In similar fashion, the bad endings for this game leave you with a lingering sensation of longing, and maybe some bitterness in your throat if you do them after the good endings. There are secret paths and special routes, too, but those endings don’t really count in this. Ranked after Lena would be, in my opinion, Slavya (vanilla option), Ulyana (or as I like to call her, Child CCP), and Alisa (the tsundere, also best girl 1). The best good ending out of all the girls has to be with Lena (the yandere), though her ending is also the most unique one as it’s vastly different from the other girls. They leave a soft feeling of hope in you, I think. The good endings for each girl is not satisfying, per se, but they’re also not that bad either. I am left scratching my head more often than not, and the reason they give isn’t really that solid, but I was so tired from reading their longwinded dialogue that I just accepted it as it is.Įvery time I go through a new route, new information is given to us, though the vanilla girls don’t really reveal too much other than their existence. I knew there was more to the story from the beginning, when the protagonist Semyon is transported to a summer camp and no one seems to tell him anything, but it goes deeper than that. Still, there were a lot of moments where I was genuinely invested in the truth behind the entire thing and what’s really going on. Though I’ve heard that YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the inspiration for DDLC, I’m not sure about the history of visual novels and who started the trend. Since this is released in 2014 (even though I played Doki Doki Literature Club first), I would say its twist is new. It takes so long for the main story to even get to the point (the summer camp), and even longer to properly start the game. Also, given that I stopped playing the first time around, you can tell just how slow this entire thing is. I hate wasting my time, especially if I have to read about philosophy.

The protagonist goes into these long inner monologue tangents that aren’t even remotely interesting. It takes so long for them to get to the point. “It’s a visual novel, of course there’s going to be reading!” I can’t comment much on the controls because it’s just clicking and reading, but by god, there’s a lot of reading. In addition to that, I spent another 34 minutes in the sequel and got all of the achievements for that, too.

And, yes, it was also sitting in my library gathering dust.Īs you can see from the screenshots, I had spent 38.5 hours in the main game and got all of the achievements.

Everlasting summer alisa