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Description Visual novels are a moderate using the narrative style of Literary works, but in a digital format which may technically be considered a Video Game. note They tend to put more focus on the plot and on characterization, rather than on action displays, like Interactive Fiction plus more so than Adventure Online games. Visual novels are successfully seen as a digital evolution involving Choose Your Own Adventure publications, with music, pictures, and sometimes even voice acting as well as movies. However , unlike most Choose Your Own Adventure books, they usually branch off directly into distinct storylines early on, and will have a lot more choice details (since they're digital and thus don't suffer from physical limitations). Puzzles, quests and avoid games are often embedded from the plot in order to advance the particular storyline(s).

The level of gameplay will vary, leading to difficulty in defining the particular boundaries of the medium. On the far video game end on the scale we have games in which adhere closer to the Adventure Video game model such as the Ace Legal professional series and Zero Get away from: 9 Hours, 9 Folks, 9 Doors. note Kinetic Novels (visual novels fully devoid of interaction) and Linear Visual Novels exist one the other side of the coin end of the scale, for example When They Cry. The majority of image novels, however , tend to provide for non-linear Story Branching plots with Multiple Endings.

Since they are treated as games, the fact that many of them tell well-written, convincing stories can be easily neglected. Games like Hotel Sunset: Room 215, Jake Provider of food, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Virtue's Previous Reward, and the Ace Law firm series are bringing this form of gameplay into markets beyond Japan, where they are far more recognized. It is also not uncommon to get acclaimed anime to be determined by visual novels, such as Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Fate/stay evening, and Steins; Gate.

Aesthetic novels that are also eroge tend to tie every premise to a specific romanceable figure, a habit which has transported over to much of the rest of the medium sized.

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