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    Zander reacted to melo4496 in ONE VN you should read before you die.   
    Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi
    Every VN reader should read this game. It has a brilliant concept that can change your way of thinking and be more open-minded regarding the medium, outstanding art and excellent soundtrack that will engage you in the story and one heck of a baseball experience.
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    Zander got a reaction from melo4496 in ONE VN you should read before you die.   
    Very well. Breathless is a tough term, since I generally experience breathlessness during nukiges if you catch my drift , but to answer your original question...
    I say it a lot, but Kara no Shoujo gets my vote on this one. The soundtrack mixed with a stellar translation and chilling scenes left quite the impression on me.
     
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    Zander got a reaction from Dergonu in A Sky Full of Stars - +18 Restoration [DROPPED]   
    Yeah, I agree with you there. It just makes a mockery of fan TLs and further discourages an already demotivated and highly criticised metric of people from starting up new projects.
    Funny shitposting is one thing, but completely hijacking a thread like this is just sad and far from humorous.
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    Zander got a reaction from ittaku in ONE VN you should read before you die.   
    Very well. Breathless is a tough term, since I generally experience breathlessness during nukiges if you catch my drift , but to answer your original question...
    I say it a lot, but Kara no Shoujo gets my vote on this one. The soundtrack mixed with a stellar translation and chilling scenes left quite the impression on me.
     
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    Zander reacted to Dreamysyu in ~~~FAVORITES!!!~~~   
    Favorite vn: Umineko
    Favorite route: Heaven's Feel, I guess?
    Favorite loli: ->
    Favorite kyonyuu: -
    Favorite shota: -
    Favorite best girl: Rin Tohsaka
    Favorite art style: Fata Morgana
    Favorite genre of vn: pseudophilosophical stuff
    Favorite "dere" type: tsundere
    Favorite yuri game: Pygmalion, but it's the only one I actually finished so far. Seabed will most likely beat it.
    Favorite  non- canon pairing: idk.
    Favorite side character: Yuuko
    Favorite otome game: no experience except for a pretty trashy one.
    Favorite best boy: -
    Favorite translation: Grisaia, I guess.
    Favorite OELVN: DDLC, but it's the only one I actually liked. My experience is pretty limited though.
    Favorite trap: Riki from LB.
    Favorite jrpg: don't play them.
    Favorite waifu: don't get them.
    Onee-san or imouto: neither. Choosing from the lesser evils, onee-san.
    Favorite Kemonomimi animal type: human. What?..
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    Zander got a reaction from Mr Poltroon in A Sky Full of Stars - +18 Restoration [DROPPED]   
    Yeah, I agree with you there. It just makes a mockery of fan TLs and further discourages an already demotivated and highly criticised metric of people from starting up new projects.
    Funny shitposting is one thing, but completely hijacking a thread like this is just sad and far from humorous.
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    Zander got a reaction from HMN in A Sky Full of Stars - +18 Restoration [DROPPED]   
    Yeah, I agree with you there. It just makes a mockery of fan TLs and further discourages an already demotivated and highly criticised metric of people from starting up new projects.
    Funny shitposting is one thing, but completely hijacking a thread like this is just sad and far from humorous.
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    Zander reacted to Mr Poltroon in Another 50 Translated (or Western\Ocidental) VNs to read before your inevitable demise ;o)   
    Incidentally, length is spelled length.
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    Zander got a reaction from InitialRN in New Member   
    Welcome here! Looking forward to seeing your posts around here. Feel free to let me know if you need help navigating the forums here.
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    Zander got a reaction from Plk_Lesiak in How do you feel about VN's with Gameplay aspects?   
    I read a blog post by Darbury on this topic quite a while ago; I think you might find both it and the discussion in the comments interesting. There are also a couple other posts where he attempts to define what a visual novel is.
     
    Personally, I don't fuss too much over whether or not I consider something with gameplay elements a visual novel. I hold some heretical opinions. I consider the Ace Attorney series to be visual novels. I consider the traditional formula of having heroine routes (or heroes) in nigh every VN to be unimaginative and banal, and embrace new ideas and formats within the genre.
    With that in mind, I welcome VNs with gameplay elements, or VN hybrids as one might call them, so long as the time spent playing doesn't outweigh the time spent, er, novel-ing. The Danganronpa and Kara no Shoujo series are good, but certainly not perfect, examples in my humble opinion. 
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    Zander got a reaction from Thatcomicguy in How do you feel about VN's with Gameplay aspects?   
    I read a blog post by Darbury on this topic quite a while ago; I think you might find both it and the discussion in the comments interesting. There are also a couple other posts where he attempts to define what a visual novel is.
     
    Personally, I don't fuss too much over whether or not I consider something with gameplay elements a visual novel. I hold some heretical opinions. I consider the Ace Attorney series to be visual novels. I consider the traditional formula of having heroine routes (or heroes) in nigh every VN to be unimaginative and banal, and embrace new ideas and formats within the genre.
    With that in mind, I welcome VNs with gameplay elements, or VN hybrids as one might call them, so long as the time spent playing doesn't outweigh the time spent, er, novel-ing. The Danganronpa and Kara no Shoujo series are good, but certainly not perfect, examples in my humble opinion. 
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    Zander reacted to Silvz in Hey, can you please   
    I do post a lot of good-quality things sometimes.
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    Zander got a reaction from Silvz in Hey, can you please   
    Would you rather have a forum with active moderators, or a forum with consistent quality content like this very thread here?
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    Zander got a reaction from Huang Ling Yin in Top 5 Fuwa member that got me thinking...   
    My top 1 Fuwa members that got me thinking:
    1. Huang Ling Yin for posting the "Top 5 Fuwa member that got me thinking..." thread
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    Zander reacted to Fred the Barber in HoshiMemo review discussion   
    Oh, christ, I forgot about Libra. I only saw like five screenshots of that, and I'm still sure it's vastly worse than HoshiMemo was. So... let's go with calling HoshiMemo the second-worst thing I saw this year.
    Regarding this doubt:
    Either the screenshots I posted show obvious problems to you, or they don't, I guess. But to be clear, all screenshots in the review are representative, none more so than "Mare's face is instantly shrouds in a hue of weariness." There are so many problems with that line, but let's try to break them down:
    "weariness" is a typo, given context: it was supposed to be "wariness" "is shrouds" was obviously supposed to be "is shrouded", so, another typo "is shrouded" is passive voice, which usually you want to avoid. I'm not going to say it's something you should always avoid: that would be a stupid and incorrect thing to say. But I will assert that passive voice is incredibly common in this script and it consistently weakens lines, this one included. "instantly" is a totally unnecessary adverb, which is one of the most reliable ways to weaken prose. There are many rough guidelines in writing, and this is one of the most important: if you're reaching for an adverb, use a better verb instead. Unfortunately, such weakening adverbs are all over this script; they're probably the biggest problem I have with it. Play the game and count the number of occurrences of the words "literally" and "considerably"; I bet there are no fewer than 20 combined. Then read a short novel by your favorite English genre fiction author and count occurrences of those same words. I'll bet you don't find more than one (Jim Butcher seems to always have exactly one "literally" in every Harry Dresden book, presumably just to tweak people's noses...). This is not a coincidence: those words are baggage, weighing down good writing. It also bears mentioning that adjectives can be just as bad as adverbs, and are also overused in this script. "hue" is a blatantly overly literal translation of 色, and it appears as such many, many times throughout HoshiMemo. What the heck color is a "hue of wariness" supposed to be? I'm sorry, I'm just not synesthetic enough to relate to using color words for emotions like that. I want to stress: this line is representative. I have hundreds of screenshots I took from the game, the vast majority of which bother me in the writing department almost as much as this line does, often for the same reasons cited up above, often for different ones (notably including redundancy, awkwardness, and unreadability). It took me a solid half hour to pare my HoshiMemo screenshot folder to a shortlist of 46 bad screenshots, and then another half hour to trim that down to the five I finally ended up using in the review (the hard cap I set for myself so the review wasn't just a pile of screenshots). It frustrated me that I had to sacrifice a screenshot that could have gone to bad prose on showing an untranslated line, but I needed one untranslated line screenshot to drive that point home, unfortunately.
    So, instead, here are a few choice lines from my screenshot folder (typos theirs, not mine):
     
    "It is literally just like a flood." "Maybe it is the atmosphere surrounding Asuho that's sealing my mouth." "Just like yesterday, the night sky is flocked with twinkling stars." A pair of lines which have to be taken together to see the nonsense: "Sure gets your heart racing, huh?" "True, anxiety's making mine shoot up like crazy." "It is quite literally just like a flood." "I directed my field of vision, which, unlike as it is with the naked eye, is quite narrow, over towards there." "I don't let even the faintest, most slightest of sounds slip by my ear." "A opportune chance to ensure the survival of Astro Circle that I mustn't let slip out of my grasp." "We are essentially tossing in all of our cards towards this massive, risky gamble." "Will You-san start up one of those trifling chats with me that almost personify peace in itself while wearing a wry smile on his face all the while in response to his sister?" "Wait, is this all because I said you wouldn't be? Would you have turned Chinami down "defiance-causally" if I'd instead said you'd be all for it?" "Belatedly so, I learned that while one grain of light may be small, if they amount to near the number of stars in the sky, it reflects like a big light." "The overwhelming amount of red everywhere renders her unable to grasp where she's falling to and from where." "Even if our surroundings were to be painted in the black night, so that neither the sky nor the sea remained, the horizon line alone would still retain its faint glow." "It was undoubted that Isuzu was unaware of what exactly had happened." "The wind, pregnant with moisture, that blows over it is really refreshing and softly makes Asuho's bangs wave." If you can't see the problems in these, then HoshiMemo will probably be fine for you, honestly. But if you can't see substantial problems in every one of these lines, and you're unwilling to try to learn why all of them are problematic, you shouldn't be involved in a creative writing endeavor.
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    Zander reacted to Huang Ling Yin in Top 5 Fuwa member that got me thinking...   
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    Zander reacted to Fred the Barber in HoshiMemo review discussion   
    These kinds of questions are generally really hard to answer unless you're intimately involved with the project, or at least the company, which I'm not. I will say that localization is really hard in general, and that in cases like this, it's usually a combination of many things going wrong, rather than something you can lay on any one individual's shoulders. One thing you learn from professionally doing pretty much anything is that you're better off blaming processes, rather than individuals. Sekai Project's localization process wasn't working very well in this case, which could have led to this kind of result through any number of avenues. Some of the possible things that could have resulted in include:
    insufficient time given to individuals to complete their work (I would guess this is the most common contributor to game localizations gone awry in general) insufficiently experienced individuals working on the project (probably the second-most common) insufficient oversight and checking of individuals' work (because everybody makes mistakes, so you need enough checks and balances across the board to keep things in line) too many people working on the project without enough centralized decision-making power to steer it in the right direction And probably there are tons of other things I'm not thinking of. I have no way to know if some or any of these are applicable to this particular case, but probably.
    The money is probably a big part of explaining the root cause for these problems. It's easy to look at the HoshiMemo Kickstarter numbers and assert that SP must have made tons of money, but a pretty huge portion of their actual take from Kickstarter funds goes towards paying for the goods. For the remainder, well, localization takes a whole lot of people a whole lot of time. Most of the people doing translation and editing work on visual novels (and probably other roles as well, though I'm less familiar with them) are making somewhere in the ballpark of minimum wage, or less, in spite of it being a highly skilled profession.
    Evan (lead translator for Muv Luv) had good comments on this topic (click through for a couple more replies closer to the "what could have gone wrong" question):
     
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    Zander reacted to Chewy in 50 VNs in English that you should try at least once   
    Might I ask why Kamidori is sitting there? I distinctly remember around 500 hours of grinding and about 1 hour (combined) of plot throughout that "VN". It plays more like a JRPG than a visual novel. 
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    Zander reacted to Jptje in KIRI AMAZING AMA   
    Why?
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    Zander reacted to Jptje in Bring the torrents back AMA   
    「人生は選択の連続だ」なんていうのは、失敗してから振り返って思う、後悔の絞りかすみたいなものだ。過去の少し先にある、当たり前の明日へ。
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    Zander reacted to Jptje in Bohiimian Rapusodii   
    Is this the real jinsei?
    Is this tada no fantajii?
    Tsukamaeta in a jisuberi
    Open o前 no megane
    見re up to the soras and mire...
    I'm tada no a kawaisou 坊ya, atashi iranai no shinpashii,
    Because atashi ha kantan kuru, kan単 ike,
    Chiisai ハイ, chiisai roo,
    Any shi方 the kaze 吹kus, shinai tokuni atashi ni, atashi ni...
    Kaasan, ima koroshita a hito,
    Oita a 銃 taishite aitsu no atama
    Hiita atashi no TORIGAA, ima ha mou s h i n d e i r u.
    マma, jinsei ha shita bakkari 始まtta,
    🈓も 今 atashi きた to nageta ito subete away...
    Kaamama, oをOオ,
    した not kokorozasu to 作ru omae 泣く (;_;)
    Moshi atashi ha notto bakku mata kondo ashita,
    Tsuzuki on, tsuzuki on as moshi 何も hontou ni kakawarazu.
    Tsuu reeto, atashi jikan ga kimashita,
    Okuru SHIBAASU shita atashi no SUPAIN,
    Karada ga 痛み suru O O R U no jikan.
    Sayounara, minna, atashi ha ikanaito,
    Shitて 残su omae minna BEHAINDO ando FEESU za shinjitsu.
    Mamasama, ヲOwoお,
    Atashi ha 死takunai,
    Atashi ha tokidoki nozomu atashi 決shiて umareたkunakatta.
     
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    Zander reacted to Fred the Barber in HoshiMemo review discussion   
    https://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2018/01/03/hoshizora-no-memoria-3/
    I really don't know why there's a "3" in the review link, but I can't help but wonder if it isn't because the last FuwaReview was for "Karakara 2".
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    Zander reacted to PixelFade in Zander's Top 3 All Ages Family Friendly VNs   
    :^)
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    Zander reacted to littleshogun in 50 VNs in English that you should try at least once   
    Seeing that we have many threads in regard of recommendation, and the sources was a thread that asking if we should have a new 50 VNs list that was created by mod Kaguya, I thought that perhaps I should make the one as well. As for the list, I decided to joined both of the old and new lists because after all even some of the old stuff should still have some relevance even now.
    Anyway, for the personal list list I decided to just limit it into no nukige and no yaoi for now here but feel free to suggest those later, and I'll consider to add those in the list and change one of initial title to honorable mention. So obviously for the initial lists I'll just list 50 translated VNs for now - also I'll just limit it up to 2017 releases for now. Oh and before forgot, the number here was not referring to my preference here. Also when you in doubt in regard of play that or not and didn't want to browse VNDB, I'll add the scores for both of Bayesian and average from VNDB. Note that the score was pretty much quite subjective, so don't let the score deter you to try the VN all right.
    1. Umineko (Average 8.75, Bayesian 8.72) and the sequel (Average 8.72, Bayesian 8.67)
    2. Symphonic Rain (Average 8.22, Bayesian 8.14)
    3. Ayakashibito (Average 7.75, Bayesian 7.65)
    4. Hakuouki (Average 7.98, Bayesian 7.81)
    5. Comyu (Average 7.68, Bayesian 7.63)
    6. Yume Miru Kusuri (Average 7.46, Bayesian 7.44)
    7. Ever17 (Average 8.63, Bayesian 8.60)
    8. Steins Gate (Average 9.04, Bayesian 9.02)
    9. Norn9 (Average 7.54, Bayesian 7.19)
    10. Pygmalion (Average 7.48, Bayesian 7.06)
    11. True Remembrance (Average 7.75, Bayesian 7.69)
    12. Quartett (Average 7.28, Bayesian 7.20)
    13. Kamidori (Average 8.20, Bayesian 8.17)
    14. Yumina the Ethereal (Average 7.47, Bayesian 7.39)
    15. Romanesque (Average 7.36, Bayesian 7.20)
    16. Eiyuu Senki (Average 7.68, Bayesian 7.39)
    17. Chaos Child (Average 8.72, Bayesian 8.39)
    18. Kana Imouto (Average 7.50, Bayesian 7.44)
    19. Princess Waltz (Average 7.07, Bayesian 7.04)
    20. Snow Sakura (Average 7.05, Bayesian 7.01)
    21. Root Double (Average 8.14, Bayesian 8.02)
    22. Princess Evangile (Average 7.47, Bayesian 7.43)
    23. Noble Works (Average 7.36, Bayesian 7.30)
    24. Aoishiro (Average 7.75, Bayesian 7.59)
    25. DDLC (Average 7.62, Bayesian 7.57)
    26. Cho Dengeki Stryker (Average 7.35, Bayesian 7.29)
    27. My Girlfriend is the President (Average 7.17, Bayesian 7.15)
    28. Yoake (Average 7.49, Bayesian 7.25)
    29. VA-11 HALL-A (Average 8.01, Bayesian 7.84)
    30. Kanon (Average 7.73, Bayesian 7.69)
    31. AIR (Average 7.70, Bayesian 7.61)
    32. Duel Savior (Average 7.44, Bayesian 7.33)
    33. To Heart 2 (Average 7.41, Bayesian 7.26)
    34. Konosora (Average 7.77, Bayesian 7.74)
    35. Dal Segno (Average 7.30, Bayesian 7.11)
    36. HatsuKoi (Average 7.56, Bayesian 7.42)
    37. 11eyes (Average 7.45, Bayesian 7.34)
    38. Clannad (Average 8.70, Bayesian 8.68)
    39. Dies Irae (Average 8.57, Bayesian 8.45)
    40. Subahibi (Average 8.84, Bayesian 8.75)
    41. Koichoco (Average 7.48, Bayesian 7.42)
    42. Chrono Clock (Average 7.46, Bayesian 7.36)
    43. Saku Saku (Average 7.55, Bayesian 7.40)
    44. Wagahigh (Average 7.64, Bayesian 7.49)
    45. Fata Morgana (Average 8.78, Bayesian 8.62)
    46. Himawari (Average 7.98, Bayesian 7.82)
    47. Enigma (Average 7.72, Bayesian 7.16)
    48. Gahkthun (Average 7.70, Bayesian 7.55)
    49. Hakuai (Average 7.69, Bayesian 7.20)
    50. Yurirei (Average 7.95, Bayesian 7.77)
    Keep in mind that in regard of the score, it might be change in the future.
    I think that's all in regard of 50 VNs that I could think for now, and once again feel free to suggest what kind of VN that I should add here. Hope the list would be help to anyone else here who need some VNs recommendations.
    Edit - Now that I think of it, I should add that it's only English release here  for the title in the first place. So no Japanese only release here, and that's final.
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    Zander got a reaction from Plk_Lesiak in Zander's Top 3 All Ages Family Friendly VNs   
    You're probably correct about that! Valerie was definitely the most direct of the bunch, but there were some hints, opportunities, and slightly suggestive scenarios in Kaori's route too. It's a shame that the ending was so abrupt and a total let-down, though. I felt like I was at the height of the story when suddenly the ending slapped me in the face. On a side note, I love how other characters got into relationships and had their own lives, in a way.
    Also, look out for my new blog one of these days then, Lesiak. I'd love to have your commentary!
    also i follow your blog senpai OELVNS are legit
    I have no experience with this one, and I'd love to give it a try, but unfortunately I speak Japanese as well as your average fish can climb a tree.
    The day a patch is released is the day I will start reading it though, I promise you that. 
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