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I'd love it if more VNs tried to be more creative with their route systems instead of the usual simple formula "common route -> choose a girl -> follow a linear story to the end". It's a shame that the real potential of the genre is never used to the fullest.

Every eroge I play I see the protagonist going for multiple rounds, yet here I am wondering how the hell that's possible. People that can ejaculate multiple times in a succession is supposed to be very rare, but apparently every single eroge protagonist has this ability.

Villains have always fascinated me for as long as I can remember. Maybe it was the way they operated, the way they moved. Their goals always so divergent from the heroes or so eerily similar that it made you question who you were really rooting for. Almost every story has em' or inserts something to take their place, such as society, nature etc. A villain right can give you someone to really root against, or for if you are so inclined. They can drive the story along like no other and pull the hero into the most strenuous and exacting endeavors. A villain done wrong however, can have all the impact of a wet fart in a scorching plain. What makes a good villain? I think a good villain is made up of five things appearance, presence, voice, power, and goal. I think these are essential for a villain to work in a story. Without these traits you might as well just drag up from the earth your cliche mustache twirling villain and prop him up for all to see. So without further ado here are my favorite villains and why. This isn't a comprehensive list and the order is nonessential. 1. Slade Slade was a incredible villain and he is essential to why I still count Teen Titans as one of my favorite shows. He had everything I wanted in a villain. What I most loved about him was voice, power, and presence. First off was his voice, Ron Perlman did a amazing job with the voice of Slade. He lent Slade a voice of menace and absolute confidence that broke time and time again upon the Titans backs. His power to was impressive. He could go toe to toe with any of the Titans and beat them and it took all of their power to stop them. His presence was also incredible he dominated every single scene that he was in without question. 2. The Joker Joker is the perfect villain and I think he shines the brightest in the animated series. He is a perfect counter to Batman in every way and is the absolute opposite of everything that he wants to protect. I like the animated Joker the best simply because of Mark Hamil. I truly believe that voicing him is the best thing that he has ever done. 3. Vernon Schillinger (OZ) Schillinger easily represents everything I detest in a person. He's an out and out Nazi, and as cold and callous as they come. Yet it was his detestable nature that made him such a good villain. In a show that's known for it's brutality he was easily the most vicious. What really made me like him was the brief glimpses of something resembling humanity that he would show. To this day it is hard to look at JK Simmons and not see Schillinger, no matter how many goofy Dads he plays. 4.Frank (Once Upon a Time in the West) In the movie this is how Frank is first introduced it's such a brilliant and brutal scene that really impacted me This early act of callous cruelty gives him a malignant presence in every scene he is in. He's completely willing to do anything and everything to get what he wants. Henry Fonda gives him a air of quiet detachment and a sense of invincibility. 5. Perfect Cell I love Perfect Cell because he is such a amazing antagonist. He has the abilities and weaknesses of all the greatest warriors. He is confident and arrogant without overdoing it. So many villains like him are just over the top that it just becomes laughable. It was great to see him evolve from his imperfect state to his perfect one. I also like that his goal was simply to find a worthy opponent to test his power on. 6. Mr. Dark (Something Wicked This Way Comes) Mr. Dark is another good villain that is so understated and yet so powerful. He operates a carnival that promises people their deepest wishes and feeds on them. Jonathan Pryce does an amazing job of giving him such a threatening edge with just a few words. 7. Cluny the Scourge Now Redwall had a lot of great villains but Cluny is always going to be my favorite of them all. He is such a perfect adversary he is ruthless but also clever, brutal yet cunning. His mere presence inspired instant fear and his drive inspired hundreds. 8. Kirei Kotomine Kotomine was a perfect villain in Fate/Stay night and a great foil for Shirou. What really made him a great villain in my eyes was seeing his corruption in Fate/Zero. I also like that he sought the grail for the shear curiosity of what it would spawn. 9. Maou Maou is a great antagonist because he is constantly two steps ahead of everyone. He has plans within plans and he sets himself up as the adversary of Haru just for the shear joy of it. 10. Jack Of Blades (Fable) Jack Of Blades is one of my favorite villains simply because of his appearance and voice. That alone makes him such a menacing villain. I also loved the mystery behind his mask and background. Who was he before he found the mask? That question goes unanswered witch makes the allure of him all the more powerful. Well that's all the villains I can think of at the moment I will probably add to it later. What are your favorite villains? Let me know!

Are lolis a feature?

It'll be quite fast. 1-Voiced protagonist. 2-A plot that doesn't revolve around a protagonist trying to fuck 5 different and equally stupid girls. 3-Tsunderes, everywhere, ditch the shit deres, and cast tsunderes, there's no Sun without tSun. 4-The ability to use a fleshlight connected to the game. 5-The ability to not use a fleshlight connected to the game.

Most respond to Alt+Enter, in my experience... the exceptions are mostly 'classics'.

Does not like pink blood. 0/10 Review. Doesn't get the "essence" of the game.

Yes, it was happening. As for my opinion here, this VN was look quite interesting especially it was came from the same company as Majikoi. Since here we had one dead project here, I thought to just start over with the new thread here. Anyway, just like back at HatsuKoi I'll using this thread to report Tsujidou progress from when the project begin. PS - By the way, here's the news from Tsurezure themselves.

First, I should mention that I'm a huge fan of David Weber. Even his crappiest book is still interesting to read (the crappiest book being Out of the Dark, an Independence Day-style story where the world is saved by Dracula, lol). However, the Honor Harrington series is my favorite series written by him. Beginning with On Basilisk Station, this military sci-fi series begins focused on the character known as - obviously - Honor Harrington, a young warship captain getting command of a new light cruiser. Honor is the post gender-disparity female of the feminist movement's dreams, a woman born and raised in a society where gender limitations were nonexistent and nothing is thought of women going into the military. Weber, for all his faults as writer, has never shown the prejudices a lot of male sci-fi writers tend to have in this area, and Honor is by far his most popular and powerful character. She begins the series as a commander, the lowest rank in the Royal Manticoran Navy allowed independent command of a starship, and, as she takes trip after trip though the fires of war's hell, she gradually climbs the ranks of her star nation's military, suffering pain and loss, as well as joy and glory in equal amounts. Honor doesn't go through life unscarred... she is a rare individual who can't use regen therapies and can't accept her own cloned tissues, so her tendency to get her ships shot to hell around her has definite permanent consequences to her body and life. This isn't some two-dimensional warrior who slays enemies in one-sided competitions and comes out the other side covered and glory and only possessing superficial scars. Honor is the type of person who, because of her integrity and essential strength as a human being, continually manages to put herself in the worst kind of situations. She doesn't always win, more of her people die than don't, and she suffers from all the guilt you could possibly imagine a morally upright young woman could suffer in such a situation. In fact, that is David Weber's brilliance with this series... Honor definitely climbs the social ladder during the series (even by the third book, she is already pretty high up there), but her essential humanity and her growth as a person gives true life to a series which could easily (and often threatens to) turn into a dry recitation of destruction and death on a literally interstellar scale. Weber freely admits he intended to kill her off in the seventh or eighth book, but the fans kept her alive through petitions against that decision, lol. All in all, that has turned out well. What was originally a simple and direct conflict between a constitutional monarchy and a socialist expansionist empire gone mad has expanded to a fully galactic scale story, opening up several side storylines (the Crown of Slaves being the most beloved of those). While Honor still remains a central individual in the series, things have long-since grown too complex and grand in scale for any individual to control its flow. I can say straight out that I love this series and don't regret investing the hundred dollars or so it took to get all the books currently released. There have been a few poor entries (the most recent one is widely disliked for being a rehashing from a different perspective of events in the previous book), the series as a whole is one that any military sci-fi fan should at least try to read. The societies involved, the events, and the characters make it worth it, even if it is obvious Weber has no intention of concluding it any time soon, even after over fifteen books.

Hi! Welcome to Fuwa! By the way, while creating a vndb account is really a good idea, you don't really have to remember every VN you've read when you create it. I'd say, add the ones you can can think of the top your head right away, and, for the rest, just add them gradually as you recall them. I do the same thing with my Mangaupdates account: while I definitely don't remember every oneshot I've ever read, I add them if I stumble upon their page and realize that I already know the story.

This is my first ever review, so I would love feedback on this or even general advice on review writing! The Setting Danganronpa is a murder-filled mystery told over six chapters. Fifteen students are gathered at a school (ironically named Hope’s Peak) by an emotionally unstable teddy bear (Monukuma). The only way to leave the school is by playing Monukuma’s twisted game - to commit murder, without being caught. If the murderer is caught, he is brutally executed, if he succeeds he is set free while the remaining students are executed. Gameplay Chapters are divided into three parts, Daily Life, Deadly Life and the Class Trial. Daily Life is where you the initial character development takes place. In this phase you can walk around and talk to other people, advancing the plot. You are also given “Free Time” where you can get closer to specific characters, which then unlocks power-ups that can be used in the class trial mini-games. The “Daily Life” period usually ends once a murder occurs. The nature of the game, makes most of these murders of the “whodunit” type. These tended to be fun and lasted around an hour each. Deadly Life is the investigative period. You explore your murder scene and examine items as you look for clues to help solve your mystery. This holds several similarities to “Phoenix Wright” investigations. The Court-Trials were basically the final showdown in each chapter where you solved the mystery. These were fast paced and interesting. The trial-system itself was horrible though. It was littered with some of the most irritating mini-games of all time. Several obvious statements that can be inferred from the evidence, have to be explicitly found through multiple mini games. On the other hand, the comic-style closing arguments was done very well. The PC port was horrible. The controls were not mapped out well at all, and to advance text, you are forced to use your mouse rather than the enter key or spacebar. This was very irritating and definitely affected my overall experience with the game. Soundtrack The BGM is very catchy, the kind that ends up sticking in your head for a while. While not all of it is amazing, there will probably be at least one or two tracks that you will enjoy. Visuals The CG’s and graphics are beautiful and the video-clips are well made. One thing that could have been better was the gore. All blood and wounds, were a bright pink color. If it actually looked like blood, a lot of the gruesome deaths would have impacted me a bit more. The Story Danganronpa starts of very strong. The very first case tries to drive home that anyone can die. I enjoyed the first two cases the most. The third and fourth cases were good as well, but by then the number of people remaining had reduced making it easier to identify the culprit. The last two chapters, were basically the same case. While I enjoyed them a lot some things have still not been explained. . Overall several good mysteries with innovative solutions. Also Danganronpa is Kinetic in nature. If you are given a choice, you either advance, or it loops back until you pick the right choice. The epilogue doesn’t really conclude the story well and is very open/teaserish in nature. (Most Spike Chunsoft games seem to do this, like 999) The Characters Most of the characters were strong personalities, the kind which would naturally end up being the center of their groups. Gathering them all in one place would naturally cause conflict. Most of them exemplified a single quality to an exaggerated degree, almost to the extent where their whole personality could be built around it. Each character was unique and interesting, which lead to interesting motives as well as murderers. While I could never support the murderer, I found myself understanding and sympathizing with the killers as well as the victims in some of the cases. Pros Great mysteries Well explored characters Fun investigations/Large World to explore Court System/ Case Arguments Monukuma Cons Pink fake blood/gore Some plot points left unexplained PC port Court System/Bullet Time Battle (This had no purpose but to infuriate anyone playing the game) Verdict – 9/10

Heh, glad to have helped you learn something new

Overall, a decent review, though there are parts I disagree with, naturally. As already pointed out, the pink blood fits in with the theme of the game a lot better than "real" blood would have. Its kind of an inherently... "silly" game, in a sense. There are plenty of serious times in the story, but it all happens in the context of a very alien world. I also don't think its bad to leave things unexplained in a story like this. Lots of stories, VNs and stories in other mediums alike, try unnecessarily hard to try and explain everything, even when that's not entirely desirable for the type of story it is, or when it gets in the way of actually telling the story itself. Of course, there was a sort of earlier iteration for this game, called Distrust*, that would have been a lot more gruesome (apparently, it was scrapped because it was TOO gruesome). It was essentially the same game, but it had things like red blood and such. If this form of the game was the one the was ultimately released, then the theme would have been quite different. Perhaps not for the worse, and I think it would be kind of interesting if someone released an attempt at making that a full game, if for no other reason than to contrast the experience with Danganronpa. *There's a page on this on the Danganronpa wikia. Search something like "Danganronpa Beta" in your favorite search engine to find it, if you wanna read some details on it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/2100828 What the shit is. So...wow, what the hell, you really screwed this up, Muv Luv people!

How could you go into it with a pure and wholesome image. Everything about the show screamed "fetishistic yuri anime"

Confession. I never really listen to any of the BGM of a VN I always kind of prefer to play my own music even if I'm playing one that supposedly has really good tunes. I always feel like I can find a better song that fits the scene and for the most part I think I do pretty well. That desire has definitely added to my music library for all the times I spent trying to find a song or artist who would be good for a particular scene.

Another feature that I remember liking was in Ever 17 you could save the cgs to your computer and I think remotely make them your desktop wallpaper Oh and a way to listen back to all the BGM's you unlocked going through the story

Hi! Welcome to Fuwa. If your having trouble keeping track of your VN's you might consider making a VNDB account.

So be it. Shiratori's route finished, it was pretty meh. I've already started with Haru's route.

Being able to skip scenes without having to go through the game in fast foward. The only game that I remember that has a system that does that is Dramatical Murder.

cum inside/outside

The ability to easily go from windowed to full screen to back again without having to constantly go through the settings should be a essential feature I know some of them do but the majority do not and it's a pain when they don't

Currently playing Subnautica which was recently released after a very long early access time. This game is genuinely mocking your primal fears of water. It's fascinating and terrifying at the same time. I think the last game that had me so on my toes bcause it was so scary was Amesia - The Dark Descent, and not even that is quite matching it. It's also the first survival game I ever played and feels a bit like Soma meets Minecraft. Building your own under water base is just deeply satisfying. Especially if things go wrong - like disregarding hull integrity until cracks are building and the whole base is running full of water. Or stalker fish ripping out the camera drones of your navigation room and playing catch the ball with his buddies with it. And not being aware of the huge energy consumption of spot lights and then suffocating because the life support system ran out of power was certainly one of my more creative deaths. Maybe not as terrifying as getting killed by a reaper leviathan after it turned my submarine to scrap metal, but certainly more interesting than drowning 10 meters before reaching the surface. There are lots of ways do die anyway: Suffocation, dying of thirst, starving, burning, getting cooked by a volcano, death by radiation, poisoning, getting eaten or otherwise killed by sea monsters, hull break in deep waters, etc. It's really making you paranoid.

Good review, but I wanted to share my opinion about the plot points left unexplained. But you're right about the PC port, ugh.

I always run into words that I know from strange contexts that aren't exactly related to their meanings. Bugbear (d&d) and Melange (Dune) for example. I always am tempted to include them. http://testyourvocab.com/result?user=9563970

Mystery/romance might not be a rare formula for VNs in general but seems especially popular among Western developers – this probably shouldn't be surprising, as it's very compatible with shorter, linear stories that indie devs usually aim for. Just like One Thousand Lies, which I've reviewed last month, Sepia Tears is a free visual novel available on Steam and mobile devices, which offers a fairly deep, complicated intrigue, relying on its mystery elements to keep the player emotionally and intellectually involved. It's also one of the better known free VNs produced in the West, at least partially thanks to its release date – in early 2013, when it first came out, quality visual novels made outside of Japan were still few and far between, while the official market for localized JP titles was pretty much only starting to develop. The game found its way to a content-starved Western VN community and was pretty highly appreciated. Does it stand the test of time though? Read the full article at evnchronicles.blogspot.com

That whole scene was pretty over the top xD ChiruChiru is love! ChiruChiru is life!

For the confirmation, yes they planned Hoshiori just like said above. To be honest, personally I prefer them to skip the append disc and just focusing on Hoshiori. But I appreciate Tsurezure for translating the additional material, compared to Koiresort in which MDZ himself didn't translated 'Sweetest Summer' append story. PS - I'm pretty much look forward to Hoshiori after saw some review of that.

Of all the adjectives in the English language, I would, indeed, choose to describe that disease as rather "unfortunate."

Noble☆Works English Translation Patch (by The Oxford Comma is Superior Subs) Summary "Well, I'll just come out and say it. We want you to... become Shuri's body double!" Fujishima Takumi is a regular high school student just trying to make ends meet via his part-time jobs. Unfortunately, one day his employer becomes bankrupt and bails without giving Takumi his pay. Depressed and now broke, Takumi wanders the streets and eventually bumps into someone... who looks exactly like him! Turns out this clone of his is Kanemoto Shuri who is from a rather wealthy family. Due to very, very special circumstances involving Shuri's medical condition and constant harassment of kidnappers, Takumi is asked by the Kanemoto household to attend the prestigious Rokuroku Academy in Shuri's place. Initially only accepting due to his financial needs, Takumi slowly but surely finds himself enjoying his new life as the doppelganger of Shuri... Ending Guideline / Suggested Route Order There are five heroines and one bonus route: Akari, Sena, Hinata, Shizuru, Maya, and The bonus route is unlocked after completing at least one route. Extras (CG + H-scene viewer) are unlocked upon completing at least one route. Sprite viewer is unlocked upon completing all routes + bonus route. You may play in any order you like (besides bonus first), I'm going Akari -> Hinata -> Sena -> Maya -> Shizuru -> bonus Route Guideline Beware: there are three "return-to-title-screen" gameover choices: Kanemoto Akari Tsukiyama Sena Kunihiro Hinata Masamune Shizuru Nagamitsu Maya ~~ Bonus Route (accessible upon completing at least one route) Attribution This walkthrough was created and formatted by Eclipsed with information based on trial-and-error (10%) and the Fiddler (90%). Special thanks to Fiddle for his suggestions, edits, facts, and in general for letting me fiddle with his diddle