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Let's have a thread dedicated to visual novel discussion! Japanese or not.
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https://vndb.org No.11468
>>11466> wonder though if the Itch.io purge will mean a lot of ENVNs will just be lost media or hard to findTBH most itch.io games are probably excluded from your list considering the excluded trans tags
No.11469
>>11460>it's made me wonder how much of the praise is because it's one of the only plot-focused furry VNs out there (as far as I'm aware)I could see that. I remember some time ago I read a let's play critique of a VN by a furry dev named Klace and if I look at another game he made from 2019 it seems to have good reviews but at a glance the reviewers all seem to be furries so who knows what non-furries would think.
No.11470
>>11466>I wonder though if the Itch.io purge will mean a lot of ENVNs will just be lost media or hard to findLast I heard, they relisted or were in the process of relisting all the purged adult games but forcing them to be free. Or maybe it was dependent on the dev opting in? I'm not sure. Hope nothing of value was actually lost. I hope some alternative pops up by the time I actually complete some shit of my own.
No.11472
>>11450I'm not as anal with furshit compared to other people but I always found the way furries did anthropomorphism to be very "yea only an autistic gay dude would like this". And when you do find that rare unicorn that doesn't make everyone look balloon animals, you're not sure if you ever gonna find one like it again. I guess it's the case for bara too since in theory, guys who aren't just skinny twinks would be nice for variety sake but they're always drawn so weird. I dropped a couple of FVNs because the art just wasn't hooking me as much or felt gross about it until much later learning the guy behind it did some freaky shit behind the scenes.
No.11475
>>11465Yeah, I did. I don't know if it's the actual most popular or even what the circumstances were, but it's the only one I've seen discussed in places you don't normally see that kind of thing. I have no idea why it was left unfinished, but it's always seemed odd to me. You'd think something would come along to dethrone it.
>>11472For me, I just can't stand the art style, and I hate the community. Plus, I'm always left wondering why they were animals in the first place. Like, nothing is ever done with the fact that it's a tiger man and a sheep man or whatever. They're basically just humans in fursuits.
No.11476
>>11470The issue is with payment processors, so devs are listing demos/free versions as a way to get around it for the visibility.
No.11537
>>11476Good for them, I hope they are also opening up Ko-fi's for tips. Fuck payment processors dictating this stuff.
No.11538
>>11460>Which one?My Vow to my Liege, it's on Steam. It's decent. I had a hard time following what was going on in the beginning because the MC keeps saying "we" instead of "I" because she's the king of her country. I'm not done with it yet, I only completed one route.
No.11554
>>11552Wouldn't that only be the case for older games?
No.11559
>>11557When I was thinking about where to post lewd games after the payment processor fuckup I kept hearing how selective this platform is but then there's those 3d hentai shovelware that somehow got past it, so I have no idea what their criteria actually are.
No.11568
>>11561I know for a fact GoG has Summer Memories and that's shota/onee, but then, so does Steam, so idk.
Unless you were referring to the gore in Saya no Uta. But still, as an age gap enjoying fujo, it's been rough. My options for publishing a game containing any character under 18 at the moment seem to just be 'don't mention this character's age and pray nobody asks questions'. I refuse to compromise by aging anyone up just to cover my ass.
No.11569
>>11568Summer Memories might have gotten by due to the fact that you play as the shota and there’s no visual focus on him. Although I’m just like you where I refuse to do the 18+ disclaimer. I think I’ll just suffer with not being able to make any money off my games and just posting them on obscure image boards and forums.
No.11571
>>11569On Steam at least I know creators have to disclose whether the game contains underage when submitting and it'll get you instantly refused, but maybe that's new.
No.11584
>>11460Nonna, I really tried Echo but I just can't finish it. I did one route, Carl's, it was 7 hours and afterwards when I started TJs just didn't feel like I wanted to put in the time commitment four more times for something I wasn't enjoying. Carl's route focused on his social anxiety and lack of motivation to do better, basically he's a NEET. So while I can see where someone would think it's well written or "deep" I just wasn't wowed by it. The presentation of the game is so flat both in terms of visuals and writing. I only encountered a few dialogue options (maybe 4 over the whole route?) and at least two of them were meaningless. There was roughly the same number of CGs as well. I honestly think the game would have been better as a traditional novel.
Anyway once the supernatural stuff starts occurring
this route was a crawlspace leading to a strange other mansion think something like Coroline there are moments where you go "Oh that's cool," or "Oh I see the set up and payoff." But I never really felt invested in the actual struggles of the characters since both MC and Carl just seemed unlikable and this route was just the characters walking around and bitching for 4+ hours of it with something interesting happening maybe every 40 minutes.
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.