Using the best parts of the digital distribution era of gaming, visual novels have been coming into a new renaissance of sorts. With the lowered cost of distribution, Eastern developers are seeing fewer obstacles in the way of publishing their games in the West. Because of this, we’ve seen more games coming West and interest in the genre flourish.
With all this growing interest, it would behoove some of the more seasoned developers and writers to strike while the iron is hot and start putting out new IPs that don’t require newcomers to play or read through previous games to understand what’s going on. Kazutaka Kodaka and Kotaro Uchikoshi have done just that and formed a new team dedicated to bringing their weird brand of fiction to life.
Source: Destructoid Zero Escape and Danganronpa creators form a new development team, announce games and an anime