The Importance Of Story in Video Games- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

Story driven games have largely been a niche in the video game industry although recently there has been a resurgence of sort in the form of Uncharted 2, Enslaved and even games like Mass Effect. A game that further drives the importance of story in games is Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. Here's a link to a particular review. Now I'm pretty sure no one has heard of it and that most people never will. The game has 6 multiple endings as well as being one of the 11 M rated games for the DS. The story is riveting and it just drives you to keep on playing. My point being, games that have a good storyline should be supported because its still an emrging industry in the video-game world and it should be supported.

I just heard about this game earlier today. I intend to grab it. It looks like my kind of game. Games like this usually don't come out of Japan, so I'm going to support them when they do.

I was sold at Visual Novel. Will check this out

I was sold at Visual Novel. Will check this out

Ravirr

Visual Novels are not, or are rarely puzzle orientated, it would be more like a graphic adventure game.

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I was sold at Visual Novel. Will check this out

Yangire

Visual Novels are not, or are rarely puzzle orientated, it would be more like a graphic adventure game.

I'm assuming its like Blazblue . Fighting game that uses a visual novel format for its story tellings.

puzzle game that uses VN format for story telling.

While it won't be a true VN its still probably the closest thing state side that we will get .

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Not to derail but if you have any VN recommendation

I;ve read Clannad and Tomoyo After : though I need english patches :(

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[QUOTE="Ravirr"]

I was sold at Visual Novel. Will check this out

Ravirr

Visual Novels are not, or are rarely puzzle orientated, it would be more like a graphic adventure game.

I'm assuming its like Blazblue . Fighting game that uses a visual novel format for its story tellings.

puzzle game that uses VN format for story telling.

While it won't be a true VN its still probably the closest thing state side that we will get .

Edit

Not to derail but if you have any VN recommendation

I;ve read Clannad and Tomoyo After : though I need english patches :(

I plan on picking it up.

Let me talk about two forgotten 360 gems Condemned & Prey

Condemned was the first 360 game to really SCARE THE HELL OUT ME it's story was really well thought out, the graphics were oustanding, and although I did not play the sequel I felt like there really wasn't a need to do a sequel. It's a short game but man Condemned is one FRIGHTENING TITLE.

Prey also has terrific story and the language in Prey is saltiier than sea water I know who doesn't love the F-BOMB seriously your girlfriend mutates into an uncontrolable monster and after beating the creature the only way to get to the next stage is by walking up and putting a bullet in her head. I know how screwed up is that you spend all this time hunting to find her and BAMN you have to kill her to save her soul.

I remember playing the demo on the official website a few months ago & liking it. Forgot about it til now thanks for the reminder.