I've spent pretty much the whole day reading the visual novel that I'm reviewing for Nintendo Life this week. I was concerned I wouldn't have the time to make it all the way through, but I'm pretty close to the end now, so all is good.
It's been quite a while since I spent this much coherent time immersed in a long VN, but this one has really been a pleasure. It's been quite hard work, too; as an "NVL-style" (full screen of text) visual novel there's a lot more reading in one go than those that take the "ADV" (dialogue box) approach, and that requires a certain amount of mental fortitude to maintain your attention — but the quality of the writing and the narrative in this one is such that I've been thoroughly immersed.
Some of you will already be familiar with the VN in question (which is embargoed until Thursday, hence my not mentioning it by name) as it's a Switch port of a game that came out on PC a while back, but this is my first encounter with it. I remember its original release being a moderately big deal (for a VN, anyway) for various reasons; hopefully it will see some success in its Switch incarnation, too, since the Switch is such a lovely platform to play VNs on, whether you want to see them on the big screen or go for the truly immersive reading experience of playing in handheld mode on headphones.
Anyway. I should hopefully polish that off tomorrow evening, which means I can get back on track for my own projects! You can expect some more detailed writeups for Dead or School and NinNinDays on MoeGamer this week, as I reviewed both for Nintendo Life last week, and there's plenty of scope for more to talk about with both. And the VN I'm on about here will also have a detailed write-up, too, as there's a lot to pick apart which simply won't be possible to explore in a thousand-word review!
Anyway. I'm off to bed. I still have to go into work tomorrow, though it'll be a ghost town as most people are being encouraged to work from home. Since I and one of my teammates don't have the facility to do that, however, we have to go in still. Yay. Still, a quiet office probably means not a lot will be going on, which will be nice.
Hope you had a fine weekend!
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