I remember playing this game when it has only one volume and seeing that a second volume came to life was such a nice surprise haha The first one was nice, the cliché was making me laugh so much but yeah just a really normal yandere kinda story imo. Just though it was hilarious how they kept screaming at each other and our character was just standing there or playing dumb (until after you choose a side).
But the second vol got me SO interested ! i think it was so much better xD i can tell this was made 2 years after haha The art did a glow up as well ! the character's personality are also more interesting i feel, even the main character was funny (like "YEAH this is exactly what i would have think in this moment, that person is such a weirdo" LOL). I also like the storyline better (maybe because im too old now to enjoy highschool setting TT).
I love how one of them isnt playing the innocent part while the other is. I tried playing it as if i was really living it and choosing the character side based on what i would have really done with only the info our character had and to be honest i think we would have all fall into Takaaki's trap LOL he was acting all sweet and worried and switch to complete psycho after the choice LMFAO
Sakae was fun to play as well but since i got spoiled a bit from Takaaki's story i wasnt as shocked. maybe only the end part wasnt expected haha. His splash art tho (im a sucker for glasses guy so i was all for Takaaki but Sakae's art just grew on me, he looked way too good TT)
i have to give a shout out to the voice acting as well. its amazing (the bloopers are hilarious)
Anyway it was really fun thank you for this!
im rating it a 4/5 (only because the first vol i kinda wish the character we were playing had more normal reaction but tbh the second vol was a 5/5 in itself haha)
I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE CDs! Thank you for the game! I enjoyed vol2 very much (especially Takaaki's route hehe). I wish there was a game in which you had a bit more options and stuff, since I got pretty attached to the characters. Maybe you could make another game? hehe(I know this is just a translation; 5/5 btw) :D
They are preeeetty old to be fair x3 One of my very first introductions to what a yandere character is, haha.
Glad to hear you enjoyed vol 02! I much prefer it to the first CD cos school settings aren't really my cup of tea when it comes to stories >.< I had a terrible time at school, so I don't really wanna be transported back there, haha. Takaaki FTW :D
Weeeell, I don't think I'll ever make another game about these specific characters that has more choices in just cos I'm not really a fan of writing fan-fiction style stuff because it feels like I would be kind of doing a disservice to the original writers/creators cos I don't feel like I can do their characters justice x3 BUUUUT...
I do really enjoy writing stories with my own original characters, and I've released a number of games with my own stories and characters that have a lot more choices and endings for players if any of those interest you :3
And almost all of them have yandere characters in to romance :D
The ones that don't feature romance tend to still feature yandere characters xD It's just they are either friends, platonic relationships, or villains x3
Anyways, thanks so much for checking out this project, and I'm so glad you had fun ^-^
I was kinda thinking about this, I love how comparatively one of the LI is wayyyy more outwardly concerning than the other. Sakae is creepy and if you didn't know Takaaki was a yandere it would come as a shock later. Same with Kakeru and Atsushi. Kakeru is so outwordly concerningly clingy and by comparison Atsushi is a reasonably concerned friend who takes such a sudden turn.
That's a really good observation there! Now I'm trying to think if every single pair on each of the CDs was like that too x3 If so, I wonder why they chose to write the characters that way...
I kinda like it cos it's a bit like there's a hero and a villain for each scenario, but if you pick the 'hero', you wind up with a slap to the face saying, ahah!! They were both sneaky lil fuckers after all!!! x3
The link is to a different project of mine, but I put the same link on all my game pages cos, unfortunately, it seems like opening on Mac is a pain in the butt :( haha.
I don't own a Mac myself, so can't test anything >.< The guide is made up of info from folks with Macs who managed to get stuff working x3
The most common solution appears to be to always download itch games through the itch launcher and launch through that.
I think it's like a Mac security issue thing. The system tries to protect against unsigned software, but most indie games aren't signed or something. It's all too confusing for me to understand, haha.
No worries! That sucks though that nothing worked :( From the feedback I've had in the past, it seemed like most people said the method of downloading stuff and launching it through itch.io's own launcher seemed to do the trick if nothing else did.
I hope you at least have better luck with the Windows version! Sorry I wasn't able to be of more help :( Really appreciate your interest in the game though :3
The link is to a different project of mine, but I put the same link on all my game pages cos, unfortunately, it seems like opening on Mac is a pain in the butt :( haha.
I don't own a Mac myself, so can't test anything >.< The guide is made up of info from folks with Macs who managed to get stuff working x3
The most common solution appears to be to always download itch games through the itch launcher and launch through that.
I think it's like a Mac security issue thing. The system tries to protect against unsigned software, but most indie games aren't signed or something. It's all too confusing for me to understand, haha.
I would honestly love to, but so far, I haven't been able to get any of my games on Steam for a few reasons >.<
The first is that Steam requires the dev to pay a fee of $100 per game that they want to have there, which is pretty steep when releasing games for free + I'm unemployed, so not ideal :(
And secondly, from the technical side of things, even if I had the money for all the Steam fees, I think you have to ensure the game meets certain technical specifications which I'm unsure I could succeed in.
Maybe if I followed a tutorial I would be okay, but programming isn't something I'm good at >.< I'm almost certain I would need some help with understanding everything that's required because, at the end of the day, I'm just 100% self-taught when it comes to all my game dev pursuits, haha.
So as much as I would love to have all of my stuff on Steam, it's just not really possible right now, sadly. Sorry about that :(
I love that game so much! Thank you for translating it sso we could play it's as novel. i hope you will finish it in future. Again thank you for your great work!
It's a fun lil side project to work on, and I certainly hope to localise more of the scenarios sometime in the future, but there might be one or two that I have to skip cos the content gets a bit dodgy in a couple of the original CDs from what I remember, haha.
Or if not dodgy, it might've been that there were certain fetishes involved that give me the ick or something like that, so I don't know if I'd have the willpower to localise them >.< I will try my best though!
This game is so good honestly , the voice acting was super too :3 my personal favorite was saeka , but I rlly like this game and I hope you'll come out with more chapters soon!!
But noooooo, Saeka is such a mean b*tch!!! x3 I would pick Tomomi any day, but I guess part of the fun is picking a side, and everyone will have a different opinion on which LI should win, hehe.
Being completely honest, I probably won't be working on the next scenario for this any time soon, but I definitely plan to localise more at some point! :3
amazing game, ive been searching for the bgm online for about 2 hours now and havent found anything, ive even gone as far as to scrounge around in looperman in hopes of finding the looped version of the bgm, but alas, to no avail. great game, a diamond in the ruff, showed it to some friends and they agreed
Thanks so much for playing, and I'm so glad you had fun with it :3
I'm so sorry it's taken me this long to respond >.< I've been going through a rough patch recently and haven't been online much as a result. To answer your question though, unfortunately, the music from this particular project isn't uploaded anywhere.
For a while now, I've been making full original soundtracks for most of my projects, but because this one is different in that it's a fandub rather than my own original story/s, I was a little lazy and decided not to bother making most tracks for it >.<
I also kinda struggle in general with making music that is more lighthearted/casual/comedic in tone, and since I own a whole bunch of music assets purchased from various places, I figured I might as well put some of those to good use since they're well-suited to the project :3
The problem there is that anything which originates from a BGM asset pack can't be uploaded by me outside of the game because the terms of use state that the tracks can only be used within a project. That applies to like 99% of the tracks in Yandere Heaven.
There are the odd few that I clumsily put together using some samples from Looperman, but yeah, you'd struggle to find the samples just by searching the Looperman site cos I think most of em were pretty old. I also used some in combination, so even if you found one of the loops I used from there, it still wouldn't sound exactly the same as the final track/s in the game due to the edits I made >.<
If there's a particular track that you're after, I can attempt to point you in the direction of the place I purchased it from :3 Or if it's one of the lil jingles I made for endings using Looperman samples, I can probably just send that over to you if you want!
I just wouldn't be comfortable uploading the ending jingles anywhere as individual tracks simply because it feels wrong to claim to have created X track myself when all I've done for it is combine a couple of samples that other people made without a whole lot of editing on my end x3
Anyways, sorry for the super long explanation there >.< I'm really glad you enjoyed what there is of the game so far ^-^
I absolutely love how campy and silly this is. The aesthetic and music choice are just perfect! This brought me all the way back to my wattpad days- I had forgotten how much fun it is to just enjoy goofy stories for what they are.
There were only like two entire scenes where I didn't want to reach through the screen and slap Sakae. And I absolutely died laughing at the end when Takaaki, after presumably having the mc around him for the bulk of his working hours so far, does a 180 and decides "you know what would be a great idea? seeing my favorite person for a grand total of 30-45 minutes a day between food, sleep and my twelve hour shifts :D". (Nothing against Takaaki, I adore him and he lives rent free in my head.)
Sorry for the rambly comment, I just wanted to say thank you for creating this fandub, I really enjoyed plaything through your game!
Honestly, I'm so glad that you can appreciate it for the campy and goofy silliness that it is xD Because I get so much negative feedback from folks who have taken it all a bit too seriously >.< haha. It's such a relief when someone actually gets it!
Oh, boy, the wattpad days x3 Now there's something I haven't thought about in a looooong time! I never got around to writing all that much there, but I do remember reading the odd piece here and there when the mood struck :D
To be fair, Sakae is extremely slappable and I will make no effort to pretend otherwise x3 Takaaki will always be the winner of that particular scenario in my eyes, haha.
Absolutely no need to apologise for rambling anyhow! I can't help but ramble myself when I start typing stuff, haha. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to actually reply! I've been out of action lately while going through a bad patch, but I did read your comment around the time you posted it, and it put a big ol' smile on my face, so thank YOU for taking the time to write up what you did :3
And also, just thank you in general for checking out my attempt at bringing such a silly series to life in a different format, haha.
It's a good job I wasn't the one who wrote the story then xD It was written by a team of Japanese people many years ago, haha.
I just got a friend to help me translate it, then I turned her rough translation into more fluent English x3 Then added the art, VA, and music/SFX, did all the coding, and voila, an old Japanese CD is now an English game :D
I would have to agree that the story is meh actually, haha. But they were fun lil CDs to listen to when I first discovered yandere content years ago cos there wasn't much else around back then tbh!
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I remember playing this game when it has only one volume and seeing that a second volume came to life was such a nice surprise haha The first one was nice, the cliché was making me laugh so much but yeah just a really normal yandere kinda story imo. Just though it was hilarious how they kept screaming at each other and our character was just standing there or playing dumb (until after you choose a side).
But the second vol got me SO interested ! i think it was so much better xD i can tell this was made 2 years after haha The art did a glow up as well ! the character's personality are also more interesting i feel, even the main character was funny (like "YEAH this is exactly what i would have think in this moment, that person is such a weirdo" LOL). I also like the storyline better (maybe because im too old now to enjoy highschool setting TT).
I love how one of them isnt playing the innocent part while the other is. I tried playing it as if i was really living it and choosing the character side based on what i would have really done with only the info our character had and to be honest i think we would have all fall into Takaaki's trap LOL he was acting all sweet and worried and switch to complete psycho after the choice LMFAO
Sakae was fun to play as well but since i got spoiled a bit from Takaaki's story i wasnt as shocked. maybe only the end part wasnt expected haha. His splash art tho (im a sucker for glasses guy so i was all for Takaaki but Sakae's art just grew on me, he looked way too good TT)
i have to give a shout out to the voice acting as well. its amazing (the bloopers are hilarious)
Anyway it was really fun thank you for this!
im rating it a 4/5 (only because the first vol i kinda wish the character we were playing had more normal reaction but tbh the second vol was a 5/5 in itself haha)
I NEVER KNEW ABOUT THESE CDs! Thank you for the game! I enjoyed vol2 very much (especially Takaaki's route hehe). I wish there was a game in which you had a bit more options and stuff, since I got pretty attached to the characters. Maybe you could make another game? hehe(I know this is just a translation; 5/5 btw) :D
They are preeeetty old to be fair x3 One of my very first introductions to what a yandere character is, haha.
Glad to hear you enjoyed vol 02! I much prefer it to the first CD cos school settings aren't really my cup of tea when it comes to stories >.< I had a terrible time at school, so I don't really wanna be transported back there, haha. Takaaki FTW :D
Weeeell, I don't think I'll ever make another game about these specific characters that has more choices in just cos I'm not really a fan of writing fan-fiction style stuff because it feels like I would be kind of doing a disservice to the original writers/creators cos I don't feel like I can do their characters justice x3 BUUUUT...
I do really enjoy writing stories with my own original characters, and I've released a number of games with my own stories and characters that have a lot more choices and endings for players if any of those interest you :3
You can find all of them on my main page here on itch: https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/
And almost all of them have yandere characters in to romance :D
The ones that don't feature romance tend to still feature yandere characters xD It's just they are either friends, platonic relationships, or villains x3
Anyways, thanks so much for checking out this project, and I'm so glad you had fun ^-^
Tysm for replying, you're very sweet :( wishing you the absolute best!! I'll check out your other games 100% :D
I was kinda thinking about this, I love how comparatively one of the LI is wayyyy more outwardly concerning than the other. Sakae is creepy and if you didn't know Takaaki was a yandere it would come as a shock later. Same with Kakeru and Atsushi. Kakeru is so outwordly concerningly clingy and by comparison Atsushi is a reasonably concerned friend who takes such a sudden turn.
That's a really good observation there! Now I'm trying to think if every single pair on each of the CDs was like that too x3 If so, I wonder why they chose to write the characters that way...
I kinda like it cos it's a bit like there's a hero and a villain for each scenario, but if you pick the 'hero', you wind up with a slap to the face saying, ahah!! They were both sneaky lil fuckers after all!!! x3
I'm trying to open it, but it won't let me :( Im using a mac btw
me too TvT
Sorry to copy/paste from the other reply, but I don't know if me replying to the original comment would send you a notification or not x3
Have you tried anything from this post yet?
https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/darling-duality-winter-wish/devlog/227880/...
The link is to a different project of mine, but I put the same link on all my game pages cos, unfortunately, it seems like opening on Mac is a pain in the butt :( haha.
I don't own a Mac myself, so can't test anything >.< The guide is made up of info from folks with Macs who managed to get stuff working x3
The most common solution appears to be to always download itch games through the itch launcher and launch through that.
I think it's like a Mac security issue thing. The system tries to protect against unsigned software, but most indie games aren't signed or something. It's all too confusing for me to understand, haha.
I hope something from the list helps at least :3
Thank you!
I've tried several methods......and none of them worked. QAQ I'll try the windows version.
No worries! That sucks though that nothing worked :( From the feedback I've had in the past, it seemed like most people said the method of downloading stuff and launching it through itch.io's own launcher seemed to do the trick if nothing else did.
I hope you at least have better luck with the Windows version! Sorry I wasn't able to be of more help :( Really appreciate your interest in the game though :3
The game is amazing！
Have you tried anything from this post yet?
https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/darling-duality-winter-wish/devlog/227880/...
The link is to a different project of mine, but I put the same link on all my game pages cos, unfortunately, it seems like opening on Mac is a pain in the butt :( haha.
I don't own a Mac myself, so can't test anything >.< The guide is made up of info from folks with Macs who managed to get stuff working x3
The most common solution appears to be to always download itch games through the itch launcher and launch through that.
I think it's like a Mac security issue thing. The system tries to protect against unsigned software, but most indie games aren't signed or something. It's all too confusing for me to understand, haha.
I hope something from the list helps at least :3
Could you make this a demo on Steam, please?
I would honestly love to, but so far, I haven't been able to get any of my games on Steam for a few reasons >.<
The first is that Steam requires the dev to pay a fee of $100 per game that they want to have there, which is pretty steep when releasing games for free + I'm unemployed, so not ideal :(
And secondly, from the technical side of things, even if I had the money for all the Steam fees, I think you have to ensure the game meets certain technical specifications which I'm unsure I could succeed in.
Maybe if I followed a tutorial I would be okay, but programming isn't something I'm good at >.< I'm almost certain I would need some help with understanding everything that's required because, at the end of the day, I'm just 100% self-taught when it comes to all my game dev pursuits, haha.
So as much as I would love to have all of my stuff on Steam, it's just not really possible right now, sadly. Sorry about that :(
Gosh! I didn't know about any of this! Thank you so much for answering! ❤️❤️❤️
All the best to you! ❤️
I love that game so much! Thank you for translating it sso we could play it's as novel. i hope you will finish it in future. Again thank you for your great work!
Thank YOU for playing :3
It's a fun lil side project to work on, and I certainly hope to localise more of the scenarios sometime in the future, but there might be one or two that I have to skip cos the content gets a bit dodgy in a couple of the original CDs from what I remember, haha.
Or if not dodgy, it might've been that there were certain fetishes involved that give me the ick or something like that, so I don't know if I'd have the willpower to localise them >.< I will try my best though!
Woo!! One more for team Takaaki :D I'd pick him every time over Sakae x3
Thanks so much for playing <3
This game is so good honestly , the voice acting was super too :3 my personal favorite was saeka , but I rlly like this game and I hope you'll come out with more chapters soon!!
I'm so glad you had fun with this one too :D
But noooooo, Saeka is such a mean b*tch!!! x3 I would pick Tomomi any day, but I guess part of the fun is picking a side, and everyone will have a different opinion on which LI should win, hehe.
Being completely honest, I probably won't be working on the next scenario for this any time soon, but I definitely plan to localise more at some point! :3
amazing game, ive been searching for the bgm online for about 2 hours now and havent found anything, ive even gone as far as to scrounge around in looperman in hopes of finding the looped version of the bgm, but alas, to no avail. great game, a diamond in the ruff, showed it to some friends and they agreed
Thanks so much for playing, and I'm so glad you had fun with it :3
I'm so sorry it's taken me this long to respond >.< I've been going through a rough patch recently and haven't been online much as a result. To answer your question though, unfortunately, the music from this particular project isn't uploaded anywhere.
For a while now, I've been making full original soundtracks for most of my projects, but because this one is different in that it's a fandub rather than my own original story/s, I was a little lazy and decided not to bother making most tracks for it >.<
I also kinda struggle in general with making music that is more lighthearted/casual/comedic in tone, and since I own a whole bunch of music assets purchased from various places, I figured I might as well put some of those to good use since they're well-suited to the project :3
The problem there is that anything which originates from a BGM asset pack can't be uploaded by me outside of the game because the terms of use state that the tracks can only be used within a project. That applies to like 99% of the tracks in Yandere Heaven.
There are the odd few that I clumsily put together using some samples from Looperman, but yeah, you'd struggle to find the samples just by searching the Looperman site cos I think most of em were pretty old. I also used some in combination, so even if you found one of the loops I used from there, it still wouldn't sound exactly the same as the final track/s in the game due to the edits I made >.<
If there's a particular track that you're after, I can attempt to point you in the direction of the place I purchased it from :3 Or if it's one of the lil jingles I made for endings using Looperman samples, I can probably just send that over to you if you want!
I just wouldn't be comfortable uploading the ending jingles anywhere as individual tracks simply because it feels wrong to claim to have created X track myself when all I've done for it is combine a couple of samples that other people made without a whole lot of editing on my end x3
Anyways, sorry for the super long explanation there >.< I'm really glad you enjoyed what there is of the game so far ^-^
I learned to play the track by ear on piano(it was a piano solo) and managed off that though so it's fine. Thanks for replying!
I absolutely love how campy and silly this is. The aesthetic and music choice are just perfect! This brought me all the way back to my wattpad days- I had forgotten how much fun it is to just enjoy goofy stories for what they are.
There were only like two entire scenes where I didn't want to reach through the screen and slap Sakae. And I absolutely died laughing at the end when Takaaki, after presumably having the mc around him for the bulk of his working hours so far, does a 180 and decides "you know what would be a great idea? seeing my favorite person for a grand total of 30-45 minutes a day between food, sleep and my twelve hour shifts :D". (Nothing against Takaaki, I adore him and he lives rent free in my head.)
Sorry for the rambly comment, I just wanted to say thank you for creating this fandub, I really enjoyed plaything through your game!
Honestly, I'm so glad that you can appreciate it for the campy and goofy silliness that it is xD Because I get so much negative feedback from folks who have taken it all a bit too seriously >.< haha. It's such a relief when someone actually gets it!
Oh, boy, the wattpad days x3 Now there's something I haven't thought about in a looooong time! I never got around to writing all that much there, but I do remember reading the odd piece here and there when the mood struck :D
To be fair, Sakae is extremely slappable and I will make no effort to pretend otherwise x3 Takaaki will always be the winner of that particular scenario in my eyes, haha.
Absolutely no need to apologise for rambling anyhow! I can't help but ramble myself when I start typing stuff, haha. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to actually reply! I've been out of action lately while going through a bad patch, but I did read your comment around the time you posted it, and it put a big ol' smile on my face, so thank YOU for taking the time to write up what you did :3
And also, just thank you in general for checking out my attempt at bringing such a silly series to life in a different format, haha.
art and voice acting is good
story is meh tbh
It's a good job I wasn't the one who wrote the story then xD It was written by a team of Japanese people many years ago, haha.
I just got a friend to help me translate it, then I turned her rough translation into more fluent English x3 Then added the art, VA, and music/SFX, did all the coding, and voila, an old Japanese CD is now an English game :D
I would have to agree that the story is meh actually, haha. But they were fun lil CDs to listen to when I first discovered yandere content years ago cos there wasn't much else around back then tbh!