Riddle Joker is great:

I'm still on the common route of Riddle Joker but it's already obvious this is a great visual novel.  Basically the world is like Railgun, full of espers with super powers, and our hero is like Kuroku, a member of Justice who fights criminal espers with his own esper countermeasures.  There are two main differences -- his organization is a secret organization, unlike Kuroko's;  and he has an incredibly cute sidekick step-sister, Nanami.  Like Uiharu, Nanami is a genius hacker, but she also has the healing esper ability, making her even more useful to our hero, Satoru.  The fact that she's only his step-sister, because they're both adopted foster children, implies there's going to be a bright romantic future for the two once I leave the common route, which is also an improvement over Kuroko's hopeless love.

Nanami has blonde hair and red eyes, so she shares Fate's characteristics.  She also has a rockin' bod, which I guess is similar to Fate's adult body.  I feel like Fate is one of the most beautiful girls in anime, but Nanami is probably prettier.  The only Yuzusoft heroine who could compete with Nanami in looks is Noa, and she's a literal angel.  That isn't all that's praiseworthy about Nanami though.  She's a special agent who fights for the sake of justice, which is awesome.  She loves her Onii-chan and goes out of her way to take care of him -- waking him up in the morning, cooking and doing the rest of the household chores for him, and heals him to max health at every opportunity.  When he's away on a mission she worries about him, proving she cares.  She also cooperates with him on missions and cleans up after him when he makes a mistake.  Did I mention she's an otaku who enjoys making her own cosplay outfits and posing in them at comiket?  She's shy and embarrassed around strangers and blushes easily when Satoru praises or teases her.

To put it simply, she's an unbelievably ideal girl.  Obviously she joins my wonderful hall of fame, replacing Hiromi from that cycling anime with the long name.  I can't say any of the other girls in the game stand out.  They aren't annoying but there's nothing memorable about them either.  Well, maybe once I go down their individual routes and learn more about them, I'll grow to like them, like I did Suzune.  But for now all this game needs is Nanami.

Riddle Joker replaces Shuffle! in my visual novel hall of fame.  I also went ahead and downloaded Noble Works, another English translated Yuzusoft visual novel, in anticipation of the day I finish Riddle Joker.  Yuzusoft can do no wrong, so I'm sure I'll enjoy Noble Works too.  It's so sad that such a great company, with so many smash hits, can't get a translation of its magnum opus, Tenshin Ranman.  Why oh why, with so many other translations, would you ignore the one game we need most?  But either way the Yuzusoft era won't be ending anytime soon.