Visual Novel Thread

Has anyone here finished Princess Evangile W Happiness or Noble Works? I uploaded both ages back in these threads but never got to them. Which did you find better or did you enjoy either one of them?

It's the threadly shitpost. These threads always start off like this. Responding doesn't help though. What have you been playing/reading?

I seriously hope no one gives him money.

WHEN?

Doesn't princess evangile have 2 different games that share a same common route but have different individual routes? Sounds like a pain in the ass to play.

Maybe someday it will come over. And hopefully it won't be Sekai Project. You might as well start learning moon.

If people spread it around like idiots, it might cause that to happen. Just like that other loli VN that was removed.

That's right, but it's not as complicated as you make it sound.
vndb.org/v8900
You have the original common route and then after stories of the characters in the common route. You also have routes of some of the side characters. It's like combining the main game and the next fan disc that comes after.

That reminds me. The figure is being sold with the JP PS4 version for 260k JPY. That price is insane though. I hope the figure is not only sold with the game.
archive.is/DBoTq

I think most people who want an English translation for Monobeno would end up being very disappointed by it. Everyone memes about the smug lolis, but it's a long, slow vn that focuses almost completely on its plot and world. I expect they'll also be disappointed by Maitetsu, unless the idea of extensive infodumps about actual trains really sounds appealing to them.

That's no problem for me. Slow paces don't really bother me when it comes to VNs. What usually stops me though is the urge to play other genres instead of just reading.

Way ahead of you, but being able to translate a VN is still beyond my ability.

I remember seeing that announcement and being amazed at the kikery going on. Can't get figure, daki, and wallscroll all at once. Gotta buy it all separately :^)

Do you know who is doing the fig? Looks pretty high quality.

It'd be amusing watching anons try to remember the various gods and youkai that show up in the story. I'd also congratulate the translator for wading through all that country talk.
Is the picture yours? The in-game description sounded like it was based on an actual trip to some distant shrine.

But I love Fate.

myfigurecollection.net/item/597644
Supposedly it's Lose which has only done stuff for this and Monobeno. Off topic but I'm looking forward to this fig from Alter. myfigurecollection.net/item/604625

Sounds like an upgrade to me honestly, I get bored with 100% lewd vn's anymore.
Don't underestimate my autism.

Are these on Steam?

Give me a wholesome VN that also has some lewds maybe,i'm still in a funk after DDLC

Katawa Shoujo.

Yes, it's called ''Kawaii Sugui Uguu BakaNeko Oniichan', its so kawaii :333

You are bully

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Books are the best medium of entertainment second to music, and those can be enjoyed at the same time.
I know you're referring to VNs but you're a faggot

Fuck me for asking then

what is the best vanilla VN with christmas cakes?
dont tell me i need to learn moonrunes for that fetish?

When people say anime is fucking trash it's not because they're weirded out by it or because they don't understand it.
It's because anime is fucking trash and they're reading manga/VNs and playing vidya instead.

Modern anime is trash aside few exceptions is trash.

Shut the fuck up, goon. You think anyone is going to care about the worthless spittle coming out of your mouth?

I'm obviously joking, but I really do think anime has gotten pretty bad.

I'm still somber from it as well, and I played it over a week ago.
I hope that you did the wholesome ending.
I loved it and hated it at the same time.

My god I can smell your asspain you assravaged legitimate weeaboo. Go practice your katana skills faggot.

Same could be said about video games

Hoshizora no Memoria.

Factually wrong. Yes, it's true that imagination makes books far more enjouyable and flexible than other media. I don't get why you'd include music. But when it comes to entertainment, video games can be manipulable to certain degree as well, maybe not with the same freedom as books, but in a tangible way.

If you consider pregnancy and kind of netori vanilla, then check Maman Kyoushitsu, although that's more nukige. Check this tag and similar ones vndb.org/g1920

Forgot to add, it's not like books are superior to video games or viceversa, as entertainment, they fuction differently the same way a video game is not the same kind of entertainment as a movie except walking simulators even though they are both entertainment.

No one is gonna argue that.

The best media of all time is recorded in books, this is a fact.

Based on what? What's the criteria? If it's content alone, then yes, but as for functionality and practicality other media works as good although differently. Video games usually combines good quality from other media, from video, to audio to story.

Media as a whole really
but anime like most TV and films is even worse

If anything that ending is even more depressing,in my opinion,i only did the "normal" one

why can I see the wall through the barrel of the gun in pic1? does she realize she's shooting a gun with the left half missing?

nips why

In terms of quality and cultural significance. And music eclipses them still.

The day that the autistic weeb is finally going to be put on the same category as your average brony shitter and excluded from any serious discussion going on around here cannot come fast enough.

im ok with that
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
but thats not a christmas cake, user-kun.

Just finished Saya no Uta. I liked it
Anybody else here who played it? What did you think? If I had to be nitpicky, I'd say I disliked how She turns out to be an alien creature designed for planet-wide genocide. Seems like a bit of a cop-out plot-wise.

no link for fukami Rena?

What was that one VN where people firebombed some developer's house because he added cuckshit/NTR into the game. I saw it mentioned in a thread before. All I remember was the post recalling a scene where the girl calls another man's name out during sex and that Worst Korea had something to do with it. Hell the post went on some big spiel on South Korea's NTR fascination and how they are slowly poisoning VNs

I couldn't finish it. Only played through half of it and went through 3 months of anxiety. Fucking Sayori

holy shit
t h r e e g e n e r a t i o n s

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I think you may have jumped the gun just a bit dontcha think

Guess what time it is? It's time for:
Have a group of friends, meet insanely strong girls and date them. Have Momoyo here channel all her blood lust for battle into actual lust when she goes sweet and you tame a goddess of war. Or Yukie, who's ass is the stuff of dreams and is a natural submissive, going along with what Yamato does but that's just because she's a pervert too.
vndb.org/v1143

In news about DDLC, I was wondering why it was trending again on kym. Turns out the entry got updated with a number of mods that have come out for it. There's one that allows you to save the girls and a purist mod being worked on that will turn it into a proper VN. So I guess we'll see where this goes. The subreddit really doesn't want it to die for some reason, to alot of people this is their first dating sim, like Katawa was for people on 4chan.
knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/doki-doki-literature-club
archive.is/G9IGA

Gooks are poisoning everything in Japan

Would Ace Attorney be like a porn game with game over rape for that girl?

That's asking to lose attention and fail to comprehend or remember the book.

It's for the best,i haven't eaten in three days after beating it.

Why live?

Momoyo's only interested in one type of sparing after Yamato finally proves he's man enough for her.

Yeah alright i'll download it

So many waifus in that series and they're all good. Except Chris.

Ah fuck i can't find a download for it that isn't a dead site or requires paying,somebody help me out?

You could try the MEGA links in OP's pastebin.

My bad,didn't even realize it was on there

Big fucking game though jesus,i can tell this'll keep me occupied for a while.

Five main routes in the main game, S has after stories for all heroines plus 5 more, then the A series has even more heroines.

S,A series? are those seperate games or included

Majikoi S is the sequel, think Labyrinth that follows Fruit in Grisaia. A is fan discs that give more heroines stories and whatnot. Just focus on the five girls in the first game for now.
vndb.org/v6245

That's why I said media can have different uses. I don't exactly play video games for cultural enrichment, but I don't mind when they have cultural enrichment, like, for example, AoE and AoM. It may not be as good as a book in terms of complexity and accuracy, but it's presented differently and serves different purposes, varied ones at that, since as I said video games are a combination of different media.
Still don't get why.

It's more "cheating" than netori. Some of the girls are already pregnant but they have dysfunctional relationships or something similar, and that's where the MC comes in.
Ah, right, my bad. The only kind of Christmas cake I can think of right now is Chizuru from Grisaia series, and I don't think you'd be interested specially since she didn't get the love she deserved except for short what if. I don't find an appropriate tag for it.

What do you mean?

Being a granny fucked is painful.

You have Chiko Miko lad
vndb.org/v7707

I don't play any VNs beyond the westernised ones like AA and 999.
What is the term for VNs with gameplay used to break up the game? VNDB said Ace Attorney is an "Interactive Adventure Game".
Any recommendations in that style of VNs?

There's a tag called "Interactive Adventure Game" which covers stuff like that.
vndb.org/g350?fil=tagspoil-0.tag_inc-350;m=0;o=d;s=rating
Hotel Dusk and Jake Hunter are pretty good sorta old DS titles
vndb.org/v697
vndb.org/v5962

Chris is fun to relentlessly bully, and she's an alright stepping stone to the jackpot that is Margit.
They're all good and they have their own charm, anyways

Right, I remember that one, but I actually found a nice tag for my interests. vndb.org/g1707

If you want a recommendation, I guess there's danganronpa, and even Ghost Tricks to some extent.

Pretty funny how most of those games are either on DS or Wii, or at least there are tons of them.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I've actually played Hotel Dusk, Danganronpa and Ghost Trick, but I wasn't really thinking about them for some reason.

Will have a look at Jake Hunter, though.

You want Memories of the Past, has a better translation than Detective Chronicles. romhustler.net/rom/nds/jake-hunter-detective-story-memories-of-the-past-us

To elaborate on this post, you have:
The first game. 5 main routes, a few mini-routes and even a few bromance routes for the lads in the gang.
The sequel. Despite it being a sequel it's actually fairly standalone: all the new characters and their routes stem from a route that never appeared in the first game. A few routes are direct epilogues of the first game's routes however
Standalone 'fandiscs' that feature 3 routes per game for characters that didn't get routes in the first two games. Again, some are epilogues of routes (mainly a few from S) and all of the routes assume you've played the first game and/or S so they make no attempt to ease you into the setting.

The great thing about the games are the writing. All the characters are genuinely likeable (even the nasty ball of spite that's Kokoro becomes sympathetic in the second game when you get to know her) the serious stuff feels like it (despite how ludicrous the actual scenario is, especially for the 'special' route in S) and the funny is hilarious. The weird bit to me is some of the voice actors; there's a few main ones, and a few minor characters that are instantly recognisable like Jun Fukiyama. I know they do it under aliases but with the stigma these games have I'd have thought that they'd avoid this sort of game. It's doubly weird for some like Fukiyama because this is after Code Geass so he sure as hell ain't doing it to scrape by as a no-name actor.

I have never played a visual novel game, sex game, or the like. Are you telling me I could bully a cute little girl, but still possibly win her over in the end after I have a bit of fun first? These are like dating sims right?

Yes.
No, dating sims are actually a separate thing. Amagami is like that, where you have actual stats and stuff to track. Visual novels are more choose-your-own-adventure.

Any good VN's in which the best girl is aware of your past routes so you can save her?

Fuck you Japan, fuck you. Two nukes weren't nearly enough.

By the 2nd Grisaia title all the girls are aware of what kind of person the protagonist is and what he did before he met them.

Wanko to Kurosau, some girls are aware you used to be a fuckboy.

Not everyone likes harem routes. One of the things that pisses me off with Xenoblades 2 is the implied harem

I know, homosexuals are subhuman animals.

I only wish your father had belted you more.

If you're a faggot, sure. I understand it might not make sense in some cases, but if just as what if, harems are always best. I seriously don't understand how someone can't like harem.

If you like harem so much why not convert to Islam? The woman can't talk back too.

Harem is shit, you have to be a subhuman to not appreciate mutual love between two partners without anyone between them. Harem is for retards who can't choose.

Also, harem requires you to give as much love to everyone equally, something only a true man would do.

pure suffering

fucking flag

You must be fun at parties.

at least make them work for that love.

user, all my girls are number one.

No bully Aeka, she's suffered enough already.

Finally got to reading through Planetarian. Heard there is a movie based on it which itself is based on a light novel that follows the events of story. How is it? Any good?

i watched the cartoon show and i liked, havent seen the movie yet.

The show is alright, not as good as the visual novel.
No idea about the movie.

Well alright, thanks fot yout input. Might give it some time before watching the show and then the movie.

Key went and made a 5 part series following the events of Planterian. Hoshi no Hito (the movie) follows the events of a follow up light novel I think that takes place afterward, Stargazer trudges through the snow to an colony taken up by humans.
The movie itself is about 20% new material, as they copy paste pretty much everything from the 5 part series. So you can just watch the movie and get everything from that, or just skip to the new stuff like I did. I do recommend seeing what happens to Stargazer, as I don't think the LN was ever translated.

Hello friends can I play too

gay

>all of the sex is basically rape

So much wasted potential in this one, doesn't even touch the hype.

How's the Schoold Days franchise?
I heard most of the VNs are pretty fucked up

It's great. One of the best vns.

Kakyuusei 2

I suppose I need to add that the betrayal in the 'childhood friend' and 'child like' main heroine route, who already had a boyfriend and lost her virginity to, pretty much sparked off the rebellion from the audience that helped give rise to 'Tsunderekara'. That is the school Chairman character Takato Nanase (tsundere) was one of the only redeeming routes in the whole shit show of a game.

Has someone even started to translate Oratorio Phantasm Historia?

It already has a translation.

Those are some of the most obnoxious cartoon faces I've ever seen. I'd slap every one of them with a spiked gauntlet.

You sure? I'm trying to find one with a download link but I'm missing somewhere.

I wanna play the Amagami VN for Kaoru, frizzy hair is god tier. Translation website says they're editing the translation.
nishishitranslations.wordpress.com/

Dropped. The "nippon stronk" political 'genius' bullshit wore me down pretty quick and even though I ruled Momoyo out the moment I found out about her stupid highlander requirement you can never get her to leave you the fuck alone.

This might be too on the nose but: 前 mae「before」＋ ばらばら barara＝maebara
Just finished Chapter 1 after buying this thing in that bundle from a while ago. Is this game popular, reminds me of FATE.

My favorite so far has been G Senjou no Maou, so when I asked for a similar recommendation a while ago someone told me to try Sharin no Kuni which I didn't like. How do you choose which of the many available VNs to read? Based on vndb scores?

They better integrate the bad ends along with their associated CGs from vanilla as call backs to the original story. It would make it seem more like Monika was picking and choosing shit from random points of the game that you never got to see in future acts.

That's pretty big brained though. They're probably going to turn it into a circle jerk with only good ends because people don't want to get triggered.

Nah with this stuff you've got to find what you like in VN's first and then search for the gold among the shit. VNDB scores are about as reliable as metacritic scores

Looks like all of those are up for preorder now. I'm definitely getting her.

amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-036392&page=top
amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=GOODS-00204506&page=top
amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=GOODS-00204505&page=top

Anyone who though DDLC was good writing should honestly shoot themselves. It was absolute garbage. I am so fucking disgusted reading your posts.

Just fuck my wallet up fam.

Though most of this shit isn't translated yet, and I barely know any kangi. But here is more untranslated smug loli's. vndb.org/v16040

Holy shit user, it's an M Night Shyamalan tier 'le dark and edgy' twist. If that kind of shallow nonsense fucks you up, then your emotional depth is more shallow than your average teenager. End your life my man.

I think it suffers from flavor of the month may may geamu syndrome. Much like undertale and other contemporary indie "gems" it gets more praise and scorn than it deserves from what is essentially an average gaemu. Of course VNs aren't games.

It didn't really hit me in the feels. I was more interested in the attempted meta-narrative they were going for. Sadly, said narrative failed to really deliver due to the game's shortness and poorly done ending that essentially resets everything.

Something doesn't have to be written well to cause depression or a bad thought,sometimes all it takes is a few words,or an idea.

If you're a shallow faggot that falls for "look at this sad dog" advertisements sure.

The problem is that is was garbage in the first place. Undertale atleast had game play. This had terrible character that were generic, with a stupid setting and nothing to make it stand on its own. There was actually nothing good in this VN that makes it stand out.

It's not the "wow so edgy girl stab herself"
it's not the "she hang herself omuguh"
it's not even the "she's beat up at home girl (although that one hits a tiny bit)
It's the idea of being sentient and trapped in a reality where you have no control,with everlasting pain when the person who is of a greater power then you grows bored
that is the concept that frightens and depresses me.

Look at me I'm a big boy that play big boy VN's. You split your stomach you fucking 外人.

Congratulations, its like you've never consumed any sort of good media with something like that, faggot. So you happen upon reddit's flavor of the month and think its good. There are endless stories that tell something like that. DDLC is a poor example of one. End your life.

Why don't you name some then?

DDLC was written by gaijin retard.

Subjective interpretation. I found it serviceable if underwhelming.

Art we decent. Writing was par for the course for this kind of content and it actually played with the meta narrative with the writing. The girls were pretty cookie cutter but I found that necessary to deconstruct tropes in the meta narrative so it makes sense in that regard.

I'm sure if you've viewed countless VNs across the years you will have encountered such meta-narratives and deconstructions before so it may have felt recycled for you. For many, however, this may have been their first or second VN after katawa shoujo. I wouldn't say DDLC is on par with KS but it's not as terrible as you're making it out to be. It's short and mediocre.

Oh look at you i bet your favorite VN is For Honor am i right BAKA.

I liked the art, the music was fine. The writing was as if I was reading something that I wrote in middle school. It was completely edgy garbage with all the meta bullshit. Also
That's what makes so bad, that's what upsets me so fucking much. It's not good, its bad, yet people sit there and sing so much fucking praise for this shit when there are 100 other alternatives that deserve so much more attention. Instead, this 3 hour middle school free writing paper is what people like. Breaking the 4th wall like this just wasn't good but pure cringe.

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What's DDLC?

Doki Doki Literature Club, a VN that did what other VNs did a decade ago but this one was popular and in English and therefore revolutionary and a real step into maturity for VNs as an art form.

This guy later failed to explain how DDLC makes fun of "weeb" games in any way.

If that was the purpose, then it did a pretty shitty job of doing it.

Opinion fucking discarded.

I see, truly my eyes have been opened?

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You really are a one note book,aren't you?
You'd be okay if i felt this way if it was from some other VN or source,but because it's from a mediocre VN,you're upset.
Please,calm down.

New translation company, NekoNyan. Came out of nowhere and already has six games licensed. Smart money says they're a front for Sekai Project. Don't trust them.

nekonyansoft.com

Who cares. Anyone who is dumb enough to purchase English translated VNs deserves whatever they get.

Thousands upon thousands of people will experience video games the way translators want. You're are a minority. There will be new "anime logic" soon when hating gamergate, dumping drumpf, being prideful in your genderless identity and loving gender neutral bathrooms is a "jrpg cliche".

Who gives a shit?

Guy really loves Hoshizora, wish upon a shooting star. He got to translate that one.
vndb.org/v1474

twitter.com/TheChuee/status/934173393724887042
He seems to be a freelance TL that's worked on a few projects.
twitter.com/TheChuee/status/932009079110815744
And is also known to r/vn.
twitter.com/r_vns_txt/status/932008871723524096

The thing is, going through his twitter he makes multiple tweets complaining about subs in anime because they're translated wrong like one scene from Yuki Yuna where they translated Maou as Devil and the kids were cheering for her. He also retweets alot of stuff put out by VN teams in Japan, so he's acquainted with them I think.
Him complaining about the Hoshizora was because a reviewer said the translation was bad and since he worked on it, he went to r/vn and saw people saying that without actually checking it
twitter.com/TheChuee/status/949008498368671750

To me, it seems to be a TL going legit and setting up a platform where he can directly do business with some teams over in Japan. I'm willing to give him the benefit of a doubt if he does good work.

Akerou is the one that translated Hoshimemo. Chuee is an editor. Chuee is just the most outspoken and has defended Sekai multiple times in the past, so he's good for screencaps. That aside, you really think some random fags managed to get six titles right out of the gate when most would struggle to get one?

Guess he's making good of Sekai's contacts. They picked up too many VNs so this guy saw his chance and took a few off them.

my god it's beautiful

it's 26k

Or Sekai is under increasing pressure because of all the shit releases they've had recently (including Hoshimemo) and decided they could just throw together a new company and avoid any negative association.

Look he admitted he had read like 1 or 2 visual novels, he doesn't know shit about the media beyond the basic idea of scrolling through the dialogue while the anime girl flaps her mouth. He must have thought he was a revolutionary when we wrote DDLC.

It's really over the top, has a lot of mistakes that shows he didn't know shit about Japan and he tries to cover them with "they were intentional".
Even the name is "Doki Doki" literature club, sounds like what a normalfag would imagine a Japanese VN to be named than an actual proper name. It's obvious he was trying to make fun of what he's parodying.

we're quantum smugging now

Looking for a solo project made by an user full of pol humor? Have a go at this one.
levity.itch.io/azurea-juncture

Pure curiosity on my part, are there any western VNs that have achieve any level of quality? Not counting Katawa Shoujo

Should I even continue playing? I feel like I've achieved peak satisfaction right off the bat, and while I'd like to have some more of the characters, I've seen the tags on this game and wouldn't particularly like to see any of them being mauled to death, nor am I too enthusiastic about switching to a PC that isn't Yuki.

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t. gook

fake news i bet the user that was pushing/hyping this shit is an hero now

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They're licensing stuff that's not fan translated so they're already a step above Sekai.

Everlasting Summer I felt was very well written. The art wasn't good though. It was made by Russians and is one of the only notable non Japanese VNs I can really think of in terms of quality.

Alright I'm looking for this VN I played ages ago. It's pretty old and it's got a colour swapped Asuka and Rei in it along with a crazy catholic girl who wants to become a nun. All I remember is you end up fucking the nun girl in her habit while in a church. I've got a nun fetish, sue me

Are there any good Dating Sims/Galge set in a university setting?

VN's are shit.
Anyone who calls them games is double shit.

VNs are good games

There are a few with the school setting.
True Love is a classic. Stats and that 90s graphics.
vndb.org/v241

Hatoful Boyfriend is the pigeon one. I still don't see the appeal of it.
vndb.org/v7836

Love Plus is translated on the DS, pretty good from hearsay. Has some twist to it I think.
vndb.org/v2099

Romance club is another one like True Love.
vndb.org/v115

There's another one called Kingdom of Love, which I never heard of before. Basically you arrive in a small town in medieval times, get a job and try to find a girl.
vndb.org/v110

I just want a GF sim with actual 3D models ;_;

Fuck that game. It has a ton of girls you can romance, but the mood for them are all over the place. Some are cute little routes like the fisher girl, while others like the demon girl end with you turning the world into a literal hell on earth.

I repeat, fuck that game.

Artificial Academy 2?

Yahtzee took alook at DDLC, agreed with pretty much what has been echoed in the thread.
escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/117170-Zero-Punctuation-Doki-Doki-Literature-Club

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wew
Never heard of the last 2 VN's, user, thanks for the recommendations
eh?

>(((echoes)))
Pleade go and stay go

pleb

its like you havent learn nothing this past few years
archive.is/DUmlW

fucking lazy faggots, i swear

Goddammit I just want a VN with some huge fucking anime titties in English. Why is it the only VN out there that understands my tastes is kyonuu fantasy? Why do I have to torture myself in 50 hours of clicking to get maybe one scene with some paizuri and then another 50 hours of melodramatic crap?

Why the fuck do people identify with their porn?

its time to learn moonrunes

Bullshit. With how much shit treehouse got for FE: Fates and how buttflustered Persona 5 made the Translation Triad I still have hope. Sell your doomsaying somewhere else.

There any good cyberpunk themed VNs? any good cyberpunk themed eroge?

the only one i'm aware of is x-girl which is yuri only. So you know, trash.

There's barely anything
And the setting would be perfect for the edgelord guro filled shit out there nowadays like Maggot Baits

Luv Wave comes to mind as an example of a Cyberpunk eroge.

Muv Luv: Alternative played with that concept WAY more and better imo, I'm sure anons will point at better examples than that. I won't spoil it for you if you ever do decide to actually read through it.

It's funny though whenever I showed guys that loved DDLC for it's "creepy/traumatic" atmosphere and I mentioned Muv Luv: Alt does it way better and with giant robots, they take a look at it and just say "nah nigga that looks gay."

I/O: Revision 2.

Even translated.

Yeah at no point it does make fun of weeb games, unless having same shit writing is somehow making fun of the games with same writing.

I also got popular because it was free 2h game promoted by shit tone of youtubers, where 90% of people only saw meta-game being played by pewdiepie or someone.

i think there was a few vn's with monster rape that had for a strange reason the bubblegum girl with that same armor, also i think there was even a damn stargate gate in there.

DDLC was popular before a single youtube video was made about it.

I am talking about how it got into mainstream. I actually have no idea how it have done before that.

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what do they make fun of poorly translated weeb games? Because all of the traditional shit you expect in weeb games, from perpetually confused to MC to "what are you stupid or something!?" are due to the fact that English and Japanese are fundamentally different languages with idiosyncrasies that don't translate very well. The reason most weeaboo bullshit games have such poor writing is because translating is a gigantic pain in the ass. When you're working with a visual novel you tend to do a lot of copy+paste just so you can get it done in the next millennia, which is why so many lines are oft repeated despite in reality being variations.

That's why people groan at people making same tired fucking jokes about anime that have existed from the very fucking inception of subbing mongolian beef grease smearings.

There was one for either PC-88 or 98 that was about a police girl investigating some new drug that had appeared on the streets. I had a screenshot of it saved as "Ancient Japanese Vidya" but now I can't find it and I don't remember the name of it.

idk what youre talking about, anime is pretty quality lately. there were a few series last season that i unironically enjoyed

VNs are trash and you should find a better hobby

You people who come into this thread and say "VNs are trash or arn't games" never explain why. How do you hope to convince anyone if you don't explain your point.

Stupid refresh

Arguing that an entire medium is trash is an exercise in futility and they know it, all they have left is dismissive shitposting.

Visual Novels are not games

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Most of Monshiro's stuff is in S.

I disagree with you user, a good yuri VN is amazing as long as it is actual yuri and not western shit.

There is an Akira VN that has been translated if you want to try it out. vndb.org/v880

Is it this one? vndb.org/v8716

Season of the sakura

That was a good one.

i would like something like this, but more up to the date, and with more characters knock-offs

its not plagiarism if you can fuck the girls, user.

good luck with that, the dating sim vidya is fucking dead.

i know user, but knock-off waifus seems like an idea with lots of potential

i play VNs to work the wiggler, play pocket tennis, beat the meat, smack the slitherer, jack off

MASTURBATE

Yuri doesn't do it for me, when i'm making decisions in a story I want to feel like i'm in control. I don't want to pretend to be a bored god or advanced AI that coerces dykes into rubbing their slits against each other. If i'm sitting there thinking about how i'm going to make two people fall in love, all i'm doing is thinking about my life and not pretending to be someone else. Feels are nice but at the end of the day I just want dark elf women with H U G E tits and fat asses.

Found it, Virgin Angel. I think its Yuri though

You are in for a ride, friend. Still, I wholeheartedly recommend it. It has some pacing issues, but the story is surprisingly cohesive and everything just fits really well with the themes presented. You might get a little shocked at the change in tone from Rabbit Hole 2 to It's my Own Invention, but don't let that stop. It's part of the ride.

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My lost twin, I know your pain. I want all the cute nuns in VNs. Sadly there are barely any that satisfy this. Even worse is when the nuns look like turbo sluts with a habit.

It's a shame this genre is so dead. Devs don't even bother putting fail states behind stats. Even better if they were combined with minigames but we can't have any of that. That would be fun.

or rape or monster rape

Neat!
For what purpose?

Bump.

what loli vn's you guys recommend to play on toasters

because the movie was better than the comic, user.

Popotan

3 is "distant cousins" to the family from 1 and 2.

Can someone tell me the name of the VN to the left I can't seem to find the name.

Looks like a Sogna game.

anything in english?

Dual Phase Soukakurou

please help I need kamige i haven't had a fix in years ever since I played muv luv trilogy its been really mediocre and I just stopped please help I need the way it feels again help please

Who the fuck do these nips think they are not giving us english subtitles at least?
We should have bombed them a third time.

White piggu language can't capture the spirit and essence of grorious nippon rori gemu.

gayins lives dont matter

Do some research and then ask for opinions. I even made a starter kit in the OP that makes this even easier. Anyone can tell you a VN is god tier but they probably told you the same for Muv-luv.

The retard that made it doesn't even know…

I recently found out that Hapymaher was announced in burgerrunes back in 2016. vndb claims that it's 100% translated and edited as of december last year. I don't know much about VN localization times, so can I expect this to release anytime soon?

Well yes but why would I play a VN when I could just watch the movie? At least if it was based off the Manga it'd cover things the movie doesn't.

Everlasting Summer also had a fairly decent soundtrack.

It was a good soundtrack, but sometimes pretty overpowering.

If that's a before-after of the same VN I'm going to throw up

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Maybe within the next couple months. At least it's a Mangagamer release instead SP, so that's good news already. I read a few routes of this VN a couple years ago with my god-awful nipspeak, and I recommend it. MC is interesting, as are the heroines. Alice a cute.

WE ARE NOW IN 2018 AND SEKIKE HAS YET TO RELEASE BALDR SKY

Why did the quality of VNs drop?

INFUCKINGPLYING

It's not a question of quality, but oversaturation. It may not seem like it from our perspective, but a fuckload of VNs are released every year in Nipland. Competition is tighter, especially considering eroge are now competing with mobage as otaku's preferred games. It's difficult for newcomers to break in, so many devs end up creating simple, SOL games where you just spend time with the heroines, occasionally getting a semblance of plot and world building. Not that heroine-centric games are inherently bad. It's just most of them are unappealing.

What is the 2002 VN? The amount of animation is great

Sogna's games were always extreme outliers, and only really ever got any attention because of their animation. They weren't great for anything except that. Every other visual novel released in 2002, including the best selling and highest rated, are all basically devoid of animation.

i think its a sogna game

They made them more linear.

You could argue that more linearity should increase animation quality and whatnot, but obviously that's not the case

I miss Michiru, she was the best part of my day. What are sone good android VNs or dating sims that are not censored? Most of them are.

Hey VNDB has an android app.
vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=plat-and.tagspoil-0;rfil=;o=d;s=pop
Some of the big ones have converters or can be downloaded through a site/through the googleplay sort. You could also emulate a DS and play Phoenix Wright.

Looks like they're done translating and now onto editing.
nishishitranslations.wordpress.com/2017/12/25/sakurai-rihoko-scripts-completed-translation-is-done/

Thanks user. I'm in the middle of playing Investigations 2, but I need a dose of moe to keep my heart beating. I might replay Katawa Shoujo, but sounds like a waste considering how many VNs are out there.

That's really lewd.

A bunch of VNs were ported to work on the PSP.
nicoblog.org/psp/english-patched-visual-novels-ported-to/

Please tell that it will keep getting better and better. I cant stop reading this shit but am afraid that further chapters wont keep this hell of a rollercoaster. Fucking japs and their mental illnesses.

>Sekai Project, after being a year late, are finally releasing the digital version of Root Double on March 8th. archive.is/so3OG
>However, only US backers are getting it. imgur.com/7VPRNTi
And how does Sekai respond to supporters?

imgur.com/fpQBN4K
twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/961691002275643393

You can see supporters going apeshit here.
kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/root-double-before-crime-after-days-xtend-edition/posts/2109529

When will they learn?

didnt that faggot deleted all the lewd VN's?

Yes, I don't think he gave a statement why but I'm assuming it was due to advertisements.

it was pretty fun. only finished maya's route but i also plan to hug the chair's double imouto
i wont download evangile because that oldish style artstyle isn't to my taste

that's one of the compensator slots you big dummy :^)

oekaki related. expect it in a few months like other user said

>fantasizes about raping futa-Ayana in front of the woman herself and then proceeds to get wrecked
Takuji should have an hero'd right there and then.
Is there an english translation of Tsui no Sora? I wanna go down the Ayana route.

I'd say Invention is where the insanity peaks - the rest is still great, though.

yep, it's a modern remake

I feel older now. Finally getting back around to this after procrastinating for a month.

Never knew I wanted this till now.

You mean buff Kensuke, right? That's a dude, and is your stereotypical male dork bud in that game.

I thought those were tits, not pecs. I'm disappointed now.

I don't think she's realized it quite yet. There was also an incident between Yumiko and Michiru that resulted in a traumatic incident for her but I think I've forgotten that or it hasn't been mentioned yet.

Not videogames.

Have you ever been in a VN thread before?

You mean below average.

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Christ, I hadn't even considered it until I read that post.

pls dont do this

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I will bully your penis if you do not stop.

It's Sachi's afterstory all over again.

This nigger thinks he is hot shit when he was beaten to the punch by the very thing he claims to be mocking years ago.

To those resourceful enough, you can create some pretty interesting things.

I don't see any cute loli's suffering and getting PTSD in that picture though.

a crucifix upon you demon

Grisaia isn't always about traumatizing the girls. There's significant downtime where you get to know them, moments of sadness with long periods of good times.

Bumpu.

Any word on the Tsukihime remake?

It shouldn't happen.

I'm retarded I thought you were talking about her past. I wasn't saying they were always suffering, I've seen the good happy times and lewd times.

Why did they turn Arc into Saber?

Because putting Saber on a fate product is sure to make it sell.

About time.

Nice try but Melty Blood isn't a visual novel

I agree, it was very well done, I still listen to it from time to time. When I said the art was bad, I meant character art. The background art was very beautiful. The elements were there for me to feel perfectly immersed in their world. Along with their story telling it was what I would call very good and 100% worth taking the time to go through.

Kazuki describes herself as both alive and dead at the same time, that Thanatos is with Kazuki's memories but her original body might have already died. Hmm.

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>Can't play H scenes in VNs
I want more privacy.

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Is the stuff on nicoblog the censored shit with all the H content out or the full versions? Want to download Grisaia but I don't want the all ages version.

Why is this allowed

Yes. Nicoblog doesn't have any adult material any more. However in the starter kit, in the OP, you might find a download for it.

$6,500 Aus for my own Sachi? Is that how much a waifu costs now a days?

Sachi single-handily goes through Oslo's convoy and rescues Yuuji, she says that she is his maid and that like a dog if he doesn't turn her away, she'll keep following her.
Best girl.

*him.

What kinda girl doesn't like napalm in the morning?

You're that asshole who shit on people back in the day for liking gundam wing and dragonball arent you? Someone brings up mario in a discussion and you tell them you only play platformers they've never heard of right? Bet you're special coffee shop is better than everyone else's too isnt it?

I bet you get invited to all the parties and just wallow in pussy…you just sound like so much fun with your superior taste in VN's and all…

People like a thing…it's thier first VN…may even get into other VN's because of it.

(you)

Fugging hell, only Kazuki could come up with a plan this smart. She calls herself Thanatos but her name is really Xanatos, in that everything falls into place and somehow she'll always win. That and I find it somewhat ironic that pretty much every woman Yuuji has come across is helping him in some way.

Speeding at 120 km/h through a sewer tunnel and jumping their truck into the ocean to meet up with the central ship for extraction.
A stunt worthy of Flatout.
I'M DEMON SPEEDING!
Damn this arc is pretty damn good. They ditched the school stuff and went balls deep into the international affairs and spy stuff that Yuuji is usually involved with. Which is funny because this story focuses on him for like 5% - 10%, it instead follows the girls trying to get him back. If you suspend your disbelief, it's pretty enjoyable.

>Kazuki used Michiru to launder money, so much that she eventually bought a replica I-400 sub for 8 billion yen (100 mil AUS).
>Amane and Kazuki are reunited finally. Yuuji slaps Kazuki and cries ove finally getting his sister back.
>He's been through a lot.
Damn understatement.

Asako bought a damn island in the south east Pacific that is now Yuuji's, so he'll have a place to call home.
But there's still the bomb attached to his wrist that's going to go off in 3 hours. He could run away but that would mean chopping off his hand and Kazuki's already lost a limb in that regard.
Yuuji goes off to assault Olso in his fortress island. He's coming down from the drugs and the booster shots J gave him are kicking in, so he's turning into a drunk Sterling Archer.
Kazuki devises a plan to destroy Thanatos for good by cutting an undersea cable that supplies it with power. Michiru of course is sent to do this.
I'll finish this tomorrow.

>(((Sekai project)))
On one hand it's good that I can tell all the things translated wrong from the voice, but every second line is translated wrong. They also insert swearing into the internal monologue as well as some of the dialogue that obviously wasn't there in the original, replace, insert and remove references at random, often completely fuck up the intent of lines. I've no idea how can someone write something this bad and pass it on as a finished, paid product. It would be rude even for a fan translation.

in there share thread i THINK there is a mega link with all the lewds of nicoblog before the lewd shoah.

archive.is/2pfR3

Another victim for the belly of Sekai and another VN ruined for the western audience. But it looks like people are getting pretty annoyed by them. The comments of Gematsu show that many are upset with Sekai for not providing their physical merch and constantly making kickstarters despite being a company that's making money from all their old projects. Where is that money possibly going into? People are also upset about how they're too lazy to remove mosaics most of the time.

It's been a while since we've actually updated our infographs on Sekai Project too.

They still haven't released a full package version of Grisaia and it's been 3 years since the kickstarter for it.

This isn't real, right?

Okay guys, you should probably have something like this seeing that VN's are very diverse in their stories. Give me something that has the theme of military organisations fighting for and against paranormal, which means organisations that:
>Use paranormal means to change the fate of humanity Think Evangelion
>Military organisations that are under the control of paranormal Think FEAR
>Military organisations that fight paranormal Think SCP
Now the thing is, I would prefer a story which has at least two of them, or preferably all of them in one VN but I'll take anything to be honest.

Dude, sound like a job for vndb search function.

vndb.org/g223?fil=tagspoil-0.tag_inc-223;m=0;o=d;s=pop
vndb.org/g810?fil=tagspoil-0.tag_inc-810;m=0;o=d;s=pop

>The Oslo Yuuji kills is just a clone and the real one is a weathered old man who wants to rule the world. You're given a choice to accept or go back to the girls like any sane man would.
>They end up renaming the island Yuuji got to "Grisaia Island and end up waiting for him to return.
>In the epilogue two years later, Sachi, Makina and Amane got tanned.
Phew. Good end. Unlocked the prolouge Grisaia thing, an after story for Paradise and some other erotic scenes. Yeah, kinda happy with that ending, Yuuji ends up with everyone on a tropical island, something that Asako would probably want for him.

The thread is going to go into auto-sage soon so I'll probably have to make a new thread in a few days. Is there anything else I should add to the OP that I usually don't or is what I usually do fine?

I want to fucking finish it but jesus I can't get past the fucking h-scenes without privacy.

There's no H scenes in this arc, strangely enough. I suspect that they're all reserved for the after story, where Yuuji gets to spend time with Yumiko, Makina, Sachi, Michiru, Amane, Chizuru, Harudera and Kazuki. He basically started his own commune.
Wait, what happened to Milliela? Guess she went back to the marines.

Not that I can think of.

Is there a VN recommendation copypasta I could take a gander at or something similar?

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thanks bud

Don't forget about the pastebin in the OP.

It is, and they keep doing it even during serious scenes and sex scenes.

I like this prologue. Follows Yumiko just after she spent a month at Mihama. Amane, Michiru, Makina and then Sachi show up in that order and you see her become more friendly. You can then get why she attacked Yuuji with her box cutter on his first day.
This prologue sorta reminds me of Leisure but actually ties into before the main story. It's also a nice idea to run the story from Yumiko's perspective.

Some things of note:
Was wondering how she got one made of Nomex.
So many threads man, all these events crisscross each other that even a little thing in the past can be brought up in the present.

Almost finished. Then it's just the lewd stuff next time.

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The imouto route was weird. Something something, watch summons imouto from the past, then you have like 2 hours of happy family time where for some reason you're playing house full-time and PC becomes papa, imouto mama, past-imouto daughter. This segment is sugar sweet and somewhat boring. But then, past-imouto has to go back, lots of crying ensues because everyone was getting really used to playing house. But then, turns out she wasn't past imouto, but future daughter.
It had such a different atmosphere, and not necessarily for the better. So far it was the only route that contained anything even remotely tragic in the ending, but more importantly, I really wasn't sold on the incest aspect of it. There really wasn't any deliberation of the taboo, the imouto and the PC just got slightly more intimate as the route went on, on the sidelines. The focus was pretty much always the past-imouto, and how much they've matured thanks to being pretend-parents for a few weeks. It was sweet and it was sad, but way too much of both. Compared to any other route it was fairly lacking on comedy as well.

And so we come to the true nature of the afterstory, who's going to be Yuuji's bride. The girls have been sharing him around but Kazuki doesn't think this can last, so she wants to pick one girl out. It's going for the harem tropes but at this point, I think the series has earned it. Yumiko was bathing alone and Yuuji wandered in, the other girls came in and they both hid in the closet. They have a pact drawn up that bath time is neutral ground and if they discovered Yumiko was hogging the only guy on the island, well, it'd be like throwing raw meat to starving lions.
>The teasing that goes one between these two during certain scenes.
Yuuji is a bully.
>Michiru asks Yuuji for a private study session and goes about as well as you think. She like kisses.
>Makina and Sachi make up a plan and steal Yuuji away because he wasn't paying attention.
>Sachi has tans lines. Nice.
>Goes an sees Amane and like always, they tumble in some awkward positions.
>Finally crosses that last barrier with Kazuki. Still can't decide on a single wife.
>But Michiru gets pregnant anyway. She ""wins"" but c'mon, the other girls would probably want to have Yuuji's kids as well. I'm sure the local marriage registry could be forged to allow this.
>Yumiko knew that the solution to all of this would be bigamy and so did Kazuki apparently.
>MIchiru can't think of a name for the baby girl, so Kazuki calls her Ichiru, meaning a ray of hope and has Kazuki kana in there as well.
Pretty good after story. Kinda knew it'd turn out like this. And with that, I'm finished with the main path of Grisaia.

Only got the lewds now. Probably the most prominent ones are Capt Garrett that's been mentioned a few times, Yuuji and his mother and the entire basketball team from Angelic Howl for some reason (5+ girls).
>Kazuki invites the basketball team over for no reason and Yuuji is just past his shotacon phase. But… Kazuki did do lewd stuff with Yuuji and hence the whole team over now…
>Bought handcuffs for ""artistic purposes"" but that's obviously not the real reason.

Might as well write up a review for Grisaia. I wouldn't mind updating the chart as I spotted a few spelling mistakes and I can finally write a synopsis for Rakuen.
Fruit of Grisaia and it's derivatives are long, bloody long. The common path for Fruit is easily 20 - 30 hours long, at least 60 scenes. But you slowly learn about the girls and Yuuji as well. One thing that's different from this than Majikoi is that Yamato does have a personality but he's a self insert without much important history. Yuuji here really is his own problem and he goes through so much shit before the VNs even begun. I think that was a weakness though, starting In-Media-Res. If they had the stuff with Kazuki, Asako then Mihama, I think the story would fit better.
The girls themselves are some of the most fleshed out heroines I've ever come across. The way they all call each other differently and the group dynamics such as Makina and Amane being mother/child while Michiru and Makina are more like a comedy group, they each get along well with each other even after Yuuji arrives. The various heroines you know are damaged going into this but when you hear the full extent… fuck man, it's honestly some depressing shit. Makina seeing her father bleed to death in front of her and then staying near his decomposing body for 4 days. Sachi seeing her parents hit by a truck on her bloody birthday after having a fight with them, coincidentally being the day that Yuuji had to move away after Kazuki and Amane were involved with the bush crash a few weeks earlier. Michiru saw her only friend commit suicide infront of her and Yumiko suffered a nervous breakdown with a boxcutter, hurting someone? I'm not sure. Dark stories man, and I've seen tragedy before but part of the reason it hurts is that you get to know the girls after such events and eventually Yuuji can heal them.
You do learn some valuable lessons though, Yuuji being a coward has actually made me reassess such behavior. The heroes end up dead and in song while the cowards live and propagate the heroes. The note that while some people are strong like Yuuji, there are also weak ones that need help to be carried.
As for who my favorite girl is, Well… I've come to appreciate Yumiko more this section of the Arc I think, she has more time interacting with other people instead of just Yuuji so you get to see some new sides to her. Michiru hasn't really changed that much, if there's a constant between all the arcs is that Michiru never changes too much. Makina got to show off her sniping skills this chapter at least. But I'd probably still have a hard time deciding between Sachi and Amane. Adding tanlines doesn't help either. Also really glad Kazuki finally got to demonstrate her intellect. I really like her in Angelic Howl so her finally being a piece on the board as it were was good to see, shame it took till the last arc to finally see her.

Grisaia is long, Paris to Bejing on foot long. But after waiting 3 years for the translation and finally getting through the main paths and even the side stuff, I can see the reason all three main titles are ranked inside the top 50 on VNDB. I'm tired, but it's a good tired. And I'd recommend Grisaia to anyone who wants to get lost in a VN with darkness and a bloody good story. You start off watching Yuuji transfer to a new school and the next he's speaking to his supposed dead sister who was used as the brain for the national defense of Japan. A slow build up and seems absurd but by that point it's earned it.

Kinda difficult to surmise 100+ hours of VNs I think.

Last post, swear to Maria-sama. While Majikoi and Grisaia both have sex, I didn't start playing them for the sex. They have such a good story that the sex between two characters actually helps characterize them, like Yuuji and Yumiko trading barbed quips.
I don't mind the sex but that's not the reason I go through VNs for.

I played through Sachi's route for the lap pillows and headpats.

Probably my favorite and her after story is really good.

Sachi also demonstrated her ability to shoot up schools yesterday.

New thread.