So, if it’s not Danganronpa no one cares about the genre?

>>1413328 Honestly I don't play a lot of VN games. Closest I ever get is the Ace Attorney games. If I had time to try just one, what would you suggest?

>>1413328 I don't even like Danganronpa.

>>1406263 Most games in that list are very mediocre, especially your pic rel. Uchikoshi is a hack but those games succeeded in being worse and less entertaining than ZTD, of all things. EVNs just aren't good in general. In recent memory, the one of the few with promise in this genre coming from the west was Of The Devil, and it's still unfinished. I'll let anons be the judge regarding the artstyle, but like most of the ones in the list, it doesn't look very good to me. At least the writing and atmosphere are really on point compared to most western productions trying to ape ace attorney, danganronpa or zero escape. Most fail really hard when it comes to sound design or presentation.

>>1427365 I had high hopes for Birth ME Code but it turned out to be very poorly-written and the gimmick was just that — a gimmick. As far as EVNs go the only good one, and it’s deservedly a legend (even in Japan) is DDLC. The Project Libatina game was supposed to come a few years after but it never did. Salvato claims to be working on two new VNs at least one of them is said to be related to DDLC which I really, really hope is Project Libatina / Portrait of Markov; if it is the hype will be massive. Besides DDLC I really can’t think of any noteworthy games. Just Dangaronpa copies and fan games. Maybe Slay the Princess counts? I haven’t heard of Of The Devil.

Happy we're getting a new Danganronpa after all this time.

>>1427365 OTD was honestly a big shock to me, I really expected it to be some slop when I first tried the demo but it pulled me in pretty good by the end of CH0. Biggest issue I find with the game is trying to recommend it to other tards since the artstyle for most is extremely offputting (personally not much of an issue). playing CH1 on Highroller for the first time was worth the cost for me, had me keeping screenshots of the pieces of evidence and it felt nice pulling them up during the trial at the end of the chapter.

>>1427365 >>1818317 Damn this DOES look interesting. Sucks it’s so slow in development.

>>1406263 I don't play many VNs, I don't know if you can count this one, but 999 is a great one. Thrilling story, great characters, impeccable writing and fun puzzle exploration sections. This game got a Remaster/Remake a while ago in a handful of platforms and the re-release of its sequels, but to my knowledge, the best way to enjoy the story is by playing the original Nintendo DS release, as the re-releases heavily compromise the story's delivery for the sake of rather needless additions to the gameplay. >>1413328 You say that, but I for one cannot even be bothered to spell/pronounce that name properly and I heavily refused to. Just by glance, Dagnaronpan looks like Ace Attorney but with the bullshit, gore and weeb factors cranked up to a retarded degree and it honestly sickens me. You got to actually pay me to play Daganronpa. >>1427365 I don't know what this is, but I like the art style a lot.

>>1429182 The third game from that dev came out a little while ago, I've heard it broke the streak of their games being weakly-written trash hiding behind a simple trick or gimmick.

For Famicom Detective Club (and Hotel Dusk kinda, according to the devs) lovers, Detective Instinct: Farewell My Beloved is coming out in a few days. >>1429182 Mistake on my part in that post. I was mostly referring to the mystery genre in EVNs, but if you look at other genres, I genuinely think the west, China and Korea have been stepping up a lot these past few years. Trials Of Innocence, Tyrion Cuthbert, Yet Another Killing Game, The Sekimeiya - to name a few. (even if they don't really do anything new) DDLC was great, if only for making more people curious about its inspiration. Slay the Princess was really fun, but I wish the individual routes were longer. It felt like a proof of concept to me, but a great one. I'm a sucker for vanilla though, so Damsel wins for me. >>1818317 It's a real headache. With the artstyle that screams a certain ideology or the steam trailer of EP0 blatantly spoiling a really clever twist, it's like the devs are trying their best for their game not to be appreciated. But in the end it was more than worth it, especially for the worldbuilding. Can't shill Of The Devil enough, there's real talent behind that game. >>1901557 999 is absolutely a visual novel, with some puzzle parts sprinkled throughout. Regarding Danganronpa, I can't convince you to drop your preconceived perception of the game (and you wouldn't be that far off from the truth anyway) but some of the individual murder cases were interesting to solve, to the detriment of the bigger overarching mystery. I think making the "why" interesting is an issue with most death game stories. Even 999 and the ZE series as a whole which was good had to rely on some strange plot contrivances to make things work in the end.

>>1406263 I don't play VNs but earlier this year out of curiosity I played The Shell Part I: Inferno, figured you may be interested in it. It follows a war vet turned private investigator who gets tasked by both his friend in the police force and also a school's vice principal to investigate multiple, seemingly unrelated, murders and disappearances. MC accepts both requests and starts drawing parallels to an unsolved case from years prior to the events of the game where a serial killer murdered several women, including MC's fiancee, and disappeared without a trace. Added to this, one of MCsister's classmates catches him while working undercover and asks him to "find her true self", a seemingly playful request. It's established in Japan roughly a decade after WWII and draws heavily from the Divine Comedy and Christianity as a root inspiration for various actors and motives, I'll leave it to someone well-versed in these themes to judge it's treatment. As for gameplay, you choose where to spend the evening, gathering info and investigating several scenes until you reach a "knowledge checkpoint" where your deductions determine whether you're catching up or falling behind the case. Really it was the art that caught my eye but after having a taste of it's characters and then feeling the rush leading to solving the first case I was completely hooked, to the point I was drawing a relationship tree in paint by the last stretch of the game.

>>1953932 >Detective Instinct: Farewell My Beloved >Cute blonde FMC >Call to Hotel Dusk fans >Cute blonde FMC I will now buy your game. >Even 999 and the ZE series as a whole which was good had to rely on some strange plot contrivances to make things work in the end. Yeah, that's kind of the reason I've been hesitant to play the rest of the series, specially since I heard some retcons were made. That said, at least in the case of 999, the weird element was pretty well executed. Speaking of Hotel Dusk, any more games like it? I'm still itching to play a game like HD (though I do have to play the sequel still)

>>1955377 If you enjoyed that VN and want to know more about the medium, know that it has two sequels. I heavily suggest you also try Cartgara, its prequel. Glad you enjoyed it, I remember savescumming and crying a lot back in the day. >The Shell Part 1 You mean Kara No Shoujo... Shiravune's localization team didn't really make this game justice, in my honest opinon. The mangagamer translation wasn't perfect and came with minor bugs/inconveniences, but they at least tried to respect the setting by keeping honorifics for instance. But ultimately, KnS is meant to be read in Japanese or something as close as possible to that. >>1956503 >Speaking of Hotel Dusk, any more games like it? They won't be exactly like it, but other games by Cing (R.I.P) that were on the DS/Wii like the Another Code series might interest you, if only for a loosely similar atmosphere. They released a remaster on the switch not that long ago. Ashley a cute. A few people from Cing also released a short demo called Chase: Cold Case Investigations on the 3DS 9 years ago, but there was no continuation. You can find the .cia file easily online nowadays. The female writer behind Hotel Dusk and The Last Window was involved in the upcoming 3D adventure mystery game Dark Auction, which had a demo during the steam next fest. (Hopefully, it should still be up.) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2363180/Dark_Auction/ It's the one that got Hitler replaced by Dictator X kek

>>1957682 That's unfortunate to hear, I didn't take the time to research how different both versions are and assumed they were the same but with HD artworks. A quick search shows there are two releases for the sequel too, I grabbed a copy of both and skimmed through the intro for comparison, finding some minor alterations. Now I'm wondering if some of Reiji's quips and jabs were overplayed in Shiravune's work, I'll make sure to get the og release if I ever want to replay it and stick with MangaGamer for KnS2. Thanks, I did enjoy it; the start of part 2 is enough to make me teary-eyed but I'll push through.

How no one hasn't mentioned Demonbane or Devil on a g string is a unbelievable

>>1963748 Devil on G-String was amazing, although the final twist turned me off. Japanese moral law so I guess it’s unavoidable. For some reason I never bothered with Demonbane. I don’t even know what it’s about although I’ve heard of it….

>>1964200 >Devil on G-String was amazing Eh... I liked it early on, but the main "twist" really spoiled the charm for me. Other routes literally became nonsense once you walk back through it with that revelation in mind. Oh also, the main villain literally being the terminator despite this otherwise being a pretty normal and grounded setting was just stupid. I dropped it about the 5th time he completely 100% died only to show up in the very next scene like nothing ever happened. Like, this was a serious story at one point and now it's just shlock out of nowhere.