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  1. Chaos;Head, on my way reading through the series (I already read Steins;Gate and 0 a while back).
  2. I'll never buy anything from them again if it happens. I'll never forgive Fakku for going to a completely pay to use model.
  3. 1. Steins;Gate - Easily my favorite and most gripping visual novel I've read. It's got problems with pacing early and sort of breaks down into a sort of psuedo-dating each waifu part in the second half, but as a narrative ignoring the alternative endings this is hands down my favorite. I read this every year, this year I did it with my best friend each of us voicing different characters to each other. Everything else isn't really in any particular order. 2. Steins;Gate 0 - This is next just because my top is Steins;Gate. It vastly improves on the original due to the fact time travel isn't as prevalent early on, allowing for more detailed character growth and development. Further I think it made a step in the right direction narrative taking away the narrative reigns from Okabe to see other characters perspectives first hand. Also the alternative endings were not simply waifu endings but served actual character development and stand alone narratives. In a lot of ways I like this better than the original, but the original is the original so I gotta <3. Also there's like 95% less Kurisu in this. I reread this one with the anime that came out, though the anime was disappointing. 3. Maji de Watashi ni Koi - Honestly, as dumb as this visual novel felt to read it was really dumb fun. It's like a guilty pleasure visual novel for me but not entirely, because it had good points that I think make liking it more justifiable than liking some other things. Though I didn't reread all the routes its still always there for me. 4. Clannad - What can be said that hasn't already been? I didn't really read every character's route but Misae's backstory and the After Story both gripped me all the way through. Having lost my mother when I was too young to remember her (not right at birth) I could really relate with the struggle of the end of the story. Fortunately my Dad didn't become a deadbeat and raised me well I think. I reread the main story line this year, skipped all the side routes. 5. White Album 2 Introductory Chapter - I know this gets shit on a lot for the poor translation, but when I read it, it honestly was completely fine in my mind. The story and the characters and their relationships were all great, I think this is the perfect example for how to make a well grounded story that is also very emotional. I often find some deaths in visual novels are there just to force feelings rather than to help characters grow and develop, so I wish more would take an example from this and cut cheap deaths and just naturally get the feels out of the reader. I reread this one every winter now.
  4. I just did Sakura Sakura if it's of interest to you, I don't see it on your list. I wrote up a review of it on it's release thread but overall I'd say it was pretty fun and had some heartfelt romance, especially in (Just put a character's name and their route idk how much you care about that but yeah.
  5. Thanks for this, I'll look into these as I do have a PS4 (no vita), and of course I intend to look into manga as well, as a way to practice reading. I think visual novels are my preferred medium because I can take it at my own pace, many it's easy to replay voice lines, and I can always reread logs. It's the best of manga and anime for learning for me I feel, because anime it's a bit tedious to keep rewinding and manga there's no voice over to hear pronunciations. I'll take a look at these, regardless of if I intend to read them right away or not. Maybe in the future they'll be good options. Thank you a ton for this! Some of these I've seen before so I'll definitely check them out and see what interests me. I want to add, that if something is fun and easy to read I am happy to check it out even if it was translated already. So if you have recommendations for translated titles I am happy to check those out.
  6. I was unaware of this, thanks for sharing. I don't really know much about the numbers and sales of visual novels as a business so I could really only speculate as to why things were the way they were from my own knowledge of things.
  7. It's an interesting question and one I don't really know the answer to... Of course there are a bunch of VN's for a male demographic that have action, but there are many more slice of life drama ones. For every Fate/Stay (which I did not enjoy, actually) there's a bunch of em like Clannad, Hatsukoi 1/1, and If My Heart Had Wings. If I had to guess it's because the visual novel medium does not lend itself to action as much as other mediums. Especially combat based RPGs and what not like Persona or Kamidori or Bunny Black, they all translate combat much better than just text. Even more so anime communicates combat much much better.
  8. I am learning Japanese slowly but surely, and I want something simple but pleasant to read that I can work over slowly while trying to learn new words.
  9. Maybe I'll read it with my girl then, she's not interested in my waifu visual novels so I'll just get her this husbando visual novel.
  10. Honestly I just eat a lot of steamed white rice as a side dish to other things, or sometimes on its own. I like chewing on it a lot because it brings out a sweet flavor.
  11. Will do, seems like a lot of people do so maybe I'll type up a review of my thoughts and open a new thread to talk about it when I get there.
  12. Yeah I got the retranslation patch all set, thanks for the heads up. I only read the first line without it and I could immediately tell the quality difference lmao. Hope I like it as much as you guys.
  13. Thanks, I'm getting ready to check it out now. Any other recommendations?
  14. Just finished Sakura Sakura, looking to start If My Heart Had Wings or A Sky Full of Stars.
  15. Honestly I don't wanna read a pastebin but based on what the guy above me said, yeah read what you like. Honestly I've not read a visual novel without glaring problems, but that doesn't stop me from liking many of them, while there are others I just think suck and aren't redeemable from their problems. It's all subjective my opinion on them isn't any more right than anyone else's, and no one else's opinion is any more right than mine or yours. Read what you like ignore the noise.
  16. I think the fact that fan translations are still coming is very interesting, considering there's at least some market for translations to make money from. Tsurezurescans (who I do not really know much about) seem to be an anomaly in my mind in that I don't see many people really complaining about quality of translation, and they are working pretty consistently, when fan translations seem to be on the back burner/disappearing. I honestly appreciate the effort by anyone putting in proper time to put out fan translations, even if they are poor quality, because I don't think they close any doors because there is no license and if they are poor quality then anyone can make a new one still. That all said there are obviously merits and and demerits to official translation companies. I think ideally larger visual novel companies would themselves expand out from Japan and hire translators to ensure the quality of their products as I'm sure they care more about it and their brand than third party licencors. But as it is we really benefit from having so many companies translating visual novels for the obvious fact there are lots of them that might not get touched otherwise, or at least not for a long time. Though there's obviously the fact that this means if its a machine translation or a busted translation then we might not ever get a good one unless fans are really skirting on copyright infringement to do their own translations or fix the official one. So yeah, good and bad.
  17. Well honestly I don't feel like there's just one, every visual novel that I really enjoyed I can never get the same experience of reading it for the first time again. If I like it, it always feels like it was once in a lifetime. Every experience below I list is something I can't have again, not the same one in my mind. Maybe there will be some similar to it in the future, but they're all special to me and even if I play them again I cannot recapture the magic I felt reading them. There are a lot of others, but I figured I would just share some. Everything I read that I really enjoyed is once in a lifetime and has a strong impact on me, maybe I'm just a soft person but... Yeah. Maybe I should keep a list of them all so that if I lose my memory I can experience them all for the first time again. Really I for all of them I just wish there was more or I could experience them for the first time again, they're all once in a life time.
  18. Also I made an edit at the bottom, if you have any recommendations for visual novels like this please lemme know.
  19. Well I finally finished and figured I would lay out my thoughts on it. Now onto my actual analysis of the routes. Now for my overall thoughts and impressions, as well as my closing remarks towards it. Edit: If you have any recommendations for visual novels similar to this please lay them on me. I want more.
  20. Yeah, I haven't played SukiSuki so I really can't comment on it haha. Honestly though I think they just botched it trying to write Naoki's story in general. At least in Akira's route it just feels like it wasn't needed, and the common route is just a struggle to read. I mean it didn't really feel like anything happened, beyond them resolving things from their past which weren't really foreshadowed anywhere in the main game making them feel even a bit shoehorned. But that said, of course Akira's sex scene(s) are gonna be worse considering the entire section seemed worse off for all the reasons I mentioned. Maybe I'm too critical on them specifically.
  21. Well the plot of this game is the growth in the relationships between characters, the sex scenes mostly after the first don't feel like they added anything to that though and just got in the way of actual character progression. Lemme put it this way, what actually happened to make them at all meaningful? Nothing really. There wasn't anything to justify them as meaningful or purposeful and were really just fan service-y. This is as opposed to the first two in the first two routes, they are justified by the struggles and hardships the characters went through together to get to that point. Akira's first one doesn't even really feel that "earned" since it comes only like 10 minutes afters the common route concludes.
  22. Maybe I just don't play as many with really tacked on ones I guess? At least in Akira's route they were happening literally every other time Naoki and her had any revelation about one another. Kind of annoying when it continually stops the plot like that. From what I saw going through Kurumi's it seemed a bit more well spaced out, with one being saved for completely after.
  23. I might go back to it later but as of right now I'm just skipping through most of her route, and extra tacked on sex scenes are okay with me once the conflict is all resolved. But when they are peppered through every few scenes while one of the major conflicts is still on going it gets on my nerves. Which is why I'm glad there was just the one in the first arc, and am okay with more in the epilogue.
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