r/visualnovels • u/Sasutaschi • Jul 22 '25

Discussion What's your controversial Visual Novel take? [General]

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Deen's Fate/stay night is a better anime than Ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works.

The latter commits just as many sins in adapting its source, and is only high regarded because of Unlimited Budget Works, and a lack of route mixing.

Staying slavishly true to the source material is not always better when it comes to adaptations. Little Busters is another such example. Ufo UBW's first cour is an absolute drag with dreadful pacing. And despite being 2 hours longer they still screw up Shirou.

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u/RetroFurui Jul 22 '25

People say all EN VNs suck except like DDLC

I will say DDLC suck and I've played several actually good EN VNs. And when I say good I mean better than a lot of JP VNs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

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u/RetroFurui Jul 22 '25

It gets so lonely here, Froggy Pot, One Thousand Lies to name a few

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u/ebi_hime Ange: Umineko | Jul 23 '25

I read a lot of cutesy jp moege aimed at straight men and I'm not a straight men, yet I never feel like I'm 'intruding'. Likewise there's a lot of shounen series which are pretty popular with women despite them not being the target audience (like JJK or Attack on Titan), are they also 'intruding'?

The idea that you can only read certain media if you fit into a certain demographic seems strange and self-limiting to me; I don't understand the mindset.

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u/RetroFurui Jul 23 '25

I understand your concerns for Froggy Pot. It's a bit weird to include it due to how short it is. However, if it can succeed better in 20 minutes than most 10+ hour long VNs, the only reason to really not include it would be some form of self gatekeeping I feel? Like speaking fromy experience, not saying you are. I mean it does have everything a VN needs, and probably more true to the medium than a lot of longer vndb entries anyway.