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This game just released and it looks-- no, it is amazing! Who has played it already?? I would love to gush about it with others!!! My thoughts are all on the review above~! Please give it a read... or not! We can just talk about the game!

I finished Yubikiri Konyaku Lolita, honestly coming right after the fantastic Soushisouai this is a step down. I liked Suzu better when she was this strange kid at the memorial service arranging dolls, not fitting into her surroundings. After growing up she became a bit boring (comparing her to other heroines in the series like Kotae and Mihato). Likewise the whole setup of the protagonist's past relationship doesn't really go anywhere, and then the game ends shortly after. I didn't feel anything like the profound impact of Mako's speech in the previous game. But it's still a decent short story and the H is good as always. Suzuka and her dolls

Ruka Hiryuu (日流 ルカ) from Ryuusei World Actor 1 & 2. Not everyday you get to play as a complete dumbass who nevertheless has a charming side. He actually feels and comes across like an adult , though a severely a maladjusted one. A pity the VNs let a great setting and setup go to waste.

Well to be frank I'm not quite hyped here, although now that I see it turned out that it's Daganronpa fangame, which coincidentally enough has the same situation as Phoenix Wright (With both have trial based gameplay to boot). I can only say that it should be good for Danganronpa fans who want more of it, especially since the original Danganronpa creator Kodaka apparently had enough of it. Good luck to the developer to develop more of the chapters there, especially after I know that there's a lot of pain in order to deliver the prologue alone here.

Great question! The first one that came to mind is a spoiler in itself, so let's just say it's the protagonist for The House in Fata Morgana

Well, the VN itself is great, but it hits hard and most of the bad stuff happening is because of Haruki's inability to commit to one girl for most of the VN. He seems a lot more human than your average VN protagonist, which is probably the main reason why his actions throughout the story made me start to dislike him so much. Makoto from School Days is, as I've already mentioned, a whole lot worse, but he's such un unbearable bastard all the time that you can't even take him seriously. It had been sitting in my backlog for ages by the time I finally got started on it. I knew it was supposed to be good, but I was under the impression that this was just comedy/romance through and through, so it kinda hit me out of left field when I realized there's actually some drama and serious topics here as well. It turned out to be one of my best reads of the year, so I highly recommend you give it a go!

I haven't played many VNs this year but probably my fav MC is Tyler from Loopers. Energetic and never give up vibes from start to end which is cool for me. Just saw adamstan's post, we are in the same page XD

For a moment I thought - "How could I forget about that great protag?", but then I remembered, that I read 9-nine in 2021 Damn, makes me hesitant to play WA2 Perhaps it's time for me to read it? It's sitting on the shelf and on the backlog, and I'm currently "free" VN-wise

For me it would probably be Blackiris from True Remembrance. He was an excellent representation of grief, trauma, and repressed emotions and I think his arc was spectacular. Honorable mention for the unnamed protagonist of Dra+Koi. The fact that he's an asshole of a tsundere in a story that's designed to be a love letter to the classic European epic folk fantasy stories was very amusing to me. He's probably the only MC I've seen who tells the heroine that she should kill herself while in the middle of an H scene.

I didn't read many VNs in 2022, but my favourite protagonist was Haku, the lovable lazy bum from Utawarerumono. Also, great choice.

I don't think I can decide on one, but the top 3 for this year are probably Kakei Kyoutarou from Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, Niimi Kakeru from 9-nine, or Narita Shinri from Hello Lady (whenever he's not sexually harrassing people out of nowhere). Might as well list the worst protagonist while I'm at it, and there's no competition whatsoever there. It's Kitahara Haruki from White Album 2. I think the only VN protagonist I dislike more is Itou Makoto from School Days, but he's in a league of his own and I haven't read that VN in years now so it doesn't qualify here.

I will definitely make a Let's play of it once I'm done with two other fangames. I hope more chapter will be out by then~ I did hear that this game had quite a troubled time behind the scenes. So I'm curious how it will end up in the writing department. There were major disagreements over direction of the characters, the director being hard to work with etc. There was an entire big document full of discord messages about the drama. I don't remember the resolution of the drama, but I guess it must have worked out. At least one of the writers I follow who posted the document is still in the project.