Square Enix's AI Tech breathes new life into classic visual novel.
Square Enix is re-releasing the 1983 murder mystery visual novel, The Portopia Serial Murder Case, on Steam as an "AI tech preview" with natural language processing and understanding technology. The game originally required players to type commands to interact with characters, and Square Enix is experimenting with using AI to better understand and generate responses to these commands. However, the publisher's vision for the future of AI in gaming has been criticized for potentially stripping the humanity out of games.