No.3726
>>3725oh i also really like saber fsn and otonashi ayana
No.3894
>>143I wish there was a way to play that with original graphics. New ones don't have the same charm to me.
No.3897
>what are you reading?
Higurashi after dear friend reccomended it. On Meakashi
>White Album and ToHeart TL when finished.
>reccs for those new to visual novels
Anything by KEY
>Favorite works
Same as above
>Favorite characters
Ayu Tsukimiya, Rika Furude and Futaba Ryouko
No.3901
>what you're reading
Just started Full Metal Daemon Muramasa. Liking it alot so far!
>what you're planning to read
I plan on reading Little Busters next, since I already bought it a while ago.
>recs for those new to visual novels
Katawa Shoujo, since its fairly short and I'd say is pretty beginner friendly.
>favorite characters
Nakatsu Shizuru, Sasaki Koujirou, Ikezawa Hanako
>NVL vs ADV
NVL
>favorite works
Rewrite+. Cried way too much for a grown man.
No.3938
>what you're reading
Grisaia no Kaijitsu. 3 routes completed, doing Makina's and then Amane's.
>what you're planning to read
Umineko, Hatsuyuki Sakura, White Album, Subahibi, basically Key's VNs after Clannad, and then the Fate series.
>recs for those new to visual novels
Definitely LITTLE BUSTERS!. It was my third VN after Kana Imouto and Planetarian. Maeda's best work after Clannad in my opinion. Easy to digest, but nonetheless an absolute read for every VN reader, beginners and seasoned alike.
>favorite works
Little Busters!, Higurashi When They Cry, Steins;Gate (and Steins;Gate 0), and Clannad.
>favorite characters
Natsume Rin (Little Busters!), Suou Amane (Grisaia no Kaijitsu), Hideki Hinata (Angel Beats! 1st Beat)
>fanart
Higurashi and Little Busters! mostly.
>NVL vs ADV
NVL for exposition, ADV for dialogues and light monologues.
No.3950
Finished Higurashi not long ago, and I really didn't like it. But I think the point that is most interesting to think about is its position as an 'otaku' product, self aware and decidedly so in the same manner as Haruhi.
For the people that actually like the series, I'd be interested to know what aspects of its design as a self-aware otaku product (predominantly demonstrated via the SoL stuff) enhance its storytelling and enjoyment. I can only call it confounding the way the SoL stuff engages with sexuality, pretty much all of it being moments that can be summarised as "maid fetish = funny", and then sexuality as a real theme just has no engagement or relevance to the story itself as a whole.
This extends to Takano, who would fit perfectly into a Freudian/sexual reading. Her behaviour is instigated by feelings towards her late father figure, and she could use her position, to act as a seductive figure towards Keiichi or Irie, and to act as a mother figure towards the others, whom either lack that parental presence or resent it entirely. The items are all there for them to do this, which would correspond and interconnect with the casual sex jokes the rest of the time, but instead they just do nothing with it.
No.3972
>>3950I finished Higurashi Ch1, didn't really care about the mystery at all and wondered if it would pay off to read the rest but reading your comment made me decide otherwise. Thank you for saving my time…
No.4127
Pretty new to the whole VN despite having 50 of them on Steam but I have read a few of them, eroge and sfw ones and I'm always looking forward to expand my horizons. Big baby that I am
>what you're readingAQUARIUM and Go!Go!Nippon! (VTuber idiot that I am)
>what you're planning to readeden*, TroubleDays
>recs for those new to visual novelsVA-11 Hall-A, A Kiss For The Petals if you like yuri and Katawa Shoujo for heart wrenching stories
>favorite worksAQUARIUM, Katawa Shoujo, narcissu, Clannad and DDLC which was my gateway drug
>favorite charactersPossibily Rin Tezuka and Nagisa
>fanartHistoric boxing fight desu~
>NVL vs ADVADV for now
I love VNs that touches on mental health, illnesses and stories like that, hence why I liked Clannad, narcissu and KW so much! I really want to get to know more titles so I'm open to suggestions!
No.4130
>>3496DIES IRAE is pure chuuni, unfiltered adrenaline inserted straight into the veins of your nervous system.
Combining the slice of life of Fate/Stay Night, the innate draw of Nazism and the SS, the political side of Full Metal Daemon Muramasa, the teachings of Nietzsche and the charisma of Reinhard Heydrich, Masada Takashi has managed to create a new staple in the genre of chuuni visual novels.
If you enjoyed Muramasa's battle choreographies and the shenanigans involving the Generals of Rokuhara, I say you shouldn't miss out on this masterpiece of modern make.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYZBkGy1tP0 No.4132
>>4127>I love VNs that touch on mental health, illnesses and stories like thatIn that case I'd recommend Subarashiki Hibi, the quintessential denpa VN, and its corresponding title: the Tsui no Sora Remake.
https://vndb.org/v3144https://vndb.org/v28806If you want mental illness and raw human emotion, these are as good as it gets.
No.4140
>>4132Thanks a lot anon, I'll check them out, I recall a friend of mine vaguely namedropping Tsui No Sora so I'll definitely grab it whenever I can and I'll have to explore the Denpa genre a bit more cause for me it refers only to the music sub-genre. Thanks a lot!
No.4261
I've been reading Dies Irae and Fate/Stay Night on-and-off over the past months, never quite getting into either of them, but my innate desire for chuuni chants, magical worlds, pompous characters and flashy fights brought me back each time I was about to set them down indefinitely.
More than once did I think that maybe chuunige just aren't for me after all, despite my inclinations.
I was wrong.
My mistake was simply to believe that Dies Irae and Fate/Stay Night where, as the poster children of the genre, GOOD chuunige.
I hereby declare Mahoyo the killer of these misconceptions and am brought to my knees in awe of Nasu-chan's untapped potential as the true mother of chuuni.
The most recent 'Night of Witches' chapters I've read, including Aoko's and Soujyuro's desperate, defensive battle against the magic puppet, Alice's intervention and the following epos that was the Flat Snark fight within the fairytale amusement park, taught me what it means to read an actual chuuni kamige for the first time in my life.
From the loving worldbuilding to the tight character writing, the broad yet concise cast that feels neither too big nor too small and the incredible technical elements of this visual novel, it's clear to me that this is Nasu-chan's Magnum Opus - her child, if you will - the work she poured all of her creative inspiration into. I could endlessly go on and on about how much I adore the insanely well-timed CG placement and sprite movement during fight scenes as well as moments of mundane slice of life. How well visual effects are used to create shadows and mirrored images, the illusion of movement in a scene composed of still drawings.
I've spent the last 15 hours reading Mahoyo like a madman obsessed with a holy scripture and curse myself for requiring a break as of now. This masterpiece rekindled the flame of an avid reader within me and, if I could, I would love to finish it in one go.
Aoko, I'll see you tomorrow.
No.4291
I finished Clannad, I really liked the main game, I think I would have liked AS more if I hadn't already seen the anime. Lots to think about, I think it was done pretty well though, and I liked the ending even after seeing all of them.
This girl that Fuuko finds at the end is also the girl from the world of white, who is also Ushio right? The robot she loses is the same one, and it's effectively Tomoya, it kind of feels like they were going to do something else with the world in white and kind of didn't, the end of the message of those scenes is that they're both glad to be born into that world but the VN ends with them being shifted back into the real world. It can't really be an afterlife since there isn't anyone else there, it's some kind of weird liminal space or something. Either way it's interesting, but it really feels like they had a lot of solid ideas that are stuck together into something that's good but flimsily held together. Great game though, it's super long without a guide though.
No.4293
>>4291I messed up the spoiler tags and I can't delete my post, amazing, time to go to sleep
No.4300
>>4291>it's super long without a guide though. Reading CLANNAD without a guide borders on insanity. You probably missed out on a shitton of content if you didn't look it up.
I did it for the first 1-2 routes but quickly realized how incredibly vast and varied the common route is. Which isn't a bad thing, mind you.
This kind of design where the common route evolves with your choices and branches off into different directions before you're even starting any route is much more to my liking than the modern sort where you're just prompted to pick your heroine of choice at the end of the stagnant common route.
Who is best girl and whose route is best route?
No.4305
>>4300>You probably missed out on a shitton of content if you didn't look it up.I definitely missed stuff, the CG gallery is only at 98% and I know there are lots of easter eggs, although I do think I got a decent number of them just by brute forcing it. I liked playing through it slowly, I don't think it was terrible but it probably took me a little more than two years to finish it playing it sporadically. I prefer not to use things like "skip previously read text" since I think it can really mess with the pacing, but I used it for after story since it's pretty linear and requires multiple playthroughs. Having extra stuff to see in the common route makes playing it this way much more enjoyable, I think I would have burned out on it if I'd tried finish it playing two or three hours a day for three months or so.
I 100%ed Kagetsu Tohya without a guide which was probably harder, but more enjoyable since it's built more like a mystery, some of the choices you need to pick in Clannad don't make that much sense to me, I basically did the monkey and typewriter approach for a lot of it.
Tomoyo is best girl and Tomoyo's route is the best, by far. Kotomi is probably second, I like Kyou but her route is pretty bad.
No.4306
>>4305I wanted to reread a scene from Tomoyo's route a while ago, arbitrarily picked choices that led me onto her route, and somehow got a new, never before seen with Nagisa in the school hallways that unlocked because *I promised to help her but discarded the theater club partway through*. I'd already read Tomoyo's route twice at that point. It's really amazing how much missable content there is in CLANNAD. I'm not sure that I've seen all of the available gym storehouse events either.
>TomoyoFair enough. It will always be Kyou for me, thoughever.
Tomoyo has an afterstory FD set right after her route by the way.
https://vndb.org/v12 No.4310
>>4306I thought about playing Tomoyo After, but I haven't heard anyone say it was exceptional and I didn't think her route needed anything more. I might play it in a few years.
No.4344
It's hard to like Subahibi, it's a bit too conceited at some point about concepts from "tractus logico-philosophicus" the VN tries to be based on, which quite ruins some scenes. I first read it in 2018 when an english translation came out, I was perplexed but I really liked the atmosphere (it made me buy the damn book) I finished a second read a few days ago, it's still a bit too pretentious to me.
Anyway, I'm halfway through Seabed, a yuri mystery VN. I'm liking it quite a lot.
No.4381
Just finished the first Muv Luv.
Pretty good! I enjoyed Extra (even if it was a bit of a drag) but I really really loved Unlimited–it's such an improvement over Extra in every single way, and it really feels like the main cast comes into their own here. They just feel more cohesive as a group, and I think Unlimited actually made me laugh more than Extra ever did.
Well, that's done. On to Alternative, hope it lives up to the hype.
No.4382
>>4381Just about to move on to Unlimited myself. Ended up doing all the different routes in Extra so it's taken me a while
No.4385
>>4382I think I only did Sumika, Meiya, and Ayamine's routes in Extra and Meiya's route in Unlimited. I'm not really a completionist and I really wanted to see what happens next heh
Alternative is pretty good but it's already making me a bit sad and I haven't even gotten to the first fight scene yet. Something tells me this is gonna be a rough one to get through
No.4427
>>4381I really need to start unlimited. I finished extra over a year ago at this point and got distracted by Baldr Sky and some other works. Forgot to go back to MuvLuv lol
No.4478
is f95zone safe to pirate vns? there are two sites under that name with vaguely similar urls
No.4622
Much as I like visual novels I sometimes wish there were more that were less otaku-themed. Just for variety.
No.4640
>>4622What do you mean? There're a lot less tropey VNs.
No.4708
>>4640What ones? I'm curious. I'm NTA, but I'd really like a VN where the characters feel a bit more human. Not necessarily serious, just more real.
No.4743
>>4730I love Shizuku. I wish the VN club started with this but its a PC-98 title which makes it a bit less accessible
No.4776
>>4708Ever heard of Innocent Grey?
If you haven't, I'd heavily recommend checking out their catalog.
https://vndb.org/p277They released two major visual novel series, Cartagra/ Kara no Shoujo and Flowers, which deal with realistic themes and events with relatively few tropes and such elements to them.
The third and last title of Kara no Shoujo was actually just translated last year.
No.4785
>>4776>pubic hairdisgusting
No.4786
>>4776>pubic hairWonderful
No.4792
>>4785>>4786I don't care about pubic hair at all, but if it bothers you:They've got an all-ages series as well, Flowers, and it's great.
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No.4793
April Fools raped the reply function...
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No.4796
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No.4858
>>4852Nice. For me, it's a close race between Tatarigoroshi, Tsumihoroboshi and Meakashi.
Enjoy the journey. Hinamizawa will forever remain in your heart.
No.5219
>>5213im almost done with its my own invention and kinda like it so far but idk it seems like nothing really happened yet (more like, not that many answers were revealed). does it get good after this?
No.5220
any Yosuga no Sora fans? also NVL > ADV
No.5285
>>5219I don't believe that you'll have a change of heart if you didn't enjoy Down the Rabbit-Hole I and II or It's my own Invention.
Maybe wait 3-4 more years until you've reached adulthood and you can properly process and understand the themes.