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The latest Humble Weekly sale is focused on VNs. Hatoful Boyfriend for 1$ is a steal for anyone who hasn't picked it up yet, and The Royal Trap in the BTA tier is pretty great, too, by the same lady who did Long Live the Queen. It's 100% a traditional VN (no stats or anything) but if you wanted more well-written medieval fantasy political intrigue it's definitely worth a read.
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Getsuya posted:It was mainly split between people who thought any censorship at all was a crime against the game and people who thought Mangagamer took it too far by doing stuff like censoring some references to characters' breasts and having a character bathing alone while wearing a towel to censor what was a nude scene. Apparently they extensively rewrote one character's route from scratch because a lot of her actual plot was based around the sex stuff? idk FractalSandwich posted:I normally stay away from these "average straight dude" romance games, especially ones that used to be porn games, but if it comes that highly recommended, I might give it a look. Eh. I've played through some of it, and it's alright? The protag gets a bit more development than "average straight dude", there's some pretty interesting moments here and there, and the characters have some pretty good chemistry;, but overall it doesn't really do a lot to differentiate itself from the crowd other than a whole lotta words about gliders and flying. At $7 bucks it's worth a buy for people who like genericish high school love stories I guess? The translation's riddled with grammatical errors, for what it's worth.
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Oct 29, 2015 01:49
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Asperity posted:You want Sweet Fuse. Everybody wants Sweet Fuse. Sweet Fuse is probably my favorite otome VN! My only real complaint is that the metaplot's pacing only works if you play through the routes in a very specific order. The ~secret~ route kinda sucked too, but everything else was so fantastic it doesn't even matter.
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Urgh. I've been playing through Amnesia: Memories after getting it for a buck back in the Steam Thanksgiving sale. It certainly wasn't my favorite VN ever or anything, but I was enjoying it. Ikki's route had a pretty decently sized helping of standard otome creepy poo poo in it, but it was never too terrible and was neat overall. Kent's route was legitimately pretty great. Then there's loving Toma. Jesus loving christ I hate yandare characters, especially when you can get "good" endings with them that aren't knocking them the gently caress out and calling the cops. The same poo poo popped up in Sweet Fuse, too, but at least there it was easily ignorable; and the rest of the game was fantastic enough to make up for the slight blemish. Are there any VN's that feature abusive characters like that where the true ending is "this poo poo is dangerous and hosed up, get the hell out of dodge right now"? The only thing I can really think of is Magical Diary with Damien's route, and that's a Western made game. dmboogie fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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mateo360 posted:It's out now I'm looking forward to seeing impressions about this, the premise is 100% my jam but 30$ is a bit above my impulse-buy threshold. The art also seems kinda "ehhhh".
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Fru Fru posted:Yeah, I already have Hatoful Boyfriend and Amnesia for Vita. I may buy one of the cheap ones that will certainly be bad. All of Hanako Games' stuff (Long Live the Queen, Magic Diary, Royal Trap, Black Closet) are solid if you haven't checked those out. Caitlin posted:There's plenty of good poo poo if you're into otome games and more coming out. Amnesia is a big one, and that's currently on sale. Amnesia is good so long as you don't do the route where your boyfriend locks you in a cage
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alcharagia posted:Hi. I'm playing Amnesia: Memories. I am doing the Diamond World route. I hate it! It's the worst!!! Yyyyep. It's the biggest black spot on an otherwise pretty decent game.
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Alternatively, VA-11 Hall-A is really great, and I recommend it. Even with the setting, the characters and dialogue are pretty human and believable, the art"s pretty, and the music's cool.
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Jun 22, 2016 16:52
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:My issue with it is that the soundtrack, while good, requires you to manually shuffle it. Could the developers not decide what tracks would work best in these situations, and can I not just hit shuffle on all of them? Also while the writing seems okay, there's no real point to the actual game as bartending is stupidly easy and kinda boring. Nice art and music, but it feels kinda half arsed. The soundtrack doesn't require you to manually shuffle it 24/7, dude. That's only during the bartending portions of the game, and I think it's pretty cool to let you pick and choose the songs and atmosphere you wanna keep. I just picked the 12 chillest songs, put them on shuffle, and called it good. Every other part of the game has a non-jukebox, regular soundtrack.
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Jun 22, 2016 17:04
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:That is true, but the bartending part of the game is the game. Everything else is window dressing. I don't want to have to sort through the songs and have to learn their names for what is at most an 8-10 hour game. Your song selection gets saved, you can literally spend five minutes at the beginning of the game picking your favorites and then forget about it completely for the rest of the game.
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Jun 22, 2016 17:22
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Yakiniku Teishoku posted:According to the devlog patrons were originally supposed to have music preferences so you might get some extra story bits or better tips based on what you played. I'm not sure if that feature ended up staying in, though, there was supposed to be a shuffle button too There is a shuffle button, actually. Just click the jukebox button while you're bartending.
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Jun 22, 2016 17:29
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Good visual novels don't need tacked on gameplay. If the tacked on gameplay is bad, it's a bad visual novel. The game this is closest to is Phoenix Wright, and Phoenix Wright is always at its worst when you're hunting for pixels and searching for evidence. This game is worst when you're making drinks. The issue is that this game is about making drinks whereas Phoenix Wright is about court cases. There are things other than the bad gameplay. Also they make you click a hell of a lot and there's no auto-scroll option that I can find. The game isn't about making drinks, the game's about talking to your patrons with the drinks as window-dressing to make sure you're paying attention. I also don't think it really compares to Phoenix Wright's pixel hunting at all, considering that making drinks takes at the most like 15 seconds once every couple of minutes.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:46
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I would find the actual drink making less tedious if I could just click the ingredients instead of dragging them. I'm with you there. The prologue had that as a feature, no idea why they took it out for the game proper.
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Jun 22, 2016 19:52
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1bitHeart is basically Phoenix Wright crossed with Persona's social links, like 80% of the game is just hanging out with people. Also, it's free. Cherry Tree High Comedy Club apparently also has a focus on just making friends but idk if it's actually any good.
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Jul 13, 2016 17:42
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Lemon-Lime posted:When was the last time we even got a Tokimeki Memorial game in English? The 3 Girls Side games have fan patches, afaik that's it? Alder posted:I watched the S;G anime a few years ago and liked it. Does the VN follow the anime closely? I felt like the mysteries were a main component of the series and it'd be less interesting since I know how it works out. I think the VN is basically the same as the anime, just with some additional early/bad endings. And yeah, 1bitHeart was an episodic game, but it's been entirely released now.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:09
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Junpei Hyde posted:IMO the bad endings that aren't axe are just kind of there. Submarine at least had a puzzle room unique to it, but yeah it kinda just... ended.
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Jul 14, 2016 00:04
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John Lee posted:I never understood the "the primary character of [work] isn't nice or cool, so it makes me not like the work" thing. Like, stories shouldn't be limited to Comics Code Authority rules, you know? The primary character of the work is naturally the one you're gonna be spending the most time with, especially in a visual novel where you get a constant stream of their inner monologue. I don't think it's unreasonable to go "this guy is an rear end in a top hat and I don't want to spend any more hours following an unpleasant person."
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Jul 29, 2016 22:46
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Stefan Prodan posted:Even though I hated the S;G main character at first they actually do a pretty good job of showing you that he's actually a good person who is just an awkward weirdo and also giving understandable reasons that the girls would come to like him instead of just being magically attracted to him He's also hammy as gently caress (especially in the anime) so even when he's being kind of a dick it's still entertaining to watch.
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Jul 29, 2016 23:21
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NRVNQSR posted:In the case of Persona 3's male protagonist, at least, I'd disagree. (Major Persona 3 spoilers)P3's protagonist is explicitly not a person; he comes into existence immediately before the start of the game. Okay, no, this is 100% wrong. It's explicitly shown that the MC existed 10 years before the start of the game, when his parents died during Aigis's fight with Death, so he's almost certainly an ordinary human!
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Oct 24, 2016 03:14
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Getsuya posted:I'm jumping between Clannad and Higurashi now and they're both really good. I need to pick up the rest of the Key stuff on Steam. Anyone have a Harmonia review? idk about the others but while If My Heart Had Wings isn't terrible, I wouldn't really recommend it over anything else unless you're really jonesing for an alright high-school slice of life game.
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food court bailiff posted:Also, is it a kinetic/sound novel like Higurashi? The System menu seems like it has a lil flowchart or something in there, is it just showing which episodes you've finished/unlocked or are there choices to be made? quote:Also what the gently caress kind of name is "Battler"? 
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Ryuga Death posted:Is Va11-Hall-A good? Judging from some posts made in the steam thread a while back and the LP thread going on about the game, it seems like most people dislike or hate it, but the steam reviews seem really positive about it though that's probably not saying much. I liked it a lot, though yeah there's a lot of amateurish bits to it. It's not perfect but "group video LP that insults people who like the game" isn't exactly the best atmosphere to give a VN a fair shake, y'know. EDIT: ^ what this guy said basically
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food court bailiff posted:Battler was a huge pansy about a plane ride, then a boat ride, now he's awkwardly sexually assaulting his own cousin. So not far in the slightest. I don't remember half the characters' names, but there's that family tree thing in-game. The airport stuff is slow but all the episode one buildup is super important for establishing motives and such. And yeah, Battler's awkward sex joke poo poo is bad early on, but there's like three? more instances of that, and they stop completely by Episode 3. Alder posted:I would drop the former VN since FM sounds much better than random death game. Calling it a "random death game" is an extreme disservice imo, it's more like a classic Christie style murder party and it's got some of the best mystery writing I've ever seen. It's entirely solvable by the player before it reveals the answers to you, too.
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Nate RFB posted:Sounds about right. took them long enough! i should've written down all my theories when i played 1-4 for the first time; it's been long enough that they're starting to go fuzzy and I don't have the time to replay them just to refresh my memory.
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Artificer posted:Wait...what? Really? the store page has a content warning for a reason
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it isn't fantastic, but the writing's legit solid esp. if you care at all about poetry or writing it's a pretty good experience that is free and also only a few hours long; which is almost certainly why it's blowing up
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Stexils posted:the character art is off in a weird way. the rendering is better than the proportions/anatomy which makes it look very strange. won't argue against that but i think the icon versions of the characters you see in the poem screen are still cute
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FractalSandwich posted:Thank you for saying words about the video game instead of expecting everyone to play it on blind faith. i don't think it's unreasonable to be vague when 1. the game is free, 2. it only takes like 45 minutes to get to the weird parts, and 3. talking about the actual premise inherently spoils it for people who wanna be surprised
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Quest For Glory II posted:How do people feel about western VNs, I get the sense based on the general silence on forums that they're generally terrible. I'm worried that even bringing up Christine Love's name will generate a chorus of laughter (I liked Analogue but Hate Plus was not great). But there are a lot a lot a lot of VNs on Steam and itch.io and I'm sure some are good?? I already did Doki Doki but I have Hustle Cat from a bundle. And someone recommended Butterfly Soup to me. There's a f2p otome VN called Cinderella Phenomenon that has overwhelmingly positive reviews but the art looks like a real mixed bag. I tried a demo of Icebound and it was okay but the puzzles in the game seem forced into the story for the sake of having a gameplay mechanic. Hanako Games does good work, even if her stuff usually has enough actual gameplay to not really be a "pure" VN, Long Live the Queen and Black Closet are both highlights. Christine Love's newest game is legit really good and has probably the best dialogue/choice system I've seen in any VN, but it's also at least 60% porn so it does not belong in this thread.
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thought of a couple good freeware western otome vns Aloners - post apocalyptic poo poo. Deals primarily with the heroine's relationship with one single, focal dude; and you get a shitton of dialogue choices to flesh your character's personality out. Been a couple years but I was engrossed enough that I played through the whole dang thing in one sitting. Our Personal Space - uniquely for a VN, you start the game married and spend the game developing your relationship with your husband. The premise is that you're both colonists, sent to be among the first people to live on a Miracle New Earthlike Planet. You choose the heroine's job and skillset as she works to help make the colony a more livable place, and it's honestly satisfying in a, like, The Martian way. both are a decent length- 4-5 hours maybe? Our Personal Space has more to see through separate playthroughs than Aloners. dmboogie fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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SealHammer posted:Katawa shoujo is the only good western vn and it literally is just aping Japanese vns you’re wrong but it is decent to great, depending on the route. and also it does not belong in this thread
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SerCypher posted:Are there any good fantasy VNs? Otome ones are fine as well. sweet fuse: at your side is probably my favorite otome VN! a recurring theme is being able to yell at all the dudes for all their Standard Otome Dude Bullshit, which is super refreshing for the genre especially since it's always the right choice to make you do need to play the routes in a specific order for the overarching plot to make sense (in that like, reveals that are the biggest defining feature of one route will be a sidenote in another) and the ~secret final route~ is actively bad imo but overall I really loved it
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:The translation for If My Heart Had Wings is insanely bad. At its best it reads like bad engrishy manga scanlations and at its worst it's actual gibberish. not only that, the translators basically rewrote one of the routes from scratch (because the sex scenes they removed actually mattered to the plot) it was still enjoyable fluff for the one and a half routes i sat through; and the glider parts are legit interesting and probably the only really unique thing about the game (aside from having a disabled love interest, which was also neat) but yeah overall i would never actually recommend it unless you're that starved for a high school life romance gliding visual novel fluff time thing
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hepcat posted:Re: Umineko. If I buy the Question Arcs bundle (currently 40% off on Steam) and the Answer Arcs bundle, is that the entire game? Yep! Enjoy, and always remember that witches exist.
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GulagDolls posted:I finished Fata Morgana. GOTY 2018 (video games that I played in 2018) for sure baby.. I think I'm gonna splurge for the art book. Have you played Umineko? Play Umineko.
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food court bailiff posted:I got the Umineko answer arcs and that means I need to slog through the question arcs if you go into the question arcs expecting a slog you're really not gonna have a good time, my dude umineko is fantastic across the board and the question arcs have some of its best bits
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even if you don't download the ps3 patch (the sprites are nice but I really don't like how it turns the text into a "traditional" visual novel style) please for the love of god switch to the original sprites the pachinko graphics are an affront to gods and witches and anyone with eyes
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Asperity posted:If you've got a Vita, Sweet Fuse (PSP) is extremely worth playing, and has the best protagonist of any otome. (Yelling at the men is very satisfying. It's refreshing not to be a doormat for once. Seriously, if you like otome, this is excellent.) very much seconded, with the caveat that you have to play through the routes in a specific order if you want the metaplot to make sense dramatically (i.e. a revelation that's treated as one of the Big Moments in one guy's route is a footnote elsewhere) dmboogie fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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Cake Attack posted:I got the evil guy my first play through of sweet fuse which annoyed me. He sucks I dunno how I even got him the evil guy's supposed to be locked until you complete at least one route so something probably went wrong there but yeah he is absolutely the worst part of the game unless you mean the other evil guy but he wasn't that bad imo, at least compared to the other low points of the genre
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