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Oh yeah, I was kind of surprised when I have read you are from Finland (we've got people from all over the globe, West to East and South to North). I was interested in some intentional communities in Finland, but eventually I went up North-West to Norway. It's actually the only Nordic country, I haven't been in too along with the Island and the several. islands. Any old classmates of mine went to Finland and said it was amazing. I missed the sauna for sure!

Check out your video drivers. To install them, update them, it's something about video stuff I suppose. Google your computer brand and model and drivers, usually manufacturers will have a website with all their drivers. The best is if you can find official driver downloads, nowadays computer manufacturers distribute some kind of software that download for you all the Windows driver you need. Also, maybe is a DirectX problem, google up latest Windows direct x install and install the latest DirectX, just to be sure. As an unwritten law, only install software from official sources (examples: drivers from your computer brand website, specific video driver from NVIDIA website if you've got an NVIDIA card)

@Barry Benson A big part of me actually thinks the same. It's better living like shit following our dreams, then living a life you never wanted to and never had risked. Regarding choosing country near Italy, I couldn't have a choice, to my knowledge only Denmark has got both free school/university and government support (which special requirements for non-Danish citizen i.e. part time jobs and paying enough taxes. Also, if you get to live in Denmark they earn all back very fast, so no wonder they can provide those moneys). My country can't that much help me because my parents have the money so (but I'm adult too for law), otherwise the normal choice would be getting good grades in Italy and move on a scholarship. ---------------------------------------------------------- By the way, thank you all for the support, I'm really glad to be able to write on Fuwa. I was kind of not sure if writing personal stuff or not, but I definitely need some opinions. Here's the decision is bigger than my experiences.

Yes, but still, they give full scholarships to foreigners. They advise you not do part time job while some countries out here, even recommend/force you to do so (I think it's entirely true that you need to focus yourself into studying and living a college age, work can wait, and I'm one who worked. Who says work is good, I think, is because of becoming an adult, but you'll have less time for sure for all the college life one should be living IMHO). I should have said more regarding my statement, but it was something personal I read on what they study and how, on ja.wikipedia.org. I don't know how good they are and I read many bad google reviews for all the schools and some crazy stories too. I think they're very strict, and I think there are good and bad students everywhere. I had the impression when I looked up stuff that the family/society supports much more school and academic studies, compared to Europe. But I should definitely look up more here and see with my own eyes before judging upon it. I definitely think if you're a good student, you stand a good change of something good as a job or profession in Japan (you stand a change where you are motivated, I think). Nowadays things could also be changed, there's less money in Europe to spend and in Japan too, probably. I read of people living in manga cafe. But isn't that expensive? I did something like this once years and years ago. I think it would cut 50% of my money/month, at the least. I think it'll be around $15/night. If I've real problems sleeping somewhere will be the latest of the troubles. I found a fantastic e-book for bodybuilders on a low budget as I wanted to build body again after losing it as a homeless. I made tables to buy only the very cheapest and best food in Denmark(vegetables, carbs, proteins, and all the macros included), it's not going to be impossible in Japan for food, at the least. If perhaps I can't cook my food, it's going to be more expensive, but definitely, I think less than Denmark. PS.: I'll call that school and ask only general question regarding age, I think it's going to be the same stuff I can read on the website, but perhaps I can know something more. Also, the school enrolling process is closed now, it will start back later on in 2020-2021 (JP school system), so that's going to be something more where they'd need to close an eye. That's about Nagoya's IB school, regarding the other ones I only know that they're very expensive.

@Plk_Lesiak I need to say my opinion too here. I heard a lot of people saying good things about Denmark. It's all old myths, now they're changing all the system and they're so racist on the new politics. You cannot imagine what kind of situation I've been in, of course not when I was traveling, but when I started living here. Japan's expensive and it's true, but after Denmark all is relative. I met a lot of Czech and Polish guys in troubles here (the Czech is my dearest friend here), just for the sake of information, things changed a lot from the past in the "happiest country of the world". I like Japan am being Xenophobic as I love their culture and I don't like globalization and tourism, so I'm quite fine in having troubles to fit in Japan, I hope then once they see your efforts to live in Japan and learn what's Japan really like over a long time (years and years), they consider you part of the family. PS.: I don't really have any idea if I stand a chance over that school or any IB school in Japan, I could also end up in the street and end up my money. But, it was the same situation when I landed in Denmark to study. What's bugging me is, is it better to live your life unhappy where you don't feel happy or to go and risk? Both of them are a risk, risk of not having a future vs risk of living on the street or whatever. Perhaps, possibilities can come even in the worse of the case in Japan (actually, I was in a kind of desperate situation when I've got enrolled for the school, it was even without proper paper and it was a long time I was trying to get out of living on the street in DK). I had an healthy body, but it was reduced so poorly while fed by DK NGOs, I've never seen stuff like this in Italy (you can see my hate here, they buy expensive crap that don't feed you and cook normal or cheap meals where they put a fee, and they receive donations as NGOs). I can hopefully go to Japan with some money to buy food, but even if I'd end up in the worst of the case, I've already gotten out of troubles here, and if I get out of the troubles there, this time it'll be what I really dreamed.But I'm so confused. My plans were to work in Japan a day, but I don't feel that happy here. I'm sorry if there's a little of anger in this reply, it's not anything caused by you anyway.

I will not be exactly able to provide a wine related solution, but I'll give you some recommendation. First of all, I highly discourage the use of wine for VN (and anything else too, actually). Last time I checked on winehq database, my VN was not running that great on the reports. It's been like a year from the last time I used wine, but all those times even after years of development, we'll it's never perfect and never good enough IMHO. I'm a heavy Linux user so I can speak of it clearly. I'd recommend you instead to try Virtual Machine, you'll never mess up the system like wine can do, and it will work flawlessly most of the time (depending on your machine performance and the VN, but most of the visual novel shouldn't be a problem at all). I've never used OSX myself, but you're going to use Windows in the virtual machine (Win7?), that's the good thing. Feel free to ask if you need help with setting up the virtual machine, it's quite simple. But don't turn up anything unless you really need to, use around 50% of your RAM, and fixed storage is better, just figure out how many GB you need). You'll know if you need to tune up by playing the VNs, and tune up slowly by small increments. Try VirtualBox as it's the best for Windows virtualization. Do as follows to play VN: - Don't install any stuff on virtual Windows, keep it as clean as possible, so it'll be a light Windows and you're going to use it only for VNs. Exceptions are made if you need some special software to install in order to play your VN (create another virtual machine if you want to use Windows for anything else than VNs) - Install VirtualBox Guest Additions - If you experience problems with resolution, before starting the virtual machine change your resolution to the one the visual novel is using (find it out on vndb.org), then start the virtual machine, then start the visual novel and use full screen. I'll always be for open source and free software, but I've got a Windows partition too. Over the years I always had some work to do on Windows with Windows only software, I never use wine nowadays and keep my Linux system as stable as possible (after so many problems I went through with my distro testing repositories and software not distributed by my distro). If you can't have Windows, and you want to play visual novel, go for VirtualBox. It's going to take a couple of hours to set up, but then you're good forever. Also, I recommend you to make a snapshot of your virtual machine after the first visual novel run, if it works good. If something will ever go wrong, you're going to be able to recover your VM state to when it was working flawlessly. Edit: winehq database https://appdb.winehq.org/

I'm just a new member on Fuwanovel, but I feel the community pretty warm. We haven't had the occasion of knowing each other that much, but being motivated by the Fuwa confession thread, and by the fact the community is always open-minded and willing to share thoughts and help each other, I'm writing and posting this. It's my first time in my life I'm not able to take a decision, and that's because is something it could influence all my future life. I'm an EU student, I cannot study in my country. My family's not that poor, but the situation is very difficult to explain, my father's holding most of the income and the previous children, my step brother and sis', already took most of the money (with the help of their mother), and they really did nothing good in their life. So I've never had that much of an occasion or possibility in my life. After a lot, really a lot of difficult and complex situations with my parents, I went on a long journey and learned a lot of useful life stuff. Now I am studying, without money's not simple at all. I can get money from Denmark in order to study, the only requirement is that I find a part time job with crazy work hours and treated much worse than any Danish being a foreigner (in Denmark). Studying and working with these conditions, it will eventually bring you to a different amount of money per month by the government depending on many variables, but if you don't waste them, you can live here (not in the capital, but in the smaller cities, yes). I don't like Denmark, I never liked it. Young people are kind of nice, old ones are often racist. But even the young ones are so difficult to get along with, the country is small, there is not so much to do (except alcohol and so..) and is not surprising that Scandinavia is the area with the biggest % of depression in the world (you've to see to understand, and I've been traveling all of it, from the "big" cities to the deepest countries and the high freezing mountains). I'm originally from Italy, I went proudly away from my country in the hope of better possibilities, but I admit I would gladly go back to my country, perhaps in bigger cities rather than in my small native ones, if I could have the chance. Of course, like many here, I'd love to live in Japan. Mine's not weaboo stuff, I love the Asian culture. I actually love their strong educational system for personal reason. The geography, the climate and the people, I heard food's not bad too. I am a high school dropout (I stopped going to HS), not for my choice. So most of my possibilities usually involve International Baccalaureate (IB) where I can get high school certification studying in English (and Japanese at the same time too, really great). That's what I'm doing in Denmark, in deserted areas while learning a language I don't even like (perhaps I hate Denmark a little bit due to all the problems I went through and for the current Danish behaviour towards foreigners, I saw non Danish homeless tears in my own eyes, I had very hard times too, with the help of truly fake NGOs too). There are possibilities in Japan, great ones. For example, a school named UWC ISAK in Nagoya gives you full need based scholarship and free access to a dorm, so you can even socialize, get to know and fit into the Japan culture, and put your mind in studying and developing yourself for real as well. I'm sure if one wants to study there are scholarship possibilities for higher studies too, especially the merit based ones. Denmark is expensive as crazy, I eat like shit because I'm always broke and food is so expensive. I'm going to pay at the least EUR 1300-1500 to live 3 months here (cheap as hell, I studied all the supermarkets and made tables with nutritional values and cost to keep the budget low. I only pay for a shared apartment and food). Some money is already spent, but I still have EUR 1200, with that money I could flight to Japan and get enrolled in a school there (when I arrived in Denmark, I lived as a homeless for 2 months, I can live quite cheaply). Now, things get a little more complicated. The IB system usually puts an age limit, 19 years old, and I'm already 19 years old going on the 20s. It's not a strict rule, though, any school can choose what they want to do. But I'm pretty sure 99% state they don't enrol people who're 19 if not in the last year of the program (it's a 2 year program, with a preparation course of 1 year if you don't qualify for the 1st year). My school state the same in the website. Now, here's the fact: I went a day in this IB school I'm attending in Denmark, and I just talked, I was 100% sure they would not enroll me for my age as Danish people are so strict on everything. But, they told me sometimes they make exceptions, and I've got enrolled with a simple interview and not so much of questions (plus, I've got enrolled after the school was already started). In my class at the least a 30% is over 18yo, and many people are over the age limit in all the years here. I don't know about the Nagoya school or other IB schools in Japan, but it could be that they do the same. Nevertheless, I think exceptions like this are made with a little of smooth talking and when they can see your face clearly and hear you speaking with your mouth in front of them, not by e-mail for sure, and probably not by phone too. The fact is, I really don't know if I should spend money in Denmark or just go to Japan. I feel like going to Japan is a risk (but, all my life and the travels also have been at risk, and Japan wouldn't be the worse about the situation I went through for sure). I feel like staying in Denmark is a risk too, a risk of living like shit never fulfilling any dreams. A life of struggling in shit jobs, living in deserted areas, and never being able to actually move to Japan, but spending every month all the money to live in Denmark. I'm quite sure I heard of so many people who never fulfilled their dreams and regret all their life. It's also very hard if not impossible to keep my motivation in studying here, I'm great at studying, really, but I feel like it's going to be harder and harder living such a life in Denmark (I'm already losing motivation here). This situation has been in my mind for so many weeks, and I'm so scared of taking the wrong choice that will influence all my future. You guys, I read that some of you are life veterans here, I want to ask to those and all the Fuwa members: what would you suggest me? PS.: I thought this was a little too long to fit in the Fuwanovel confession thread, so I opened a new one here. I'm sorry for the long thread, and I sincerely appreciate any kind of help.

I found some stories, talking that it can get pretty depressing, I hope it won't end up like that. I don't want to use walkthroughs, should I? It seems to defeat the purpose of playing a visual novel. Well, anyway, it doesn't matter so much, I admit it has got my interests. I'll be keeping another VN ready so if it's too much in the end, I forget about it, I hope they just don't exaggerate. I prefer depressing drama with a moral or something, and it has to be good. By the way, it doesn't matter who recommended what. I liked literally any suggestion here and, at the right time, I'm going to check all them out. I appreciated all help that has been provided on this thread

Pretty much. Music is like that for me too, sometimes I look up for something specific, but there's no exact genre I like. I mostly listened to so much different stuff, I sometimes say that I go along for X months with a genre and then with another, but actually the fact is that I most love to hear everything and get to learn and enjoy many different things. Maybe it's just my nature, I'm pretty sure I'm going to experience the same with visual novels. Said that, I'll sometimes still look for very specific kinds of things. but I also know that I need to "experiment" in order to know if I like something, so it's all a game of first sense and then checking up here and there IMHO. I can sometimes be very picky about certain things, but I can get to like many titles easily, you've got it (excluding the clearly intentional crap VNs). It's like if you're willing to learn to get the good things from literally any kind of edible food. Several times, it'll be my mood and what I want to experience in the current period that drives my choices. Nevertheless, I really love what can leave some kind of life message. Everyone's different, so what is able to leave a message is different also. I played two visual novels and both of them made me learn something and made a huge impression on me. In conclusion: Katawa Shoujo has been suggested to me, I said I'm not going to play it now, but I also said that I'll be playing it in the future. In some months, or perhaps even a year or two, you could see me posting a review and recommending as it'd have become my favorite VN. These are practically how my tastes are. Edit: I wanted to write what I wrote above, but I'm not exactly sure how tastes works. It's just an assumption, it's true that I change tastes that much and I try always to experience as much as possible with an open mind. There is no actual rule, sometimes I'll be liking romance, sometimes slice of lice, sometimes depressing drama. I'm sure I'm not the only one like that. I love Fuwa more every minute, thanks for the OST! It seems great.

All the titles you're pointing out seems worth reading. I'd probably like nearly all of them. It's difficult for me because looking at the VNDB, there's always something missing. I like good CG background, but in some of these Visual Novels CG backgrounds are not that great, on another is the story, other are short and so on.... I've been quite impressed by Clannad (storyline...woah!), but littleshogun made me also very curios to see what HatsuKoi is like (don't spoil me please), and Majikoi as caught my eyes too, it seems like a very warm visual novel. The other ones are also not bad at all. I think all that's left for me is experimenting and make a VNDB profile. Regarding Clannad and non hentai, I don't like to play non sexual visual novels, but considering the quality of their storylines, I'll just play a hentai VN and a great non hentai VN for the storyline together. I'm going to keep Katawa Shoujo for later on, but for the rest I'll be literally checking all those titles out. I'm very glad for the suggestions that everyone's giving, thank you again guys!

I somehow heard about this VN, and I once read the Wikipedia article. I found it very interesting, it was on my plans to play it. I think it must be really a great work (just the idea it's great imo), but it's not exactly what I'm looking for atm. I should give more details. In Discipline the main protagonist gets motivated by the main heroine/female character and is not good at either school and life stuff, but, the main problems are very common to college students. Things such as being very lazy and not having much motivation to do something or studying, the main heroine fixes this (I find it interesting because the main heroine is also very strict and school hardcore too). Checking VNDB and Wikipedia, in Katawa Shoujo it seems as though everyone has got different kind of problems. I definitely must have a look at it a day or another, I think it's not the right VN for me after this one I just finished, but, in the future, it's going to be on my list. Yeah, you summarized greatly. vndb.org/v1143 I think you pointed out the right one or definitely one of the few, I'm going to check this out. Also, it's longer than Discipline, and I wouldn't imagine to be the kind of VN that gets too boring along the way also, so I'm going to have something both interesting and a little longer than the VN I just went through. I find the topics here very interesting, in a very short time I've already got two different great titles. I must thank you guys, I'm very glad I landed up here. This seems the kind of community where everyone is willing to help each other, it's nice for me as I'm just starting out, I'll do my best to help and give my contribute back to Fuwanovel community.

Whoa! It's just been a couple of hours, and yet such a warm welcome. I'm going to love this community, thank you all!

Hi all! I sincerely just googled "visual novel forum" and came up here. I liked the original modern forum UI. I'm quite new in the visual novel world and mainly I'm used to visit vndb.org, but I think I'll be very often coming here too, as it sounds like a great community.For now, my tastes are mostly all along college life students and slice of life stories. I love romance stories. I like drama and comedy (if possible together, if not I tend to prefer the comedy at the moment, but I was used to prefer the drama). I don't want to promote myself, but I really need some suggestions based on a visual novel I read, with those elements which I like plus possibly a relationship where the main male protagonist gets motivation from a female heroine/character and improves is life. I opened a thread in the VN suggestion section, please check it out! Said that, I hope to get along easily, to have a great time and to enjoy a long stay out here.

I just finished Discipline the Record of a Crusade VN. I've got straight the good ending, but still I thought it would last a little more. I really liked it. I came here to ask your help if anyone knows any visual novel like that. I'm not asking anything related the hentai style of the VN but more regarding the story. I'd like a VN like that that is about school life with slice of life situation. The dormitory life is not mandatory, but I appreciate it. I'd really like it to have some sort of relationship where the main protagonist gets motivated by an eroine/girl character. The most important things is that there is at the least the relationship. I liked the fact Hayami gets motivated by Otokawa in Discipline the Record of a Crusade, and that makes him improving at school and in life, as he was good at neither of them. If you know a VN with something like that please suggest me. Currently I'm inspecting the VNDB but it's so huge, I feel almost impossible to find what I'm looking for atm. Perhaps, if it could help to be able to search using several tags together. Regarding femdom stuff, I can adapt if the visual novel doesn't include it. Said that, I'd prefer such VN to be an eroge/hentai. I'm quite new in the visual novel world, I need some suggestions and I really appreciate any kind of help or suggestion anyone here can provide.