![]() ![]() Yes, Rei hasn't been able to do what bees do to flowers yet, but don't worry, as this is a visual novel, therefore a flock of available and eager girls will soon appear like the standard tsundere one, your - BLOOD RELATED - sister Michiru, a weirdly flat-chested British otaku, and more. The aesthetics fit together quite well.Rei Sawatari's middle name isn't 'Virgin,' despite the fact that you'll be repeatedly reminded of that little factoid. It is very calming and sets the mood well. It isn’t exactly a bad thing, but it isn’t exactly a good thing either. You have locations like a classroom, the roof of the school, the inside of a train, etc. Even though they are generic, they are still done well. The backdrops are mostly generic, and there aren’t enough of them, though this is a common complaint I have with visual novels in general. In fact, I can’t even imagine how they’d fit without feeling weird. Even though I was reading the toned down version, the missing scenes never felt like a gaping hole. If you acquire the visual novel from Nutaku, you will have access to the fully uncensored version. In all fairness, this nudity was actually well-placed and wasn’t meant to be sexual. As is the case with Sekai Project’s visual novels on Steam, all sexual content has been removed, so I was surprised that some nudity was retained. If you’re jumping into a Japanese visual novel then you probably already expect suggestive scenes, but I want to warn that there is some nudity, in case that bothers you. There aren’t any over-the-top or unique designs since it takes place at a Japanese school, but they are all very gorgeous nonetheless. The characters are all really well-drawn as well. Each character is handled with care and appropriate emotion, which made keeping the voices on very enjoyable for me (I usually keep voices off). CHRONO CLOCK VISUAL NOVEL FULLAs is the case with most visual novels of this type, every character besides the main character has full voice acting. Speaking of voice acting, I must admit that the voice acting in this visual novel is actually pretty good. In the end, it’s not a huge issue, and from an aesthetic perspective it actually fits her personality and style of speech perfectly, it merely feels weird upon execution. In fact, you can even turn off the voice acting if you simply don’t want to deal with listening to it. For most people, this likely won’t be an issue. For somebody who understands some Japanese, this was particularly hurting my brain when I’m listening to one thing and reading the exact opposite, which means I’m essentially trying to do a double-translation at the same time. Hence why you’d need a dictionary if you didn’t know any Japanese vocabulary. The thing is that the words that she says in English while speaking are converted to Japanese in the dialogue text. ![]() Everything she says is translated for us, of course, so it’s in English. The actual written dialogue does the exact opposite of this. The issue is that the voice actress has a very thick accent, so when she says the English words it can be very difficult to know what she’s saying. The reason for this is that she often uses English words mixed in with her Japanese when she’s speaking. Luckily, I know enough Japanese to understand what’s going on, but others may need to have Google Translate ready to go. She’s a foreign exchange student from England, so she mixes English and Japanese. The only character’s dialogue that feels odd is D.D.’s. The dynamic between Rei and each other character is different, silly and fun. ![]() It pulls enough of our own pop-culture into the story to be more relatable, while also retaining the very clear Japanese nuance that will always be present with a Japanese visual novel. I was especially happy with the way the dialogue was written. They aren’t funny, they don’t move the story forward and they don’t develop any of the characters. ![]() Though I read the more ‘family-friendly’ version available on Steam, I can’t imagine having naughty scenes added would add much context to these strangely placed lines. The other issue is that there are very misplaced perverted lines that seem shoehorned in merely as fan service. In fact, the story is extremely linear once you make your choice of love interest. The most prominent issue is that, with the concept of time travel and changing decisions being the underlying theme of the story, there aren’t any points during the story that you are given the opportunity to make branching decisions outside of choosing routes for whichever character you are planning on wooing. This leads to the two biggest flaws of the visual novel for me. As I said, it’s a romance, plain and simple. When it boils down to it, this is a visual novel about a guy at school who has never had a girlfriend, and is trying to find love. ![]()
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