You make a meme about VNs getting worse with time and you fill it with this? Seriously? Clannad, despite the whacky art style, is one of the best VNs of all time.

The 2000s was very much still in the heyday of the industry with all time classics being released every year, often multiple per year. Hell, FSN, one of the best and most popular VNs ever, also came out in 2004, the same year as Clannad.

VNs getting worse is not a thing that largely occurred between the mid 90s and mid 2000s, it was really the 2010s where the number of amazing titles started plummeting. And while subjectively speaking you could point to art as one of the contributing factors, I would argue the much bigger contributor is a lot of the best studios closed up shop and stopped making them.

Most of the best VNs out there have a more modern looking moe art style than the works on the top part of this meme, but nothing like the derpy style of early Key works that gets clowned on even by major fans of Maeda's stories.

You make a meme about VNs getting worse with time and you fill it with this? Seriously? Clannad, despite the whacky art style, is one of the best VNs of all time.

The 2000s was very much still in the heyday of the industry with all time classics being released every year, often multiple per year. Hell, FSN, one of the best and most popular VNs ever, also came out in 2004, the same year as Clannad.

VNs getting worse is not a thing that largely occurred between the mid 90s and mid 2000s, it was really the 2010s where the number of amazing titles started plummeting. And while subjectively speaking you could point to art as one of the contributing factors, I would argue the much bigger contributor is a lot of the best studios closed up shop and stopped making them.

Most of the best VNs out there have a more modern looking moe art style than the above works in this meme, but nothing like the derpy style of early Key works that gets clowned on even by major fans of Maeda's stories.