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.
Torikago no Mukougawa is an adventure game in which the player takes the role of Hirojuki Hatori that has been summoned as the liberator of a dream world where he has to free their minds and open their hearts meanwhile he tries to return to his own world. Each location of the dream world in the game is show in different puzzle pieces, going to a location will take to a conversation to a character if is there, as usual in visual novels different answers will leave to different endings and situations. The game features unlockables galleries.
CHARACTERS:
- Hirojuki Hatori
- Akaha Mizumaki
- Lutia Boulanger
- Umi Sagara
- Dolce
- Mikuru Orikasa
- Ranunculus
- Nazuna Kasugano
The game comes with a bonus drama cd.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Love adventure a new sense of puzzle elements are fused. Configuration aims to complete the puzzle will increase the intimacy of the heroines as "adventure part" and "part puzzle". Become a hero and Hatori Hiroyuki summoned as a liberator to make the release of the mind in a dream world "femto", will open the hearts of the inhabitants of "femto", and attempts to return to the original world!
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Fantasy & Anime themes.
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