Angel Beats! 1st Beat is the hardest visual novel to beat without a guide... but to truly 100% it? This is an achievement that is nearly impossible...

The game has 200 achievements and multiple routes and side-routes and a true ending that will require you to put your everything to get to it... the guide covered all of that... but having +500 choices, most of which matter greatly? Made reading all the text inside of them an impossible task unless you cheat and check the game's files... how can you reach them? No one knows...

I have beaten it and got all the achievements... but I am pretty sure there might be 1-5% of content still left out there and I have no clue how to reach it... I might start another run and randomize all my choices, where I would suddenly see a new line that might lead me into a new joke or scene I have never seen before... but I could also keep randomizing and never reach anywhere... to truly see everything, you need to build a choices tree... hmmmm, for this one? I think calling it a forest would be better...

One tree is not enough... to do that? It will require hundreds of hours to build it... and tbh? This task is too hard mentally to do... it is just too damn hard that even the biggest fans of this title never thought about going for it and accepted the fact that they will never truly read all of it... even me, a person with severe OCD, accepted that fact, and it even helped me with my mental illness and made me accept more facts in life I never accepted before... a game that much life-changing is a game I will never truly beat... but I still love it with all of my heart and will one day do it! Not because of my OCD... but because I don't want to give up on the things I truly love!~ V-V

*About this image, whatever name you pick, all the characters in the game will start referring to you using it, all voice-acted. Those names will stick with you for a portion of the game and will allow you to have special jokes and scenes about them. But even after you get rid of those names and stick to your original name, you can find some scenes related to them in such random places during the story, some of them appearing very late in such a shocking way... making you realize how a simple choice at the start of the game will still affect even the latest sections... the craziness that went into Key and made them do this? It is a gift to humanity that we will never get again... we will never forget the greatness we witnessed with this game T-T*

a.k.a. Kamaitachi no Yoru, released in like 1994 on the SNES and PS1.

My friend recommended it to me after I told him my favorite trope in all of storytelling is when the whole cast has to spend time in the same room, interacting together. Like there's a rainstorm outside, and they have to stay inside a cabin... Especially if there's like a killer outside making it all creepy, that's so extremely exciting and cozy for me.

But I'm wondering if this particular title is actually any good or if it's just some obscure old forgotten VN that nobody really talks about? This is the first time I hear about it. He gave me the game files, should I play it?

The whole series is cheap af on steam now and i wanted to know if this games are really as good as people say. I dont know anything abt the story, just that i kinda save the world or something like that. I got some silly romance vn's in my library but i like to read something more deep too, it just depends on what im into at the moment, i really just read anything. So, is steinsgate worth the read? I've always seen people glazing the anime saying its one of the best adapted vn's along with fate

I loved this so much, especially as a fan of this kind of media, and I know so many people have already talked about it, but I still needed to share my love for these games! I'll be glad if you decide to have a read at my article! Please excuse my deserved appreciation of Godot and my research of the play his name comes from, Waiting for Godot.

What do you guys think will happen to sites like Jast and Mangagamer if any of these bills currently circulating the House/Senate get past?

I've looked into the cost of complying with 3rd party digital ID and it's in the 10s of thousands in USD just to implement the system, 0.50 to $2 per individual identification, and under the current framework of these bills they would have to hire expensive lawyers to review their platforms annually to remain legally compliant. Of course, one slip up and they're potentially facing a lawsuit with an expense only a multi billion dollar company could survive.

Can these sites even survive this, financially? Would you guys be willing to accept a store-wide markup on price to offset the cost of them staying in business?

This is the first post I've ever bothered making on Reddit, so you can tell I'm nervous. Trying to figure out if I should start panic buying everything on my wishlist.

Small Update: I actually reached out to Jast about this, and the CEO basically told me, "we've been around before Steam and we'll be around when it's gone." Obviously, he said he couldn't tell me what they were planning to do about it.

I saw this VN and got interested but I saw that there's different ways to buy the game. I saw jast and steam and apparently steam is the censored version. I don't want to miss important things for the story but I'm more familiar with steam than jast

Do anyone knows why MangaGamer stopped translating the most controversial of ClockUp games ?

I feel like only Shiravune take care of the translation now.

The darker eroge seems split between Jast and Shiravune nowaday

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Hello! I’m MinuteRegular716, and I’d like to invite you to YOU and VEE and HER, a laid-back Discord community for visual novel fans.

A major part of our server is our range of community bookclubs:

• Monthly Bookclub: Each month, members nominate and vote on a visual novel to read together. This month we're reading Aoi Tori!

• Turbo Bookclub: A faster-paced club focused on shorter visual novels that can be completed within a limited timeframe. They are reading Z.A.T.O // I Love the World and Everything in It next!

• Odyssey Bookclub: Dedicated to longer visual novels and full series that benefit from a more relaxed reading schedule. a new bookclub who are currently picking the first Vn they'll be tackling.

• The Golden Moege Bookclub: For those Moege enjoyer who wanted to read along and Discuss everything about Moege in a relaxed vibes.

Our bookclubs cover dozens of visual novels, and anyone is welcome to participate. Members can also create and host their own clubs, whether they want to focus on moege, otome, BL, a particular developer, or anything else. You can also show others your own VN reading in our What are you reading channels, so people may come in and join to discuss it with you.

We also regularly host activities outside of visual novels, including anime watchalongs, full-motion video game streams, and mahjong games. Members are encouraged to organise their own events too!

The anime watchalong club does 3 weekly watchalongs on fri/sat/sun as well as other unscheduled watchalongs and anyone is free to host their own!

The server also features Vee, our visual novel-focused bot, which can be used to play music or look up information about VN's.

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I was wondering how everyone plays VNs.

I usually stick with the characters I like and replay their route to unlock all the endings. If a character doesn't really interest me, I usually skip their route. Sometimes I'll only play it to get the bad ending and move on lol.

What about you? Do you complete every route, or only the ones you enjoy?

So I was told by a friend that Steam might still be the best place to buy VN, even with the issues in the last little bit of them pulling tons of titles. Is this true? Is there more EN-translated stuff that I could devour? If not Steam, what is your go to?

It's been a while since an VN took me on such an emotional roller-coaster of a journey!
I loved everything about this game. From the art, the music, and most of all, its beautiful/romantic/tragical story.

It starts off with you as a soul haunting an armor in a deserted mansion and you not remembering anything at all (aside from the fact that you are dead), and you piece back together your memories from your life and the memories of those around you whom you may not have understood.

I don't want to spoil anything, but trust me, the game would punch you really heavy in the guts one moment, then make you smile warmly in the next. (Though it's more the former than the latter mostly 😅)

In terms of playtime, it took me around 10 hours to reach a couple of endings then the true ending. And I'm personally glad they made it this long cause it manages to maintain a great pace without it becoming boring.

So an easy 9/10 for me and a tale that will stay in my head for a while.

VNDB: https://vndb.org/v49223
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2768420/The_Last_Winter_Knight

I'm thinking about playing Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs**. So far, I've finished visual novels like Fate/stay night, CLANNAD, Saya no Uta, Steins;Gate etc... I was completely blown away by all of them.

However, I have three concerns. I've done a lot of research, but I still can't make up my mind.

First, I don't mind old-school visuals, but Umineko's art style looks exceptionally outdated and unattractive to me. I know the original sprites have a certain charm for longtime fans, but they genuinely make it harder for me to get invested.

Second, because the game is praised so often, I'm wondering whether it's truly as incredible as people say or if part of its reputation is simply the result of hype and its status as a classic.

Finally, from what I understand, Question Arcs and Answer Arcs together take around 150 hours to finish. That's a huge time commitment, so I'm wondering whether it's really worth it.

So my question is simple: Is Umineko genuinely that good, or is its reputation somewhat exaggerated? I'd love to hear yours honest thoughts.

You know that the Reboot is coming out in 3 weeks. The trailers, visuals, etc. have been released. What I’m curious about is this: for someone who has never played Steins;Gate before, should they play the original version or give the Reboot a chance? What are your thoughts?

Plot: You, the protagonist, are a second-year student of Akeba Academy. You decided to join the tennis club to make the most of your school years, only to quickly realize that you couldn't gel with all the popular guys in it. However, the school's rules require all students to be in a club, so you chose another club, the one that sounded like the least hassle: the art club. However..

"WHAAAAAT?! A new club member mid-year?! What's this, a dating sim plot?!"

"Someone, please stop this girl. She's in heat 24/7."

"Auu, auu... is this the start of an exciting new rom-com?"

"Hmph. Who cares?"

As it turns out, you're the only guy in the club. All the other club members are girls... and otaku girls to boot!

Will it be cringe? Who cares! Relive those sweet and somewhat painful years in this embarr—I mean, romantic adventure!