Worse still is that rape in VNs seems to be a fairly commonly visited subject (though in my experience it is rarely glorified, but still used as a cheap-shot to get a quick, negative emotional response). If you don't look up a little of each VN before you play it, you will likely find that random sex-scenes appear out of nowhere (often feeling pretty tacked-on or unnecessary). No absolute protagonist, and really made me want to root for both the good and the bad guys almost equally. Next thing I knew it was about 5am and I had just completed it. I opened it with the intention of "Only playing a little, to find out how these VN things are".
It was weird as hell and there were only a handful of choices to make in the entire game, but it was worth it. Then there was my first VN : "Saya no Uta".Ī better title might have been "Putting the 'love' back into Lovecraft", haha. Trying to summarise it as a "vampire story" would be oversimplifying it, more a "modern paranormal drama" perhaps? Tsukihime has an especially strange mix of peaceful melancholy and emotional struggle. Like I said, the writing is often sloppy but the plot elements can take you off-guard, and while it can be a bit over melodramatic, I can't deny it can have a real effect once you're invested in the characters. I just recently decided to finally give the original Tsukihime VN a shot, and holy jeebus did the story grab me by the balls. While the writing is often sloppy, you can't beat the melodrama in a typical popular Visual Novel. A little bittersweet but with a lasting whiff of melancholy. Wolf's Rain, if you can get into the story.
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