Perhaps I’m just used to the high quality of other visual novels games I’ve played but everything seemed to be… rather sub-par in this game. It’s worth noting that despite this game having been localised by a Japanese company, this game is actually Chinese originally – still evident by the voices throughout. There are a bunch of side characters also, but very few really show any depth outside of their relationship to the main girls and have no real impact on the narrative. Ling is perhaps the most interesting of the two, but ultimately the cast feels very bland and unmemorable.

Mostly we just see the protagonist aimlessly wander around the Post, talking to the various inhabitants and apparently falling for one of the two girls. Sounds intriguing, right? Well, it may have been if the story itself had any real substance to it, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. It’s immediately obvious that something is not quite right from the get-go, and ultimately it’s up to Red to help unravel the true motives of Lady Claudia and the other inhabitants of the Post, including a mysterious young maid called Ling. The game follows a young bodyguard called Red who is employed by a young lady to escort her and her maidservant to a frosty outpost on a holiday. It comes off as a cheap localisation, meant to cash in on the current surge of popularity of these games on the Switch. Lily of the Hollow – Resurrection is unfortunately not one of the good ones. As such, however, the sheer volume of visual novels out there can make it difficult to pick out the good ones. There’s an awful lot of visual novels coming onto the Nintendo Switch of late – it’s fast becoming one of the preferred consoles for them to appear on alongside the usual suspects of PC and mobile.

Lily of the Hollow – Resurrection Studio: Navila Software Japan Genre: Romance, Mystery Platform: Nintendo Switch

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