Tag Archives: Visual Novel

Reincarnated as the villain in one of your favorite visual novels! Contemporary gaming is full of curiosities. Although hardly as tedious as being forced to scroll through a massive terms and conditions document, My Next ...

Heartbreaks and Uwus A myriad of visual novels chart the progression of relationships. LYCORIS’ UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~ begins with an unexpected event. The linear novel’s first chapter details a breakup ...

The latest SciADV is the most fantastical and fast-paced entry. But that means we don’t really get to know some of the characters. Long before science fiction habitually became a conduit for escapism, it provided ...

Thinking being the boyfriend of an up-and-coming music idol is easy? Relationships are minor miracles White Album: Memories like Falling Snow reminds us. Susceptible to a myriad of misunderstandings and even misdeeds, moments of interpersonal ...

Where ghosts are more human than most human characters If you’ve spent most of your life watching blockbuster movies, the arthouse film might seem unappealing at first. Big-budget commercial films are made for mainstream appeal, ...

Kokoro is the Japanese word for “heart”, and this game has it. Franchises like Utawarerumono, Tears to Tiara, and of course, Disgaea have married the expressive storytelling of a visual novel to turn-based combat. The ...

Things aren’t quite as they initially seem in this visual novel with sleuthing elements.  Hao-Chen Jiang’s likely finds solace in the predictability of his daily routine. Every weekday, he attends class while his afternoons are ...

“If she cries, the whole world dies”, Meg’s Monster warns. Likely, any tears shed will be your own. 2019’s Bear’s Restaurant helped establish Odencat’s ambitions for poignant storytelling. Players who peered past the game’s modest ...

Tamagotchi-style care for the last member of humanity provides a stirring stimulus for Void Terrarium 2’s dungeon crawling. Released amidst a tempestuous pandemic, 2020’s void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium envisioned a setting that embodied melancholic isolation. Catastrophically, ...

Please Be Happy reminds us that learning about ourselves often involves the risk of revealing your insecurities. Fear has become the prevailing implement of politicians, marketers, and the media. The result of this persistent trepidation ...