Tag: Visual Novel

Us Lovely Corpses

By Gingy Gibson • May 10th, 2019

Us Lovely Corpses is a wonderfully thoughtful visual novel about dealing with mental illness.

Her Lie I Tried to Believe

By Gingy Gibson • March 1st, 2019

Her Lie I Tried to Believe is a shoddy attempt to portray the paranoia and psychopathy of toxic masculinity as something worthy of human pity.

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Event-D

By Gingy Gibson • February 8th, 2019

A picture is worth a thousand words, right? So next time let them do some of the talking.

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Crimson Gray

By Gingy Gibson • January 26th, 2019

As problematic as yanderes can be, Crimson Gray did a fantastic job portraying the trope.

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XOXO Droplets

By Gingy Gibson • January 18th, 2019

7 hours of dragging myself through the worst elements of high school that I am never get back.

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Seiyuu Danshi

By Gingy Gibson • December 21st, 2018

You want to be the world’s best voice actor (and boyfriend)? Then you better work for it.

Six Days of Snow

By Gingy Gibson • December 7th, 2018

Stop trying to make wanting to bang minors romantic.

Fallstreak

By Gingy Gibson • November 30th, 2018

Sometimes the only thing worse than being lonely is realizing exactly how alone you are.

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Fix Me Fix You

By Gingy Gibson • November 23rd, 2018

Fix Me Fix You is an absolute slog of a visual novel which exemplifies the problems inherent in materialistic characters and their relationships.

Who Is Mike

By Gingy Gibson • November 2nd, 2018

What does it mean for there to be a “real” version of you?

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Neighbor

By Gingy Gibson • October 19th, 2018

The biggest mistake you can make while reading Neighbor is harboring expectations that this visual novel will read like other Japanese horror media.

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Hermes and Gry: A Crooked Plan

By Gingy Gibson • September 28th, 2018

There are bad bosses, and then there are bosses willing to sell your organs to a back alley doctor for potion money. This VN features the latter kind.

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The Final Day of Spring

By Gingy Gibson • August 31st, 2018

A look into a story about getting to choose your own end and the legacy you leave behind.

So Long, Summer Days

By Gingy Gibson • August 17th, 2018

Some people just aren’t worth your time. So why can’t we cut them off?

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Wanted: Dragon

By Gingy Gibson • August 10th, 2018

Why save the kingdom when you could conquer it?

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Don’t Use Cultural Emblems as Cheap Set Pieces

By Gingy Gibson • July 6th, 2018

Woodstock 1969, in contrast, treats the entire festival as a backdrop for a lackluster lesbian love story, ignoring the social, political, and especially artistic aspects of the time that allowed Woodstock to come about and be so memorable in the first place.

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Where Are the Disabilities in Visual Novels?

By Gingy Gibson • June 29th, 2018

Nearly seven years after its release, Katawa Shoujo is still the most prominent visual novel with disabled characters.  That’s not a good thing.

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Pink Rage Otome

By Gingy Gibson • June 26th, 2018

There has to be more to a story than dialogue. Pink Rage Otome is what happens when you don’t follow that rule.

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Bunka no Kenkyu: Revival of Queen Leyak

By Gingy Gibson • June 8th, 2018

Pacing matters. Plot matters. Making sure your visual novel doesn’t crash matters. No one told this studio.

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Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

By Gingy Gibson • June 1st, 2018

A visual novel about friends, fashion, and failing at life.

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The Merchant Memoirs

By Gingy Gibson • March 27th, 2018

The Merchant Memoirs is odd.

The Merchant Memoirs is a kinetic visual novel, meaning that you just read the story without making any choices.

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Gingy’s Corner: Entschuldigung

By Gingy Gibson • March 19th, 2018

This is what happens when you do everything perfectly for 90% of a horror story and then bugger it all up by taking the last twist too far.

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Gingy’s Corner: The Ghost of Joe Papp

By Gingy Gibson • February 23rd, 2018

As a former theater kid, The Ghost of Joe Papp was a trip down memory lane.

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Gingy’s Corner: Nicole: The Otome

By Gingy Gibson • February 9th, 2018

Nicole is a bland, semi-competent mess of a dating sim.

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A Culinary School Sim, with Dating Elements

By Gingy Gibson • January 12th, 2018

Let’s start our month of regret with Pastry Lovers, the world’s premiere broken English baking otome.

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Brilliant Shadows: Magic and Introspection

By Gingy Gibson • December 15th, 2017

Brilliant Shadows – Part One of the Book of Gray Magic is a sweet VN about introspection. Also there’s magic, but mostly the introspection and searching thing.

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Mutiny!! is Exceptionally Bad Futanari Pirate Porn

By Gingy Gibson • December 8th, 2017

I firmly set the bar of my expectations on the ground and was still disappointed by Mutiny!!

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October Spookfest: Perceptions of the Dead and Sickness

By Gingy Gibson • October 27th, 2017

Just what will October’s Spookfest (and the lemmasoft forums) bring?

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October Spookfest: Saya no Uta

By Gingy Gibson • October 20th, 2017

Saya no Uta (or Song of Saya) is a horror/romance visual novel that may easily be one of the most twisted stories I’ve ever read in my life.

LGBT Stories Come in More Shades than White

By Alyse Stanley • October 3rd, 2017

But with all these new queer video game characters flooding in, few have stopped to ask a very important question: Why are almost all of them white?

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Date Warp is like a $6 Bottle of Rite Aid Wine

By Gingy Gibson • October 2nd, 2017

Date Warp is the visual novel you give your little sister to get her invested in VNs.

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Gaokao.Love.100Days is a Frankenstein disaster

By Gingy Gibson • September 25th, 2017

Gaokao.Love.100Days is the first example I have ever encountered of a time-management visual novel with way too much novel.

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Dysfunctional Systems is about bringing order to the world

By Gingy Gibson • September 11th, 2017

Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series about trying to bring order to the world.

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Notch: The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS

By Gingy Gibson • August 25th, 2017

Notch: The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS is supposed to be a visual novel about a series of murders taking place in a quiet island town that leads to something darker, but is really about how the gross incompetence of humans and supernatural beings can lead to terrible, bloody outcomes.

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1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum

By Gingy Gibson • August 18th, 2017

1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum is a dating/time management sim targeted towards people who saw the Indiana Jones movies and wondered, “But what if Indy was a girl?”

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A Horror Visual Novel About Real Estate

By Gingy Gibson • August 7th, 2017

The Letter is a horror OELVN about the dangers of real estate agents failing to follow basic chain letter etiquette.

The Downloadable Turnabout

By Jose Cardoso • January 6th, 2017

How should the Phoenix Wright DLC episodes fit into the main story?

Cing’s Chase for a Second Chance

By Jose Cardoso • December 23rd, 2016

Does the ex-Cing developer deliver on a new mystery title?

Dating a Handsome Stallion as a Blushing Office Lady

By Khee Hoon Chan • December 20th, 2016

“While she didn’t find a prince like she imagined, she inevitably found love in another being: an utterly irresistible horse, with moves as smooth as Jagger.”

Maybe Emily Should Stay Away, Too

By Matt Sayer • November 21st, 2016

“Emily is not a person but rather a toy to be played with, and in a game that deals with issues of consent and exploitation, this is especially heinous.”