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Otogirisō is a sound novel, a term academic Rebecca Crawford described as being applied to Chunsoft's 20th century visual novel games. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It features background graphics as animated illustrations of the narrative as well as background music and sound effects such as doors creaking open, footsteps and screams. [ 5 ]
Visual novels are distinguished from other game types by their generally minimal gameplay. Typically the majority of player interaction is limited to clicking to keep the text, graphics and sound moving as if they were turning a page (many recent games offer "play" or "fast-forward" toggles that make this unnecessary), while making narrative choices along the way.
The 243-page novel was originally bundled with the limited edition of the CD version of Planetarian, and was also included in the limited edition of the PlayStation 2 version. [10] The book was re-published as a commercial release by Visual Arts under their VA Bunko light novel imprint on October 31, 2008, and was the second title on the imprint.
Raging Loop is an interactive visual novel with a branching plotline, in which the player's choices affect the direction of the story. Certain choices reward the player with keys, which can be used to unlock additional choices and explore more of the story. A Scenario Chart allows the player to return to any given scene or choice.
Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue, known in Japan as Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm (蒼の彼方のフォーリズム, Ao no Kanata no Fō Rizumu, subtitled Beyond the sky, into the firmament), officially abbreviated as Aokana (あおかな) and translated as Four Rhythms Across the Blue, [1] is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Sprite and released for Windows on November 28, 2014.
Our World is Ended [a] is a Japanese science fiction visual novel developed by Red Entertainment and published by 5pb. for the PlayStation Vita in November 2017. Originally only released in Japan, the game was later released by PQube in North America and Europe for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows in 2019.
Prototype again re-released the short story collection, this time on the PSP in two volumes, each containing eight chapters and including the original art by GotoP. The first volume was released on June 3, 2010, and the second followed on July 15, 2010; [57] the re-release is described by the developers as a "visual sound novel". [58]
The script is executed by the engine in an interpreter.The syntax is very simple, similar to the BASIC language. The functions needed to create visual novels and sound novels, such as displaying text, sprites and CG, playing music and handling choices, are built into the engine as a basic API.