/vn/ - Visual Novels

What would it take to change font in https://vndb.org/v14913 ? I've found a way to modify images and scripts but non-japanese characters have space between each one of them, this is due to script files being SHIFT-JIS and game crashes if you don't input letters as multibyte characters (or for some other reason).

>>1054

Malice describes an intent. It is impossible to be unknowingly malicious. While the recipient of paternalistic protection may feel insulted or condescended to by it, the intent of the delivering agent is not determined by their recipient's feelings.

It is well known that men have a penchant for paternalistic behavior and are particularly driven to attempt to approach the problems in womens' lives with simple solutions, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg), but if you observe romance stories directed at women, you find that they are prone to wanting to find themselves in the position of a fixer as well, only in a different way. Where male romance fantasies involve women who have very tangible needs typically solved by some form of protection or provision, female romance fantasies often center around a male who has his tangible assets together and appears strong on the outside but has some kind of emotional vulnerability that he only exposes to the heroine, who then fulfills her "fixer" role by correcting the problems in his life which stem from his emotional vulnerability and filling the hidden need in his heart for affection which only she can provide.

These are typical for romance stories, which are inherently a sort of guilty pleasure we all indulge in at least on occasion. I find it to be exceptionally cruel to reach into the world of the escapist to lecture them on how presumably evil their benevolent desires are. It is entirely human to want to earn someone's affection and to want to solve the problems of a loved one. If there is any evil in the world, it is the callous reinterpretation of this inherent good as a malicious intent.

Love, and everything that comes with it, is a natural, kind, caring, and beautiful part of the human psyche. It is cruel to wag a disapproving finger at the people who practice it.

Which kind of VN protagonist is better - the blank slate that lets you project without inhibition, or the male lead which is relatable yet also a character in his own right?

Which of the two is Hisao like in each route, would you say?

>>1074

I never said she should be angsty or bitter about her blindness, though. I just find it absurd to use her as the benchmark to write characters with disabilities by, especially since, as you pointed out, she was born with her disability while Emi wasn't.

You could put Hanako down to some angst, but I don't know if I'd write Emi as a particularly angsty character. If she is, then Rin is even more so.

Is this fixable?

When I first played F/SN with Mirror Moon's complete translation patch, I too thought that either Shirou or Nasu was amazingly sexist, but I wrote it off as par for the course and soldiered on, as I was not really in it for the self-insert protagonist I had come to expect from anime-related entertainment.

Thus it was much to me surprise and delight when the story revealed that Shirou does not actually believe a word of what he was saying about women at all. When we learn about Shirou's traumatic childhood, we see why he awkwardly sputters out his lines about how he needs to stand between an insanely powerful magical conjured bodyguard and the lethal danger approaching her, and it has nothing to do with him being so dumb that he actually thinks he's better suited to absorb damage than her on account of having a penis. His motive is irrational, but it is not sexism - it's survivor's guilt. Throughout the events of all three routes of Fate/Stay Night, Shirou repeatedly goes out of his way to take the brunt of any danger approaching anyone who aren't his enemies, and sometimes even those who are. Only in the case of women does he use the excuse that men should simply protect women, and even then, his manner of speaking makes it clear that even he isn't really buying it. It's a deflection he's using to lie not only to the recipient of his ridiculous protective urges, but also directly to himself about his true motivations.

Of course it's off-putting the way Shirou immediately jumps to justifying his insane actions as male-to-female paternalism. It's supposed to be off-putting and weird. It's the first big clue the audience receives that something isn't quite adding up in Shirou's psyche. His white knighting is rooted in personal trauma, which has nothing whatsoever to do with sexism. Shirou's survivor's guilt complex is the pivotal theme of the entire story, and in Heaven's Feel, he is finally brought around to discarding this complex so that he can live his life unburdened of the psychological disorder which has seared his mind since early childhood.

Removing this blatant "sexism" from Shirou's words cheapens the significance of their hollowness and damages the depth of the story itself, which centers around Shirou's development as a character.

>>991

unteralterbach :^)

>Horror VN thread

>not recommending Higurashi

I am disappoint.

How do you guys pronounce Saya? I say it Say-ah but I've had people say it as Sy-ah.