NowItsAngeTime Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 The term visual novel is thrown around, yet many people loosely decide fringe cases based on inconsistent metrics. In this video I'm going to be talking about 10 series that people consider visual novels that I do NOT consider visual novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clephas Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Here's another: Raillore no Ryakudatsusha, Lamunation reasons: No narration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakamutt Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 List for those who would rather not click to youtube: Ace Attorney DanganRonpa Zero Escape Huniepop 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim VA-11 Hall-A Persona 4 spinoffs Blazblue series Evenicle Utawarerumono -- I'd say you're wrong about 999 (no I didn't watch the video so who knwos what your argument it), agree on ace attorney, huniepop, and evenicle, didn't play the rest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyldstrykr Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 ill say that hes wrong about utawarerumono as well. well the one with the h-scene at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpacaman Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 To cite this post from a couple of years ago: Quote VA-11 Hall-A is a VN-ass VN. The only gameplay present is actually just an elaborate choice system and makes up an extremely small part of the experience. Anyway, wasn't this type of discussion about semantics kind of big a couple of years ago when the western VN community was still relatively young and trying to define who and what did and didn't belong? Darbury for example wrote an interesting blog on the topic on here a couple of years ago in case you're interested in reasoning that goes deeper than "has mandatory gameplay segments so it's not a VN". By this metric you could exclude something like Totono from the category since it has a stat raising/puzzle section you have to clear in order to see the true ending. The video even acknowledges that in Japan where the genre originated from the term visual novel isn't commonly used but then goes on to argue that games have to be novel-like to qualify because it's in the name of the genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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