#English translated visual novels series#

#English translated visual novels series#

Even worse, some visual novels like those from the Sakura series is just the epitome of poorly-written stories (if you can even call them that) and fanservices-and this creates a stigma in the visual novel community, as if this is only what the medium has to offer which is definitely not something you want, considering that visual novels already took a herculean effort to persuade people that sex and fanservices arenвЂ™t the only things they have to offer, releasing titles after titles with incredible stories and this situation with Steam just turned everything back to square one. I honestly donвЂ™t want to shit on them too much if I can, but they just donвЂ™t seem particular amazing from the ones that I came across. In fact, sometimes, you quite literally have to dig through the sea of subpar OELVNs just to find the good titles. Now donвЂ™t get me wrong, I appreciate well-made OELVNs when I see some, but most of the works I have seen do not reflect whatвЂ™s good about visual novels in the slightest. Because itвЂ™s an open platform, itвЂ™s also easy for just about anyone to create their own content in it too. Steam is indeed a good platform for visual novels, perhaps вЂњtoo goodвЂќ. Admittedly, itвЂ™s artwork is good, perhaps the only redeeming trait however. Sakura series - arguably the most popular OELVN series in Steam now despite itвЂ™s shortcomings. Nowadays, more and more gamers are also playing visual novels, something seriously unheard of during the early days of my venture into the medium. Doing this helps reaching out to more people who perhaps werenвЂ™t even familiar with the medium in the first place. I never thought I would see the day where gamers would play famous visual novels like G-Senjou and Clannad. Releasing visual novels on Steam is a really good idea. In fact, I can only see the situation improving from here. Some visual novels I thought would never see the light of day in the English-visual novel community, are actually translated to my pleasant surprise-the latest example being, Tokyo Babel. And thatвЂ™s right, we all have Steam to thanks to for giving this medium a platform to release these localized titles. As compared to back then when English-translated visual novels could be counted with just your two hands, nowadays a lot of visual novels have gotten widespread attention. This however, comes with a price.Д«efore I go on with the finer details, I want to say this first-visual novels have really gone a long way as far as mainstream focus. I rarely use Steam myself (only ever used it for screenshot), but if thereвЂ™s one thing IвЂ™m appreciative of - Steam has given visual novels a more mainstream attention. Here is a link to the guide I used for setting the program up.This picture represents SteamвЂ™s visual novels well. Its possible the furigana may have issues at times as well since it is done automatically but it seems pretty on point to me(my knowledge is admittedly pretty limited though). I personally find the furigana very helpful both for recognizing words I already know the pronunciation of and for looking words up more easily. I have used them to muddle through a couple games I couldnвЂ™t wait to play though. They can be helpful for getting the general idea of whats going on but they are very error prone and confusing at times. It can also add machine translation but I would not rely on those. Give a shout out if your a fan of visual novels.ДЄs mentioned in the title, this program will add furigana to your visual novels. I thought I should share this great resource for those of you who are interested though. I havenвЂ™t seen many recent posts about visual novels so I donвЂ™t know how many fans are around.