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personally if i was there i wouldve gotten anri a girlfriend

Os jogos da série de hello charlotte são provavelmente meus favoritos de rpg maker e talvez os meus jogos favoritos da vida, e com Heaven's gate não é nem um pouco diferente, mesmo tendo apenas 40 minutos de jogo isso foi o suficiente para me cativar ainda mais com todos os personagens(e se tem uma coisa que a etherane faz com maestria é saber criar ótimos personagens). Me deixa triste ser um jogo tão curto, já que eu sempre quero poder ver mais do universo de hello charlotte, mas ao mesmo assim, tudo que acontece nesses pequenos 40 minutos foram o suficiente para fazer esse jogo se tornar facilmente o meu favorito.

My favorite out of all of them and i will probably be thinking about it for a very long time. It's a very sincere and heartbreaking love/coming of age story.

Its very hard to put into words but i feel very personally attached to this game and many elements seen in Childhood's End. Very specific bits and pieces that feel too real to me, past experiences, feelings, memories. I relate too much. This series is very much about leaving things to interpretation and these last two games did a number on my brain. Thanks etherane.

Also i dunno if the fact that theres no music on this one is intentional. I listened to melancholic game BGM while playing and also some songs from EP 1. It added a lot to the experience for me.

gave me lasting irreparable mental damage


Great addition to the HC series. Well written and drawn, and it fleshes out the characters even more. Sadly, the lack of music or any sound whatsoever does hold it back.

Hello Chalotte: Heaven's Gate é uma dlc do hello charlotte 3 em formato de visual novel de curta duração que vem pra complementar a história desse jogo dando mais foco e desenvolvimento pra alguns personagens como o Charles, Vincent e a Warhol. E já de antemão queria falar aqui que eu tava plenamente satisfeito com o hello charlotte 3, inclusive com esses personagens que foram citados anteriormente, então eu basicamente fui jogar essa dlc por curiosidade pra saber o que ia acontecer, e eu achei bom, ver com profundidade mais do charles e da psiquê dele foi bem interessante, sendo possível perceber muitos dos maneirismos que falam pra gente que ele tinha no charlotte 3 que infelizmente não tiveram muito tempo de tela. Além disso, eu penso que essa é a maior força desse jogo, a atenção pra detalhes, a etharane faz com o máximo de cuidado e carinho cada cena de diálogo do jogo sem deixar esses personagens se tornarem caricatos e sim reais, o jeito que a warhol inicialmente é timida e vai se tornando mais confiante conforme o relacionamento dela com o charles melhora, o vincent se tornando mais "alegre" quanto mais tempo passa na história e a maneira que o charles evita se tornar tão próximo das pessoas que estão no convivio dele são ótimos momentos que mostram e exemplificam o quão bem a função dessa dlc é executada, infelizmente essa também é a minha maior crítica a essa dlc, a etharane não tinha planos grandiosos pra essa dlc, então ela é bem simples, não há música nem mesmo atmosférica, va ou coisas assim, o jogo só quer cumprir o papel dele e nada mais, não há uma ambição como no próprio hello charlotte 3 em questão de produção, e essa simplicade da história resulta em heaven's gate, apesar de ser curto, ser maçante, mesmo com uma duração menor do que uma hora inteira eu não consegui zerar esse jogo em uma seção só, sendo a única parte da franquia em que isso me ocorreu (zerei todos os jogos de hello charlotte no mesmo dia que eu comecei) porque o leitor basicamente tá vendo personagens em seus dia-a-dia sem nada atmosférico ou algo do gênero pra te prender, fica chato, e ser chato não é um problema, o problema que eu to falando é que a falta de ambição dessa dlc resultou em um jogo maçante de se jogar e fez essa experiência mais dificil de ser digerida, isso pode ser resolvido colocando sons pra deixar no fundo enquanto você joga claro, inclusive foi só assim que eu consegui zerar o jogo, mas isso é algo que VOCÊ tem que fazer pra não ficar entediado com o formato de VN slice of life com uma pitada de tragicidade na última parte. Em conclusão, essa dlc de fato cumpriu o papel narrativo dela e fez com que os personagens que tiveram destaque aqui ganhassem mais profundidade, a custo de uma experiência entediante em sua maior parte devido a falta de ambição da autora, principalmente no quesito sonoro, mas que tirando isso não tem nenhuma grande falha, no máximo uma discussão sobre o quão pesado viver é que eu achei um pouco forçado, e fecha essa franquia em uma nota positiva.

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"Congratulations on graduating, Charles."
I reach, and accept his hand.
The future still remains uncertain.
Yet, I feel like I'll be able to fall asleep tonight.

The sun rises.
A new day has come.


And that quiet, little conversation that most people - including probably Vincent and maybe even Charles himself would dismiss as largely insignificant - was the perfect ending to this beautiful story.

great sendoff to hello charlotte's true realm characters. it's short, sweet, and a beautiful 'what if' for fans of the series that have grown attached to its characters

charles just like me fr fr

nem nessa au esses caras se dão bem pqp

Para uma novel, foi bem divertido, não sei se havia tradução para PT-BR mas fui traduzindo e até que tem uma boa história. Logo eu que gostei muito dos personagens de Hello Charlotte, gostei de conhecer alguns deles melhor.

I regret reading heavens gate this late, why didnt I open it after finishing hello charlotte ep3 with fresh memories of the game. enjoyed this one more from the other installments. feels real and grounded with comprehensible writing and I agreed to some of the thoughts of the characters. gives you more ways to look at what transpires in some parts of ep3 and strenghthens the experience of the trilogy.

there is no music or sfx so dont think is something wrong and try to check your volume settings like I did. though I dont know if thats a bad thing for heavens gate, for me it helped to focus more while reading it. would not work on other visual novels or games as their ost's adds so much to the general experince.

v nice as a postscript to hello charlotte, giving a fresh perspective and deeper focus on the trio at the heart of it. because of this, despite framing itself as an au, it honestly feels more like the reality of these characters that informs the universe of the rest of the series. its very depressing but its not too dour towards making this impression either, if anything it being removed from the intensity of emotions the series led up to, while relying on prior knowledge of it, gives a clearer and less obfuscated picture of how much etherane can pack into these characters' relationships.

the diary (which you can read if you get the paid version, please get the paid version) is such a great final note; it's not just as anri's view of things but also invoking charles's preoccupations within their narratives from their views on anri and possibly themself AND also feels to me, potentially?, like one of the more directly personal things the author has shared. a constant series of narrativizing btwn character and creator and audience. think theres a v clear bridge btwn hello charlotte and tomorrow wont come to be found in how heaven's gate brings this obsession in ane's work, on humans blindly seeing themselves in others, to such a level of legibility that it seems like it was readymade to be worked into the core of twc.

the stark, battered grief that hangs over hg gets expanded on nicely by twc too, and it also feels fitting that it comes after the anger and melodrama and anger ABOUT the melodrama of the series that came before. the arc of these games' development is like seeing someone develop their own self over time, trying to figure out what they honestly believe and what they mean to express. even this technically unnecessary side story vn to a larger rpgmaker series has a place in that bigger picture--one that i admittedly, ironically, am creating for myself. but im ok with believing in it, because this search is what affects me most in etherane's work: its not that the author has hard conclusive answers for the problems they present, but like they are still trying to understand and rigorously interrogate their view of the world in ways i can relate to v much, as if we are doing it together.

heaven's gate was an interesting take on what it would be like if you removed the parasocial relationship charles had with vincent in the main game series. truly one of the most interesting character self explorations

"See you in my Heavenly kingdom"

It's hard to write a cohesive piece about the entirety of Hello Charlotte and its stupidly interesting overarching (meta)narrative- so I won't, for the time being, as I wait for my thoughts to crystalize into something coherent.
That said, I am decently confident in calling Heaven's Gate, the final entry in the series, an excellent addendum and extension of HC.
Unlike the "mainline" episodes, which continuously recontextualize themselves in order to expand the scope of the broader story and its themes, Heaven's Gate works off the subtext the same mainline games already provided and "simply" fleshes out the characters' lives and relationships further. This brief read contains a lot of emotionally impactful and thoughtful dialogue, even without taking the rest of the series into consideration.
This emotional maturity and self-awareness the characters showcase is, sometimes, almost excessive- but I think it is a very intentional affirmation of the author's own journey, which is a common theme in this deeply personal and unique series. Said journey is, and will never be, truly over - something this bittersweet story directly acknowledges through Vincent's characterization and the ending - but it's always important to remember how far you've come.
Shame about the lack of music, though.

if you like hello charlotte then this is good but you can get it for free on itch.io

ATÉ HOJE NÃO DESCOBRI COMO ACESSAR O DIÁRIO DE ANRI

i love all of the characters sm T.T this game is really beautiful sad and bittersweet (especially after the childhood end)
it was really interesting to see the true realm trio in alternative universe I CARE FOR THEM
i may be a little bit too biased towards it but what can i say........it's not my fault

Wow... just wow... I put all my thoughts on the third ep but this entry was just so. It made everything click, and I adored how it was entirely different from the other parts (Visual Novel, more Human) I miss playing this game!


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I love this game so fucking much you do not know. It's a visual novel, which means its a bit different from the previous rpgms etherane makes, but an amazing spin-off from the HC series. I love this story more than anything and this one really depicts how the House twists and rots every bit of what it does touch. Even when trying to give Charles something that brings him fulfillment and joy, it still twists what it has and makes it just as depressing as everything else it touches.

It was good, I wish it was longer tho

ok i lied this one is my fav one

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I get you Charles, i too think there's nothing wrong with your crush being a cult leader.