One year later, Enix released its murder-mystery game Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken.
Players engage in a form of rock-paper-scissors until they stripped the character naked, after which police arrive and arrest them. Visual Novel Database traces the genre’s roots to the 1982 Japanese computer game Lolita: Yakyuuken, an adult game with a seemingly adolescent female character. Other visual novels feature minigames, and some have role-playing game (RPG) mechanics. Some have branching narrative arcs, where players make key decisions that influence the game’s story.
Most visual novels feature a written narrative spoken to or read by the player, which may include dialogue, character art assets, backgrounds, and sounds. A visual novel (in Japanese, ビジュアルノベル or bijuaru noberu) is a video game genre with an interactive narrated story and multimedia elements.