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It is entirely, completely about your own experience and appreciation. No-one minds if it takes you a long time to get through the complete experience of something like BUSTAFELLOWS or Olympia SoirГ©e, because thereвЂ™s no competitive element. No-one is speedrunning visual novels - or if they are, I doubt anyone cares. Seriously, there is absolutely no rush whatsoever. But hereвЂ™s the thing to remember: thereвЂ™s no rush. ItвЂ™s understandable to feel a little discouraged when facing down a visual novel which is supposedly 50 or more hours long, just as it is when looking at an 800-page tome from whoever the latest hot author of the moment is.

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YouвЂ™re free to ignore that pacing, turn off dialogue or simply skip through lines, of course, but thereвЂ™s an argument to be made that youвЂ™re depriving yourself of part of the experience by doing that. While you can romp through a paper book at your own pace under most circumstances, your average visual novel - one that is voiced, anyway - tends to have a sort of вЂњoptimalвЂќ pace at which to experience it. TodayвЂ™s visual novels have a word count on par with equivalent books, and consequently that means they take at least as long to read through - perhaps even more so, since part of the visual novel mediumвЂ™s core appeal is being able to hear music and voice acting, see animations and fully immerse yourself in the multimedia experience. And that means that they demand more of your time in total.

When I think back to the paperback novels I enjoyed as a teen in the вЂ™90s, they were a fraction of the size of todayвЂ™s bestsellers todayвЂ™s books arenвЂ™t necessarily better, theyвЂ™re just longer.

In many ways, the development of the visual novel medium has paralleled what paper books have done over the course of the last 20-30 years or so. Visual novels vary enormously in length some older titles are done and dusted within less than an hour, while many modern titles take upwards of 50 or more hours to read, especially if you want to see all the routes, all the endings, all the bonus content and anything else that might be included.

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