Corrupted

I'm no VN expert, but I really felt the purity and wholesomeness from Nagisa in CLANNAD and associated followups. Awesome happy family vibes, made me miss dating a girl with good parents.

Oops. I tend to get excited when I discover something new I like (Yandere, Imoutos) then I have to run off on a tangent to find more games with it. I am currently aiming to only be playing two at once, not counting ones I've officially got bored of and am putting off into the "stalled" category. Thank you! I'm nowhere near burned out yet, and if I ever need to take a break I'll probably play some roguelikes. Currently playing a bit of Evenicle for a bit of a change. I assumed it was gonna be boring because of the rpg elements, but then I ended up falling in love with the very first heroine and have been enjoying it greatly. A nice change of pace. Not that I'm even slightly burned out on VNs, yet. If anything, I'd say I've just become slightly more picky after playing several and am more likely to drop one if I don't like it early on. My original concern was that I'd go too fast and run out of good translated VNs. I'm not worried about that anymore though...because there are SO many of them, that by the time I finish them all I'm sure I could replay them from the start. Also, I could always resume Japanese study and open up my VN options exponentially, I think! Girls love genre? Is that the same thing as Yuri? I'm not super familiar with the terms and their fine differences, yet. I haven't played any female protagonist/female romantic interest games yet, but I was curious to try it at some point. Do you have a favorite game you'd like to recommend in that genre so that I could try it out and tell you what I think?

Since CLANNAD is also one of my favs and I've heard Da Capo recommended so many times, I guess this means it's time to play it. What I accomplished after finished Hoshimemo: -Finished G-Senjou and enjoyed it. -Got bored with Chrono Clock, again. -Accidentally downloaded an RPG (Evenicle) and was really surprised at how good it is so far as a visual novel. Lots of "Ichaicha", which might just be my favorite thing. -Enjoyed a Kotonoha vs DDLC Yuri rap battle on Youtube. -Tried KurukuruFanatic - the schizophrenic girl's path was actually kinda interesting, but the game wasn't enough to play more than once. I don't think I'm going to always be in the mood for an RPG, despite how good it is...think I might just bank on us having similar tastes and grab Da Capo right now. (I assume I need to play 1 before 2). Could you link me to Comyu? I stuck that in VNDB and got nada.

This is my golden year and I'm going to make the best of it! I'm honestly having the time of my life playing these games one after another. If you have a favorite translated VN that you want someone to read and talk about with, let me know <3.

My favorite old school tactical rpg was Der Langrisser. Here's a link to the translation patch: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/1147/ When I spent a year studying abroad in Hokkaido and was all snowed in during the weekends, I'd wait till the middle of the night and sneak to the university, trying all the doors and windows until I found one left unlocked. Our clubroom (The International Culture Club) hid our key somewhere I could find it. I'd use the PC in there with a flash drive I carried around that had an SNES simulator and the translated Der Langrisser on it. I'd stay up all night in the club room playing it. Good memories. Sadly, I never heard any gunshots or ran into Saya.

I was way into Rogue y games before I discovered VNs. Slay the Spire and Dead Cells were my favs. Previous to that it's asymmetrical games like Dead by Daylight.

Beer + VNs = I'm a happy camper.

I'll be around for the next 6 months ~ 1 year, playing VNs like mad all day long every day, probably. Given all this spare time I'd love to discuss the ones I've played and play other people's suggestions. Since I might very well finish a new VN every three days, there's a great chance I could play your favorite and talk about it with you shortly after you suggest it! Love and stuff! ~Corrupted

G-senjou no Maou Muv Luv Alternative

(Example post, feel free to play tag with it though.) G-senjou no Maou Grisaia 1 Muv Luv Alternative Hoshimemo Saya No Uta School Days Cross Channel

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I feel bad about how spammy and off topic this post became, so to redeem it I'm going to summarize the questions and answers here. If you see a mistake or would like to add something, feel free to say so. I think I'll start a new thread in VN discussions to continue discussing about stuff I have played, so as to stop spamming the recommendations forum with non-recommendation talk. Thank you all for your wonderful recommendations. Suggestions for Caretaker Vibe: Air, Sekien no Inganock, Ourai no Gahkthun, Maitetsu, Nekopara, Chrono Clock, Hoshimemo, Da Capo, Sharin no Kuni Suggestions for Imouto: Chrono Clock, Hoshimemo, WagaHigh and SakuSaku. Suggestions for Strong Protagonist: Tokyo Babel, Chusingura, Overdrive VN's like Kira Kira, Edelweiss or Dengeki Stryker, Kanon (anime preferred), Koihime Musou, Da Capo 2, Sekien no Inganock, Kara no Shoujo 1 + 2, Utawarerumono , Eden Suggestions for Non-Translated Yandere Koi suru Doll to Omoi no Kiseki, Gleam Garden no Shoujo, Gun Knight Girl, End Sleep Suggestions for Non-Translated Caretaker: Inochi no Spare, Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana, Sakura Nikagetsu

This made me go back and try Grisaia's bad ends. HOLY SHIT AMANE.

Given our previous exchange, I'm curious what you think of the Hoshimemo, if you've played it, in regards to my previous post's spoiler text.

Finished Hoshimemo. Loved it. Such unexpected depth. Such multi-generational worldbuilding. Such non-obvious plot exposition. Such priceless imouto. The only thing I didn't like: I was lukewarm about little sister paths before, but no longer. I would like to directly ask if there are other games with imouto paths as good as Chinami. Her "Eternal Love" alternate voice acting was like woah. I did play Chrono Clock's imouto path and it was pretty solid, although the game itself with its simplicity feels like babyfood compared to Hoshimemo. This long category game is a good deal bigger than the last several medium/smaller category games I played and I suppose that's why it was able to have more enjoyable worldbuilding. It puts me back in the mood for another very long game of high quality (and thus probably non-hentai). For that, I'm eyeballing Ever17 and Steins Gate, currently. Either that or another good imouto game.

I just finished it (and am riding on the high) and came back here to tell you it was fucking awesome (nothing below should be spoilers, just saying "it has this and this type of thing and they are good" but if you're super crazy sensitive to spoilers maybe skip it). The 3-5 untranslated lines didn't impair the story. The amount of garbled lines was actually very low, and I can't for sure even remember any. My opinion is only worth so much having only read like 15 VNs (you can see the list by clicking my VNDB link of course). In my personal enjoyment ranking, I would say it's under Very Long stuff like Little Busters, CLANNAD, MLA, but way above most of the Long or Medium category that I've played. (Going by VNDB's definitions) Despite being smaller scope than those big games, it actually had significant worldbuilding and mystery to it. It had the kind of multi-generational plot that I enjoy a lot, a story like The Watchmen is probably a good example of what I mean. I couldn't guess any of the plot twists, which reminds me of Key games. The boobs aren't ridiculously large; in fact there's a wonderful selection of small boobs. The loli characters are actually interesting, not ridiculous horndogs. The two things that stood out the most: The world building where I had to actively piece together the puzzles of how things work and what happened historically, and the imouto route which was simply fantastic. I had zero interest in "imoutos", but after this game I think I'll be specifically looking for more like it. What I didn't like, and this is actually a spoiler:

To elaborate on enjoyable jealousy, enjoyable reactions to developed relations in general would be cool. For example: Grisaia always (except in the case of Michiru, disappointingly) had an awesome reaction scene where everyone talks about the MC and the heroine hooking up (In KKK clothes, mysteriously). Another good example is how everyone reacts to the Twin Route in If My Heart Had Wings (In retrospect I hated a couple routes and loved a couple routes of that game). Just finished Hoshimemo imouto route and weeewwwww it was great! Truly great. Disappointingly - no reaction scenes.

Thank you, I shall adjust my expectations accordingly.

Sharin no Kuni has an interesting premise, makes me think a little of Psychopass. I only see two heroines in De Capo on the cover art, which is promising...I really enjoyed how School Days only had two primary heroines and instead focused on the many different ways things could play out with them. Plenty of things I also hated about that system, but still. I'm definitely in the "Love to Hate" category of opinion concerning School Days. For those that continue to feel like helping me out with suggestions and making this useful reference thread for me and hopefully otherse... 1. What are some games with enjoyable jealousy? You pick one path, and get to enjoy the reactions of the characters from the path you didn't pick, essentially. It's hard to say what I enjoy about it, but I'm going to guess if you know what I mean, than you know what I mean. Perhaps it's a little bit of a sadistic enjoyment. 2. What are some games with complicated plot paths like School Days? So, instead of just, 5 characters = 5 paths perhaps with bad endings, it's like there's a lot of little decisions you make that can lead to a lot of different potential outcomes. I love that complexity. CLANNAD had tons of decisions and potential to fall off path options as you go and you didn't quite know when you were stuck on a path - it wasn't the complexity level of School Days in which a certain amount of time passes and all kinds of things can happen in that time, but it was another example of enjoyable complexity.

Why must Hoshimemo make Chinami the most painfully wonderful adorable thing ever then torture me by not making her route immediately available? aaagghhhhh (I mean maybe I'm just failing to find it, obviously don't tell me if that's the truth or anything else about the game. I must do things the right way!) Not that I'm not enjoying the rest of the game. I guess delayed gratification is where it's at. 2 routes in so far and it's pretty grand. There's this one dream reapery soundtrack when Mare first appears that that has "ooohhs" like someone's voice in it and it is so badass that I want to google it on youtube or such, but I'm terrified of accidentally finding spoilers upon my google search or in the actual names of sound tracks (it happened to me before). If anyone is exceptionally bored and wants to spoil me by linking that one soundtrack I'd be grateful.