Ariurotl

I've only ever replayed two VNs: Crescendo (numerous times, mostly just Yuka's route, sometimes also Kaori) and Canvas 2 (read it twice, Mami and Tomoko ftw), and that was years ago. Sure, there are better VNs out there, but they're usually too long to re-read, and these days I can't even keep up with the stuff I already own but still haven't read.

Yeah, you can pretty much list every tsundere here, at least all classic ones. But just for the heck of it, my favorite is Tomoko from Canvas2. She starts off as a bit of a modern tsundere (although her behavior MAKES SENSE in context, which is not exactly all that common) but ends up full deredere eventually.

Yeah, this fucking coin has two sides. But as much as it goes against all my principles, at this point I'd take better economy in the shadow of those two dipshits over penniless freedom. And it's sad.

No offense to Americans, but my priorities here are oil prices that prop up our glorious hole-ridden economy and USD/RUR exchange rate. The former have already fallen, we'll see what happens with the latter today.

Planescape: Torment. Best storytelling bar none.

I'm not familiar with any of them, but picked Ram probably cause of the Stockholm syndrome as my twitter TL won't stop pushing her and her blue palette swap down my throat.

This aired yesterday on new Planet Earth II. Now I wonder where this footage appeared before that...

Male: Yuuji from Grisaia, Tomoya from Clannad, Kyousuke from ef. Female: Elis from Canvas2, Nemu from DC1, Miyako from ef. That's just off the top of my head. P.S. Nevermind, I can't read. Those are just characters I generally hate. I'll leave them here for posterity and as a warning re: reading comprehension. P.P.S. It's not even in the VN discussion section, so meh. I'm gonna clean the egg off my face and go get some sleep now.

Ain't that the truth. Half the fun of Fate/Zero was in observing Urobutcher try to deal with this pile of black and white morality that he just doesn't do. In the end, half the time she's waaaaay over there dealing with a subplot, and the other half is spent on her being lectured by pretty much the entire cast taking turns.

MangaGamer forums, JAST forums and forums for a certain DDL eroge site (I never even used the site for its main purpose, weirdly). As for non-VN forums, I've been a member of dozens of those.

Welcome, fellow oldtimer!

My Girlfriend is the President has a lot of meta jokes, IIRC. Probably not what you're looking for though.

Very few free VNs out there. The only two that come to mind currently are Katawa Shoujo and Everlasting Summer, but neither of those is Japanese. The first one is OEL, the second is... ORL (and I haven't read it despite knowing both languages!)

Bamboo had been losing interest in the Western market for a while, I gather. And then Overdrive lost a lot of money on Bokuten in Japan (it was expensive to make and it bombed), and he basically decided to take a step back from big expensive projects. Remastering Green Green is supposed to be a much less costly endeavor, and I assume GGN 2016 is not exactly a blockbuster either. That's what I heard, anyway. Take it with a pinch of salt, cause I'm no insider (can't even read Japanese). I miss livestreams with him though. Those were fun.

I disagree. While it did cause MG to pay more attention to Steam, I don't see any evidence of that fact influencing their choice of localizations. It did cause the estimable Bamboo to wake up from his poor-sales-induced slumber and pay attention to the West a bit more over the following few months (before he apparently cooled down again), but that was it. MG still license cheap nukige, various moege and story-focused stuff. Some of it gets on Steam, some of it doesn't, but the core ratio is largely the same.

MG's output has always maintained a fairly consistent ratio of nukige v. non-nukige, I don't know where people get the idea that they changed their focus one way or another at any point. There was one big con a few years ago where they announced nothing but nukige and got a lot of flak for it, but it was just an unfortunate coincidence (and admittedly, a shockingly bad PR decision).

It's probably best to wait and see how this retranslation pans out before thinking of any other Navel VNs. If they hired a shit translator a-la IMHHW, what chance does that person have of successfully navigating Oretsuba?

I can't speak for the other guy but personally, I hate things using the following equation: Hate = Shittiness x Popularity. That's why I'll whine about Clannad and Shuffle for absolute ages, whereas some obvious third-rate schlock is relatively safe from my fearsome wrath.

Another shit VN on Steam, I'm not even going to give it the distinction. May it rot along with Sakuras and Highschool Romances of this world.

You know, in a dream world where Steam allows 18+, I'd actually buy it for the older blonde kitsune heroine. It's my kryptonite. And that is why I had been badgering MangaGamer about Toppara for ages, until it became apparent that they don't really work with Caramel Box anymore...

Hell, I didn't know that it has a 18+ version when I picked all three at a discount. I mixed it up with something else, lol. I only realized that after I had encountered those conspicuous "there-should-be-ecchi-here"-shaped holes in the "story".

Not necessarily. Certain questions will definitely be raised.