r/vnsuggest

KS had a very human development history: it took a long time, there were many rewrites, things felt scuffed at many points, people joined and left the dev team, and it was made out of love for the craft. And so, it's no wonder to me why the writing and characters in that world FEEL human to me. I read KS, enjoyed it, and would like to find something that feels similar.

A lot of other VNs, however (even ones which I have a bit of a soft spot for) feel quite tropey. IE, their characters don't feel like people I'd actually talk to, in real life: they're to busy overreacting to things, not having brains, being unsympathetic to things anyone would be sympathetic about in the name of "comedy", or just interact with people strangely - talking like aliens, if you know what I mean.

I know this is kind of hard to quantify and I also know KS had some slightly "alien-feeling" stuff (like when it came to Kenji) but you may be able to suggest something to me.

I've heard very high praise for White Album 2, but I understand that a large part of that story revolves around cheating. As far as I understand, it's done in a very human way, but that still isn't not what I'm looking for. As such, please don't recommend it.

Thanks for any other recs. <3

I like anime visual style, and the format of vn was always interesting for me. It's like a book but with more immersion. However I've never liked any anime or vn in particular, because all I saw was either made for kids/teenagers (inspiring stories for self insert, hentai, gore etc) or just very simple fictions to keep your brain entertained (detectives, sci-fi and fantasy).

I don't have anything against this, but it's just not my cup of tea, as I am a pretensions snob. I wonder if there are any vns that you could compare with classic literature for example? I actually think that Herman Hesse's books, for example, would really fit into a visual novel concept, and I think there are vns that I would find interesting, I just don't know about them.

I often stumble across a ss/art from a visual novel with a pretty artstyle and cute characters, just to find out its 17 hours of the player having sex with all the (15 year old) characters. Its pretty annoying. I don't mind a few distasteful jokes here and there, I just don't want it to be hours of fanservice slop on top of an already boring story.

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I guess i'm just looking for anything that isn't super long, but also entertaining. I wanna get hooked to something!