We don’t really get a chance to laugh at this medium a lot, do we? It certainly wasn’t by design, I’ll tell you that. In the early years, VNs Now did attempt to have some fun with EVNs: especially when I inevitably had to review a bad one. However, bad work stops being funny after […]
So, recently I’ve realized how lucky I’ve been as a reviewer over the past four years. I’m not going to pretend like it’s been an endless stream of great games. We’ve had to deal with a range bad visual novels as well but as bad as they have been, it’s never been outside of my […]
There is an interesting truth when it comes to VNs Now: the gold standard here is written in blood. That isn’t to say that the light and happy tales that can be typical of this particular medium have no chance here at all. And more than a few supposedly ‘dark’ visual novel has gotten panned […]
The hits just keep on coming apparently. Today, the VN group Marble Syrup may have admitted to stealing artwork for one of its free-to-play titles on Newgrounds. This is a story I got wind of yesterday in the aftermath of the Akisekai controversy and, legally, the exact issue with this one can be a little […]
Today, several comments have been made on the recent news article Akisekai: Greed and Lies dealing with someone named Jason Jiyu Yue. Jason Yue is the name listed as the authorized handler of the Akisekai Kickstarter account. These comments have asked that I remove Mr. Yue’s name from the article because he and the person […]
EDIT (8/27/2015): I have had a conversation with Jason Yue today and, in keeping with my word, his name has been removed from the main article. You can read more about everything that happened concerning that here. If you wasn’t attached to either Kickstarter or Twitter this weekend, you missed a backer revolt. I missed it as well […]
Before we begin, I want to thank everyone who was patient with the lack of reviews in July. I decided to quietly step away for a bit to rest my brain and prevent my reviews this year from dropping in quality. But rest cannot go on forever so ooooooohhhhhh yeeesssssss, I have returned to deal […]
One of the more controversial developers I’ve run across is AJ Tilley. Up until last year I had given his work a cursory look and little else. However, Tilley’s repeated use of Kickstarter to fund every idea he could think of drew enough ire from fans and other developers I had to try and get […]