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Ever17 -the out of infinity-

Was the best VN when I read it over 5 years ago, still is the best VN. You will never experience the same feeling again as you did when you first read Ever17.

>>10253175
Ever17 - Must-play masterpiece. Generally considered one of the best VNs ever. Opinions range from 'best story ever' to 'the initial routes are boring but the end makes up for it'.

999 - Written by one of the writers (not the main writer) of Ever17. It can pretty much be described as Ever17 meets Killer Queen; so derivative it will ruin Ever17 for you if you play this first, but other than that it's pretty good.

Ghost Trick - Not a VN but rather a story-heavy adventure game by Shu Takumi (writer of Ace Attorney 1-4). Starts off kind of boring but after some point it keeps getting more and more awesome each chapter until the end. You know how final cases in Ace Attorney are grander and more spectacular than normal cases? Imagine if there was a huge final case spanning an entire game, and that's pretty much what Ghost Trick is like after the intro parts.

My opinion is that Ever17 >> Ghost Trick >> 999. If I had to recommend only one, it would definitely be Ever17.

>>9583196
Mind of Steel is part of HF. What scene was Sparks Liner High again? Was that the Rider fight in Fate?

>>9583208
It's gotten too mainstream for /jp/, so they must bash it in order to feel better than newbies.

>But come on, what visual novel could really top F/SN?
Ever17
Remember11 (opinion can vary)
Umineko
Clannad
VNDB also suggests Muv-Luv Alternative (haven't tried because I can't get through shitty Muv-Luv), Steins;Gate (opinion can vary, I prefer f/sn) and Baldr Sky Dive2 (untranslated, so no idea if it's better).

>>7856946
He seems to have deliberately excluded translated VNs (other than recently translated Sharnoth and MLA). I mean, if you're going to list Mystery, you can't go without Ever17.

>>2610130
It isn't.

What's wrong with you people? Ever17 is the only correct answer here.

Well, I just finished Ever17.

...What the fuck do I do with all these goddamn bricks?

Thoughts:
Kind of sad that Sora only got a mildly good end, compared to the SO D'AWWWW YOU'LL VOMIT RAINBOWS endings for everyone else. Unless, of course, Tsugumi is open-minded enough...

I figured out You was a clone (though not the complete situation, obviously) long before that bit was revealed. I also read a misleading "spoiler" which indicated that Tsugumi WAS Sara, which threw me off track for...well, pretty much everything else.

Why is "17" kana-ized as "sebuntein" (instead of, say, "sebentiin" on the title screen? Unless I'm misreading it...my moonrune skills are weak...

Everyone's immortal except for You-Aki, Hokuto, and Sara. Kinda sad that You-Haru, Takeshi, and Tsugumi are gonna have to watch their kids grow old and die while they stay young forever...

"Hi, guys! I need you to help me to engineer a disaster on this multi-billion dollar amusement complex, possibly putting hundreds of lives in danger if something goes wrong. This disaster needs to *exactly* replicate the conditions of the disaster that hit it seventeen years ago, and we need to waste all this time and money because a four-dimensional superbeing told me I needed to in order to save my friends who are in cryo suspension in IBF, and...why are you all staring at me like that?"

Kind of a shame that this would be impossible to animate due to the (masterfully executed) first-person-only mind screw.

>>2164354
Every time

Mindfuck end.

Ever17.

"For instance, on an XY plane, there are some two-dimensional beings, points A B and C..."
"And on in XYZ space, you have a three-dimensional being, point D."

Yup, gotcha.

"Points A, B, and C can only move on an XY axis."

Makes sense, please continue.

"So how can they draw point D to them?"
"You have point C move on the same line as points A & B."
"When that happens, points A, B and C, form a line, and create a common plane with point D."

Wait...what?

"Meaning, point D becomes part of the same plane as points A, B and C."
"When that happens, for the first time point D has the illusion that it is in the same world as A, B and C."

What the fuck are you talking about?
I was following everything perfectly until this shit came up, maybe I'm just amazingly bad with whatever branch of science this theoretical crap is derived from but I just can't get my head round it.

Also, obvious I just finished Coco's route, holy fucking shit thread