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Unfortunately, nothing much can be done at this point except waiting for someone to retranslate the entire game or reading it in japanese. Having read about 17 hours of the "translated" version I can say it's definitely an atrocity not worth going through. Also, as someone who found Fortissimo far better than both Dies Irae and Tokyo Babel, I'd say it's worth a shot (If you can read japanese, that is). I'd be missing the only VN I gave a 10 if I hadn't read it back in 2015. In the end, everyone should reach their own conclusions after going through any media.

As far as I know there's nothing like that for mangas, so I guess you'll need to take its japanese name (Example: 魔法少女リリカルなのはViVid) to the search bar on japanese Amazon and go for its page to get the link in the シェアする button. You can use the covers to guide yourself, or maybe choose the 本 (Book) category at the side of the search bar and pay attention at コミック/コミックス (Comic/Comics) words for mangas (And 文庫 or 単行本 (Bunkobon/Tankobon) for novels).

Where I live is usually really hot even on winter so I like winter more in VNs, I like cold weather, snow and all that. Though spring comes close (They are also tied anyway), it's always nice to see some cherry blossom trees.

Yeah, kinda tricky if you don't know what you are doing. I'd recommend using something like LNDB for LNs since they usually link directly to the Amazon page when you click in one of the LN volume covers. Anyway, I was lazy so I only voted two times. I doubt my choices will be picked though. VNs: Amayui and Koiken Otome LNs: Bu ni Mi and Nogi Wakaba wa Yuusha de Aru Mangas: Nanoha ViVid and Touhou Ibara Kasen

I had only read Dies Irae so... Go with Muv-Luv.

Welp. Seems like I don't need to buy a PS4 anymore. How dumb.

If you like action VNs, there's Tokyo Babel, it's not eroge so no h-content.

There's Fortissimo and Axanael too.

You can also try some VNs with the Normal Scene Recollection tag so you can revisit important scenes whenever you need them. Or maybe you can go to a walkthrough video on youtube so you can quickly review what you already saw last time you played. This one may be a bit more complicated, but if you have someone who knows the VN you want to play or are willing to play the same VNs as you and keep with your pace, you and this person can talk about the events you read so the information keeps fresh in your mind. I never considered myself a fast reader, so I'm a bit shocked with that since Fate took me about 60 hours to read it.

Koiken Otome is a good choice, though this one has some action too. Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort is a nice choice too. There's also Da Capo trilogy (Which will have a fourth game, so not really a trilogy anymore).

People like rare things.

I am a born collector so I always prefer physical copies for all medias. But as others here in this thread, affording to buy physical VNs is too much for me, and I also have mangas and LNs to buy (Lots of them, actually, mainly LNs). Sometimes I feel I'm spending too much with things I shouldn't, but what can I do?

I can fit in most of these, but not really fit in them either. Like, I can read almost any kind of story, but I also like to read character focused titles. I read in Japanese sometimes, but not all the time. Sometimes I can feel like reading more of a specific genre, sometimes not. I also don't mind reading some OELVNs, depends on my interest. I don't create Visual Novels, but I do write novels. Well, reading for the h-scenes would be the only exception in this list.

I'm now playing Kara no Shoujo, about 2 hours in and I'm wondering who thought it'd be a good idea to adapt it in a 2-OVA hentai. I'm not using a walkthrough and I know next to nothing about the game, so I expect some surprises along the way.

+1 for Koiken Otome and Steins;Gate

It's not terrible. It's worse than that. There's even some untranslated things here and there, together with ridiculous onomatopoeias like "GUL", "Chou Chou" and "Woo!", switching "-san" for "-sensei" and "nii-san" for "senpai", mispelling character names for hours, translating character names wrong (Like translating "Momiji" as "Kureha"), programming bugs and so on. I don't think it's wise to try this "translation".

That's why I don't use most of these terms.

I finished Rikka's route in Da Capo III Platinum Partner. I liked it a lot, the game worked pretty well as a sequel to the original D.C.III and gave me a satisfying conclusion since Also, as I thought, I really I thought about reading the other routes, but since the game was longer than I expected and I was already satisfied, I decided to put it aside for now. I also finished Pastel Chime -Koi no Skill Up-, the first one of the trilogy, but the last one I played lol. Nice game overall, but suffers a bit from pacing problems and I found the gameplay a bit repetitive. I liked Celles a lot more than I thought I'd like, she had the best character development in the game. Saya and Colett were pretty nice characters too, I liked their routes. Myu is kinda boring tho, her route is pretty basic too and Kaito was specially annoying here. There's this fantasy world and gameplay elements, but the game is a lot more about romance and a lot less about story, not really a problem though. In the end I'd rank it as the weakest from the trilogy. Finally I finished Under Night In-Birth. It's a really cool fighting game, I really liked the gameplay aspect a lot. There's a lot of problems with the story, though. The story is incomplete, you end with a lot of questions and few answers, it also end up with But the game brings a lot of cool concepts and builds its own world pretty well. There are a lot of fun characters with lots of potential, but they're too scattered in the story so we don't have a lot of chances to see them interacting with each other, which is a shame. I'm hoping for a new game that looks a lot more complete than this one someday.

You can play both 0 and Extra first since they're super short and then 2 and 3.

Come on now, everyone knows that Vanilla is the best.

Really sad news. I was waiting for an English translation to reread everything, I guess I'll stick with the original version. It's not as good, Fortissimo is better.

Really happy to see Amayui and Sukebe Elf made it. They were two of my votes.

Being slow doesn't mean it's bad, so either way would be fine with me. It'd be a different thing if you asked about VNs that start boring, something you'd feel like dropping, and then became good after the buildup. The way you put it can vary a lot depending on the VN or person. For example, a VN good from the beginning can fail to become awesome in its best moments (Like something starting as a 7/10 from the start to the end), meanwhile a slow buildup can reach unique levels of awesomeness (Like something starting as a 6/10 and ending as a 9/10). Depending on your tastes, having a slow buildup can also mean being good from the beginning, so that would be better for someone like this, otherwise being slow can be irritating and then a major part of the game this person wouldn't enjoy. I tend to rate higher VNs that can be good doing what they want to do, there's no real preference. For me a good slow buildup ends up being a consistent entertainment anyway, I can appreciate both equally if I believe it's well done.

Though this is a problem everywhere, the VN community is too small and because of that one of the things I dislike the most ends up arising: Herd mentality. People start acting the way the community wants, liking the same things, disliking the same things, thinking the same way and saying the same words. It's not something you like/dislike anymore, but instead something the community thinks is bad, therefore it is. When someone asks for recommendations, for example, almost everyone would recommend the same things. If you ask "what's the best VN from X genre", most would answer the same way. Since there's only a tiny fraction of all VNs out there translated, the community ends up deciding how certain titles would be received, even untranslated ones are like this (Though there's expections that break this "rule", like DDLC). Since everyone started to think in a certain way, the community doesn't renew itself. And a stagnated community stop working to become a better community, because most people think the same way and start believing their opinion is a fact, which then finally become what everyone calls "elitism". As we grow bigger, it starts to get better. In the last few years I've been seing people becoming a little bit more open-minded, and starting to free themselves from this mindset, liking different things and acting as a person instead of acting as a group. One thing I like is that there's in fact some love for VNs in this community (Though sometimes it's a twisted one). People are dedicated, because of that we can find information more easily, you can find translation progress here, new releases there, guides here and there, people would help you if needed. Though the problem above is just one of the various problems, being a "small group" make us more united which is great. The anime community, for example, got really toxic as it grew too much and now people need to find small groups or be alone to maintain their minds safe. These are just one thing I like and one I dislike about the community, there's more but since I don't want this to be too long, I'll stop here.

@Funnerific That helps a lot. Thank you!