The Visual Novel Thread

Possibly more of an adventure game than a true VN, but if you have a DS, Hotel Dusk might be one to check out.

 

Regardless of the speed, it's a machine translation so the quality is bad.

 

Ah, oh dear. Still, at the present rate, I probably won't get to it any time soon...

 

The ending is pretty awesome but it only gets better from fate.

 

Is Fate Stay Night particularly explicit? I haven't read many VNs, but going by the anime version, it's hard to know how 'far' it goes?

 

If you're worried about that you can just play Realta Nua instead.

 

There is this epic relta nua patch on beast's lair that has options pretaining to having the sex scenes on or off. While the sex scenes are stupid, they actually have a purpose plot wise and the things they are replaced with are even more stupid. It would probably better just to cover your eyes and skip through the sex scenes as the do happen and can b important to the characters (last route mainly).

 

Was away on holiday for a few days, so I thought I'd fire up the DS and try to finally finish Hotel Dusk. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the cartridge, so I started into Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors instead, with which I was suitably impressed. The puzzles aren't greatly taxing and there's some dubious localisation going on in the script, but I've found the story very engaging and I love the 'sinking ship/solve convoluted puzzle rooms to advance' conceit - it reminds me of nothing so much as the Crystal Maze.

 

Funny that you mention "holiday = VN Catch-up."

Got Steins;Gate for a b-day present earlier this month - And I've rarely stepped out the house in this week whilst using my vacation time.
Eating a meal - Turn on PS3.
Iron clothes - Turn PS3 on.
Nothing planned for the day - Turn PS3 on.
Free time between 2 activities - Turn PS3 on.
I think if someone puts a VN in front of me - I become addicted to it and use all my strength to complete it. orz

This VN has given me so many laughs and so many things I cannot unsee. I think I'm on the last leg of it now, and I wanna go back to finish all the trophies off. This is bad... But at least it's not a continuous game you can play over and over with new ideas or results - like sports games and MMORPGs... otherwise - I'd have no chance of survival. lol

 

I finished it with all the ending now done - just need to 100% it if I desire so. Not even had it for a month - I'm ill.

But now this is one of my favourite VNs of all time. Getting most of the flags wasn't hard in it, but there is a couple of routes that you need to do specific things on the phone to accomplish them - and after I got 4 of the other route endings, I needed a help guide. There is just so much that can lead you into another round of the same ending again and again. I would of missed it time and again if it wasn't planned out before me.

You can get some games which you can love some characters in the game's main cast and some with lesser attachment to. I loved everyone of the cast. But there are 2 characters that really need a mention in the spoilers:
Faris NyanNyan has the greatest imagination of a character when it comes to role playing and is 100% devoted. The way she can talk to you, then you make a serious point in the discussion and still she finds a way to make it into her fantasy. I could be great friends with a person like that. I promote her to waifu.
However - that may be fun, there is someone I can always have feels for. The BEST damn "niece" ever! Suzuha is kick-ass, rash, dependable and adorable. Hell, even when I 1st saw her I thought - "This girl's John Titor, isn't she?" No one wears fully grey sports gear and those twin tail-bags - and still pull-it-off. I didn't mean literally... I mean... What kind of uncle would I be... hahaha... /o\ Can I have one, please?

But yeah, had a gret time with Steins;Gate. Through all the manic laughter and some seriously touchy moments, I had a blast with it.

 

I will throw a mention of Her Story into this thread. Not perhaps the exact same type of content as the games people have been playing and talking about in here, but I'm pretty sure my game of the year for 2015.

 

hi guys, i've been meaning to ask here about a kind of "essentials list" for visual novels

i've done a few of them before (va-11 hall-a, hatoful boyfriend, katawa shoujo, et al), but right now i want to go a bit deeper but i thought it would be nice to have a bunch of titles i can run through that might give me a good grasp of what i should look for in these things

thanks, in advance

 

While it's not exactly a pure VN, I've really enjoyed the Zero Escape series.