it is now the first
jumping onto the bandwagon lol

1) sakuuta ez kamige

for en-tl'ed vns, there's rewrite
and for steam vns, himawari

read them pls

2) i dont really go back to thinking about routes much esp since i'm stupid biased toward my own tastes

but the first that came to mind was zypressen i guess

3) 妹派です。
真にすみませんでした。

4) yep
steam releases with the 18+ crap cut are good too, but if all else fails...

5) what year was ondoy
ah shit i've been playing vns for more than a decade na w

6) nah
i either play the whole game or drop the whole game

ive never seen the need to skip a particular route but i did ctrl past some extreme bits of content

7) muramasa so i can read it

other candidates include the rest of the shinza series because we all need more chuunige in our lives

8) as long the gameplay's good and it doesn't take away from the story
baldr is a heckin great example, people should play baldr, the last chapter is An Experience

9) a bit more of a fan now of enforced route orders and more linear stories, it's much easier to intake the info and enjoy a structured story when it's laid out from planning

i imagine its also easier on the writer/s

10) i forgot a day lol
i dont really keep vns i dont like in mind for long so i dont have an actual answer to this

maybe evenicle, but i just got lazy with the gameplay tbh

or i could say hoshimemo bec its the only vn by favorite ive finished w

11) i wish i had physical merch
id wear shirts of japanese media no one but me has any idea about on any off day

12) lol i forgot i was doing this

anyways favorite soundtrack has to go to g-senjou for completely being remixes of famous classical pieces, barring the vocal songs


imagine my surprise not knowing this and realizing what this track was based on

13) favorite art style...

no one art style comes to mind, really
i really really liked karory's art at one point but later that expanded to so many other artists not even in the vn industry so idrk now lol

14) i honestly do not enjoy ranking characters so lemee just give the five characters that first come to mind

reinhardt heydrich - dies irae
niimi sora - 9-nine-
asakura nemu - da capo
aries - himawari
tennouji kotarou - rewrite

that looks p good actually

15) either ones cool lol
most of the things i read either involve a comfy life being thrown into absolute chaos or a fighting through a life of absolute chaos to live a comfy life (or both)

i do try to keep a balance tho, like start something comfy after playing something heavy

16) mosu mosu

17) i'm so behind lmao
anyways

18) i don't really think about my least favorites much but i guess the fact that the only thing i do remember about chinami's route in hoshimemo is that i have nothing but hatred for it makes it the only answer i have for this question

bonus points for being a game by FAVORITE

19) unfortunately, the vn i'd love to pitch here is a scifi tragedy about a virus and a space satellite so instead imma pitch another one

read sharin no kuni, looseboy's writing is great, i still like alpha's art, it's what started me on reading visual novels in the first place

20) context needed, i love anime adaptations that everyone thinks are kuso anime, the rewrite and dies irae animes specifically (dont watch them, read the sources first lol), but i think the planetarian movie is the best adaptation of a visual novel currently

(phew, caught up w)

21)

the keybros are great

22) kusanagi naoya

he's been through a lot

23) 100% mercurius
reminder that the entire grand guignol was all his orchestration to help his best friend, his one love, and, by extension, all of humanity

also he uzai af, i love him

i forgot that he also did it for us, his audience

god damn, dies was amazing