Last week saw the launch on Steam of a simple program that allows just about anyone to create their own visual novels ... in which characters exchanged text dialog, and the player was invited ...

There is some screen scratching, but Lux-Pain is really a visual novel ... the text so there is plenty of physical space they could have utilized by expanding text boxes. Instead of reading ...

Don’t get me wrong; The Mystery Cruise is not a visual novel. It’s firmly a point-and-click detective game. All it was missing was a text box or subtitling system (that’s a different ...