>>1850
The new designs look like shit.

Would Gun God be summonable under the Archer class?

9 years later and you're still right

I don't understand the OP pic.....

How do you like it so far? I've thought about reading that one.

>>2411
I only just finished sora's route.
The character interactions are not as good as I was looking for, I was expecting more moments of tension between them. For a bunch of teenagers trapped in an underwater base on the verge of collapsing, they are surprisingly cheerful. I also struggled a lot to understand certain character's motivations, specially tsumugi.
I was really looking forward to the Kid as a character, he seemed really interesting in the prologue. He didn't do much until now though, I hope this will change now that I'll be "playing" as him in the following routes.

>>2412
It really does get better

what the actual fuck is going on with this game

>>2402
The director perhaps needs to step up.

>>2402
I still think an artist is needed.

>>2395
I got around to reading this. I think the friend is a little too annoying.

>I didn’t give much of a personality to the mc, I don’t know if we want to make a fully characterized protagonist
I think the mc is a bit too depressive and asocial to be a blank slate. I know that's par for the course for tc, but it's a little jarring in this context.

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>>2406
>I think the mc is a bit too depressive and asocial to be a blank slate. I know that's par for the course for tc, but it's a little jarring in this context.
My idea is for him to start all gloomy and sad, and then gradually become happier as he progresses through the route all the way to the end when he learns to love life and all that bullshit. Dating sims in which the mc starts already happy and full of life usually feel bland.

I think the last VN I cleared was Sanoba Witch. I think it was really nice and comfy, and I liked all the main girls, so I didn't mind paying for it.
I both pirate and buy games depending on what makes it more convenient to play. I like to get some on the Switch if I can because I enjoy portable reading, but all I really have on there right now is Clannad and Gnosia.

Kara No Shoujo (first game and the sequel), which I really liked and definitely thought was worth the money. However after playing both I bought Cartagra because it was by the same devs and had some intersecting characters. That turned out to be a hugely disappointing game.

I'm quite new to visual novels; I've only played about 5 or so. I'm midway through higurashi and it's one of the best games (including non-vns) I've ever played. I tried the first episode and it was definitely worth paying for, especially since each episode is cheap.

I envy people who can buy things. You are usually either time rich or money rich, rarely both.

>>2304
Bad first, save the best for last. Unless there are a crap ton of endings.

I savescum the moment I sniff the bad end. I play to win.

>>2326
How Convenient! And Given how short they are I might even be able to finish one by the end of the week.

>>2325
Remember to check out these (and ones from the previous and subsequent events) if you haven't already: https://apothes.is/hosted/at2006/release.html
Old, but still very much worth it.

It's that time again I come here and tell you this is a beautiful game. You might start to assume I will praise any game I play but that's not true. What happens is I play through several VNs before committing to one. I would have played maybe 10 to 20 min of 4 or 5 titles before finding one I feel like reading all the way to the end and of course I'll review only those that I actually read all the way through. This is the latest one, Happy Dream Syndrome. This is the type of game that makes me wonder why nobody played it and most importantly, why there are so many boring plots for anime each season when they have stories like this lying around the internet. I don't get it. The other 4 guys who played this on yt all loved it and it's 5 stars on novelgame.

The art for this is pretty good. It has its own style going for it and it makes the characters very memorable. It doesn't look like a VN backed by a professional studio of course, but it is still pretty good and it has more charm and strength than a lot of generic 'highly professional' illustrations I see out there on VNs. The music is composed of 3 piano medleys. Not the best but they really work for this game. I had some problems with the gameplay though. Game has a couple of bugs and at least for me it's broken on Firefox. About 2 hours in there's a small animation scene and it doesn't matter what I try, I can't make the clip to load and run on firefox. Had to switch to Chrome and redo a huge portion of the game to get where I was. About 15 minutes of skipping. Free games though, you can't really complain. Lots of routes to take here. In fact I ended up cheating and looking up how to get one of the endings, then I regretted doing it because it was really obvious and the only thing I hadn't tried, despite being obvious.

The story begins with a trope I really like and I think everyone who played a lot of rpgmaker games back in its heyday have a soft spot for it as well. The protagonist wakes up with no idea who he is or where he's at. He lost all memory of his past and it's on the same level of wisdom about the world he's in as we the players starting this game for the first time. Protagonist memory loss must be the single most popular trope for RPG Maker games for the first decade of the 2000s fo

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Usually I'll stick with the longest VNs available on novelgame but this one caught my interest while I was browsing the latest reviews people post in there. This is a super short but really cool read. Reversal is a horror/mystery type of game and really straight forward in its approach. It couldn't be any other way since each run takes only 15 minutes to go through. 4 endings so it probably wouldn't take you more than an hour to see everything this has to offer. The cool thing about this one is the fair amount of animations it has and they're really well made as well. Characters look very cute and that's always a plus. The horror is very effective visually and the world of Reversal, though only shown briefly, is interesting enough I think that many other games could take place in it.

It all takes place in a single evening when the recently transferred student, Kirishima, abducts you and 2 other students. She reveals herself to be a demon hunter about to go on an expedition on the edges of town to vanquish a ghost hideout. Akari is very enthusiastic about it because she thinks it is going to be just like in the anime she watches all the time. Yu on the other hand doesn't believe Kirishima for a second. Then it's up to you to decide how to proceed.

https://novelgame.jp/games/show/658
This game got huge some years ago when a celebtuber did a playthrough of it.
You can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfEsk5VWDcQ
Kyo is rather loud though.

>>2251
When I tried downloading your folder as a zip (which came in 3 split zips) google drive complained about viruses in the zips.

>>2253
Google is full of shit(false positives). Don't know what else to say. You can try downloading a single game and testing it.

>>2253
Google and windows do that for damn near everything.

>>2251
are any of these in english

>>1405
I'm alive, and posting in an 11 year old thread.

>>2287
And thanks to you, I felt my heart ache after seeing OP's image.
I demand you take responsibility.

https://archive.org/details/on-cross-channel/mode/2up
A 160,000-word monograph on Cross†Channel, exploring different layers of interpretation. Based on the new translation of the visual novel by George Henry Shaft.
Haven't read it yet, because it shows an impressive list of games he's going to spoil in this giant book of his. I only read this part for now: "What the protagonist himself understands of said story is limited at best, complete nonsense at worst."

But apparently what he read was an english translation, and I heard that every english translation so far were really really bad, so maybe that explains his confusion.

>>2351
It's a tragedy this novel will be never receive a proper a translation despite having fucking three of them. And GHS' version is just painful to read, putting aside its accuracy of which I can't assess.

At a quick glance (in addition to >>2275) Toriyama Akira, JoJo, Cardcaptor Sakura, Detroit Metal City, Danbo/Yotsuba&.

>>2274
Other than those already said, Raising Heart from Nanoha, Zero's helmet from Code Geass and Bonta-kun from Fullmetal Panic. Also I think that little lump down there is the Clannad dango.
The armor in the back looks familiar but I can't quite place it.

Adding to >>2278, top left is that character from Moyashimon, far right is Satchii from Dennou Coil

>>2274
I doubt it. I tried looking up the answer afterwards in both Japanese and English, and while I could find various attempts, surprisingly I couldn't find a definitive list anywhere.

Multiple guesses have been made before that the bottom one is the Clannad dango, but the eyes don't match. They look like Pac-Man's eyes, but then the figure lacks Pac-Man's eyebrows. So I don't think either of those are right, unless the design was intentionally modified to be legally distinct or something.

>>2279
I thought it was Haro from Gundam. Not like the eyes match either, but it's green and roundy.
For some reason there's videogame references too, I can't at least notice the Virtual Boy and Seaman.

So in other news, the full translation of the VN will hopefully be available by the end of June assuming the TL group doesn't pull a fast one. I'm a bit surprised that both a French and Spanish translation are already finished to my knowledge, I have to wonder why exactly the English TL community is so slow? Did they get lazy because of how much anime and manga are translated by companies or dubbed over?

>>916

How many have you even read?

http://games.renpy.org/category/GxB ren'py has a section for these but none of them look very good.

>>1599
Why don’t you just search the otome tag on the vndb?

>>2222
Is this really the thread you felt the need to bump?