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For example, the popular Danganronpa series (at least the first two entries) invites plenty of player interaction and puzzle solving, but they are ultimately much closer to being linear stories than branching path stories. Many interactive visual novels have what are effectively linear stories. Interactive visual novels may fall into both categories. It goes without saying that kinetic visual novels are linear.
Some visual novels have multiple paths, much like a “choose-your-own-adventure” story, while others have a linear, definite story. Branching Path Visual Novels vs Linear Visual Novels However, for our practical purposes, I am more than comfortable placing the sound novels within the ambient of the broader visual novel category. A few of the al|together visual novels are described as sound novels by the translators, and I will note all such examples. With that being said, the Giant Bomb article notes that the sound novel category is not well-defined outside of Japan. That certainly describes the first visual novel I saw described as such, the Higurashi series – referenced once before here at The New Leaf Journal. According to the video game site Giant Bomb, sound novels place a focus on reading over problem-solving and have a minimal visual presentation. To be sure, I have never been entirely sure what constitutes a sound novel and how it is distinguishable from other visual novels. Some visual novels are called sound novels. Kinetic visual novels take the “novel” half of “visual novel” most seriously.Īmong the al|together visual novels, we will encounter examples of both interactive and kinetic visual novels. This is used to classify visual novels that invite no interaction from the player other than reading. Those are just some examples that I have come across over the years. The player may be called upon to make choices, complete mini games, click on-screen elements, use items, answer or not answer a phone, or gauge how much he or she trusts one character or another. Many visual novels involve player input beyond reading the story. Visual novels come in many forms and flavors. Consistent with the name of the genre, visual novels are something like books in game form. Most visual novels feature still images of characters on backgrounds with dialogue. If you are already familiar with visual novels, you may gloss over this section.Ī visual novel is a type of video game. I will start with the basics for those of you who may not be familiar with visual novels. A few are outstanding stories in their own right.
All of the visual novels that I have looked at thus far are well-translated. With the exception of Narcissu, most of the visual novels are mostly forgotten here in the United States. Here at The New Leaf Journal, I plan to review most of the visual novels that were translated for the three al|together festivals. The festival was such a success that it was also held in 20, with many more visual novels that would have otherwise been little-read outside of Japan becoming available to English-speaking readers. At al|together, the team at Insani along with other talented translators translated many interesting doujin visual novels from Japanese to English with the consent and approval of the original creators.
In 2005, a group called Insani, which translated both commercial and doujin (think indie) visual novel video games from Japanese to English, founded and coordinated the first al|together translation festival.
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