nakige

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Japanese 泣きゲー (nakige, “crying game”), a combination of なき (naki, “crying”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game. Compare tearjerker. === Noun === nakige (plural nakiges or nakige) A Japanese visual novel of a genre characterized by melodramatic plots intended to move the player to tears. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nakige. === See also === crying game