

So when a game called “Doki Doki Literature Club” won the following awards: PC Game of the Year, Best Adventure Game, Best Story, and Most Innovative in IGN’s People’s Choice Awards, many eyebrows were raised. Many of them are seen as tacky, unoriginal romance games that have minimalistic character development made solely to cash in on introverted, and in some cases, perverted lifestyles. The genre of visual novel is one that’s often looked at in a controversial manner.
