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.
We Are* is an adventure game that takes place in the year 2026 in which the World is spreading the war, the place of the game is Japan, the Tokyo Prefecture. The game begins in the closing ceremony of one semester when a third grade attending high school student by the name of Yuya Ayase will help a girl classmate, Ten Asaka, that after trying to suicide jumping off a bridge is rescued by Yuya and taken to his home, Ten lost her parents in the nuclear attack that Japan has received and start living with Yuya after the suicide attempt.
After that Yuuya's summer life is overturned by 4 girls, 2 of which possess special powers and small wings that occasionally appear on their wrists.
CHARACTERS:
- Ten Asaka
- Kikuna Shinmyo
- Uuzuka Kumano
- Shinobu Fuefuki
- KaedeInashiki
- Karen Fujioka
- Yukari Sukumo
- Mamiko Igarashi
- Akemi Ohori
- Megu Shinmyo
- Seichi Kunimi
- Yukie Inashiki
- Hajime Hokuto
- Yuya Ayase
The Limited Edition features a DVD that contains a Drama CD & the game original Soundtrack.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
SF youth sculptured group play adventure type of boys and girls who are thought unrelated to the war unfolds. Summer of 2026, the Tokyo Bay area of the future in the wartime. Hero who helped the girl of my classmates to hate the draft, tried to commit suicide, that the harbor in her home. Greenly two who concealed a secret even painful, community life of the only summer vacation starts.
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Romance & Anime themes.
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