Since I love reading, and of course enjoy the anime/manga art style, and like many types of games, I figured I should try at least one visual novel type game, as they seem to combine all of these to varying degrees. From reading this topic, I can see that my best bet is to get back to learning the language.

Being that that will take a very long time, I'll look at some of the translated ones first. Does anyone know
Princess Waltz? The product blurb says "A game often compared to Type-Moon's Fate / stay night, and one of Japan's most popular titles of 2006." Is that true? Seems like a good choice, if so. I certainly liked F/S's anime adaptation.