Everbody shut up I'm about to rant:
I have troubles (big troubles) finishing any kind of vns. I always end up hating the stupid main character or being annoyed about gated endings. Don't force me to replay your game or else I'm not even going to finish it. If I like it, I'll replay it. I still remember how 999 and AI:The Somnium Files just forced me to restart the game without showing me an ending because I was about to get the true one on my first try. The last vn that annoyed me was Raging Loop by graying out options. I've finished a Tsukihime route a few months ago but dread going back to it because I know all the endings won't be available to me on a first playthrough (or so I've heard a long time ago). I also don't like vns who have a high amount of bad endings but just a handful of good ones, as playing the game feels like walking on a mine field. I don't mind bad endings if they're treated with as much respect as the good ones, but don't make it a trial and error kinda thing.
Sometimes I wish somebody made a visual novel where you could actually roleplay as your character, I think that would be really cool. I also wish visual novels had more choices in general, I've had more fun playing games with fluff dialogue choices like Dragon Quest or Persona than with a lot of vns. Better writing is definitely needed since they're basically books in video game form. Vndb also needs to be less strict with what it considers to be a vn. Also, please, release them in more languages. There's a game I've always wanted to play that only had a fan translation in my language but was a pain to download, and now that there's an ultimate version on steam, there isn't even a fan patch for it. And that pisses me the frick (I said it) off.
All in all I think it's a genre with a lot of potential but with a huge compentecy crisis as it's been carried by the same few dozen games since forever it seems.
And you know what's worse than all of this? It's that I had a great point to make (the best, some would say) and that my memory has gotten so bad that I forgot about it.
Anyways, my favorite visual novel is Snatcher, it's unfiltered westaboo Kojima retardation kino from before he sold his soul and creativity to Moloch to get a taste of the hollywood life he's always dreamed of.
Rant over thank you every nyan.