Your first VN experience

[Naraku93]

The first visual novel i played was homeward then snow sakura but the one that really got me into them was Kanon after i played that there was no looking back

[joehawks12]

hm... the first nukige i played was bible black, but i really don't like considering it my first visual novel.  The first real visual novel i played was Fate/Stay Night.

[Kosakyun]

That's not how I remember it being  :/  Tsubaki's bad route and Haru's end?  Such a lack of gentle treatment.

[ヤミハナ]

The title says it all. What was your first VN, my dear fuwas, and how was it? Did you enjoy the experience of playing your very first VN, or did you get bored of reading, or was it something else?

And if I may ask, how did you get into all of the VN stuffs?

 

My very first VN was G-Senjou no Maou (fan-translation). At first, I find it to be entertaining due to the character (Maou). But soon after, I got a little bit bored (maybe due to the story not focusing more on the mysteries?) and so, I decided to play the game at least 2 hours a day. Unfortunately, my HDD broke down and it was like "Bye-bye save data T_T". As for now, I would give the VN a 7/10 rating.

And, how exactly did I get into all of the VN stuffs? Long story short: Due to the influence of my brother. I'm really thankful to him.

Now, in the aftermath of all that stuff, I'm proud to say I love to play VNs.

 

So, how was it for you guys?

Edited December 28, 2015 by ヤミハナ
Still, font size problems

[Fred the Barber]

Little Busters was my first, and it was awesome. I'd seen the first season of the anime adaptation, but Refrain wasn't available yet. The teaser at the end of season 1 of the anime was too strong, so I eventually decided to go to the source material to get the full story as soon as possible, and that gradually started pulling me into the world of VNs.

The main reason I got into this was from watching anime adaptations of Key VNs, and also the Angel Beats anime. I've branched out a lot since then, but Key works in general, especially Little Busters, hold a special place in my heart.

[akaritan]

I started Katawa Shoujo and a few other all-ages VNs, because the concept of a visual novel looked very interesting, and liked those for the most part, though I wouldn't call them amazing.. When I heard about Umineko, I decided to pick it up because I loved the Higurashi anime, and from that point on I was hooked.

[minuore]

Koihime Musou

The VN is much better, no, Karin's route SKM is much better.  

[Rockmandash12]

999, a friend recommended it to me and I tried it out on a whim- IT WAS FUCKING AMAZINGGG!!!!! It slowly got me into the rabbit hole that was VNs and I fell in love.

[sub-zer0]

It was Chou Dengeki Stryker, and I'm not sure it was the best start compared to everything else that I could have picked, but it was a blast to start me off and sucked me into the VN world, It was a lovely Vn that was light hearted but action packed and kept me hooked, really grateful I found VNs since I love to read, and a book with characters talking and images and music and sound effect...what better can one hope for? I discovered VNs because of the muv luv alternative total eclipse anime and after hearing about Muv-Luv, I jumped right in, but since I had trouble installing the game and the hype for this newly discovered  thing called VN, I decided to start off elsewhere and that's how I read  Chou Dengeki Stryker, of course I read the Muv-Luv series immediately after that, but it was a great start nevertheless. 

[Eclipsed]

Kono Sora -> Little Busters! -> Rewrite -> Steins;Gate -> Grisaia no Kajitsu

Best 3(?) months of my life

~~
Prior to VNs I didn't read squat in my life, hated reading,

then I stumbled upon Kono Sora because , and then realized that reading can indeed be fun when you have a heartwarming story with lovely art, pleasant music, quality voice acting, and of course, them glorious 2D grills  

Edited December 28, 2015 by Eclipsed

[Valmore]

Of all things, it was "Fragment's Note." At the time I only had Android to really work with. Sadly, there's not a lot of visual novels on the Google Play Store, and really, I had just typed in "anime games" on a lark and got that as one of the hits. I tried out the free version and liked it enough to pony up the modest amount for the full version. From there I went about trying to find more VNs, however as mentioned before there's not a lot for Android. I eventually bought a laptop so I could read more, but this was after getting a VN reader for my tablet for ported materials. I also ran across Katawa Shoujo, and apparently the creators aren't overly happy that someone ported it to Android. Oh well, I have the PC version as well.

[Deep Blue]

katawa shoujo was my first vn and it is one of the best vns i've ever read, it has a really special place in my heart  

[Yukiru]

Kanon, only finished one route and it took me forever. I wonder why I tried a second one.

[SilverLi]

Ever17 I think it was. I stumbled upon vndb when I was searching for some kind of information about Clannad, I don't recall how but I never really got into that VN. So I found Ever17 and got hooked. It was a good mix and with some good inspirational music which fit the atmosphere it was a success. 

Let's not talk about eroges I may or may not have discovered at the same time. 

[kingdomcome]

Katawa Shoujo of course... I cried. I either had the bad or neutral ending for Lilly (she was the first play through), I was happy with leaving her play through like that since it pulled on my emotions.

[Yuuko]

Hoshizora no Memoria

 /10

[Ariurotl]

https://vndb.org/v1189

It was everything I could've hoped for.

[Segai]

Technically it was The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook but I never finished it as it wasn't interesting. Katawa Shoujo is the first one I finished and the one that got me hooked 100% into the medium.

[Flutterz]

Katawa Shoujo, it was pretty great. And it was the first time I went "wait, this piece of media has straight up porn in it, and this is legal?"

[Dergonu]

Pretty sure we've done this thread before

 

Anyways, for me its Grisaia on Kajitsu. My cousin brought it home for me, helped me install the patch and I was hooked after like 1 hour into the game.

Though after that, I found some VNs on my own, and the first and second VN I played were nekopara vol 1 and If my heart had wings. Loved if my heart had wings, and nekopara helped me appriciate the beauty of nekos. (Let's face it, without nekos this world would be in chaos!)

Not once during any of those 3 did I find myself bored, and so I was pretty much hooked on VNs instantly. Love at first sight

Though now my stupid school keeps getting in the way, and I barely have time for 1 VN a month...

 

 

[ヤミハナ]

Pretty sure we've done this thread before

 

Lol sorry about that. I didn't check for older posts. I guess I'll take this opportunity to say "Maybe I'm just reviving the post? (Lame excuse)" 

[wyldstrykr]

actually my first vns is th6 for busy people. 

i dont know about vn at that time but this is great or that is my only opinion.

<insert confession bear here>

after a year or 2 im craving for hentai but i can find any subtitles at that time and my pc is ancient at that time (only a few knew my specs at that time since ive post a screenshot there) and then i find castlefantasia (a great strategy game for me) and also a good story for me as well.

then after finishing it. i want to play something like that and i get sharin no kuni. my heart keeps beating at near end and im saying like "go! Go! gO! GO!" or something like that. a great time of my life

3 years later and my computer got improved and still playing vns...... fuck me right?

[Dergonu]

Pretty sure we've done this thread before

 

Lol sorry about that. I didn't check for older posts. I guess I'll take this opportunity to say "Maybe I'm just reviving the post? (Lame excuse)" 

Meh, its like buried by now. Doesn't hurt to get a new one going Don't think anyone minds to be honest.

*Gets slapped by the mods*

Owchie

[AaronIsCrunchy]

My first was Katawa Shoujo, and it wouldn't be too far from the truth to say that it had a profound effect upon my life by more or less being the trigger for me getting into visual novels/anime/etc. It also acted as a neat little emotional release, which I needed at the time of reading.

I also didn't fap for, like, three weeks after reading it cos the feels were just too intense.

[Stormwolf]

Rewrite was my first, and i pretty much loved it. Was pretty confused by some inconsistencies that occurred which made sense after reading the whole vn and when i found out that it had different writers who apparently didn't communicate one word between each other.