/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>20952031
フリゲ as they're often called is quite the rabbit hole, partially due to the low barrier of acquiring the games and partially because they tend to be brief bursts of passion - putting aside ksg, defined as games that take longer to complete than to download, the average furige might only be a couple hours long. It's easy to just casually finish a couple furige in a single afternoon, which is a big difference from say long visual novels which you need to set out a week for. The fact each furige is made out of pure passion with no financial incentive is pretty great too, it means just about every one you play will be unique and interesting in its own way, as opposed to say by the number moege (though there's a fair number of VIPRPGs that focus on the 魔法具現化 which are mainly a group of qt lolis). There's just flat out insane stuff out there like Smash Brother clones made in RPG maker 2000. It's just an endless roller coaster of cool, crazy shit that's easy to pick up and fast to finish.

What set me down this road of furige is definitely Tobiden (扉の伝説). It's actually a 100-ish hour long JRPG packed with meaningful content that tells the story of a heroic 15 year old girl's quite emotional journey. It's kind of like the Trails in the Sky series if you're familiar with that, but with much faster pacing and a lot more brutality. A friend of mine described it as "one of the best video game experiences of all time" and that's not really an exaggeration. It was kind of a life-changing game for me because it set me on a quest to find another game that made me feel the same way, and other furige were the most natural place to look. Unfortunately, Tobiden is just really unparalleled in quality. It's thankful then that furige are such a nice little rabbit hole to explore. I haven't found anything as good as Tobiden but I've found a lot of neat games. 詩歌を嗜む, 去り行く運命, and エンディングノート stick out immediately though ふたりの旅のきろく is the game to play if your'e just getting into furige/viprpg.

I just saw >>20952164 and yeah there's a lot of HRPGs made in RPG maker that are good too. That's a whole different story though since they're more about generating sales on DLSite than anything. I've played a lot of good ones ( 働くアイリがキリ斬りス's writing really caught me off guard) but they're just fap material most of the time so I'm not too invested in them beyond that.

I doubt anyone cares about my biography but I left DJT after about two years of getting my feet wet here (got linked to this thread by my good friend wa*eya who's an eternal DJT goer bless his heart). There's like a point where you no longer need the support of DJT to keep yourself going and are either just wasting time shitposting or otherwise breaking your back trying to help the constant influx of beginners. I hit that point and left to save myself the opportunity cost. Had I learned Japanese to shitpost on DJT, or to read stuff in Japanese? The choice was clear. Even now whenever I nostalgically visit DJT or get linked here I end up just writing post after post explaining Japanese, giving guidance, etc. It never ends and feels largely fruitless since 95% of people give up (I've personally tutored like 5 people but they all gave up, not due to harsh study plans or anything, but because they stopped caring enough to put the daily effort in). My mental vision of DJT is just a huge vortex sucking up time.

Also this place is a lot worse now. Who the fuck is Matt? Bring back Steve posting, please. And where's all the god tier Dekinai edits? Jesus Christ get it together people.