Visual Novels

Do you play visual Novels?

  • No, because that’s fucking gay

    Votes: 72 14.8%

  • Yes, because I read them for the plot

    Votes: 183 37.5%

  • No, because they’re not really video games

    Votes: 34 7.0%

  • Yes, because anime girls are better than real women

    Votes: 107 21.9%

  • No, but I think about playing them

    Votes: 61 12.5%

  • Yes, but I do it ironically

    Votes: 31 6.4%
  • Total voters
    488
Baraka Obama said:
I only started like a month ago but it was immediately after finishing Raging Loop which is so tight, like all killer no filler. WotHN is borderline slice of life at times.
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Oh I know. When it gets going, it fucking runs. Then it just grinds until it speeds up again lol.
 
Y-you guys think Witch on the Holy night is slow? It's like three Dragon Ball Z fights with an hour of banter to separate them. I finished it in three days.
 
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Yes I think it's slow, I'm OK with a slow burn (I finished all of If My Heart Has Wings) but it's also the way the story is told.

I also keep noticing spelling errors and missing words in the ばか英語の版 -- very distracting.
 
ShitLurker said:
Currently playing Master Detective something something Rain Code emulated on the steamdeck. The city sections stutter like mad, but it seems that when I'm in the most focused parts it works fine. Starting to get into the Act 1 case proper and I'd say it's finally got it's grasp on me proper.

Did enjoy the start of game fakeout where all the detectives you meet at he train are just fodder to fuck with you. And I really enjoy Shinigami and Kokohead bouncing off each other. Since the city bits performance is pretty dicey, to anybody that has played this, should I really do any sort of secondary quests and hunt high and low looking for stuff in the city or beeline to the golden path? My intent is definitely to get all the shinigami statues, but depends on my annoyance factor.
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I eventually gave up on sidequests and they don't affect the ending. They aren't too bad but they have the issue that you get the point pretty fast, and the character oriented ones are after big events relating to them already happens.
 
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AWarmToiletSeat said:
Y-you guys think Witch on the Holy night is slow? It's like three Dragon Ball Z fights with an hour of banter to separate them. I finished it in three days.
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It just feels like it man. When I'm in a session, it goes fast, it just has a lot of dialog separating those "DBZ fights", which are insanely good btw, which is why I'm still with it.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
It just feels like it man. When I'm in a session, it goes fast, it just has a lot of dialog separating those "DBZ fights", which are insanely good btw, which is why I'm still with it.
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I'm not trying to accuse anybody of anything. I'm like some kind of 4th dimensional mind who can dilate time to work on a task for 28 hours every day. Not everyone is like that, and I know it. It's just that when I see people who aren't as insane as I am say things like this, it kinda gets me outta my own funk a bit.
 
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AWarmToiletSeat said:
No, the CD covers on the bottom left of the image are other games Nexton owns. The image itself comes from the remake of ONE that released on steam last month. I know Maeda's old tactics games have fan patches.


Look into the Denpa genre. Stuff like Subarashiki Hibi. Maybe Artificial Pidgeons too.
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I just finished Subarashiki Hibi. I was very impressed with it.

If you are ok with yaoi there's Sweet Pool. It's kinda like Saya No Uta. But I found it to be rather nauseating. I have a strong stomach for weird stuff and it was just so messed up in so many ways.

Another one I like (no yaoi I promise) is Swan Song. MC is walking to a vending a machine in the snow when the ground starts shaking violently. When he comes to his whole neighborhood is leveled. He eventually finds survivors but no contact with the outside world is possible. And it never stops snowing. Life gets rough fast and the story is pretty good. I really felt for the characters.
 
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Unless this is just a huge troll by the social media guy at Shiravune, it looks like we're getting Mashiro Iro Symphony in English. This game is one of the oldest white whales that the community had back in the day. There was like one guy who got 80% done with the common route back in the fuwanovel days, but there's been nothing since then. That being said, I haven't seen a whole lot of praise for straightforward moege here on the KF thread, so don't go in expecting a masterpiece. It's just a high school romance VN with REALLY good artwork.

 
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AWarmToiletSeat said:
Unless this is just a huge troll by the social media guy at Shiravune, it looks like we're getting Mashiro Iro Symphony in English. This game is one of the oldest white whales that the community had back in the day. There was like one guy who got 80% done with the common route back in the fuwanovel days, but there's been nothing since then. That being said, I haven't seen a whole lot of praise for straightforward moege here on the KF thread, so don't go in expecting a masterpiece. It's just a high school romance VN with REALLY good artwork.

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Of course, MY white whale also being a straightforward highschool romance VN with Godlike artwork will forever remain out of my reach because god hates me.
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Anyone playing I wani? If so, opinions so far, is it any good compared to snoot or has cavemanon surpassed himself when it comes to the field of anthropomorphic handicapped girls romance novels?
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I tried the anime and it really misses the point of the protagonist being very anti social. Very few routes in the game involve more than 1-2 characters which is a great change to the usual bloated cast.
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I'd say the anime does a pretty decent job characterizing Tomoya, it just does most of it visually, rather than through text. So, it's easier to overlook.
 
Just finished Dies Irae and it was pretty good. I was a bit soured on it towards the end because it just felt like I was watching the same battle for the 4th time in a row but with slightly different text so I had to pay attention when the skip function would otherwise let me speed through, but the final ending and the way things came together was good enough to make me not regret sticking things out.

It could have been at least 15 hours shorter though because damn if the writing wasn't self-indulgent. As long as you know you're getting into a super edgy story (edgy as in, the MC's weapon is some kind of combo of french girl and the guillotine that decapitated her during the French Revolution) that takes even the typical "JRPG heroes kill God" cliché to an extreme I think it's worth checking out. It's tropey and edgy to the max but it embraces and runs with it so fuck irony-poisoned redditors that can't appreciate it.
 
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Just played Everlasting Summer for the first time. Always thought the art style was weird and ignored it, but something made me pick it up a few days ago. I can now say that imageboards have some sort of insane talent to make fun vns.
 
I just finished Sayonara o Oshiete. Even though I read the translation was bad and the translator took down his patched I played the patched version anyway. A complaint was that an important story twist was leaked early on by the translation. But I didn't notice this. Maybe I didn't encounter that event. I enjoy the denpa genre.
 
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