[What kind of VN do you enjoy the best?]

The trashiest ones, the more trashy, the better.

[Moe Game Award 2017 is out]

It's hard to lose a award in Japan when you have the biggest concentration of E+ boobs per meter of the universe.

[Birthday thread]

3 hours ago, Dreamysyu said:

Not sure if I'm late, but Happy Birthday to @Norleas!

Thanks dude.

You made it in time by some minutes, like the powerful guy that always come after the mc already is on the ground in a random shounen manga.

A wonderful night to everyone and i wish that i don't have a headache after drinking too much tonight.

[Anime VS VN: Do VN make you smarter?]

Well, i think that in tv vs books, books have a large advantage cause of the power of imagination, but when we are talking about vns that factor diminishes with the inclusion of the visual aspect, so the biggest point is what anime and what vn are we talking about, in ideal conditions, my guess is that a visual novel could delivery more information than an anime, especially in consideration of the length of a vn  that could easily surpass 20 hours when a two seasons anime have generally 10 hours of contents ( including something like 1 hour of opening/endings).

[Is this forum dead?]

"Death and memes are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven." - Michelangelo

It's only a low period, every forum will face this someday.

 

[Contrasting the Japanese and Western VN Fandoms]

One important factor that heavily affect vndb untranslated ratings is the japanese proficiency of the voters and i think that could be one of the reasons of why the scores tend to differ more on "bad" vns. Not to related, but one graph that i like to see is votes cast x user average score.

[Your opinion on the Isekai genre?]

Doesn't matter how good the concept behind the genre is, when he becomes overused things quickly go downhill, and with the Japanese power of make even the best concept in the world a high school fan service fest with only trope characters, things only go worse.

[Recommend something fun]

If you want a anime/manga, Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan or something like Yotsuba to, really relaxing. If you want vns every title from Asa Project.

[The korean war is over.]

A big step to peace, but only time will says if that agreement will be held, it seems that thing escalated quickly since winter games.

[#VNStruck4 - 4 Visual Novels that had the biggest impact on you, you can always reread, or your favorites]

Kitto, Sumiwataru Asairo Yori mo

Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou

Natsuiro Recipe

Nanairo Reincarnation

I needed some time to think in the last two and there at least ten other titles that could make that list, but for today that's it.

[What's the most unique VN that you had read and why]

Henshin obviously, on how many games a penis can grow in a milkshake?

[Moe]

I have to be at least neutral when 99% of the modern titles have moe elements.

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Only considering "pure charages" (i.e. disconsidering nakige/chunni/whatever hybrids), my favorites are  Minamijuujisei Renka, Koiiro Soramoyou, Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai  and Otome ga Tsumugu Koi no Canvas.

[Sex ed banned in Japanese schools]

Correct me if im wrong, but in Japan the age of consent is 13, right? So they already can have consensual sex by law, but is too early to learn how to protect yourself. Ok.

[What is the best looking visual novel?]

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Definitely eyegasm.

In terms of arts, minori titles, the Bishoujo Mangekyou series, Innocent Grey works and Aokana is the first things that come to mind to me.

[Favorite sibling pair?]

Yuzu and Takerfumi from Natsuiro Recipe and Anri and Anzu from Clover Day's.

[So you're a Visual Novel protagonist...]

https://vndb.org/v3371

 

[Thoughts on the current Yuzusoft]

5 hours ago, Clephas said:

Charage in general are at saturation levels... the real problem is that they've been reduced to rehashing the same ideas with 'new twists'.  That's never a good sign for any company.

I dare to say that visual novels regardless of sub genre are saturated, it's been a while since the last time that i looked into a new release and see something "new", the medium need fresh air, but how? I dunno.

4 hours ago, phantomJS said:

Someone at VNDB said Yuzusoft is currently the top seller of VN in JP (wow...). Is this true? O.O...

I don't know exactly the numbers and rankings, but if that is true, it's not a surprise to me. All Yuzusoft games hit top 1 in the charts when released, Senren Banka for example, sold 45000 copies in the first month out, in 2016, only August have another title with that numbers. Other point is that they always have consistent sales, even big companies most of the time have a considerable fluctuation from one title to another, but to Yuzusoft that value is always something like 10%. So they are consistent, popular and have a loyal fan base, the perfect recipe to fabricate best sellers.

[Thoughts on the current Yuzusoft]

Yuzusoft could do any shit that they want and they will still be top sellers, so they will be sticking with the fantasy charage formula, even though it is already saturated and losing quality.

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[Moenovel expanding outside of Pulltop, are all the Willplus imprints in danger?]

If they only do recent ensemble works it's okay, they are shit anyway.

[How much reading (in a VN) is too much?]

The limit of "too wordy" really depends of what you are writing, genres like sci-fi have much more tolerance in that aspect than SoL, the excess of words tends to be a problem to less skillful writers, but in the right hands and concepts could make a really good work. If you are uncertain, use the motto "less words, more meaning".

In my opinion, a negative example of a wordy vn is  Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2, the phrases per se are already lengthy and there some random background info dumps that are totally fucked by how lengthy they are, resulting in a horrible flow to the history.

[Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi No Translation Project (Completed)]

In a alternative timeline Moenovel already butchered that masterpiece.

I don't have time to help in anything, but at least i can wish goodluck.

[How do you rate your VNs?]

I rate all works in separate categories, everything start with a 7, my standard note to a decent/average work and i subtract or add points most of time comparing with other works that gravitate on the average sphere (7 points). The great difference on my system is that i rate different genres with different categories and that categories differ on weight. For example, the equation that describe a charage is described by:

Rating = (art + characters*2 + story + humor + enjoyment*1.5 + sounds*0.5)/7

In comparison, a chunnige rating could be written as:

Rating = (art + characters + story*2 + story concept + action*1.5 + sounds*0.5)/7

But even with a standardized method, it's inevitable some subjectivity.

Only to note, after read more than 200 titles, i never gave a note higher than 9.5 and never will give a 10, cause perfection is impossible.

[Things that you want to see less of in Visual Novels]

Less " しょうがない " (can't be helped).