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**Title**: Angel Beats! -1st beat-
**Length**: Long (30 - 50 hours)
**Year**: Japan 2015-06-26, English Patch 2018-09-30
**Developer**: Key
**Publishers**: Key
**Language**: English
**Voice**: Japanese
**Translation**: [Alka Translations](https://alkatranslations.com/angel-beats-1st-beat-translation-patch-released/)
**Description**:
Angel Beats! is a collaboration project of Key, Dengeki G's, and Aniplex.
The story of the visual novel is to be based on the Angel Beats! anime series. The player takes on the role of Otonashi, a newcomer to the Afterlife who finds himself in the middle of a struggle between a group of students who call themselves the Shinda Sekai Sensen ("Afterlife Battlefront"), or SSS for short, and a mysterious girl who is known under the alias of Tenshi (Angel). The story will undergo changes from the original anime and will include story routes with each of the characters. It also stated that Otonashi will be very different than his original personality in the anime, and will change according to the choices made by the player.
**Important**:
1. You need to change system locale to Japanese.
**Screenshots**:
Is this just one part of the visual novel, VNDB has it down has a partial patch, is there going to be more "beats"?
Looks like it's supposed to be 6 volumes which means 1st Beat isn't the full visual novel.
@Shaun This is the full game, fully translated with a patch that came a few days ago. At the time of the announcment of this VN, it was said to be the 1st of a serie of 6 Angel Beats! VN. This one, 1st beat came out 5 years ago and since then we haven't had any news about the status of the others...They might be cancelled, postponned or being reworked as a single sequel in secret we don't know. However this game is a full fleged VN with dozens of hours of contents to go through and entirely worth it on its own. We might get the sequels or not but this is already amazing as a standalone.
I think Jun Maeda was sick for a bit for the delay on the rest of the volumes. Seems he has recovered since he announced some original stuff coming up soon.
Getting DirectX errors, even though I have DirectX9 installed and every iteration of it. Running W7 Pro in a VM. It also happens on my W10 installation too. Anyone know of any fixes?
Edit: Nvm, forgot to enable 3D acceleration for my VM, so that fixed it for me.
Appreciate this :)
So the more I look into it. It seems Angel Beats 1st beat is 1/6 full games. Even on its own, it's full of content and routes to do.
Jun Maeda was sick (heart problems) and delayed the project after 1st beat. But now, it seems he's doing okay and plans to announce future projects regarding Angel Beats and Charlotte this year.
Perfect timing really, since this year is actually the 5th Anniversary of Angel Beats and this share comes out
I don't know much about Charlotte. Wasn't it completed or did it end on a cliffhangar?
https://twitter.com/kamisama_Ch_AB/status/1245365791039479810?s=20
Good job!!!!
Unfortunately, the tweet you linked to there turned out to be talking about Kami ni Natta Hi, the next Jun Maeda/PA Works collaboration anime (making it essentially the spiritual successor to Angel Beats and Charlotte). There's been no news of 2nd Beat since the first game's release, and there's no compelling evidence to indicate it's currently in development at all
@SomaHeir I'm like a year late to the conversation, but Charlotte had a proper ending. It just feels rushed, because the crazy amount of stuff stuffed into like 13 episodes or whatever it was. It still was really good at tugging at your heart strings though. I think it's worth watching at least once.
@HaouRex If like me the problem you had with the anime was its rushedness, then this visual novel definitely fixes that. Due to being the first part of a canceled six part series though, it unfortunately doesn't have a very satisfying ending with the game covering roughly the first 11 episodes of the anime.
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