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[Trapezohedron]

Regarding gameplay, I totally suggest Sakura Wars 5.  It has a tactical robot fighty thing that happens once or twice every chapter, between all the talking and reading stuff.  Also, style.

For regular ol' VNs, I probably have to suggest Saya no Uta.  The love interest is a [SPOILER_REDACTED].

Also OMGWTFOTL.  That one's good for a few kicks, genuflect.

Oh, and spoiler that plot twist, please?

[frostshotgg]

What, am I the only person who played KiraKira and liked it or something?

@OP: You might want to change the top title to Visual Novel Thread or something like that.

[ToonyMan]

Kira Kira looks really silly.  I haven't bothered.

I'm pretty excited that Nilum should be starting Higurashi Kai soon.  It's amazingly great.

EDIT:
Oh here's three I forgot for PSP fans (although one might be hard to do).

Corpse Party Blood Covered was done recently.  I really enjoyed XSEED's translation.

You might like Fate/extra too.  I couldn't get through the gameplay sludge.

Lastly and most favorite, Dangan Ronpa.  It's not translated ingame at all but there's a translation on the Something Awful forums being done here.  Pretty much Sony's Ace Attorney but I enjoy it vastly.

[jackbod]

What, am I the only person who played KiraKira and liked it or something?

@OP: You might want to change the top title to Visual Novel Thread or something like that.

Done also kira kira? whats tha about

[Caz]

I second Tsukihime and Saya no Uta. Both have pretty hardcorely messed up storylines so probably not recommended if you're sensitive to that sort of thing. But they're both damn good.

[Xeron]

Is there any visual novel in which you are a murderer/psycho/evil dude that can do evil stuff ?

[Leafsnail]

Tsukihime definitely has its moments, although being a psycho isn't really the focus.

[Caz]

Tsukihime definitely has its moments, although being a psycho isn't really the focus.

Yeah, like meeting Arc for the first time. Settle down, Shiki.


Saya no Uta also has you involved in certain unneighbourly actions. Am I the only one that preferred the 'Bad' ending to the 'Good' and 'True' endings? Ryoko is a crazy awesome bitch.

[Sirus]

Spoiler: Review of Magical Diary - Minor Spoilers Within (click to show/hide)

So I played through that Magical Diary thing someone mentioned a while back...I guess my best reaction is disappointment.

Don't get me wrong: I enjoyed the storyline, the interactions between characters, the dungeon system. I was looking forward to becoming class president next year, or seeing how far the Conspiracy would go in their quest for science, attending those senior-only events, perhaps finding a cure for Virginia's condition.

And then I got to the end of freshman year, got my picture taken...and that was it. Not a single thing that had been alluded to throughout the game was actually IN the game. Just 5 dungeons, with a single monster to fight between them and a whole sheet of seemingly useless spells scattered amongst the relative few that had a purpose. A whole list of items to buy, with no chance of getting them all in a single play-through. Stats that don't seem to serve a purpose other than achievements.

I guess if I could sum it up in one word, it'd be "incomplete".

[h3lblad3]

Torn Apart; Over the Net; Kay
Yes. Just... yes.

[ToonyMan]

Saya no Uta also has you involved in certain unneighbourly actions. Am I the only one that preferred the 'Bad' ending to the 'Good' and 'True' endings?

That was also my favorite ending, yes.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Poor Kouji ;_;

[inEQUALITY]

Currently playing through Fate/Stay Night. Almost didn't soldier through the prologue, trying to drudge through to where the beginning of the 'real game' meets with where the prologue ended. I really don't like the drudgery up to this point (the story is 'meh' when you're just reliving the same three days as the prologue from a different POV). We'll see if I like it as I continue through it.

[Leafsnail]

If you don't like drudgery then you should probably stop playing FSN.  Or make liberal use of the text fastforwarding feature.

[Nilum]

If you don't like drudgery then you should probably stop playing FSN.

This is definitely true. Nasu's writing is some of the most -- meandering? Rambling? I don't think either of those words really accurately describes it. It's the opposite of a prototypical galge. Tsukihime is even worse than FSN in that regard.

Some parts of FSN are really amazing, but there's a lot of sludge in between that won't appeal to everyone. Or even most. It picks up eventually, but even after it picks up there are sections that feel like a chore to read. And this is coming from someone who loves FSN to death. I seem to remember the entire second route, Unlimited Blade Works, being great, but I think I may have been intoxicated on the Nasuverse and as such cannot vouch for my memory's validity. It does get better as you get further in. The first time I tried to read FSN I stopped at the prologue (admittedly I was 13 and did not have the best attention span,) but the second time, years later, I stuck with it; now I'm a fan.

[frostshotgg]

@Whoever asked what KiraKira was, it's a slice-of-life-style story about a guy and how he starts a band that's sorta punk but really more j-pop, and then his interactions with the other members of the band. It's funny and enjoyable, and I'm terrible at describing stuff.

Nasu does have that annoying habit of wandering off topic. I think I screamed at my monitor "What about [important topic that stopped being talked about" at least a dozen times in the first route of FSN at least a dozen times alone.

On the plus side, the universe is absolutely massive, and for anybody who enjoys it, there's easily 6th months worth of entertainment all considered. There's even a bunch of tie in paper books, animes, and movies, although the quality of some of them is questionable. (Seriously, I read Unlimited Blade Works, and I still have almost no idea what was going on in the movie.)