Vorathiel

My reasoning exactly. ...I should have voted for Iwaihime. Damn.

Welp, I voted for Caucasus ~Nanatsuki no Nie~ from Innocent Grey and White Album 2. I should have vote for maybe 428 as well, but whatever. Anyway - nothing (except for maybe Valusia, but I still haven't read anything from Steampunk series) from you proposed here was interesting 'at first glance' to me. ;d

We have upcoming Dies Irae, and Baldr Sky was picked up. Muramasa is in JAST hands (sigh), and...that's basically it? Is there any more 'epic' great VNs?

^ Same here, I like that system a lot. Probably the best one in plot driven story, but with obligatory romances for VN audiences, who can't live without them. Anyway thanks for the review, now I know that I will read 11e, but with a massive amount of salt, because I don't believe you, never again. Because Comyu is Sharin-level shit and somehow you liked it.

Well, that's finally something I'm looking forward to. Young Chocola and Vanilla, as seen in first Nekopara:

Read it. It gets much worse from now. And at the same time - thematically - much better and more complex. You somehow 'miiight' like it.

I love reading posts like that. I really hope that one day I will be able to put my thoughts in such a cohesive and non 'raging' way. Since you're about to start Asuka route - I will say that worst is behind you. Asuka route is fairly 'enjoyable' typical for charage route. Something that could easily take place in Hoshizora no Memoria, or something similiar. It's not good - but it's not insulting to their audience and to their own (pretty decent) plot ideas.

Yup, finally something we can clearly agree upon. The truth is though - the VNs 'for me' are sometimes hard to distinguish from those 'not for me'. I loved i/o and Remeber11. I disliked Ever17. I loved 'comedy gold' Majikoi'. I hated another 'comedy gold' Grisaia. It's really hard to find something that I know it would please me. Himawari ought to be "character driven story in 'grounded' sf setting, with deep, developed characters". And I like character driven stories. I love deep characters. But here... I disliked everybody except for Momoji, and situations and 'depth' of those characters were way out of my 'likings'. (I don't found them particullary deep either). So, yeah. It's hard. But I will not stop trying, because when I find gems, all this struggling, all this rage, all this sadness and pain turns to be a worthwile road to happiness. Because for each Himawari there is Flowers, and for each Sharin no Kuni there is Kara No Shoujo 2. ...and I kinda love 'hating' things. So there is also that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Funnerific - did you read Sunflower?

Majikoi A2. Very uneven. First route, Monshiro was one of the worst and most boring Majikoi routes ever. Absolutely nothing, hard streched few hours of completly nothing. Second route, Seiso. My god, Takahiro is a god of light tonned chuuni. Amazing first half of the route, Seiso is great charatcer, and all those fights and 'power levels' and intrugues are just really god and fun to read. Especially considering the fact that fights are really short and not overlly detailed. Can't wait for more, hope this will keep it's quality level.

I'm reading after stories, I'm in the first one, and... it's really good! Best part of the game, easily. It have great mood (with elements of even 'mystery thriller' in it!), good story, interesting, mature characters, no idiotic unfunny humour, no Aqua in sight, nobody resembles of Aries airheadness, and overall - it's good. It's really good. Cheap backgrounds reminds me of Tsukihime, no voice acting, so I envision characters as probably a little more mature than intended, and I really like it. Espacially Momoji, she's a nice 'protagonists', she's a little quirky, but I symphatize with her and envision her as a tall, slender, nov very pretty, but elegant character. And then remake developers said... FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU HARD IN THE ASS FUCKER. How dare you enjoy our story? How dare you envision those characters as much better looking characters than what we envisioned? Here you are, eat this shit asshole. I'm devastated. This is 3h long story and I need a break in the middle of it. Fuck this VN. Fuck Frontwing. Never again will I read anything from them (besides Grisaia, I need to finish that shitfest trilogy).

But is it good? Care to say anything more about it?

Dracu Riot got an 'almost complete' release on 2nd day of April, with only one route or less untransalted. Fuwa people are translating that and editing whole translation for some time now, and gods bless them, but many people read DR in that 'unfinished' state.

Thanks for head up, I will agree with him in that thread, cause it's a right cause worth fighting for.

I just finished Flowers and I'm in love with non fluffy lesbian games. Nurses have nice graphics, so I'll probably give it a shot in not so distant future. But is there any place I can read your wider opinion on this?

I will take into account only VNs that was released in 2016 in english, on PC. So, best from what I read: FataMorgana. No doubts. Great production values, fantastic story. Worst? Well... Still haven't read Grisaia 2, so I will say: Himawari. Overhyped, boring, creepy and cliched story with vile, shallow but 'preteding to be deep' characters, and ugly art. Other worthy mentions, positive: Flowers 1, which is, while flawed, a way ahead majority of other VNs in terms of overall quality. It's actually kinda strange, since I'm reading both Hiamwari and Flowers right now. ...just saw my vndb profile and those, Lucy and Majikoi A1 are only ones released in 2016 that I read. Oh well.

Who cares about some dumb ecchi animation. VOL 3 IS COMING! And as a bonus tweet with some interesting art.

...and here we are. 42 minutes, goal achieved. For comparision: Dies Irae anime funded on japanesse crowdfund site made around 792'000$ from 5k+ backers in whole month.

On official site there is still ongoing cuntdown for KS launch. http://nekoparaova.com/en.html Oh well. 75% in 18 minutes.

They won't. Oh, you won't. You have no idea. ^^ It's not as bad as Ever17, when almost every question was raised just before all the answers was presented - in the last few hours. FataMorgana opens itself slowly, but steadily, around 4th chapter onwards. And it's great.

Thanks. I will stay on reading Rikka first then. Did I mention that I love it? Cause I love it. So many memorable scenes, such a great atmosphere. 1 on 1 scene with Rikka on bed, when they firs started using their names? Such a great chemistry and erotic tension. Suoh outburst that she beleives in Rikkas innocence, and Rikkas gratefullness? God-like voice acting, made simple scene filled with emotions. Great title so far. Although first 'investigation' was just pure luck + knowledge from character profiles on vndb. I had no idea what all those books mean, so I just shot in the blind.

Could you say how much 'routes' differ? Or rather - are there any routes at all? Because I wanted to save Mayurii (one of the best girls EVER <3 ) till the last playthrough, but if there is only one route with different endings, I might restert the game before it's too late and go with Mayurii first to have the best, full 'experience', without relying on 'skip' function.

Thanks for the great walkthorugh btw! Knowing about the flower and it's colours helped immensely!

And then we have a results like that. We can't let that happen!

What about... naked neko men?

I finished Aqua route in Himawari, found it annoying in the first part, and mildly interesting in second, which could be summarised as 'typical charage route' with interesting ideas behind "drama", presented in '2048' retrospect episode. So yeah, nothing great in here. I'm so tired of this VN right now, so I'm taking a break before diving in another 'shitty unfunny humour filled first part' route. At least there is no Aqua, who is simply a vile, mentaly unstable creature. My break looks like this: And just from the beginning there is SO MUCH QUALITY. I love InoGrey art, music, drawnings, voice actors, everything. And those top notch voice actors have some really beutiful things to say. I do not know jack shit about japanese, but I just love to listen to these full, complex, fastly read sentences, instead of typical for moeblobs moaning, whinning, barking and howling. When I hear those long sentences I just feel 'these characters are intelligent'. When I hear Himawari Aries doing all her 'Ewewewee, Yoichi, Aries is happy-desu!' I just feel like 'this is not a character, this thing is acting like an animal/very little kid'. So yeah, excited to read Flowers. Unfortunatelly choice structure here is fucked up.