Today’s edition of the Visual Novel Review Digest covers seven visual novels. It is 3953 words: a 30 minute read. Happy New Year all! I hope 2021 has greeted you and your loved ones with grace and hope. I wish I could say the same but I live in the United States of America so….yeah. […]
Today’s edition of the Visual Novel Review Digest covers eight visual novels. It is 4492 words: a 34 minute read. (Sorry) It’s been a minute, yeah? Unfortunately, my return is going to be a bit ranty as not all of the offerings are up to par: hence the word count. My hope is that over […]
Today’s edition of the Visual Novel Review Digest covers six visual novels. It is 2767 words: a 21 minute read. In my last VNRD, I spent a lot of time taking about visual novels that appealed to my tastes well before I played them. So, this time around I wanted to move outside of my […]
Today’s edition of the Visual Novel Review Digest covers ten visual novels. It is 3337 words: a 25 minute read. I’ve been in a bit of a bloodthirsty mood lately. The current world situation and spending a month working from home probably hasn’t helped. Luckily for me, I have an entire slate of dark visual […]
Hello all and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Visual Novel Review Digest (VNRD?)! As I said at the beginning of the year, the era of me doing long-form, detailed reviews is over. To better compensate with my schedule, I’m switching to a format where I can review a minimum of five visual novels […]
A good mystery is a challenge even for a veteran writer. At its core, a good mystery is a puzzle for the audience to solve while providing enough of a narrative to keep the story itself going outside of the crumb trail of clues. This means the characters must be engaging and smart, but not […]
I think, for the vast majority of fans for any entertainment medium, they have standards and can have a reasonable discussion on said medium…just not on the Internet where the immediate emotional validation of being in a tribe, any tribe, is more appealing than critical thought. The pull of the emotional against the rational is so ingrained into […]
We are nearing the five year anniversary of, unfortunately, one of the most influential English Visual Novels made: Sakura Spirit by Winged Cloud. The release of the game and subsequent hype fundamentally altered the course of VN development in the West as well as the business goals of then new publisher Sekai Project. Since then, […]
Despite my often-well-earned reputation, I do make mistakes. A few years ago, I reviewed a little title called We Know the Devil. Due to my Southern Christian upbringing, the games theme of youths challenging the thumb of religion they were pinned under was a warning sign roughly the size of the Brooklyn Bridge: especially when […]
It’s very rare these days for me to get hyped about a visual novel. ‘Hype’ is a difficult plateau to reach here on VNs Now thanks to our often-rigorous standards. SOMETHING usually gives me caution about a new VN: whether it be something it its development, its premise, its demo – something catches my attention […]