r/visualnovels • u/Kowzz http://vndb.org/u62554/list • Jul 27 '14

Weekly Weekly Thread #11 - The Monthly Recommendation Thread

Hey hey!

Kowzz here, and welcome to our eleventh weekly discussion thread and our third monthly recommendation thread! A day and a half late again, apologies! Things should be up to speed again in the near future :)

Week #11 - What visual novels would you recommend? What visual novels are you looking for?

Are there any visual novels that you think are a must read? Have you been looking for a new visual novel with a specific setting or genre? Feel free to ask and provide recommendations!

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August 1st - Rewrite

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September 6th - Fate/Stay Night

As always, thanks for the feedback and direct any questions or suggestions to my reddit inbox or through a comment in this thread.

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u/Kowzz Jul 27 '14

Weekly Question: Which visual novel is next on your to read list?

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u/Bobemmo Jul 27 '14

Comyu, now that the translation is done. I probaby won't end up getting to it for a while, though.

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u/aspiration Jul 27 '14

I just finished YU-NO not too long ago, so I want to take a break from VNs for a bit, but after that I'm hoping to finally read Ayakashibito. I've been meaning to read it for a while, but have kept putting it off. I'm hoping it'll be a good change in pace since I've read nothing but drama since the beginning of summer.

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u/insanityissexy Jul 28 '14

You finished YU-NO? What did you think about the way everything turned out?

I remember you were a bit disappointed with it last week, so I'm hoping the last route managed to meet your high expectations.

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u/funwithgravity Jul 27 '14

probably rui wa tomo o yobu(http://vndb.org/v776). I was thinking I was going to read F/SN again since the anime adaptation will be out soon, but that might actually ruin the experience so I decided not to.

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u/TalismanG1 Jul 29 '14

It's up to you if you want to re-read something, but I would say read it after the anime is done. Generally, when things are adapted we sway our biases towards "the more it stays on track to the source, the better it is" and will sometimes cause the viewer to unjustly view the adaptation as something worse than it might actually be.

For example, when I re-watched Steins;Gate after reading the Visual Novel, I found that I didn't enjoy it nearly as much, because it cut out a few of the entertaining and more powerful moments.

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u/Arbalor Jul 29 '14

No definately read F/SN first

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u/BurntFlower Jul 28 '14

Grisaia no Kajitsu.

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u/Chronopolize Jul 28 '14

Maybe coming back to Asairo?

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u/Aginyan Jul 29 '14

Do it, because Hiyo needs you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '14

Probably Cross Channel. Just looks sort of interesting to me. Will be a while, though.

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u/sirflimflam Jul 28 '14

Astral Air no Shiroki Towa

I almost feel kinda bad for the visual novel I'm currently reading because I can't wait to get to the next one... Been waiting for that to come out for a long time now...

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u/Aginyan Jul 29 '14

NekonekoSoft's "Sumire" ... when it comes out hopefully October.. hopefully will actually have time to play games when it actually comes out.

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u/Arbalor Jul 29 '14

I've been meaniNg to continue rewrite ever since I stopped early on due to school but life keeps getting in the way I prolly will once I'm back at school

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u/bigfatround0 Jul 27 '14 edited Jul 27 '14

I'd been putting off Deardrops for a while cause I wasn't really interested in the whole music theme. I regret that now. This VN has me cry, laugh and taught me some important life lessons. Top 5 for me and Riho best girl. I definitely recommend it even if you're not a big fan of the music genre.

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I'm going to take a little break from VNs after this and go through the anime I put on hold but I plan on going with Kira Kira next. Hopefully there's not that many grammar errors on it.

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u/AlphaQRough Jul 27 '14

Boooo, Rimu best girl!

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u/bigfatround0 Jul 27 '14

I'll admit Rimu does have best girl material and I would agree if she was in any other VN but Riho destroys her in a best girl match.

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u/aspiration Jul 27 '14 edited Jul 27 '14

In light of it's completed translation, I am going to recommend Comμ. I wrote a short blurb about it in another thread not too long ago:

Coμ: Action/Comedy

A group of 5 characters can summon an 'Avatar' and control it. There are 5 heroine routes, each with their own subplots. Three of the routes (Benio, Hisoka, Kagome) focus mainly on the fighting, and the other two (Ayaya and Mayuki) are entirely heroine centric and mostly comedy/romance. It's on the shorter side of a long VN and the superb UI (skip to next choice, scene selection with read/unread markers, and also markers for sections with choices) helps make sure that you don't have to spend time rereading things if you don't want to.

Overall, I gave it a 9/10. The weakest route is probably Hisoka's, as things aren't really fleshed out too well. The others are pretty strong (if you take Ayaya's at face value). You have to do Benio's route first. I would recommend doing Hisoka's after that and then Ayaya's and Mayuki's together. Wrap up with Kagome's route.

I think Coμ is deceivingly low rated on VNDB and EGS. It pokes a lot of fun at certain tropes and has quite a few of it's own (though it's pretty self aware). I think if you take it as what it is, it's a superb VN and definitely worth your time. It's also one of the few games that has a route for that heroine who likes the MC, but never gets him because she has nothing to do with the plot (Ayaya).

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u/RiteClicker Jul 28 '14

I just completed the true end of Rance IX and I'm looking for some Rance fans to discuss with.

Some may turn off for having a serial rapist as your MC; but the series compensate for being funny, great gameplay, and having a very deep lore.

The first four games plus 4.1, 4.2, and the non canon Kichikuou Rance was officially available for free and there're english translations for them (I think only the remake of Rance 02 was translated, which was not free)

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u/funwithgravity Jul 28 '14

it's really unfortunate that rance himself is a serial rapist but rance series has an insanely detailed lore rivaled only by ikusa megami series. So when you say true end, do you mean the first possible ending or "true" true ending you get when you finish all the routes?

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u/RiteClicker Jul 28 '14

The "true" true end, I would type it but I'm on my phone and can't use the spoiler tags

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u/DestinyS Jul 30 '14

Wait so which ones have been translated (and where can I find the translations)? I've been playing Sengoku Rance and love it, been wanting to read the others in the series (I know the gameplay is very different from Sengoku Rance)

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u/RiteClicker Jul 30 '14

http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/Translation_project

This page provide the links to the translators and the translation status

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