Hey there thread, I decided recently to explore the world of visual novels more after enjoying Steins Gate & Planetarian. I've bought a cheap windows tablet which will be mainly used for VNs, so question is - what are the best places outside of Steam to buy VNs? Any good online resources for news/reviews etc? thanks!
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JoshuaJSlone
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I don't have advice on buying and am less knowledgeable than others in this thread, but one place that sticks in my mind is vndb.org, the visual novel database. Good to browse tags, see what's available in different languages and operating systems, see links to related VNs if it's part of a series, links to where to find them, user reviews.
Funyarinpa
Member
Besides Steam, there isn't much of a venue for English VNs on PC besides individual publishers.
I recommend Remember11, Ever17, The House In Fata Morgana and Umineko!
Yeah, the character art is super generic. The rest of the game is good though.
The only one that really annoyed me was the goth-lolitastic Yuuri.
Why was she even dressed like that?
Get The House in Fata Morgana
grim-tales
Member
I'm tempted to try that, the synopsis sounds great.
Fata Morgana? Current GOTY for me so i can't stop recommending it.
Funyarinpa
Member
Yyyyyyyyyyyep. Easy GOTY (haven't played RD or S;G 0).
I will never forgive Zero Time Dilemma for not being my far and away 2016 GOTY
ZTD was such a disappointment I cant believe how they dropped the ball.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
My expectations kept dropping as the game got closer to release, but somehow it still fell below them.
I thought it was pretty bleh. Short but meh. It was also during a time of Americanizing everything, so everyone had like english names and stuff. The story was nothing too amazing, either.
grim-tales
Member
I really quite liked it and thought it had a good story, but then I was fairly new to VN/Japanese adventures at the time. It got annoying when you couldnt figure out what the hell to do to progress though. The theme song was great.
Vndb release filters will help you, but it will include fans work.
Best way to play The House in Fata Morgana.
Yes, I know Fata doesn't have Save game keyboard shortcut, I'm just to lazy to change my VN SteamCon profile
I wish you had published the config a week or two ago!
My basic config worked fine but you have some neat extra stuff in there.
The Silver
Member
Finally beat the Silver Case, good lord the 5th Case was Umineko levels of mindfuck.
Basileus777
Member
The Silver
Member
real talk, I played Devil on a G-String and ended up dropping it after the big reveal, it completely destroyed everything interesting about the main character and everything compelling about the relationship with that girl(black hair I forgot her name). I just completely lost all motivation to keep reading.
If you're playing Himawari, be sure to check out this page first for a patch for the music looping issue. Or to download the original doujin game's music to replace the remake version music.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
I played it five years ago and I remember almost nothing about it.
I don't know why it was so acclaimed for a while.
I know I'm removing my pledge if it doesn't reach the Vita stretch goal by then. I'm excited by the campaign, but I'm only interested in the Vita port.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
You can't remove a pledge if it would take it below the funding line.
That only applies to the last 24 hours, no?
That's correct.
Basileus777
Member
Worrying about it dropping below 80k is silly, that's not how Kickstarters work. It'll probably end up over 100k.
It's the most stagnant I've seen, and I've backed pretty much all of the VNs.
Vita, man, Vita.
Seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people in VN Community.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Root Double's campaign was pretty stagnant for long stretches as far as I recall. There have probably been some other ones that I'm forgetting about, too.
Basileus777
Member
They're typically a small part of the VN Kickstarter audience. They won't be enough to put the base goal in jeopardy.
And this stagnancy isn't really that unusual. A lull before the last few days kick things into gear again is actually the standard pattern.
PhleBuster
Neo Member
Agreed. I wouldn't worry unless it's still around 90k a few days before the campaign ends. Raising even all of the currently missing 35k in the last few days wouldn't be unexpected considering the usual curve, but with the Vita consideration, if it did hit the last days on such a low note it might make some undecided people start pulling their pledges instead of raising them, and a dip in the pledges might start snowballing.
Kresnik258
Member
https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/s...e-crime-after-days-xtend-edition/#chart-daily
Root Double started ticking up again 12 days before it finished. Thankfully Sharin no Kuni started performing better again today, but it's not going to be enough for the $120k without a major push.
Red_taiyaki
Member
Just finished S;G 0, so now it's time for me to go into post-SG withdrawal. I just simply loved the universe and characters so much and not sure where else they can go.
I'll miss the cast ;-;.
I'll miss the cast ;-;.
What was the big reveal, again?
I played it all the way through and was surprised at how highly people seem to think of it. It wasn't awful per se, but it wasn't very good either iirc. Like Dandy, I've forgotten almost everything about it, though I only played it a couple of years ago.
The Silver
Member
That the main character wasn't Maou, he was actually the MCs older brother
Now it wasn't hard to assume it would go down a route like that very early on but I was hoping it wouldn't.
There are always the fandisks, both have fan translations available.
Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling
Steins;Gate Linear Bounded Phenogram
Slowbeef, of Retsupurae fame and often credited with creating let's play, recently started hosting a series called Visual Novel Book Club. It's exactly what it sounds like--every week he and his friends play through part of a visual novel and then get together and discuss it. Slowbeef and TieTuesday are really funny so I've been enjoying listening to their thoughts on the game in the background while playing other games. Ever17 is their first game and they're just about to the end of it now. I'm surprised the idea never even occurred to me before, I'm sure it would be fun to participate in one.
I would back it if they could deliver an EU code for the vita digital version. As it stand it's a no go.
I hope Dies Irae won't have the same problem.
Jim_Cacher
Member
Interestingly, I never expected
the protagonist to be that person
I remember someone posting about this when the first video came out and I decided to wait a bit before I start watching. It's a really neat idea, will definitely check it out during the holidays in case they really are close to the end.
Translation Status Update December 11 from /r/visualnovels
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
Originally from /jp/ on 4chan
Fuwanovel version
MG has Kindred Spirits for 25% off, looks like they'll be doing daily flash sales for the next couple weeks. https://twitter.com/mangagamer/status/808178353190604800
thelongestj
Member
My Steins;Gate 0 finally arrived in the mail yesterday. I started it last night. It feels so good to be back with the characters and I can already tell I am going to like the new ones. I'm going to be doing a bit of traveling over the holidays and I am really looking forward to playing this while I'm away.