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.
Sugar+Spice! - Anoko no Suteki na Nanimokamo: The main character (Araki Kazuma) is a high school student. But, he has lost all his memories due to a traffic accident. He doesn't remember anything. All he knows is his Japanese, which at least allows him to speak with the person in front of him, who claims that he is suffering from a strange variation of amnesia, where his basic survival knowledge is kept intact, but his memories are sealed away by a trauma as if he didn’t want to remember it.
Sending him back to the waiting room shows that a person named Aya calls him Ma-kun and tells him about his past, like the fact that his name is Kazuma, and his parents are overseas studying architecture.
As Kazuma struggles to adjust to the environment he’s placed in, he will encounter 5 girls he becomes very close to: Uta, a strange girl who seems to lie all the time; Yumeji, a calm and well-behaved girl; Haneru, an athletic and bright girl; Ai, Kazuma’s childhood friend who is extremely intelligent; and a transfer student named Tsukasa, who becomes close to Kazuma since she becomes his next door neighbor.
In such a situation, he meets various girls, and gradually becomes closer to them....
CHARACTERS:
Saotome Tsukasa
Haruse Uta
Miyama Ai
Satou Toshio
Kurokoshi You
Nanjoji Yumeji
Haneru Ashikaga
Honmi Rin
Miyama Aya
Nanami Touka
Date Maki
Kaori
Kurokoshi You
Nanjouji Ichisa
Ninomiya Sora
Ootsu Nami
The Playstation 2 version adds 3 heroines, a new OP movie, and new event CGs.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Super popular romance adventure PC that uses a novel system that can be confessed to a girl at any time "Sugar + Spice! "Appeared on the PS2! Add the original heroine, two people promoted to the heroine from the sub-heroine! New scenario, of course, new CG not miss! The story of the hero who lost their memory by traffic accidents, of love exciting sweet begins ...!
FEATURES:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Romance & Anime themes.
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