Decline Visual Novel Recomendation Thread

[The Jester]

I have begun reading Full Metal Daemon Muramasa.

It starts with a serious sword duel, then devolves into grotesque sadism, and then a blurb about "this is not a story about heroes", and then...

So far it has the same problem as Witch of the Holy Night, but worse: there is far too much prose, which is redundant in a VISUAL NOVEL where we can see and hear what is going on. I don't need poetry. 90% of plot happens in dialogue, not in prose. Trim the fat!

It's not a story about heroes, it's about sword autism.
Writer is a sword otaku as you can see in both of his works.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Not sure if I will continue.

The insectoid mechas transforming into WW2-fighter plane themed flying samurai mechas is pretty cool. The breakdown of the combat techniques was pretty interesting, though the way it was delivered was a little unnatural. But it took quite a while to get to that point, and as I was reading, the characters were being pretty vulgar. Several characters act like cardboard cutout stock anime archetypes, like the yakuza or the random townsfolk or the school faculty, etc. But one horrible event towards the end really soured me, and then the ending of the prologue greatly dampened my enthusiasm when the titular main character beheads a schoolboy, apparently to prevent there from being any witnesses? I don't want to root for an evil character.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[Elttharion]

 

[Nomad_Blizz]

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mpened my enthusiasm when the titular main character beheads a schoolboy, apparently to prevent there from being any witnesses? I don't want to root for an evil character.

That's not the reason. It's revealed later why he had to do that.

 

[Raghar]

C'mon retconing reason to execute asshole teenager?
Tell me how many teenagers greeted you on the street last 2 years?

 

[Abu Antar]

Playing Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

I know that this is supposed to be a horror VN, and it even warns you about it when you boot up the game, but I'm early in... and I just feel shame for playing it.

 

[Vic]

The h-scenes were perfect in my opinion. Not too long as usual, just the right length. Of course there is rape. The first h-scene in particular shocked me on my first read that I had to put it aside for a few years. So this was my second time reading it.

From what I remember, every H-scene is rape, as in the MC can't even get it up if there is some mild form of consent for the handholding process.
Most fucked up scene was the end of act 2 for me, pretty chilling voice performance from a character that deliver most of his line in the most deadpan way possible.

The MC is a beast, for sure.

 

[Elttharion]

Pretty much every Spike Chunsoft VN is heavily discounted on Steam btw



All of them are at least ok, only one I didnt like was AI

 

[KafkaBot]

Pretty much every Spike Chunsoft VN is heavily discounted on Steam btw



All of them are at least ok, only one I didnt like was AI

This seems to have become a seasonal occurrence for them. Last time they did this, I grabbed their entire catalogue, except for Anonymous;Code. Not sure if it hadn't been released yet or if the discount was not deep enough to catch my interest.

Guess I'll go and snatch that one now, too.

As for AI... I liked the first one, even though I thought at the time it was one of Uchikoshi's weakest works. The sequel, though? Yeah, that one's ridiculous.

 

[Elttharion]

Pretty much every Spike Chunsoft VN is heavily discounted on Steam btw



All of them are at least ok, only one I didnt like was AI

This seems to have become a seasonal occurrence for them. Last time they did this, I grabbed their entire catalogue, except for Anonymous;Code. Not sure if it hadn't been released yet or if the discount was not deep enough to catch my interest.

Guess I'll go and snatch that one now, too.

As for AI... I liked the first one, even though I thought at the time it was one of Uchikoshi's weakest works. The sequel, though? Yeah, that one's ridiculous.

I only played the first AI game, the faggotry itself was the least of its problems. The lol so random humor was tiresome for me and the story was really disjointed. Plus the big reveal just was too obvious. If the second one is worse its an easy skip.