Yeah Tomoyo is pretty awesome.

But I thought everyone already knew about this. It was announced quite awhile ago.

What is this? A dating sim with under-age girls?

Most things based on anime don't get localized outside of Japan since the animes never see the light of day outside of Japan (with the exception of the various groups subbing the animes for free online). Was a good anime, curious how the game plays. Also, is it just the first season, or does it include After Story? Loved both, but After Story with the *spoiler* Nagisa and Ushio dieing *end spoiler* was saddening.

Also, does it include the Dango Daikazoku song?
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With no chance of English localization...

It's not really a "dating sim" per se, it's more like reading a digital book and picking a choice once every few hours.

I would agree that it sounds really boring when you hear or think about playing a visual novel however when you actually start playing one it's far from boring.

and like Zatrox said most visual novels coming out now aren't really dating sims. There are stories that will depend on your choices to choose the love interesting but it's not a sim of any kind. Those kinds of games were around more in the mid to late 90's and have pretty much died down(although Love Plus is bringing back a bit) Visual novels now are all about really good stories and characters which is why so many end up becoming movies or anime now.

The best ones keep you completely engrossed in the story and you will not be able to stop(just like a good book) and you do get choices far more then once every few hours. Some games have long portions of story with no choices but more often then not you get a choice every few minutes.

I used to be in the same boat as you thinking "Pff visual novels they sound boring as hell" but then I played Fate/Stay Night and was pretty much hooked and have since then played probably a good 10-15 really good visual novels like Shuffle, Snow Sakura, Air, Little Busters, Ying Yang X-change Alternitive, Kira Kira, Edleweiss and honestly plenty more i can't remember.

I would say just give one a shot and see how you like it. Worse thing is you waste a few hours and maybe better understand the medium and best case is you will find a new and interesting way to pass time.

Normally is Clannad After Story that is highly praised. The first season is mostly use to set characters, backstories and the world. It does a alright job on setting those, but it's not amazing or anything.

Also, while the anime is a fine adaptation. It doesn't go deep enough in explaining how the world works. So unless you really pay attention to the first season, you might get confused by what happens in the second.

I can't really comment without spoiling it for you but it's after story where it gets better however I just don't think the show is for you judging by your comment.

You'll eat your words once you've watched After Story