Dark Edge Village

The Visual Novel for the previous game in the Hollow Throne Universe; Kyuden Suzume, is hereby released!

You can find it here:

Windows: download
Mac: download
Linux: download

And the previous games in the series can be found here:


Ryoko Owari

Windows: download
Mac: download
Linux: download


Naga War:

Windows: download
Macintosh: download


Kyuden Agasha:

Windows: download
Mac: download
Linux: download

important: Turns out it's been a while and there may be a missing image which can mess up some of the dialogue. In order to fix it, download this image and put it in the game's graphics directory! Hopefully that's the only bug.


Foreword:

So for those of you who have no idea what the hell this is: since Kyuden Agasha, I've been making comedic visual novels of my character telling stories about the things that have happened in Hollow Throne games. These visual novels take place in an alternate and non-canonical Hollow Throne universe. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of visual novels; they're basically light stories with pictures (as well as occasional animations) and music and a very limited degree of interactivity.

The latest VN concerns the events of the previous Hollow Throne game: Kyuden Suzume. You can find a link to it at the top of this post. If you want to check out the previous editions, you can find links below:


Instructions:
Click the above link appropriate for the operating system you use; then, on the website, select the browser download option to avoid third party junk.

When the file (which is unfortunately relatively big, I apologize) has downloaded, use a program like Winzip or Winrar to unpack it to a directory of your choosing. Navigate to the install directory and run the file "Kyuden_Suzume.exe"; the process will differ for Macintosh and Linux distributions, but I unfortunately have no way of testing how those work (or even if they work, please let me know)

After starting the 'game', interactivity is fairly limited. Text appears at the bottom of the screen, and when you've read it and are ready to move on, simply left click anywhere or press enter. For best results, you should *ONLY* do so when there is text showing at the bottom, as there are occasionally timed 'animations' that you might inadvertently pass by when you left click or press a key too soon.

Using the mousewheel, you can scroll up and down through some of text you've already been through, and the right mouse button takes you into the menu, where you can save and load the game.

Disclaimer:
All of the art in this was shamelessly traced over from other sources, though in some cases I made some minor alterations. I do not claim any of it as my own original work. Those of you who are into anime will no doubt recognize some of the original characters. The same applies to the music, which was taken from a bunch of different anime and sources.

Also! There's actually quite a lot of lines of script needed to make this, so it's entirely possible there's bugs here and there. Please either ignore them, or point them out in this thread for everyone to laugh at.

Also, I apologize if you were hoping for your character to show up and they didn't. It can be a lot of work to do these; and I don't have time to include all characters. This doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the interactions my characters had with yours at previous games! Who knows, you might show up in a future game!

Finally, and this is very important, everything in this game is meant in the best of ways. It can sometimes be difficult to anticipate how people will react to a joke or gag, and while it may seem funny and harmless in my head at the time of writing it could unintentionally cause offense. I sincerely hope that nobody ends up feeling hurt over anything that's in this game! If anyone does feel any doubts over something in the game, please don't hesitate to PM me about it so we can work things out.

Let's play shenanigans!

One of our new HT players is doing a Let's Play on youtube of the VN's, starting with the first one. They will get added to this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLva ... 3gPPVJdbKQ as she finishes them!


And last, someone asked for this, so I'm putting up links to the windows versions of the two VN's I did for Ferretverse as well. Find them below:

Ferretverse #1
Ferretverse #2

If people have any problems accessing/playing these, please let me know.

Commentary can go in this thread. And as always, I hope you guys enjoy!

Oh man I am reading this.

Yuzuki-san, you are amazing!

Well... looks like I made it in! Sorta, at least.

At work now, alas. I'll watch it tonight!

Poor, poor Sozen.

Wonderful work again!

100% Hahou accuracy approved!

Dude, that was . . . like, totally awesome!

I applaud all things Kashiwagi and Chidori and everything.

RIP Sozen and Uzumaki.

Hmm let me check the RO one first there....

Huh, Kiriko is a bit more violent then I remember....and Daidoji-gunso is saner.

I skipped Kyuden Suzume so I'll just insert the VN's events as head canon. Seems legit.

As always entertaining =D

Pupupupupu...

=D

Always a good laugh thanks for the work!

Now let's see if I can keep my streak of appearing in every one of your novels for next time!

I can't watch it yet. I just need to know if Yamitsu appears in all his yam glory.

To piggy back off this, I am proud to announce that I will be doing a Let's Play of this and uploading it onto YouTube. I make no promises on quality. Instead, I will just hope that people enjoy my butchering of Yuzuki's butchering of everyone's characters.

With Uzumake and Sozin gone, it's a good thing Shiko gets a break. It's gonna take awhile to come up with all new art.

This one did feel a bit more rushed than some of your previous work. But it was still good (And I loved seeing Suzume Turk and Dorian).