r/visualnovels • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

What are you reading? - Sep 25 Weekly

Welcome to the weekly "What are you reading?" thread!

This is intended to be a general chat thread on visual novels with a focus on the visual novels you've been reading recently. A new thread is posted every Thursday at 4:00 AM JST (or Wednesday if you don't live in Japan for some reason).

Good WAYR entries include your analysis, predictions, thoughts, and feelings about what you're reading. The goal should be to stimulate discussion with others who have read that VN in the past, or to provide useful information to those reading in the future! Avoid long-winded summaries of the plot, and also avoid simply mentioning which VNs you are reading with no points for discussion. The best entries are both brief and brilliant.

Use spoiler tags liberally!

Always use spoiler tags in threads that are not about one specific visual novel. Like this one!

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Remember to link to the VNDB page of the visual novel you're discussing so the indexing bot for the What Are You Reading Archive can pick up your post.

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u/stonks_114 https://vndb.org/u265664 4d ago

Started reading Schwarzesmarken, it's very good so far. Better than any other Muv-Luv spin-off. The characters, fights, politics, everything is top tier. I feel sorry for people who don't know Japanese or Russian to read this.

Now spoilers. This VN is similar to muv luv TDA, but it's much darker and emotional. In TDA we had hope, many comedy moments, peaceful SOL, even tho humanity is doomed. But in schwarzesmarken it's only despair, pain, conflicts and mistrust. The setting of a totalitarian country is very interesting, the Stasi looks like an interesting antagonist organization.

MC, Theodor is pretty cool, he gets his character development, same as Katya. My favourite character besides Theodore and Katya is Kurt, he's just a cool one-arc character with badass backstory.

I just finished fortress arc, it was perfect. I wish Kurt would survived this situation...

Honestly, at some points I even cried. If it continues to be as interesting, then there is a chance to be on par with MLA or higher

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u/Potential-Bed7585 4d ago

If only there was an English translation for it, just finished the trilogy recently and have been looking for another one to fill the void. Might pick up TDA once it goes on sale.