What is your opinion on visual novels?

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Nothing inherently against them but a lot of them just don't interest me. Only ones I've really dived into and enjoyed are the Zero Escape series, The Ace Attorney series and VA-11 Hall-A (Although I recognize these are more akin to point and click adventure games than just straight up VN's) with the only "true" VN's I've played being Radical Dreamers and the first Higurashi game.

I think for me it kind of boils down to the same reason I tend to not get into Light Novels; the actual visual aspects just aren't interesting or enticing to me. I just find a lot of them have very generic, auto-pilot, "safe" anime art/aesthetics (The type of stuff you'd see if you type "anime art style" or something into an AI generator). I think that might explain my more limited taste in the genre and why I tend to be drawn more to the visually distinctive stuff (especially 999, although that's probably because I've always been a huge fan of Kinu Nishimura and her art).

 

[Hourai]

I like visual novels, but a mortal sin for me is when one of those doesnt have a fast-foward or skip option

This is important when different paths or endings come in mind and i already know whats the deal with the plot

The idea to button smash just to reach the point i want to get to see something new in a heavy text based game is.... ugh....

Also, is kinda sad how there is so many games that never got released outside of japan

VNs that lack a skip button are super ass, and I'm glad there aren't many of those. But good goddess, is their absence felt at every moment when they're gone.

And yeah, I've been trying to learn Japanese so that I can play a lot of VNs that I kinda just can't because of the lack of translation. That's been put on hold in favour of Portuguese (which has things like Divi-Dead, admittedly), but I do really want to be able to just play Secret Game ~Killer Queen~ without needing to rely on other people.

 

[mlastes1987]

I know I've posted this a few times on these things, but Mirrors in my honest opinion, is one of the best VNs I've ever experienced. And from a console that isn't even a console, it was a gaming computer from the 90s in Japan. You can find the preconfigured emulator and prepatched files on Archive, and play it for yourself. The soundtrack is beautiful and well done for the time.

 

[AncientBehemoth]

Gotta be real interesting to keep me hooked. Else it'll be just occupying space on hd for years.

 

[rugal]

i find visual novels are like a book and i love them
visual novel have more storie than normal games and you learn so mutch about the characters in the game

higurashi no naku koro and fate stay night 2 master pieces

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

I do enjoy narrative heavy genres in a general sense, so I tend to include things like point and click adventures and interactive fiction.
There is also the whole Kinetic novels to mess with(Visual novels without choices), Planetarium comes to mind as an example.
There are some That have "fake choices"(choice that don't affect the history or only cosmetically) some older PC 98 like Nocturnal Illusion and Love Potion are examples of this.
Most of my favorites have been already mentioned, I will add Atogirisou, an old horror novel from Chunsoft, and the Famicom Tantei series.

 

[GardeniaSky]

I like them here and there. The first actual visual novel I ever played was Trauma Center on the DS.

More recently I finished all of the Zero Escape games, Olympia Soiree(which was a banger, btw), Corpse Factory, Piofiore, and CollarXMalice.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Absolutely love them, working on a review of one, and have a lot on my list.

 

[Zachery2112]

Visual Novels are like the romance genre. I like them more than the average man and I get called Gay for it. But I don't mind, I like what I like and am comfortable with myself.

There are plenty of good visual novels out there like Slay the Princess and the Ace Attorney series. We need more games like this, they just don't tend to hit main stream. I also find, at least in my circles, that Visual Novels are associated with women and anime more so than anything else. I think that's unfair, but don't know what to do beyond suggest a few games that don't fit the stereotype.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Audiobooks, but with MUSIC 10/10

 

[Hourai]

Ultra Despair Girls and the entire existence of Chihiro Fujisaki make me so fucking sick and angry.

Yeah. And the general everything of how Chihiro is just like. This character made up of some trans stereotypes whose murder is full of transphobic cliches you hear all the time with trans murders who has completely socially transitioned is actually cis? And then people just universally accept that someone will transition into the wrong gender? Like sure, fine. Fiction is exaggerated. We don't know anyone like, for instance, Kiyotaka in real life, even if we know people similar to him. But there was very, very clear intent, here. Going "nuh uhhhhhh" won't fix that to everyone who isn't deliberately ignoring the fact that it's bullshit.

 

[Leo-Dash]

I'm a visual novel Hater
I only enjoy Ace Attorney because it's a puzzle mystery game
and playing Yapsona Persona 3 Portable REALLY tested my patience outside the combat

And as a Gay man I have to deal with games aimed for gay men being Visuals Novels

Been playing Tokyo Afterschool Summoners for years and this being a Gatcha game as well I started outright skipping the cutscenes now! The story dragged a lot and turned into SHONEN anime nonsense! and event stories felt too formulaic
LGBT Community please make something ELSE that is NOT a Visual Novel!

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[Elwiwi]

I like them yes

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

I'm trying to get into them but some are insanely expensive

i like Saya no Uta it's so sweet and cute (i have my own conception of cuteness and sweetness)

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Ultra Despair Girls and the entire existence of Chihiro Fujisaki make me so fucking sick and angry.

UDG would've been salvageable if they didn't for some godforsaken reason decide to add a groping minigame with the worst dialogue you'll ever have the displeasure of looking at. Seriously, what were they on?

Chihiro exists too, pretty much a building block of a wider issue of the franchise having that one character go through some shit only to make it a one note joke that's their entire personality. Like Mikan.

Spoiler: danganronpa 2

Danganronpa 2 Chapter 3 as a whole was a mess as well

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I think I dodged a bullet by only watching a let's play of Danganronpa, was the anime somehow worse or was is only by due to by product that most visual novel anime adaptions are terrible and only cash grabs?

Latter.
Danganronpa 3 (not to be confused with V3, different things) was especially rushed out the door and it really shows with future arc and the new character who totally didn't exist at all in the games, no matter how much the anime tries to gaslight you into thinking otherwise

 

[DanVzare]

Honestly. I just can't get into them. They're too much like novels and not enough like games (not that I've got a problem with novels, it's just that I prefer to read books on paper rather than a screen).
I'm ok with lots and lots of reading. But I usually lose interest once I've gone over twenty pages worth of text without a single choice popping up. I legitimately start to wonder if I've misinterpreted what a visual novel is, and that there aren't any choices in them, and that they are literally just visual NOVELS as the name of the genre implies. But then I read about multiple endings, so obviously there must be some sort of choices somewhere down the line in them. And I really did try to get into them... multiple times... with different games.
It's just... where's the game?

Mind you, I did really enjoy Otogirisō. Although that game gives you a choice every couple of pages of text (I suspect that's due to the game's age and space limitations). Until you get close to the end, but by that point, you're fully invested.

I also rather enjoy visual novel elements when they're in other games. So I've got no problem with them on the whole. I'd just prefer a bit more choosing and a little less reading.

Hmm, I really need to find myself a visual novel which not only has English voice acting, but also has the main character's internal voice dubbed as well, so I can just listen to it all like a radio play. I might be able to do handle that long enough to get invested. So if anyone has any recommendations that fits that bill, that'd be perfect for me to try out. :D

 

[Hourai]

I'm trying to get into them but some are insanely expensive

i like Saya no Uta it's so sweet and cute (i have my own conception of cuteness and sweetness)

You can get them for free, if you know where to look. Because I agree, they really are overpriced. Even disregarding things like Rance 5 being $35, you should

 

[Bonkers225]

They're great for those that can't stand to just read texts from a book.

 

[Stare best girl]

not a fan of the genre but damn, I love The Silver Case

 

[Mahan_Native]

I'm cool with VNs. My favorite VNs are Ace Attorney and The 25th Ward: Silver Case

 

[ciro64]

Here's the ones I enjoyed playing and my thoughts on the genre

And here's a bonus game I didn't include in that post: https://dunkelschwamm.itch.io/raining-cats-and-dogs

LGBT Community please make something ELSE that is NOT a Visual Novel!

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[AkiraSO4]

I mean, I don't see myself playing them or anything, but if they stuck around for this long, there's clearly an audience for it.