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And that's exactly why people call Sekai the Hitler of visual novels.

And that's exactly why people call Sekai the Hitler of visual novels.

And that's exactly why people call Sekai the Hitler of visual novels.

Mein Führer, das porn mags you asked for.
Das TRIBADISM!? How ineffizient! Die vaginas barely touch die other! Get der engineers in here JETZT SOFORT!

Combined impression post on Fureraba and Pure x Connect.
I played Fureraba a good while ago. The game is essentially plotless, but it has very good comedy, relationship progression and a proper ラブラブ mood with very gentle H-scenes. It also features a conversation system through which you earn points with your chosen heroine, but honestly I used a walkthrough for half of it.
Well guess what, Pure x Connect, SMEE's next title, doesn't have half of that. Relationship progression? How about we just move it from zero interest to full bloom with sex right around the corner? Gentle H-scenes? Bah who cares about that, let's just do it like every other moege where the protag has his way with the heroine without a care in the world while going on about how much he treasures her. Compared to Fureraba's protagonist, he moved a long way into the "tough guy" corner, and with all his onahole talk he might as well be tagged as a protagonist with sexual experience. Oh and don't mind that he's a university student, because there's very few scenes there and most of the game is set at his workplace.
For the reference, I only played two routes in Pure x Connect as I don't have the patience to bear with it any longer.
/rant over
TL;DR play Fureraba.

It's a normal reaction to every thread about untranslated visual novels being turned into "I wish this got translated" "cmon guys we all know it's never gonna get translated" "life's so unfair".

The knowledge that it's an OELVN is what alienates me the most, so unless I hear a LOT of good things about it I won't even touch it. The art style itself isn't such a big deal, plus it doesn't look bad going by the pic.

Suggestions:
1) Itsuka, Todoku, Ano Sora Ni
2) Fortissimo
3) Semiramis no Tenbin
 
Now if only I'd played any of them to know what I'm suggesting...

The knowledge that it's an OELVN is what alienates me the most, so unless I hear a LOT of good things about it I won't even touch it. The art style itself isn't such a big deal, plus it doesn't look bad going by the pic.

It's something along the lines of:
"Ooh, you've got quite the sharp ears there. Sometimes you need to sense the mood and pretend you didn't hear what ladies mutter."

pic related

Quiet Air

If you don't ask questions, how do you expect to get answers? It's a long game with a lot of plot, after all.

Call me a pleb but I think anal sex is ugh.

As for utsuge, I've seen enough to know it will actually happen. If it didn't, the title in question wouldn't be tagged with utsuge in the first place. It ends up being a foregone conclusion.
Pretentiousness
Example 1: I'll do everything for it, no matter what it takes! Ah, but I can't do this, this, this, this is unthinkable entirely - and really all I can do is shout and be a braindead hot-blooded protagonist. https://vndb.org/v92
Example 2, more common: the world is a cold place, and since I grew up here, I'm the same way. That doesn't mean I won't break my character every now and then to be surprisingly kind and act according to the society's norms because otherwise a lot of players will be put off, go refund the game and the VN company will have to close doors. https://vndb.org/v1896
Example 3: No murder allowed. Characters in action titles keep talking about how it may be necessary, but will never do it. Guns will always be used to magically "neutralize" human enemies without killing anyone, because good guys never kill, no matter how evil the bad guy is, right? If the bad guy has to die no matter what, he'll end up dying on his own, one way or the other, thus conveniently avoiding any guilt for the good guy. Most action anime out there, https://vndb.org/v5154
Think about it, have you even seen any anime where the protagonist kills a human? Barely anything goes far enough.
Example 4: Cop outs. Provide strong indications of heavy plot, then brush it off as misunderstandings and go the lighthearted way. Generally moege, https://vndb.org/v16069

Yet another thread from Firecat, that makes you go 【・ヘ・?】

Generally speaking, just like moege is an umbrella term, so is a charage.  While most charage fall under the moege 'umbrella', there are also some that don't (some OELVNs that would apply, charage that have a more action and/or story focus with chuuni elements like Libra, etc.).  Moege are just that... games where moe in visuals and characterization are the focus (things like the uguu~ monster in Kanon, classic tsundere patterns, archetypical deredere heroines are all things that would be considered to be moe characterization, as opposed to the more detailed, in-depth characterization necessary for a VN to be referred to as a charage). 
For a game not to be a charage, it has to have an overarching story that dominates all the routes at least to some extent, even if it is mostly in the background in some routes.  Noble Works and Princess Evangile, for all that they have a 'beginning idea' and a theme, don't actually have a stand-alone story that moves on independent of the characters in question.  'Convenient' plot path alterations are common in both moege and charage.  What this means is that, depending on which heroine you choose, even if there is a central theme or beginning idea, it gets twisted immensely to fit into the heroine's and the protagonist's own personal drama and/or issues.  This is the case in both Noble Works and Princess Evangile.  However, both have characterization that is just too involved and detailed for it be considered a 'pure' moege.  In other words, there is an actual attempt to represent the characters as 'people' rather than as 'symbols'.  Many 'pure moege' heroines (actually almost all of them) could be literally plugged into any other moege and you wouldn't feel like they were out of place.  While this didn't happen intentionally, it is how the moege umbrella genre came to be seen.
As a side note, the 'nakige' sub-genre mostly falls under both the charage and moege umbrellas, and it is defined by 'cheap catharsis', where a crisis is created in the heroine paths that leads to an emotionally stressful bit of drama that is then resolved with no real permanent loss to the characters involved (as in opposition to an utsuge, where the characters in question might die, suffer permanent crippling damage, go insane, etc).  Key's games before Rewrite would all fall into this genre, as well as under the charage and moege umbrellas. 
'Moege' is the single largest umbrella term in all of VNs other than 'nukige' (there being about ten nukige for every other type of VN out there).  Roughly eighty percent of all non-nukige VNs made since the year 2000 fall under the moege umbrella and about sixty percent fall under both it and the charage umbrella.  Does that give you an idea of just how wide a net you cast when you call something a 'charage'?
What are the remainder?  Mostly 'story-focused' VNs... VNs that have an overarching story which exceeds the importance of the characters/reduces them to tools to progress the story (though there is almost always deep character development and characterization technique involved).  Chuunige are my favorite example of this type, as characters are literally 'caught up in the events', rather than being the absolute movers and/or shapers of events they are in charage.  A more ambiguous type would be those like Ojousama wa Gokigen Naname, where there is definitely a strong central plot, but the story narrows down to an intense focus on individual characters in the latter third of the game.  It still wouldn't be considered a charage (because the original story/conflict still dominates in the background), but it comes close.  On the other hand, Otome ga Tsumugu, Koi no Canvas (by the same maker) would be considered a charage despite having numerous important unifying elements, because it is the characters (choice of heroines) that dominate rather than a central story.

I'm not really a fan of drool, but the fluids "down there" make it much more erotic.

In my experience, it typically goes like
[Random kissing ensues]
Female A: "Protag-kun, I feel something hard against me"
Male A: "I don't know how that happened."
Female A: "It looks painful, I'll relieve it for you"
[Oral sex follows]
Male A: "I'm sorry I ejaculated all over your face, here's a tiss- oh wait you're eating it all up, why are you doing that pls stop"
Female A: "It's okay, it tastes good because it's yours. But it looks like you're still hard, which is physically impossible, guess I have no choice but to have sex with you now even though I'm a virgin and know nothing about sex"
Male A: "Guess it can't be helped"
[Virgin protag proceeds to display his amazing sex prowess while the girl enjoys having her vagina bleed to death]

Slightly nsfw:
 

Wait a second...

395 - 68 = 327
3 + 2 + 7 = 12
1 + 2 = 3
HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED
YOU CAN'T FOOL ME

and this?

 
 

I can get behind H2O as it's a beautiful and nostalgic title that is unquestionably worth the attention of every romance fan, just make sure you disregard the fandisk as it completely betrays the original VN. Yui and Hamaji routes should never have seen the light of day in the first place, while the after stories destroy the atmosphere of the original and break the protagonist's character.