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How on earth do you beat Trogdor mini game? I’ve feel like I’m going insane with these guys rebuilding their huts.

It still baffles me that Saya no Uta is considered a gateway visual novel. (See the @theaugusthail video “The Most Popular Visual Novels Of All Time”)

That’s like saying, “Never read a book before? Try Lolita by Vladimir Nobakov.”

SnU is what you should read after being in the genre for a bit and want something thought provoking or warrants a discussion. And you are okay with fictional depictions of some pretty heinous shit.

The best I can come up with is that it’s short, and really that doesn’t seem good enough.

With the amount of trigger warnings tied to this story, I feel like there are much better answers to “I’m curious about visual novels, what do you suggest?”

I just finished Steins;Gate and I had some thoughts and I’m wondering if I’m the only person.

Spoiler Warning!!!

So I’ve read over and over again that this was a classic/one of the best visual novels of all time which put my expectations of the story a bit too high maybe. Don’t get me wrong this is definitely a top shelf visual novel, but I think I expected it to be more clever than it was.

There’s like 17 Chekhov’s guns that were introduced but never used that I thought were going to be cleverly incorporated into the plot. Things like:
- Samidare
- Faris’s ability to read people’s faces
- Rintaro giving everything nicknames
- the distrust of Chris
- his landlord being a villian
- Mayuri traveling through time!

I kept expecting the final chapter where all of this gets used in some sort of “OMG they’ve been setting all this up the whole time!” But instead they warn paradoxes are real, force Rintaro to kill Chris to prevent a paradox where he’s not angry enough to spend 15 years inventing the Time Machine, and then create a paradox where he doesn’t invent the Time Machine because it’s his younger self that saves Chris and not his older self.

Needless to say I was very surprised when the final credits rolled.