Your experience of "the visual novel entry barrier"
I've been inspired by the "Make vns popular in the West" topic to ask:
How did you get into visual novels?
More specifically, what factors, if any, made it difficult to take up the hobby?
I personally had big problems at first adjusting to the (slower) pace of visual novels, and gave up on titles that later became favourites. For that reason if I were to try to introduce someone to VNs, I'd start with a short kinetic novel.
TL;DR version... what got me into VNs was... Archer from F/SN.
Now let me explain. I learned about F/SN and thought "I have to try this shit" but when I saw it was a VN I was discouraged because I thought at the time that VNs were really boring game that having nothing to "play". So I went to the manga version instead (dumb me). I always read tons of manga.
And I was instantly hooked! Especially in the Archer+Rin parts (the manga version was a mix of Fate and UBW). They're my OTP and I
