How much the choices have an impact? This only depends on the visual novel author, and can vary greatly: from only a few minor text differences to whole different paths. Unless you're playing a Kinetic Novel indeed, there will be choices throrough the game which will affect the story. The main difference however, is that a visual novel usually offers the reader (or in this case better to call it player) the possibility to change the outcome of the story. There's a story to read, accompanied by illustrations and other elements like music, sound effects and in some cases even voice acting. But you might not know at all what a visual novel is, so let's proceed in order.Ī visual novel is like an interactive book, or better a comic/illustrated book. But as said, in recent times things have changed greatly, with visual novels becoming a popular genre and more and more players getting familiar with it. Most people had simply no clue at all what kind of games they were. Only ten years ago they were a small niche, except for Japan. Visual novels have gained tremendous popularity in the recent years.
