When do you consider that you finished a VN?

[Okami]

I myself most often consider that I finished a VN after I read all the routes but I rarely read a bad endings and dead endings (Unless when I accidentally get them) with exception when a bad ending is a true ending for a route. I newer consider that I finished a VN until I finish all routes but oppositely I do sometimes do go for complete 100%  and don't consider a VN finished until I get it like for example in Kamidori that has a lot of side stories that you won't get if you just finish all the routes. But when I just started reading a VNs I considered that I finished a VN when I read all the routes I am interested in.

[Bolverk]

When I've read all of the major story elements of a vn I consider myself done. Usually that's all of the good/normal ends and a few bad ends.

Some of the vn's I don't really feel the replay value is good enough to play another time. Aselia the Eternal did 3 route ends.. More than that, and it becomes too much work for me. Aselia is a great vn btw. F/SN I did all the normal/good ends, and some of the bad ends I heard having interesting story.

 

So I am something between the 2nd and 3rd choice in the pool.

[nohman]

Typically, when I've read every route and all of their respective endings (good, bad, true, whatever).  Basically, when I've read all there is to read. Anything else than that, even if I'm personally finished with the title, I don't considered it truly finished.

[kyuuichii]

I'm the type of person who only doing all routes that I'm interested in. I will play bad; good; and true ending for my favorite characters. After that, I can say that I already done with this VN. Ah, this also included when I'm playing galge (because my main VN are otoge).

[Nerathim]

I can't choose "When I read all the H-scenes" ? It's the most important criterion though...

[Kosakyun]

When I've read everything that's available to read.

Do note that some games are close to impossible to complete in this case.

Just like Sengoku Rance. So many events are flying around in the game that I just can't seem to finish everything.

[madvanced]

When I do every single thing in a VN, although there was one VN where I couldn't do that which was tsukihime, otherwise I finish every scene and read every line of a VN.

[Kosakyun]

Wait, what?  Why is it uncompletable?  This may be a problem for me  :/

 

Maybe he meant it in a way that there are just too many choices to actually read everything. The difference between Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night is that you'll actually get something for reading every bad end in Fate/Stay Night, whereas for Tsukihime, you only get the satisfaction. The bad ends aren't that good anyway, except when

Shiki dies.

It's all good then.

 

In regards to the route and CG, it's completable.

[crunchytaco]

When I've beaten the main routes here as well. Though in Kamidora, I considered myself finish after just doing Yuela's. However, since I put in blood and sweat to complete every objective in Sengoku Rance, I put a higher standard in finishing that game. Sengoku Rance is about finishing every detail to be conisdered finish IMO. 

[GetterEmperor]

Once I read everything there is to read is when I consider it done. Sengoku Rance was probably the most difficult for me to actually finish considering there was always a lot happening, but it still is one of my favorite visual novels.

[Kosakyun]

You should really put a spoiler in your original post on the text that I spoiler'd in the quote.  I appreciate the info, but I dun wanna hear about who dies  D:

 

...But isn't it expected that

the main character dies in a TYPE-MOON visual novel?

 

Very much sorry.

 

 

When I've beaten the main routes here as well. Though in Kamidora, I considered myself finish after just doing Yuela's. However, since I put in blood and sweat to complete every objective in Sengoku Rance, I put a higher standard in finishing that game. Sengoku Rance is about finishing every detail to be conisdered finish IMO. 

 

I couldn't consider Kamidori finished since I was still missing Emelita's h-scenes and the alternate costume scenes. Either way, I lost my Kamidori along with my laptop.

Ugh. My goddamn 150-hour gameplay.

[crunchytaco]

 

Once I read everything there is everything to read is when I consider it done. Sengoku Rance was probably the most difficult for me to actually finish considering there was always a lot happening, but it still is one of my favorite visual novels.

 

 

Sill, I haven't seen you in ages. Where did Rance forget you this time? 

[The Major]

I value my time too much to spend it reading routes I'm not interested in. So if that means I only read 1 route in a visual novel, then that's it and I'll consider it finished, moving on to something else. That being said, I have 100% completed some before.

[Kaguya]

It depends on the VN. In a moege, as soon as I hit the true ending (if there is any) and the ending of whichever heroine I liked the most, I'm done. For charages and such, I'll say I'm done after I finish all routes. For more story-focused games, I'm done once I finish all routes + bad/dead ends. 

 

Ah, it's very rare for me to skip a bad ending since I like them so much. So even if I consider it done, I'll probably go back to the VN and finish all bad endings anyway. If it's in a moege or I don't care about the VN, I'll at least look up those endings on the internet to see what happens.

[Clephas]

I tend to skip meaningless bad endings (ones without story) and otherwise see all the endings/paths. 

[douggle]

For me a VN isnt done until I 100 percent. Anything less is incomplete in my book

[Life]

I consider a vn completed if I have completed all the routes. It doesn't mean that I won't go through the easter eggs afterwards though.  

[HMN]

i'm done with a VN once i get the 100% on it

[suikashoujo]

The endings are what's important to me, and that includes bad ends. But I don't go through and select every single choice- for example, Ever17 had a lot of choices that only affected a few lines of dialogue, and because I didn't feel like seeing every single one of those after finishing the true end, the game told me I hadn't gotten 100% completion, even though in my mind I had.

[Famichip]

Most of the time 100% CGs + normal/good endings. Sometimes it depends on the VN. I don't play the bad endings if I know the VN has them, unless it's to unlock CGs.

[Darklord Rooke]

Depends on the VN's structure, really. Even though I didn't get all of Steins;Gate's endings, I considered it finished when I got the true ending.

 

As for Fate/Stay Night, it was finished when I reached the Last Episode.

 

Katawa Shoujo was finished as soon as I finished the "natural" route, that is, the one I ended up in choosing stuff out of my own will - for the record, it was Emi's.

 

I'm the same. 

[Sparkker]

VN is finished.. When I feel like it... I just DL Full save and done....
It matters not whether I read it or not.. 
XD>.. Such a bad way....

[theboxcarracer]

When I get at least one of the good endings + see everything that I want to see (which usually means finish all routes, but not always.)

 

I always get True Endings where that's applicable.

[Praeliator]

I say that I've finished a VN when I've finished all the story-relevent routes and get all the endings. So in a sense, I've finished Rewrite but I havn't bothered with getting the oppai ending.

[Pabloc]

I'm a bit of a completionist, so I read all good, normal, bad endings, get all CGs, and read all branches.

When I know that some bad endings are short and meaningless ("You didn't get any girls, the end."), I sometimes skip those.