A short, sweet, romantic visual novel, technically well-executed and engaging. It's just a shame I wanted to strangle the MC.
A boy and a girl, estranged for years, meet in a cafe and rekindle their relationship. The entire game is essentially a conversation between two characters as they explore why they parted, and then get back together. While there are dialog choices, they only have a minor impact on future dialog, there is no branching plot or alternate scenes.
The game is 95% incredibly chaste conversation and 5% sex, with no real teasing or fan-service, so be prepared for a straight little romantic vignette. The art is incredibly well realized and the writing is engaging and at times even clever.
The one flaw (and what brings the score down to three-and-a-half-stars-rounded-up-to-four-because-i-feel-charitable) is the MC. There is a lot of internal monologue, and the more time I spend in his head, the more I wish I could yell at the love interest to get out as fast as she can.
Some people believe that having an interest is a substitute for having a personality. For the MC this is metal music. He relates to the world and other people through a series of band metaphors. He bemoans how the world mistreats him for his fandom, while at the same time making sure we know he's one of the "good ones". He's "You have to have a high IQ to appreciate Rick & Morty" guy, but for metal.
He spends so much of the game radiating red flags that he is totally not ready for a relationship with a real live human girl that by the end I wish she would either yell at him and bring him to his senses, or run away into the night before she's stuck trying to explain that no, even after the twelfth forced listen of the entire album, she's just not into that band he likes.
Still, aside from that it's a sweet, cute little story and if you can stand being in That Guy's head for a while, it's an otherwise pleasant use of some spare time.
A boy and a girl, estranged for years, meet in a cafe and rekindle their relationship. The entire game is essentially a conversation between two characters as they explore why they parted, and then get back together. While there are dialog choices, they only have a minor impact on future dialog, there is no branching plot or alternate scenes.
The game is 95% incredibly chaste conversation and 5% sex, with no real teasing or fan-service, so be prepared for a straight little romantic vignette. The art is incredibly well realized and the writing is engaging and at times even clever.
The one flaw (and what brings the score down to three-and-a-half-stars-rounded-up-to-four-because-i-feel-charitable) is the MC. There is a lot of internal monologue, and the more time I spend in his head, the more I wish I could yell at the love interest to get out as fast as she can.
Some people believe that having an interest is a substitute for having a personality. For the MC this is metal music. He relates to the world and other people through a series of band metaphors. He bemoans how the world mistreats him for his fandom, while at the same time making sure we know he's one of the "good ones". He's "You have to have a high IQ to appreciate Rick & Morty" guy, but for metal.
He spends so much of the game radiating red flags that he is totally not ready for a relationship with a real live human girl that by the end I wish she would either yell at him and bring him to his senses, or run away into the night before she's stuck trying to explain that no, even after the twelfth forced listen of the entire album, she's just not into that band he likes.
Still, aside from that it's a sweet, cute little story and if you can stand being in That Guy's head for a while, it's an otherwise pleasant use of some spare time.
