Visual novels with full voice acting recommendations

[Lokgamer]

Honestly I'm not into visual novels, but since I'm learning japanese, I want to learn more vocabulary and their kanjis, so visual novels could be handy. That's why I need them to be full voice acting or at least most of dialogues, so I can read kanjis while I'm listening to their readings. In summary what I need is:
-Spoken dialogues
-Text and audio in Japanese
-Preferably slice of life (for common vocabulary)
-For PS3, not older cause low resolutión could make kanji with many strokes difficult to read.

 

[utsuge]

Higurashi and Umineko are two longer ones that come to mind for ps3 and above. Both are very well recieved stories as well. I would start there

 

[Segadude113]

Persona 5. Not a visual novel per say, but it may as well be.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

probably just Japanese roms for any VN tbh

 

[Geocide]

Due to the Slice of Life preference, that's makes things incredibly tricky if you just want to stick with PS3. There's a lot of really great VNs on the PS3 like Steins;Gate and CLANNAD (including Toyoma After It's a Wonderful Life).

OH! SoniComi on PS3 may actually be a great one for you! It's pretty chill, is more than just a VN, and I never found the speech to be too fast, either. A great game overall, imho.

If you have capabilities to play on PC, this really opens up options that I think are vital for learning Japanese through VNs. NEKOPARA volume 2 actually has the ability to display both English and Japanese as the Language and Sub Language display (I think vol 1 also had this feature retroactively implemented, but I cannot confirm atm). I think many DenpaSoft games also have this feature, too (and if you're worried about h-content, the non-h versions are on Steam, or your flavor of the seven seas yarharhar~). Image below is an example of what I'm referring to. (If you're not familiar with NekoPara, it really is basically a big ol' fluffy Slice of Life comedy that's not only actually funny for SoL, but also really good SoL that I can approve of as someone who really dislikes SoL, in general.)

Tokyo School Life is another really great example of this that's both on PC and the Switch that also allows for dual language display as shown above (iirc).

Though, IMHO, Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ should be a MUST PLAY for dual language display, and also because it's just an awesome VN, in general. It was also one of the first VNs I ever saw that did this and was ahead of the curve by nearly 10 years for dual language display.

I do hope this helps ya in the right direction in some way! Good luck on your endeavors! o7

 

[bjork]

It's not a visual novel nor PS3, but for learning some basic vocabulary, Shashingo might be helpful? You might be past the level of what they're presenting through.

 

[Lokgamer]

Persona 5. Not a visual novel per say, but it may as well be.

I appreciate the recommendation, but I cant stand turn based games.

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Higurashi and Umineko are two longer ones that come to mind for ps3 and above. Both are very well recieved stories as well. I would start there

Thanks, I'll check them out.

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probably just Japanese roms for any VN tbh

Probably, but I'm asking cause as I said before, visual novels are not my thing, so I don't know if there are visual novels with text only, and I don't wanna waste time downloading somethin useless.

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Due to the Slice of Life preference, that's makes things incredibly tricky if you just want to stick with PS3. There's a lot of really great VNs on the PS3 like Steins;Gate and CLANNAD (including Toyoma After It's a Wonderful Life).

OH! SoniComi on PS3 may actually be a great one for you! It's pretty chill, is more than just a VN, and I never found the speech to be too fast, either. A great game overall, imho.

If you have capabilities to play on PC, this really opens up options that I think are vital for learning Japanese through VNs. NEKOPARA volume 2 actually has the ability to display both English and Japanese as the Language and Sub Language display (I think vol 1 also had this feature retroactively implemented, but I cannot confirm atm). I think many DenpaSoft games also have this feature, too (and if you're worried about h-content, the non-h versions are on Steam, or your flavor of the seven seas yarharhar~). Image below is an example of what I'm referring to. (If you're not familiar with NekoPara, it really is basically a big ol' fluffy Slice of Life comedy that's not only actually funny for SoL, but also really good SoL that I can approve of as someone who really dislikes SoL, in general.)View attachment 79318

Tokyo School Life is another really great example of this that's both on PC and the Switch that also allows for dual language display as shown above (iirc).

Though, IMHO, Go! Go! Nippon! ~My First Trip to Japan~ should be a MUST PLAY for dual language display, and also because it's just an awesome VN, in general. It was also one of the first VNs I ever saw that did this and was ahead of the curve by nearly 10 years for dual language display.

I do hope this helps ya in the right direction in some way! Good luck on your endeavors! o7

Thank for your recommendations, they're the most promising so far. I'll check them out.

 

[NeonKnights]

I recommend some of the VN's on the PSP/PPSSPP.
Some of the ones I have played on my PSP Go are;
Sakurasou Pet na Kanojo, Oreimo, Steins;Gate, Haruhi, Corpse Party, Little Busters, Evangelion, Clannad and Tokimeki Memorial 4.

For PS3
Steins;Gate, Steins;Gate 0 (Sequel) , Steins;Gate Elite (Remake with Anime scenes added),
Robotics;Notes (In Steins;Gate universe), Chaos Child, Clannad, Little Busters.

 

[thanatos]

Pitty Switch or emulation on PC isn't an option. I quite enjoyed the 3 Famicom Detective Club games. They're slightly more than VNs, since they have light interrogation gameplay and are actually more slice of life than crime in many respects (it's often more about the effect of crime on regular people than about complex case building--so it might at times also be a bit boring for crime fans). I don't speak Japanese, but I heard the Japanese dubbing is great.

 

[wilddogsdivorce]

honestly no reason to look further than higurashi, one of the best series of VNs ever made plus it's long as hell and the ps3 version is fully voiced.

if you can run them for PC, the 07th mod versions are quite nice to have and easily obtained in common places. but if you operate on a mobile phone i understand that may not be an option.

 

[QUIDDDDDDD777]

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[utsuge]

honestly no reason to look further than higurashi, one of the best series of VNs ever made plus it's long as hell and the ps3 version is fully voiced.

if you can run them for PC, the 07th mod versions are quite nice to have and easily obtained in common places. but if you operate on a mobile phone i understand that may not be an option.

Jumping in to add the 07th mods give you access to all 3 art styles (original, ps3, switch) and the original has a lot of charm to it