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Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I despise visual novels.

They lack the good writing of a proper novel.

They lack the art work a comic can provide.

They aren’t games, but are for some reason sold as one.

They a sub-par mix of things other mediums do significantly better.

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Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s okay to just admit you got one of the bad endings.

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- Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s assuming I could even force my way through any VN to get to an ending.
  
  I’m not a masochist.
  
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jeff@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There are novels that don’t measure up to the writing of visual novels.

There are comics that don’t measure up to the art of visual novels.

There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.

Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It’s okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren’t for you. I don’t particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I’ve played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I’m playing Date Everything right now, it’s not exactly innovative, but I’m having fun with it.

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- Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s a load of crap. Visual novels are such an incredibly low bar on literally every front, if you made a comic or a novel that’s worse than a VN you’d have been actually trying to out-shit VNs.
  
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