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Anime 'Visual Novel' Game DVDs Debut In West

Posted by simoniker on from the teatime-of-the-soul dept.

Thanks to Insert Credit for pointing to a Namako Team story revealing new Japanese 'visual novel' DVDs coming to the West via publisher Hirameki. Insert Credit explains: "Hirameki has been slowly releasing English-language ports of Japanese dating sims in the US. They play basically the same on a PC, DVD player, PS2 or Xbox [using Dragon's Lair style branching narrative], which is the appeal of the format." The new "Summer 2004"-due DVD releases include the wonderfully named Tea Society Of A Witch, as well as Hourglass Summer, apparently "A summer vacation that crosses the boundaries of space and time."

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  1. I wonder... by KDR_11k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there any dating sim in which you can be eaten by a grue? Or, *shudder* date a grue?

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