/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[OP No.]

Hi /jp/, I was thinking about getting into VNs (or whatever they're called) and i figured maybe I could ask you folks a few general questions;
* What are some of the major do/don'ts when it comes to playing VNs?
* How do I figure out which VNs are sufficiently high-quality AND whether they've got something i want to avoid like the plague without having the whole plot spoiled for me?
* Can you perhaps recommend a few? I'll try to explain what sort of thing I'd like;

I'd like for there to be both porn and a good story. I really don't feel like getting one without the other, and i find that it's one of the major strengths of the format that it can have both.

I'd like to avoid: Scat, Guro, NTR, Extreme rape, plots that rely heavily on dickish/shock value writing. (It seems that getting to know characters and then watching them die/go insane horribly with no chance of saving them is a fad in VNs. A fad that i have no interest in whatsoever.)
I'd like: Anything that's fairly high quality and preferrably has a good end to it, but if it's good enough i don't really mind much.
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TL;DR - VN Noob Advice General

[Anonymous No.]

>I'd like to avoid NTR

Stopped reading right there.

[Anonymous No.]

follow your heart
vndb rating, don't care what /jp/ says about overrated shit, it's overrated for a reason, that being it's good
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/vg/9283474

You are more suited in there.

[Anonymous No.]

Try Planetarian and Narcissu for relatively short but very good VNs. If you want something more extensive, yo ucan try Ever17 and Tsukihime. Have fun.

[Anonymous No.]

So you want us to tell you what you'll subjectively like? Aside from the fact that /jp/ hates people who can't help themselves, you're basically asking for the impossible.

If you just want to avoid some extreme content, just use vndb, most of the time it'll be marked. Further, unless you can actually understand Japanese, you probably won't run into anything too impressively out there as most of that stuff doesn't get translated. And if it does, it's a shitty translation like that guy that did asou twins.

I assume you're an english only peasant so just hit up the usual stuff like Type-Moon works, Kirakira, or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

google.com is your friend
you may have found out that there is a site called vndb.org
and pretty much all VNs that have been translated to english are decent quality, because they're worth translating

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341596
Da capo and Canvas don't agree with you.

[OP No.]

>>9341574
But that thread isn't about getting into VNs. It's about VNs for people who know about VNs and have played VNs.

>>9341564
...I have to like what this guy likes all of a sudden? Fuck that noise.

>>9341588
Thanks I guess. Got any personal notes about how to play these things or should i just jump in and see what happens?

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341627
Jump in and see what happens. Now for Tsukihime, try to follow this route : Arc > Ciel > Akiha > Hisui > Kohaku
Or else not much will make sense to you.
There's also a good route order for Ever17 but I forgot it now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341606
"pretty much all" doesn't agree with you

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341627
There's not much to it. I'd recommend obviously not using a walkthrough for your first playthroughs.

[OP No.]

>>9341596
Directing me to google is just snide. There's a reason i'm asking knowledgeable people about things instead of randomly reading reviews i got off a google search.
vndb seems cool though so thanks for that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341658
People direct you to Google so you read what knowledgeable people have already written. It's not like information goes bad in three days.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341658
You are asking random people to give you short not very well thought-out responses rather than read what other random people with too much time wrote at length when they themselves decided to talk about the topic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341675

He's trying to suggest that /jp/ is more "knowledgeable" than a random google search.

His only problem is that he's horribly wrong and /jp/ hates each other's tastes so much that we've effectively stopped discussing VNs because of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>9341658
I dunno, I think googling "intro to visual novels" or "recommended visual novels" or something will get you quite a ways