do you do what Girl A wants to do or what Girl B wants to do, with the occasional Girl C option). In the process, he ends up stealing the heart of one of a variety of his classmates, all of whom take on fairly one-dimensional roles (like the absurdly rich transfer student, the uptight class representative, the super quiet girl, etc.) over the course of multiple routes and a lot of different-but-not-really choices (i.e. The game follows the infuriatingly oblivious, idiotic, and woefully average high-school student Takeru as he attempts to navigate his way through school and life.
Unless you’re into that (and if you are, more power to you, just not my thing), you’re probably gonna enter the game with fairly low expectations. Hell, if you even go to the game’s Wikipedia entry, you’ll find out that before it was censored and brought stateside that it was originally a Japanese “eroge,” a game where the majority of the focus is seeing all the different naked anime girls you can. Playing through Muv-Luv‘s first half, Extra, is like playing through the generic visual novel you’d see in the background of any given anime character’s bedroom. I snapped up the opportunity to see what this so-called epic of a game had to offer.įive minutes in, I was wondering if I got the right game at all. It was supposed to be this really grand masterwork of a visual novel that turned the medium on its head.
The franchise has spawned sequels, manga adaptations, and even an anime tie-in that just aired this past January. It was hyped up to me by friends and fans as the start of one of the biggest Japanese multimedia franchises ever made, and it’s definitely not hard to see why. It just hit Steam on July 14, 2016 after a very successful (read: million-dollar) Kickstarter campaign. Muv-Luv is a 2003 romance visual novel from developer âge and distributor Degica Games. I didn’t know what to think about Muv-Luv.
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