Ranzo

It's given me the opportunity to play through a few truly incredible stories that have had a lasting impression on me and influenced a lot of the writing I want to do
Plus, it's shown me a bunch of truly great female characters that I would never had encountered had I just plain regular old videogames
 
Negative
Fuck man I can't hardly talk about it with anyone without a shit ton of caveats and provisos. You know, I think it might have something to do with some vns called I Want to Throat Fuck You Till You Pass Out~Fun Sucking Whore Time!!? or I Dream of Semen Filled Sluts!
But, maybe that's just me.

Takeshi Kuranari and Tsugumi Komachi from Ever17
What a wonderful couple they are
 

Booted up Language of Love and boy nothing makes you feel old quite as easily as some 23 year old whingeing and bitching about how old they are

Are they trying to chronicle my love life?

I'm afraid the only thing that connects those vns are tears.

I've got two for you
One is Milfeulle Sakuraba from Galaxy Angel
And the other one is
Asuka Osachi from Nurse Love Addiction
Both of them I really like as characters though they are far from the shy type in any way shape or form

All at the same time 
Also I’m ashamed of you

Hair: Brown, short. Full Beard.
Eyes: Brown
Body: Pale, Slim, Cleft Chin, Circumcised
Clothes: Jeans, T-Shirt, Sneakers
Personality: Cynical, Optimist, Smart, Reserved, Sharped-tongued, Blunt, Eccentric,  Girls' Love Fan
Role: Adult, Teaching Assistant, Full-time Worker, Not a Virgin, Older Brother
Engages in: Online Chatting, Teasing, Sarcasm, Sadism
Subject Of: Disappointment, Teasing, Confinement in a Simulated Reality
 
 

I'm afraid the only thing that connects those vns are tears.

So, here I was, playing Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai and I couldn't help but notice but man, these kiss scenes are pretty shit. I mean look at these two examples distance and attack of the horror mannequin
Why can't this artist put the lips together, is it really so hard?
Anyway, this bothered me because to me at least, a kiss scene is often the best moment of a Visual Novel, especially after a really long common route.
So, mini rant aside I was wondering what your favorite or best kiss scene in a Visual Novel was. Tell me.
I think my two favorites are the kiss scene in G Senjou No Maou when they are under the moon and the kiss scene in Lucia's route in Rewrite when they are both overlooking the city.

NSFW
 

To be honest, this is one of the VNs that I would heavily prefer without h-scenes. Like it often happens, the fact that sex happens is pretty important, but the scenes themselves are very distracting and completely mess up the overall pacing. Actually, this may be the main reason why, while I understood that this VN was very good objectively, I personally didn't really like it that much.

Damn this guy is the definition of an hidden gem
Dudes voice is lit as fuck
 

Finished Sora's route in Hoshi and I have to say I was very impressed
I especially loved the long epilogue that took place years into the future
That's a feature that I've wanted to see in Visual Novels for such a long time
Sora was real cute and I like how they supported each other in their careers and other endeavors
Problems I had with the vn so far
1. Not enough cgs, there were a lot of scenes that I felt really would have been a lot more powerful with them added to it
2. Way too many sex scenes they litter them into the vn I feel and over half of the cgs are devoted to it. It's a real shame
3. They fucking suck at doing kiss scenes, I don't know what the problem is but every time protag and Sora kissed they would never connect their lips
so you were instead subjected to air kisses while all the while the text is trying desperately to convince us that they are indeed kissing. Kiss scenes are my favorite type of cg and it seems weird that they borked those scenes. (I mean look at this image, what were they thinking?)
4.  Why didn't they have a sprite of Sora giving the thumbs up? She does it all the time and it wouldn't have been that hard to do.
Anyway, on to the next route. Oh, and here is the song for Sora's route
 

So I've decided to once again dramatically switch tracks completely in the tonal change department.
I started playing Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai, and I have to say my fucking god is it so much better than Hatsukoi! Like holy shit, it's like the difference between night and day.
Ryou is an actual character and not some frothing, slime excretion that was shat out by some deformed pestilence.
The male best bud is not some loser pervert whose soul reason for being is to make the protag look better by comparison. Plus, he has an actual girlfriend! It's amazing!
I pretty much like all the girls for the most part which was not the case in Hatsukoi (rip kyou and maya..you deserved better)
Here are my initial impressions on them
Ousaka Sora: She's cute and has blue hair so she already reminds me of another blue haired girl that I like so she's alright with me.
Shinozaki Marika: On the spectrum of childhood friends I think she is pretty decent. I tolerate childhood friends a lot more when they have spent some time apart and not just lived next door to the protag since forever. I hope she doesn't pull some childhood promise shit though.
Segawa Natsuki: She's a real spitfire and she reminds me of Sachi from Sharin No Kuni so I quite like her.
Narusawa Rikka: More proof that moody girls with long black hair are my weakness
Yukimura Touko She's also a real spitfire and she seems like she could have a nice teasing game going
Okihara Misa: She's probably the character I'm least enthused about but she seems like she could be a little interesting.
 
An there you have it folks