Tag Archives: KiriKiri

KiriKiri is a free and open source visual novel scripting engine. Its documentation is entirely in Japanese, and it is unsurprisingly used primarily in Japan.

August 28, 2023

Aug 2023

Finding Manatsu no Kagerou

The most difficult part of my al|together visual novel review project was finding what I needed to run Midsummer Haze…

August 28, 2023

Aug 2023

Midsummer Haze – Visual Novel Review

My review of Midsummer Haze, a visual novel that was almost as difficult to finish as it was to find and run…

June 23, 2023

Jun 2023

Running Yuuki!Novel Ver of Tegami on Linux

Running the original 2005 Yuuki!Novel version of Tegami on top of WINE (and learning about a defunct Japanese visual novel engine in the process)

June 9, 2023

Jun 2023

Collage – Visual Novel Review

Reviewing Collage, a translation of a freeware 2004 Japanese visual novel told from the perspective of three young adults in the city.

March 5, 2023

Mar 2023

MIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro

All it took was properly configuring and running Fluidsynth and loading three ALSA kernel modules.

December 24, 2022

Dec 2022

io [Christmas Eve] – Visual Novel Review

A Christmas Eve review of io [Christmas Eve].

December 9, 2022

Dec 2022

Until We Meet Again – Visual Novel Review

We review a very pretty gray-scale visual novel set on a nearly empty train.

October 31, 2022

Oct 2022

Return to Shironagasu Island Review

I tackle a commercially successful mystery/horror visual novel for Halloween.

September 7, 2022

Sep 2022

Old Games, MIDI, and EndeavourOS

Time for some MIDI troubleshooting…

June 19, 2022

Jun 2022

Summer, Cicadas, and the Girl – VN Review

Reviewing a short visual novel with a memorable mystery mechanic.

April 11, 2021

Apr 2021

The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations

〜An ambitious visual novel review project begins〜