Yes but it might be only a batter of time until they catch up. Keep to the main rule about no direct links even under b64. I am too poor for lawyers yo
VA-11 Hall-A! One of my favourite VN if my instance url didn’t give it away. It’s not too long, listen to the start telling you to get cozy and then mix drinks and change lives.
Zero Escape series: I love them, even ZTD. Some hated that ending, while I don’t think it’s that bad.
Infinity series:
Never7 is very slow, and romance heavy with bit sci-fi. I don’t like this game
Ever17 starts getting better, leaning more towards sci-fi, but can still be quite slow
Remember11 is the best among the infinity series, it’s sci-fi horror mystery. Some say the ending is kinda incomplete due to budget issue, I’d say that the ending is bit of cliffhanger, but the main story is more or less complete
Raging Loop: a really good supernatural horror mystery. Maybe even better than Zero Escape series. I highly recommend this.
Paranormasight: a solid horror mystery VN released this year, there’s some smart puzzle and writing, but the ending is kinda unfulfilling.
Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbou: it’s fan translated DS game. I am a Kindaichi fan, and the Kindaichi section is good mystery. The Conan part is … well, I’m not into Case Closed, their mystery always feel bit geared towards kids.
Danganronpa series: There are parts of the games that I like, but somehow I couldn’t stand the annoying character tropes prevalent in the series, and also those fan-service-y part. Some people dislike the final ending, I’m ok with it.
Root Letter & Root Film: Root Letter starts out good, but somehow one of the endings ruined the whole game. Root Film starts off promising, but the deduction part is kinda stupid and boring. Also the ending is not good.
Policenauts & Snatcher: They are quite interesting. I enjoyed Policenauts quite a bit. Snatcher is good too.
Silver Case: couldn’t stand the banter and writing. Everything feels so slow, and very Suda51.
13 Sentinels Aegis Rim: quite a solid sci-fi kitchen sink visual novel. It does feel like they are biting more than they could chew though.
AI the Somnium File: okay sci-fi mystery VN, I don’t think it hits the high of Zero Escape.
Fatamorgana: I thought it was a murder mystery VN, didn’t realize it’s more romance, couldn’t get into it.
Steins; Gate: I tried to like this game so many times. Okabe the main character is very grating.
I’ve probably missed some, I recently bought Root Double, which is from the co-writer of the Infinity series, heard that it’s really good.
Loved the anime of steins gate. Think I’ve got the elite version of the VN but thinking maybe i should of got the OG. The frozen anime frames look a tad weird to me
Yes, it started from this terminology change at Twitter in 2020. They’re the reason that version control systems call the primary branch ‘main’ instead of ‘master’ by default, because ‘master’ comes from the master/slave terminology that is used in electronics hardware design.
There’s a comment here saying that master/slave in hardware design is being replaced by primary/secondary because of the software trend, which I think is stupid. Master/slave works much better in that context because the master device controls the slave device. Primary/secondary implies that the slave device is a fallback of the master device.
The more ad-riddled they make the platform to try and monetise users, the more they make adblocks necessary to even be usable.
I didn’t use to both with adblockers. I didn’t like ads, but they didn’t affect me enough for me to go through any effort blocking them.
Now I use blockers everywhere, on every platform. Even for creators I like, because I know how little they actually make for ads - so how bout instead of watching 12 hours of ads so they can get 2c, I just send them a dollar or buy their merch every once in a while to not watch ads at all? Etc.
Ads could have had a place. There are ads that serve a purpose, that have minimal disruption but still give businesses a way to develop awareness for those who might want to use them.
Movie trailers (including when they stopped trailing movies and started leading them) are examples of ‘acceptable ads’ to me. When I purchase something from a store and they include a printed card from their sponsor. When sports teams have logos for being sponsored. A work van with the business logo parked while out on call. Etc.
But the internet’s online ads? Email spam? Telemarketing? These are forms of advertising that are actively hostile, and they’ve become the default. So now a user that wants to be on the internet at all is best served by block all ads, including the ones that would’ve otherwise been reasonable.
Google will never make me feel guilty for blocking ads when they’re already making their search engine unusable, too.
To anyone who isn’t interested in Japanese-style visual novels, I’d recommend Scarlet Hollow. It’s an “immersive horror-mystery” illustrated by Abby Howard (of The Last Halloween fame). It’s an episodic title (the first episode is free on Steam) and it is not finished yet.
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