Beast Master and Prince translation potential.

In the last few days I've been contemplating playing Beast Master and Prince or Uta no Prince Sama Repeat. I will start with beast master and if it's successful I'll then buy utapri on my vita. I've discovered that using Google translate is quite efficient at translating the kanji and giving you a fair idea of what is going on.
So it will go something like this:
Take photos of each line in the game to upload.
Use Google translate on said line that very fortunately stores that information till you clear it.
Post it all here along with my version of the translation.
Any lines that people can offer corrections to please do so in the comments and I will edit.
My Japanese is great but if anyone cares to help write up the translation I'm happy that once it's finished you can use it in any way you like. Whether you make it into an easy to follow script or, in the case of uta pri, use it to patch the game. They don't seem to realise that the more likeliness of us enjoying the game ourselves the more likely we will purchase a copy to support them.
I might start tonight, wish me luck!

p.s If you buy psn plus for a japanese account (5000 yen) this game is included in your free games, but the account needs a vita or a memory card all to itself.

Steams' Anti VN Stance! Or at Least Its' Communities!

A new game has popped up on Steam Greenlight. Steams new service for getting the public to approve niche games coming onto its "network." Basically enough people approve it and say they will buy it, they will let you. This weeks cannon fodder is called- Princess Battles.

You can view the game here and obviously over on steam.

The art isn't heart thumping amazing and it has a card game attribute which could be off putting for many but we all know we are starved of otome games here in the west. The last game Steam let slip through was Cherry Tree High Comedy Club, well over 6 months ago. Each time a VN appears we are greeted with these "swell comments"

"I'm pretty sure the developers would lose more money than they would make with this game. A very small fraction of the steam community plays games like this, not enough to make a substantial amount of money. Just sayin."

"All these japanese pop culture games appeal to only a specific part of the steam community. The rest of us truly have no intrest in game like this, sorry."

"This game should be put into a potato sack, lit on fire and beaten before being tossed into the lake, So no."

On the one hand, maybe they are realistic, and there are many more comments like them, but what we need is to get all the VN lovers and otome fans to migrate to steam and approve as many of these kinds of games as we can. 

There's no reason we can't have our own section on steam and if you get popular on there it can only encourage more people to bring otome games over. They already do the eroge games quite happily but games that are aimed at women with no sex are a no no for some odd reason. 

By no means am I blaming Steam for the way the community react to otome, most often it's their chromosomes getting in the way, but they could help. One day.

Go approve, and in the meantime go check out zeiva's demo for X-note as their next game, Area X, is coming out sometime soon. If this area grows in the west, maybe someone will bring over Uta Pri.