Visual Novels

[Seven Costanza]

Gonna start Aokana soon. Got Fate/stay night up and running on my Windows XP computer. Have a copy of Air coming in the mail. Feels good man. I swear 50% of my "gaming" is VNs now.

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

I just finished the first class trial in Danganronpa 3. So far I really like this game, after I finish this I am going to finally get around to playing Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice.

 

[Puff]

I was unemployed for a year a few ago and sailed my way down from the top of VNDB sorted by popular. I've now got the problem that I can't find anything particularly interesting in VN's anymore. Now pushing a year and a half working from home I'm out of ANYTHING to do.
Is there anything new or interesting in the genre? Most I've played have been older than 2010. Really enjoyed the old Type Moon stuff and Muv-Luv was great, but DAMN is it long.

Got started at the beginning of college with Katawa Shoujo and then Fate/Stay night knowing nothing about the franchise. Probably one of the best ways to get into the genre.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I was unemployed for a year a few ago and sailed my way down from the top of VNDB sorted by popular. I've now got the problem that I can't find anything particularly interesting in VN's anymore. Now pushing a year and a half working from home I'm out of ANYTHING to do.
Is there anything new or interesting in the genre? Most I've played have been older than 2010. Really enjoyed the old Type Moon stuff and Muv-Luv was great, but DAMN is it long.

Got started at the beginning of college with Katawa Shoujo and then Fate/Stay night knowing nothing about the franchise. Probably one of the best ways to get into the genre.

If you're tired of VNs you way want to move on to RPGs.

 

[Puff]

If you're tired of VNs you way want to move on to RPGs.

I have trouble finding RPG's that I like. Mostly just don't know where to start though. Never really been big into talking about or following games online. Played several FF's and the standard western style RPG's that everyone has, but not much else. TRPG's are great, but that's a REALLY sparse genre.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I have trouble finding RPG's that I like. Mostly just don't know where to start though. Never really been big into talking about or following games online. Played several FF's and the standard western style RPG's that everyone has, but not much else. TRPG's are great, but that's a REALLY sparse genre.

Start with Trails of Cold Steel 1-4 or Trails in the Sky 1-3 if you want a long epic with lots of text boxes to read.

You could also do Tales of Berseria or Dragon Quest 11. Since most JRPG are stand alone.

 

[Lambda 11]

I find VN's and 2D platformers to be some of the most lazy and half assed "games" shat out by most publishers over the last decade or so.
It takes a certain kind of talent that can't simply be mass produced compared to your yearly pozzed Mario clone release. INB4 all good games take talent to make. They are stereotyped as porn for good reason. Especially if mainstream platforms like Steam are anything to go by in recent years.

Save the rare western gems like Katawa Shojou and the incredibly good VN's from Japanese studios like Key with Planetarian. That VN also had a good anime adaptation that showed a bit of the world outside the Planetarium at the beginning and end and its talent of drawing the reader into the world without needing to spend 8+ hours to set up sufficient worldbuilding like Ryukishi07 does before you even see a single character in the plot.

Apparently Planetarian had a sequel planned but its been a few years since I checked up on that.

I was unemployed for a year a few ago and sailed my way down from the top of VNDB sorted by popular. I've now got the problem that I can't find anything particularly interesting in VN's anymore. Now pushing a year and a half working from home I'm out of ANYTHING to do.
Is there anything new or interesting in the genre? Most I've played have been older than 2010. Really enjoyed the old Type Moon stuff and Muv-Luv was great, but DAMN is it long.

Got started at the beginning of college with Katawa Shoujo and then Fate/Stay night knowing nothing about the franchise. Probably one of the best ways to get into the genre.

Fate is a rabbit hole that isn't worth exploring at this point. Its a wannabe Pokémon franchise but with Historical female versions of every male historical figure that was even remotely memorable over the last 4000 or so years. No wonder why faggots and troons are attracted to it like flies to shit.

Tsukihime is interesting if you haven't tried that already. It makes a lot more sense considering the literal tumbleweed that is known as "The Nasuverse." Its more about Vampires without the edgy bullshit and has a lesser known fighting game series spawned from it.

Also Type moon can't stop remaking the literal same few characters but changing their outfits, hair and eye colors slightly so they are "Completely different characters" Like Rin, with Ereshkigal, and Ishtar's interpretations in the Fate Series.

Tsukihime's upcoming remake is no exception with Aruceid being a "Fate's version of Jean D' Arc" clone in this interpretation.

 

[Puff]

I find VN's and 2D platformers to be some of the most lazy and half assed "games" shat out by most publishers over the last decade or so.
It takes a certain kind of talent that can't simply be mass produced compared to your yearly pozzed Mario clone release. INB4 all good games take talent to make. They are stereotyped as porn for good reason. Especially if mainstream platforms like Steam are anything to go by in recent years.

Save the rare western gems like Katawa Shojou and the incredibly good VN's from Japanese studios like Key with Planetarian. That VN also had a good anime adaptation that showed a bit of the world outside the Planetarium at the beginning and end.

Apparently Planetarian had a sequel planned but its been a few years since I checked up on that.




Fate is a rabbit hole that isn't worth exploring at this point. Its a wannabe Pokémon franchise but with Historical female versions of every male historical figure that was even remotely memorable over the last 4000 or so years. No wonder why faggots and troons are attracted to it like flies to shit.

Tsukihime is interesting if you haven't tried that already. It makes a lot more sense considering the literal tumbleweed that is known as "The Nasuverse." Its more about Vampires without the edgy bullshit and has a lesser known fighting game series spawned from it.

Also Type moon can't stop remaking the literal same few characters but changing their outfits, hair and eye colors slightly so they are "Completely different characters" Like Rin, with Ereshkigal, and Ishtar's interpretations in the Fate Series.

Tsukihime's upcoming remake is no exception with Aruceid being yet another Rin clone in this interpretation.

I'll probably start looking into RPG's again. Always try it but never find anything I like. Here's probably not the place to discuss it though.
I've played everything I want to in the Fate series, promise. And yeah, played Tsukihime. I liked it more than Fate. Nobody does really involved stories like that anymore, at least that I can find. There's never a particularly well developed world.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The only one I really played was "Hourglass of Summer" on an interactive DVD, which was based on the PlayStation version. I got it back in the '00s. There's a PC version, which I heard had sex scenes added.

(plot revolves around MC waking up in his body in different times - or "day dropping" - throughout summer)

There's also "Time Hollow" on DS, if that counts as a VN.

 

[Kamui Uehara]

What do people think of the Silver Case and its squeal, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case? One of my favourite VNs persoanally

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Not sure to post in here but is your input on The Great Ace Attorney, and is it better to play it on PC or Switch

 

[HexFag]

I am looking forwards to Alternative, the game Steam describes as something I'm going to need therapy and will get PTSD from. I'm not sure how true that will be, but I'm sure to have a good time nonetheless.

So I just finished reading Alternative, and I wrote notes/my reaction to the whole VN as a whole while I was reading it because fuck it, why not and thank god I did because it made for some of the best situational comedy in retrospect.

Spoiler: ALTERNATIVE SPOILERS

Before CHOMP.

(there was a whole page of me saying WHAT THE FUCK, but I omitted it out of respect and personal shame)

After CHOMP.

It was after this point that I would never be the same. I stopped reading for a couple of days and every single time I heard that alarm it was like Pavlov's Bell, I just went into fight or flight mode. Marimo was one of my favorite characters too so seeing her die twice in such brutal fashion fucking hurt. Don't even get me started on the Sumika tentacle rape scene, my notes at the time consisted of "WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK" and was probably one of the most fucked up and weird thing I've seen from an anime in a long while. I can only wonder how fucked up and scarring this scene must have been for those who read this back in 2006 without seeing the full degeneracy of the Internet as a whole. Alternative pulls no fucking punches and can be exceptionally brutal and cold when it wants to (which is all the fucking time after CHOMP I guess).

This quote might as well be on the fucking box of the game, it's so damn important.

This VN was fantastic though and my only complaint is that they didn't put a sound test a soundtrack after you beat the game. I had no regrets or overwhelming gripes reading it.

Sumika is best girl. Yuuko is best woman. These are indisputable facts.

 

[Puff]

So I just finished reading Alternative, and I wrote notes/my reaction to the whole VN as a whole because fuck it, why not and thank god I did because it made for some of the best situational comedy in retrospect.

Spoiler: ALTERNATIVE SPOILERS

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Before CHOMP.

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(there was a whole page of me saying WHAT THE FUCK, but I omitted it out of respect and personal shame)

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After CHOMP.

It was after this point that I would never be the same. I stopped reading for a couple of days and every single time I heard that alarm it was like Pavlov's Bell, I just went into fight or flight mode. Marimo was one of my favorite characters too so seeing her die twice in such brutal fashion fucking hurt. Don't even get me started on the Sumika tentacle rape scene, my notes at the time consisted of "WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK" and was probably one of the most fucked up and weird thing I've seen from an anime in a long while. I can only wonder how fucked up and scarring this scene must have been for those who read this back in 2006 without seeing the full degeneracy of the Internet as a whole. Alternative pulls no fucking punches and can be exceptionally brutal and cold when it wants to (which is all the fucking time after CHOMP I guess).

This quote might as well be on the fucking box of the game, it's so damn important.

This VN was fantastic though and my only complaint is that they didn't put a sound test a soundtrack after you beat the game. I had no regrets or overwhelming gripes reading it.

Sumika is best girl. Yuuko is best woman. These are indisputable facts.

I got to the last hour of that fucking game and then I started getting a hard crash on the same line. Took an hour or two to troubleshoot. That was awful.

 

[HexFag]

I got to the last hour of that fucking game and then I started getting a hard crash on the same line. Took an hour or two to troubleshoot. That was awful.

I'm not sure if it's because of my shitty PC or not but I remember being in a scene in Alternative and the game crashing due to a memory error. Other than that though, the Steam version was pretty good minus the weird cropping of the game they did for some reason.

 

[Puff]

I'm not sure if it's because of my shitty PC or not but I remember being in a scene in Alternative and the game crashing due to a memory error. Other than that though, the Steam version was pretty good minus the weird cropping of the game they did for some reason.

I don't even think this was an official translation. Think I had to turn off animations, and a bunch of other stuff and skip the scene. It's the kind of thing you expect bootlegging old stuff though.

 

[Cabelaz]

Just finished the Tsukihime remake, and the entire thing felt like one big case of cognitive dissonance.
I mean everything you want is there, but a bunch of shit conductive to life in 2021 was added.
Smartphones are a thing now. They weren't a thing 20 years ago. Its weird.

 

[LivingRoom]

I think the last VN I touched was Euphoria.

And that was enough to make me "nope" away from them. The OP is good though, if you only listen to it.

 

[Monster Zero Ultra]

Wow Danganronpa 2 sucks dick compared to the first game. The Island setting is fucking gay, the ending is retarded, and the characters are way less interesting(except for Nagito). I really hope 3 is better.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Wow Danganronpa 2 sucks dick compared to the first game. The Island setting is fucking gay, the ending is retarded, and the characters are way less interesting(except for Nagito). I really hope 3 is better.

Don't waste your time with 3 then.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Wow Danganronpa 2 sucks dick compared to the first game. The Island setting is fucking gay, the ending is retarded, and the characters are way less interesting(except for Nagito). I really hope 3 is better.

I'd recommend trying out Ultra Despair Girls it's a bit different since it has some adventure/shooter aspects, but it bridges gap between 1 and 2.