Harlequin

What a mess with that FHA business... Well, no reason to get excited. It can wait some more like everything else.

Nice to see Sekai Project doing really well for themselves with those kickstarters.

Even better if you actually want some QUALITY to it. Such as - not interrupt any of the voice acting and make the transition from each sentence to the next as smooth as possible, while also making sure that there's enough of a pause so that slower readers gets a better chance to catch it all. Depending on how long the scene is, you'll have to sit there and do it perfectly for X minutes while not getting interrupted by anything. If you get interrupted in any way, you might end up getting a long pause in the video or something, or you might screw up accidently and interrupt a voiced line. That w

I'm not gonna tell you anything about the plot. Instead, just see for yourself what it's like. That's for the best. Simply jump into it.

Higurashi should be quite interesting for you... for obvious reasons. Though admittedly it would've been even better if you had read it before Umineko. Well it's very, very good in general anyway. At times, both Higurashi and Higanbana can feel similar to Umineko - probably because of the writing style itself. However their stories are still very different. So you won't get the same kind of experience as in Umineko. Still, they're good. Really good. So you should definitely read both of them. Higurashi is the most important for you right now because hey, it's When They Cry 1 & 2. You've

^ The routes all have their own unique endings, yes. So it's worth going through them even though Haru's is the best one by far. You could use this walkthrough to make it easy.

[spoiler=Grisaia Meikyuu/Rakuen, badass Sachi CG]http://i.imgur.com/KDgwOsO.jpg Found it while looking for Sachi pictures. It probably does count as a spoiler, but it's essentially just a badass and awesome picture of Sachi. I didn't really care about it being a spoiler or not when I first saw it, simply because it's... well... not surprising. After all, Sachi is the best (hentai) maid there ever was. So this is just par for the course. Well I put it in a spoiler box regardless.

That really doesn't look like an OELVN either. :S At least I wouldn't have guessed it just by seeing the pictures.

Finished Steins;Gate earlier today. Holy shit man, I can now see why people like it so much. Why it's so popular. Well, the anime contributes to that, but the VN is at #2 on VNDB right now... sooo yea. Actually I think the anime is at #2 on MAL as well. It's very easy to get into. This is the kind of story that I'd recommend to people who aren't used to VNs. Really fits that bill. And it also happens to be really, really good in general, so that's a sweet combination. I kinda wish I had read it earlier myself, although after seeing the entire thing... it's not a big deal. Because it ended b

Hmm? Koestl says he's working on something official now for MG/JAST or whatever. Doesn't mean he couldn't pick up Meikyuu (again) and Rakuen later. Doom and gloom. Doom and gloom.

Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni - Dai Ichi Ya. (first part of Higanbana) Man, that was really good. I absolutely love Ryukishi's other work (Higurashi, Umineko), so I came into this with some expectations, you know? And it most definitely met those expectations... actually no, it went above them. So the same thing has happened now with every 07th Expansion title I've read. It's remarkable. Ryukishi simply does not fail to blow my mind every time I read one of these VNs. Twists and turns man, twists and turns and craziness. Maybe I'm too stupid to predict many of turns and whatnot, but that's fine

I love this one so much. http://i.imgur.com/vmQTVId.jpg

Looks pretty interesting to me tbh. Just from the little information about it on VNDB and the blog post though.

[video=youtube;u-eMgk50y5k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-eMgk50y5k

The difficulty settings don't mean that much. It won't change up the gameplay dramatically for you or anything, if you've already gone through it once before. Best to just go with that difficulty on your first playthrough. Anyway, yea, it's easy. These types of mystery games usually tend to be quite easy. But that doesn't really stop them from being entertaining however.

+1. Over the top is the right way to put it. It's a lot of fun. And that's simply how games like Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick and Danganronpa are. Over the top while still having interesting stories and fun characters., and they're all easy to get into.

You should try Tsubasa as well if you haven't already. It's the better fandisc, in my opinion. (Not all stories in it are translated though, but who knows when/if they ever will be)

Hard to say... There's Higurashi, in that the anime certainly is a lot more popular than the visual novel, which is quite unfortunate. Of course the series as a whole is very popular, but a lot of that comes from the anime. :/ And it's worse than the VN. But other than that I might say Forest as well. It's a really strange VN that you'll either love or hate I'd say, and I have this feeling that not enough people give it a chance.

How much did you like it?

That looks lovely.

Mystery, Psychological, Horror. Certainly enjoy other stuff too but those are at the top.

To start reading (the first) Higanbana right now, or to not start reading Higanbana right now... that is the question.