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.
Tamayura - Mitamaokuri no Uta: Touma busily lives everyday with Kasumi and Nami. One day, they receive an offer. That is to exorcize a monster. And they go hunting at night as usual. But, the monster is too tough to beat, and Touma and Kasumi get injured. Nami tries to beat it up by herself to protect Touma and Kasumi, but she is defeated...
The gameplay like in all visual novels is choose between different answers to advance in the game, and that will leave to an end of the story or another one, but the game in some parts got also a sort of rpg mode, since the battles with the monsters is a turn battle in which the player choose between different kind of attacks, but with the difficult part of chosing a wrong movement will leave to a death ending.
The PS2 version adds scenarii and CGs. The limited edition includes an A4, 80-page "special anthology book" containing comic strips, illustrations and interviews.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Love adventure stories of psychic who work behind the scenes to the stage of modern Japan, and combating the specter or ghost to deploy. Hero was born into a family of "(Udo rent Tama) Spirit Hunter" psychic to cause magic variety by using a special tool has been sent and two younger sisters, the day-to-day Sewashinai but, one day, hunting the demon when I went in, Imawashiki incident would occur ....
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Monsters & Anime themes.
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