What VN are you playing? What do you think about it?

Hence why I feel like I got cheated...

Today, I just finished my first route in Da Capo II. I really enjoyed Anzu's route and will continue on the next one as soon as I can. Also just played Steins Gate and it is amazing so far. If anyone is looking for a visual novel to try out, I would suggest either the two I just listed or Katawa Shoujo. Of course, Katawa Shoujo may put some people off so look into the premise before downloading it.

Katawa Shoujo is still the most overrated OELVN.

Agreed, overrated as hell. I think it's just because Katawa Shoujo is often people's first foray into VNs and it's really user-friendly..there's about three different VNs I would recommend to newcomers and Katawa Shoujo ain't one of them.

To be fair, most OELVN is complete shit. Katawa Shoujo is one of the few that actually has any real standards to start with.

So, to try and get over Sakura Spirit (not that it'd take much at this point), I finally got my mitts on the My Girlfriend is the President Fan Disc. Loving the Irina route so far.

[size=10]I can't really read japanese so I only get the fantranslated or officially translated ones[/h]

Im on my way to finishing Grisaia no Kajitsu (I think they will animate it? I have read a animenews article about it) its really good, it starts off as a comedic part, but then it gets to a very serious tone when you are going down each heroines paths.

Also just started OsaDai and Coµ, I think I'll be starting on OsaDai first.

Neither can I, welcome to the club.



Grisaia no Kajitsu animated? Good lord that will be bad. Mostly because there's no sex, but in actuality mostly because it's a trilogy but in actual, actuality because those eyes are weird.

orchard-cum-prison. So gross.

You never know, thats why I'll try to keep on believing it will work out, anyways, if I get to read Meikyuu and/or Rakuen, then I'll judge if it will be "animation-worthy"


[size=10]But I will never believe harder than my believing of the Digimon the Adventure 2[/h]

Kara no Shoujo.

Since I'm pretty new with Visual novels and everything I'm struggling with this, Well gameplay-wise or the approach with the choices is kinda hard (You'll need a guide). Usually in a other VNs I played are simply Linear because you're given choices only when certain events happen, but here You're given a choice everyday on whereon to spend your extra time and those choices help you progress with the story or the extras (sexitayms) and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure if this is common with other VN's.

And for the story? Lot of mystery, dead people and sex, that's pretty much the story.

pretigud

I finally played Bible Black The Infection. I can understand why many people where disappointed by the Game. And then you have to think that it was released 8 years after the first Bible Black. Bible Black could have really done better than that although I never could stand Imari. Hate those Tsundere childhood friends.

Re-read the first 40 pages of this thread..."where did all those wonderful users go?" >_>

Well anyways, posting to revitalize the thread.

In the last 2 months I've played Mainly 2

-Swindle HD by M no Violet
A story about a guy getting friend zoned. Main plot is about the girl that you like got into an accident that made her temporarily blind. When the main character decides to visit her she mistook you for her boyfriend because he has a similar voice, and said boyfriend is currently hospitalized in another hospital.

I really love classic ADVs like this, it still uses "Flags" and status requirements to get the endings which has 42 endings. Haven't cleared it all since the stat requirements can't be quite sensitive at some time. Just over 1 point can lead you into a different event and/or flag.

The other that I'm still playing is
Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai by tone work's
So it has Izzuki Tasuku YEAY
It has a the usual basic love story, since this VN sells their characters.
Main character moved back to his hometown, met his childhood friend and other beautiful girls later.

I've only finished one girl for now, the character which was drawn by Izzuki Tasuku..lol

Besides those 2, Playing Akiba Strip 2 on my Ps3, and Infinite Stratos 2 on my VITA

Currently playing the handphone VN Loop The Loop. It's free, but very well made and interesting. Plus, given my working life it's much easier to play on phone than on PC nowadays...

Finished Kichikuou Rance today concluding my playthrough of the series up to this point. It has been a grand journey over the years.

Seeing the framework of the later games in the different characters and plotlines of KR was a pretty neat way to tie up the series. These characters and plots are distinct enough from their reinvented counterparts to still be enjoyable to read but they resemble them enough to still be familiar. Anywho, I had fun with it even if parts of it were a bit of a yawn.

Other than that, I’ve only really been playing nukige this summer since my last post in here. Most of my down time has been going towards videogames instead so. I only actually read one of the three I played so I’m not even really qualified to talk about them but ah well.

Bernde (that German loli vn): It was surprisingly well done. I really liked how the game played with its interface and vn interaction mechanics. The sound design and music were also suitable and, as far as I can tell, fairly original. I haven’t played another VN that has used sound effects to convey character emotions in conversation as effectively. The H scenes were also just the right length (most nukige drag their scenes out forever) and the art in them excellent. Can’t really say much positive about it beyond that. It’s entertaining at times and I read it all through so that says something at least. The story is pretty silly though and a lot of its humour and parody was really just making fun of stawmen unable to defend their realworld counterparts.

Change! (I forget the full title): A fairly recent humour nukige by MayBeSoft. Kind of a spiritual successor to Henshin. Unfortunately, it isn’t nearly as entertaining as Henshin 3 was. The situations just aren’t as funny because they can’t match the sheer ridiculous shenanigans of girls being Hed by morphed inanimate objects. Seriously though, Henshin 3 was great. Change isn’t half bad though. Just not all that good is all. I’ve been skipping most of it though and only really stopping when an H scene seems novel enough.

Make Me Lover: A new title by Kiss that is kind of a spiritual successor to that one CR game with the tower defence I never played.. But umm yeah, it was so-so. The gameplay felt like it could’ve been more that it was. I skipped the story so no input there. The chara customization aspect of the game was my main gripe though. It felt like a step back for 2d kiss customization games because there was no incentive to actually go back and change the girl. In other titles, you unlock new customization stuff or are forced to continually make new girls and this sorta gives you a reason to experiment again and again. Here, I made one character, went back a few times but changed hardly anything about her because nothing looked as good.

The game has all these frivolous side characters who you can actually pursue as main heroines in the good route. I think this sorta underscores its lack of a cohesive identity. Part of it wants to be a choose your moe fantasy girl love love vn, part wants to be a town builder/defender game, part wants to be a kiss game where you customize and essentially train a slave. Anyway, I was kinda disappointed if that isn’t clear already. I was expecting another CR/xxkanojou I guess. I will say it was the most gamey of any Kiss game I’ve played. I could and did actually get gameovers. But once I figured out how it all worked best, it became a breeze.

XBlaze Code Embryo the prequel to Blazblue: Calamity Trigger, well I played the demo available on PSN. Which should automatically set off warning bells that this is non-h.

I wonder why I put myself through this soul-rending anguish sometimes. Then I remember that this was made by the guys who did Blazblue, who either made a game series that is the pinnacle of obtuse storytelling, refreshing character archetypes and climax or are complete idiots who do not tell the story because even they don't have their own plot figured out and are busy playing musical chairs with their slightly creative characters to buy time. That element of tiptoeing the line between prodigy or dunce is what makes Blazblue entertaining, because its story has a tendency to act completely unpredictable but remain valid.

So back to Xblaze. My first thought is that this is really generic, with the protagonist being the only sensible person in the lot but being oblivious to everyone, there is a whimsical best friend, a clueless housewife, a raunchy big sister and countless other boring stereotypes. Then they started hinting at things that people will recognize from the Blazblue series and those things are associated with child dismemberment, global extinction and tearing out the throat of a waifu with your teeth. Oh this is going to be a grand time.

All that craziness down the line aside, it has a gameplay system where choices in the game are made by the protagonist depending on what news articles you read on the protagonist's tablet. A clever way of melding together background story with progression and it's different/more immersive from just picking choices yourself rather than the character.

The art is gorgeous, sometimes Ark just goes TOO over the top with some of their character designs(google Makoto Nanaya) but I think this time they managed a perfect balance and it's really refreshing to see such variety in body builds when VNs of late have just decided to heartshape/slope their way through everything. Es is a particular favorite of mine.

Soundtrack is good, nothing really memorable yet but it's catchy and fits the scenes well.

I'm not sure how a person who is not familiar to Blazblue would take it, they would probably get the same sense of foreboding that I did when the hints were dropped but diminished. It's still a competent VN by itself and I would recommend it simply because Ark has an idea of what competent storytelling is and all signs point toward this title being able to deliver.

$39.99 on PSN currently. Too steep for me, will probably wait in anticipation for a couple months.

Man...Es;Cude is getting stale and boring now. Their 2 latest VNs, Re;Lord ~Herford no Majo to Nuigurumi~ and Hanayome to Maou ~Oushitsu no Harem wa Gekokujou~, is just another card battle, with static girl sprites that you shoot and rip apart....

It was awesome in Akatoki, and sorta unique in Sensui-bu..But now it's just plain boring...
I hope that they make something like Figu@mate again, or something like Quantum Girlfriend.

Other one that I've played is Atelier Sakura's Team NTR, Kashidashi Tsuma Part 2, the thing I love about Team NTR is, they always have twist in the genre and not fall into the usual stereotype. In this one, it's actually consensual Netorase, bothe the husband and wife agree to do it, with the wife actually still "faithful" to the husband.

--Kai. I think it's the blonde guy from first story who got NTRd this time lol. AtelierSakura sounds like trying to make NTR stories more diverse.

Lol I know bro, just didn't want to leave too many details cause that's supposed to be a secret part of the game that you can only see after clearing it once.

At first they were just using different roles while retaining the stereotypical story. My favorites once is
-Remember Saiai, the one were the protag got into an accident and his mind got sent to the past when his previous girl friend didn't die, and seeing your wife marry your friend.
-Ai Suru Tsuma Mariko, this one where the protag caught her wive having an affair, while in the original playtrough she tells to you what happened, but if you check the extra scenes from the wife's POV everything she said was a lie.
-Sister Maiden, the protag got involved into a 4 way sex with 2 sisters and another guy, what makes this unique is that you have to choose your partner at certain times in the 24 hour sex play.
-And finally this one.

Currently playing Kamidori Alchemy Meister and stopped recently. I think it is taking too long. haha~ I guess I don't have the time in grinding unlike the past few years. I hope I get the motivation to play it again and finish it sooner. haha~

lets see. quite an update although I won't go into any lengthy reviews and just keep it short. Not too long ago I finally finished my second playthrough of Kamidori. Getting Asmodeus was a pain but I like her. Then I have also been kind of on and off playing Kara no Shoujo. I have so far completed 3 endings. But I think there is like 9 endings in this game so I got a lot to go. its pretty good although I gave up guessing what was going on already, too many random plot twists, especially in the endings. Lastly, just this weekend I have been spending pretty much all my time playing Grisaia no Kajitsu its quite hilarious, and I get the feeling that it has the potential to be very emotional as well. I have currently just begun Amane's route. I am thinking the same thing Yuuji is. She seems too perfect, too convenient. I suspect ulterior motives