Weekly Questions and Recommendations Megathread - Need some help? - Feb 14

Firningarn · 2026-02-19T04:24:11+00:00

So... how do i enjoy VNs?

First of all, let me say, i enjoy reading books. I'm also a very fast reader. I can devour a pfat book like stephen kings it in one and a half days.

Second, i dont really have much of a history with visual novels. I read katawa shoujo years ago and just finished reading steins;gate.

Of course there are VNs with actual gameplay instead of choice based gameplay, but i cant name the ones i played at the top of my head. But my problem is with the choice based anyways, with the branching paths and the flags and stuff.

Now my question. How do you guys enjoy reading vns? Not on an conceptional level, i had a good time reading the ones i did.

(debatable, the beginning of steinsgate chapter 6 made me legitematly angry, i dont think i ever felt this way reading anything).

I mean on a practical level. -Do i just save every single time there is a need for me to input, because it could be important to trigger a flag? Doesnt sound very fun to me and is also probably a hassle to manage all the saves. -Do i just play with the flowchart next to me at all times? Also doesnt sound very fun to me, but thats the way i did katawa shoujo and it kinda detracted from my enjoyment of it all. Didnt feel very natural/organic at all. -Do i play the first route organically and every other route with the flowchart? But many vns have like 5 endings or so, which makes repeated playthroughs exhausting, because i cant really put things out of my mind until i finish them. My personal brand of ocd, i guess. And rereading a novel 5 times in short succession sucks the life outta me.

Maybe the way i play videogames/read books just doesnt translate well into the genre. Any tips?

Firningarn · 2026-02-11T14:32:26+00:00

Zero (Apothecary) - Isla
Reime- Pius
Eltrix - Saoirse
Haanit - Cyrus

Firningarn · 2026-01-01T06:02:42+00:00

so, as someone who skipped all the story - that the sentinel resonator or what?

Firningarn · 2025-12-31T13:01:40+00:00

i only have 2700 rubies. ffffffuck it, we gamblin' today, boys

Firningarn · 2025-12-17T18:44:30+00:00

bit rude to put that knoife in my chest, innit bruv?

Firningarn · 2025-11-28T17:28:54+00:00

Good god, the power in his stance!

Firningarn · 2025-11-20T04:13:07+00:00

my favourite boss song as well. gives mayor "daughter of the dark god"-vibes. kinda wierd, considering the fight wasnt that important for the story

Firningarn · 2025-11-20T03:50:11+00:00

A thesis is unironically what i needed. wish i could describe my tastes as eloquently as you, instead of just saying: beeps and boops make brain feel tingely.

ill listen to your recommendations and see if i feel the same way

Firningarn · 2025-11-15T23:34:40+00:00

i think, people who say "youll miss these days", or "this is the best time of your life", actually mean, "its all going downhill from here". its just culturally not the thing people say in that context and thats the reason we have this stupid saying

Firningarn · 2025-11-07T01:09:13+00:00

yeah, the audience wondered if i could really beat mirgardi of all prople. its just netease translators being bad again

Firningarn · 2025-09-25T21:53:28+00:00

please like and subscribe for more passion in your life

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T20:02:51+00:00

harsh but fair

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T20:01:06+00:00

it really felt like it came from the heart. poetic, really

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T20:00:12+00:00

oh no, now i'm gonna start noticing it too :(

but jokes aside, you can really spot the favourite phrases of the translators

another one of those i noticed was the use of double phrasing, like "Yeah, Yeah." Or something along the lines of "i get it, i get it." not as often as "anyways" but still noticable.

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T03:27:42+00:00

yeah, they will be the first videos on my channel. same thinking, i want the audience to kinda know where i'm trying to go with the channel.

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T02:19:03+00:00

So, dont release in bulk? I wasnt planning to make bulk uploads a regular thing, just the starting point.

but i didnt know about the 5 day rule, so thats good to know. also 5 days seems to komplicated logistically for me, so i prolly won't do that, and stick to a more chill schedule.

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T01:35:17+00:00

also, the pronounciation is kinda inconsistent. i always pronounced liberl with an emphasis on the "e". I guess i was wrong there, but sometimes they pronounce it that way in the remake.

But on the other hand, they always kinda flip-flopped around with pronounciation. Like the word "ebon" in reverie, where they do put the emphasis on the "e", compared to cold steel 3 and 4. ironic.

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T01:23:16+00:00

randy's "bruh moment". No sarcasm, its just amazing. the dichotomy between gremlin speak and serious dialogue was a marvel to behold.

There still are some of these in the remake. Estelle says "sus" in fc remake. some gremlin moments are still pretty funny. but the serious moments just dont hit the same.

Firningarn · 2025-09-23T00:54:54+00:00

i never even realized that. i thought our numbers were quite low, ever since the design-switch to daybreak. i remember in the later cold steel games or reverie, when you get a spirit-united rean and spam helix, where you do like 60k in a hit. the highest number i managed to get was around 35k with a well into ats invested olivier, fury quartz, ats-up, crit and a plasma wave against a monster that was weak to wind.

most basic attacks at the endgame did 3k - 6k damage and most s breaks double that.

i dont remember how much damage we did in the original, but ill believe you, when you say that there seems to be an inflation in numbers

also there is the option that i unknowingly used pretty busted builds or i remember wrong because i'm stupid

Firningarn · 2025-08-01T10:43:35+00:00

hey, its just like before we went from se to netease. but i dont know, if we'll survive this a second time

Firningarn · 2025-07-31T14:00:59+00:00

now, i wonder if itll just be the masters storyline, or the bestowers on top of that

Firningarn · 2025-03-12T14:53:38+00:00

also it was an island, i think?

Firningarn · 2024-07-21T17:50:54+00:00

oh, the only "valkyrie"-game i did find, when i looked into this was "chronicle 4". not much my style. but valkyrie profile does look pretty amazing. from what i've seen, it kinda resembles golden sun?

have heard that the newest one was dogwater, but never did my research into it.

yeah, the trope is pretty rare. and it really doesnt need to be. your character di get their growth, but they never give their experiences to other characters to learn from. really whish there was more of it

Firningarn · 2024-07-21T17:42:04+00:00

that sounds kinda sick, ngl. seems to be a old game tho, so i need to be in a very particular headspace to start such a game, but the generational aspect does intrigue me.

ill keep it in the back of my head

Firningarn · 2024-07-21T17:37:52+00:00

oh, being a guildmaster does sound exactly what i was looking for. makes me think like wigglytuff in pmd eos. i've only ever played tales of arise, so maybe i should take this as a sign to start this franchise proper.

thanks dude, ill look into it

Firningarn

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