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General VN Discussion Thread (April 2025)

Welcome to our first General VN Discussion thread!

If you have something you'd like to talk about but don't think it's worth posting as a separate thread this is the place for you.

  • Did you start playing something new?
  • Are there any games you're looking forward to?
  • Are you looking for suggestions on what to play?
  • Do you have some feedback or questions about our community?

These and any other topics are welcome here - as long as they are VN or community related.

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  • I started playing ai: the somnium files a few days ago! I never knew it was a 3D game before I bought it lmao. I just finished the somnium tutorial and find the controls kind of wonky. can't really form an opinion on the game overall just yet.

    • I remember it being pretty popular for a while. Looks pretty fancy, like a more ambitious Persona (in terms of presentation).
      I'd be curious to read some impressions when you're done with it.

  • I'll start us out with a bit of an official business - our planned VN patch list.

    I posted this before in the mod changes thread but I'll drop this here as well for better visibility and because I made some formatting changes to help with entry readability. Here's the current version:

    Patch list:

  • I've been working on the patch list and remembered a photosensitivity mod for VA-11 HALL-A I've seen a few years back. While looking for it I stumbled upon the original VA-11 HALL-A prototype from 2014 and decided to check it out.

    It's pretty neat. While art style and gameplay differ slightly from the final game, writing itself is pretty close to what we got there. I was actually surprised some of the off-hand mentions in the release version were about this story.
    The three characters we get to meet are also pretty close to their final designs - both in looks and in dialogues.

    It's a short but fun look into one of my favourites, I love stuff like this.

    Edit: I also started playing Invidia, an upcoming indie VN about a criminal psychologist. There's only a demo (I'm still in the middle of reading) but it seems interesting enough so far - story is about a juvenile psycho with various violent crimes to his name (check out the warning about themes on the game page if you're worried about triggers) and MC is not a stereotypical warrior of justice but has her own less than stellar aspects. I'll write a follow up after I'm done with the demo and try all the choices - it feels like they might be important in the future.

    One small issue that's apparent pretty much right away is localisation - game was not written in English and there are some small errors with wording in few places. Nothing game breaking but it's definitely noticeable.

    Edit 2: I was actually way closer to the end than expected so I didn't get much more out of it. I'll keep an eye on this title, it might end up pretty interesting after all.

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