Danganronpa, AI: The Somnium Files, And Steins;Gate Get Deep Discounts For Black Friday

Katanakami is good fun for any WOTS fan.

Awesome. It still feels off not seeing the Zero Escape series among the titles though.

Which Steins gate is the first?
Picked up Danganronpa Decadence physically just yesterday funny enough

i love spike chunsoft VN

@Nanami_Ataraxi steins gate elite, then my darling embrace (but it's like a spin off with dating sim) and last steins gate zero

Probably goes without saying at this point, but the Danganronpa games (1, 2, and V3, at least) are must-plays. Ditto with the Somnium Files games.

And Steins;Gate has one of the best time travel stories I've seen to date.

@Melee_Ace It genuinely baffles me that the Nonary Games collection was never ported to Switch. Especially considering how the series started on Nintendo handhelds in the first place. And it's hardly like these couldn't run well.

@BananaMetallurgica
Thanks so much, might grab the first one then ^-^

@Ralizah I think it might have something to do with licensing and/or Aksys. ZTD was pulled from PSN and I think Xbox a few months ago. Still, I agree that the series would be right at home on the Switch and it would run without issues. Here's hoping whatever the problem is is fixed.

@Nanami_Ataraxi steins gate elite is one of my 3 favourites VN. but please.....don't watch the anime before the VN

@BananaMetallurgica
Funny enough I don't watch anime XD
I love visual novels though, from the few I've played at least.

On the off chance, I don't suppose you know if the 'puzzles' in AI the Somnum files are really tricky?
I'm fine with interactivity but I'm a bad at that sort of thing.

@Nanami_Ataraxi i played both ai the somnium files and puzzles aren't difficult. maybe 2 or 3 times a little more hard than normal but you can do it without problem....or with google

I keep meaning to pick up My Darling's Embrace, as it and Chaos;Head are the only translated entries in the Science Adventure franchise that I don't already own, but I keep telling myself to work on actually clearing through some of the things first because the only one I've actually wrapped up is Steins;Gate 0.

I'll probably end up springing for Nirvana Initiative on the Switch at some point but it won't be for now, when it first came out I bought it on Xbox so no real urgency to have it.

Loved both Ai Somnium File games, recommend it to anyone who likes visual novels or a good murder mystery type game.

Good to know about AI Somnium Files. I’ll pick that up.

@Nanami_Ataraxi there are a couple of tricky-ish QTEs in AI: The Somnium Files, and some of the Somnium puzzles (where you go into someone's dreams) can be really... bizarre. The solutions are not always easy to figure out!

However, the game will let you reset and retry, so it's not too bad. I never got completely stuck.

The sale seems to be for Europe only according to the Spike Chunsoft site. Bummer. I've been waiting for a sale on nirvanA Initiative. I already own most of the others.

@KateGray
@BananaMetallurgica

Thankyou very much for your replies, I just picked it up ^-^

I wasn't sure if you had to do it in one or get a bad ending or something, so that's really helpful. And yeah, google is my friend if I get in to much of a jam, the rest of the game seems to be worth putting up with the detective-y stuff.

@Nanami_Ataraxi did you buy both somnium files and steins gate?

@Nanami_Ataraxi you'll be fine, the game is very lenient about letting you retry things. I would recommend looking up a Free Time guide for Danganronpa, once you've gotten used to the game

@BananaMetallurgica
Sadly I just bought somnium files because Various daylife went on sale a day after and that was high on my wishlist.

Like I said i got the danganronpa pack physically, Ai, and I grabbed chaos head noah double pack this month too, so I should be good for VNs until Steins gate goes on sale again I would've thought
But when it does i'll bite

@KateGray
That's really comforting to know!
Will be sure to take your advice when the time comes
Currently playing Pokemon like all the other normies at the moment, but hopefully I'll get to it after.

@Nanami_Ataraxi I'm playing the first chaos head but I don't like a lot. Steins gate, with the house in fata Morgana, is the best experience ever