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: 195 36.9%

  • 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 12.9%

  • Yes, but I do it ironically

    Votes: 33 6.2%
  • Total voters
    529
Amakano 3 is done* (I left two routes undone. I might come back to them later, this is all I care to do for the time being). It was good. 2 was better, but Shion's route is the best route in the series.

On the whole, I demand Amakano 3+ yesterday Azarashisoft. I need to see more of Shion's emotional barriers crumbling as she slowly transmutes into ideal wife material. This might be the only way I can feel joy anymore.

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Finished up two short VNs that are less than 10 hours each:
Hanachirasu - Story about two niggas who hate eachother. If you've ever read Muramasa, it has more of Ittesu's sword autism in battle scenes. The fights are all pretty good but the VN really shines during that final fight. The soundtrack is also fantastic, WAAAY better than Muramasa's.
True Rememberence - Story about a super shrink and a depressed girl. I enjoyed the character interactions in this but I think it dragged too long towards the last 30m. Still a good VN and it's free as ridiculously easy to find.
 
I stopped reading The Hundred Line a week ago, it is a big "not recommend" from me. It has a good setup and atmosphere, but the absolutely worst pace I ever encountered in a VN, especially as you can even fast forward. My breaking point was nearing the end of plot reveals that are basically the most boring answers the devs could have chosen after having a lot of implications of actual cool ideas, especially after dozens of hours of blueballing the audience with near revelations.

So I wanted actual edgy games and decided to play a game I heard about for years now: Gore Screaming Show. And I really liked it, it is way lighter on the gore than I expected but it had good setup, felt creepy and the route plots worked pretty well in tandem (though I liked it most when it got into local disaster level of shit happenings). Gore itself was fun, and made me wonder if he was a major source of inspiration to characters like Monokuma from Danganronpa. It was good, and I think with a bit more budget and slightly longer routes it could have been one of the VN greats.

Now starting an even more infamous game - Maggotbaits, holy shit that was a brutal happening.
 
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After a few updates in this thread, i have finally finished all three routes in the Tsukihime remake. I still like the Arcueid route the best, but the Ciel Extra route is a very close second, with the Ciel Normal route taking third. This was a succulent chinese meal, and one im glad i savored over the course of months, and very happy i finished before the end of the year. Nasu hit it out of the park. Despite the game being relatively short/normal by VN standards, you really get invested in the cast and the world. And if you're already deep into the Nasuverse, it is one hell of a treat.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Despite the game being relatively short/normal by VN standards, you really get invested in the cast and the world. And if you're already deep into the Nasuverse, it is one hell of a treat.
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Did you do all the bad ends? A few of them drag on over multiple days so they can add extra time if you're doing 100%.
 
Fcret said:
Did you do all the bad ends? A few of them drag on over multiple days so they can add extra time if you're doing 100%.
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I didn't do the bad ends, lol. I just went through the routes on a guide. It's a very pretty game. Might try some of the bad ends later though lol
 
Finished up Axanael about half a month ago, genuinely amazing true route ending and I'm praying for the day that it gets an English translation because it's a way sillier Baccano/Durarara. The gambling/russian roulette mechanic for deciding route branches is also genius and I really wish more VNs were creative about the mechanics they use for gameplay because it can really add to an experience. I'm on to Sumaga now which was also written by Shimokura Vio. Has anybody ever read any of his other works like Totono and Mojika? Totono seems interesting but Mojika just seems like Nitro+ doing a nukige for losers.

I also started reading Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved which is an indie homage to Famicom Detective Club and DS ADV games like it. It's interesting so far and also very short so I'd give it a shot if you're interested.
 
VN kiwis ive come to you for guidance.

Could you guys recommend a VN that would be beginner friendly since im learning Japanese and been told that VN's help. The only VN that ive read before this was Doki Doki Literature Club and Fate/Stay/Night.
 
00R-Gundam said:
VN kiwis ive come to you for guidance.

Could you guys recommend a VN that would be beginner friendly since im learning Japanese and been told that VN's help. The only VN that ive read before this was Doki Doki Literature Club and Fate/Stay/Night.
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I mentioned it a couple of pages back but Axanael is a great starter read as 95% of the text is voiced, the plot isn't super serious or expository minus a handful of segments, and it's mainly a comedy that focuses on a lot of surreal or observational humor. It feels like watching an overlong anime as opposed to fully reading a VN. It's great for listening practice and it's also not some boring as fuck moege that's going to make you want to drop learning all together. I'd recommend using something like LunaTranslator or Textractor for text hooking so you can sentence mine for Anki better. Those two applications do 90% of the work for you and it's a boon for language learning. This guide on this site has a full guide on how to set them both up.

If I'm being perfectly honest though, you'd want to find something that you have some general interest in first, even if it isn't necessarily fit for somebody new to the language. There's no perfect first VN for Japanese learning and you absolutely SHOULD NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES force yourself to read something because it's considered "easy" like Hanahira or some shit like that. It's a good way to lose all interest all together. I'd stick away from any rail-soft VNs or anything written by Mareni though as those are hard even for native JP readers.

Another warning is that your first VN is going to be hard regardless of whatever you pick but I promise it gets easier the more you read. The only way to get better at reading JP is to read more JP.

This video by Meirin is also a good resource too. I've added some to my backlog.
 
00R-Gundam said:
VN kiwis ive come to you for guidance.

Could you guys recommend a VN that would be beginner friendly since im learning Japanese and been told that VN's help. The only VN that ive read before this was Doki Doki Literature Club and Fate/Stay/Night.
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Not too much of a JOP. But, I read Amakano 1 in Japanese, basically out of necessity at the time, and I didn't find it too hard. Disclaimer: It's a pretty bog standard romance VN, and it gets horny as hell later. If that's not your cup of tea, disregard entirely.
 
>luv me a good story
>get interested in VNs
>look inside
>SUDDEN SEX SCENES
Uhhhhh... are all of them like this? I'm really not sure how to feel about this, I mean I'm not really complaining but uhhh, I really wasn't prepared. I got introduced to the genre via Katawa Shoujo but I knew there'd be sex scenes there and wasn't really surprised because lol 4chan. I was, however, taken aback in the moment after I was flashed with lesbian kisses and HARDCORE SCISSORING in the very next VN I picked up (Subarashiki Hibi).
 
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Anybody played any Quantic Dream games?
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hello John from like 15+ years ago
they're best played with a group of people, and forcing each other to playing the worst parts. (almost every part)

how fucking stupid indigo prophecy gets is so much fun,
seeing a game trying to take itself seriously, attempt to build atmosphere, and suddenly you're having a DBZ fight with a hobo monk is what Quantic games is all about.

does anyone here know any bad VN's that are stupid?
I don't want joke one's, I want stuff where the writer was actually going crazy
and thought he was onto something.
 
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MAAAD said:
I was, however, taken aback in the moment after I was flashed with lesbian kisses and HARDCORE SCISSORING in the very next VN I picked up (Subarashiki Hibi).
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Listen if the LESBIAN SCISSORING part of Subahibi is what makes you consider stopping reading it, I would NOT EVER read past the prologue lmao.

Fortunately most VNs (at least the ones which HAVE to be on Steam) have some way of turning off the H-Scenes, not Subahibi though. You literally cannot read 85% of the VN without that H-patch installed.

FrogMinutes said:
hello John from like 15+ years ago
they're best played with a group of people, and forcing each other to playing the worst parts. (almost every part)

how fucking stupid indigo prophecy gets is so much fun,
seeing a game trying to take itself seriously, attempt to build atmosphere, and suddenly you're having a DBZ fight with a hobo monk is what Quantic games is all about.

does anyone here know any bad VN's that are stupid?
I don't want joke one's, I want stuff where the writer was actually going crazy
and thought he was onto something.
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I have no clue if this counts, but George Henry Shaft's translation of Cross Channel is considered to be so inaccurate and terrible that it comes off as closer to schizobabble than an actual story written by somebody. He even wrote an entire manifesto talking about the VN as well as some others too and it's about as incomprehensible as it sounds. Some image highlights here.
 
HexFag said:
Listen if the LESBIAN SCISSORING part of Subahibi is what makes you consider stopping reading it, I would NOT EVER read past the prologue lmao.
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Like I said I'm no prude so I don't really have a problem with H-scenes. I simply wasn't expecting them to be a staple of the entire genre, I thought you had to go out of your way to get those shitty explicitly coomer games for that but apparently not lolz.
I also chose to kiss a girl at my very first playthrough for the lulz so I guess me listening to hentai moans for half an hour was a concequence of my own actions lol. I got a "romantic" ending because of that which I assume is pure fanservice and I need to take the "don't kiss anyone" option to see the main story unfold. I'll play again for the ACTUAL story soon enough.
 
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