JulioInAction

Welcome to Fuwanovel and sorry for the belated greeting. No problem with your English there, and you can ask us if you in need of some VN recommendations here. Lastly, I hope that you'll have fun here.

This will never end, prepare yourself for the fan disc of the fan disc  (Well, i'm all for it tbh) 

You are all fools!

Alright, boners, you know the drill. It's December, so select one of the Santa hats below and I'll add it to your avatar to the best of my ability. Or you can stop being lazy and do it yourself.
If you don't select a number, you're subjecting your avatar to my artistic whims.

Rules:
Make sure your current avatar hasn't already been Santified last year or a year before that. You can make a special request or ask for a Santa hat you found somewhere on the Interwebs, but it might be difficult to implement on your avatar. (Translation: I might be too lazy to accommodate your request.) Some avatars won't look very good with a Santa hat, either because the Santa hat is cut off from view or for other reasons. I probably won't be able to do animated avatars. If you get a Santa hat from me, I'll save your original avatar somewhere and @ you after Christmas to remind you that it's time to de-Santify your avatar. For every day beyond liturgical Christmas in which your Santa hat is still on your avatar, I will be mildly enraged.  

English Translated version here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v6oB6SVphXVf02AgYdVgawI7mf7ahodaTIAhqZrQZqw/edit#
 
The original Japanese site can be found here (just beware it has 18+ CGs):
http://www.minatosoft.com/majikoi-10thanniversary/r_after.html 

Unless it's kinetic or have a very easy choice, I'll use it. And yeah it's my habit that I always search the walkthrough when I'm about play a VN, and save it in the VN folders.

Depends on the game. I usually opt for no walkthrough since most games are straight forward enough. Some games like Angel beats and school days however are completely impossible without a walkthrough.
Also, had I used a walkthrough with a certain VN, I wouldn't have inadvertently brought myself into a 6 hour long bad end route expecting a happy end, which intensified the emotions many times over.

I usually don't use one for the first playthrough and just see where I happen to end up, if I liked the choice process of the game I may even go for a few more times while savescumming, in predictable moeges I try getting the (expected) worst girl first, then my completionist OCD kicks in, I look up a walkthrough and play all good/neutral/bad endings, get every CG and often I even read the sequels/extras/spin-offs to the VNs I didn't even particularly like, repeating the process... Don't be me.

I like having a walkthrough at least to learn the structure of the game/know what kind of conclusions I can aim for. I usually don't follow it early on, only using it after I've done one or a few "blind" runs and want to quickly check out alternative routes/endings, but I also like the feeling of having it on hand whenever I need it. Also because I review VNs and want to 100% most of them to get the full picture – trying to do that on my own is just a massive waste of time. 

I couldn't say better myself! 
 
And im sure they will! Thx!!! 

I never use one for my first playthrough.  If I think I can get the other routes or endings I want based on that playthrough, I don't use one for future playthroughs.  If I ended up surprised at my route or ending on that first playthrough, I'll at least skim a walkthrough to see if I can see something important I hadn't thought about.  I will use them if I get stuck and can't get certain routes or endings.  Usually it is because the game is blocking something - have to see the bad endings before seeing the true ending, have to do one particular minor route last, etc.

Some time ago i played Friends (From Aile soft), and i couldn't bare the voice actress of one character.
All it takes for me to trigger it was 1 or 2 voice lines so i finally muted it, but the thing is, it never happened again and i have heard a lot of bad voice actors so i don't know if it was me in that moment or that voice had something that i couldn't bare 

Nah, I get that. It's just that my enjoyment comes from the fact that choices makes me think about my actions and give me some agency? Like, if I'm letting someone else's walkthrough guide me all the way through, why even have choices since I'm not choosing anything by myself, you know? Even picking something wrong "teaches" me something anyway (save scumming never bothered me at all xD)

<confession time>
I usually used walkthroughs even when playing traditional adventure games....

Guess it depends on the game, when the order seems to be important I check online. Otherwise, I do it without walkthrough once (acting as I would in real life) and then with for the rest of the game

Well, I can't say I was ever particularly fond of using walkthroughs. I mean, if a VN has a well constructed route system, I always find some joy in actually getting to the ending I desire myself without any external help. And even if I am using a walkthrough, sometimes I try choosing wrong options simply to see if they actually change anything.
That said, quite often I just don't care. Many VNs have very random choices, and sometimes it is possible to skip some important scenes if you aren't following a walkthrough. So, in the end, it kind of just depends on my mood.
Looks like the Holy Inquisition needs to pay you a visit...

I am big brain enough to not use one.

I would really like to not use one, but since I don't want to miss any CGs or risk getting spoiled by accidentally going in a bad route order, I always end up using walkthroughs anyway.

I absolutely haaaaaaaate using walkthrough. It constantly distracts me as I have to check it every time and it breaks my immersion and it takes away all the feeling of accomplishment of getting the outcomes I want by myself (100% something by my own is something I really enjoy). I very rarely have problem getting into the route I want anyway.
I only use them when I tried and failed multiple times, when the system is too much of an ass for me to try again after failing, when I'm stuck with absolutely no idea what to do (if gameplay is involved), for completionists sake if the task is really boring to do by myself  (like finding random collectibles, although lately I don't even bother anymore).
If the system is very convoluted by default, I rather skip the game.

I'm the same. I use walkthroughs all the time.

What's up.
What VNs do you want to talk about?

'Tis a glorious day, for Sprite has announced that they will resume operations! They mention that they want to work on Aokana EXTRA2, and I assume this means the Aokana sequel might be resurrected as well.

So, without further ado, let's 


Announcement (in Japanese)