What games I will review:
Highlight
On-Going:
Higurashi Series: Chapter 5
Umineko Series: Question Arc
Zero Escape Series: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors & Virtue’s Last Reward
Ozmafia
That Which Binds Us
In the Future:
Collar x Malice
Diabolik Lovers (may take time because it’s in Japanese)
Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk
Hakuoki
Steins;Gate
Nightshade
Psycho Pass: Mandatory Happiness
The Wolf Among Us
I have a mission. The mission involves you, my readers and (hopefully) followers!
My plan is to help the promotion of visual novels, so to say.
Visual Novels are interactive novels that include a visualization of the characters. You play as the heroine or hero and can decide the actions of the protagonist. Visualized characters means that you see a character spite of the person you’re currently interacting with on your screen and read the dialogue and the corresponding story in the box below the spite. The spites are static in most visual novels, however, newer ones often have dynamic character spites that are blinking or there is some kind of animation.
As an example from Ozmafia:
There are aspects of visual novels that distinct them from similar genres that some people tend to brush over or there are false accusations towards VN. I will talk about a few of them:
Visual Novels are often called boring because they don’t include ‘action’ like we know from action games. You will not be really walking around or fighting and the choices often don’t have a timer. While this may seem weird to be called a game at first, I would still disagree that a visual novel can’t be as immersing as an action game. If it has a good story and character development, you can often find yourself reading throughout nights just to finish all possible routes and endings in a few days.
Otome Games are NOT the same as every other visual novel. People often tend to call the otome games that you can play on your phone a visual novel. This is NOT true. Visual novels are books and not every book is supposed to have the same genre. In addition, phone games tend to have a much shallow story and a huge price difference compared to visual novels on consoles and pc, in my opinion.
Therefore, you don’t actually know about visual novels, if you only played otome games on your phone. Moreover, otome means it is a romance game focused on dating and it is for a female audience (I mean, of course everyone can play and enjoy them but the target audience are females). That is why these games tend to sacrifice story and plot over romance.
Enough with the ranting.
However, you might wonder, what all of this has to do with me.
Sadly, I am not a developer of visual novels, but merely a curator. My task is to review the games that I have previously played, so that you don’t need to search through the masses of visual novels in order to find a good game. You only need one click.
On the navigation on the left, you can either click on the Curator Page (with all reviews) or on Reviews (that include longer reviews of the most memorable games that I know or reviews of games that are sadly not available on Steam).
Before you go blindly clicking though:
My preferences in games are romance or mystery visual novels
Although, I am really open-minded about novels as long as it’s not erotic/hentai.
So feel free to write me suggestions, what I should play next. Alternatively, if you are a developer, you can just send me a copy on Steam and I gladly review your game.
Ah, yes, but since I am not really making a living with the reviews, I can only play in my free time, which is kind of limited. So please don’t expect me to be fast with reviewing or that this page is going to be updated daily or weekly. I am trying to be as fair as possible to every game and that includes that I am not rushing through them.
So with further ado…
Welcome to my page and I hope you find what you’re searching for!
Sincerely,
Lizz
