Okay, here's a few possible suggestions for you. I want to play more games like Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa and Zero Escape. IMO that means you should also include pretty much the entire adventure game genre. See a vast number of JRPGs and "adventure games" which are every bit as narrative-focused as VNs but not listed among VNs because of different interfaces. It seems so obvious to me that, in order to reach mass appeal you combine visual novels with interesting gameplay.Ī) most VN authors are not trying to reach "mass appeal"ī) many games that do exactly that are not considered to be VNs because they went too far in the mainstream direction. Where are you looking that makes you think there is 'absolutely nothing'? Since Huniepop some people have been trying to put match-3 in VNs. Huge numbers of VNs include stat-raising gameplay. If you've been looking only at lists of games labeled "the best VNs" then you need to recognise that those lists are usually trying to elevate the best PURE VNs (though they have to make exceptions in a few cases) because they want to talk about what makes VNs without gameplay awesome. It sounds like you don't know where to look? Though of course if it gets enough gameplay it gets labeled as "not a VN" and booted off VNDB. There are LOTS and LOTS of VNs with gameplay. TL DR: I want to play more games like Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa and Zero Escape. Everything else just gets lost in a pile of the other thousands of VNs nobody outside of a very niche audience cares about. It seems so obvious to me that, in order to reach mass appeal you combine visual novels with interesting gameplay. It seems like these are all the good visual novels with gameplay that even exist. The first four are actually so popular that people who know absolutely nothing about visual novels have heard about them. Not all of these might qualify as VNs to some of you, but to me they do. Maybe Corpse Party, Ghost Trick and AI: The Somnium Files. I know I'm stretching it with some of these, but as far as I can tell the most popular ones are Phoenix Wright, Zero Escape, Danganronpa, Professor Layton. The latter two of course for a very different reason than just being good visual novels. And I can't think of a single one besides Steins Gate, Hatoful Boyfriend and Doki Doki that didn't have some actual gameplay. I was just thinking about the VNs I've played, and the one's that became popular. I realize that VNs are pretty much novels with pretty pictures, music and (sometimes) voice acting, but I don't understand why almost none of them incorporate more actual video game elements.
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