Developer: Okashi Studios (http://www.okashistudios.com/)
Release Date: 2010/12/10
Official (http://www.shira-oka.com/) / VNDB (http://vndb.org/v4738)(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6179/1294050350861929334b693.jpg)
Description:Ever wonder how things might be different, if you could go back in time and re-live your past? The main character of Shira Oka: Second Chances is given that chance to find out.
Will he get his act together, and become the person he always wanted to be? Will he pass all his classes with flying colors? Will he fall in love with the girl of his dreams? Or will he end up sad and lonely once again?
His fate is in your hands.
You control how he spends his time, who he becomes friends with, and who he falls in love with... if anyone. But no matter what choices you make, get ready for a roleplaying experience unlike any other.
Game Version 1.1.8:
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What's new in Shira Oka: Second Chances 1.1.8:
February 17th, 2012
· Minor dialogue grammar and spelling tweaks.
· Improved memory utilization in a couple of large, resource-intensive scenes.
· Enabled application sandboxing.
What's new in Shira Oka: Second Chances 1.1.7:
November 1st, 2011
· Fixed minor typo in Satsuko's grade reporting dialogue.
· Fixed some minor typo in Suzu's phone dialogue, and also an exit line during a date that was supposed to belong to the narrator. Also provided an alternate line for Suzu in her beach date.
· Fixed a plot discrepancy in Aya's phone conversation where you can talk to Aya about Kazuki without people having met him yet.
· Fixed a free roam bug where there was a small probability of meeting a character at a location they were not supposed to be found at causing a "BUG" message to be printed to the screen.
· Fixed bug where the first time (since game launch) the main window is shown, the report card can sometimes be seen minimizing.
· Fixed UI bug where during intro, even though the text box is not visible, the player can still pull up the conversation log.
· Improved system and texture memory usage.
What's new in Shira Oka: Second Chances 1.1.6:
June 15th, 2011
· Fixed a bug where after having met Yui, if you call her up before having
· met Naoko, Yui will think you've never met before. Thanks to Aric Ferrell
· from the forums for reporting this.
· Fixed a wording bug that can happen during Hiroshi's bee sting event chain.
· Thanks to Aric Ferrell from the forums for reporting this.
· Fixed some minor typos. Thanks to Allen Martin for reporting this.
· Fixed a bug where if you do great during the ballroom dancing activity
· sequence, the ballroom dancing activity is not removed.
· Fixed a bug in Kiku's Ballroom Dancing event where a wrong value was being
· used when deciding whether Kiku asks for your help.
· Added an alternate dialogue exchange between Kiku and Hiroshi depending on
· when the event takes place.
· Slightly increased progress gain in ballroom dancing activity.
· Increased chances of having an encounter with someone while free-roaming
· during the weekends.
· Increased chance of having a date request accepted if Player has a high
· popularity score.
· Slightly lowered the thresholds necessary to obtaining A and A+ grades.
· A+ grades will please Satsuko more at later cycles.
· Satsuko is now a bit more lenient with your grades and will wait a bit longer
· for better grades before ending the cycle and sending you back.
· Asking Satsuko for advice on your grades will now generate a more accurate report
· on your standings.
· Fixed a bug in Alice amusement park date in which a dialogue exchange was not
· being skipped properly. Thanks to mizu from the forums for reporting this.
· Stat check in Wisdom Tooth random event have been lowered.
What's new in Shira Oka: Second Chances 1.1.5:
April 7th, 2011
· Fixed a bug where the character generation process will allow you to have a blank last name and/or first name. Thanks to Aric Ferrell for reporting this bug.
· Improved compatibility with older OpenGL implementations that don't have glBlendColor. Thanks to Matthew Rees for reporting this bug and working with us towards a resolution.
· Fixed capitalization inconsistency in Kiku's empress random event. Thanks to Aric Ferrell for reporting this bug.
· Reworded some dialogue in Alice's violin bridge random event series. Thanks to Aric Ferrell for reporting this bug.
· Added dialogue options in BotS subplot to be used in the case where player does not help Kazuki at all (or very little). Thanks to Aric Ferrell from the forums for reporting this.
What's new in Shira Oka: Second Chances 1.1.4:
February 12th, 2011
· Fixed a rare scripting bug that can cause Kasumi's affection dialogue to be erroneously scheduled, resulting in plot inconsistency.
Game is a fucking drag without a skip function ~~
You just don't want to read all the same stuff on you third+ playthroughs.
no skip? i thought that was like a pre-requisite for VN's now
Skip function costs money, >_> they probably didnt have a dollar to pay the code monkey.
It's all ages... the drawings are funky... no voice... no skip function... I guess it's not bad for a wapanese game ._.
no skip? i thought that was like a pre-requisite for VN's now
No skip function!? that's lame.
It's all ages... the drawings are funky... no voice... no skip function... I guess it's not bad for a wapanese game ._.
You can bash it all you want, but "no voice"? Shouldn't you be better informed before going all "HULK SMASH!" on something?
System is interesting. Thats all. Plot and voice terrible.
[spoiler]Naoko route:Do not kill the dinosaur. He is a good. - are you serious?
Yuu route - I died when I was 5 years old. But because of the demon inside of me I'm alive - ;D
[/spoiler]
There are no good endings. Meh.
I only finished the Alice route, and meh, it was just baaaad. It might have been nice with proper drawings and voice acting, but the way they presented it was just sad ~~
After that one ending, and having to face all the repetitiv text yet again, I just can't get myself to try the other endings.
It's all ages... the drawings are funky... no voice... no skip function... I guess it's not bad for a wapanese game ._.
You can bash it all you want, but "no voice"? Shouldn't you be better informed before going all "HULK SMASH!" on something?
Ya, that was unwarranted but it isn't voiced (nor would be better voiced) ... I don't expect it to be voiced since it's made in California but somehow I expected... well... something... I've only played Naoko's route so far... it's mildly entertainment but... I'm not sure if it captures the Japanese renai game experience as they claim... other than the fact they're using Japanese names and creative ideas... but how do I put this... perhaps it's not twisted enough...
... ughhhh california they probably are my neighbors....
Someday I'll get rid of all this bad stigma shitfucks are piling onto my dream.
Meanwhile I'll just continue with: fucking wannabes
Is the version 1.12 or the 1.13?
Version 1.12. I'll paste the NFO on the first post.
I think they wanted to add an easy mode in 1.13.
It might make the game more playable actually, god damn stat grind gets way too repetitiv.
If I see a patch around Blackcats or something like that, I'll post it here.
I dont know if its me or partially voiced or im just being trolled by my own computer?
It's partially voiced, aka like 1% of the whole fucking text is voiced.
Either do it properly or don't do it at all, damn jackass company.
I never gave it the chance to reach the unvoiced parts. That's really lazy and pretentious on their part, given how they stick on everyone's faces that it had "professional voice acting", every time that they promoted the title.
It's partially voiced, aka like 1% of the whole fucking text is voiced.
Either do it properly or don't do it at all, damn jackass company.
That isn't considered voiced... D:< it's like painting a red dot on a car and calling it red.
this VN just gets more and more fail
I never gave it the chance to reach the unvoiced parts. That's really lazy and pretentious on their part, given how they stick on everyone's faces that it had "professional voice acting", every time that they promoted the title.
I hope to God I'm not that retarded when marketing mine. God should have put a limit to American stupidity...instead he gave it license to run rampant around the internet.
Can someone help me, I've tried to extract the file I downloaded from the link using 7-zip, but I always get a message sayint that the file was using a unsupported compression method. Anyone know how to correctly extract this game? Thanks
I can imagine seeing a programmer with a hundred dollar bill to pay the VAs off to finish the voice overs and some wind blows by and takes the 100..... T_T fail... i seriously think they budget cut the fuck out of this game.
Why the hell do the screenshots remind me of a flash game I once played..
Can someone help me, I've tried to extract the file I downloaded from the link using 7-zip, but I always get a message sayint that the file was using a unsupported compression method. Anyone know how to correctly extract this game? Thanks
are you using the latest 7-zip? http://www.7-zip.org/ (http://www.7-zip.org/)
... if you did and it failed then your files are corrupt... otherwise you're probably using winRAR or something, which doesn't always work out for 7z format.
Can someone help me, I've tried to extract the file I downloaded from the link using 7-zip, but I always get a message sayint that the file was using a unsupported compression method. Anyone know how to correctly extract this game? Thanks
are you using the latest 7-zip? http://www.7-zip.org/ (http://www.7-zip.org/)
... if you did and it failed then your files are corrupt... otherwise you're probably using winRAR or something, which doesn't always work out for 7z format.
Thanks for your help, I've downloaded the newest version of 7-zip and now I can extraxt the file :)
And here was I downloading it just to prove that you were doing it wrong...
I'm kind of scared to play this now. Is it safe? Will it make me want to punch my monitor? Or is it actually kind of enjoyable??
You're better off playing Tokemi Memorial - Girls side as a straight male, than bothering with this ~~
Ouch!
You're better off playing Tokemi Memorial - Girls side as a straight male, than bothering with this ~~
Nice
from this kind of reception , dont expect another release from these guys? :D
Updated to 1.13 ;)
Changes:
Added an "easy mode".
Fixed a bug in the report card panel where sci/math and art grades were swapped. Thanks to MrMRA from the forums for reporting this.
Fixed a bug where new volatile state (introduced, for example, in an app update) can be modified and then erroneously carried over to an unrelated save.
Fixed Saint Lucia/Saint Lucy discrepancy. Thanks to Zufield from the forums for reporting this.
Fixed a dialogue discrepancy in Christmas shopping event. Thanks to Oblivionhold from the forums for reporting this.
Fixed some misnamed exam feedback events. Thanks to Oblivionhold from the forums for reporting this.
Changed the date of a failure event in Suzu's ending that was being shown out of order. Thanks to mopman from the forums for reporting this.
Fixed a grammatical error that was found in several events. Thanks to Zufield from the forums for reporting the original case of this.
Fixed bug in which MegaCram good activity was not giving the appropriate rewards. Thanks to okieluv and others in the forums for reporting this.
Added a registry key "AlternateSaveLocation" that can be used to override the default save file location. To use it, add a "string" item to the Shira Oka registry folder called "AlternateSaveLocation" (for example, C:\ShiraOkaSaves). Then create that folder. All of your save state will now use that folder. To revert, remove the registry key. Thanks to João Salvadoretti for taking the time to help diagnose a crash on app launch bug that led to this workaround.
Still no skip function ... wth
lol, all these bugs fixed but the most important thing still remains
How easy is easy mode? >_> I'll play if I don't need multiple playthroughs to do all the routes, lol. Just kidding but seriously, I don't like stat grinding on top of no skip =-=" going through the opening again on 1.13... meh...
You would think with all the galge/eroge/visual novels out there you would think they did enough research to make a skip function.
evidently not
You're better off playing Tokemi Memorial - Girls side as a straight male, than bothering with this ~~
Man I wish they'd translate Tokimeki Memorial 4...Miyako <3 :D
lol Ensei > this
evidently not
May they learn the painful lesson from bad sales?
one can hope...
Maybe all the real VN players don't actually make games, and only casual ones do. Either way they seem like fags and I haven't even tried the game yet...lol
You know your game is bad when a bunch of people are telling each other not to try it even for free.
You know your game is bad when a bunch of people are telling each other not to try it even for free.
^
Maybe all the real VN players don't actually make games, and only casual ones do. Either way they seem like fags and I haven't even tried the game yet...lol
they should have at least hired a proper artist... I could personally recommend two... it would have made a huge difference.
You know your game is bad when a bunch of people are telling each other not to try it even for free.
QFT
Maybe all the real VN players don't actually make games, and only casual ones do. Either way they seem like fags and I haven't even tried the game yet...lol
they should have at least hired a proper artist... I could personally recommend two... it would have made a huge difference.
What kind of art is it?
proper anime art... heck even if it weren't anime art, it'd at least be consistent, more detailed without any glaring oddities in proportion... a friend from high school and guildmate for RO, even back then she could draw better than... well this, lol... I mean shira oka art reminds me of Paigeedraw... and even then...
proper anime art... heck even if it weren't anime art, it'd at least be consistent, more detailed without any glaring oddities in proportion... a friend from high school and guildmate for RO, even back then she could draw better than... well this, lol... I mean shira oka art reminds me of Paigeedraw... and even then...
lol it wasnt hand drawn they used an PC programs and even i find it hard to use mspaint/photoshop/whatever to make what they did in the game the fact is they didnt hire the right person -_- im assuming they only played western indie visual novels, *PFFFT tycoongames making rpg games is hilarious*
lol it wasnt hand drawn they used an PC programs and even i find it hard to use mspaint/photoshop/whatever to make what they did in the game the fact is they didnt hire the right person -_- im assuming they only played western indie visual novels, *PFFFT tycoongames making rpg games is hilarious*
O.O the people I'm talking about are at the level where they've already developed their own unique styles, and can draw the same character over and over again from different angles without inconsistencies, photoshop, corel draw, drawing boards from wacom... I learned the basics from them but I never had talent for art... =-=" but still I can see how inadequate shira oka's art is... though quite a bit of effort has definitely been put into it O.O
... 5 years development ...
... 5 years development ...
You've got to be kidding me.
Okashi Studios is a multimedia startup company founded in February 2005, with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area (Fremont, CA, to be specific).
Our first major project is a full-length single-player ren'ai video game, entitled Shira Oka: Second Chances. Our staff consists of artists, writers, programmers, and others, sharing common interests in anime/manga, gaming, and Japanese culture.
http://www.shira-oka.com/who-are-we.html (http://www.shira-oka.com/who-are-we.html)
Sorry, 6 years =(
that just makes it even more sad 8)
Hey... At least they're living their dreams... ... ... ... uhhh... Right? >_>
Sorta?
http://www.gamepeople.co.uk/soulful_pc_shiraoka.htm (http://www.gamepeople.co.uk/soulful_pc_shiraoka.htm)
This guy is just making love with the game right here.
OMG san fransisco guys the best place for a gay party aka reservation for one Shira Oka
http://www.gamepeople.co.uk/soulful_pc_shiraoka.htm (http://www.gamepeople.co.uk/soulful_pc_shiraoka.htm)
This guy is just making love with the game right here.
How much did they pay him to write that?
Has that guy actually played a VN before or are all the "dating sims" he's played just flash games on newgrounds? It's like, "OH MY GOD, THERE'S LIKE, A STORY, AND CHARACTERS, WITH CHARACTERIZATION! AND IT'S SET IN SCHOOL! I WENT TO SCHOOL SO I CAN RELATE! THIS IS AMAZING. SOMETIMES MY MISTAKEN CHOICES EVEN HAVE CONSEQUENCES HOLY SHIT"
Has that guy actually played a VN before or are all the "dating sims" he's played just flash games on newgrounds? It's like, "OH MY GOD, THERE'S LIKE, A STORY, AND CHARACTERS, WITH CHARACTERIZATION! AND IT'S SET IN SCHOOL! I WENT TO SCHOOL SO I CAN RELATE! THIS IS AMAZING. SOMETIMES MY MISTAKEN CHOICES EVEN HAVE CONSEQUENCES HOLY SHIT"
LOL. I like your cut down version, cuts through the crap and gets to the point. What happened to quality of review writing over quantity really? Ohh this explains it 'We review video games. But rather than trying to be objective we offer a range of personal opinions from regular columnists.' Never did know this site existed until now either.
Has that guy actually played a VN before or are all the "dating sims" he's played just flash games on newgrounds? It's like, "OH MY GOD, THERE'S LIKE, A STORY, AND CHARACTERS, WITH CHARACTERIZATION! AND IT'S SET IN SCHOOL! I WENT TO SCHOOL SO I CAN RELATE! THIS IS AMAZING. SOMETIMES MY MISTAKEN CHOICES EVEN HAVE CONSEQUENCES HOLY SHIT"
that what i was thinking while reading his
advertisement review
The art doesn't look that bad. Was it really?
The art doesn't look that bad. Was it really?
It isn't bad but it wasn't even on a semi-professional (like my friends) or wholly professional level... my first impression was "flash game" lol.
The art doesn't look that bad. Was it really?
Even Tsukihime looks better than that.
thats saying something
thats saying something
Tsukihime or FSN weren't all that great artwise; but they sure had their style.
of course they had better stories as well
I was talking about the visual aspect, and even though Fate's artwork isn't that great, it had the polish that was lacking on Tsukihime.
that polish would make it look even better if they ever get around to that tsukihime remake
Taking into account that Mahoutsukai no Yoru is getting constantly delayed and that Nasu told in an interview that the script and it's insertion were done more than a year ago...
I was talking about the visual aspect, and even though Fate's artwork isn't that great, it had the polish that was lacking on Tsukihime.
Kagetsu Tohya had almost Fate quality artwork except it was too shiny. It's kind of interesting to see the evolution from Tsukihime -> Kagetsu Tohya -> Fate/Stay Night.
Fate's artwork would be way better if there were more facial variety.
But Fate made great use of what sprites they did have... I especially like Rin drifting in in the morning... and when Sakura got angry =3
lol, I was hungry for some english translated galge and ran across this one, but all I saw was utter rejection from you guys. Is it really that bad ? Anyone who have played it or even just tried it for 1 hour can review it ?
Review huh ? Just a few things out of my head.
Well ...
+A lot of different gals with a varity of personalities ( YES I'm grasping for straws here ... )
+Oh yeah, it's all ages! Meaning you don't have to torture yourself through badly drawn sex scenes and hillarious voice acting ^_^.
-Amateur art
-Only a few lines are voiced at all.
-Dating system is very weak. You call out the girls you are interested in on small dates, resulting in a few lines of text between you and your target. Not really very motivational.
-Durr terrible ending video
-I only finished Alice her route, the idea behind it seemed all right, but the execution was terribly sloppy and childish.
-After every route you have to start the game again, you keep all your base stats ( str/int/etc ) and your pearks but you loose all your progress on your advanced stats, eg. arts, maths, sports etc. Makes the game pretty tedious to replay. Too many bad grades = repeat from the beginning, meaning you have to keep a thight shedule even in your consecutive playthroughs
-There is NO skip function. Seeing how you gotta replay 3 fucking years ingame time over and over, you just get flooded by having to read the same text over and over again.
that seem like some mindless stat-building game alright...
updated to 1.1.5
uh... people still playing this?... ???
Some people are just gluttons for punishment. Although, maybe the update fixed some of the problems that everybody had with it.
one would hope...
very smart of them to have people download the patch where they bought the game from instead of posting a link to a updater.
Thank you for v1.1.5.
They have released a new v1.1.6 on July 2, 2011. Can anyone please upload the v1.1.6 patch?
http://shira-oka.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/197-shira-oka-116-is-available.html (http://shira-oka.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/197-shira-oka-116-is-available.html)
I myself have experience a bug from the below changelog:-
Changelog:
Fixed a bug where after having met Yui, if you call her up before having
met Naoko, Yui will think you've never met before. Thanks to Aric Ferrell
from the forums for reporting this.
Fixed a wording bug that can happen during Hiroshi's bee sting event chain.
Thanks to Aric Ferrell from the forums for reporting this.
Fixed some minor typos. Thanks to Allen Martin for reporting this.
Fixed a bug where if you do great during the ballroom dancing activity
sequence, the ballroom dancing activity is not removed.
Fixed a bug in Kiku's Ballroom Dancing event where a wrong value was being
used when deciding whether Kiku asks for your help.
Added an alternate dialogue exchange between Kiku and Hiroshi depending on
when the event takes place.
Slightly increased progress gain in ballroom dancing activity.
Increased chances of having an encounter with someone while free-roaming
during the weekends.
Increased chance of having a date request accepted if Player has a high
popularity score.
Slightly lowered the thresholds necessary to obtaining A and A+ grades.
A+ grades will please Satsuko more at later cycles.
Satsuko is now a bit more lenient with your grades and will wait a bit longer
for better grades before ending the cycle and sending you back.
Asking Satsuko for advice on your grades will now generate a more accurate report
on your standings.
Fixed a bug in Alice amusement park date in which a dialogue exchange was not
being skipped properly. Thanks to mizu from the forums for reporting this.
Stat check in Wisdom Tooth random event have been lowered.
updated to 1.1.6
game still going strong huh?!
I think... the 'all ages' thing must have been one of the reason...
... I doubt anyone who has had experience with a quality Sim-VN would want to replay this thing (I said 'replay', it doesnt mean they wouldnt give it a shot or a benefit of a doubt).
... And naturally, to get above mentioned 'experience' you need to play other Sim-VN games which;
1) are not hosted on some flash gaming website.
2) not made out of flash
3) have at least more than 7 hours of game time per route due to a solid story.
naturally, such Sim-VN games majority contains ecchi. Sadly, that's how the VN market works right now...
.. Thus, NOT all ages...
Therefor; to those that are used to the 'simple' type of Sim-VN... This game, is perhaps one of the best VN they have ever ever played... ...
THEY NEED TO BE SHOWN THE LIGHT MY BROTHERS!
tl;dr anything but this
There was a new patch uploaded on Halloween.
Any idea on v1.1.7 release?
Updated to 1.1.8 :)
Can someone re-upload this game preferably Mega or Mediafire Thanks in advance
Can someone re-upload this game preferably Mega or Mediafire Thanks in advance
Reuploaded Check first post :)
could someone reupload the link? ty
Reupload link please, I really want to play Shira Oka: Second Chances again :)
Sorry for the necromancy, but I am hoping if someone out there still happen to have and could provide a re-upload of this game's v1.1.8 files?
Mirror Link:
DLsite Version 1.1.7 Download (958.8 MB) (https://ouo.io/p2z1gj)
DLsite Mac Version 1.1.7 Download (956.0 MB) (https://ouo.io/Oq8fIx)
Version 1.1.8 Download (953.2 MB) (https://ouo.io/NrBA8F)