In a Visual Novel or Role Playing game, NVL is where the text box basically encompasses the whole screen and the sentences come out in page format. In contrast to ADV where there's a text box below the sprites and the sentences come out line by line.
In fighting games I prefer NVL because the text comes out by the characters mouths. In visual novels I like ADV because the text is all together like in a book and it is at the bottom of the page so it doesn't cover up the beautiful character drawings.
by sharris-jh August 27, 2015