Visual Novels

473 readers

8 users here now

/c/Visual Novels

A community for discussing visual novels and the visual novel medium.

Chat with us!

Rules

Make sure your topic is related to visual novels in some way.
Don’t post one-liner posts with no image, troll attempts, or karma-farming attempts.
If you post a screenshot from a VN, you are required to post a name of the visual novel in the title. (e.g. [VN title] Post title)
NSFW rule: Mark your post as NSFW if it contains explicit sex or gratuitous nudity. When in doubt, NSFW it for the browsing safety of your fellow users.

Our friends

Visual Novels:

Otome Games:

Making Visual Novels:

[email protected]

Help:

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What are some of the best story payoffs you experienced? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Mine:

Mayuri's ending in Steins;Gate My Darling's Embrace: As one of the rare Okabe/Mayuri shippers, finishing my S;G experience with this is one of the best story payoffs I experienced.

Tomoyo After true ending: Very heartbreaking and IMO much better than the canon Clannad After Story ending. If I have infinite money, I'll have an anime produced out of it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think for a branching / multiple endings game, the first route will always be the most special. Because at that point you'll be going in blind, to some extent. You may understand the vibe of the beginning of the game, and can extrapolate on the tone of the endings, but you'll never know for sure until you complete the route. You're forced to prepare yourself for the tonal shift that may or may not happen. And from that uncertainty comes a better payoff, in my mind.

For that reason I'll nominate my first ending of Grisaia no Kajitsu, Sachi.