Visual Novels

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Do you play visual Novels?

  • No, because that’s fucking gay

    Votes: 84 15.8%

  • Yes, because I read them for the plot

    Votes: 196 36.8%

  • No, because they’re not really video games

    Votes: 34 6.4%

  • Yes, because anime girls are better than real women

    Votes: 116 21.8%

  • No, but I think about playing them

    Votes: 68 12.8%

  • Yes, but I do it ironically

    Votes: 34 6.4%
  • Total voters
    532
I think the only actual VN I've played so far is Hourglass of Summer. It's on DVD, so it just needs a DVD player to run (the remote is used to make selections). It's over a decade old now, and the store I bought it from no longer exists.
 
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Thanks, although I still normally just use my DVD in a regular DVD player. Said DVD (which was marketed as "Anime Play" by Hirameki) is apparently a port of some PS2 game, and the eroge was a PC release later - the worksafe PS2 game came first.
 
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All I have are Analogue: A Hate Story and Planetarian. On the other hand I'm convinced Planetarian straight up helped me start creating my own shit when I really wanted to start writing so I owe that one a lot.

I also had a friend who I saw play through Fate/stay Night and Ever17.
 
Out of curiosity, has anyone else played one of the more messed-up yaoi games, Enzai?
 
Don't think I've...ever heard of it, actually. Could use a quick primer though.
 
So, due to @MehicTUH_92, I am currently engrossed in this one VN called Shikkoku no Sharnoth.

Pretty dresses, steampunk aesthetic, and a theme I can't get out of my head. Kawaii~.
 
John Titor said:
Zero Escape 3 confirmed release date is June 28, 2016.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=E8z9yogpeUAHave a nice trailer.
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Now I another game to look forward to this next month.

As I mentioned in the playing now thread, I've been playing A Little Lilly Princess which is a bit of a hybrid of a visual novel and a life sim (think Princess Maker). It's based off of the novel, A Little Princess, and since I love PM-style life sims, I had to try it out. There characters' ages have been upped and there are shojo-ai elements in it, but thankfully, Lottie has only a mother-daughter relationship with the main character (Sarah). Although I've only gone through Jessie's route, you're not getting anything more than a kiss and the love she had for Sarah was nicely done.

Speaking of old novels, if you're a Jane Austin fan, you'd like Matches & Matrimony. The art kind of sucks, but it's a VA with life sim aspects as well.
 
It's not really a "Visual" novel, more of a straight up interative novel, but 80 Days is fucking fantastic. It's a homage to the classic book Around the World in 80 days, where you must help your master circumvent the globe by thrifty trading, choosing good routes, and most importantly reading a fan fucking tastic story along the way. My last game had me dying in the north pole after attempting to cheat (going around the north pole and back to England because it's technically still circumnavigating). I've also on other runs lost a week due to going to Sevastapol, which was under military cordon, been stuck in a seige in Mexico, traveled in a walking city of all things, and even attempted to go to the moon!

So all and all it's well worth however much they charge for it on the android store these days.
 
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It's not really a "Visual" novel, more of a straight up interative novel, but 80 Days is fucking fantastic. It's a homage to the classic book Around the World in 80 days, where you must help your master circumvent the globe by thrifty trading, choosing good routes, and most importantly reading a fan fucking tastic story along the way. My last game had me dying in the north pole after attempting to cheat (going around the north pole and back to England because it's technically still circumnavigating). I've also on other runs lost a week due to going to Sevastapol, which was under military cordon, been stuck in a seige in Mexico, traveled in a walking city of all things, and even attempted to go to the moon!

So all and all it's well worth however much they charge for it on the android store these days.
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Totally seconding this recommendation. It's got more gameplay / strategy than your typical "visual novel," and it can actually be quite difficult if you get dealt a bad RNG event. The setting is interesting too, as kind of this steampunk-esque / World War I era world.
 
I've played a fair amount of VNs myself. Last all-ages game I played was Steins;Gate for the Vita. Last eroge I played was Sweet Sweat in Summer. It's rather daring for Mangagamer to bring over a loli-only nukige.
 
Got into VNs again after a long, long break from them. Started with Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate which was something I wanted to play for awhile because the art looked cool. I went in expecting typical school slice of life shit only to some kind of hilarious story about the main girl being an abusive faggot that force feeds the main character chocolate because uh deep dark backstory and a very odd school setting that I don't even know how to describe. It was fun while it lasted though.
Then I hit up a little bit of Little Busters, G-Senjou no Maou, Grisaia no Kajitsu, and Majikoi . All of them were pretty good, but Majikoi and Grisaia were really fun. Great character banter in both of those, especially Majikoi. Even the H-Scenes were funny to me in Majikoi, was a lot of fun to go through. Majikoi S was good too, but the new main cast didn't have the punch of the original. It did have absolutely fucking bitchin music which is the last thing I expected from that VN.
 
I've played a few here and there, some eroges my friend recommended me and at one point Katawa Shoujo. the last one I ever did was Clannad and I ended up crying at it so much, the story was endearing with a subtle sad undernote. I mainly played it because I watched the anime years ago and that also made cry like a little bitch as well as the ending theme for season 1 catchy as hell.
 
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