Vera Blanc is a gripping new angle on the Visual Novel genre. With a careless shrug the usual manga art is dropped for a classic gritty detective comic style, and the theme of the game is Film Noir, Murder, Occult and Corruption. This game sinks it’s claws in early and keeps you hooked till the end – then you’ll probably want to replay it to try all the choices you missed the first time.
 Noir Crimefighting Duo |
 Choose your own Adventure |
 Seamless Minigames |
 Non-linear Storyline |
The story is always surprising, and I felt that I was consistently making real choices that significantly effected the outcome of my adventure – this was proved by all kinds of new scenes I saw only on my second playthrough.
As well as the cool art, the fun and mysterious story, and the interesting choices – you also can solve puzzles in the form of minigames to get more clues for your investigation. My initial reaction was *sigh-minigames…* but I was amazed how appropriate the games were to their context in the situation. For example in one game Vera is trying to work out what someone is thinking – and the minigame translates this into a letter guessing game to complete a phrase – so you really do have to think about what might be on their mind to win the minigame.
Overall I would recommend this to everyone who want to lose themselves in an exciting detective mystery for a few days. I can’t wait for the next installment in the Vera Blanc series!
Try the Vera Blanc Demo today!