You know what’s rare in English Visual Novels? Stories about childhood. Not adolescence: childhood. There are various reasons behind this, but it comes back to the reliance on familiar tropes to sell a story and most of those tropes are reliant on a cast older or around the legal age of consent…make of that what you will. […]
‘Will ‘Fanservice’ ever be executed correctly?’ It’s a question that is usually the last thing to ring through my head after slamming my face into oblivion on my desk. Despite my often-well-earned reputation, I do not blindly hate ‘fanservice’. If I did, then most of the anime I grew up on would have been on […]
I first heard about Fatal Twelve last year at AnimeFest in Dallas. It was a part of a rather impromptu presentation by Sekai Project that I enjoyed, but mostly because I was roasting most of it on Twitter. A few titles stuck out to me though as having strong potential and this was one of […]
The Gold Standard here is written in blood. That hasn’t stopped being true for VNs Now from the moment I first uttered it. However, even my long-time readers forget the corollary to it. Exploring the more dramatic and even the more traumatic side of fiction gives your work a better chance at being good, this […]
As you know, we here at VNs Now are focused on building you a better gaming site and correcting many long-term issues we’ve had in delivering on that site. To that end we’ve talked with several business partners with long-established ties to the visual novel world to make improvements. All of our conversations were productive and […]