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Visual Novels - A Beginner's Help guide a Genre of Game

Under western culture, were familiar to videogame genres like first-person shooters, console role-playing, and puzzle games -- games like Halo as well as the Final Fantasy series dominate the Western gaming market. However, there is one genre of game that is certainly relatively obscure under western culture -- the visual novel.

The visual novel (VN) is often a popular genre of game in Japan, dominating japan gaming market with its a huge number of available titles. Since it's name implies, the key focus of an VN is its story. They are usually characterized through its vivid anime-style artwork, juxtaposed with text, static backgrounds, music, sound effects, and voice acting. Gameplay is minimalistic -- the majority of the interaction is achieved through clicking the screen to advance the storyline. A VN might have decision points, at which your decisions may customize the outcome of the story.

Nearly all VNs are renai, or having romantic themes, usually in a school setting. During these VNs, you are taking around the role of a male character with several female romantic prospects. The "otome game" reverses this role -- a female character with one or more free hentai male romantic prospects. However, there are several VNs where romance isn't primary focus; an illustration includes the Phoenix Wright series. The VN genre encompasses a various themes, including, but not limited to: mecha, yaoi and yuri (lgbt relationships, respectively), magical girl, and medieval themes.

Many VNs contain hentai, or adult scenes. A VN containing them isn't just a bad thing; in a romantic-themed story, it may increase the relationship between two characters. However, you will find VNs where the primary focus lies in the hentai, having an "excuse plot" to justify it. Alternatively, you will find VNs with no such content. Whether you choose to play an adult or all-ages VN, they can have equally great stories.

There is certainly VNs for PCs and videogame consoles. If you choose to play a Japanese VN on your computer, you may have to modify your system's locale to Japanese, or use AppLocale the use of Windows; otherwise, you will get garbled text. However, there are translation groups which have translated several Japanese VNs to English.

A good way to get a feet wet within the VN scene would be to play some homebrewed ones; there are many free English VNs containing Ren'Py, a free of charge VN creation software. As you prepare, you can try several Japanese professional VNs with the Visual Novel Database; demos in the games are available at their respective developer's sites.

Visual novels can serve as an escape from today's action-oriented games. Try one today -- engaging plots, vivid anime-style art, and captivating characters will keep you wanting to play more.