Rain Spectre

Oh boy, Sora's route...a warning, it is easily the worst part of the game. 

The vocab might be undoubtedly higher-level, but I'm going to cast that shadow of doubt upon its status as well-written.
In a way, it somewhat reminds me of my high school English essays: the writing may appear to be sophisticated and intellectual, but it is not necessarily superior for that. The analysis of a VN's merits, qualities, and themes is merely skin-deep, covering a broad and comprehensive overview of the VN as a whole rather than delving deeply into a single element of it, and as a result, the article ends up feeling rather superficial. Certainly, the phrasing is professional, academic, and advanced, and I cannot deny a markedly erudite tone to the work, but there appears to be a certain sort of distance created between the author and the audience that lessens the impact of the recommendations. Were one to read it, they would likely feel unable to appreciate the sentiment placed within the text.
But, that's an awfully drawn-out and pretentious way to put it. If your eyes glazed over when you read that, you're probably getting the point. In simpler words, after each recommendation, I get the feeling of having read a whole bunch of nothing, because it doesn't connect with me.
Now, it's not that there should be a deeper analysis, since these are just quick reviews designed to interest the reader in the VN, and they shouldn't have any spoilers. Really, the issue is that the tone and style don't really fit this level of analysis. It would fit better if you were writing about some d e e p s h i t explored in the game, maybe a reflection on the core theme, but that'd be something for people to read after a VN, not before. These are recommendations, intended to make people want to read something, so you gotta appeal to people, and to do that, you can't have the distance between author and audience that "essay language" creates. Essay language sounds sanitized and boring, and while it's not false, it's not genuine either, because it feels like it's losing the heart of the author in order to take on some affectation of intellectualism. None of these elements are good for reaching the audience.
So, what's to be done? The solution is to be casual, simple, and straightforward. A line like "It is not a happy experience." (from the Muv-Luv portion) sounds stilted and unnatural. A simple "It hurts." flows much better, conveys feeling much better, and interests me much better. A line like "It is when one reaches Alternative, the real meat of the narrative, that Muv Luv becomes an explosion of emotion" seems weird in the same way. I'd say something like "When you get to Alternative, the real meat of the narrative, Muv-Luv starts to hit your heart hard" would work much better. Changing all of those "they"s and "one"s to "you"s would probably help too, since speaking directly to an audience will connect better than speaking to some nebulous avatar representing the audience.
In summary, I wouldn't say this article is well-written. It's higher-level in vocabulary and arrangement, but that doesn't make it well-written, because a significant part of the quality of writing is how well it does what it's supposed to do, how well it reaches the audience with its intent. This article fails to interest the audience as well as it needs to, because it fails to connect with them as well as it needs to.

Last paragraph of the Why You Should Read. FYI, for those confused, my policy is to treat sequels which were planned when the original was released as an extension of the original work. Kodaka has said on multiple occasions this was never the case for DR, so ergo V3 is counted separately. 

That's not true...mostly. 

Yaginuma has a larger role in KnS. He also gets a backstory, and it makes him a MUCH more interesting character. 
Agreed on the pointlessness of the other endings. I feel the story would've been much stronger had they been excised, since they add nothing to the mystery and seem like just an excuse to insert H-Scenes. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbGVD6ycb1syrZHjPcMLN7inCLnfDELbeF4PV3_6hMo/edit?usp=sharing
So, this is something I've been writing up for a while, based on the words of myself and plenty of others. The article is more or less directed to the AniManga community, with the intent of getting more people into the community. I'm creating this thread to get feedback and some direction for when I professionally put it up.
Now, to get the inevitable questions out of the way: 
First off, I openly admit I am not the most qualified person for this duty. I acknowledge that I haven't actually read many of the works on the list, but I feel I'd be missing too much otherwise, and this wasn't supposed to be about my personal opinion (though all the works I listed are ones I at the very least plan to read at some point in the future). Treat it as the communities child, methinks. 
I had three main rules when constructing the article; No nukige, no moege, no gameplay eroge (specifically RPGs). Nukige is obvious, no way was I promoting outright porn to people (and no, Nukitashi is not a nukige. That is missing the entire joke). Moege is incredibly hard I find to pitch in an appealing way, and I have absolutely zero interest in the genre myself. Gameplay eroge meanwhile has the matter of "Why should you read this over a higher budget JRPG", not to mention it would probably see me trying to justify Rance as a character and I'm, uh, not doing that, for obvious reasons. 
The other big rule I had was to ban works that I feel would inevitably get an "Extreme" in the Severity of Content, in other words the plot-focused works of ClockUp and BLACK CYC. My basic logic is "Would you see this in a Seinen manga?", and stuff like Euphoria crosses a line for me. 
The untranslated works being recommended is for people who actually can read Japanese, and to build up additional interest in seeing a localization for those who can't. Simple as that. 
Please don't argue about me not "accurately representing" the medium and needing to be more praising to the historic titles. This isn't a history anecdote. 
Summer Pockets is representing Key because I simply felt it fit the list better. Vague answer, I know. 
As for Hello Lady, I simply put it on because I wanted to give Hino Wataru some rep, and it is both a contender with RuiTomo for his best, and it's getting an official localization.  
Lastly, if you try to argue that I "forgot" your favorite VN, don't make a huge fuss about it. More likely than not, I simply either ran out of room, forgot about it, or didn't even know it existed and that so many liked it.
Cheers~

Most Sci;Adv fans consider Chaos;Child better than Steins;Gate (even a friend of mine who prefers SG admits that CC is objectively better). Also, I wanted to focus on works that people in the community knew well, but people outside likely wouldn't. That's why I ultimately choose to exclude Fate, BTW.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbGVD6ycb1syrZHjPcMLN7inCLnfDELbeF4PV3_6hMo/edit?usp=sharing
So, this is something I've been writing up for a while, based on the words of myself and plenty of others. The article is more or less directed to the AniManga community, with the intent of getting more people into the community. I'm creating this thread to get feedback and some direction for when I professionally put it up.
Now, to get the inevitable questions out of the way: 
First off, I openly admit I am not the most qualified person for this duty. I acknowledge that I haven't actually read many of the works on the list, but I feel I'd be missing too much otherwise, and this wasn't supposed to be about my personal opinion (though all the works I listed are ones I at the very least plan to read at some point in the future). Treat it as the communities child, methinks. 
I had three main rules when constructing the article; No nukige, no moege, no gameplay eroge (specifically RPGs). Nukige is obvious, no way was I promoting outright porn to people (and no, Nukitashi is not a nukige. That is missing the entire joke). Moege is incredibly hard I find to pitch in an appealing way, and I have absolutely zero interest in the genre myself. Gameplay eroge meanwhile has the matter of "Why should you read this over a higher budget JRPG", not to mention it would probably see me trying to justify Rance as a character and I'm, uh, not doing that, for obvious reasons. 
The other big rule I had was to ban works that I feel would inevitably get an "Extreme" in the Severity of Content, in other words the plot-focused works of ClockUp and BLACK CYC. My basic logic is "Would you see this in a Seinen manga?", and stuff like Euphoria crosses a line for me. 
The untranslated works being recommended is for people who actually can read Japanese, and to build up additional interest in seeing a localization for those who can't. Simple as that. 
Please don't argue about me not "accurately representing" the medium and needing to be more praising to the historic titles. This isn't a history anecdote. 
Summer Pockets is representing Key because I simply felt it fit the list better. Vague answer, I know. 
As for Hello Lady, I simply put it on because I wanted to give Hino Wataru some rep, and it is both a contender with RuiTomo for his best, and it's getting an official localization.  
Lastly, if you try to argue that I "forgot" your favorite VN, don't make a huge fuss about it. More likely than not, I simply either ran out of room, forgot about it, or didn't even know it existed and that so many liked it.
Cheers~

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbGVD6ycb1syrZHjPcMLN7inCLnfDELbeF4PV3_6hMo/edit?usp=sharing
So, this is something I've been writing up for a while, based on the words of myself and plenty of others. The article is more or less directed to the AniManga community, with the intent of getting more people into the community. I'm creating this thread to get feedback and some direction for when I professionally put it up.
Now, to get the inevitable questions out of the way: 
First off, I openly admit I am not the most qualified person for this duty. I acknowledge that I haven't actually read many of the works on the list, but I feel I'd be missing too much otherwise, and this wasn't supposed to be about my personal opinion (though all the works I listed are ones I at the very least plan to read at some point in the future). Treat it as the communities child, methinks. 
I had three main rules when constructing the article; No nukige, no moege, no gameplay eroge (specifically RPGs). Nukige is obvious, no way was I promoting outright porn to people (and no, Nukitashi is not a nukige. That is missing the entire joke). Moege is incredibly hard I find to pitch in an appealing way, and I have absolutely zero interest in the genre myself. Gameplay eroge meanwhile has the matter of "Why should you read this over a higher budget JRPG", not to mention it would probably see me trying to justify Rance as a character and I'm, uh, not doing that, for obvious reasons. 
The other big rule I had was to ban works that I feel would inevitably get an "Extreme" in the Severity of Content, in other words the plot-focused works of ClockUp and BLACK CYC. My basic logic is "Would you see this in a Seinen manga?", and stuff like Euphoria crosses a line for me. 
The untranslated works being recommended is for people who actually can read Japanese, and to build up additional interest in seeing a localization for those who can't. Simple as that. 
Please don't argue about me not "accurately representing" the medium and needing to be more praising to the historic titles. This isn't a history anecdote. 
Summer Pockets is representing Key because I simply felt it fit the list better. Vague answer, I know. 
As for Hello Lady, I simply put it on because I wanted to give Hino Wataru some rep, and it is both a contender with RuiTomo for his best, and it's getting an official localization.  
Lastly, if you try to argue that I "forgot" your favorite VN, don't make a huge fuss about it. More likely than not, I simply either ran out of room, forgot about it, or didn't even know it existed and that so many liked it.
Cheers~

So good to see you bothered to drop in, Hatan. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbGVD6ycb1syrZHjPcMLN7inCLnfDELbeF4PV3_6hMo/edit?usp=sharing
So, this is something I've been writing up for a while, based on the words of myself and plenty of others. The article is more or less directed to the AniManga community, with the intent of getting more people into the community. I'm creating this thread to get feedback and some direction for when I professionally put it up.
Now, to get the inevitable questions out of the way: 
First off, I openly admit I am not the most qualified person for this duty. I acknowledge that I haven't actually read many of the works on the list, but I feel I'd be missing too much otherwise, and this wasn't supposed to be about my personal opinion (though all the works I listed are ones I at the very least plan to read at some point in the future). Treat it as the communities child, methinks. 
I had three main rules when constructing the article; No nukige, no moege, no gameplay eroge (specifically RPGs). Nukige is obvious, no way was I promoting outright porn to people (and no, Nukitashi is not a nukige. That is missing the entire joke). Moege is incredibly hard I find to pitch in an appealing way, and I have absolutely zero interest in the genre myself. Gameplay eroge meanwhile has the matter of "Why should you read this over a higher budget JRPG", not to mention it would probably see me trying to justify Rance as a character and I'm, uh, not doing that, for obvious reasons. 
The other big rule I had was to ban works that I feel would inevitably get an "Extreme" in the Severity of Content, in other words the plot-focused works of ClockUp and BLACK CYC. My basic logic is "Would you see this in a Seinen manga?", and stuff like Euphoria crosses a line for me. 
The untranslated works being recommended is for people who actually can read Japanese, and to build up additional interest in seeing a localization for those who can't. Simple as that. 
Please don't argue about me not "accurately representing" the medium and needing to be more praising to the historic titles. This isn't a history anecdote. 
Summer Pockets is representing Key because I simply felt it fit the list better. Vague answer, I know. 
As for Hello Lady, I simply put it on because I wanted to give Hino Wataru some rep, and it is both a contender with RuiTomo for his best, and it's getting an official localization.  
Lastly, if you try to argue that I "forgot" your favorite VN, don't make a huge fuss about it. More likely than not, I simply either ran out of room, forgot about it, or didn't even know it existed and that so many liked it.
Cheers~

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PbGVD6ycb1syrZHjPcMLN7inCLnfDELbeF4PV3_6hMo/edit?usp=sharing
So, this is something I've been writing up for a while, based on the words of myself and plenty of others. The article is more or less directed to the AniManga community, with the intent of getting more people into the community. I'm creating this thread to get feedback and some direction for when I professionally put it up.
Now, to get the inevitable questions out of the way: 
First off, I openly admit I am not the most qualified person for this duty. I acknowledge that I haven't actually read many of the works on the list, but I feel I'd be missing too much otherwise, and this wasn't supposed to be about my personal opinion (though all the works I listed are ones I at the very least plan to read at some point in the future). Treat it as the communities child, methinks. 
I had three main rules when constructing the article; No nukige, no moege, no gameplay eroge (specifically RPGs). Nukige is obvious, no way was I promoting outright porn to people (and no, Nukitashi is not a nukige. That is missing the entire joke). Moege is incredibly hard I find to pitch in an appealing way, and I have absolutely zero interest in the genre myself. Gameplay eroge meanwhile has the matter of "Why should you read this over a higher budget JRPG", not to mention it would probably see me trying to justify Rance as a character and I'm, uh, not doing that, for obvious reasons. 
The other big rule I had was to ban works that I feel would inevitably get an "Extreme" in the Severity of Content, in other words the plot-focused works of ClockUp and BLACK CYC. My basic logic is "Would you see this in a Seinen manga?", and stuff like Euphoria crosses a line for me. 
The untranslated works being recommended is for people who actually can read Japanese, and to build up additional interest in seeing a localization for those who can't. Simple as that. 
Please don't argue about me not "accurately representing" the medium and needing to be more praising to the historic titles. This isn't a history anecdote. 
Summer Pockets is representing Key because I simply felt it fit the list better. Vague answer, I know. 
As for Hello Lady, I simply put it on because I wanted to give Hino Wataru some rep, and it is both a contender with RuiTomo for his best, and it's getting an official localization.  
Lastly, if you try to argue that I "forgot" your favorite VN, don't make a huge fuss about it. More likely than not, I simply either ran out of room, forgot about it, or didn't even know it existed and that so many liked it.
Cheers~