“Dream of the Red Chamber” Chinese Eroge is Quality
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2009 03:02 JST
- Tags: CG, China, Eroge, Literature, Made in China, Visual Novels
A visual novel adaptation of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, the Dream of the Red Chamber, made by Chinese and in the Chinese language, looks to be a work of considerable quality, as the CG presented below readily attest.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, another of the four classics, upon which numerous anime styled works are based, is a acknowledged as a superb work of Chinese literature, but the Dream of the Red Chamber (紅楼夢 / Kouroumu in Japanese) is usually taken as being the very pinnacle of such novels, taking as its subject matter the rise and fall of great aristocratic houses in 18th century Imperial China.
With hundreds of characters, many of them female, it is not an unnatural choice for such an adaptation. The game is still under development, but as you can see from the sample art released, it seems to be of very great quality indeed.
The only area which is unclear is the degree to which this will be a visual novel as opposed to eroge, but in either case it seems to be a work of great artistic merit.
Having seen some of the less than original works to come from China in recent years, seeing efforts such as this bear fruit is very encouraging indeed.
Hopefully, it will prove to be the start of a trend, as China may be able to develop its own cultural complex complementary to that of Japan.
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OMG. The game only costs around $10 USD...
$10 USD is still a little expensive for a electronic game in China.
Most Chinese adults think anime is for kids, and to protect the local anime, government don't import new animes from Japan and control the time of foreingn animes on TV.
Thanks to the Internet, I can watch the newest animes.
I'm Chinese and live in mainland.
me too,
fukc the "blue cat and nosy rat"
Really? What about the cheap dvds you could find everywhere, i've seen tons of good and relatively new titles in there - kannagi, chaos;head are the first two i am reminded, but there were others. And DAMN, why do you complain? I wish i could stay here in china more, in my country they don't even air Maruko-chan!
pff, have you seen all of the bootlegged anime material in China? 8D It's all over the place! xDDD I found like 10 of those places. 8DDD
Great CG!
Impressive CG designs
no nude scenes?
This is very exciting development, a new and different art style and new story representation, a new culture/genre could be born indeed.
China made something of their own? I dont beleive it.
you dont believe it eh??
Try looking at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions
BTW, the game is on sale now.
It's without C.V., but GAMEBRIDGE says the PSP version will have, 'n Chinese and Japanese both.
Thanks, I wasn't sure about the release dates.
What i wonder now is, due to the novel's length, will it be released as a nine dvds box-set or what?
20 bucks that in a month or two we'll get a post along the lines so "2CHAN FINDS ART IS TOTALLY COPIED FROM OTHER SERIES! EVERYONE SHOCKED!"
K, so can someone who's played it tell us how long it is? How many CGs in the gallery? How many endings?
(The price is really suspicious, if indeed it is as epic as it seems than this has the potential to totally change the market mindset)
It's not released yet, so no one knows.
However, Dream of Red Chambers is a real epic. If they put the whole story in, you'd probably be reading it for no less than 50hrs. I think they'd probably revise the story though. A story where every single major character meets a horrible end does not make a good visual novel.
BUT it's released. Maybe I'll go buying the DVD and play.I'm a Chinese and I can see so many people talking about the game on BBS of GAMEBRIDGE. If U can read Chinese, U can go there to have a look.
I tried to go to the homepage, but Firefox says it is a reported attack site.
Is it safe?
what reason do you have to trust us? :D
It can't be an eroge since the Chinese were in an uproar over a Japanese attempt to use the Dream of the Red Chamber as the basis for an eroge. It seems strange, since Genji Monogatari is much more fertile ground for an eroge; the eponymous hero is an awesome philanderer.
I can't believe it didn't get scrutinized for being chinese... -.-
See? China, you can be awesome if you just give it some effort. Let's hope this will be an example for all of your future endeavor.
[spoiler]It's not[/spoiler]
Ohh!!! Like culture?..
Chinese of copy from the world! Same case in japan in past! Japan copy from Euro!
I think this is Chinese response to Koihime Musou...
Holy mother of Aiur. I can't imagine how the Jin Yong novels will be when they chose to delve there.
i like, very much. What is it called? Can this be found on the major gamestores?
Visual novel only but not eroge.
Seems that there will be a PSP version, 'n not only Chinese but also Japanese...
red chamber is a good story, so it should go well
definitely buying it (cuz imma chinese)
*whistles* I'm already looking forward to the CG rip of this!
Hope this gets translated eventually. Also, I love that font.
Very nice artwork. Too bad it's just a game.
Since its in China, it will probably be 100% visual novel. China has a standing ban on all pornographic material, with punishment of circumnavigating the ban being "re-education".
Now I want to see America make a commercial eroge.
Come on, raping the daughters of Baptist priests!
Lol I think you meant you play a Catholic priest and try to "collect" as many school boys as you can before you get caught and get a slap on the wrist.
hm, would be nice to get it and play to get to know the story of something that I've want to know about since childhood.
Only problem that it's in simplified...I can only read a bit of traditional, lol >.>
Oh my God, I love Dream of the Red Chamber. I'm a girl, so I don't really play erogames, but I gotta play this.
TRANSLATION PLOOOOOOOOOOX.
It probably won't be an eroge though - even if the headlines says otherwise...
Everyone just uses the terms interchangeably, so I tend to follow suit. Besides "visual novel" is too long for a headline...
Galge?
Great,china is quality but i never hear any stuff from them like anime or manga.It's all on japan.
Anybody could say a couple of names of chinese anime and manga?
Quality indeed. How I love traditional dress, generally regardless of the nation. I wonder if it will be censored?
If only someone would make a BL eroge set in the Heian era or Kamakura era I'd be set for life.
There was such a BL eroge released recently - it had fantastic art...
I also wonder how censored it is going to be. China tends to frown on such things if I'm not mistaken.
i'm assuming the "made by Chinese and in the Chinese language" line is referring to the VN. so at least in terms of censorship, we probably won't really have a problem with any "lol japan" issues...
I highly doubt that it will turn out to be eroge without being banned or at least heavily restricted by the government.
I think he means the Government of China
your wish will be granted but it's going to be a long wait
...yes, and as I said, since it's made by the chinese, there shouldn't be much issues. the only foreseeable censorship problems would be concerning japanese cultural items. so unless the game creators reference taiwan or something, shouldn't be too bad.
I want to see some virtual pussy! Anyway looks great and hope it's an eroge so I can fap to it. Still quality is amazing.