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I'm a simple man. Someone praises ef or ef's soundtrack, I like.

Finished Muv-Luv Alternative yesterday. Yeah, that was a ride and a half!! I was even more emotionally invested in it then Clannad. I'm just glad I don't currently live in a cosmic horror timeline like that..... Welp! Next up is ....... Steins;Gate. Another VN with parallel timelines eh? ...... is it just me, or is the music, REALLY intense?? Holy shit.....

Hey there! I'm definitely not the best person out there to answer that, as I don't have the same problem as you, but I do relate with your reading time. In my case, I'm a pretty slow reader (and my speed goes even further slower when I'm reading something that's not in my native language, that's 100% of the time when it comes to VN) and since I'm quite busy irl lately, I can afford maybe one hour each day to read. I finished DMMD in the beginning of the year and it certainly took me a bit more than a month to finish. But I don't think that should make you unmotivated! It took me several months to finish my favorite VN and it was very worth the ride, long as it was. Take the time you need and try to think in tackling these VNs one route at a time, for example. The goal will feel a lot closer that way. FSN can be quite infodump and long winded at times, but it does a decent job at making you remember stuff with short (okay, some not that short) explanations from one route to the other. Plus, it have a "status screen" that list a lot of character's powers that can be accessed at any time in case you forget something. And you can also take notes. Like, every time a scene ends, or you stop reading for the day, try to write down/type in a notepad file (create it inside your VN folder) what happened with a single or a few sentences. You can oversimplify the events, pick the most vital part and putting it in all caps, crack a few jokes in your explanations, anything that you think it can be fun to do and easy to associate with the whole scene, so it can "trigger" your memory of the rest of scene without you having to read it again. If you're feeling a bit overwhelmed to start a very long VN, you can always try a shorter one first until you're confident enough with a method to help you remember the story. Sorry for the wall of text and best of luck!~

Hello, I really enjoy visual novels and read my first one DRAMAtical Murder about a year ago, it took me about two and half months to complete it because I have a reading disability where I have to read something five or six times to comprehended it and its easy for me to forget things. I wanna read other visual novels like Fruits Of Grisaia and FSN but I'm worried that they would be hard due to the length and that they would take me forever to read and hard to remember events I read before, any tips to help?

You shouldn't be. I'm just that slow.

Invite your girlfriend to play eroge together with you. Problem solved.

I love the music in Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two. I'm not really sure how to describe it. It feels peaceful but also filled with a underlying sadness or longing. Regardless, I really couldn't imagine it without the music. (Tenmon who did most of music, also worked with Makoto Shinkai on many of his films and The Place Promised in our Early Days and 5 Centimeters Per Second and have excellent soundtracks too.)

Personally I think visual novel should just be considered a visual novel and not really either a game or a book. While it can be combined with games through hybrid titles like Rance or Neptunia I think the visual novel in itself should just be considered its own form of medium. I think that to a large extent it is too different from other mediums to justify putting it into a subcategory of something else. Also to add to the main thing this discussion is about (have already answered what types of VNs I care for) I consider myself a part of the visual novel community that cares for physical releases.

Well, why don't you try giving some shorter titles a shot? Kikokugai (also from Nitroplus) is pretty good and short, so is Hanachirasu. Saya no Uta isn't that long also, but it's, uh, quite a trip.

And now, allow me to mention an ending song to certain untranslated charage, whose main selling point is a big spoiler to its ending.

I guess, I'll continue to praise Umineko soundtrack. And a few vocal songs:

Summer Pockets has some nice background music:

You might as well just kiss your social life goodbye.