Reflect on your VN History!

[edwd2]

Is it just me or have a lot of people left Fuwa, forums don't seem as active as it was when I first came here.

[Chronopolis]

2011 Summer, start studying Japanese seriously.
2011 Summer or Fall, hear about saya no uta from a friend. Get depressed for 3 weeks. Depressed but hooked.
Early 2012, play Katawa Shoujo just as it releases.
Rest of 2012, play Ever17, bit of planetarium, Steins gate, Tsukihime, G-senjou no Maou, Kara no Shoujo
Late 2012, Subarashiki Hibi OP catches my eye, over three months I play 50% of it. Never finished it to this day. Also played some of Une Fille Blanche. Sometime I also play some of Soshite Ashita no Sekai Yori, but get bored.
December 2013 After a 8 month hiatus, the internet's out for a week, so I pick up Soshite Ashita no Sekai Yori again. Takes a month and I finish Minami's route <3.
February 2014-July 2016 : I start reading UnTL'd novels continuously, along with a bunch of people from some old(!) Japanese VN skype group.
There's been very slow months, but more or less I've been reading VN's (+ a few light novels) continuously since than.

It would take more time to think about any trends or standout VN's from the last 2.5 years.

[Forgetful Frank]

And then you have me:

1. Started reading VN's late December 2015 with If My Heart Had Wings.
2. Found Fuwanovel in January 2016 after finding out about and hunting down a restoration patch for IMHHW.
3. Befriended some cool Fuwa-spammers who helped me out a lot with recommendations.
4. Fast-forward several months, it's now July 2016 and I made the mistake of starting too many VN's and now I'm all over the place.

I'll bounce back and get through this, though!

And then I'll start one VN at a time, or maybe have two simultaneously at most.

[Sasku]

First VN I read back in... 2007 or 2008 was Wind -a breath of heart-, which wasn't enough to hook me into the whole VN thingy sadly since I was hooked on anime at the time. It didn't help that my friends only thought of VNs as more or less porn so I couldn't seriously discuss anything VN related with them. Odd thing is I continued to read various VNs in very short bursts around once a year after that for quite a while. And by short bursts I really mean short, something like reading 2 VNs back to back in a few days then repeat after a year or more.

Fast forward to last year and I think I'm slowly getting hooked, thanks to stuff like KnS 2, I/O and Majikoi complete patch. Now instead of months/years between VNs it's more like weeks.

[andzalot55]

I started VNs around 2015 where of course NEKOPARA being my first VN to read. Because of it, I considered reading VNs throughout my college experience, I don't regret one bit. I am still a novice but I plan to continue on reading VNs and to end my cycle of being a novice.

[Comfy]

I remember first typing visual novel into Google out of curiosity after hearing my friend talk about it And stumbled upon this website, I then filtered the list and found Sharin no kuni ranked pretty high so I tried it and enjoyed it. Then came Clannad then Tomoyo's after story because she's the best girl, Little Busters, I still wasn't into visual novels much still until I started playing Majikoi and Sengoku Rance then I started enjoying the games.  

However my interests have changed a bit I've been playing more "Dark" visual novels and getting into some weird shit.  And I've also been teaching my self Japanese for a few months now, so I could read even more weird shit. Life is gr8.