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Let's have a thread dedicated to visual novel discussion! Japanese or not.
Resources:
https://vndb.org No.11637
>>11584That's understandable. It's a shame to know it's probably not worthy of the hype, but I'm still planning to give it a try one day just because I'm trying to play every
denpa VN available to me. Did the routes (from what you played of TJ's) feel different from each other, or were they kind of rehashing the same plot beats but with a focus on another character?
>>11538It looks interesting, at least, and the art is pretty nice for an indie VN. Hopefully, it's gotten more interesting for you!
No.11644
>>11637The route split occurs after all the characters fight by a riverside, in both Carl's and TJ's you immediately hang out and deal with the fact that your friends are shit and you'd rather hang out with just him. It looks like the first part of each route is probably learnings the inner workings of the character and their internal conflict then the second half has the supernatural elements and "real" conflict of the route. Based just on what was revealed in Carl's there is probably a multi-route mystery about the true nature of Echo (the town).
Good luck nonna if you ever try.
No.11649
>>11637>Hopefully, it's gotten more interesting for you!I finished it a few days ago. I liked it, it's interesting especially if you like more serious action oriented stories. My only real issue with the story was kind of my fault I guess, but there were some characters in some routes talking about all sorts of past events out of context and that often left me confused until I finished other routes that gave much more context. I read it completely blind at first and you can't chose a specific route in the common route, the love interest you get depend on several of your choices so I started with the guy who probably would have been a much better choice as the last route for spoiler related reasons. And yeah the art is pretty good, I bought it on Steam on sales because that's what made me curious. My only real issue with this is that some of the less important characters that show up fairly often share generic sprites with hidden eyes so
you have the princess' body guard and the MC's cousin looking like random guys when they show up a lot more often than I expected. No.11770
>>11769I'm a little over halfway through ouji sama lvl1 (it's not very good kek) and I read a bit of MOON. because I thought the hero was kinda cute.
I'm in that zone of just waiting for titles I'm actually interested in to finish being translated. I kinda wanna check out friendly lab even if it ends up being lame.
No.14039
I started Hakuoki months ago, completed two routes thanks to a guide and I'm considering reading it again to try and unlock the evil blond guy's route because I liked the VN a lot.
But there's a massive issue: whenever I didn't use a guide I just kept getting the neutral ending over and over again where the MC isn't paired up with anyone. I feel like using a guide ruins what makes the VN fun, whereas with other VNs I read whether they were BL VNs or otome VNs it was at least easy to know which route I unlocked while reading by myself without using a guide even if I wasn't always sure how to unlock a good or a bad ending. It's very frustrating, it feels like I'm looking up spoilers.
No.14042
>>14039>But there's a massive issue: whenever I didn't use a guide I just kept getting the neutral ending over and over againSame, but I feel no shame in using walkthroughs.
>it feels like I'm looking up spoilersI've already watched the anime and read the game reviews so there is nothing left to spoil for me.
No.14044
>>14042I didn't know about the anime until I already started the VN, if I knew maybe I would have watched it first because the story is interesting even if you remove all the romance. I heard about the VN a long time ago when I heard about its release on the PS Vita and the 3DS and dI didn't know which version to get but I'm reading it on PC thanks to Steam now.
No.14236
Is anyone reading anything good right now? I'm debating what to read after I finish my current VN.
No.14238
>>14236Recently picked up HAPPY SAINT SHEOL because I've because I've been meaning that get back into denpa, it's been very eerie so far and the lack of voice acting and overall censorship of a lot of guro scenes is a bit of a turn off but the protagonist is so cute, hopefully there's more cgs of him
>>11833>>13253>>13845Anti-romance has caught my attention, it has some cute boys too… The main boy is adorable, does it have any guro scenes?
No.14251
Yo-Jin-Bo (
https://vndb.org/v30) - it's such a fan otoge. It's a shame it never caught on despite being one of the first VNs to be officially translated. They should have promoted it as a comedy game, rather than a dating sim - I don't know what Hirameki International were thinking. The game is a blast if you want to indulge in something silly and unpretentious. The developing team must have had so much fun working on it. I'm sure their work meetings were all drinking sessions where they cracked jokes and scribbled random garbage on napkins. More VN writers should follow suit.
No.14255
>>14251Wow, it's been a long time since I heard of that game. I saw it before on the same website that offered a prepatched version of dramatical murder years ago. I didn't think much of it at the time and moved on.
No.14320
>>14316it's a magical girls adventure, it's not that much different from games like blue reflection, in this case it's more upbeat but mahou shoujos are always similiar.
No.14341
>>14330What a meme title but the facial proportions of the girls are fucking me up kek, especially the blonde one.
No.14443
>>14401>>14400from what I remember the protagonist steals the heroines boyfriend
No.14444
>>14443That actually sounds pretty interesting
No.14449
>>14444it was ok but it was real short
No.14451
>>14443Can I get a name please…
I've been looking for stuff where a gf/wife gets cucked, and no don't say The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese & it's sequel because I've already read them. No.14452
>>14451melancholy of the sheep
No.14458
>>14456Sorry anon, Upon further inspection I didn't realize this site gives the file two names, one for this website (just numbers) and the user's personal one, I just looked at the top one.
No.14533
I'm surprised the Eva VN never got officially translated into English.
https://vndb.org/v556And Hideo Kojima was the producer for Tokimeki Memorial games???
https://vndb.org/v21129 No.14543
>>14532Lel, this reminds me of my teenage when I was a massive fan of Vincent Price, Roger Corman and b-movies from the 60s and 70s in general. I still love them, actually.
Now thinking about it, if these were modern anime or cartoons I believe that they would have a fujo fanbase. It's always movies that are either about a bunch of super quirky half-backed dude villains (usually involving Price, Lorre and Karloff) that try and fail to do evil stuff together or it's a character story about a lonely, broken man who gets insane because he cannot bear with his misfortune and mental issues any longer and eventually dies a lonely, tragic death (the Poe adaptions of Corman). Also, vampires. Vampires are gay on principle.
No.14544
>>14543Are there any fujo into shipping these characters other than you?
No.14546
>>14544Here! I hardcore ship Dracula and Renfield! And Cushing's Helsing and Lee's Dracula have some excellent foeyay going on