Visual Novell

A visual Novell is a kind of video game, rather popular in Japan but far from known in the Western countries. One could qualify the multi-media kind of book, so much his design moves away from the plays " ordinaires".

Gameplay

Most of the time, the interactions of the player are limited to click to read the following text. However, certain plays propose during certain dialogs of the different answers. According to those chosen, the history evolves/moves differently and several ends are proposed.

A visual Novell should not be taken as a play with the traditional direction, but rather as a book, see a cartoon. One follows a history, while admiring the drawings and animations of the characters. Very often, a musical bottom accompanies the whole. However, some visual Novell propose mini-plays or some elements of roleplays.

Elements of a visual Novell

To like, a visual Novell must captivate the reader by the quality of his scenario. On this point, certain plays of this type largely dissociate their competitors. One can quote Higurashi No naku koro nor or Fate/stay night with the incredibly rich scenarios. These 2 titles gained a great success and today, they have an important community of fans.

Nevertheless, a visual Novell does not fill these criteria inevitably. Just like there exist bad films or bad books, there exists bad Visual Novel. They are generally plays of dredger, where the goal is to allure virtual characters, to free scenes Ecchi, to see Hentai.

It should be known that the majority of the visual novels have some scenes Ecchi or Hentai and are included of this fact in the category of the Eroge. But it is changing. Higurashi No Naku Koro Nor , for example, does not contain only one pornographic scene.

One can wonder why not quite simply not remove these scenes, which do not bring anything to the play and are tiny. In fact, they are used to avoid the general public to attract a more adult public and Otaku, which will be less demanding, the large majority of the visual Novell being made by amateurs or semi-professionals equipped with a weak budget. But once with dimensions the hentai exceeded, the public will like the play for its scenario and will develop its reputation by the word of mount. Once the play with obtained success and a good reputation, it will leave in a new version stripped of all erotic scenes and equipped with innovations, in order to be able this time touch a larger audience. It is the case of Fate/stay night , which the remake left on Playstation 2, with an adapted filtering and many technical improvements.

Translations

The near total of the visual Novell are in Japanese, but certain groups of fans translate them into English, making it possible a larger audience to benefit from it. There does not exist any visual famous Novell to date having been translated into French, work being considerable.

See too

Visual Novell Fan Translations
Ren' Py (a free software multi platform to create and diffuse of Visual Novels).

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