Gin'Iro Haruka is Tone Works' best game yet. Every single aspect of it is perfected.
Story 4/5
Gin'Iro Haruka has five routes each of which containing three arcs: Middle School, High School and After. All of these arcs are amazing and show the development of both the protagonist and the heroine in great detail. The only possible issue with the story is its length. Gin'Iro Haruka is very long and that length is felt as large amounts of the story move at a snail's pace and is primarily Slice-of-Life. This makes the game hard to get through at times particularly if you are playing all the routes back to back with no real interruptions.
Art 4/5
The art in Gin'Iro Haruka is great with beautiful background art and CG's consistently appearing throughout the game. The CG quality across routes is inconsistent however as some routes have CG's that are nothing but an edited character sprite across a pre-existing background. The character designs, however, are all great and there is a large amount of them. Each route has at least one new character with a design appear inside it with some having upwards of three characters exclusive to the route. There are a large number of locations inside Gin'Iro Haruka with some routes basing a large number of their plots inside foreign countries such as Italy and Canada. This means that there is a ton of background art and all of it is beautiful.
Soundtrack 4.5/5
Gin'Iro Haruka's soundtrack is amazing with twelve great voiced tracks throughout the game.
Conclusion
Gin'Iro Haruka is tone works the best game in my opinion (Though I haven't played Tsuki no Kanata de Aimashou). The story improves upon Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai's narrative structure by adding in a middle school section and making sure all the routes are of equally high quality. There are even cameos from characters in Hatsukoi 1/1 and Hoshi Ori Yume Mirai to look out for. The only major issue I truly have with the game at this moment is the lack of full translation. (As of August 2021 Gin'Iro Haruka only has 3 of its five routes translated.) This is an issue because in my opinion, the best routes are the untranslated one's so unless you have some Japanese reading ability or are willing to risk MTL you have no choice but to ignore two of the best routes. However, Gin'Iro Haruka isn't a game that requires you to read everything to understand the plot so I still highly recommend it.

Reviewed on Aug 14, 2021


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