A side-scrolling action game developed by Platine Dispotif and MAGES for the nintendo Switch, 8-bit Yu-no's Great adventure is a spinoff of Yu-No A girl that chants love at the bounds of this world released alongside it's 2019 remake for the Nintendo Switch. Playing as Yu-No, the game adapts the Adapts the ADaMS system from the visual novel allowing for the player to rewind the game to follow different routes in order to attain key items to reach the final stage and boss.
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Foolish me. Going into my local games store and seeing the 2019 remake of classic visual novel "Yu-No: A girl that chants love at the bounds of this world" on sale at a deep, deep discount. I really like Ryu Umemoto's music, after all, and maybe I owe it to myself to go through one of the most influential and important visual novels released - and this is the 2019 remake, which is censored so probably gonna be less depraved, right?
Well, it's not. The game legitimately just opens with an upskirt CG (bold choice, i guess?) and never gets less aggressively, distractingly horny. It feels creepier than it would if there was actually some porn at the end of the road, even.
After doing a quick search to verifty that yes, there would be at least 30 hours of this, i bounced. Yes, Ryu Umemoto's soundtrack is absolutely incredible and from what i've heard the story goes some interesting places but that thing is at the very least that thing's going at the very end of the backlog for now.
But what also comes with the 2019 remake is this. A very weird, short little action platformer game from excellent Doujin Circle Platine Dispotif, and it's actually fantastic?
More than anything else, Yu-No's great adventure just has a very interesting game system. At it's core its a fairly normal and frantic autoscrolling game, kinda like if ghosts and goblins autoscrolled, defeating enemies and collecting various items before facing various bosses. But the real hook is in th ADaMS system, adapted from the original visual novel, where the game will branch off into different paths depending on actions taken. Many of these lead to warps that just straight up kill you, whilst others lead to safety and others lead to key items. However, to avoid a game over, you can use the system to rewind back in time and take the different routes. It's a pretty ingenious combination of the original game's system and that of a rewind function on an emulator, and it makes for a very cute little experience. The game is an absolute breeze to blast through, searching through past levels to find upgrades and key items for progression. It's a wonderful melding of the multi-route nature of the original visual novel with an action platformer.
And on top of that, the game's just nice. I obviously don't have too much familiarity with the original Yu-No, but this little bonus game seems to have as much if not more respect for the PC-98 original as the remake. A wonderful nes-style aesthetic which almost looks like chibi-fied versions of the PC-98 art, fantastic music, and a proper sense of whimsy with just the right amount of reference and irreverance to work.
In contrast with the leery, kinda unpleasant visual novel, it's a game that despite the drastic shift in genre, celebrates the parts of the classic in a very nice way - truly embracing the bits that work - the aesthetic, the music, the branching paths system - and it's a tribute far more playable than the actual thing.
Well, it's not. The game legitimately just opens with an upskirt CG (bold choice, i guess?) and never gets less aggressively, distractingly horny. It feels creepier than it would if there was actually some porn at the end of the road, even.
After doing a quick search to verifty that yes, there would be at least 30 hours of this, i bounced. Yes, Ryu Umemoto's soundtrack is absolutely incredible and from what i've heard the story goes some interesting places but that thing is at the very least that thing's going at the very end of the backlog for now.
But what also comes with the 2019 remake is this. A very weird, short little action platformer game from excellent Doujin Circle Platine Dispotif, and it's actually fantastic?
More than anything else, Yu-No's great adventure just has a very interesting game system. At it's core its a fairly normal and frantic autoscrolling game, kinda like if ghosts and goblins autoscrolled, defeating enemies and collecting various items before facing various bosses. But the real hook is in th ADaMS system, adapted from the original visual novel, where the game will branch off into different paths depending on actions taken. Many of these lead to warps that just straight up kill you, whilst others lead to safety and others lead to key items. However, to avoid a game over, you can use the system to rewind back in time and take the different routes. It's a pretty ingenious combination of the original game's system and that of a rewind function on an emulator, and it makes for a very cute little experience. The game is an absolute breeze to blast through, searching through past levels to find upgrades and key items for progression. It's a wonderful melding of the multi-route nature of the original visual novel with an action platformer.
And on top of that, the game's just nice. I obviously don't have too much familiarity with the original Yu-No, but this little bonus game seems to have as much if not more respect for the PC-98 original as the remake. A wonderful nes-style aesthetic which almost looks like chibi-fied versions of the PC-98 art, fantastic music, and a proper sense of whimsy with just the right amount of reference and irreverance to work.
In contrast with the leery, kinda unpleasant visual novel, it's a game that despite the drastic shift in genre, celebrates the parts of the classic in a very nice way - truly embracing the bits that work - the aesthetic, the music, the branching paths system - and it's a tribute far more playable than the actual thing.