General Visual Novel Appreciation Thread

What? Wasn't "cheap and relatively easy to make" one of the main reasons you said that people make VNs?

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But that is just for Doujinshi ones. The more "official" ones usually have a very very big staff.

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The production values are still considerably lower than those of an anime or a real videogame.

Oh hey, know what games got a  ^*

functionally full patch less than a week ago?

The ef games.

edited 5th May '10 6:57:29 PM by Solstace

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The ef games are patched? Finally?

I thought it was never going to happen....

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They're probably more the equivalent of the publishing industry.

Agreeing with Clarste here; official Visual Novels just have tons of staff, like the KEY ones, and even those that used to be doujins (Ryu07) now have lots of staff as well even if only one person is doing the writing and the ugly drawings.

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edited 5th May '10 10:12:10 PM by Mapi

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Tzetze, you are mixing some terminology.

"Low production value" usually means lower quality than the things you compare it to. It is said for works that don't look valuable. For example, compared to other webcomics, or even comics, XKCD has low production values, Ctrl Alt Del or Misfile has mediocre production values, and something like The Meek has high production values, even if they cost the same money.

Visual Novels have "low production costs", meaning that they are measurably cheaper than some other things thats production cost money, in the same way as literature, or music, has lower production costs than blockbuster films.

To say that the average visual novel has low production values, as in "quality", you would need to compare them to other genres, like anime, but that would make as much sense as comparing books to films, films to Anime, or Anime to comic books.

edited 6th May '10 4:15:17 AM by Superior

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Okay, that makes sense.

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Any opinion on "Little Busters! ?

edited 7th May '10 12:40:23 PM by Superior

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I've been wondering about Little Busters and Planetarian.

Honestly, I have a bit of hype aversion to the bigger Key titles, thanks to a few tropers who are very loud in this thread.

edited 7th May '10 12:32:09 PM by Solstace

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Planetarian actually looked pretty cool from the Wikipedia summary I read.

(<—doesn't usually give a shit about staff)

edited 7th May '10 12:53:34 PM by Tzetze

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Wait, is there any Little Busters english translation? My first google results only brought up a thread of people talking that maybe they should start making it.

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Planetarian was good T_T. Oh so very good. Looking forward to a Little Busters translation (AND MY REALLY REALLY TRANSLATION!)

Finished Tsukihime several days ago. Considered writing a lengthier comment, but being brief: sex awful, prose awful, story structure outstanding, everything else great. Excellent sadsies game.

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^I thought that the prose was better than Fate Stay Night in a lot of ways...

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Any opinion on Ef? It seems it has a full English translation, I think I will try it. (I didn't see the anime).

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I have enjoyed it thus far, though I'm not nearly done and haven't been able to play it much.

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Little Busters is being translated atm. It's at over 50% right now but I don't think they've made much progress lately.

Has anyone played the Downhill Night games? They look good...well, 2 at least since you actually get to drive.

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I just finished the first two routes of Ef.

THIS IS AWESOME! I don't know if my previous experiences (Fate Stay Night and Clannad) had unusually low production values, or this is the outstanding one, but I'm amazed at the amount of unique artwork, and other little touches, like lip and eye animations.

The narrative is also interesting, the lack of a single Audience Surrogate narrator protagonist, and the pairings not being optional, both increase the feeling that this is a proper romantic story and not just some overglorified wank material for the otaku.

Only the ero scenes are infinitely worse than in Fate Stay Night, too much moaning, screaming and "no means yes". Though that comes from someone who actually liked the ones in Fate, so take this with a grain of salt.

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You monster!

So, I now have Tsukihime and Aoi Shiro. :p

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