The Visual Novel Megathread: Reading till your eyes bleed - Games

Can Persona 4 be called a VN? I started my second playthrough of it yesterday, went for 5 hours straight. Only stopped because 1 AM And Spanish test today.

[QUOTE=EcksDee;35790882]Can Persona 4 be called a VN? I started my second playthrough of it yesterday, went for 5 hours straight. Only stopped because 1 AM And Spanish test today.[/QUOTE] Not fully, but I guess you can call it visual novel inspired.

[QUOTE=IAmAnooB;35790914]Not fully, but I guess you can call it visual novel inspired.[/QUOTE] Then I call it fit for this thread.

The Persona series isn't a VN as it is much more gameplay-based than visual novel perse. Of course, the presentation of the story is pretty much visual novel based, though. It's like Phoenix Wright, Visual novel can be in all sort of things.

[QUOTE=EcksDee;35790882]Can Persona 4 be called a VN?[/QUOTE] Not in the slightest.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;35792669]Not in the slightest.[/QUOTE] Avatar fits.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;35792669]Not in the slightest.[/QUOTE] Fine :(

There's not much discussion going on here at the moment, so [I]persona[/I]lly I'm fine with you posting about it.

I just finished watching the Steins;Gate anime, and it was amazing. Really awesome, and whenever I have the time, I'll finish the VN as well. It's going to be awesome having multiple endings in the VN.

Just finished Tsubaki's route in G-Senjou no Maou. [sp]That was a hell of a twist ending[/sp].

A question for the people who played the Steins;Gate VN: how different from eachother are the endings, and how did they handle it in the anime adaptation? Did they use parts of every route or did they stick with one 'true' route?

[QUOTE=Bokito;35827416]A question for the people who played the Steins;Gate VN: how different from eachother are the endings, and how did they handle it in the anime adaptation? Did they use parts of every route or did they stick with one 'true' route?[/QUOTE] The anime adaptation stuck with the true route, which takes parts of every route.

So I'm pretty new to Visual Novels. I just completed Clannad and I'm a bit confused. The game ended for me [sp]after Tomoya graduated and Nagisa had to repeat a year in school due to her illness. I see no option of playing any so called "after story" that I read was available and I wasn't presented with any option either. I did the playthrough making choices that felt right and I didn't use a guide. Have I missed something? I'd really like to play the afterstory aswell[/sp] Not really sure how this stuff works. It feels like I've missed doing some content or something.

[QUOTE=Folstream;35829728]So I'm pretty new to Visual Novels. I just completed Clannad and I'm a bit confused. The game ended for me [sp]after Tomoya graduated and Nagisa had to repeat a year in school due to her illness. I see no option of playing any so called "after story" that I read was available and I wasn't presented with any option either. I did the playthrough making choices that felt right and I didn't use a guide. Have I missed something? I'd really like to play the afterstory aswell[/sp] Not really sure how this stuff works. It feels like I've missed doing some content or something.[/QUOTE] You have to play all the other arcs in order to unlock afterstory. First playthrough, you are somewhat forced onto Nagisa's route. Second and several next playthroughs, you have to play the other routes (Start with Fuuko's, it add contents in a lot of later arcs) Then you start Afterstory, then you get a shitty ending. Then you have to play 3 others routes during that afterstory. Then you get the real ending.

I've finished Nagisa's route in Clannad yesterday. I have yet to finish the baseball route (loads of laugh) and I'm off to After Story.

I got the baseball route without really knowing how. I just got it I guess. The best easter egg is the [sp]Almost sex scene with Kyou in the sports cabin[/sp]

[QUOTE=Feuver;35846245]I got the baseball route without really knowing how. I just got it I guess. The best easter egg is the [sp]Almost sex scene with Kyou in the sports cabin[/sp][/QUOTE] Count [sp]Tomoyo[/sp] too! [sp]She[/sp] also seemed disappointed. And while we're at it, what was thing with [sp]Akio and his gun (I'm talking also about that curse)[/sp] about?

I hate all of you. After reading about it, I decided to read Saya no Uta. I'm now stuck with the weirdest feeling [sp]of sadness as I want Fuminori to be happy, despite acknowledging he and Saya are complete monsters.[/sp]

They aren't really though, Saya is just [sp]trying to expand the population of her species, and Fuminori who finally found something beautiful after the incident, just wanted to make Saya happy.[/sp] None of the parties were neither right nor wrong

I do understand that [sp]but something about an alien invasion doesn't strike me as right, even though it does have proper justification. Again, weirdest feel as I agree with both sides.[/sp]

[sp]I wonder what the flower thing at the end looked like in real life. As he described it as "The most beautiful thing in the world", it was probably pretty gross.[/sp]

So I'm 14 hours in Kamidori and only just got my first H-scene. I am pleased.

[QUOTE=iLife_Aftermath;35852915][sp]I wonder what the flower thing at the end looked like in real life. As he described it as "The most beautiful thing in the world", it was probably pretty gross.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Seeing all of the carnage at the end while Ryoko is narrating, it's probably involved Saya just bursting apart (since she's so full of love(?))[/sp]

Starting Little Busters! is there a recommended route order?

[QUOTE=Lazyboy0337;35853271][sp]Seeing all of the carnage at the end while Ryoko is narrating, it's probably involved Saya just bursting apart (since she's so full of love(?))[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]I do like how it was vague, as to what happened, well, pretty much I don't think of it as a literal alien invasion, more like a terraforming then morphing humans into Saya's species. It would probably allow Fuminori to see the world 'correctly' now, and to share a life with people that looks appealing to him. [/sp]

Some Ace Attorney villains are really smart bastards. All the more satisfying when you show them their place. BLOODY HUGE SPOILER ALERT FOR 2-4, or simply case 4th of the second game, Justice For All. Like Matt Engarde, the actor of Nickel Samurai, who [sp]ordered a hit on his rival in show business, the actor of Jammin' Ninja, Juan Corrida, who was going to read the forged suicide note of Celeste Inpax, someone Matt Engarde dated, in front of press to ruin his reputation, and recorded the hitman doing his job, Shelly De Killer, on camera that was hidden inside a stuffed giant bear (Juan Corrida had a thing for bears) and saved it all on tape so he could have him on the ropes if needed. To bust himself out of possibility of being traced as the hirer of De Killer, he had him (clueless of Matt's blackmail plan up until the end of the case) kidnap Maya and inform Wright that she will get starved to death if Wright doesn't defend Matt Engarde in court. Wright finds out about Matt's aforementioned plan and still has to defend the smug son of a bitch lest Maya dies if he doesn't. Turns out Wright has to frame somebody else as orderer of the hit, clearly going against everything he stands for as a defense attorney. At the climax of the case, the player has to choose between setting Engarde free and ruining the life of an innocent woman, Adrian Andrews, protege of Celeste Inpax, and having Maya quit working with you, let alone wanting to see you forever OR having Matt convicted, setting Adrian free but having Maya die. What makes this decision so hard is that you have emotionally invested quite a lot in both characters. This is, however, a fake climax when Franziska busts in the courtroom with a bag of evidence Gumshoe failed to deliver when he crashed his car in his hurry to get it to Wright. From there Matt is shortly put into a situation where Wright, intensely relieved, gets to choose whether put him in jail forever or set him free like Matt himself wanted and have De Killer (who has been informed of Matt's blackmail plan during Wright's final stretch which breaks mutually agreed on "rules" DeKiller has, thus allowing him to exact revenge for soiling De Killer family's reputation) come for him, having Matt live for maybe a few days or so in freedom.[/sp] Oh man, my head hurts now. And this is just one of the complicated plans in the series, too.

Hm... I'd like to read some, but the problem is that some seem to require credit cards. Isn't there an easy way to get some new stuff?

[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;35877922]Hm... I'd like to read some, but the problem is that some seem to require credit cards. Isn't there an easy way to get some new stuff?[/QUOTE] If a visual novel asks you to enter your credit card to acquire new items then you might want to uninstall. That could be a virus. Just kidding, As for getting visual novels easier i can't help you there.

[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;35877922]Hm... I'd like to read some, but the problem is that some seem to require credit cards. Isn't there an easy way to get some new stuff?[/QUOTE] Move to Japan.

Or hope Steam will include more VN's. They already added one to the story, and even though I've heard mixed opinions about it, it IS the first VN that made it's way to Steam. If there happen to be more (official) English VN's, there is a very slight chance one might be added to the store.