A PASSION FOR ALL THINGS GAMES
Silenced: The House is a choose-your-path visual novel regarding vulgar teenagers navigating a creepy house and its surrounding area. Swordbreaker and Dull Grey, other Sometimes You released titles, have identical gameplay (or technically, lack thereof) for comparison. That’s the thing. There really isn’t much game here. You just hit the “advance the text” button until […]
Besides Roguelike titles, it seems the next biggest game genre to grow in popularity over the last few years is the visual novel. With little input by the player, these games are all about the story as opposed to the gameplay. Thankfully, Henchman Story emphasizes humor and is written with care. Even if you hate […]
A digital novel with a minimalistic visual style and gameplay, Dull Grey is a cold tale about oppression, opportunities, and choices. It isn’t often a game this dark fully absorbs its namesake. There isn’t much game here as the player only selects one of two options at certain points of the narrative. Taking the role […]
My Aunt Is A Witch is a visual novel published by Sometimes You of Explosive Jake and Awesome Pea fame. While I personally am not a fan of visual novels as I like more game in my games, fans of the genre should appreciate the story, the vivid visuals, and slight adventure game mechanics. The […]
MoeNovel has made the Nintendo Switch version of “If My Heart Had Wings” available for pre-load as of August 29th 2019. The game, which will be released September 5th, is a story set around students in a Soaring Club where members dream of soaring through the skies in a glider of their own making. The […]
3DS Reading Here in the West, the Jake Hunter series is mostly unknown despite its Famicon roots in Japan. Jake Hunter: Memories of the Past was released on the original DS in 2007 as an experiment, more or less, by Aksys Games to see if a visual novel could gain any traction during the DS […]
Reviving the Past Back in mid-2015, Nintendo re-released their Legend of Zelda Nintendo Power comics as one visual novel. You can read our full review of this book HERE. While it is nice to see the effort put forth to preserve this forgotten ephemera, the quality of the story and visual art style do not […]
Falling Into Place Tetris. Most people have probably played this game at some point in their life. Whether it was on an internet connected PC, a pea-green colored handheld system, a graphing calculator, an illegal version on an 8-bit system, the side of a building, or even on a t-shirt, Tetris is a phenomenon known […]
Reading A Game – Besides having a really long name, Parascientific Escape: Cruise in the Distant Seas is a 3DS eShop download that isn’t for everybody. Ported and translated from its Asian origins, this interactive visual novel is basically like reading a book with some light Professor Layton-like puzzles sprinkled in from time to time. […]
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