mrsmelodion

Aw boy, such wonderful replies. Thanks a lot to you all for your invaluable insight. I myself decided to follow your advice and play being aware of the narrative nature of the VNs, as if reading and witnessing a story rather than hard-roleplaying it and it was indeed much more relaxing. I even managed to evade a bad end!! Bahahaha- But then I was curious about the bad end I just missed so I looked around for a way to reach it and I must say it was wonderful beyond belief . So, ironically enough, I felt bad for getting the good end instead of the bad one. I just wish bad ends didn't result in game over, and you had to endure disgraces and fatalities until the very end. Just like in real life. Heh. Anyways, I think I'm going to spend some more time acquiring experience on VNs before actively participating. Thanks a lot for greatly aiding me in my quest towards the most complete and fulfilling VN experience. See you around!

Wow, you guys sure are fast! I'm overwhelmed by your kind and elaborate replies. I seem to have understood your message. I guess the little young me who always wanted to change the world still remains inside there, manipulating what's left of good ol' me. I'll keep what you guys said on mind. Frankly, I think it might make it a less vivid, yet it's an interesting perspective nevertheless. Plus it makes me wonder whether my values are more peculiar than the author's, or backwards. Which leads me to another question. I've been browsing the VN discussion board for a topic related to it but I was unable to find it: what's the reason for people to play VNs? I'm really interested on what people find interesting of them. From a clinical point of view, it feels as if most of its elements can be equally found on anime/manga, but I know there's something else in them that makes them distinguishable, but I can't really tell what it exactly is, other than the 1st person narration/point of view. Care to enlighten me? :3 Thanks again for your valuable words. It's certainly interesting to me to discover and learn about the nature of visual novels.

Hi! I'm not good at introductions but I thought it'd be rude to just start posting without introducing myself so there it goes. So I found out about VNs years ago but I dropped them because I was just too impatient to get past the lack of interaction; I didn't like stories being told to me, but rather decide them by myself. However, I've now grown older and weary of all videogames but visual novels, which now happen to be really interesting, almost fascinating, to me. So a few days ago I raided the web hunting down all information and sources about VNs I could get my hands on and got to play a few of them. Now, I probably haven't played enough VNs to substantially back up my incoming query, but it's bugging me inside and I've not been able to figure it out, so please, lend me a hand: I'm not much of a achievement hunter guy, so I don't care much about completing CG galleries. I'm not either particularly thriled by anime setups, so I can't recreate myself too much with the contents of the novel. However, I seemingly have a sort of preference for empathizing with fiction characters, so I thoroughly enjoy roleplaying the main character and making the same choices I'd make in real life. And then, two problems arose. First one is, while I'm always attracted to the troubled characters, I always end up getting involved with the energetic one. I was able to figure that out more or less: I always choose the confronting choice, which I guess fuels up such energetic characters and unwillingly gets me involved with them, and when they go beyond their limits and everything goes to hell, I always choose the soothing action because I believe everyone deserves a second chance and so I win their heart and what follows. The second one, probably linked to the first, is more troublesome to me. I ALWAYS GET THE BAD ENDING!!! I've played so far Katawa Shoujo and Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo and I keep running into bad endings. Into the earliest ones, which is even more troubling. Now, I understand the easiest fix to this is to get over it and load a previous save or outright restart and try again with different choices. But I keep thinking there's a reason behind, so I've been trying to bullshit-pseudo-analyze myself but I can't draw any further conclusion other than me being a selfish hedonist who can't carry a long-term relationship and sooner than later ends up screwing the poor gal (both physically and psychologically) and getting BAD END, but it's only blind guessing in the end. So I raided the net again in search of answers but it was all for naught, so I looked instead for visual novel-themed boards and this one seemed the most warming and appetizing out there, so I signed up and made a self-deprecating post asking for someone to tell me what I wanted to hear, even if I don't know what it is. So tell me guys, does obtaining a "bad ending" have a special meaning in regards to the player('s behavior)? Are there any tips to avoid it happening any longer? Or should I enjoy them for what they are? Thanks a lot for your help and for reading and sorry for being so self-centered. I'm really looking forward to your answers. I'll try to do my best to fit in. So long!