A visual novel is an interactive fiction game, featuring mostly static graphics, most often using anime-style art or occasionally live-action stills (and sometimes video footage). As the name might suggest, they resemble mixed-media novels.
In Japanese terminology, a distinction is often made between visual novels proper (abbreviated NVL), which consist predominantly of narration and have very few interactive elements, and adventure games (abbreviated AVG or ADV), which may incorporate problem-solving and other types of gameplay. This distinction is normally lost outside Japan, where both NVLs and ADVs are commonly referred to as "visual novels" by international fans. Visual novels and ADVs are especially prevalent in Japan, where they made up nearly 70% of the PC game titles released in 2006.
Visual novels are distinguished from other game types by their extremely minimal gameplay. Typically the majority of player interaction is limited to clicking to keep the text, graphics and sound moving (most recent games offer "play" or "fast-forward" toggles that make even this unnecessary).
Most visual novels have multiple storylines and many endings; the gameplay mechanic in these cases typically consists of intermittent multiple-choice decision points, where the player selects a direction in which to take the game.
Kaezaru no Mori: The game is a horror adventure that begins in a small town high school when Tatsuya the main hero and his 2 friends decide to enter deep into the forest in the search of his missing classmate (after hear her voice since it seems that Tatsuya got psychic powers). But things won't be as easy as they though since they will find ghosts, corpses and other perils until they can survive that night.
After exiting the forest they find an old mansion but as soon as they enter there they find a corpse and a spirit that start talking to them, they try to escape using the main door, but now the door is locked, so they have to explore the mansion and survive that night if they want to find their classmate and go out there alive.
The gameplay as in most visual novels in choosing one of the possible answers to advance, as a peculiar thing in some choices there is a time limit, but the game allows the player to use items to advance through the game, also there are choices that will leave to different endings, and the player's character can also die in most of them.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Horror adventure type of novel depicting the horrors of unprecedented occurring in Western-style buildings surrounded by deep forest. Representing the mental and physical damage "skeleton force" is decreased, is adopted system that would hear it the sound that you can see visions in the dark, not even hear. To solve the mystery hidden in the mansion 3 personality that went into the can to help a friend, until the morning, trying to escape the mansion with friends.
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Mystery & Terror themes.
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