If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about visual novels in my various playthroughs, I’ve found that it is very easy to treat them in the same way I do books. That is, I play them until I am done, because once I start reading anything, I have to finish. (It’s a blessing and a curse, really.) That means it can be easy to swiftly speed through such games.
For people like me, there is a resource you can turn to. It is actually Steam!
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Have you read any good games lately? Visual novels are nothing new, but their presence on consoles is often paired with something more closely following the traditional definition of gameplay. Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception is no different, augmenting a dozens-of-hours-long story with strategy-RPG skirmishes. Still, the game’s primary motivation shines through: to tell a very specific story and have you follow along.
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Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest is less than ideal, and that’s inescapable. But it’s hard to envision what an ideal Eiyuu Senki would even be.
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An outsider looking in may assume that in order for a visual novel to get localized, it must have some sort of gimmick. But sometimes, like with Steins;Gate, all a visual novel has to be is good to find its way outside of Japan.
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