Much of this changed in 2005 when Capcom released Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the Nintendo DS, otherwise known as Gyakuten Saiban in Japan.
American and European gamers had text based RPG and adventure games in the 1980’s, but a mass market game in which reading and choosing multiple, branching, paths made up the bulk of the action hadn’t taken hold. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Stein s Gate, the Hakuoki series, Clannad - all of them are based on visual novels.įor many years the phenomenon of this style of gaming had been mostly concentrated to Japan. Fate/stay Night originally began life as a visual novel in 2004 before turning into multiple anime series starting in 2006. A great number of renowned anime have been derived from visual novels and in turn a great number of anime have been turned into visual novels. It’s no secret that there’s been a long history between visual novels and anime.
