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Se perde um pouco principalmente no final que é meio forçado, acho que o primeiro fazia um trabalho melhor das coisas serem memórias e um final 'agridoce', não é de todo mal tem seus momentos

i cried when i played this game. it hurt me so bad and remembering how it happened just. makes me feel so desperate to rewind time. but, if i were to do that, it'd take away from the message, i think. very very good stuff

I was a bit older playing this one and It generally tries new things, but with that came some problems which made the game not so flawless anymore, even though I think it's still kinda better than the first one, I guess I just remember the game more fondly.


personagens incríveis e foi uma experiência sensacional

Nit as good as the first one, still very good

This review contains spoilers

A cute sequel to Emily is Away, this small 3 hour game will be very familiar if you have played Emily is Away. The main concept of the game is that you are a high school senior in the year 2007 and spend 5 chapters cultivating relationships with two girls, Emily and Evelyn. Whereas the first game focused just your and Emily's relationship, this game branches off and allows a bit of decision in how you go about things. There are multiple ways to have the game end, including dating Evelyn or dating Emily. The mechanics aren't hard and just mostly involve button mashing your keyboard to pretend to type and clicking whichever option out of the 3 that you'd like to answer with. Chapter 3 is the only one with a unique mechanic in which you are racing against a timer to answer Evelyn and Emily at the same time. Tip: It is impossible and only will cause you stress trying to do both. Pick one early on that you wish to prioritize a relationship with and stick with them. I ended up pissing both of the ladies off in my first run and I literally had to restart the chapter because it will lock you out from anything further. Someone MUST get picked.

Overall, Emily is Away as a series is cool and unique in that the format is through an online messenger very reminiscent of an older time. Emily Is Away Too brought in the use of hyperlinks for "YouToob", as well as links for people's "Facenooks". All very cool and fun to just spend a few hours perusing and chatting with fake people. The story isn't anything super in depth or deep, but it definitely sends some tingles in the nostalgic part of your brain. A well done game, but nothing I would find myself going back to as I have completed it 100%. It is definitely a game that is worth getting on sale and it is frequently on sale for very cheap(I believe I got this for around $1.00).

Lastly, if you are looking to play it and are an achievement hunter like I am, it is a very easy game to 100% if you don't mind it being a little long/tedious. Unlike the first game, where all you have to do is equip the secret icons, this one involves opening chat boxes and communicating with different characters relating to the icons. Make sure to click on the left chat boxes if you aim to do that!

Shit writing. Like, actually ass. Apparently I'm "manipulative" for:
- telling one character I didn't drink (a "I only drink occasionally" option was NOT available in the conversation with them) and telling another that, sure enough, I only drink occasionally - why was that not an option in the other convo???? But it was in this one??? Wha.... why?????
- giving my honest opinions about the music the characters sent me, and basically just having diverse music tastes... I guess???
- telling one character that I could see myself MAYBE wanting to settle down and start a family one day way in the future, E V E N T U A L L Y, and telling another that I don't see myself settling down IMMEDIATELY RIGHT after college (I personally don't see how these two things necessarily contradict each other, since most ppl at least within my own age group wouldn't want to start a family RIGHT after secondary education let alone tertiary, but that usually means something along the lines of "i wanna see what life throws at me. if i do settle down, it'll be when I am good and ready" rather than a hard "never". but go off sis)

If I wanted to get yelled at, gaslit and accused of being "manipulative" for things that make zero logical sense to a sane person, I could just hit up my ex that I haven't spoken to in two years. I don't need to be lectured by pixels that wouldn't know what the concept of nuance or competent writing was if it hit them over the head with a brick.

need Emily irl she likes Death Cab and Sigur Ros

way better than the first game due to there actually being multiple endings. worth the purchase, even if not too long; good amount of replay value if you find both characters charming (i personally didn't; eve was just kind of annoying to me lol)

solid follow up to the first game, but it lacks the gut punch of its predecessor. as someone who was a Youth in the mid-2000s though, it was hard not to feel waves of nostalgia for the aim era. it also has a pretty ingenious way have including licensed music without actually having to license the music.

Honestly a pretty big jump from the first game in quality and I had a lot more fun reading this one. Making it a kind of more multi-media-esque experience by leading you outside of the game itself is really fun and dynamic. Also the fact we now have two characters to talk to, sometimes at the same time ends up making the game a lot more interesting and enticing, are you gonna be able to keep up with the timer conversations?! It really feels like an improved version of the original through these changes of the game its structure.

Great!

Drops the ball hard in the final chapter

Great experience. It's pretty much just the first game but like 90 minutes longer and that's great!

Having the links the characters send actually lead you to your browser or download stuff onto your desktop is really cool, but just a little annoying if you're trying to stream because you'd have to switch tabs

Deff deserves at least one other playthrough to get another one of the endings :peace_sign:

ah... why do they make these characters all so frustrating

A fun expansion of the original idea, but a bit too obvious with where it was going.

I lost my girlfriend in real life and then lost my girlfriend in this game I'm so indescribably upset its so relatable

Having multiple interests and websites were great expansions on the first game. Although I don't remember a lot of it. But I remember it hit my emotions really hard so it had to have been doing some stuff right.

Oh you wanna talk toxic yuri? Let's talk toxic yuri.

Solid improvement on the first one, love the multiple endings and juggling the conversations in real time. Extra points for "downloading" files to my actual desktop and opening new tabs in my actual browser.

This review contains spoilers

o segundo jogo da trilogia, que expande a ideia e aperfeiçoa a fórmula, apesar de não ser tão forte quanto o primeiro.
nesse jogo você também conversa com uma emily, que não é a mesma do primeiro mas elas compartilham algumas coisas, mas você agora conhece e interage com outra personagem: Evelyn, ou eva para os mais chegados. A adição de uma outra personagem muda bastante a forma que esse jogo funciona, pois agora você tem que interagir com o dobro de personagens, sendo que eles te farão algumas perguntas no decorrer do jogo que, confie em mim, trate de ser sincero
eu amo a personalidade que as duas têm nesse jogo, pois no primeiro a Emily não tinha muita personalidade, já que nas palavras do próprio autor, ela "é todo mundo, ela é qualquer garoto, qualquer garota, qualquer pessoa que alguém já amou". Ela não tinha muita personalidade, sendo mais uma tela em branco para você imaginar quem você já amou ali, agora no segundo jogo, a emily e a evelyn são pessoas completamente distintas, uma sendo mais caseira, nerd e tranquila, enquanto a outra é mais arruaceira, punk e ousada. Você realmente cria carinho pelas personagens desse jogo, querendo ajudar elas em seus perrengues e se sentindo, de certa forma, próximo delas, como se fossem suas amigas mesmo em uma sala de chat, e não personagens de um jogo.
Entrando agora nos spoilers, algo que eu amei nessa experiência foi o esquema de confiança e sinceridade, no começo do jogo elas não se conhecem, vocês se conhecem de lugares diferentes então o "você" que a emily conhece e o "você" que a evelyn conhece ainda são a mesma pessoa, agora, se no decorrer do jogo você der respostas diferentes para perguntas semelhantes, tentando agradar ambas as garotas ao mesmo tempo (por exemplo, dizendo a emily que você não bebe, já que ela é mais casual e não bebe também, mas dizendo para a evelyn que você bebe, tentando se tornar mais próximo dessa amiga mais festeira) você vai acabar sendo descoberto, pois coincidentemente a emily e a evelyn acabam se conhecendo na metade do jogo, e se o "você" que as garotas conhecem for diferente um do outro, sua personalidade manipuladora e, aparentemente, inexistente vai acabar sendo exposta, e ambas acabam se afastando de você.
Outra adição interessante pra esse jogo foi a de ter tempo para responder as mensagens, no capítulo 3 se não me falha a memória as duas garotas vão estar um caco, a evelyn vai estar triste e muito frustrada, enquanto a emily vai estar bebâda, "festejando" o fato de tudo estar uma merda. Como você vai estar ajudando ambas ao mesmo tempo, você vai ter um tempo curto para responder cada uma antes que elas fiquem impacientes e, espertamente, o Kyle Seeley colocou alternativas que não fazem sentindo, misturando as duas histórias, então se você não ler direito cada opção você vai mostrar pra garota em questão que tu realmente não estava prestando atenção no que ela tá falando, é algo genial.
No geral, apesar de uma narrativa um pouco mais fraca que o primero jogo, Emily is Away 2 ainda é um jogo fenomenal, mais completo e com mais personalidade que seu antecessor

A solid sequel and an improvement from the first game in every way. I loved the multitasking aspect of the main character's conversations- it felt anxiety-inducing in real time


peguei um final bosta, fe nas maluca é o caralho

Same as the first one, but with extra steps