Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince - The Vampire Star.
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A gripping visual novel with phenomenal arthouse adjacent presentation that occasionally comes across as being surface-level but anyone able to look past the veil of hedonism and glamour should find a poignant depiction of young adulthood in our post-pandemic world.
Playing this game as someone who is not gay, not Italian, and played a shit ton of videogame with my friends during Covid, I cannot relate to this game at all, which is exactly why the game is so cool to me. I want to feel the pain without actually experiencing it, the more dramatic the better. Too bad the game has the worst saving system of a visual novel ever. The auto save messes up everything and it cannot be turned off. Skipping content you've already seen is also a pain in the ass.
twinks!!!!!
Was on the fence about recommending or not, this ends up being one of my longer reviews apologies hehe. The game is well made, good visuals, smooth clicking and mouse movement and I didn't encounter any bugs! Curious if this is more of a vent game from the dev(s). Who is the intended audience? Good queer representation, loved to see the Trans and LGBTQIA characters and vibe. However.
Uses Eskmo, this is a SLUR. Listen to Indigenous folks, it's a slur. Slt is also mentioned many times.
Wasn't that scary to me personally, ended up laughing and giggling to some scenes, could've been more bloody or weird but it was fun!
Semi spoilery:
Andrea and Claudio I liked the least, Andrea especially. I dont relate to the privilege of being born into money and generational wealth. Nor do I feel sorry for the rich. The situation sucked yeah but -shrug-. This leads me into the normalized 'sex drugs rich popular' that this whole games resides in. So much of this could have been avoided or helped with drug rehab, proper support with mental health, therapy, medications, and addressing trauma. It mentioned the pandemic and im glad for it, except its not PAST. We're still in the pandemic! Andrea's whining was infuriating. People like myself who are still masking and being covid-safe in 2024, disabled, immunocompromised, ALL of us mourn the loss of experiences and socializing. But you do better and be safe for community, for your loved ones, having EMPATHY for the lives of others. I dont feel bad for people like Andrea. Nobody masked in this game, Mida traveled and was in groups and big events through a pandemic? Mida's got long covid for fuckin sure dude. "Its just a game" do you know how tired I am of hearing that? This is some sort of vent or feeling piece style, and while I understand and can empathize because we ALL experienced loneliness and isolation that COVID brought. Its not over and there are lots of us still fighting.
I have no one to recommend this to because my circles and friends are those who mask, are still mostly staying at home and being safe. My experience with this is why I've not recommended it.
Uses Eskmo, this is a SLUR. Listen to Indigenous folks, it's a slur. Slt is also mentioned many times.
Wasn't that scary to me personally, ended up laughing and giggling to some scenes, could've been more bloody or weird but it was fun!
Semi spoilery:
Andrea and Claudio I liked the least, Andrea especially. I dont relate to the privilege of being born into money and generational wealth. Nor do I feel sorry for the rich. The situation sucked yeah but -shrug-. This leads me into the normalized 'sex drugs rich popular' that this whole games resides in. So much of this could have been avoided or helped with drug rehab, proper support with mental health, therapy, medications, and addressing trauma. It mentioned the pandemic and im glad for it, except its not PAST. We're still in the pandemic! Andrea's whining was infuriating. People like myself who are still masking and being covid-safe in 2024, disabled, immunocompromised, ALL of us mourn the loss of experiences and socializing. But you do better and be safe for community, for your loved ones, having EMPATHY for the lives of others. I dont feel bad for people like Andrea. Nobody masked in this game, Mida traveled and was in groups and big events through a pandemic? Mida's got long covid for fuckin sure dude. "Its just a game" do you know how tired I am of hearing that? This is some sort of vent or feeling piece style, and while I understand and can empathize because we ALL experienced loneliness and isolation that COVID brought. Its not over and there are lots of us still fighting.
I have no one to recommend this to because my circles and friends are those who mask, are still mostly staying at home and being safe. My experience with this is why I've not recommended it.
A visual novel tackling some big themes that goes to some very dark places. Not much gameplay to it, but the stunning art design and great soundtrack round out a weird, but uniquely fascinating experience.
This is a study case in my opinion, I've never seen something quite like it. Amazing artistic ideas dragged down by an non-matching artstyle. Some beautiful poetic moments, dragged down by the horrendous caricatures the three main characters are. This is so real, yet so fake.