/v/ - Video Games

I'm playing Bible Black right now. Its better than I imagined based on what I know from the OVA. The plot is absurd like who would keep a ritual room in the school basement without cleaning up the mess? But so far its been fun. The occult references were nice. Saeki has a surprisingly accurate collection of books. Some of the artwork and sprites haven't aged well and the fetish content threw me off.

>what is the worst? The best western """VN""" is worse than the worst Japanese VN. Also a VN becomes 80% worse when reading a translation (compared to manga which is 50% and anime which is 30%), aside from the fact that only a small portion of VNs got translated, so if you're serious about VNs you have to start learning Japanese.

>>718 >>how many VN have you read? Like... 20? ish? >>what is the best VN you've read? I consider the entire Muv-Luv trilogy to be one single VN. I LOVE stories with time travel shenanigans and Muv-Luv has that and so much more. >>what is the worst? While Steins;Gate is the second best visual novel I've read, the sequel, Steins;Gate 0, has absolutely no goddamned reason to exist. If anyone's in search of good visual novels to read, here's a curated list: Personal favorites: >Muv-Luv Extra Shirogane Takeru has it all; friends at school, a childhood friend with whom he playfully fights with every single day, a passion for the virtual reality mecha battle game Valgern-on... He then wakes up one day to find someone in his bed whom he does not remember ever meeting. She soons moves in his house and hilarity ensues. Required reading before moving on to the sequels. That includes the h-scenes. No, I'm not kidding. >Muv-Luv Unlimited One day Takeru wakes up in an empty bed, wondering why no one woke him up. He gets up, dresses, leaves his house and sees [spoiler] >Muv-Luv Alternative [spoiler] The greatest visual novel of all time. >Steins;Gate (Play the original, not the ELITE version) Okabe Rintaro runs a "laboratory" with his friends in an apartment where they create nonsensical inventions and mostly just hang out. They figure out a way of sending messages back in time, (accidentally) changing the future with each message send. Time travel paradoxes, murders, government conspiracies and more await the unfortunate group of friends who are in way over their head. Steins;Gate is the most coherent story based on time travel ever written. There's a reason why many critics considered the anime (which is way worse than the VN) to be the best anime of all time. >Slay the Princess You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of the path there is cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world. Best played completely blind (really, don't even watch the trailer for it) >Ever17 A group of individuals become trapped in an underwater theme park. With water pressure threatening to destroy the entire facility, they only have 119 hours to escape to the surface. >Class of '09 & Class of '09: The Re-Up Were you born between 1996 and 2001? You can now experience your high school years again, but this time with a flavour of a very specific ironic humor that's only funny to zoomillenials! Classics: >Katawa Shoujo >Yume Miru Kusuri >Clannad Good VNs: >999 >VLR >ZTD >Snoot Game >Sekimeiya >Spirit Hunter: Death Mark >Spirit Hunter: NG >Raging Loop >Uta no Saya >Digital - A Love Story >Who's Lila? >The House in Fata Morgana >Chaos;Head >Chaos;Child >VA-11 Hall-A >Doki Doki Literature Club Not strictly visual novels, but still require most or at least a lot of your time reading: >Beacon Pines >Ghost Trick >Citizen Sleeper >In Other Waters >Sunless Sea >To the Moon >Outer Wilds (Okay, this one is a stretch, but I will take any opportunity to shill it. Play it completely blind for best results.) >Every single Ace Attorney game >Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

>>732 tjank you for your long answer. did you play the overseas version of uta no saya or the local one? (I heard the overseas version is heavely censored, is it true?)

>>734 I've only played the fan translation that released back in 2009, so I've no idea what the quality of the "official" translation is like. I did see that you can install a 18+ patch to fix the censored Steam version.

Do eroges count?

I got into visual novels recently! So far I have read (in order): >VA-11 Hall-A >first Higurashi >Saya no Uta >The House in Fata Morgana >Kotori's route in Rewrite+ Currently playing The Shell: Part 1, after that coming back to Rewrite probably. Really having a blast with all of these works. Fata Morgana was probably the best romance I have ever read, I was crying for 3 hours straight during the final arc. Unfortunately, spoilered myself the whole Muv-Luv Alternative, so I can't take recommendation from the above poster.

>>737 only if they're visual novel eroge

is OP's pic a good VN? looks intresting

has anybody played Butterfly Affection? made by the same guy as Teaching Feeling. it looks freaky in an interesting way and i'm curious.

is katawa shoujo a really good VN? It was made by 4chan, and like this website, we share the same ideas and elitism so I guess it is good, what do you think of it (those who played it)

>>742 i think i will not play it because romance is retarded and i have enough brain issues already

>>741 >Teaching Feeling. oh my cirno this is so gross. i remember i tried to play it maybe six years ago and i think it traumatized me forever. holy fuck i wish i have not googled it right now, i was relatively happy not remembering i have been that low, but now it's over. my life is full of surprises. one day i'll wake up remembering i am in an isekai. holy cirno

>>744 teaching feeling isn't all that bad. you can make it bad if you want but it can also be cute!

>>742 It is a work of art, I'm glad I played it.

>>746 the gape will come to steam in 2 weeks I think. will it be crnsored?

>>738 I forgot to mention I also played Love at First Sight, it was super cute. >>741 Really like the artwork... and the game seems perfectly psycho. I see it is on f95. I don't trust that website, need to setup a virtual machine to play VNs from there.

i honestly haven't played many VNs. where on the seven seas can i find them with translations?

>>752 These days? Steam. There are a few games that have fan patches, like Steins;Gate or Higurashi. https://sonome.dareno.me/projects/sghd.html#installation https://wiki.07th-mod.com/Higurashi/Higurashi-Part-1---Voice-and-Graphics-Patch/ I'd start with Steins;Gate and install the above patch or with Raging Loop (no patch needed).