It’s not everyday that I celebrate the end of a Kickstarter, but I think this one deserves it. Not because I’m their biggest fan, but because of what they’re bringing to table with their catalog. Neoclassic Games is an Italian developer with a focus on, as the name suggests, classic works of fiction. Their debut […]
Lately I’ve fallen into a literary fandom that I’m probably not going to get out of anytime soon. Long-time readers of the site will remember me constantly referencing one of my favorite authors, Samuel Beckett, in the early days. Current readers of the site will be more familiar with this particular fandom: Junji Ito. Ito’s […]
The Walking Dead franchise should get a lot more credit. Yes, it helped run the sub genre of post-apocalyptic fiction into the ground with everyone who tried to cash in, as this Angry Joe bit illustrates. The biggest issue with is that there are seemingly only so many stories that can be told from the […]
It has been a busy weekend in the visual novel world. If you’ve been following along, the narrative goes something like this. Valve, pressured by extreme conservative factions, have begun to target visual novels because some of them are too sexy. The push back on this Waifu/Anime Titty Holocaust (we’ll get to that) was near […]
Indulgent: Willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence . I’ve tossed around the term ‘fanservice’ for a while now, but the truth is the way I use it only covers a small corner of the larger problem of, frankly, indulgent media. Never before in the history of Western civilization has there been such an […]
The Switch is Nintendo’s best console in years. It was so popular when it first came out that stocks sold out pretty much everywhere! People had to go to sites like Gamulator and download the emulator for games like Breath of the Wild because they just couldn’t get their hands on the Switch! And one […]
Today, several visual novel developers got word that they would have to edit some of their adult titles if they wanted to continue to sell them on the platform. JP3 covers the news, analyzes the subsequent outrage and…talks about Roman history? How did that get in there? For those fans of the ‘adult’ subgenre, check out […]
The Bishounen Are Coming Y’all let your imaginations do the rest of the work here and picture me as Ned Stark with Ice on a hill as a bishounen/white-walker army heads in my direction. Trust me, it works. Nintendo has been breaking news for over a week now since the announcement that Shuntaro Furukawa would be […]
…..Okay? I like to think my thought process is a bit more nuanced than that, but I’m not 100% sure what to take away from Sugar and Massacre. This isn’t the first time we’ve crossed paths with a demo that left more than a bit of confusion here on VNs Now. However, it is one […]