This past weekend, rumors began to swirl across the visual novel community that the development group Winged Cloud and publisher Sekai Project have parted ways. This began after someone went to Steam and realized that Winged Cloud’s catalog have removed Sekai Project as their publisher. On Monday afternoon, VNs Now received an e-mail from Sekai Project […]
Welcome everyone to what is essentially an experiment for VNs Now: a little something that has been coming for a while now, but has managed to stay on the outskirts of this reviewer’s purview thanks to the grey area surrounding Early Access. I’ll be honest: like with crowd-funding, I like the idea of Early Access. […]
Before we begin this review, I felt the need to have a little fireside chat with you guys. We Know the Devil deals with issues concerning religion, sexuality and gender. Because of this, many people have had a very intimate, personal response to the game. And I have done this thing long enough to know when […]
Before we begin this review, I would be remiss if I didn’t note that VNs Now has a new Reviews Editor! It’s a familiar face for those long-time readers who remember Will Wellemeyer (aka Ozzytizer) was our Reporter. He’s been busy, but he’s still been around behind the scenes of VNs Now. He’ll be taking […]
Christine Love is weird. Here’s the thing: I stand by my opinion on Analogue: A Hate Story. It remains one of the best written EVNs I’ve played and the level of detail in its society makes the brutality of the world much more realistic. The Analogue versions of Hyun-ae and Mute remain some of the […]
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 […]