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I've enjoyed what I've played of Virtue's Last Reward, but my attention is shifted to other games much more easily, so I haven't really tried any other ones.

 

I do enjoy anime/manga adaptions of visual novels, but with this one that I have it's made me realize that visual novels themselves may not actually be my thing.

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If Katawa Shoujo counts, I literally downloaded it ten minutes ago. Gonna see how THIS is gonna end up.

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YOU'RE NEVER GONNA OUTRUN THOSE FEELS BRO!!!:

 

:,D

 

KS is simply too beautiful...ijustcanteven.jpg

 

@ Poster above me

 

They're definitely not for everyone. But stuff like Clannad, Shuffle!, and Fate/Stay Night let you see what could have been with the anime. And that's always really interesting to me.

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From what I'm seeing right now, watching a full playthrough of Clannad, a few minutes of Katawa Shoujo, and the 30 minutes I've seen of School Days in the past, it's just hitting a button to make more text pop up, with choices now and then that change dialogue and the ending.

 

Looks boring. There's nothing at all stimulating about hitting the "confirm" button over and over to cycle through towers of text. It's boring. What's worse, is that watching Clannad, the only things on-screen are the background and ugly, ugly still images of the characters done by an artist who has committed a crime against faces.

 

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Seriously, it looks like the artist created these characters' faces by randomly assembling a Mr. Potatohead face and drawing it anime-style. How bad do you have to be to draw a chin like this? How stupid do the game designers have to be to see this and give the thumbs up?

 

Now, what was I rambling about again?

 

Oh, right. Visual Novels look really boring to play...and the artist for Clannad seriously needs to learn how to draw faces.

 

Now, I'm going to go play something good in the demo of the Metroid 2 fan remake.

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I wouldn't really consider them games. The name is self-explanatory, "visual novel". You press a button to continue through the story like you flip through the pages of a book. What little interaction there is to change events is pretty much like the multiple choices of books like the Goosebumps series.

 

I haven't played any myself, but I would love to try something like Steins;Gate.

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I wouldn't really consider them games. The name is self-explanatory, "visual novel". You press a button to continue through the story like you flip through the pages of a book. What little interaction there is to change events is pretty much like the multiple choices of books like the Goosebumps series.

 

I haven't played any myself, but I would love to try something like Steins;Gate.

So in the future, If i wanted to bring up VN discussion it'd go into literature?

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I love VNs.

I play only unlicensed though, like the stuff created by people at the Lemma Soft forums or stuff made using Ren'Py. I don't think I might have played any licensed ones except maybe a few H dating sims (True Love, really liked that one)
 

I wouldn't really consider them games. The name is self-explanatory, "visual novel". You press a button to continue through the story like you flip through the pages of a book. What little interaction there is to change events is pretty much like the multiple choices of books like the Goosebumps series.


I disagree. Many VNs have a lot of branching interaction (you're thinking KNs) and many of them have more than just making choice, some have full-fledged RPG elements or just small minigames. Not calling them games is something like not calling a genre of music "real music". There's enough interaction for a satisfactory experience if you are into that kind of thing.
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I disagree. Many VNs have a lot of branching interaction (you're thinking KNs) and many of them have more than just making choice, some have full-fledged RPG elements or just small minigames.

 

Those sound like adventure games.

 

"In Japanese terminology, a distinction is often made between visual novels proper (abbreviated NVL), which consist predominantly of narration and have very few interactive elements, and adventure games (abbreviated AVG or ADV), which may incorporate problem-solving and other types of gameplay. This distinction is normally lost outside Japan, where both NVLs and ADVs are commonly referred to as "visual novels" by international fans."

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Those sound like adventure games.
 
"In Japanese terminology, a distinction is often made between visual novels proper (abbreviated NVL), which consist predominantly of narration and have very few interactive elements, and adventure games (abbreviated AVG or ADV), which may incorporate problem-solving and other types of gameplay. This distinction is normally lost outside Japan, where both NVLs and ADVs are commonly referred to as "visual novels" by international fans."


Well... we are "international fans", aren't we? :)
 

Any websites recommended for downloading these?

For the free ones made by English-speaking people, http://renai.us/

For the kind that the OP is probably talking about, thePi?@#&*@# .se.

Not quite cheap, I looked up Fate/Stay

apanese PlayStation 2 version at Play-Asia.com for US$ 34.90 »
Japanese PlayStation Vita version at Play-Asia.com for US$ 62.90 »
Japanese PlayStation Vita version at JBOX for US$ 85.00 »

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I'm lacking knowledge in this department, since I actually enjoy Visual Novels and have a question.

 

The only visual novel I played was Kira Kira on the iPod Touch (and finished it), but I can't find any more. Is anybody aware of any other visual novels available for the iPod or Windows Phone?

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As far as terminology goes, the problem with calling the hybridized VN's 'adventure games' is that 'adventure game' conjures a totally different image than what the japanese term is used for.  I certainly don't think things like 'Zero Escape' or 'Ace Attorney', for example, which seems to be the types of games that 'ADV' refers to.

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