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.
Ryu Murakami (born February 19, 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist, filmmaker and talk show host. Murakami's story The World in Five Minutes From Now (1994) is written as a point of view in a parallel universe version of Japan, which got him nominated for the 30th Tanizaki Prize.
Gofungo no Sekai - Five Minutes from nowhere is a visual novel divided into 8 chapters (with 7 different main characters but all of their stories are connected) based on Ryu Murakami's novel featuring as usual different endings depending of the player choices during the game. One of the special features that this game got is the time limit action sequences that appears sometimes during each chapter in those sequences the player got a time limit to make an action and advance through the story.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Novel adventure that was the theme of "The World of five minutes after the" popular novels of Ryu Murakami. Intact, original story that the author himself was supervised expands, of course, then, action taken at each story of seven, also affect the other scenarios worldview of the original. We have adopted determine the next action within the time limit "view-click System".
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- SCIFI, Mystery, Fantasy & Horror themes.
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