![]() If you read VNs in Japanese you can get a flair describing your Japanese level. Read the sidebar and the full rules before posting. ![]() We welcome posts and comments in English, Japanese, or a mixture of the two. ![]() The soundtrack is also very good.This is a community for discussing visual novels. If you want something fun and touching that flows very easily and without any silly histrionics, you should give it a try. The comic book style with the moving images and phylacteries also gives it a very pleasant and distinct style. The nice thing is that it unfolds very naturally, there's also a lot of camaraderie between the various students - their rivarly is mostly based on respect of each other's abilities and no stupid and childish enmity. Each year an important event takes place where 96 of them get organised as quartets and compete against each other for the chance to enter a music competition which acts as springboard for their future careers in music. The story is rather simple: Phil, the main character, enters a school for young musicians in Germany. It's very light on sex and the little there is just seem to fit. The art is lovely and the various stories are touching. Oh yeah, forgot to share another VN: Quartett! The interesting part about that one is that it's actually more of a comic book than a novel. ![]() Worth playing just for that one mindfuck the story plays out, for it is simply masterful. Games that give more if you've played some VNs and know the tropes and clichés: But I liked the writing and the other theme it deals with. Some weak parts in the writing, but a masterful demonstration of how one can tell the same story from several different angles. One of the rare cases where a game manages to truly slip in a plot twist that you didn't see coming.Ī modern fantasy epic with respectable length. One of the best modern imaginations of unimaginable Lovecraftian horror. Like the name implies, it is happy love-comedy that is especially good for depressed people.ĭark, but beautiful. Final game(s) never got translated, so it ends with a cliffhanger. Detective stuffies with a sprinkle of sci-fi. Sci-fi stuffies and thingies.Įnglish release was stripped of the sexytimes, which frankly makes no sense. While the story may not be that unique (if you've been around), it is a good entry title. The following have less focus on the sexin' and more on the writin' I'd say pretty much everything goes for anyone, with the minor exception of some titles having rather fourth wall breaking, insider jokes that you won't get. I think all of my recommendations have already been mentioned. Sometimes the sex scenes are even funny to read. Saying that, the "sudoku in base 12" riddle in the end of Mio path was top-notch, lost 3 hours on that fuckerīest visual novels almost exclusively have sex in them, but coincidentally they also don't make such a large issue out of it. It's like the devs decided to take a dump on the keyboard after doing a quite decent job. It was so bad I just said "fuck it" and deleted it altogether. But fuck that, did I mention how incredibly pretentious it becomes. Holy shit! Seriously, instead of explaining ANYTHING the game shifts back the previous gameplay mechanics and we enter a story that is almost unrelated to the stuff happening previously. A lot of strange shit.īut anyway, the third part. Then we entered the main game, which is a lot better, the gameplay changes to "click mouse on stuff and to move etc" and shit starts to hit the fan. It was long and quite boring but I endured through. The first part was quite long with the with the "click option to move, click option to look etc" kind of gameplay. main (the part you actually can call a game) The game is constructed from three parts: If I may I would like to post another set once I have the time. Magical realism story in alternate history England. Detective story with adventure game elements. A story of revenge and swordfighting in alternate history Japan. Everyone with a name is dangerously insane. Good to mediocre characters, many of which are left hanging in the PC version. Has very few choices but adds a bizarre method to change the way in which the scenes play. Has charmingly awful art on the PC version but there's a mod project to import the art, voices, and movies from the PS3 version to it. It begins as a mystery novel with fantastic elements that may or may not exist and becomes something entirely different along the way. Spans eight chapters each as long as a medium lenght visual novel, divided in two arcs. Very good characters and interesting character development. Umineko no naku koro ni and Umineko no naku koro ni chiru.
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