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I think it'll mostly come to publisher policy. Sekai is very interested in reaching out to consoles with their Sekai Games branch and I think we'll see a steady stream of digital Switch releases from them. I hope other companies will follow – while I don't have a Switch and probably won't ever bother to get one, it's a huge market and VNs are very cool choice for a portable system. Unless the porting process is particularily tricky (and it doesn't seem to be considering the number of indie VNs already there), it'd be just stupid for JAST or MangaGamer to not explore it, especially now when Nintendo proves less problematic to work with than Sony or Steam. And having some quality all-ages titles like Flowers there could even do some good for the medium as a whole.

As always - make sure to get retranslation patch.

ill tell you why! every single character in that vn is haunted by something. whether its aoi feeling empty after seemingly life taking his meaning of waking up in the morning, or kotoris freedom when she lost her legs, or agehas regret for not pursuing the one she loves, or amane trying to fulfill a promise to her first best friend! all the characters are at their lowest but they come together, not to save humanity or to even save their school, but to fight for a new dream! something they can fight for and say looking back "I tried my hardest and dammit, we did it! our dreams came true!"
 
you all who read it, this image alone should be enough to convey the deep emotional feelings this vn brings upon you like a rock!
 

Because Kotori is the best girl, obviously

Because Kotori is the best girl, obviously

I have some sort of blissful attachment to If My Heart Had Wings. I'm not entirely sure why, but my mood always seem to improve whenever I think about it. It's also one of the few VNs of which I still listen to the soundtrack every now and then. This song in particular always puts me in a good mood:
 
 

Sigh. Now you are just being difficult.

So I made a slight mistake
You can actually vote for one character a DAY. Resets every day at Noon in Japan.
I edited the title of the topic to reflect this.

Oooh this is a tough one. Despite their narrative problems, Key generally has done well to craft some good characters even if their character arcs left something to be desired. I think I'd have to go for Nagisa just because not enough VNs carry the high school romances into adulthood and show the challenges of a new couple starting out, but she is such a good anchor for After Story and perfect for giving a measure of agency and realism to the issues that plague our MC while also maintaining herself as a strong character in her own right, even if she does become a little plot "devicey" by the end. 

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.

This... my first untranslated VN was Jingai Makyou, and you can bet I didn't get everything on the first playthrough.  If anything, replaying good VNs later after you've gotten better at Japanese can allow you to reaffirm that you have gotten better, and the flavor deepens the more you chew in some cases.  I played Dies Irae and Devils Devel Concept pretty soon after Jingai, and when I went back later, I got so much more out of them.

Honestly, just read whatever interests you. Even if you end up missing stuff (you always do on your first few reads), you can always just go back to it later on and give it a reread.

+1 for Aoi x Kotori and Yamato x Miyako.
If we could count couples not involving MC as well, I'd vote for Akio and Sanae from Clannad.

Perfectly fine MC. I like him about as much as I like Ryou from HoshiOri, and way better than Yuuma from Hatsukoi. Going to have to actually play through at least one route before any feelings are set in stone, but he's got the potential to be the best protag TW has churned out.

To say I'm really excited for this is an understatement :D. I've been wanting to read this since I learned about Hatsukoi 1/1. It seems RIGHT up my alley, with the setting, the art (I really like Tone Work's' art), and (I presume) the soundtrack. That + the all-powerful osananajimi heroine tag has me extremely interested. Probably the best part, though, is that it will most likely be translated really quickly, given how quickly their previous translations have taken. Between this, Aokana, Senren Banka, and Majikoi there is going to be quite a lot of nice and meaty VNs to read :D...
*sighs happily*. Do you have a link to the review?
Oh boy how long are the routes in HoshiOri, do you know? 

Yeah you didn't read it wrong, and it's real. Anyway apparently Trip find a passion inside him to translate Ginharu here, and so we have a new project from Tsurezure here. As for the progress, there'll be more on that tomorrow so let's just enjoy the common patch for today (Yeah we also already have common patch release) and you can get it from their website as usual. I'll use this thread post their progress later, and I'm looking forward to the final patch here.

Since I havn't posted in this thread in a while, I'll list my thoughts about the last 3 VN's I've finished.....
 
To Heart 2
https://vndb.org/v20
My first thought is, why didn't this VN get an official release!?
I really had a lot of fun with this VN. It had a lot of colorful characters and comedy. It had it's fair share of drama too (nothing too serious).
I always like my Tsundere characters, and Yuma was as bonkers and entertaining as they came. Konomi and Manaka were friggin' adorable. And Sasara probably had the best route overall (quite a lot of drama, and quite a lot of fanservice too).
 
Under One Wing
https://vndb.org/v17827
This VN had a few standout music tracks, and I liked the plane battles (I wish there were more of them).
Otherwise it's a typical rom com. Hikari was highly amusing with her sexual jokes (and sexual harassments). And as far as Tsunderes go, Kazusa is quite a level headed one.
 
Sankaku Ren'ai: Love Triangle Trouble
https://vndb.org/v19444
This VN is just loaded with lots of quirky, nerdy, 4th wall breaking humor, and tons of references! Easily one of the funniest VN's I've read (it's up there with the likes of Fureraba and Grisaia).
Shiina in particular was hilarious, with her Eroge memes (though the whole cast managed to be almost as quirky as she was)!
And of course, this VN has juicy imouto H scenes (and they aren't too long winded either) 
 
Meanwhile, here I am still waiting on releases like Lamunation and Aokana....

I forgot to post it, since it was right before my vacation, but some days ago another PSP VN has arrived - this time it was Toradora!

The only cliche I truly dislike is characters turning into pornstars during h-scenes, throwing away their personalities. And other hentai cliches related to it.
Most of other charage tropes mentioned above can be fun, if there is something else besides them in the story

I should probably point out that whilst Astro left the original project, and there have been no public announcements of any progress, the project is still very much alive. I can't stop you from starting your own project from scratch, but I'd recommend against it.

Happy birthday to @adamstan!

^what they said
(Oh yeah, I just saved myself from typing two @'s- oh, bollocks)

All best wishes to @adamstan and @Nayleen!

Happy belated 31st birthday to our admin @Nayleen and happy 35th birthday to @adamstan there. I hope both of you will have a good year ahead.

https://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2019/08/10/the-language-of-love/
Feel free to discuss the review/the game, if anyone is actually interested in that, but I created this mostly to celebrate the fact that we have first content on the main site since exactly one year ago (not counting VNTS). And while publishing a single article on August 10th every year would be an interesting gimmick, I kind of hope to see more life there (and not just my EVN reviews too, that would be in really bad taste). If you find in yourself some energy for writing about a recent release, I'm sure no one will scoff at even one-time contributions, if they keep a decent-enough quality. We don't have a review team leader ATM, but if you contact me or @Emi, I'm pretty sure we'll be able to figure it out.
And the blog staff recruitment post is also still up. :3