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Need help with the following sentences: 黒々とした闇の暗黒宇宙のあちこちに光が灯りだす。そのーつーつはどうしようもなくちっ ぽけで惨い粒のようなものだ。 それは、全ての創世。 闇に閉ざされた世界が、ひとたび冷たく死に果てた宇宙が。 全身を覆っていた星衣がほどける。 ……これは、ある物語のひとつの瀬末。 全ての宇宙を闇に閉ざそうとした者と、それに打ち勝った者と。それを見守っていた者と。 宇宙の新たなる創世となった、少女たちの物語だ。 Here's the full text (The sentences will be bolded):

Most should be realistic, but since they need people to actually like it, fiction always tends to be a bit (or too much) romanticized. They take something real and exaggerate it in a way that it become unrealistic. So the answer is yes and no. Beware that japanese VNs are made... In Japan. You can't really use your country's logic in a work made in a completely different country with a completely different culture, even more so when almost half of the young population of said country are still virgin. So yeah, it may be unrealistic for you or me, but the world is wide. In other words, as someone already said, the concept of realism in this case is too fragile, everyone has a different point of view somewhere even if both think of it as realistic or unrealistic.

I usually skip them. But sometimes I read. It's very relative, depends on the title, mood and type. For example, I read all Tokyo Babel's endings, good and bad, on the other side I skipped almost all bad endings of Fate/Stay Night. Sometimes I'm just not interested, but sometimes the kind of things I can see if I go the bad ending way can make me avoid it. Otherwise yeah, it can be interesting if I'm up to it.

1 - Yeah, sexual content is a problem to a lot of people. It's already part of the medium, though. I remember how surprised I got when I saw a lot of friends and people I knew saying things like "I don't to read VNs with sexual content" or "It has a good story but I dropped because of the sexual content", I never saw it as a big deal but I can understand them. I believe the best they could do is start making VNs with the option to able/disable h-scenes so everyone could be happy. Also yeah, the young ones wouldn't be able to appreciate the medium with this strong sexual content presence, that's important too. Though it's a bit different if the sexual content is dark, people are too sensitive nowadays. 2 - Doesn't really matter. If it's good, it's good. VNs should keep their japanese setting since, well, it's their culture after all (Unless a writer wants to use a different setting, every writer should write about what they want to write). Now OELVNs can be different, yes. But if you think they should change the "standard" to appeal to the general western audience, then shouldn't they also change everything else? Like art, soundtrack, narrative and so on. If someone is tired or disinterested in japanese culture and "standards", then this person wouldn't like VNs in the first place. In the end it becomes something completely different, maybe a new medium? And that wouldn't help VNs becoming popular here. It should be noted that I'm refering to people who don't really have any contact with japanese culture, few people that dislike anime would want to read VNs, for example. People that only wants to complain how their VNs almost always happens with high school students or things like that shouldn't be considered (Because they are already part of the ones who read/play VNs, duh). 3 - So one day I wrote a review about a certain Visual Novel, and a friend of mine came and said "I didn't read it because it's too big". An other person I know once said: "I don't have the patience or time to sit through 10 hours of text with nothing happening", and an other friend of mine once said: "There's no way a bunch of text can be exciting". Our society is growing more and more impatient, years ago people would be willing to sit through 12 episodes of an anime just to see the big twist and the story finally "starting" (e.g. Steins;Gate). Nowadays if an anime doesn't explain everything in the first episode, they drop it. This is the mentality a big part of the general audience have. Then you have VNs, which has several hours of text and sometimes dozens of hours of text, what do you think would happen? People don't even pay attention to what they are reading/watching, let alone interpret or reflect over it. To cater to this audience would meaning losing it's identity as a "Visual Novel" the way we know it, would the great popularity be worth it? I strongly don't think so. VNs with gameplay would help, though. I'd say the gameplay would be a way to entertain someone who is not willing to read hours and hours of text. In other words, it works because it's the way it is. I don't think they should sacrifice what I call the "cultural roots" so it met the "standards" of the west, I think this line of thought is pretty dangerous too. Though it's about a completely different theme, Sakura Quest anime dealt with this discussion about "making a small culture big so people from other places could enjoy it too". Visual Novels are like birds, they can fly high, there's a lot of different types and even some types we don't even know, sometimes they fly together in the same direction, they can be big or small, but more importantly: They are free. Let them be free, it's not worth to trap it in a cage just so you can show it's beauty to other people. There are those who can love birds, and those who can't, it's simple as that.

Choosing only one is just painful, so I'll post some of my favorites. Fortissimo//Akkord:Bsusvier Hatsuyuki Sakura Pastel Chime 3 Bind Seeker

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So I was enjoying myself playing a pretty nice VN with gameplay elements. I reached the last part of the game, which was a long sequence of battles where you couldn't go back to prepare yourself anymore, I have gone through difficult battles and then came the final boss. It was pretty hard and frustrating because I just wanted to finish the story, but I didn't give up and tried again and again until I finally defeated it. It was satisfatory to finally reach the end of the game---Except for the plot twist! There was actually another final boss, harder than the last one. Now I'm stuck in this battle and can't finish the story (Mostly my fault, though). Tl;dr: VNs with gameplay can be fun, creative and easier to go through it than pure text VNs for some people, but it can also affect the pacing of the story, your enjoyment or even your interest in the game.

Oh, I see. Thank you!

Heya! I need some help with these two sentences here: その世界で俺は伝説の勇者で、モテモテなんです！　出会う女の子はニコポナデポで俺を好きになってくれる方向で！！ and 自分でも拙い方向に人格をこじらせた自覚はある。 If the whole context is needed, here you go: