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The second option is definitely my favourite. H-scenes too early or too late seem like nothing but fanservice, but this way they are generally more meaningful.

If you want my advice I'm currently reading Haruka Kanata and the text is easier than with the charage I tried before. It is unhookable, however - a weird engine or something, ITH just doesn't read it properly - so it's only recommended if you're drawn to the game.

The moment they do that, Valve will lose a huge chunk of their userbase because all American moms will learn of this through every newspaper, TV channel, rumour or blog (and many more in the rest of the world). There is a parent control feature and I don't know how effective it is, but the kid can just secretly make a separate account for 18+ games so he'll probably be denied Steam altogether.

So I read the short stories, the third one was pretty boring and underwhelming and had its pictures missing. Also I didn't find where your pic came from, Snowtsuku, so an upload/link of the pack would be appreciated.

Really enjoying the anime so far. Amazing art style, intriguing character backgrounds and lovely heroines, especially Claire and Est. I wish this had more than 12 episodes, or was a visual novel...

What short stories? Now I'm curious. I love Symphonic Rain so I'd probably enjoy the related things as well.

No they won't, because OELVNs are a niche within a niche (visual novels) within a niche (anime industry/otaku culture). OELVN developers just don't have the budget or real ability (speculation here) to contend with the Japanese visual novel popularity, and the exposition is so minimal you can't just expect to grow popular eventually.

I don't think you've read the true route though (Phorni).

When I started learning vocab through songs, Close Your Eyes was the number one choice. The lyrics have an unusually strong connection to the story and I had tears rushing up pretty often at first. Recommend

Of course not, no one would want such a thing to happen to them or their close ones IRL, that's what's different about fiction. It's like how people like ghost stories but wouldn't want to be in one. Also

It's not that strange, really. Death, rape or other cruel things invoke strong feelings for the character just as much or possibly more than any "nice" scene ever could. The question is whether you can stomach it, I usually like rape victim heroines but don't really react to violent heroine deaths other than the rare "that was pretty cool". If I'm not mistaken, that's kind of similar to how people like Netorare, though it certainly isn't my thing.

Very well, but

No, that's completely different, because a route is a proper story with an ending even if it leaves out unnecessary/unrelated parts revealed in other routes. I didn't even like anyone except for Benio, to see her route go like that is a big turnoff and I see no reason to believe the other routes will be much better. As for that last spoiler

I second this. The amount of people who got into the brony community through all that incredibly popular youtube music despite the whole thing looking weird is just huge. I myself was a fan back in the day and still listen to it from time to time. In the case of VNs no one has even heard of them, and when I looked for remixes on youtube I found practically nothing, only remember one good remix for Air, one for Rewrite and one for Little Busters - and only the third one has a sizeable amount of views, being a bit over 20.000. Well, there were a few more but many of them just seem like your typical nightcore remixes made in 10 minutes. Do I even need to explain that pretty much the only people who see these things are the ones looking for them in the first place? Unfortunately, it's the kind of thing that requires you to be popular in the first place and risk losing a part of your fanbase unless it was anime-based to begin with and you only reference non-ero VNs.

I don't know what kind of plot that game has but this is called fading into background which is something I like about visual novels, since that way the plot can focus more on the relevant characters in the chosen route. I recently played one where depending on the choices over half of the heroines may not even be introduced to begin with, though there were like 9 of them in total. Putting in scenes for each would just make it a big mess.

Not-too-long-ago translated IkiKoi has become a famous example of tsunderefest, with all 4 heroines being each a different type of this.

I didn't find it much fun though. Well, the music in battle scenes was pretty epic I admit, but outside of that everything just dragged on painfully. Chuuni probably just isn't my thing.

Just finished Benio route and I have no idea what you're talking about. This game's impression of "romance" is like a bad joke. Well, that aside, there were other things that bothered me: The amount of praise in this thread is surprising, because I'm definitely dropping this.

Whoever gave this VN a romance tag must be giving that to all non-nukige 18+ games. That's even worse than tagging Saya no Uta as "pure love story" on VNDB. It's incredibly misleading and I request that you remove this tag from the game's page on fuwanovel. Just passed the third H-scene. Sorry if jumping to conclusions but this game really bothers me.

Looking forward to it because everyone except for Marina. Like, seriously, all the most interesting routes unTLed... A pretty good game otherwise. Good luck.

You learn pretty much all of it in Kotori's own route, actually.

The last 30% of Heaven's Feel, if I had to say. The grand finale was really good.