After 24 years, the legendary visual novel that put the Fate/stay night devs on the map has an English remake, and it's out-reviewing FF7 Rebirth, Hades 2, and more
Jul. 25, 2024Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon is here, and it’s a critical darling
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Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon is the first part of a remake series adapting and modernizing the original visual novel for today’s players. The English-language version, which hit PS4 and Switch back in June, marks the first official localization of the game, and as reviews have trickled in over the past several weeks, it now enjoys an aggregate score of 94 onOpenCriticand 94 or 93 onMetacritic, depending on which platform you’re looking at.
Regardless, the official worldwide release of Tsukihime marks a big moment for visual novel fans. The original VN - which, like many of its era, launched with some adult-only sexual content that’s long since been excised - is legendary in its own right, and kicked things off for Type-Moon. The studio would, of course, go on to create Fate/stay night, and with it one of the biggest anime-style media franchises ever built. Tsukihime got its own franchise extension in Melty Blood, a fighting game spin-off that’s become something of a cult classic in its own right.
It’s a banner year for the format, withone of the OG anime visual novels finally hitting Steam with its first official English translation.
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