What is your top 10 VN? Let's share the best in your opinion.

[El Mapa]

(11) Not in order and some of them really haven't aged well, but they were amazing at the time:

• LOP - Living with Temptation - (the slow buildup with some grinding was amazing, I hate 3 minute conversation into fuck games)
• Milfy City - (almost the same, the teasing with the older sister was great)
• Being a DIK - Top quality renders, great writing of different personalities
• Dating my Daughter - One of the OGs, got me used to waiting for updates on games
• ETERNUM - Started it this year, always hated this kind of renders/animations but this game made me start to appreciate it, fun story and great characters
• DESIRIUM - Kind of the same as ETERNUM, unfinished and not a lot of content but love the characters, animations and renders
• No More Money - Loved the characters, too bad it was dropped
• Summer Heat - Amazing renders and characters
• Heart Problems - Great renders, teasing and animations. Hate the minor looking character tho
• Summer with Mia - Hot
• Race of Life

 

[Goeffel]

though japanese is like alien language to me.

It does not matter that much.

Japanese intonation is surprisingly close to eg. German intonation. I could get a dozen people from the street* who do not understand Japanese and show them a talking anime with social situations where they talk normally (not: yell) and while the random German crowd would not understand what is said, they could understand HOW it is said, and from there actually understand some of what is said.

and Japanese voiceacting overall is of SPLENDID quality. (mostly not in sex scenes, though)
I wish we had such quality in German voiceacting, since here it is still so that everything gets dubbed into German, but often poor quality.

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I don't do top-10 lists.

but: +1 for Eiyuu Senki - World Conquest (Nadekai already presented it), this is a good example for good Japanese voiceacting too, and how it adds much! to the enjoyment of that game/ the characters.

The playstation-based fantranslated version has more content, and also translated more (battle comments, world map comments, and list comments) which all add nicely to the characterisation of them ~80 or so girls.
(Eiyuu Senki GOLD is not a "gold version" but a stupidly named second game for those who already played World Conquest and can't get enough or just want a sex scene with TutAnkAmun)

Oh, also +1 for The Last Sovereign, though should be noted that game means 100s (plural) of hours ...
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and I recommend The Mercenary's Adventure

NOT voiced, but impressive art (quality and amount), and even animations, and ... just good.

tip: if you do not want to check out everywhere for hidden stashes (mostly just some little gold, but also one superb item) then search the very first map-with-monsters VERY thoroughly to find the "detector" item. IF you want to search/find things yourself, then do NOT take the detector, you can not get rid of it.

TIP 2 : it may occasionally crash (not that often), so save often, and it has autosave feature.
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* OK, that may be difficult to actually do, it is a VERY small village town here ...