VN of the Year 1994

Entry posted by kivandopulus July 18, 2017

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First, some statistics. Here's the chart of total number of VNs, number of listed VNs in this blog and number of blocked VNs for the years 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994. Number won't change significantly since for the moment these are all the VNs that vndb.org has for the noted periods.

VN per year
Year	Total	Listed	Blocked
1991	75
1992	80
1993	121
1994	155

As you remember, year 1992 was to my liking since, due to harsh censorship, works were more story-oriented. And with almost the same number of total VNs compared to 1991, in 1992 there were much more works that made it in the list and even smaller number of blocked ones.

The total number of works increased further by 28%, but the correlation of quality story oriented works improved slightly in comparison to 1993.

So let's see what year 1994 brought:

Dating SIMs showed up and pushed Raising SIMs back
RPG weren't too numerous but there are surprisingly many very high quality RPGs in 1994
There's the first Otome game Angelique
There's the first Yaoi reference in Uchuu Kaitou Funny Bee
Gao Gao 3 presented a new model of game - party interaction based.

Let's count the masterpiece level games of 1994:

1. AmbivalenZ -Niritsu Haihan- AmbivalenZ
2. Crystal Rinal - Ouma No Meikyuu -
3. DESIRE - Haitoku no Rasen
4. Dragon Knight 4
5. Gao Gao! 3rd ~Wild Force~
6. Fuzoroi no Lemon
7. Mirage 2 - Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken
8. Nooch 3 Saigo no Seisen
9. Policenauts
10. Team Innocent: The Point of No Return
11. Tokimeki Memorial
12. Toushin Toshi II
13. Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends
14. Wedding Errantry -Gyakutama Ou-
15. Welcome to the Cinemahouse
16. Zatsuon Ryouiki

And five of those 15 are RPGs, pretty insane. I guess there was no competition from the beginning - I'd put DESIRE pretty much above any game put beside. So DESIRE is the game of the year 1994.