Otogirisō
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Otogirisō is a 1992 visual novel video game developed and published by Chunsoft for the Super Famicom. It is about an unnamed protagonist and his girlfriend Nami who are lost down a forest road. After
Super Famicom cover art
The player progresses and affects the narrative by selecting text options.
Screenshots of Otogirisō from the May 17, 1991 issue of Famicom Tsūshin. The game initially was developed with no background graphics.
Otogirisō was first released for the Super Famicom.
Shizuku (video game)
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Shizuku is an eroge visual novel by Leaf. The game has the player assume the role of the male Yusuke, a male student. One day in class, a female student approaches him and begins to hysterically laugh
Otogirisō
…text over illustrated backgrounds rather than confining it to dedicated text boxes. This style would become the model for similar games such as Leaf's Shizuku (1996) and Kizuato (1996). Otogirisō is a sound novel, a term academic Rebecca Crawford described as being applied to Chunsoft's 20th century visual…
In Shizuku, the story is presented over a static image and overlaid over the characters. A custom font was developed for the text Shizuku that had each member of the Leaf staff tasked to make a set amount of characters.
Shizuku was first released in 1996 for the NEC PC-9801. This was around the time the home computer was at the end of its life-cycle as a gaming platform.