The story begins with me showing up to school late. Not
long after that, I encounter my childhood friend, Miki, well if I can call her
a childhood "friend", I guess. She comments on my hair and then we
exchange insults. Then, both of us head to class and go through more
introduction stuff, I'm a sophomore... whatever. This school divides genders
for some reason. So most classes only have one gender of students. There are a
few exceptions, though.
Apparently, I have a crush on a student in the grade above
me. Here name is Shihoko... I'm not sure if I pronounced that right. That's
what I get for playing a "Japanese" game, I guess. Anyways, once the
first class is over I head out into the hall expecting to see Shihoko, but we
bump into Miki instead. She soon realizes what I was doing and tries to make
fun of me. She says that I "can't get a girlfriend" and then I tell her that I don't want a girlfriend.
...That sounds like something I'd actually do in real life.
Once the day is over, I decide to head home, only to
encounter Miki and her best friend... uh, Keika...? Why does everything have to
be hard to pronounce in these kinds of games? Anyways, the two of them propose
a competition: who could get into a relationship in 101 days... me or Miki. I
accepted. Then, I get home and ask
myself a question that will determine what trait of mine will be the strongest.
Looks, personality, soul, athletics, and mind. ...And with that, the first day
of the competition begins!
This is where the game play changes. Now we're playing on a
board map, similar to Mario Party [I guess], but unlike Mario Party, people wouldn't make
fun of you for playing this alone. They'd just give you that whole "you're
playing this because you're desperate" speech, unless these people are
actually nice to you or something.
The first options the player has are "move" and
"wait". "Move" is exactly as it sounds and so is
"wait". When you "move" the number of spaces you move is
generated by chance. Choosing to "wait" you'll just stand still and
the girls on the map, which I'll talk about soon, will move around. As you get
further, you'll have some more options on the board map parts of the game. You'll
be able to use items that you pick up at "item" spaces as well as use
special moves that you obtained from spaces on the map.
When you walk to one of
the girls on the map, as in land on the space that they're in, you'll trigger
an event, whether story-driven, or just a quick "what do you want to say
to her?" thing. If you land on arrow, you'll be given a couple of options: a certain
amount of spaces that you can move back or forward if you want. The amount for
forward and back isn't always going to be consistent, though.
There was so much to cover in
this game. So much story. And that's not even all of it. Thankfully, I'm not
going to cover it all! Anyways, when you beat the game you can come back and
try to get the other several endings and story branches. It's worth coming back
just to see what happens if you're actions are a little different.
You can even add your own characters and story to the game.
If you're not that creative, you can download custom characters and story to
the game. Once you've cleared the game once, you'll unlock "clean
mode" which will allow to play through the game using custom characters
only... except in the intro. That's the only exception.
I
haven't really played around with that yet, but I've had a lot fun with this
game so far. In fact, I got kind of addicted to the game at first. I had
trouble closing the game and doing other stuff for a bit. The gameplay is good,
and doesn't have many notice-able flaws.
The dialogue in this game is
perfect. Hardly any noticeable grammatical errors or any kind of typos. The
dialogue never had me confused as to what was going on. It all made sense and
felt fitting for each character that it was written for.
Visually, the game is great for the most part. The board
map looks okay in my opinion, but the locations and NPC's look good. Speaking
of NPC's, the only ones that actually show up are the girls. Now, I know the
game focuses on the girls, but it really would be nice if I could see the guys
too, since I believe in gender equality. I can only see them on the map. It
makes sense that I can only see the guy I'm playing as other, but way less with
the NPC's. Then there's the soundtrack - It's
full of really good fitting music.
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