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How were you introduced to the world of VNs, /jp/?

Pic related.

>> No.5234386

Saw some posts on /a/ about something called "Saya no Uta". Saw some people saying that it was good. Decided to try it on a complete whim while knowing absolutely nothing about it.

I was hooked five seconds in when I promptly went "WHAT THE FUCK?!".

>> No.5234397

Probably, True Love. But I was unable to finish it when I was a kid. Then, the next thing I got to play is Tsukihime. Moonspeak power is low so I can only rely on translations atm.

>> No.5234398

Fate/Stay Night I guess but I didn't read more after that until about a year later when I read Five, Clannad, and Little Busters! that I started reading them regularly

>> No.5234404
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Baby's First Visual Novel, obviously

Found it in a /v/ thread

>> No.5234411

YMK is an overrated shit

>> No.5234416

>>5234379
Back in 2007, I was playing Date of Memories and thought 'Maybe there are TRANSLATED games with girls I may come to love other than SNK ones'.
A friend suggested I try Kana Little Sister/
The rest, is history(and lurking in /a/)

>> No.5234418

A few years ago I was browsing J-list which I had found by chance on some forum or other and was searching the dating-sims category not knowing anything about what they are and in doing so I found one that looked like I might enjoy it so I decided to buy the download only version so my grandma would find out. It was Heart de Roommate looking back it wasn't really that good but it still has a special place in my heart.

>> No.5234427

2006. Divi-dead. Some comment on a local tracker made me download and play it.

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>> No.5234433

>>5234411

It wasn't as overrated as Clannad, but whatever, it's popular among newbies to VNs so it must be bad, right?

>> No.5234443

>>5234433
But Clannad is great.

>> No.5234460

I was watching the Clannad anime, then decided to just go ahead and play the game to find out what was gonna happen next.

I've been playing VNs since.

>> No.5234466

Some RANDOM ANIMU DOWNLOADS LOL site that I used to visit back when I was underageb& had the files for Tokimeki Check-In! on it. It was my first eroge.

>> No.5234474

Season of Sakura, it was the Evangelion characters who attracted me if I remember correctly.
Then I played Nocturnal Illusion and it blews my mind.

>> No.5234495

>>5234404
With a little help from my friends at /jp/.

>> No.5234540

True Love or Nocturnal Illusion were probably the first I ever played, but I'd say that Tsukihime was the one that I first played knowing what VNs were. Melty Blood is good for something I guess?

>> No.5234554

Wanted to play the F/SN game after watching the anime but it wasn't fully translated yet so I went with Tsukihime instead.

>> No.5234572

>>5234379

I was horny and found some pictures of divi-dead. Played it, fapped like hell, didnt understand a thing. Kinda cool though

>> No.5234662

Back in 2000 or so, I was searching for hentai pics and somehow stumbled upon DOS hentai games. Seasons of Sakura/3 Sister's Story/Runaway Club/Knights of Xentar/Cobra Mission.

I ended up enjoying those games, especially 3 sister's story, so I searched for more. I found Divi Dead/May Club/Nocturnal Illusions, which I also enjoyed. Unfortunately I lost my internet connection soon after.

Fastforward to 2005 (I think), I finally have an internet connection. Literally the first thing I did was to go to JAST USA's website and find out their new games. I then torrented those games. Unfortunately they were all mindless sexromps without any story so I got bored and wrote off the medium altogether.

Fastforward to 2008, while searching for hentai animes I stumbled upon a download link for Yume Miru Kusuri. I decided to download it but then forgot about it. About a few months later I was bored and was browsing on my folders randomly and I found that game. I thought to myself "Why not?" and played it. I ended up not sleeping and played a whole route in one sitting and was crying at the ending. I was floored, I never expected that a hentai game could have such a good and emotional story. It rekindled my enthusiasm in the medium. from that day on I referred to them as Visual Novels.

>> No.5234700

Oh hey, this game has some sort of skulls and tits and shit this looks cool as fucking hell! Time to download Divi-Dead, which takes forever, and costs money to keep the dial-up going.

But holy shit, was it worth it. Then I went for other random shit like that virtual reality game (introduced me to delicious "I want to be the little girl") and the one with the mermaid shit (introduced me to delicious monster girls).

>> No.5234931

Shusaku

>> No.5234942

Some sex romp 10 years ago which I can't recall the name of.

>> No.5234947

>>5234942
Don't you remember anything about it?
It's an important part of your life, let's reconfirm it.

>> No.5234949

Saw some shit called 'Katwa Shoujo' on /v/, apparently it was good or some shit. Played it, got bored because it was complete bollocks. Saw the 'Yume Miru Kusuri' advertisements by jlist on 4chan, as well as a few /v/ threads saying it was good shit, so I tried it out. Shit was brilliant, great beginner visual novel, not overrated at all in my opinion.

>> No.5234972

back in grade school

I actually played some random eroge before knowing anime (like dragon knight 4 but isn't)

>> No.5234977

I don't quite remember how I was introduced and I don't quite recall which VN was my first but it was probably One ~To the Radiant Season~, Kana: Little Sister, or Divi Dead.

>> No.5234986

True Love.
... I still didn't get that bitch idol's ending, Reika of whoever she was.

>> No.5235002

>>5234977
Same poster; it could have also been Nocturnal Illusion but I remember not playing that for very long at all...

>> No.5235027
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When I was a newfag, scrolling through anime and manga forums like nobody's business, I stumbled uppon a VN thread.

I casually downloaded Tsukihime to see what the fuck VNs were about. One thing led to another and by now I've read over 30 translated VNs and I am learning moonrune deciphering just so I could read untranslated ones because I'm loving this shit so much.

>> No.5235039

Umineko.

Just kidding. Not.

>> No.5236307

Bible Black, years ago, from /b/.
I remember at first just thinking of it as more fap material, then I started getting further and further into the evil routes and actually ended up skipping most of the sex scenes, but then I went back to read them in case I missed anything. I cleared the entire game in 1 sitting.

I've never done that ever again.

>> No.5236312

FSN after watching the anime.

>> No.5236316

It should be Yosuga no Sora back in the time when I don't even knew what a VN was. But the download didn't worked for me and I gave up. Some months later I got curious about VNs again and Narcissu showed up and then magic happened.

>> No.5236326

After I read about VN somewhere (dunno where, some anime site I guess) I've decided to try one myself, downloaded Brass Restoration (becouse it was freeware and light) and read it. That's how it started.

>> No.5236327

Either Bible Black or Tokimeki Check In!.

>> No.5236331

Yume Miru Kusuri

>> No.5236355

i'm afraid of getting in VNs because of what i hear about them taking up large quantities of your time and the possibility of getting addicted

>> No.5236363

>>5236355
You're a bitch

>> No.5236366

Katawa Shoujo.

I'm okay with this.

>> No.5236374

Do you Like Horny Bunnies

I proceeded to get all of ZYX's works, couldn't do more than one route of Virgin Roster. My favorite was The Sagara Family

>> No.5236383

>>5236355
You just feel compelled to read on, they aren't addictive by any means. If you've got free time, just start reading one. It's not like drugs.

>> No.5236389

>>5236355
Don't forget you can also get pregnant.

>> No.5236393

>>5234428
This, back when I was an underage faggot.

More recently, Crescendo.

>> No.5236406

Sakura Taisen.

>> No.5236411

Phoenix Wright.
I know /jp/ will probably hate this, but they're not bad games.

>> No.5236419

checking out I love horny bunnies 2 a few years ago

>> No.5236422

>>5234386
Nobody noticed this? Really?

>> No.5236425

found out about VNs from the fine folks here at /jp/. wasn't really interested until i played persona 4 and realized i liked the social sim parts better than the dungeon crawling.

haven't been outside much since...

>> No.5236431

>>5236422

No, we just knew you were a shitty troll.
Now stop trying to draw attention to your shitty troll.

>> No.5236439

>>5236355
Honestly the worst part of VN's are the emotional attachment to develop for characters and then the subsequent pain when they end.

>> No.5236445

>>5236439
This. So much this. It's a real dangerous road sometimes and I have to constantly remind myself that shit is just a game. Chie-nee doesn't exist. Saber doesn't exist.

>> No.5236451

Red Shift
I heard about VN from a friend and googled the word. I was directed to a website, which I forgot, that have the list of translated VN. I saw that Red Shift was listed as "free" so I tried to downloaded it, and thus was introduced to the whole VN and eroge scene.
Also, to the ones who 've played it, what's your opinion on it? I found it quite enjoyable as it's my first one...

>> No.5236472

>>5236451
>heard about VN from a friend
illegal

>> No.5236489

>>5236472
That's a friend on the internet, a forum to be exact. Good enough?

>> No.5236529

>>5236451
It's good. Interesting story, and some of the better heroine art in a free doujingame.

>> No.5236539

>>5236451
It's good. Interesting story, and blows my mind when I found out the writing/scenario/art/directing is done by one person.

Not more than that. It's just another formulaic apathetic-protagonist-met-and-decided-to-save-a-girl-he-just-met kind of story.

>> No.5236541

>>5236489
acceptable

>> No.5236645

>>5236363

your a nigger

>> No.5236665

Decade or so back, when shit was distributed via floppies and BBS'es and I was reading English with a dictionary, I've stumbled upon a CD, some kind of a "1000 games" ot the like. All pirated, of course, there was no legit software here by definition (not that it's much better now). Among other not-so-shit, it had Dragon Knight (3?): Knights of Xentar, which was some challenge to hack with Game Wizard 32. But that's not the point. The point was 3 sisters story. That's when that all began...

>> No.5236668

I heard FSN was the best VN ever, so I read it to verify. I'd have to agree. Unfortunately, all the other VNs that I'll never read suck ass. At least one masterpiece, master race VN exists.

>> No.5236682
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>>5236668

>> No.5236685

Fuck yeah
3 Sister's Story
The memories ;___;

>> No.5236709

>>5236665
Knights of Xentar, fuck yeah, I remember that shit.

>> No.5239792

>>5234379
Back when I was reading Megatokyo, I noticed all these references to VNs in there and so I looked it up. I started to seriously look for them around the time I finished the Air anime. Started looking for translations of Key games and found out only Planetarian was translated(at the time.) I downloaded it and the rest is history.

>> No.5239803

>>5236665

That was more than a decade back broham. I found out about Megatech games from Video Games and Computer Entertainment magazine back in 1994.

>> No.5239809

Sagara Family

>> No.5239808

>>5236665

Oh forgive me, I fail at reading. It was a decade ago that you found this collection.

>> No.5239819

Played some shitty sex romps back in 2002-2004. Can't remember exactly when and which was my first one.

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:/
:|
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>> No.5239880

>>5239826

Oh jesus... get that shit out of here.

>> No.5242450

"True Love" + "Nocturnal Illusions" + "Season of Sakura" in one rar archive downloaded from Kazaa ( i have no idea how i found it in first place - probably were looking for some AMVs or sth like that...)

>> No.5242452

>>5239826
in b4 shitstorm.

>> No.5242458

I was watching F/sn, but since I didn't have any idea what the fuck is happening, I thought that maybe I'll give this 'visual novel, was it' thing a chance. And damn, that was a good choice.

>> No.5242459

True Love95 no more explaination needed

>> No.5242465

I liked the first 3 umineko motion graphics.
The project had just released the 1st ep so I was lucky.

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