Summer Funland



The Russian Katawa Shoujo” is how Everlasting Summer was nicknamed by the visual novel community upon its English release in 2014, mostly due to how it originated as if spontaneously from an imageboard. I got out of the whole chan culture around the time the edgelord thirteen year olds started flooding it. Which, really, aside from the somewhat shared origins, Everlasting Summer doesn't really have a whole lot in common with Katawa Shoujo that isn't absolutely standard for the form, so let's let the comparisons drop there.

When I start making post's that are longer than a few sentences and warrant a title that is less vague I'll do so. It's just that most of my post's have been short and the topics are vague, so having a more blanketing title like the name of the game or character is better than having specific titles that narrow down the conversation.

The third game in a three part series (bet you can guess their names,) Deepest Sleep is a point and click adventure with some unsettling visuals, creepy sound design, and a few jump scares to keep you on your toes. Semyon, a depressed 25-year old shut-in, is on the bus to his high school reunion when he falls asleep and through a familiar dream transported to an old soviet summer camp.

A lot of games start us off with amnesia, but Who Am I goes all the way with the premise. It is not so common to have effects like these for indie visual novels games, but they did it really well. It wasn't too difficult and time consuming to get through all the different route and endings.

Not only that, but the game also has quite the history on Eastern European imageboards, since it spent a lot of time in development. You might be interested in taking a look at our first game, Everlasting Summer, that was a huge success and the most downloaded visual novel ever on Steam.

While SakuraGame's Tim has provided a lot of irrelevant, tangential or misinformation-filled answers to Musical Anti Hero's queries, he did address the situation with New Glass as a misunderstanding and the publisher jumping the gun,” putting up the game's Steam store prematurely.

Frosty Kiss can be best summed up as an epilogue to Everlasting Summer, being a very short visual novel (I got the first ending in about ten minutes) which features the main female cast of the game (no cat girl or male characters make an appearance) and the protagonist of the previous game just celebrating in the new year.

The characters do not have voices at the moment, but crowds can sometimes be heard in the background, which was interesting in the bar or club settings. You are supposed to stumble around aimlessly until you find an answer, and not all answers, heck, not even all good endings, involve one of the girls.

The game (or visual novel) often left me frustrated and did have questionable art directions, but it played with my emotions like a psychotic girlfriend. Everlasting Summer is a visual novel where the player has to make choices that affect which way the story will proceed.

Even then, it takes a complete FunnyVideoGames shift in setting, character, and even storytelling genre for Semyon and Miku to end up together. What we have is the down the rabbit hole” approach to storytelling, enhanced by how the summer and the camp's light atmosphere contrasts Semyon's crestfallen demeanor and lifestyle in the real world”.

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