bluegad]

kanae!

[arimiaromage]

Strange house - DGM doujin fangame scenario C

I finally reached the next route in Strange house, a doujin LaviYuu d.gray-man fangame made by MOONLIGHT CAFE released in Japanese in 2010. I'm actually playing these out of order accidentally - this is only my 2nd route I've played, but in the guidebook it's listed as scenario C, which can be translated as "Love Affair Trap: A Suspicious Bracelet"

scenario a - Dolly

to briefly summarize Strange house, you play as Lavi while he, Kanda, and Toma are out on a mission. while returning back to the Order, you have the option of making various choices to either take detours, explore new missions, and more. depending on the first 2 choices you make determines which scenario (or "route") you go down, with each focused on Lavi x Kanda.

to get scenario C, you have to choose to hurry back to town after finishing the mission and then contact the Order to see if there's any missions you can do while you're still out. the Order explains a rumor nearby your location of a man who's immortal. so, the three of them (Lavi, Kanda, and Toma) all head to the mansion.

once they get there, the supposedly elderly man who greets them... is a young man! he fully acknowledges and admits to being seemingly immortal, claiming he's lived 80 years so far.

the man, named Hewlett (side note: I had no damn clue what his name was supposed to be and had to get TL help), claims that the secret to his longevity is the bracelet around his arm. clearly, it's innocence. Lavi and Kanda immediately want to know more and want to figure out how to get the bracelet from him.

but, before that, Hewlett has... a bit of a moment when he sees Kanda. he's taken away by his beauty, but doesn't say much at the moment. the 4 of them step away into a sitting room to continue their discussion.

there, the man explains that he can't simply give the bracelet away as he can't take off the bracelet. no matter what, the bracelet will not leave his arm, even after the boys try removing it with his permission. but, there is one more possibility.

the bracelet is a family heirloom and according to a journal his ancestors made, the only way to remove the bracelet is by two people sharing vows to love one another and both putting on a pair of bracelets (Hewlett's is just one in a pair). Lavi and Kanda both have a bad feeling about this, and for good reason.

Hewlett asks Kanda to marry him.

both immediately object, but Hewlett assures them it's the only way. he goes on to say it can just be a formality and not a binding agreement, but that they would have to have a "wedding" regardless.

Lavi has the option to object or to tell Kanda to go through with it. if Lavi objects, Kanda objects with him, but Hewlett talks them both down and the boys walk off to talk things over. if Lavi accepts for Kanda, Kanda gets angry and the boys walk off to talk things over. either way, Lavi realizes the quickest (and non-lethal) way out of this is for Kanda to go along with Hewlett's plan.

as the two walk away, Kanda expresses his anger and just wants to go back to the Order and eat soba. truly, the power of soba...

Lavi knows he needs to convince Kanda to actually go through with it, so you have the choice of him starting to cry and beg him (he doesn't want Kanda to get married off!) or trying to go the rational route.

Kanda, after some coaxing, agrees.

the two go back and tell Hewlett that they agree to his terms. despite it being a "fake" wedding, Hewlett is overly eager to marry Kanda, regardless of his gender.

Hewlett gives them guests rooms in his mansion for them to stay at, with the wedding planned for the next day. however, Lavi can't go to sleep (and he certainly can't stay still) so he decides to explore the manor.

Lavi has the choice to go see Kanda or explore the manor on his own. for some reason, you have to be kind of cold to Kanda in this scenario to get the true ending - rather than go see him and provide comfort, you leave him on his own and go explore on your own.

however, if you do go see Kanda, you get a side scene of the two bonding as well as exploring the manor together. in one of Hewlett's studies, they find a picture of a woman who looks oddly just like Kanda. they realize it was an unrequited love and this is Hewlett's way of getting closure on a lost love.

...but, if Lavi explores the manor alone, you get a much, much different outlook on Hewlett.

Lavi ends up in a dark room, only to realize he's surrounded. not by humans, but mannequins. unless...?

I was already kind of eh about the premise, but this is where the scenario really started to lose me. in the room is a whole slew of "mannequins", humans that are dead but have become a dummy-like state, and all of them somewhat resemble Kanda. and for some reason they're all arranged in here like they're in a ballroom.

with some digging, Lavi manages to find a journal documenting the bracelet. it verifies that the bracelet can only be taken off when a pair of partners both wear the bracelets, but it also goes on to say it's a curse and can inflict harm on the other person if the true's love vow, well, isn't true.

so, Hewlett is a "serial killer", as described by Lavi. I mean, I guess? I'm still unsure what the point of the "mannequin" room is, but let's continue. there's a bad end here if you stay too long and keep reading where Hewlett sneaks up on Lavi, knocks him out, and sets him aside to kill later but Kanda realizes something is wrong the next day and saves Lavi, running off to the Order and Hewlett going missing. all of this is told to us afterwards.

however, if you do read up but not stay too long, Lavi is resolved to put a stop to this in the morning. he goes to bed.

the next morning is the wedding. fake or not, Kanda is given a wedding dress to wear for it.

and for mugen too. sure.

Kanda obviously isn't too happy to be in a dress and just wants the thing over with.

depending on prior choices, Hewlett's fate is sealed at this wedding.

if you explored the mansion with Kanda the prior night and found out about his unrequited love (but not him being a serial killer), then Kanda puts on the bracelet without much of a fuss (as neither know about the bracelet's curse). as soon as he puts on the bracelet, the bracelet comes off of Hewlett's wrist. all of a sudden, the innocence's effects fade away and Hewlett reverts to his elderly self, writhing in pain. Lavi and Kanda can only stand there and watch in horror.

Hewlett dies from the transformation, leaving Lavi and Kanda in a state of shock. they leave the mansion not long after in a bad end where Kanda still has the bracelet and Lavi is too shaken up to try putting it on himself.

the only way to get the true ending is to explore the mansion alone. when it comes time for the ceremony to actually take place, Lavi yells out that Kanda might die if he wears the bracelet, explaining what he read the prior night. Kanda immediately backs off, kicking back at Hewlett to try and protect himself.

however, Hewlett manages to get the bracelet on Kanda. in a similar scene as before, Hewlett's own bracelet falls off and he begins to age rapidly. Lavi understands more of what's happening this time, and even though he knows Hewlett is a murderer, he still doesn't want him to die such a horrible death.

if Lavi doesn't urge Kanda to go through with the wedding and doesn't cry & beg (both earlier choices), then Hewlett dies similar as before. Kanda digs a shallow grave for him in the back of the house but doesn't permit Lavi to try on the bracelet. the three (remember Toma?) head back to the Order, hoping Hevlaska can help take the bracelet off of Kanda.

on the true ending, Lavi jumps to action and pushes the bracelet back onto Hewlett which...somehow stops him from dying from the rapid aging and leaving him as an old man. but also the bracelet comes off?

so now Hewlett is alive (but unconscious) and Kanda still has the bracelet on. however, Kanda is still in a wedding dress and Lavi isn't going to let that go to waste. Kanda thinks similarly, asking Toma to go get ready to leave. Lavi picks up the bracelet, puts it on himself, and kisses Kanda. both bracelets fall to the ground.

the two contact the police and give Hewlett over to them, leaving the manor with the bracelets in tow. and that's the end of scenario c!

this scenario was shorter than scenario a, dolly, and definitely felt all over the place. scenario a had a much clearer premise and plot beats, feeling more like a filler episode from the anime. scenario c (this one) feels like they wanted to put Kanda in a dress and tried to construct a plot around that.

the rules around the bracelet felt convoluted (why did it save the guy at the end of the true route? why did it turn all of the other victims into essentially mannequins?) and the "villain" felt slapped together (why was he a serial killer??? they try to explain it as he's still not over his unrequited love, but why keep the corpses of the victims?) with no real conclusion or backstory given. it wasn't terrible, but certainly didn't feel as well put together as the first scenario.

there's still 2 more scenarios in this game that I'll be playing through and documenting here.

scenario A - Dolly

guidebook scans