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Old 2007-12-10, 13:52   Link #4
rg4619
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Personally, I really don't see the need for a distinction either. Is there really that much difference between calling a game a Visual Novel, and an Adventure game? Whether the text appears over the background, or in a box at the bottom, seems to be the main criteria I've seen people use to differentiate the two, but does it really make a difference?
The adventure game classification is merely a vestige. The genre name may have been meaningful in describing the ancestral game form (Japanese-style adventures like Snatcher, Famicom Detective Club, or EVE Burst Error. These in turn possibly derived from the more interactive text/graphic adventures from the west), but it's irrelevant now that the interactivity has been removed.
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