/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>7149929

Yeah but I'm not really complaining about VNs being too long in general. Just that they're harder to screen than anime, which you can watch a few minutes of and figure out if it's for you, or manga, which you can read through a chapter out of a volume and get a good feel for it, before committing to the whole series.

It's much more difficult with a VN. It's harder to tell just from screenshots if the thing is some low-budget nukige garbage or a fucking diamond-in-the-rough Tsukihime. You can read the plot summary, but those always sound fucking weird and it isn't really the major plot elements which decide whether a story is written well or not (it's not like I care whether the setting is in outer goddamn space or a totally mundane small town high school).

I'm finding it's a lot harder to figure out what you're getting into until you've already gotten too far into it as is. It seems like popularity and discussion are pretty much the only real reliable form of screening.

>>4240140

It's not really fair to tell someone to go to the visual novel database as a first-timer. If you don't already know almost exactly what you're looking for, you won't know what you're getting into and you'll just waste a lot of time.

People come to us because we can give actual recommendations based on our own reading experience. People can come here for a meaningful synopsis or even to describe their general interests and we can guide them from there.

Which, by the way, we should want to do, so that we can have more people here making more threads talking about our similar interests so we don't stagnate and die. Helping newbies has benefits that reach you. You came here in the first place for a reason, didn't you?

I'm a sucker for genkis and geeks. Ciel and Kohaku were my favorite tsukihime characters. I just like playful people.

>>2466965

Oh, you're no fun.

You're supposed to tease the people you like, don't you know?

Is it just me or does Nasu have a fetish for damaged goods?

But that Kohaku, goddamn. She's got it all together. Just as planned, man. Everybody tries to lie to you at one point or another, but who would have fucking suspected anything out of Kohaku?

Oh, she got you good. She got you real good.

I bet you even felt sorry for her after the Ciel route rape.

Oh if only you knew.

Kohaku's elegance is a miracle of universe.