What four visual novels belong on the Visual Novels Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER

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Thorn posted...
When I say redundant, I mean that you're basically all pulling from a similar slice in time in the 2000s rather than a more diverse representation of the history. If you don't care about that or think that their impact is great enough that it overrides it (as I ultimately did) then yeah it may not.
Ah. Hmm yeah that's a fair point. For better or for worse I'm not really familiar with pre-2000 VN's (it doesn't help that many of them are really hard to run on modern PCs), there was a broad stretch of moeblob everywhere where I didn't like much of what was coming out, and I do think for something like this that you shouldn't include things in, say, the last 5 years where it's hard to really know their long-term impact. (Also I don't really follow the modern scene much at all.) Like, Lessons in Love is my actual favorite dempa VN but it's being released serially and for all I know it won't stick the landing or will never be finished or w/e.
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