7 VN Cliches You Won't Believe!

Any of these can be good or bad depending on the use, cliche doesn't mean bad by definition.

7. The One Choice That is Grayed Out or All Options Are the Same or Only Has One Option

* Fate/Stay Night - http://i.imgur.com/ohSr52T.png
* Rewrite - http://i.imgur.com/H7W511g.png
* Fault Milestone - 2 http://i.imgur.com/9S15XYM.png

6. It's Time for a Time Loop

* Cross Channel
* Umineko, kind of
* Kagetsu Tohya (Tsukihime Fan-Disc)
* Fate/Hollow Ataraxia (Fate/Stay Night Fan-Disc)
* Higurashi
* Muv-Luv Alternative
* Steins;Gate (duh)

5. Hyper-Competent (Ex)Military Protagonist

* Rose Guns Days
* Eden*
* Sharin no Kuni
* Grisaia no Kajitsu
* Root Double
* Rewrite (kind of)
* Muv-Luv Alternative (though to be fair Unlimited shows how it happened)

4. Unreliable or Misdirecting first person narration for some parts

* Tsukihime
* Umineko
* 999
* Sharin no Kuni
* Remember11
* Higurashi
* Chaos;Head
* G Senjou no Maou

3. Mentally Unstable/Broken Protagonist indicated by Static or Other Weird Screen Effects

* Root Double
* Tsukihime
* Fate/Stay Night
* Grisaia
* Rewrite
* Muv-Luv Alternative
* Cross Channel
* Danganronpa 2
* The House in Fata Morgana
* Comyu
* I/O

2. Chronic Case of Amnesia (until Convenient for the Plot)

* Danganronpa
* Danganronpa 2
* Tsukihime
* Fate/Stay Night
* Rewrite
* Root Double
* Ever17
* Remember11
* 999
* Ghost Trick
* Psycho-Pass Mandatory Happiness
* Virtue's Last Reward
* Gahkthun
* The House in Fata Morgana
* Oh my god its basically all of them

1. Armchair Philosophy or Pseudoscience

* It's all of them, I promise. Every last one of them. And I love every minute of it.