/lit/ - Literature

>>11076735
Cartagra
Phenomeno series
Majikoi

>>11076735
I haven't "read" any VN translations that weren't shit. I wouldn't know if any are good in Japanese.

>>11076735
I have a mac and don't fuck around with that wine shit so I haven't played any.
I played the one where you fuck disabled girls that was hype

>>11076772
Yeah, this is why i gave up on visual novels. Reading the blandest prose for 50+ hours is not fun.

>>11076735
I liked Root Letter, even if it was a little dumb

>>11076735
Saya no Uta. Yes, I am a pleb.
>Phenomeno series
There's only one Phenomeno VN, isn't there? The rest is short stories or something

>>11076873
Yeah, I don't know why I added series to the title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PW5ZrZ3JCw

Grisaia is the only well written VN I'm aware of

>>11076873
I'm pretty sure the Phenomeno VN is based on the first book from a light novel series. Tried reading the VN, but I felt like the translation was kinda bad.

>>11076870
I liked the chill atmosphere, plus the ost was good. Although I expected more from it.

>>11076899
Grusaia is no better than other regular VNs with cool concepts like rewrite, sharin no kuni or G-senjou no Maou. OP’ s VN is legit good (except the porn)

>>11076735
Subahibi and Clannad.
>>11076912
>(except the porn)
Dumb

>>11076912
Nothing you wrote in your post has anything to do with what I said. I didn't say anything about Grisaia being 'good', I said it's well written

>>11076912
Want to know how I know you're an American pseud' teen?

>>11076735
Subahibi is a bit to deep for me. Whilst I understand the story the philosophical themes went right over my head.

It's my own invention was great.
Especially the part when The teacher fucked her dad then rode across town naked on a bike, then being used as a literally toilet.

>>11076935
Im neither american nor a teen, I cant answer to the pseud claim though.

>>11076953
A liar as well

>>11076951
>he didn't do the prerequisite reading for subahibi

>>11076735
> anime video games
> "LITERATURE"

you're on the wrong board, boy-o

but i really liked root letter, steins gate and danganronpa. don't play many visual novels to be honest

>>11076870

I felt like the mystery was unresolved when I finished it and got the ending I got, it felt like the game was hiding something from me. I know there's like 7 endings and I'll probably replay it to try and get a new one, but I'm not sure if they'll tell me anything new or if the game just has a few plotholes

>>11076735
Umineko is nice

>>11076983
I was pretty disappointing too in the ending I got, but replaying it to see the others is worthwhile.
The chapter skip option makes it pretty quick.

>>11076983
it's worth replaying for the comfy atmosphere alone in my opinion and each ending does reveal more

Extreme cringe.

Subahibi overrated and only pseuds like it since the English translation. Sakura no is miles better. Saihate no Ima is the best vn

>>11077210
Sakura no Uta*

>>11077210
>calling people pseuds about porn games

>>11077225
Itt: Subahibi is a bit to deep for me. Whilst I understand the story the philosophical themes went right over my head.

good:
>japanese literature
acceptable:
>manga
>jrpg
irredeemable:
>visual novels

Any good short visual novels? I couldn't convince myself to continue wasting my time reading visual novels longer than War and Peace.

>>11077243
Planetarian

>>11077243
Saya no Uta, Cross Channel, Symphonic Rain, Hanachirasu for English readers.

>>11077257
>Cross Channel
All the translations of this are awful so beware

>>11077273
Most of the translations for vns and anime ect are generally terrible so it kind of goes with the territory

>>11077273
Ixrecs is inoffensive but sterilizes the style beyond belief. The others literally don't tell the same story. It is still worth reading in English if you want to read a shorter but still good vn.

>>11076735
the evangelion VNs are good

Chaos;Child

Umineko

>>11077273
>>11077277
I read it recently and honestly didn't like it. All of the girls were uninteresting and I never felt particularly invested in anything. The MC was good of course, but the whole time I kept comparing it in my head to Subahibi, which was much better. You can clearly see Cross Channel's influence there, but it felt like some kind of bland prototype.

>>11077319
The brokenness of each of the characters and how it relates to modern society was interesting to me. The girl who loves Taichi constantly seeking redemption after psychologically destroying him and ultimately failing paralleled his self redemption in a very moving way. It is in the end all about him and the characters are subversive takes on established archetypes so they lose familiarity like in evangelion but I still sympathized with them

>>11076772
>I haven't "read" any VN
well you certainly haven't """played""" one. glad to see one of these threads where it belongs and not on /v/

>>11077331
>It is in the end all about him and the characters are subversive takes on established archetypes so they lose familiarity like in evangelion
That's a bad example as the characters in Evangelion are still widely loved and discussed 20 years later. Because they're actually good characters.
>>11077335
VNs go on /jp/ and /vg/

>>11077351
>VNs go on /jp/ and /vg/
fair enough

>>11077357
It's just what the rules say.

Why hasn't /lit/ made a postmodern VN yet?

>>11077351
It's a valid comparison in that the way the characters are written is similar. But u right

>>11077379
yeah I don't disagree either

Amnesia: Memories
Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

Where do I start? I have them all from PS Plus.

>>11077210
>To sum it up: I thoroughly enjoyed Sakura no Uta, and it’s definitely the best game of the year, maybe a few years even. It didn’t give me anywhere as strong an impression as Subarashiki Hibi — Scaji’s masterpiece — but it’s a good, profound story penned by a master’s hand, and should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in the medium. Seriously, if Scaji wasn’t writing visual novels, I’d expect his name to come up among Nobel Prize laureates in a year or two — I definitely read less profound books of the guys that actually won the prize.

thoughts

>>11077442
For starters, throw all of those away and go get uncensored versions online. Never, ever buy VNs from western platforms.