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Is it just me or the one uploaded on Nyaa has a trojan in it?
 
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Ehhh... this game was garbage but I actually kind of liked it. It felt like going into a Transformers movie sequel expecting absolutely garbage, but it delivered the garbage you wanted out of a medium like this. It was a ripoff, it brought no new ideas to the table and... was competently okay. Maybe my expectations were too low. I don't know. I guess I kind of dug this one? :eek:

I can't believe I'm the only one feeling this way, right? Am I alone here?
 
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dual1ty said:
Is it just me or the one uploaded on Nyaa has a trojan in it?
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By the Taiwanese uploaders or girlcelly? I used the former and didn't have a problem. The latter has always been reliable. That just leaves your PC and an overly paranoid antivirus program.
 
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WhiteKnight said:
Just try to contort your body into whatever position that is if you don't understand what I mean.

Lifting assets may not have been the most accurate term I could've used for this, but the first game was a shameless ripoff of Parasite in City. In this game, just from the preview trailer I can see that her idle animation is just a traced over sprite of Mai Shiranui's from SNK.
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ahhh I see
 
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Harleyquin13 said:
By the Taiwanese uploaders or girlcelly? I used the former and didn't have a problem. The latter has always been reliable. That just leaves your PC and an overly paranoid antivirus program.
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Hmm, no clue. It was the 2GB+ size one.
I don't even see one uploaded by girlcelly at the moment.
First my antivirus found a trojan and then i couldn't even launch it as it was "different from my windows version" lol
 
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dual1ty said:
Hmm, no clue. It was the 2GB+ size one.
I don't even see one uploaded by girlcelly at the moment.
First my antivirus found a trojan and then i couldn't even launch it as it was "different from my windows version" lol
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NewDragon might be a trusted uploader on nyaa, but I've never really trusted the releases since he's usually a reuploader who grabs stuff from others.

There are two other torrents for this game which I've already mentioned. Both of them are reliable and smaller than what you got.
 
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dual1ty said:
Hmm, no clue. It was the 2GB+ size one.
I don't even see one uploaded by girlcelly at the moment.
First my antivirus found a trojan and then i couldn't even launch it as it was "different from my windows version" lol
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Hm, I got suspicious at first since the 2 GB version is way larger than the expected 350MB listed on Dlsite. Turns out that there's a lot of repeated data or something and the game expands to a whopping 2.4GB when unzipped. So the 2GB+ one would be the unzipped version

Either way, I would just download the 300MB version instead. It's the same torrent as the one on AS and I would imagine it's way faster to download.

Also, I recommend that people try it out right now if they have even the slightest urge. It's very possible that Smaverick will use the same DRM as the last game and force the latest version to be played. He did disable it later on but that might've been done because uploaders have lost interest in keeping up.


Edit: I wonder why there's 2 very distinct artists making the game over CGs. The ones in the bottom row have much smoother animation and have some shading to look nicer overall. Meanwhile the rest are the same choppy basic animations from the previous game. Perhaps they got another artist to do the animations, if that's the case, then their next game could potentially have some good h-scenes in it.


Also, how exactly do you beat the last stage? I killed the boss but I just go through some dialogue and it says game over. For reference, I played on normal difficulty and did modify some of the files at the end to make it easier. There could possibly be another preview of their next game.
 
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I'm seeing a lot of those sharedassets files in the game folder. It's possible that the game is censoring with a pixelation overlay rather than directly censoring the CG. Does anyone know if it's possible to uncensor the game by replacing a certain file?
 
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Harleyquin13 said:
NewDragon might be a trusted uploader on nyaa, but I've never really trusted the releases since he's usually a reuploader who grabs stuff from others.

There are two other torrents for this game which I've already mentioned. Both of them are reliable and smaller than what you got.
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At any regard, I'm glad there is a NewDragon (however he gets them) - if I hadn't completely misread the lay of nyaa-land, without him and girlcelly "forcing" mikocon's hand we would be having like 70% fewer releases free for the grabs, probably (or at least much-much later).
We should count our blessings, gents. We are spoilt, no doubt about it. xD
Gonna buy some stuff legitly for reals in the near future - I've been feeling more and more guilty as of late. lol
monomulti said:
I'm seeing a lot of those sharedassets files in the game folder. It's possible that the game is censoring with a pixelation overlay rather than directly censoring the CG. Does anyone know if it's possible to uncensor the game by replacing a certain file?
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Hopefully a Unity specialist will come along soon and see if that is possible.
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Tried the first level, and damn does the melee attack look indeed almost useless. Also, the one gameover animation I got had such abysmal recording quality for the girl's voice...
Still much room to improve overall, it seems to me. Maybe only being "inspired" *cough* by other games is not always enough? ;)
 
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Awesome, been waiting for this. The fact that many claim to not like it makes me even more excited since that was the case with the first game as well.

ThatWeirdGuyWithaWeirdHat said:
Virus Z was VERY close to being a complete rip off of Parasite in City. As a matter of fact, the character itself is directly copied from PiC. Pixel Factory could sue SMAVERICK for copyright if PiC was copyrighted.

I remember first opening Virus Z and just immediately thinking, "This is just a janky Parasite in City, and not even a good one." Virus Z was very buggy and didn't have the polish it desperately needed, so I really don't have high hopes for it's sequel. Hell, the gameplay style isn't even new. A linear sidescroller where you have a limited amount of ranged attacks but unlimited melee and getting raped drains your health? Try every KoooonSoft game ever or even LineMarvel's Demon Girl. At least Demon Girl has an excuse for looking like crap because it's old as shit.

I am not insulting Demon Girl, I'm insulting Virus Z. Demon Girl is one of the many benchmarks of h-gaming history that many still look up to and I respect that.
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Who the hell cares. If someone copies something and the improves upon it (and I think Virus Z is better than Parasite in most respects) than as a consumer I can only benefit. People actually do this all the freaking time with commercial product as long as they don't directly steal source codes or things like that. Also, the guy who made Parasite doesn't even make games anymore so care even less. If there are any legal issues, they can sort it out themselves, not my problem.

As for the Mai parody thing, I disagree. Copying a pose does not equal parody, especially since that pose is more common than you think. Regardless, 60%+ of H-contents are parodies so this is beyond a non-issue.
 
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Cupio said:
As for the Mai parody thing, I disagree. Copying a pose does not equal parody, especially since that pose is more common than you think. Regardless, 60%+ of H-contents are parodies so this is beyond a non-issue.
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That's not even a parody, that's a blatantly traced-over sprite from Mai Shiranui. And that pose is common? Commonly known as Mai's pose? Is there any other character in any game with that pose beside Mai? In Virus Z2's case the girl's standing animation looks near identical to Mai Shiranui's in KOF13 with less frames. That's not just simply "copying a pose", but plagiarism.
And if it's a parody, then that gameover CG that looks like it was lifted directly from Fighting Girl Sakura-R by Umai Neko is also a parody I guess?
You clearly don't know what you are talking about.

But don't get me wrong, I don't hate this game or the developers but this time the assets they "borrowed" from other sources are just so obvious; on top of that the game seems more lazily made than the first game.
 
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I seem to be unable to view the CGs, they appear as a black screen, the only thing I can see is the x-ray on screen. Do you have any idea how this might have happened?
 
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I'm almost afraid to ask given the date but... anyone got a mega DL for this?
 
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Stuffie said:
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Key: !--wCBnqlgEL2fS0DaNsYQ1tD3FSpausOymPKdktvELE

Full save: Included in separate folder, file originally provided by Balmunk
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Thanks fam!

So, after playing the game, I noticed that some CGs in the gallery are just black screen with only the xray appearing. Some CGs will appear after reloading the game but they sometimes go back to black after another reload. Gave up playing the game after stage 5 and just used the full save. I hope they're not planning for another sequel...
 
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