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Ever 17 and 999 might be what you're looking for.

Muv Luv Alternative and Symphonic Rain.

37.000 words. Guess prepping for the GRE verbal was of some use, after all lol.

First one I read was Radical Dreamers, but at the time I had no idea what a VN was. The one that got me into the hobby was Ever 17.

YU-NO. It's (kind of) famous, but still incredibly underrated considering how good it is.

Some old titles (YU-NO, Eve Burst Error) also did this. Divi-dead might do this, but I don't remember well enough.

Vending machines? Dude, have you ever been to Tokyo? They're fucking EVERYWHERE. I was pretty surprised when I went for the first time, lol.

No, Shkannon is pretty much true. Thematically, the game would make no sense at all if it was a lie, or Ryukishi trolling. Did you read our confessions? That makes it even clearer.

I don't think you can pick that much vocabulary from a VN if you've already been exposed to a fair amount of english writing, be it papers, "real" novels or even comics. But I imagine they would be pretty good if English is your second language and you want to read something that's not so hard. Most JRPGs would work, too.

No. It's absolutely not worth it to part with your money to buy stuff that you'll know you won't like, just because there's the possibility (and just the possibility) that they might translate decent stuff in the future. Now, a 7 is not that bad... You can think that a novel deserves that ranking, but still like it more than you should going by the number alone. In that case, it'd be worth buying it.

No, thing is, she's controversial, I get that, and I can totally believe that she gets death threats and all sort of shit. It's just that, death threats from a brand new twitter account, and with threats that look written by a woman (Seriously, would a man threaten to "drink blood off your cunt"? Any man? Is giving oral sex to a woman a male fantasy? News to me) just in the wake of the Zoe Quinn thing? Nah. But yes, you're right, this is going way off topic.

That was news to me, do you have any sources? And is this in response to those fake-ass death threats Anita Sarkeesian got? (No, seriously, read the twits... No way a man wrote them.)

Dies Irae or Muramasa. Muramasa is probably happening, but in JAST time (so 2030). Aiyoku no Eustia or the Baldr Sky Dive games would be nice, too.

I think they're from 7. Not sure, though.

Yup. That's exactly what her route is.

No, Gasai works well as a background character. You're not supposed to sympathize with his thoughts, logical as they are, you're supposed to put yourself in Akihito's moronic shoes and go "no but u is not saving everyone u evilz!!1!1!!" while you see the red color 5 times in a single scene. Gasai works because this game does tell you way, way more than it shows you, and if it started showing you all that Gasai does, it would lose focus rapidly.

No, you can do Hisoka/Ayaya/Mayuki in any order you want.

They're gonna change the dialog and sell it on steam as Go Go Nippon 2. That'll make them a lot of money.

Hey, that just happened to me!

Yes, it's worth playing through Extra and Unlimited just for Alternative. And I'm gonna be a contrarian, skip Extra. There's only one event that's actually relevant for Alternative's plot, and it'll be explained then. The rest is a nice bit of foreshadowing, but nothing you can't really live without. More importantly, character development doesn't carry over in the case of Takeru (he starts Unlimited as a generic rom com lead, just as he starts Extra) and in the case of the other characters you'll get to know their personalities again during Unlimited, so that's a win. tl;dr, skip Extra, it's shit, and don't look back. Unlimited's more light-hearted than alternative, and good. Not great, just good. Also, short.

The next part of Dysfunctional Systems. The first one was pretty good, even if the part after the mission dragged out a little.

None so far, though Planetarian, MLA and Symphonic Rain were pretty close.