Yako
Yako is a 2D story-driven hand-drawn platformer. Using your wind-powered abilities, explore a mystical underground world, solve the mystery plaguing the area surrounding Mount Inari, and earn a place among the deities of the Japanese pantheon.
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Ghost in the pool
For a short horror VN, the game was pretty decent. I did enjoy reading the story, which was pretty straight forward and to the point for the most part. There were some bits that I was a bit confused by even though I could probably connect the dots (
! specifically talking about the cat…). There are three different endings, which I do like the variety. I also do like the route map and that different choices did slightly change a few things (though the endings themselves do not change). The graphics were great and I loved the sounds.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
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CASCHA games is a solo developer from China working on two visual novels; Ghost in The Pool (GiTP) and in-development Sunset Paradise. GiTP is a joint effort with author and comic illustrator JOEY, to bring the latter’s horror works to life in a new medium. Due to a language barrier, sadly I cannot (though I’m Chinese) read nor check out the comics. However, I was hooked into this game because the title reminded me of a widely debated mystery in my hometown.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Shan Gui II: Sweet Osmanthus II
Nice art and story was nice, Also super easy to 100% this game
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
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I really love the new game design! Can’t wait for the next chapters!
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Liquid Sunshine
(The Xbox One controller was ignored on both linux and W10, so I played with a keyboard.)
I wasn’t overly impressed at first, but it grew on me.
I liked the visuals of course, then after a couple of chapters I started enjoying the story, the mechanics, the music…
The puzzles are good, which is paramount, and they keep introducing new elements along the way. On the easy side of the spectrum, although I suspect the presence of a few challenging secrets.
In the end, it’s a nice little game.
A bit glitchy; nothing that hurts the gameplay. For example, crouching will work fine in narrow tunnels, but the character will occasionally pass through the mountain when backtracking through some of these tunnels.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
A Black and White, adventure, action packed world splashed with cut scenes styilized as pages from a comic book. The characters are quite interesting with their own abilities - which can also help other characters in the group - and the premise of the game is a peculiar yet somehow satisfying one.
Just a shame I don’t actually like “liquid sunshine” myself, it never did taste quite right…
I’m not that far into the game just yet, but I would like to know why certain things happened
! i.e. the honey was stolen in the first place. That needs answering, but I’m hoping I’ll get my answer as I delve further into the game itself.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Street Hero
it’s good, legit i bought it because i thought the developer put a bunch of time into the game to make it look good, but then when i bought it, it was great and when i beat the game 100% (just now) i wanted a second one but there isn’t so i was kinda disappointing, but if they ever make a second one i’d get it happily which i want them to do.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
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I got the chance to play Street Hero back when it was introduced as a demo for the Steam Game Festival and I thought it showed tremendous promise. Especially if you consider that this is the first game released by DD Games , a Game Studio from Vietnam managed by one authentic Hero! A one man band!
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
Seers Isle
To sum this wall of text up: this is not a “every choice matters” game, it’s a “none of your choices truly matter, here have some cheap drama instead.”
This had looked so promising and then it all fell apart because we’re drowning in fake choices and that mass effect-y “whatever color you choose, your ending still explodes in a steaming pile of manure” thing.
First off, there are 7 characters in total, but one of them does not matter at all, one is there to help justify one of the ending variations of your sad unfulfilling outcome, and one is the reason you can’t have nice things and always get your life ruined, and you can’t do anything to stop it. Out of the remaining four who can be your “soulmate”, 2 are friendship-only (Connor, Freya), so don’t get your hopes up. The game does not care whom you, the player, like or want to succeed (or romance – what meager amount of interaction is supposed to pass for romance here before boom, let’s have sex since we’re running out of screentime). It cares about the number of answers chosen in four rather non-transparent categories (I’ve played through all 4 paths and I still sometimes don’t get why a choice gives you points in something). Each two-stat combo correlates with one of the main 4 characters – and the path you get is determined by the 2 highest numbers, not your choices. Even if you want to connect with a chosen someone, unless you pander to their assigned answers set, you WILL be booted to another path no matter how many times you try to indicate you want this other companion during special events. You think you can determine who among the rest of the group accompanies you to the endgame point? Wrong again, it is always a one male, one female exact combo depending on your “chosen one”: Arlyn-Duncan or Freya-Connor. And then the lower numbers person literally vanishes into thin air before they can make any impact on anything, because screw your attempts to save the group or use extra companions to change the ending.
– Real player with 27.9 hrs in game
Pros:
1.) Variety of characters. Most of the characters in the game came from different backgrounds and have different motives on why they are here.
2.) Multiple endings. I like how an ending of the game was based on all the decisions you have made and how it showed you the payoffs and the consequences of those decisions.
3.) Choices. Compared to “Along the Edge”, “Seers Isle” had more choices to choose from and how the characters interact with one another.
4.) Artwork. The visual designs consisting the environment, the characters, and the choices placements felt fitting and not out of place.
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game
渡劫 x 魔女 ~ Team up with A Magician！
The orc magician who came down from the sky ended my lonely life. However, my peaceful daily life was also disturbed.
Children’s cartoon like love and justice adventure visual novel game, accompanied by vivid and lovely live2d dynamic vertical painting slowly show.
Game style: This work is an all-age adventure GALGAME. The plot is easy, funny and inspirational.
Script words: about 140000 words
Number of CGs: 15 basic CGs
Game CV: heroine voice
The heroine from different dimensions is powerful, dark bellied and eager to learn.
A baby faced young man is a semi detached social person.