Thanks to the good folks at Wispfire, I will be giving away a game code for Herald over the next few days. Follow VNs Now on Twitter and RT our tweets of this review for a chance to win! (6/23/2017) I was wrong. If a critic is honest, these are the three words they have […]
Being creative is a difficult burden to bear. Regardless of how that creativity manifests itself once a person realizes they can create something unique and interesting they’re immediately put under the watchful eye of two critical forces: the public and themselves. The public is the most innocuous as it comes at creativity from the strict […]
If I had one nerdish obsession other than my books and Yoko Kanno’s entire discography that I could point to as a defining point for my cultural and entertainment preferences, it would be Batman. From the massive animated universe lorded over by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm that nurtured my boyhood mind, to the graphic […]
In 2012, one of the young groups that stood out to me was a two-person team called Cyanide Tea. Auro-Cyanide and Lorelei had accomplished little at the time, but their big project showed a lot of promise…even for a Boys Love title. While they were working on Break Chance Memento the group also developed an […]
At long last, visual novel fans in the West seem to be getting what they want as more Japanese titles make their way to our shores. While it does bring on its own issues, such as piracy, it’s an exciting time to be a fan of the medium. A lot of this is due to […]
I rarely mention other reviews on this site, but this is the first time, at least for this genre, that reviewers and reality have been so wildly disconnected. How disconnected? Weeeeelllll – “I could go on, but I feel like the point has been made. I didn’t enjoy playing World End Economica. There are better stories about […]