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i dont agree some of the choices doesnt have lasting impact on VN,s
In Clannad you end up with diffrent girls/characters depending on certain choices you make
and as such focusing on that characters story
someetimes you even need to unlock all the characters to unlock a secret or hidden character in other vn,s
so depending of what coices you make and wheter you choose to finnish the game several times to get all the characters the story will be diffrent as a result

Visual Novels are just what they are named, novels that have visual aspects to them.

Novels and movies are different forms of art, with each having different strengths and weaknesses.

For example, it's generally easier for a novel's narration to convey a character's thoughts directly by having the narrator just state what they are, whereas it's generally harder for films to perform that same function, because they might have to resort to gimmicks like voice-over narration to accomplish something like that, which could be considered cheesy and immersion-breaking (and hence not viable to put into a film in a lot of cases).

Others already gave you good answers, but my 2 cents is that VNs provide a unique storytelling format that doesn't have an equivalent in other media. Same reason that a great video game doesn't make a great book/movie adaptation. They're different formats that give experiences unique to their format.
VNs can do some cool things that are either unique to VNs, or have a particular feel about it that isn't the same when done in other formats (like changes of perspective, or tonal shifts - they feel very different when done in a VN compared to say, an FPS)

Also, you may be misunderstanding what a VN actually is. It's a format that can be mixed with other video game formats. Just as we can mix first person format with others (shooter, explorative, roleplaying, survival). Would it make sense to hate on the first person format, and call all first person games "shitty shooters", even if they don't involve any shooting?

I wrote this in another thread, but maybe it will help to repost here: ... So is it a case that you don't like reading in games, period?
I think it's harsh to throw an entire format in the bin just because you don't like one end of its spectrum. But if you really don't like reading, then I think it's fair for you to say that VNs are boring to you.



Oh man, I love when a VN gives you fun twists like an unreliable narrator! You think you know what's going on... and then you find out the main character was hiding things from you the reader?! So good!
I also love seeing all the ways the story could have gone through many different routes, which would cost wayyyy too much (or just be outright confusing) to do in a movie/TV show/etc.

Ok, I have nothing against this game, but the artist and general direction of the art clearly forced the ever lasting shit out of those dutch angles, making the CG feel forcefully desperate to convey some sort of feeling. Its way too extreme. Sometimes less exteme dutch angles are way more, depending on how they want to convey emotions.

Suprise the reader when they least expect it they say but the game gives me the opposing vibe.

Yes, but that's not the kind of game this is. If it looks extreme in the art, then players familiar with that style (since your average VN reader is reading a bunch of these at one time) are going to latch onto it. It's supposed to be overly emotional and may even be an utsuge (crying game) meant to elicit feels, since a lot of gamers in this genre love "the feels" they get from these. It goes back to Key titles, which are literally all about bringing out emotions.

I drove around in my car aimlessly looking for a space, but was unable to find anywhere to parquet...

Thanks for the links! Hearing the intro song of Seasons of Sakura brings a nostalgic joy <3

No problem! Enjoy!

Sure; one of my favorite games is a visual novel. Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney. Problem is that for every Phoneix Wright, you have 1000 visual novels which are simply expensive picturebooks, arbitrarily limited to two lines per page. Even the latter day of the series was swallowed into an endless stream of words & gimmicks before the series found footing again.

PARQUET as far as can be told, is the latter catagory, no matter how well produced it is.

Thank you so much GOG and NekoNyan for releasing this wonderful visual novel here! Parquet is somehow special since this is Yuzusoft very first All Ages VN title! Here’s hoping NekoNyan would bring Clover Day's in GOG as that game is banned in Steam for some reason… I also like to see their other Titles/VNs too!

I mean, that's been the genre for quite a while. Phoenix Wright in itself is not even a visual novel in the traditional sense, it's an adventure game. Closest we have to that is Kara No Shoujo, where you have to be really good at finding the right clues, some almost very obscure - and if you don't do it, you have to watch some absolutely horrible things as punishment for not solving the mystery. Shame that neither of these games found their way to GOG.

You're also forgetting one important quality: While games like Parquet are kinetic and have no choice in story paths, there are several which aren't. So instead of just calling them a right to left picture book, it may be better to call them a "choose your own adventure" novel, something I enjoyed very much as a child. In fact, I tend to look for the mystery and sci-fi novels, something that I know will reward me for playing again and discovering different paths. Even so, you can't judge the level of quality by Phoenix Wright standards because that game series doesn't even represent 10% of the genre as a whole. You may as well judge them on the level of 999 which has a great deal of gameplay.

You're looking for gameplay here and not something to read, which is a very unfair comparison, because to be really and truly honest, I read them because I like to read. When I'm not reading them for my channel, I'm reading independent comic books. I suppose I just prefer pictures with my text.