June 20th 2020 archive

The Switch has some peculiar visual novels.

Getting back to the whole “visual novels are just as valid, and real, games as “real games””…

· My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?
· Strawberry Vinegar
· The Fox Awaits Me

For the sake of this post, I’m not even going to count the dating sim that Steins;Gate came out with.

Not all of them are bad — actually, quite the contrary, these games… aren’t bad at all. But I’d be lying if I said that Nintendo hasn’t released some downright peculiar visual novels on the Switch in at least the last year.

I suppose that the visual novel niche has become so marketable that this had to happen at some point.

I don’t exactly mind, because the plots aren’t the worst in the world. But they are a… bit… peculiar.