I spend a lot of my blog talking about the stories in RPGs and visual novels. Rather than being plot summaries or a review, I decided to break down whether or not the stories worked and why. So I talk about foreshadowing, motivation, pacing, etc.
Since I've written quite a few at this point, I decided to include links to all of them to create an easy table of contents. My talks often deal with the entire plot, including the ending, so there are spoilers abound.
Games with multiple routes tend to be broken into multiple posts if there are substantially different events between them.
RPGs:
The Caligula Effect: Overdose
Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Divinity: Original Sin
Dungeon Fighter Online
Final Fantasy XV: Main Story, Noctis, Episode: Gladiolus, Episode: Prompto, Episode: Ignis
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest
Fire Emblem Three Houses: Blue Lions
Lost Dimension
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
Persona 5
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Valkyria Chronicles
Y's Origins: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
VNs (General):
Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice
Billionaire Lovers
Buried Stars
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Danganronpa 2: Good-bye Despair
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Doki Doki Literature Club
Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir
Gnosia
The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve
Hatoful Boyfriend
Kiss the Demiurge
Murder by Numbers
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Raging Loop
Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: √After, √Before, √Current, √Double
Your Dry Delight
Zero Time Dilemma
VNs (Otome):
7'scarlet: Overview, Hino, Isora, Toa, Sosuke, Yuzuki, "True" Ending, Hanate
Amnesia: Memories: Intro, Heart, Spade, Clover, Diamond, Joker
Bad Apple Wars: Overview, White Mask, Higa, Shikishima, Satoru, Alma
Café Enchanté: Overview, Canus, Rindo, Ignis, Il, Misyr
Code:Realize ~Future Blessings~: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Code:Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Code:Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~: Overview, Victor, Lupin, Van Helsing, Saint-Germain, Impey, Sholmès, Finis, Cantarella
Collar x Malice: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
My Sweet Bodyguard: Overview, Katsuragi, Kaiji, Subaru, Sora, Mizuki
My Vow to My Liege: Overview, Chenfeng, Goujian, Yiguang, Wu Zixu
Norn9: Var Commons: Overview, Koharu, Nanami, Mikoto
Piofiore: Fated Memories: Overview, Nicola, Yang, Dante, Orlok, Gilbert, Finale
Pre-Odyssey: Odysseus, Penelope, and Her Ducks
Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly: Overview, Kagiha, Hikage, Yamato, Karasuba, Monshiro, Beniyuri
Radiant Tale: Overview, Zafora, Ion, Paschalia, Radie, Vilio
Rose in the Embers: Overview, Kyosuke, Takahisa, Misao, Tsukumo, Atsuro
Steam Prison: Overview, Eltcreed, Ulrik, Adage, Ines, Yune, Fin, Grand Ending
Valentines Otome
Variable Barricade: Overview, Nayuta, Shion, Taiga, Ichiya, True Route
Yrsa Major: An Elchemia Story
Others:
AI: The Somnium Files
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
Ambition: A Minuet in Power
Danganronpa: Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Frostpunk
Ghost Trick
The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
OPUS: Echo of Starsong
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Ten Trials of Babel: The Doppelganger Maze
Hi, Laurie! I just discovered your blog and it is amazing :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoy visual novels and I love reading your interpretation of them and your breakdown of their stories.
I just wanted to let you know that in the Café Enchanté section, Rindo's link leads back to the Canus section.
I look forward to reading more from you :)