Visual Novels

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Do you play visual Novels?

  • No, because that’s fucking gay

    Votes: 83 15.7%

  • Yes, because I read them for the plot

    Votes: 196 37.0%

  • No, because they’re not really video games

    Votes: 34 6.4%

  • Yes, because anime girls are better than real women

    Votes: 116 21.9%

  • No, but I think about playing them

    Votes: 68 12.8%

  • Yes, but I do it ironically

    Votes: 33 6.2%
  • Total voters
    530
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I want to argue that Witch on the Holy Night was good, but that's a remake of his older work, he basically stopped writing for anything besides FGO.

Gacha games really are the death of good game writers, like Yoko Taro (well... unique at least).
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Witch was good, but yeah, it was old. I just want to go back, back when Type Moon wasn't a glorified slot machine. Before FGO they had so many fucking ideas. Some panned out, some got turned into other things, now it just feels like they just chug. I was actually suprised with the amount of after launch support F/SN Remastered got after being released a glitchy mess. Surprised they cared really.
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
The creators behind Muv Luv said they were going to be the next fate, and their gacha just went down in flames
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Fate hit the right balance between plot, waifus, and romance. Initially. Then it just became waifus and autistic lore. Which is fine. But it's missing part of what made it special initially. That and I don't think that there's been any protagonist as good as Shirou. Like I don't even remember the FGO guy, ngl.
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
The creators behind Muv Luv said they were going to be the next fate, and their gacha just went down in flames
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Kouki has his own fucking problems announcing a sequel to Alternative (how unless it follows the plot of TDA) and then following it up with a shitty anime tied to NFTs. Ryukishi is off in Higurashi spinoff land for the forseeable future while Silent Hill F and Ciconia Phase 2 languish. Key is also working on Gacha games.

Does anybody know what SCA-DI is up to other than RTing futa on twitter? I'm not sure if the Sakura no Uta sequel is still being worked on or not.
 
I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
New to this stuff. I did like DDLC, you guys recommend anything spooky, or more adventure based?
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Death Mark, it's a great spooky adventure/visual novel hybrid, so it fits both of those criteria. It's part of a series so if you like it there's a very good sequel, and 3rd one I haven't played yet.

For more adventure based stuff there's Hotel Dusk & its sequel. I also second Raging Loop, it's really good.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Fate hit the right balance between plot, waifus, and romance. Initially. Then it just became waifus and autistic lore. Which is fine. But it's missing part of what made it special initially. That and I don't think that there's been any protagonist as good as Shirou. Like I don't even remember the FGO guy, ngl.
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Fate has more well known characters archetypes (ie, like half of the servants are reskins of either the original novel characters, with like another sixth being reskin of popular servants in game). It can also balance character deaths way better in the plot due to the throne of heroes lore. Muv Luv I don't think has that famous characters and it's known for sad moments that really won't go well with gacha crowd.

God damn, now I want someone to crack the game just to grief the whales.

Frederica Bernkastel said:
Raging Loop
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The sequel should come around next year. I don't know if it's the game that has a returning character (the little girl).
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Fate has more well known characters archetypes (ie, like half of the servants are reskins of either the original novel characters, with like another sixth being reskin of popular servants in game). It can also balance character deaths way better in the plot due to the throne of heroes lore. Muv Luv I don't think has that famous characters and it's known for sad moments that really won't go well with gacha crowd.

God damn, now I want someone to crack the game just to grief the whales.
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The throne of heroes fixes the death issue nicely. Nobody truly dies, but dying also has consequences, and isn't fun. It also let's the parallel worlds shit exist without breaking Canon.
 
Getting back to usual VNs, I ran through two routes of Happy Saint Sheol since I saw it had high rating.

It's not good. The main issue is that it's hard to understand what's even happening, not just because it's denpa, but the translation feels iffy and a ton of scenes were cut from the game due to the excessive gore (and no, the official patch does not restore them) so at every moment it's hard to be sure if the lack of logic is intentional or not. The UI is also abysmal, way too clunky and doesn't let you skip text or affect speed. Having no voice or even sound effects makes understanding what's happening or tone harder (the devs should have at least done the latter). The plot itself has potential but I just don't care enough about the characters to piece what happened (isn't helped the game seemingly takes place after the hero dies in the original route) and the setting itself has weird use of both medieval and modern technology (denpa does not carry well to fantasy setting since you don't know if it actually logical or not).
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Getting back to usual VNs, I ran through two routes of Happy Saint Sheol since I saw it had high rating.

It's not good. The main issue is that it's hard to understand what's even happening, not just because it's denpa, but the translation feels iffy and a ton of scenes were cut from the game due to the excessive gore (and no, the official patch does not restore them) so at every moment it's hard to be sure if the lack of logic is intentional or not. The UI is also abysmal, way too clunky and doesn't let you skip text or affect speed. Having no voice or even sound effects makes understanding what's happening or tone harder (the devs should have at least done the latter). The plot itself has potential but I just don't care enough about the characters to piece what happened (isn't helped the game seemingly takes place after the hero dies in the original route) and the setting itself has weird use of both medieval and modern technology (denpa does not carry well to fantasy setting since you don't know if it actually logical or not).
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Man, am I glad I dodged that bullet. It's not expensive, but I skipped on it since I already had plenty of other stuff in my cart on top of Raging Loop.
 
Speaking of expensive, I checked the Grisaia Trilogy price and it's $60 fucking bucks. It's apparently a trilogy so it's kinda understandable, but I'd like to be able to just get one of the games on Switch instead of the whole package. I'm sure it's probably available elsewhere but I'd rather play on Switch.
 
I've been playing Tsukikana with Textractor helping me translate. It's a bit of a process, but I like it a lot so far. The gist of it is, from what I can gather, there's a girl named Touka who can manipulate time. She does this to avoid her own death and spend more time with the protagonist, who she has an unrequited crush on.

Touka's a pretty fun character, very similar to Maya from the developer's previous game Hatsukoi 1/1, who is a character I like enough to have purchased merchandise for... I never buy merch, so that should tell you something.
 
Waifu Denier said:
Same exact voice actress
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I may... or may not have developed a psychotic disposition toward Harumi Sakurai's voice as a result of reading Hatsukoi 1/1. Not sending supterchats to her VTuber persona levels or anything, because that's just not the kind of life I want to live. But, it may be the case that I start salivating as a Pavlovian response when I see her listed in anything.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Speaking of expensive, I checked the Grisaia Trilogy price and it's $60 fucking bucks. It's apparently a trilogy so it's kinda understandable, but I'd like to be able to just get one of the games on Switch instead of the whole package. I'm sure it's probably available elsewhere but I'd rather play on Switch.
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There is a JP physical copy that has English, you might be able to find a better price for that.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Speaking of expensive, I checked the Grisaia Trilogy price and it's $60 fucking bucks. It's apparently a trilogy so it's kinda understandable, but I'd like to be able to just get one of the games on Switch instead of the whole package. I'm sure it's probably available elsewhere but I'd rather play on Switch.
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To be fair, Fruit of Grisaia is like 50-70 hours long on its own. That common route is beefy and each route is about 8-10 hours on its own. You'd be better off just pirating the PC version (or buying it because its on sale on Steam ATM) and installing the HCG patch or waiting until somebody bothers to translate the recently released Remastered version which might take god knows how long.

The H patch isn't just sex scenes, it also contains all of the raunchy jokes that the all ages version had to cut.
 
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