find yourself a wealthy patron.

ᚦus my melancholy😔

Ah, thank you for the explanation. I've never seen any of these Japanese home computers in real life myself. That sounds like an important archiving project, but I doubt there's money in it unless you find yourself a wealthy patron.

20% pertinence. The NEC machines can't & won’tbe reproduced again, so in order for future generations’ ability to enjoy these, I wish I could get compensated to recompile these into a future proof formats you can add into any system that can render colors, fonts, and basic soundchips. I listed the recompilation process, and a format being worked on for today's machines.

Sorry, but how is this pertinent to the topic at hand? Maybe I'm just being slow.

I wish I could get compensated to recompile’mto COLRv1.😔

I played through if you stay, a short free VN about MC final day with her girlfriend before leaving for Tokyo.
It's a very enjoyable yet bittersweet read, filled with realistic feeling of missed chances and regrets. It also touches upon some unpleasant topics seeing how it's about a lesbian couple in a small Japanese town in 1999.

There's some wonkiness with the text but it's not enough to affect the experience negatively - most of it is fine and it conveys what it wants really well. What it does great however is the beautiful PC-98 inspired art - I can never get enough of this style. I just love pixel art so much.

As mentioned before, it's a short read. I got through all 3 endings in about hour and a half (with skipping through the already read parts, of course). It's not much but it's enough to tell the story without bloating it with unnecessary filler. It's definitely worth a check.

Dude skipped treatment-that-could-do-something and went palliative immediately.

Those fireworks are a visual metaphor on how he wants to go I imagine.

Thank you for the kind words!

Tweenage me wanted an Ace Attorney spinoff focusing around Franziska. Hey, at least we got two around Edgeworth…?

Just wanted to say this is a great question and I feel like if this community had a larger user base it would get lots of fun answers.

Yup yup, thanks again for the suggestion! I can't wait until I have some time to read the rest of the episodes.

I'm in the final arc of my playthrough of Our Wonderland! And I'm really curious what the conclusion of this story is going to be, and so far it doesn't look like its going for an ending where everyone leaves the wonderland? Instead things seem to get even worse, oh well

Late to the party but i'm glad you like otDevil so far!

VN side projects of other media also count.

While I can't say anything from personal experience, the opinions I've seen seem to imply the VN titles (there are 3, 2 of them available in English) are pretty good and worth a read. Especially if you like the source material.

Man, I used to have a few ideas about that but I can't remember any of them at the moment. The only one that comes to mind right now is Doki Doki Literature Club which focuses on the "normal" side of the story (club, interacting with the cast etc). I found it to be the more interesting part of the game and would love more of that.
I think there's a mod expanding on this aspect but I never tried it so I can't say anything about on that.

I'll try to remember some other spin-offs I used to dream about. That said, are we talking purely about VN spin-offs or do (imaginary) VN side projects for other media also count?

I liked the Quintessential Quintuplets anime. How good is the VN?

I'm still busy with various things so I can't put my full attention towards the community or VNs in general just yet. I have however been on a week long trip recently which means I was finally able to relax and take a moment to spend at least some time on that.

My first priority was playing through the first (well, zeroth) episode of of the Devil. It was pretty great - writing is snappy and enjoyable, visuals simple but unique and the music is bopping (even if it can get a little repetitive by the end). I also really like the gameplay elements. They're simple but work as a neat way to spice up the experience and nudge player's attention towards things that could be chalked up as background lore.

What I wasn't immediately sold on was the epilogue. The twist was fine - it wasn't particularly surprising but I also don't feel super strong about it in any way, negative or positive. What I was surprised by however is how milquetoast I felt about everything after solving the case. It's not that this part was necessarily bad, it simply failed to grip me the way the rest of the episode did. I have no idea why I feel that way, it's really strange.

I still want to continue with the rest of the episodes, more so than before in fact - I just hope their content will keep me strictly in the "main part mode".

Secondly, I also finished D1AL-ogue, the VA-11 Hall-A inspired cyberpunk technician game.

It has an interesting story, enjoyable characters and a simple progression loop (start the day, interact with 2 clients by talking and doing puzzles, go to sleep). Even though some of the writing (or more likely the English translation) didn't manage to reach the level of its inspiration it's still a fun read all the way through.

I mentioned it before but I really love the art in this one - it's a fantastic example of a classic style pixel art. For the most part anyway. There are some illustrations that look kinda funky but the stuff you spend most of your time with looks amazing and makes me want to work harder on my own pixel art skills. I'll find the time to do that one day...

Despite simple mechanics, gameplay holds up really well until the end. I actually wish there was an endless mode just to play around with randomised puzzles or something. It's kind of addicting once you get into it.

I've got nothing more to say about it right now to be honest. It's a great VN, especially for the low price of nothing at all. All that's left is to wait for the expanded version. Devs were actually planning a crowdfunding campaign for that but according to their new update post they managed to find a publisher instead - good for them.

Sounds good. I don't mind a slow build up so that's not a problem, all I care about is story that's enjoyable (or at least interesting) to read through - looks like I'll be happy with it.

Length is my only worry to be honest. Not because I don't like long VNs (or games in general) but I have a bit of a problem sticking with things at the moment. It's what prevents me from starting SG and finishing some other games I've been playing on and off for... years in some cases. Mind goblins can be infuriating in the worst ways sometimes.

It's really good! Got into the series because it's one of my gf's favorites. Started with Chaos;Head and the experience is kinda light and day. You go from an insufferable protag (and sci-fi horror) to one that's pretty cool. Okabe has his faults but is fine otherwise.

I will say that SG has a really slow build, up until the part where the stakes get really high when you least expect it.

That said, it is pretty long, especially if you're a slow reader like me. My playtime is off by at least 2-4 hours cause there were times when I just idled, but I'm 70ish hours in. It's worth it, though.

Man, I finally bought SG a few months ago but the perspective of starting it kinda terrifies me at the moment. How is it?

On the tails end of Steins;Gate. Just need Mayuri's route and the true ending. The latter will be easy as I just have to backtrack and get the last flag.

@visualnovels Access seems behind a dlsite paywall reached from the link in that page (for 200 yen which isn't much but still).But it could also be that dlsite has region-specific content routing; they are or were blocking IPs from some countries.

that's just dlsite’s english site, not a vndb/wiki

According to the store page, it has the mature content (violent one) + some new things to link it to the anime. It is however based on the 2013 PC version (or at least "has the same content" as that one) which was rated for ages 15+ rather than 18+ of original - i.e. there's no sexy stuff shown on screen if that's what you're interested in.

No idea about the translation quality.

Thank you!