Visual Novel
This category features visual novel reviews, with separate posts for common routes (with minimal spoilers) and individual route reviews that include heavy spoilers.
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Sumire
It's a rather simple, but emotional story following a girl (Sumire) being unable to socialize at school as she start to interact with three other adults in an online chat and start to get involved with their life and troubles more. The story is narrated from the four main characters point of view switching over time.
Kiniro Loveriche
One of the most impactful visual novel series that I ever played, the series focuses on a protagonist arriving at a high class school and getting involved with various girls there. It seems like the classic storyline, but there is a catch around one of the girls and...you'll need to read the rest.
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I just finished Ilya and Kiriri's routes in Tokyo Necro, and boy, I don't even know where to start writing this post because of how many twists and counter-twists the series delive...
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Tokyo Necro is a visual novel developed by NITRO PLUS, released in 2016, and is probably the one with the most advanced special effects that I've ever seen them release. Unfortunat...
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Just a few minutes ago I completed Sofia and Miyabi's routes, which means that my journey with Happy Live, Show Up! is done. Honestly, it wasn't a great ride at all, but at least i...
I just completed Clarice and Roo's personal routes, and I'm still very conflicted about this visual novel because it keeps jumping between interesting developments and general bore...
I just completed Karentia's and Pechka's personal routes, and I wanted to make another post to talk about them before delving into Clarice and Roo. I have to preface it by saying t...
Happy Live, Show Up is a visual novel developed by FAVORITE (known for Hoshizora no Memoria) and released in 2021 that keeps most of the elements of the genre's original visual nov...
Madou Koukaku ~Yami no Tsuki Megami wa Doukoku de Utau~ ( 魔導巧殻 ～闇の月女神は導国で詠う～) is a visual novel developed by Eushully and released in 2013 that follows a style quite different from...
Soshite Kirameku Otome to Himitsu⁵ is a romantic comedy visual novel developed by NekoNeko Soft and released in 2013. Honestly, the main reason I started this was that I was still ...
Shin Koihime † Musou -Kakumei- Ryuuki no Taimou (真・恋姫†夢想-革命- 劉旗の大望) is a visual novel developed by BaseSon and released in 2019. This is the third and final main entry in the trilo...
Shin Koihime † Musou -Kakumei- Son Go no Ketsumyaku (真・恋姫†夢想-革命- 孫呉の血脈) i s a visual novel developed by BaseSon and released in 2018. This is the second entry in a trilogy that rem...
Shin Koihime † Musou -Kakumei- Souten no Haou (真・恋姫†夢想-革命- 蒼天の覇王) is a visual novel developed by BaseSon and released in 2017. It is the first entry in a trilogy that remakes and e...
Ikusa Megami Verita is a turn-based RPG and visual novel developed by Eushully. Released in 2010, it is a direct sequel to Ikusa Megami Zero , which we discussed recently, and it s...
Ikusa Megami Zero is a turn-based RPG and visual novel developed by Eushully. Released in 2008, it serves as a prequel and the first title chronologically in the long-running Ikusa...
Pieces / Yurikago no Canaria is a visual novel developed by Whirlpool and released in 2020 as a sequel to Pieces / Wataridori no Somnium. Whether it should be considered a true seq...
Natsuiro Koi Uta is a visual novel developed by Studio Ryokucha, the same studio that created Koiiro Soramoyou , which I reviewed in the past. Released in 2016, it was the final ga...
Evermaiden ~Daraku no Sono no Otome-tachi~ (エヴァーメイデン ～堕落の園の乙女たち～) is a yuri mystery visual novel developed by Liar-soft and released in 2022. Liar-soft is a popular brand in the vi...
Café Stella to Shinigami no Chou (喫茶ステラと死神の蝶) is a visual novel developed by Yuzusoft and released in 2018, which recently became available in English. I played it back when it was...
Oni ga Kuru ~Ane ga Hinshi de Pinchi Desu~ (鬼がくる。～姉がひん死でピンチです～) is a visual novel developed by Enishi Soft, the first and only title they released. It focuses heavily on Japanese m...