Well, I just polished off the last file in Tsubaki’s path and sent it to the editor, so the next patch of the game should be out in a few weeks (the translation’s not completely done, there are still unfinished files from before her path). Like always, check Aegis for updates.
Since it’s going to be released so soon, I think that I should take a break from translating and give you guys a (pretty much spoiler free) post about Tsubaki, AKA the really good person who is completely naive and radiates a motherly presence.
The main conflict in her path is about her family, and a big company’s decision to buy all the land in the area that they live in in order to develop it into waterparks and hotels. It shouldn’t have been a problem, except her father was exteremly stubborn and refused to sell his house and his apple farm, which he has always used to susutain his large (and I mean LARGE) family. Seperately, Kyousuke and “Maou”, through contacts at work (not with each other) has been asked to force them to move out, and the things that they do is the driving force behind the story.
“Maou” decided to kiddnap one of the family’s young sons to get his way, which leads to an exteremely exciting piece of writing involving how the ransom was to be delievered (translated my me, mua haha). And Tsubaki, being the responsible and family loving person that she is, tries her hardest to deliever the ransom.
However, what irks me about her is the face that she’s completely naive. She knows that everyone always calls her a good person, but she doesn’t understand why as she believes that everyone is a good person. She can’t understand why street vendors will sell fake designer watches, and didn’t even know that a person can buy things on line. To me, that’s completely unrealistic. Sure, she grew up sheltered and loved, but when I read how the writer describes her, I want to whack the writer on the head for not understanding the difference between innocent and stupid.
Of course, I don’t know how guys feel about it, but if I actually met a person like that in real life I wouldn’t touch her with a ten feet pole. Personality aside, her story was pretty entertaining, and pretty touching at the end (not enough to shed tears over though).
I’m going to dispense the advice that I’m going to say quite a few more times in the future: If you think she’s your type and you’re interested, go ahead and read her story, it’s pretty good. But otherwise just stick with the main storyline, okay? Everyone in the translation group worked really hard on this thing so go play it and savour every second, okay? OKAY?
Woo! I’m completely psyched for this to come out. Thanks for workin’ hard on it, I totally can’t wait for the release now!
That much closer to Usamin~~~
I hope that you’ll enjoy it, and I agree, can’t wait until Usamin’s released~
Why is she such a slut? I hate Tsubaki the most. I almost want to release the patch with her route entirely omitted, since she’s such a worthless, lame, and generic character.
God, it annoys me that I actually have to take work on her route seriously. Moreover that it’s holding up the release.
P.S.: You should uncross your advice, it’s very true.
For once, I have to disagree with Neko. I really enjoyed Tsubaki’s route Choux. Hope you’ll get back translating ch3 soon >.> .
@izmosmolnar:…seriously? You have pretty low standards. If you actually liked her route you’ll probably kill yourself when you get to the true ending.
Nope, I don’t feel I really have low standards (I’m really over 100 in finished VNs to be honest and I hardly raise an eyebrow over various stuff by now), however I think the balance between intrigue, mystery, adrenalin, twists, and romance was nicely balanced, without going too cliche and boring. Just for the record, I’m not saying it’s the best thing ever since the sliced bread, but it was greatly enjoyable regardless.
I can easily see why the true ending will be better (since I too love plottwists, most probably I will favor it more too), but I doubt I’m ever going to think back on Tsubaki’s ending as bad/mediocre or forgettable.
And good luck, godspeed with ch3. Don’t leave us hanging ^^ .