Best Doujin Japanese game

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Independent projects (such as Touhou, Melty Blood and Crimzon Clover)

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Love to see Doujin used correctly.
You've already mentioned Melty Blood & Touhou so I have to break out a few other Comiket games:

Cho Ren Sha 68K (1995)

Kanon (1999, trailers from the Dreamcast port circa 2000)

Cave Story (2004)

Fate/Stay (2004)

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Love to see Doujin used correctly.

Thanks? I mean I could've said "dōjin" for a more accurate spelling but some sites don't accept unorthodox accents (and "dôjin" looks a bit weird), I think "ou" for the "long o" is a specificity from English (since "oo" would've been misspoken). Ironically in French it's the reverse issue because "ou" is pronounced like the English "oo" so we had to spell it "oo" instead to make it look like a long o.

But enough digression.

You've already mentioned Melty Blood & Touhou so I have to break out a few other Comiket games:

Cho Ren Sha 68K (1995)

Kanon (1999, trailers from the Dreamcast port circa 2000)

Cave Story (2004)

Fate/Stay (2004)

Thanks. I need to do Cho Ren Sha 68.000 for good this time (I have the Windows port).

On the other hand Cave Story + can be avoided and play CSE2 which is a sourceport from the fanmade tribute site https://www.cavestory.org/.

Thanks for Kanon by the way.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Thanks? I mean I could've said "dōjin" for a more accurate spelling

I meant correctly because I know a lot of people who exclusively associate Doujin/Doujinshi to NSFW Material
Opposed to it being a descriptor for fan projects/Independent self published endeavours. It's very much a lost in translation term, at least in Europe.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I meant correctly because I know a lot of people who exclusively associate Doujin/Doujinshi to NSFW Material
Opposed to it being a descriptor for fan projects/Independent self published endeavours. It's very much a lost in translation term, at least in Europe.

Ah... Ow.

I also know that doujin is often synonym with parody (which includes pornographic material next to humorous version) but I guess it's the issue when something becomes popular for a different reason than its original intent. In Europe and probably the west in general, North America included.

From the fighting game thread:

since I've mentioned Melty Blood.

 

[nks]

Ragnarok Battle Offline made by french-bread which is also the creator of Melty Blood. Check it out it's great and addictive gameplay and a bangin soundtrack and if you played RO back in the day it's even better.

 

[otogirisou]

I could've said "dōjin" for a more accurate spelling

Doujin IS the accurate spelling.

 

[mortuz]

Black Souls 1 and 2

 

[CG4R12I4N]

Lotta of them are hentai games that should never ever be mentioned in public.

Personally I like lots of indie doujin fighting games aside of aforementioned Melty Blood above, like Akatsuki Blitzkampf, Crucis: Fatal Fake, Big Bang Beat and Hinokakera Chaotic Eclipse.
The SHMUP genres had things better than Touhou too, like Acceleration of Suguri, Trouble Witches and Terra Feminarum.
For other genres, don't forget the essential Windom XP series (expy of Gundam VS), Recettear and of course Tsukihime visual novel.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Doujin IS the accurate spelling.

I don't want to start a debate about the romanized spelling of japanese words but it depends of which system you're using.

Yes, doujin is correct within the Hepburn system (since it was made by an American person who wanted to make it easier for anglophones to understand Japanese) since "-ou" is the spelling for the "long o".

On the other hand I still prefer the revized Hepburn system simply because of the way it makes the ん in the middle of a word (before another vowel) a " 'n" with an apostrophe to make it less confusing and how the long vowels got a macron (a line on a letter such as ē) and as I said before the "ou" makes it confusing in french because it's pronounced like the English "oo" sound. I also like it because it makes words more compact.

Tl:Dr : Doujin and Dōjin are both correct but in two different romanization systems.

Lotta of them are hentai games that should never ever be mentioned in public.

Personally I like lots of indie doujin fighting games aside of aforementioned Melty Blood above, like Akatsuki Blitzkampf, Crucis: Fatal Fake, Big Bang Beat and Hinokakera Chaotic Eclipse.
The SHMUP genres had things better than Touhou too, like Acceleration of Suguri, Trouble Witches and Terra Feminarum.
For other genres, don't forget the essential Windom XP series (expy of Gundam VS), Recettear and of course Tsukihime visual novel.

Since the forum rules are clear regarding NSFW/-18 content I didn't feel the need to state it (rules are never supposed not to be acknowledged by users after all).

Thanks for the recommendations.

 

[Deleted member 887798]

Toohoo is my favourite doojin.