According to CEO of NIS America, Takuro Yamashita, there's an appetite for Japanese visual novels here in the West. Talking with MCV, the company president praised the Danganronpa games for making "visual novels popular with Western gamers".
If you're not in the know, the visual novel genre is generally made up of text-based titles, where character dialogue and storytelling take precedence over traditional gameplay - many also feature player choice and branching narrative outcomes. And, as far as we're concerned, the aforementioned Danganronpa games are easily some of the best to reach our shores.
- Read our Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc review here
- Read our Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair review here
Speaking of which, the combined sales of both Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair have totalled over 200,000 in North America and Europe - a decent figure when you consider how niche the Vita exclusive titles are. "NISA is known for publishing niche JRPGs like Disgaea, but now we're shifting the system towards visual novels after the success of Danganronpa," said Yamashita.
Do you agree with the CEO's words, or are you uninterested in visual novels? Spout your favourite Monokuma lines in the comments section below.
[source mcvuk.com]
Comments 13
More despair!!!!!
I love visual novels. Bring them oooon!!!!
Depends on price and how much content you get.
I am hunger for some Snake, but price bites the dust.
I haven't played the second one but the first Danganronpa was awesome. I'm a fan of the genre
YES THERE IS! Just wish someone would get the first Zero Escape on the Vita, somehow.
Maybe drum up some more interest for a ZE3.
@Clay_Davis83 indeed
@WickedKnightAl Yes absolutely!!!! Fantastic storyline that needs to be wrapped up.
I would like they release the Vita and PS3 versions of Umineko and HIgurashi on the west...... would love to reread my favorite visual novels for an easy platinum...
I would like a port of Ever17, saves the effort of going through the complicated process of PCing it. I want to see what else the Zero Escape writer has written in the past!
@Clay_Davis83 I revel in it.
@WickedKnightAl I got it before I got Danganronpa, and I absolutely adore both. Those two and P4G are my favorite vita games.
They should push the boat out and give us an uncensored port of Yandere on PSVita
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