I'm pretty sure I'll sound like someone who understand nothing in BLVNs, but for me, Our life: beginnings & always is such a masterpiece among VNs I've played. Art, writing, replayability. Was in my head for a good while.
God, I would sacrifice the world to get Alice Blue back. I like this game bad enough that I picked Japanese back up again so I can hopefully tl it some day lmao.
My favorite blvn atm is armored core 6 Ore No Shita De Agake and honest to god all Alice Blue releases, they have a flavor all of their own that you kinda don't get anywhere else. I love vns with small interactive ADV elements (and i am not immune to the number go up mechanics) esp bc it has so much shit you can just run into (
you can get sick on eating random mushrooms you find on the ground and have an entire nightmare B plot, for example
) and you get so good at racking up debt on the guys the repeated runs don't feel cumbersome at all, 90s anime brand humor is frankly hilarious(actually giving Excel Saga at times ngl), I love the slightly wonky art style and you got Hikaru Midorikawa topping Kamille Bidan from the bottom come on. Ichiya himself is a treat too, vers mc that has two types of ero scenes is already huge plus point for me but just how much he embodies the concept of "what if there was a guy who was not only a pervert, but also a huge bastard", always good to see a main character that is weird little freak.
If anything the part I like the least about it is surprisingly not how light it's on plot, because I like my plot heavy games but here everything else makes up for it, but on later runs you can kinda start seeing the places when they had to cut corners, wish every LI had gotten two ending according to how you went about their bad end route. I haven't even tried the PS2 version yet which seems to be even more insane and outlandish so honestly it's just a gift that keeps on giving. God, I would sacrifice the world to get Alice Blue back. I like this game bad enough that I picked Japanese back up again so I can hopefully tl it some day lmao.
I liked their games bad enough to go and play hentai games from their parental company Alice Soft