The success of the Ace Attorney games paved the way for other popular VN series like Zero Escape and DanganRonpa, which have fostered adamant cult followings. That all changed when a certain western publisher decided to take a chance on a peculiar series, Ace Attorney, starring a plucky defense attorney, and the age of the English visual novel was upon us. While a few VNs managed to make their way over to the US and beyond (to little fanfare), many thought the genre was destined to remain a curiosity, exclusive to Japan. Outside of the import crowd or those in the niche PC game market, visual novels were something most people outside of Japan read about in small, quarter page blurbs in the miscellaneous news section of their favorite gaming publication, or on fan-fueled fringe sites. Visual Novels, a genre that not even ten years ago was a foreign concept to many western gamers.
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