Decline Visual Novel Recomendation Thread

[Fargus]

I see the World End Economica being mentioned here. I have all of them on steam from some sale. Maybe i should give it a try...

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I see the World End Economica being mentioned here. I have all of them on steam from some sale. Maybe i should give it a try...

I am half way through part 2. Really enjoying it. It is more tightly written than most VNs I have played. Little to no filler. Part 1 starts a little slow but then it becomes engaging.

 

[Elttharion]

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Finished World End Economica part 2. Was good. It's been a while since I was this enthralled by a VN. It's very good at explaining financial concepts that I didn't understand at all even when taking college courses. You understand it better when you have characters you care about being threatened by or trying to capitalize with these mechanics to achieve their goals. It is also the only game story I can think of off of the top of my head where you interact with a lot of suits such as moneylenders, shareholders, CEOs, bankers, etc, and they aren't demonized as strawmen capitalist caricatures.

Currently half way through part 3. Things were looking so good

 

[Nifft Batuff]

If you think things are bad now, wait for the next generation of businessmen, trained on VNs.

 

[Abu Antar]

WEC episode 3 was better than the second part, imo.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I have finished World End Economica. It was great up until the last 10 minutes. The ending was a little underwhelming. It is abrupt and there is no epilogue for a send off. Some of the music was nice but the tracks were too short, being about 60 to 90 seconds in length.

Spoiler

The second and third games were building up to their reunion, but Hal and Hagana only got to spend two scenes together. You never get to savor it. There is no epilogue and you don't get to see if Lisa and Serrault got their happy ending. We never found out if John Eagle survived the apocalypse or fled to Earth. Chris turned her back on the Church to focus all in on climbing the corporate ladder, but then in the credits CG she is apparently eating there again? And I was not convinced that Barton was repentant. I'd be worried that he would be back to his old ways and create another ponzi scheme/crush more people and then leave our heroes out to dry again. I was also expecting that Christianity would have established more of a presence on the moon after 8 years. Lisa and the Church being in that blockbuster movie surely would have spurred more interest in it. What about Hal's housing project? Or the other cities that were envisioned? Did he use his billions to kickstart those? Did Toyama and Chris' father and everyone else who got evicted by Barton come back to settle in Hal's new houses?

Overall very good. Up there as one of the tighter VNs I've read.

 

[n0wh3r3]

Got Iwaihime recently, I might start with it today... Thoughts?

 

[Kuruwin]

Got Iwaihime recently, I might start with it today... Thoughts?

It's shit. I have already forgotten the specifics but part of it's problem was the artstyle and the story clashing. It's pretty much underwhelming all around though and eventhough it's not a long game, it's still manage's to drag on.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Got Iwaihime recently, I might start with it today... Thoughts?

it's okay. It's a little village horror story.

I can somewhat agree that the art style chosen kinda makes the horror impact not to bite as much, but in a way while Higurashi horror is there to be creepy, the horror here acts more like a shock value kind of thing

 

[n0wh3r3]

Got Iwaihime recently, I might start with it today... Thoughts?

it's okay. It's a little village horror story.

I can somewhat agree that the art style chosen kinda makes the horror impact not to bite as much, but in a way while Higurashi horror is there to be creepy, the horror here acts more like a shock value kind of thing

I decided to saver it for later and started Chaos:Head instead.

 

[Elttharion]

This one hurts, not my fault modern gaming sucks

 

[The Jester]

 

[catfood]

Demonbane was meh.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

How to make a likeable villain in one sentence.