The Choose Your Own Adventure concept has been around in electronic form for quite a while in Japan, although less common in the Western world. Essentially, they're novels with pictures, sound, the occasional cutscene, and a few choices here and there. Contrary to what might perhaps be a flourishing stereotype, not all of these games are sexually explicit. Games on consoles especially are almost always clean. Hirameki is one company that is localizing translated PC visual novels for the English speaking market.
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The Choose Your Own Adventure concept has been around in electronic form for quite a while in Japan, although less common in the Western world. Essentially, they're novels with pictures, sound, the occasional cutscene, and a few choices here and there. Contrary to what might perhaps be a flourishing stereotype, not all of these games are sexually explicit. Games on consoles especially are almost always clean. Hirameki is one company that is localizing translated PC visual novels for the English speaking market.