Tag Archives: Visual Novel

Full of wit and whimsy, Astrologaster is an excellent comedy set in the Elizabethan era. Its characters are always introduced with song, its themes are carefully developed and subverted, its twists are made to be silly and humorous: boasting some great writing by Katherine Neil, the game more than makes up for its simple visual design. The protagonist is doctor …

I find it quite curious that questions of identity are far from being the core themes of Tron: Identity, which is much more interested in discussing the control and monopoly of data than anything related to the construction and framing of the self. This visual novel’s very brief runtime, however, shackles the story in such a way that it leaves …

AI: The Somnium Files is a fascinating adventure game whose convoluted plot is easily outshone by the quirky characters that inhabit its absurd world – which is a great thing, as the story by itself is a bit shallow and quite, quite repetitive. On a rainy day, a woman called Shoko Nadami is found dead on a merry-go-round with an …

Despite being the first R-rated Visual Novel from Nintendo, Emio: The Smiling Man offers a surprisingly touching story about grief and loss, focusing not on violence, but on the emotional pain, the guilt, and powerlessness those close to its victims feel. “It was a nice day. The kind of day where you want to take a deep breath and savor …

Zero Time Dilemma, the third and final entry in the great adventure series Zero Escape, has a narrative structure as complex as those of previous games, although it introduces less interesting characters and ends with a couple of questionable twists that don’t survive retrospection. The game begins when nine people wake up trapped in a cell and are approached by …