/vn/ - Visual Novels

>>840

Just write in your own culture. You take what aspects of JVNs you like and discard the rest. Your script doesn't have to come in the form of:

"Yaaa! Onii-chan, it hurts-desu!"

[My little sister's ass is quivering like a lilac in full bloom]

….

[10,000 words later]

….

[I snuggle with my imouto and bask in our afterglow.]

>>842

Good luck trying to bottle lightnings or catch unicorns.

Not VNs, but look at all the amateur indies releasing shit on Steam with crap graphics. Do you think someone besides a corrupt games journalist will find a needle in this haystack that's filled with horse poop and make it go viral?

So to sum up, OP has no idea what he's doing.

>>920

I disagree about Hanako's bad end being the one where she grows the most. I think that, while it is incredibly affecting, it's essentially Hanako doubling down on her isolation from other people, whereas her good end shows how she is able to reconcile her feelings of worthlessness with her and Hisao's desire for a relationship and accept it knowing that she can lean on Hisao when she needs it.

On the story thing I still disagree somewhat. You can create models for stories and map out beats and all that shit but it doesn't change the fact that stories can be hugely different from one another while still having similar structures. Shit look at Memento or My Dinner with Andre, they're hugely different from most stories despite still sharing the same basic structure. This is what I mean about the meat of the story being in the setting. The setting and characters are what gives meaning to the structure of the story and get us invested. The setting and characters are how you make an artistic statement.

>>922

I still disagree. While Hanako does break out of her shell a little it's for the purpose of maintaining the status quo, whereas in the good ending she does more or less the same (the sex/the talk afterwards) to connect better with Hisao, except they're on equal footing here. Now whether or not they stay together I think is irrelevant, she's made the first step towards being able to recover.

>>913

Now that I can agree with. The structure of the story is the same.

And Shizune's route doesn't count, it was junk. Shizune was rad, but not her route.

>>925

if I reread Shizune's route it's mostly for Misha, same with Emi and the nurse, idk why but they make me smile. Well, Emi's route is good on it's own, nurse or not

>>906

That you should start now.

No Kohakuren route. Other characters didn't seem interesting enough.

>>907

I hope you like grinding.

Be careful about accepting timed quests. It's a good idea to get the required items for it and then accept the quest. Some are extremely difficult (if not impossible) to complete in their given time frame.

This page has some good information about random stuff that you might want to know while playing, it's also got the starting routes for each girl.

>>926

Mate I think you forgot the link.

But thanks for the advice

>>927

Wtf.

Sorry, I was sure I posted it.

http://games.seiha.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=102

>>897

That's pretty crazy. I've had Majikoi S described to me as "extended afterstory." Basically you do all the work in Majikoi, then reap the rewards at the end and during the whole of Majikoi S. I'm loving it so far.

>>914

I still haven't finished it so I could be completely wrong about everything.

On the afterstory thing, I think that's my problem with it. I'm not a huge fan of afterstories in general because they seem like a tacked on "congratulations for getting the good end" when that sort of catharsis either is or should be part of the game proper. In the first one there was a lot of character development, ever with minor characters, that formed a sort of backbone between the routes, like the relationship between Touma and Hideo, which all came to a climax in the Agave route. Now this is still sort of happening in S but the weight of all the extra characters is dragging it down.

>>914

>>915

Ok, so I just finished S and I take back most of it. Yuki's route is essentially the true route and it does a similar thing to Agave except on a larger scale, hence all of the extra characters introduced. They're mostly underdeveloped/generally boring but there were a few bits of good character development and the Majikoi brand shonen bullshit mostly makes up for it.

Also I just realised how good MinatoSoft are at pacing, especially considering the cast and amount of simultaneous plot threads.

I just started playing this after seeing this thread.

It's surprisingly funny and well written.

Majikoi has my love now.

>>924

The best parts of the game are its sense of humor and characters. Especially cause they never sacrifice one for the other (Chris route notwithstanding)

>>905

Yeah, you pretty much nailed my complaints with it. Also I'm getting really tired of VN protagonists being able to pull money out of their ass whenever they need it.

Steins;Gate it's horror if you hate chuuni

>>87

Kara no Shoujo's ok. The story's good and all but there are a bunch of shitty investigative minigame pixel hunt things that are really easy to fuck yourself on without knowing it because of the way they're set up.

But other than that I really liked it. It's just that the investigating can fuck up the rest of the game if you miss some evidence, which makes it hard to play without either save scumming or using a guide.

>>903

Steins;Gate is a good thriller but it doesn't really get serious til halfway.

Damn, I had given up hope on seeing this. My thanks to you, anon.

I can't even get it to run after installing the prepatched torrent from mofu.moe. It says that MFC42.dll isn't designed to run on Windows.

>>657

RIP Pomf.se

>>878

tbh I got mine from Fuwanovel because I downloaded a bunch of VNs there way back when I was a newfig. Worked fine aside from engine crashes at certain parts, especially the endings

It's more miss than hit to get it past those parts and that's with compatibility mode on and whatnot. (Windows 8)

>>898

There is version with disc images. mofu may miss registry keys or some other shit, so if you want 'original' versions they used before patching ask in #mofu

Anime-share

/scurv/

Maybe we should make an online library.

>>562

>>563

>this

http://sukebei.nyaa.se/

Ever heard of http://kat.cr ?

>>610

This. People keep bitching about prepackaged torrents, but they work fine 9/10

>>875

I think it's more about the fact they're Fuwanovel

Sakigake Generation could satiate your inner thirst

>>852

Or any of the recent minori games

You might like Captive Market, give it a go.

Really liked this VN, and it was one of my first as well. I never did big tits route, though. Aeka's route started uninteresting but the ending was damn good and satisfying. Catgirl was amusing and faptastic, and also ended on a great note.

I wish we had a fandisc or something with that bitch's route. What was her name again, Antoinette or something?

>>855

>Antoinette route

I'd only read it if it involved her getting mentally broken and violently gang raped by ogres or something and it to involve her whole posse.

>>858

Her accent got me rock hard, and she was pretty cute. Nasty personality, but I'd love to hatefuck her.

>>862

I found that more annoying than anything, knowing how fake it sounded and all. Hate her but wouldn't hatefuck that crazy cunt, I'll leave that job to someone she would find repulsive.

I liked nekoko's route because I had fun with it and it was faptastic. Aeka's didn't really cut it for me, and big tits' route wasn't bad but didn't leave an impression. Considering how short every route is, I think it's worth the time

>>652

I know this thread is old as fuck but anyway: different games utilise different 'copy protection' measures and thus you probably don't find general purpose noob guide for it. You could look at docs in romhacking.net

Pretty much everything localised by Mangagamer works well through Wine. Playonlinux also supports the entire Sono Hanabira series if you use that.

>>327

The Devil on G String worked for me with Japanese locale and wine

Arch user here.

I use just virtualbox and XP, because wine is a pain in the ass and doesn't play all VN's.