I passed up Ghostwire: Tokyo due to financial reasons, and ended up forgetting about this little prelude visual novel. However, when going through my Bethesda collection, I came across this again and decided to install it to give it a try.

I have very little experience with visual novels but I've played my fair share of point-and-click adventure games, which inspired the visual novel genre. Therefore, I can't exactly give you an answer on whether or not this is a good visual novel. However, what I can say is that I enjoyed it. It's short, shorter than my playtime suggests (I had to alt-tab at one point and just didn't shut the game off) so it's good for a quick run if you want something to break up the monotony.

I'm guessing visual novels thrive off of great art, sound design and story. This one excels at the first and third aspects, with the art feeling like a manga put into color. Meanwhile, the story -- short and simple -- gives enough detail to make the player interested in the world that is set up for the full title. As for sound design, it's certainly not bad but I think it could have used full voice acting. The music is really good, though!

Altogether, if you are interested in playing Ghostwire: Tokyo, this would be worth a quick play while the main game downloads! I enjoyed it quite a bit and while I won't be able to get the full game for a while still, it definitely piqued my interest a lot more than before. I wish more devs would do this sort of thing before launch!

I passed up [i]Ghostwire: Tokyo[/i] due to financial reasons, and ended up forgetting about this little prelude visual novel. However, when going through my Bethesda collection, I came across this again and decided to install it to give it a try. I have very little experience with visual novels but I've played my fair share of point-and-click adventure games, which inspired the visual novel genre. Therefore, I can't exactly give you an answer on whether or not this is a good visual novel. However, what I [b]can[/b] say is that I enjoyed it. It's short, shorter than my playtime suggests (I had to alt-tab at one point and just didn't shut the game off) so it's good for a quick run if you want something to break up the monotony. I'm guessing visual novels thrive off of great art, sound design and story. This one excels at the first and third aspects, with the art feeling like a manga put into color. Meanwhile, the story -- short and simple -- gives enough detail to make the player interested in the world that is set up for the full title. As for sound design, it's certainly not [b]bad[/b] but I think it could have used full voice acting. The music is really good, though! Altogether, if you are interested in playing [i]Ghostwire: Tokyo[/i], this would be worth a quick play while the main game downloads! I enjoyed it quite a bit and while I won't be able to get the full game for a while still, it definitely piqued my interest a lot more than before. I wish more devs would do this sort of thing before launch!