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.
Happy Breeding Cheerful Party is the Playstation 2 version of the PC game Happy Breeding. In this game our protagonist (Takashi) has taken the opportunity of working away from his parents home and started living by himself. One day, a strange girl enters his house and eventually comes to stay with him since the house is too big for one person to live in. The girl seems to be searching the person who tended an injury of hers when she was a child, and the protagonist offers his help.
New girls gradually show up and starts living in the protagonist's house, each with their own purpose that he will try to help them fulfill.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Popular titles that hit the PC version, ported by adding significantly new scenario, such as a new graphic. That opportunity posted overseas of his father, on the basis of a hero to live alone, girls appear one after another, to stay in the house as it is for some reason! Living and lively wonders of hero that became suddenly large family. Not surprisingly, the purpose of her us! ?
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Romance, Humour & Anime themes.
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