How did you find your favorite Visual Novel?

[Snowtsuku]

So how? Is it by accident? by recommendation? or just by browing VNDB?

For me, I just finished my first Visual Novel, Clannad, so was looking for another VN. Since I'm not really fond of H scenes I tried my best to look for a SFW VN and then I found Symphonic Rain.

[Tenkuru]

Watched the Little Busters anime, and I loved it. Found out that it's adapted from a visual novel, which is made by a company called KEY. Checked out the Kanon and Clannad anime, which I also liked a lot. Finally decided to give this visual novel thing a go, and tried out the Little Busters VN. It completely blew me away, and I became very interested in this medium. Searched up KEY and the list of games they make. Found Rewrite and fell in love with the art at first sight, so I decided to read it.

 

I didn't sleep that night.  

 

And that was how I found my favorite VN, Rewrite 

[Heizei_koukousei]

About 4 years ago when I was completely computer illiterate I tried to find visual novels online, but could not find anything but a kinetic novel called Ripples. Once I bought my own laptop I learned about torrenting and started to fill my computer. After while of watching the anime of Key releases I discovered a game called Planetarian on TPB with the word Fuwanovel attached it it.

I discovered this site thanks to that game and also found my favorite VN (which also happened to be a kinetic novel)

 

 

Key is like the gateway drug to visual novels for everyone

[Life]

I got into VNs and gave myself a list. I went through each one and ended up reading Little Busters! I enjoyed it the first time and it has been the only piece of japanese entertainment to have made me cry. I felt like reading a second time and it was the second time that I really fell in love with it and how everything was put together.

[Monmon]

My Fav vn is my third vn that i read. My second was G-Senjou no Maou, so i search what Akabei soft2 products are. And i found Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no shoujo.

However since i had a lot of free time back then i searched for another english vn. In the end i got Sharin,Yume miru kusuri and Moero downhill.

And since i found G-senjou pretty good so i decided to go with Sharin first. One of best decision of my life.

[V_Kitsune_V]

Through Fuwanovel, oh Hoshizora no Memoria I love you, I'd say Dracu Riot! but we all now how thats going

[dreamweaver]

White Album 2 has to be my favorite novel so far. Watched the anime first then read the novel... Blew my mind.

But i'm reading Favorite's Astral Air no Shiroki Towa and its looking to be my Favorite VN too..

[Famichip]

I was still new to visual novels during that time and saw this post about this particular VN titled "Hoshizora no Memoria" which was just recently translated, and so I gave it a try. The rest is history.

[Fujimoto Takashi]

Hoshizora no Memoria, I found it completely by accident and fell in love with it the next second, it was the first VN I've ever played, the one who introduced me to this website and its whole lot of VN goodness.

[Mephisto]

I talked with some people and asked what games they like, and it's pretty easy to find the ones with above average quality through that. 

[SilverLi]

To be honest. I don't got a favorite VN. Everything depends on taste and what I want to experience at the moment.

[Albedo]

Browsing VNDB. I had played a few VNs until then, and I was looking for a new one. Then I noticed that I hadn't played Muv Luv Alternative, which is pretty high on the rankings, and the rest is history.

[Katatsumuri]

My current favorite VN: Shikkoku no Sharnoth

(Favorite VN is subject to change)

 

Through a (sort of) recommendation and browsing VNDB. Someone was hyped for another Liar-soft VN being translated. I asked if they were any good, and decided to browse VNDB to see if any of them looked interesting. Sharnoth was fully translated, and seemed most interesting.

[Mr Poltroon]

Finished a Visual Novel, time for another one. I decided to browse through Fuwanovels list of VN's and just happened to stumble upon Grisaia no Kajitsu.

"Maybe it'll be decent" I thought. Ignorance is a bliss.

[edwd2]

don't know if I have a single favorite visual novel at the moment, I haven't played enough to decide one and I still see many out there with potential to surpass my current favorites.

[Down]

Lots of people hyped it up like crazy.

A friend of mine played it two months before I did and kept bothering me about how it was the best thing in the world.

I played Muv-Luv Alternative.

Took me 2 months to recover.

[Kurisu-Chan]

One of my friend from a video game forum i usually see, 2 years ago, was always teasing me to give S;G a try (at this era, i was totally ignorant and i hadn't that much free time) He was always enthusiasm when he spoke about it.

 

And then, one day, i remembered his everyday bashing, and finally, i was indoctrinated to Read S;G, This is my story.

[madvanced]

Right after Grisaia was translated I wasn't playing anything, so I decided to give it a go but didn't finish it then. Regretting that decision I decided to play it now, and it was the best decision I could have ever made.

[Ezeefreak]

To answer that i have to choose which my favourite VN is ... Honestly there are two.

 

At first Little Busters! -> My first VN I played 100 % was Rewrite it was really great and so i looked for other Key Stuff -> So that was simply logical to read LB! someday

 

Second "Iff my Heart had Wings" -> As I finished LB! and Clannad the other VM's from Key doesn't really catch my interest. I looked for a new one. I searched a easy going, slice of life VN with great art. And thats what IMHHD is, it's really awesome . So this was also a little bit logical. 

 

Greetz

[havoc]

telling me to pick a favorite, that is a hard one...

Fate/stay night..... na to many have that one as thier favorite

muv luv alternative.... same deal as fate stay night

Tsukihime... same deal

Grisaia no Kajitsu.... again very good but not all vn in the series are translated so this one has no chance until the series has been completly translated... if ever.

 

So after much internal debate and wanting to pick something interseting.

I have to go with monster girl quest for now.

[Freestyle80]

^{my favorites are Grisaia and G-senjou more or less and i found out about them through googling and researching a bit about them}

[Fiddle]

My favorite is, though some people might find this opinion objectionable, Katawa Shoujo, probably because I was biased in that it was my first VN. Now that I think about it, I heard about it from a poll on the Fakku homepage, which is odd, considering that I rarely go there (exhentai is where it's at).

[douggle]

Found it via recommendations on /vn/ (the Visual Novels General Board on 4chan) 

[Famichip]

Found my other favorite VN Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete (the original Japanese version, not the butchered English one) while I was just randomly browsing Anime-Sharing to see the new Japanese release titles which are already out.

I remember seeing the preview sample pics and visuals which looked reaaally nice and made me more interested in trying it than the game description accompanying it could. The VN was also the second VN that I've played which is in HD (the other being Dracu-riot)

[Arvis]

Hrrmmm... well, I have only played three VNs ever: Clannad, the first one, I got because I was in love with the anime (there goes Key getting innocent folks into VNs again).  And, in fact, I was SO in love with Clannad that I simply HAD to find people to talk about it with.  Since GameFAQs is my main haunt on these here interwebz, I searched it up on that site and discovered that it was a VN before it was an anime.  I chatted up some folks on Clannad's message board there and they pointed me toward Fuwanovel.  I downloaded and played through Kyou Fujibayashi's route and felt satisfied (that was really all I wanted).  I then decided to browse through Fuwanovel's selection and play something else.  I randomly picked Ever17 (all ages and highly rated) and proceeded to have my brain melted (in a good way).  Despite how much I enjoyed Ever17, it was still a bit grindy, which is why it's not my favorite VN.  That distinction goes to my third (and current) VN...

 

Symphonic Rain.

 

I discovered SR the same way I discovered Ever17 and couldn't be more happy with it. Just a beautiful VN through and through.  Really, it seems my story is very similar to Snowtsuku's up there in the first post.

 

-Arvis