![]() Visual novels have served as the foundation for the presentation of some of the greatest stories in the medium - and they’ve also contained them. The newly released Fantasian, the first RPG created by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi in over a decade, has distinct visual novel segments. ![]() Games like Hades, Disco Elysium, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and NieR either incorporate visual novel elements or have dedicated visual novel sections. It’s ironic because visual novels have clearly influenced so many games famous for their stories. I know it’s not always out of malice, either! But I do feel this temptation is tied to a larger failure of the industry to give the genre the respect it deserves more often. I can see why there’s a temptation for (particularly western) game development studios to create April Fool’s jests out of making a visual novel spin-off of one of their games. ![]()
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