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  1. Like you found out the hard way: you definitely need to know more kanji and vocab before starting ANY visual novel. I would suggest learning to recognize 7-800 kanji, and have a vocab of at least 2000 words before starting with the easy VNs. Download something called Anki, which is a flashcard application that is GREAT for learning new vocab. Its for pc, mac, iphone and android. There are tons of premade decks. I would suggest downloading something like core2k , which is the 2000 most used words in japanese. The deck got the word, a picture and a sample sentence. Both the word and the sample sentence have audio, so you can hear the pronounciation. You can easily learn 10-150 new words a day depending on how much time you put in. With some effort, you could reach 2000 vocab in a month or two. Beware: in the beginning, when the whole example sentence might be full of unknown words, you will progress much slower than this though. As for the easiest VN-like game : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9V_U8Epkc. A game made for japanese children to learn english. (havent tried it yet myself though) Good luck
  2. Hi! I have nothing against murder and violence as part of the plot. On the contrary, life and death situations is more exciting than the usual school dramas. I also love media (books/anime etc) that explores peoples moral greyness. Like Death Note was one of my favourite animes (and yes, i was rooting for Light the whole time). What i dislike, is violence/murder SEX. As in - protagonist rapes and/or kills the woman he wants. Even this could be ok, if it was not the protagonist doing it (but the bad guy) etc BTW, i just squinted at your posts, as it seems there might be spoilers there. I dont want to know what each route contains, so forgive me for not reading the in the fullest EDIT: My definitions of "Action" in VNs is kinda broad. Anything you would see in a action, thriller or adventure movie, i guess. Travelling, shooting, escaping, killing dragons, breaking in, etc etc.. From what i know about G-senjou no Maou, it probably would earn both stars, yes
  3. Hi guys, and thank you for the replies ! I understand Hoshizora no Memoria gets a lot of love on these forums . I will definitely try it sooner or later. Maybe I`ll do a paralell run with both the English and Japanese version . So far it seems i should start off with Draculius or G-Senjou no Maou, though?
  4. -__- Oh the terribad pun . Thanks for the recommendation, though . The mains looked cute. Is it funny / is the comedy any good ? Would still love if you took 15 sec to copy the template though... pleease
  5. As ive never read a VN in japanese (or english for that matter), im just a bit intimidated, and am afraid to spoil what seems to be one of the best VNs out there. Since you say the language isnt too hard though, ill probably do it earlier than planned Thank you I`ve not heard about it. Thank you How does it fit with my other criteria ? Copy the template and try to win a million e-cookies ?
  6. Thanks for your suggestion. Gyakutan Saiban series def. looks interesting, and i will get the android ones . I will definitely do some traditional JRPGs etc as well. I love many of the shining games (Just thinking about Shining Force 1 and 2 makes me feel nostalgic ). The reason i want to do VNs first though, is : - With an assisting program i could take out new vocab to learn it later. (Both audio and text if i want) - More or equal focus on text than gameplay. - More often/ a bigger part of the game includes voiceacting - With frequent saving, i could read/ listen to difficult sections over and over. Some VNs even have backlogs, or repeat last sentence function. - On windows (I always have my laptop handy, my consoles are stashed away in my parents loft back in my homecountry)
  7. I will watch Steins:Gate with my sisters and parents in the christmas holidays, so im kinda saving it for that . I thought of doing the VNs for Higurashi and FSN first, but since my japanese skills still isnt top notch, i dont want to potentially spoil BOTH a great anime AND a great VN, without getting good entertainment value out of it, if you know what i mean. But if it turns out i really enjoy VNs, i will do as you suggest then, and do the VNs first (need more jap. practice first anyway though). Btw: edited my post to adress kinetic novels. It should get 0 in gameplay value, sorry . The criteria is there to score the fun in thinking about what to choose, or standard gameplay fun Thank you both for your replies
  8. OH BTW: I have already decided to play the following 3 games, when i get a little bit better in Japanese : G-senjou no Maou 999 Ever17 Also, when i have watched their respective animes, i will look into playing : Steins;Gate Fate/Stay Higurashi
  9. Hi everybody! I have been studying japanese for some time now. To further improve my japanese, i want to read/play visual novels. I have been looking around at vndb.org, but as im kinda picky when it comes to entertainment (books, games etc.), i`d like to find what fits me . To break things up for you, And to help me visualize what kind of games is being recommended, i have thrown out ALL the things i would like to see in a game. I have also given a maximum amount of STARS to each. Say mystery have 3 stars maximum. If your recommendation have no mystery it will get 0 stars, some mystery 1 star and so forth. Up to a maksimum of 3 stars. One million cookies to the one who recommends the game with the most stars! No cheating TECHNICAL Short ☆☆☆ I would like the amount of time it takes to finish a game with true/best/good ending WITHOUT WALKTHROUGH to be relatively short. So if i need several playthroughs to FIND the true route, you should factor in this. TOTAL TIME <15h ☆☆☆ <30h ☆☆ <50h☆ Easy Japanese ☆☆☆ All / Almost all text is voiced ☆☆☆ Replay voice button ☆☆ Since i want to use VNs to improve my Japanese, it would be great to listen to difficult sentences several times. GENRE Mystery ☆☆☆ Comedy ☆☆☆ Action ☆☆ LIGHT Romance ☆☆ GAMEPLAY / FEATURES Interesting gameplay OR Choices that are NOT based on luck ☆☆☆☆☆ IF the game has srpg/rpg/action/adventure elements; This criteria is judged like you would any normal game. I prefer hard games btw:P IF the game has the choices more often seen in VNs; Stars are given based on how much thought you would put into the choices etc.The choices should NOT be based on luck: e.g "You go through the forest, and the road splits in three, will you take route A, B or C ?" . Nor should they be "Which girl do you want?". An example of more interesting choices could be a detective novel where you get presented with a number of choices, where only one is the "correct" one. To choose the correct one you would have to logically deduce it from what have happened earlier etc. Many VNs will get a low/zero score here even if they have many choices. So for a good score, the choices should be HARD but LOGICAL IF the game is a kinetic novel (or just one or two straightforward decisions) the score will be 0. "Easy" to choose different routes ☆☆ Making it easier for the player to know when/where the crucial choices are, for example by having a flowchart. (Maybe with the option of jumping around on the flowchart) OR having new game plus etc. Possible to work towards true/good ending. ☆☆ I would like the choices needed to get the true/good ending to make sense, and not be luck or Trial/Error PRESENTATION (I know this will be more subjective than the other things) Nice Artstyle ☆☆☆ Good voicework, with few irritating voices. ☆☆☆ Few extreme H-scenes ☆☆☆ I dont mind if there are no h-scenes at all, or a ton of them, either is fine. But i dislike: AAA - girls (children), bondage, scat, violence/murder sex, tentacles. Wow thats a long post from me. A thousand cookies to the ones who is bothered even reading it all. Here is a template: NAME OF THE VN TECHNICAL Short ☆☆☆ Easy Japanese ☆☆☆ All / Almost all text is voiced ☆☆☆ Replay voice button ☆☆ GENRE Mystery ☆☆☆ Comedy ☆☆☆ Action ☆☆ LIGHT Romance ☆☆ GAMEPLAY / FEATURES Gameplay / Choices ☆☆☆☆☆ "Transparent" routes ☆☆ True/good ending NOT based on pure luck. ☆☆ PRESENTATION Artstyle ☆☆☆ Voiceacting ☆☆☆ Few extreme H-scenes ☆☆☆ TOTAL : 00 x ☆ [COMMENTS] I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope someone would take the time to recommend me a game or two. Just copy the template, and bold the stars the game does deserve Thank you very much
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