Currently stuck in release limbo on Steam, 'The Expression Amrilato' has been released on GOG today with full Linux support. Curiously, this Yuri Visual Novel will also teach you some of the Esperanto language.
I will fully admit to being completely uncultured here, I had to google around about Esperanto for a while. I had never heard of it until I saw this game. If you didn't know either, Esperanto is an international auxiliary language, something meant to help people communicate when they don't share a common language. Well, that's what my Googling told me anyway…
MangaGamer announced today along with the release on GOG, that Steam is holding up their release:
Despite its high educational value, Valve has rejected The Expression Amrilato due to their vague and increasingly unpredictable approval process. Our staff is at a loss for what content Valve could have possibly objected to, as other storefronts, like GOG, have not taken issue with it.
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Features:
- Subtle love-like feelings between girls.
- Just watching cute girls having fun.
- A touching story that will make you cry.
- Study Esperanto through the quiz-oriented Study Mode.
- The Study Mode can be played on its own as a review.
- If you want to prioritize the story, you can just set the quizzes as "Homework"
- After clearing the game, you can select if you want to display the Esperanto translation as subtitles or not.
I will admit that GOG sent over a copy but other than checking it works correctly (works great!), it's not one I will personally play through. I've grown to like Visual Novels over the last year or two, but the theme here just isn't appealing to me personally. Lovely artwork though!
For now at least, the Linux build can be picked up on GOG or direct from MangaGamer.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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GodofGrunts 14 Jun 2019
Yuri is the purest of love forms.
Esperanto is the purest of languages.
How can this not apply to you? SMH.
Esperanto is the purest of languages.
How can this not apply to you? SMH.
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Yuri is the purest of love forms.I am obviously, very impure.
Esperanto is the purest of languages.
How can this not apply to you? SMH.
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DaiKaiser93 14 Jun 2019
Yuri is the purest of love forms.
Esperanto is the purest of languages.
How can this not apply to you? SMH.
I'm more of a "Saya no Uta" Guy.
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Yuri is the purest of love forms.
Esperanto is the purest of languages.
How can this not apply to you? SMH.
I'm more of a "Saya no Uta" Guy.
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Esperanto is basically the equivalent of the [multiplication of standards](https://xkcd.com/927/) in technology. Someone decides to make a new language that everyone could speak in common, and now there's just one more language that most people don't speak.
Last edited by Salvatos on 14 Jun 2019 at 7:08 pm UTC
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Well, i quite dislike visual novel, but i'm also all partial to Esperanto. I've learnt it. I managed at some point to be able to understand radio in esperanto, and i met some amazing people too.
Like, in north of Norway while i was traveling, i met a french man and a russian woman, using Esperanto as the first language at home (they didn't know they speak esperanto both, when they met first). They have a girl, when i met her she was about 14 years old. Esperanto was her first language (there are maybe 1000 to 2000 kids nowadays with EO as a first language). Then, norway, then russia to talk with mom, french to talk with dad, english because many norvegian speak english too, and she was learning spanish, italian and german at school.
Well, that sounds like someone without any real knowledge of what Esperanto is meant to be, and is, actually.
Nope, that's like pollution, it's not too late to clean it all, as it's not too late to use a cleverly elaborated language as an international tool, instead of the very unfair english. Before it was french, portugese, later it may be mandarin or zulu, who knows...
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Like, in north of Norway while i was traveling, i met a french man and a russian woman, using Esperanto as the first language at home (they didn't know they speak esperanto both, when they met first). They have a girl, when i met her she was about 14 years old. Esperanto was her first language (there are maybe 1000 to 2000 kids nowadays with EO as a first language). Then, norway, then russia to talk with mom, french to talk with dad, english because many norvegian speak english too, and she was learning spanish, italian and german at school.
Someone decides to make a new language that everyone could speak in common, and now there's just one more language that most people don't speak.
Well, that sounds like someone without any real knowledge of what Esperanto is meant to be, and is, actually.
Now of course, it's way too late !
Nope, that's like pollution, it's not too late to clean it all, as it's not too late to use a cleverly elaborated language as an international tool, instead of the very unfair english. Before it was french, portugese, later it may be mandarin or zulu, who knows...
Last edited by Tchey on 14 Jun 2019 at 8:12 pm UTC
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I tried blocking the visual novel tag on Steam, must I now try this on GOL? :|So, uh, apropos of nothing, your handle's "hateball" huh?
Other than GOG being Linux hostile, visual novels are absolute shite. Hope they paid enough to make the shame bearable.
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To be fair I'm a fan of visual novels as a genre especially when they feature queer characters .I tried blocking the visual novel tag on Steam, must I now try this on GOL? :|So, uh, apropos of nothing, your handle's "hateball" huh?
Other than GOG being Linux hostile, visual novels are absolute shite. Hope they paid enough to make the shame bearable.
But I have to admit that the sheer volume of VN that are just a bunch of "anime tiddies" just for the hell of it that pander to straight dudes who just want/need to rub one out with little to no substance is overwhelming sometimes.
You have no idea how trying to wade through the "horndog stuff" just to get to the type of Visual Novels / Dating Sims you're actually in the market for is a major pain in the ass on steam . While on itch finding LGBTQ themed ones is waaaay easier and is actually more the norm than the exception .
So I don't blame people who aren't into visual novels for place the tag in the ignore list .
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Esperanto is basically the equivalent of the [multiplication of standards](https://xkcd.com/927/) in technology. Someone decides to make a new language that everyone could speak in common, and now there's just one more language that most people don't speak.
Nah. It's just a failed product of a restriced and exclusive club of men.
Just because there was never a militarily strong "national state" that adopted it as official language. Otherwise it would be have been a righteous tool for "the common good". So good to justify the eradication of the "local dialects" it pretends to represent.
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I tried blocking the visual novel tag on Steam, must I now try this on GOL? :|So, uh, apropos of nothing, your handle's "hateball" huh?
Other than GOG being Linux hostile, visual novels are absolute shite. Hope they paid enough to make the shame bearable.
Just remove the 'b'.
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I tried blocking the visual novel tag on Steam, must I now try this on GOL? :|GOG are not hostile to Linux, just because their client is not on Linux doesn't make them "hostile".
Other than GOG being Linux hostile, visual novels are absolute shite. Hope they paid enough to make the shame bearable.
As for pay, nothing to do with it nor was I asked to do this - GOG's Linux team just send keys out of the blue to me with no stipulations. I try to mention all types of games and genres to cover as many types of gamers as possible, all are welcome here.
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By the way Liam I hope you don't mind me using your article to start a thread on ERA .
( I posted in the heat of the moment and maybe you ddidn't wanted to see your article featured in that kind of conversation but really this news highlights a problem that Valve is having lately )
Last edited by TheSyldat on 14 Jun 2019 at 10:47 pm UTC
( I posted in the heat of the moment and maybe you ddidn't wanted to see your article featured in that kind of conversation but really this news highlights a problem that Valve is having lately )
Last edited by TheSyldat on 14 Jun 2019 at 10:47 pm UTC
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Correct on both counts. Do you mean that it wasn't meant to be a common language, or that most people do speak it?Someone decides to make a new language that everyone could speak in common, and now there's just one more language that most people don't speak.
Well, that sounds like someone without any real knowledge of what Esperanto is meant to be, and is, actually.
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walther von stolzing 15 Jun 2019
For anyone who's intrigued with the language, there's a [tutorial site](https://lernu.net) that looks pretty good (lernu.net).
It's really interesting to see what a case & conjugation system would look like, when it's designed by sane people rather than haphazardly shaped through historical accident. One day (hahaha!) I'm hoping to look into it seriously; though not in the near future (given how badly I'm doing with my much more urgent current responsibilities.....)
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It's really interesting to see what a case & conjugation system would look like, when it's designed by sane people rather than haphazardly shaped through historical accident. One day (hahaha!) I'm hoping to look into it seriously; though not in the near future (given how badly I'm doing with my much more urgent current responsibilities.....)
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Back in the days, i liked the Higurashi anime that came from a visual novel. Some here seem to believe they are some sort of medium reserved to softcore porn.
Again Valve doesn't screen the visual novel genre in a consistent way and most of the stuff that does drop on Linux is erotic stories if not straight up anime porn. Especially when you're a linux user , oh the garbage does get ported alright the good quality writing ? Not so much ...
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Started to learn Esperanto after failing hard at Japanese, since I read somewhere Esperanto could help while learning other languages.
Somehow the little I learned about Japanese began to make more sense after a while, even without studying or practicing for months.
Now, seeing both languages in a game is awesome. I have to play this even though it's not my genre.
Somehow the little I learned about Japanese began to make more sense after a while, even without studying or practicing for months.
Now, seeing both languages in a game is awesome. I have to play this even though it's not my genre.
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