G collections are the source of Visual novels, i guess thats about it xD

Yeah, but even if you say that, Visual Novels are so damn text heavy, it would take forever to translate them into any other language. =/ Also, cuz there are so many different choices you can take, to lead to different endings, the games are rather complicated/complex. If you want to find some Visual novels though, I have some links here:

http://insani.org/index.html

...and if you're looking for "18+" ones (you know wut I mean :3)

hshare.net has like, ALL of them. They're in the ADV games section. You can find it on the left navigation bar.

I bought one visual novel for Dreamcast and I don't ever want to play one of these kind of games ever again.

haha... i was introduced to these games by watching welcome to the NHK. guage games, yay!

hi!!I want a visual novel but i dont know where to download?Plssss...... teach me im just new here!!!!!

You do know, we don't like these games anymore because we PIONEERED these type of games, and have long sense advance beyond them. People always give credit to Japan, but gaming is American (sorta) Gaming started with a Jewish dude's invention (not pong ffs) He was in America because, well you know WW2 and such. Gaming kicked off in America, and died for the most part here. It was brought back to life by Japanese people, with there (this is important) arcade style games that didn't die there. In America, because the console market died and arcades were not so big anymore, gaming was largely PC. One popular PC game genre were Text based adventures, which evolve into Visual Novels. Japanese gaming was to arcade oriented to create this type of game, imagine sitting in a arcade and then reading, yeah, no.

This game has now picked up in Japan, because these games are VERY easy to develop, and are very cheap. With almost no programing knowledge, you can be well on your way to making a Visual Novel. In America on the other hand, we have been here and done this, and do not want to play things we have done forever ago. We also have a better developer community, so for low cost you can do more as compared to Japan where being a developer means your aspiring to a future of long overtime hours with no pay.

Most of these games are small time or Indie, and compared to American small time and Indie they don't really stack up. You could read a book with pictures or you could play a game like Portal (Yes, Portal WAS just a bunch of students project till Valve said "I think you guys got something there") Our small time scene is much more innovative and just better that we don't need to waste time on Visual Novels that we used to play 20 something years ago.

Not to say all Japanese small time is this way, because I know some damn good Japanese small time stuff to.

My friend had one on DVD and he said it was a game where you try to piss off the girls as much as you can and then you win. I got so bored within the first 2 minutes of reading I almost fell asleep on his couch lol.

I want a visual novel too

please someone tell us where we can download them >.<

Search Ren'py.




Or you know, just search "Visual Novel Download". Google is there for a reason you know?

never played it... i thought it will be boring....

Im trying to get as many as i can ryt now actualy im playing one as im reading this forum

anyways

highly recomended stories are

heart de roommate
and ef series

ef a fairy tale of the two( aka. the first tale )
ef a latter tale

also watch the anime version ef a tale of memories they have stayed true to anime quality, sound, story its so perfect that its almost impossible to imagine

also waiting for ef a tale of melodies

I have played some visual novels, but get annoyed by the fact that most are just bad in story, content and mostly at least one sexial intercourse with the female chars. Whether it is conected to the plot or not.

The better visual novel i have played is Utawareremono.
Despite the sex scenes they have......
Still it was good with the story, music, art and rpg elements they had ingame.^^

yes some VNs hav low story quality... um try the ones we mentioned here all of them are good

I got bored of playing Code Geass: Lost Colors. Damn those kanjis. I tried to play it a week. I got to the 'event where you get to pilot a Knightmare'. Sheesh. I never played it afterwards. But, trying to get La Corda D'oro for the PSP.

this has always bugged me.. is la corda de oro hav anything to do with the VN Crescendo?