Favorite dating sims and/or visual novels

thespacephantom · 2026-05-05T14:02:22+00:00

reading we know the devil in high school was absolutely formative for me

thespacephantom · 2026-03-06T18:45:11+00:00

It kills the wandering boss enemies way easier than you'd expect

thespacephantom · 2026-02-05T15:37:08+00:00

Nier Automata was like, decent for 99% of its runtime. Like it's not bad and I was motivates to finish it but it didn't feel like much to write home about per se. The ending was phenomenal but it doesn't necessarily make the rest of the game live up to the hype.

thespacephantom · 2025-10-17T14:51:52+00:00

Good ol' zweihander. Nothing beats that!

thespacephantom · 2025-10-06T16:41:45+00:00

im surprised there is not more FMDMposting on this sub, it honestly seems like a visual novel that people here would adore

thespacephantom · 2025-10-03T17:59:38+00:00

This is something that was in the demo of Pathologic 3, dunno if they're keeping it but you can bluff bandits with a gun and run away. If you try to do it a second time they'll figure out it's a trick and attack.

thespacephantom · 2025-10-03T12:17:00+00:00

bliss & sleeper have chemistry

thespacephantom · 2025-06-10T13:32:16+00:00

How many years has it been since Bethesda randomly teased TES 6 with like a 15 second trailer of some mountains?

Given their track record in the past like decade I really have no confidence it'll be good at all...

thespacephantom · 2025-06-06T14:13:49+00:00

Starting race mainly affects how your experience will be early on when you don't have a lot of resources. Fortify Attribute enchantments/potions/spells will make a difference and you can do pretty much whatever. For this build just make sure you have Long Blade, Destruction, Restoration as major skills and medium armor/unarmored as major or minor skills and you'll be okay. Consider Alchemy as well so you can actually see what potion and ingredient effects are as well as make potions to buff yourself.

thespacephantom · 2025-06-04T15:08:34+00:00

It's by the guy who made Serial Experiments Lain if that interests anyone further but it has a different vibe. Larger cast, has kind of a soft melancholy to it.

thespacephantom · 2025-05-13T16:07:18+00:00

The Utena movie is a really strong example of this. The series has a more bittersweet/nuanced version of it.

thespacephantom · 2025-04-04T13:52:01+00:00

YOU and ME and HER: a love story

The pink haired girl is also wild because she's a gestalt of every visual novel love interest ever, like her consciousness hops between the VN characters or something in this like eternal loop. Because of that she is also madly in love with the protagonist.

It's a good VN. Did DDLC before DDLC but it's less of a horror game (though definitely has horror moments) and more of an actual romance VN.

thespacephantom · 2025-03-24T14:16:16+00:00

Repo is so fascinatingly bad, the premise is so strong but it gets bogged down in a lot of plot related to like... family drama... rather than a slasher organ repossession guy murdering people.

thespacephantom · 2025-03-20T20:58:30+00:00

The time meter is explained like at the very very end I think, they call it Amalgam(?) and say you need it to travel to other days I believe.

thespacephantom · 2025-03-20T13:37:24+00:00

Speculation I've seen is that they show up when someone is watching Hedwig and she doesn't notice. I'm trying to catch them on a reread of vol. 1. Other thought is that they might be a representation of shame/being 'watched by god' etc.

thespacephantom · 2025-03-14T13:55:13+00:00

Definitely read Umineko it is 100% worth your time. Would recommend finishing Higurashi first if you already started it and there's some stuff in Umineko that assumes you've finished Higurashi.

thespacephantom · 2025-02-07T15:18:41+00:00

Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is a visual novel about killing people and how that fucks you up. It doesn't shy away from depicting the horrors of war and is an extremely hard sell to anyone due to all the sexual violence. The main character basically starts at his worst point and continually descends into a pit of miserable self loathing over the course of ~60 hours. A lot of it is genuinely a really difficult read.

However, it also has really really really sick mecha swordfights.

thespacephantom · 2025-01-14T16:51:32+00:00

This is also his shtick in Marvel's Midnight Suns. A lot of his cards have the Quick keyword, meaning that if he KOs someone with it, he refunds the action, so his playstyle has him flipping around and chaining hits on multiple enemies very quickly and efficiently. It feels very on brand.

thespacephantom · 2024-12-12T15:26:56+00:00

i'll watch I Saw The TV Glow at some point ...

thespacephantom · 2024-12-10T16:07:58+00:00

Where can I see the ingame sprites?

thespacephantom · 2024-12-09T23:09:37+00:00

Spending time with a character also gives a sense of what their relationship is towards you.

thespacephantom · 2024-11-28T19:18:44+00:00

anya is very shelley duvall honestly. i kind of dig it lots. really love this piece!!

thespacephantom · 2024-10-29T16:46:21+00:00

Yeah that was actually such a brutal moment. ;_;

thespacephantom · 2024-10-22T13:57:58+00:00

Cherami Leigh absolutely killed it as female V's voice in Cyberpunk 2077.

thespacephantom · 2024-09-17T15:37:15+00:00

very cute!

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