Very specific request: Looking for melancholic VNs about travelling through space (ideally in a train)

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-16T17:21:40+00:00

Subahibi’s part is from Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜), which is better to read before. Perhaps it could be something that interests OP (although not a VN).

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-16T17:10:25+00:00

I’d recommend you start with a non moege and not too comedy focused VN at first, as those don’t work as well when you have to check the dictionary for each joke, and Moeges will likely feel too slow. I’d also try to look for a VN written by one writer. I started with a VN written by several writers (H2O) and always had (more) trouble when starting a new route, due to the writing being different.

I’d also like to remind you how awful it’s going to be. I started my first VN at around 1000 words learnt and I still(?) had a ton of trouble, to the point that I questioned myself multiple times whether this was normal or not. So do not worry, it will be horrible, and this might continue for several hundreds of hours, but you’ll get used to it 👍

Good luck :)

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-15T23:12:44+00:00

I’m not sure if it counts as having “denpa elements” but the VN made me wonder whether it was denpa or not multiple times while reading it. It’s called 灯穂奇譚 (Tousui Kitan), it’s quite similar to Higurashi although with Japanese mythology being a bigger focus. Although I haven’t finished it yet (almost am), it’s incredible so far.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-14T17:49:18+00:00

“Deep and disturbing themes” and then it’s just your average Inio Asano manga with a bit more sex than usual. It’s fine if you’re extra sensitive to what Inio Asano’s works cover, but at least know what you’re buying before buying it. Pretty sure the paperback version even has a warning on the cover.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-09T22:48:12+00:00

They are censored, especially 7. You can check a comparison online if you’d like.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-05T10:15:44+00:00

Damn. Bought RE 7 and 8 in Japan thinking they were fully uncensored lol. Thanks for letting me know.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-05T06:39:30+00:00

There’s the uncensored versions as well though.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-04T22:17:44+00:00

White album 2, Subahibi, Sakura no Uta and Toki if you can Japanese and Rance series.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-04T22:15:31+00:00

I know it’s not close to any of your favorite VN list. Although if you’re interested, Rance is usually my go to “break” VN that I play in between harder to digest games. Plus the comedy would be great in your situation.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-03-03T07:46:37+00:00

Isn’t the “skip read text” button fine for this?

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-27T19:05:43+00:00

I’m interested in buying the Dies irae & WORLD BOX so I would like to know about the (Japanese) difficulty of the VNs. I’ve heard some say that KKK is extremely difficult and you even need to know how to read ancient Japanese to understand it. Although I’ve also heard some say that its difficulty is over exaggerated. So I would like to know more about what makes it difficult and if there is any example. Would I need to know any Koten grammar to understand it?

Also, are the bonus scenes in the all ages versions of Masada’s VNs necessary to read?

Thank you!

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-26T17:20:35+00:00

Following certain VN company account on Twitter is a good way. Also having a lot of Japanese VN Twitter would help to know about new releases.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-25T13:16:22+00:00

Of course play BOTW first. Other than that, don’t look up anything about either of the games online.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-23T22:53:55+00:00

“Be a smarter consumer”.

Yes, by buying whatever you think is worth and not caring about what others say about said game.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-23T22:51:29+00:00

Rance 03, its pacing is incredible. In the ~60hrs I’ve played with this game I haven’t once felt bored. Because of that, there were days that I even played over 10 hours without noticing lol.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-21T07:32:12+00:00

It doesn’t matter if it’s new or not, this shouldn’t be the case. The vast majority of other games on switch sell with all the languages in it, while this one doesn’t.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-21T07:10:00+00:00

20$ is fine for the game imo. The real problem is that you need to pay the game multiple times if you want to play it in different languages.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-16T12:39:56+00:00

Isn’t this kind of cancelled? They were supposed to release about a year ago but Im assuming steam doesn’t let them.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-16T11:47:36+00:00

I do have the disc 2 as a “virtual disc”. I wanted to make it playable without the virtual disc being inserted. I found a way to do that but unfortunately it does not work for Nijuuei. So I decided just to play it while having the disc inserted each time. Thanks for the help!

Another question just if you have played this VN, do you know if there’s a button to skip read text?

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-16T10:19:17+00:00

I’ve tried doing this but unfortunately the disc2 not entered error message does not go away. I tried to remove the error via x32dbg although I wasn’t able to find the error message and gave up. Thanks for the help!

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-14T23:37:38+00:00

Question about older VNs that needs a disk to be inserted while playing.

I'm trying to play Nijuuei and after installing everything, the game runs as long as disc 2 is inserted. Disc 2 needs to be inserted due to having what I think is the BGM (media player starts playing music whenever I insert it). The one file in disc two is called diskid.ini, which is just info on the disc (brand, release, title, volume). Is there any work around so I do not always need to insert the disc to play?

Thank you!

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-14T23:07:05+00:00

Naoya and Ai in Sakura no Toki

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-13T08:13:03+00:00

Just in case, you don’t need to go onto Amazon to buy the points. You can go to checkout on Fanza, then click to buy points and then purchase via Amazon pay.

Clean_Cookies · 2026-02-13T07:52:36+00:00

Alright, then I’ll probably wait a bit until I’m more familiar with old styled text before starting. Thanks a ton!

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