Visual Novels

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/79947

Anime has slowly grown into a global phenomenon, but visual novels are far more niche. Many visual novels remain untouched by localization companies, and sometimes the localizations we do get are…lackluster.

Often, the best way to experience a visual novel is in the original language—Japanese. Whether you’re already interested in learning Japanese, or want to learn Japanese purely to play visual novels in their original language, both motivations are perfectly valid. Visual novels are a great way to learn Japanese, because you get exposure to both the written and spoken language.

I've written a guide on how you can learn Japanese by playing visual novels with the help of a friend who made some suggestions to improve it, and it's available on our wiki, wiki.comfysnug.space. As with all pages on our wiki, it's licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, meaning you're free to share and re-post the content.

If you're interested in learning Japanese or have already begun, I hope you find this guide useful. It isn't meant to be a dedicated guide on learning Japanese, but there are some tools you might not know about that will make your life easier.

If you have any additions or corrections to offer for this guide, or are interested in working on our other pages, you can sign up for the wiki here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/77652

Over 200 games are discounted until July 9th on the JAST storefront.

• All releases are DRM-Free
• Reminder that you can filter by Japanese support; 29 games with Japanese support are currently discounted

Includes a lot of nukige, but also some plot-focused ones like:

• Hanachirasu
• Aokana
• Flowers series
• Muramasa

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/72101

Where would I go about looking for banner images in these relative form factors for visual novels in general? My lutris screen looks pretty ugly right now and I'd like to pretty it up some.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/43368

A guide to buying visual novels, particularly if you want to acquire them in the original japanese

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/33556

Per https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/22200, I have gone and made a DokuWiki that we as a community can build together. I, unfortunately, know very little about what specifically I'm doing with wiki software, particularly when it comes to making things look pretty.

For now, the to-do list looks like:

• make sure others can sign up and contribute
• initialize visualnovels namespace with placeholder content
• pull in / rewrite content suggested in https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/comment/92413

I look forward to working together with all of you!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/25430

a useful resource for self-directed japanese studies

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/22200

What realistic options do we have for making a copy of this wiki here on lemmy? Am I going to have to spin up a DokiWiki? Repurpose my WordPress blog to post some of these articles? I'm open to suggestions, too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/10537

For me, Yume Miru Kusuri was my first visual novel. I don't even remember why I played it, but I liked it so much that I'm here forever now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/5060

What steps, if any, do you guys take on the linux distribution of your choice to play visual novels?

I, personally, set the following in my .bashrc

alias vn='env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine start '

so I can just type vn gameExecutable.exe and usually just have the game work.

For the games I've had for a while, I have .desktop entries in my $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications directory with more specific commands as needed.

If you guys have any other tricks up your sleeves, please feel free to share them here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/17140

from: https://old.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/wiki/recommendations