help me have a better understanding of visual novels

[hush]

Ok i've been thinking that i would like to play more visual novel and have a better understanding of them as it is a genre of game that i didn't know about. If anyone can point me is the right place's to look like websites or even games to play that would be great

[Bort]

I played Digital: A love Story over xmas. Excellent and short (2hrs).

I read up a bit over the last few weeks and http://vndb.org/ seems like a very comprehensive resource.

The wikipedia page will probably be your best source to find appropriate link unless we have a secret fan on here.

I'm not really interested in the Japanese anime side of visual novels and the hideous play lengths of most has stopped me playing the popular ones.

[Phar]

Narcissu is worth checking out, not too long either, around 5-6hrs. Win/Linux/Mac are available for free on the website, it also got a retail psp version but unfortunately that's Japanese only.

http://narcissu.insani.org/index.html

[hush]

Cheers for the info guys

The website look like a good read and it has lots of info, also will check both them games out

[Tig]

I played Digital: A love Story over xmas. Excellent and short (2hrs).

I just played this yesterday. It's really well written, and the recreation of the home computer scene from 1988 feels bizarrely convincing too. Great stuff.



I can't say I've played anything else like it, though...

[Guts]

I don't want to create a new topic just for this, but could anyone help me name a visual novel game I saw on the net some time ago?

I think it was inspired by Snatcher, a Sci-fi adventure with cyborgs and stuff. It featured anime style art and was probably from some small (maybe indie) developer. The developer might have been western too, can't really be sure. I also think it was fairly new game and it was in English. Sorry for the lack of details, but does anyone have any idea what it might be?

[Phar]

Bionic Heart?

http://www.bionicheartgame.com/index.php

[Guts]

That's the one.

Thanks again for the answer Phar, are you stalking me or something, mate?

Have you played the game, is it any good?

[hush]

vndb has alot of good info on it
Found that i had two games on there, i didn't they was visual novels so i'm going to play one now