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Message: [QUOTE="Lena CE, post: 25553, member: 26523"] Like others have said, it is a platform that is very limited in what it can do, but what it can do it can do well enough to be a timeless platform for its purposes. What is so enticing about VNs as a genre is that they were fairly cheap and easy to produce. The result is you get a ton of games with incredible variety in concept and execution. This does mean that there is a /lot/ of shlock that you will just outright hate, but thankfully many VNs aren't too terribly long or involved so just checking them out and figuring out what connects with you doesn't have a lot of risk attached unless you're peering around more adult releases and are understandably sensitive to sexual assault (cause oh boy do many VN writers love their lazy SA scenes). Always wanted to track some OG hardware down and get into playing more games on the platform. I appreciate this post for boosting that back near the top of my priority list for retro collecting hehe. Off-topic but I'll always appreciate the Vita for finally getting me into VNs. I scoffed at the genre for the longest as more or less a waste of time, but the Vita being a system with a more limited library and being one of the first platforms to get a lot of officially localized VNs meant it was the system that finally got me to bite the bullet and eventually fall in love. It's a far more engaging, diverse and expressive genre than many on the outside give it credit for in terms of the types of stories it can tell and the ways it can use more limited gameplay systems to help tell that story. [/QUOTE]

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