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Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (psvita)


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  • Release date: Sep 2017 (english)
  • Time to complete: ~38 hrs (much text skippage)

Continuing on from the first game, 'Mask of Deception', and I really mean 'continuing on' (this game literally follows the very next step in the story), 'Mask of Truth' is certainly more of the same, but also in...

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Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception (psvita)


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  • Released: May 2017
  • Time to beat: ~26 hrs

Linear visual novels aren't the most appealing form the genre to me, but Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception delivers a compelling story and some "actual" videogame sections which lessen the disappointment of the lack of player choice.

Like many in th...

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VA-11 HALL-A (PS Vita)


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  • Release: June 2016
  • Time to complete: ~10 hrs

Another visual novel with another gimmick game mechanic: this time you are a bartender and mix drinks to satisfy customers. Usually they will ask specifically for what they want, but sometimes aren't so sure - and in these cases it's up to you to...

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Root Double: Before Crime * After Days (PS Vita)


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  • Released: June 2012
  • Time to complete: ~35 hrs

Your team of emergency rescue agents are sent into a possible meltdown event at a nuclear reactor and are tasked with assessing the situation and rescuing any survivors. Even with such an unfathomable situation as that, it still doesn't work out...

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Collar x Malice (psvita)


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Released: July 2017 Time to complete: ~35 hrs

Another otome (i.e. targetted at women) visual novel, in this one the female protagonist, a police officer, is assaulted and 'collared' by an unknown assailant and forced to investigate a series of terrorist attacks. The scenario is pretty interesting,...

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