Across the Grooves

This is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played. Its music, art style, and gameplay blew me away. I was really surprised by the replay value. I expected it to be more linear, but your choices really seem to impact the path of the game in a big way, and I definitely want to try another playthrough. The game reminded me of Stray Gods, and it immediately sucked me into the story. I am 100 % convinced and will check out the other Nova-Box titles soon!

Beaucoup de remplisage. Le début donne franchement envie, mais l'histoire est ininteressante et les choix non impactants. Nous n'iront pas au bout du jeu. Nous avions pris ce jeu suite à Along the edge mais nous ne prendrons plus de jeu de Nova-box

One of those games that had me hesitate between yes or no for recommendation - my true feelings lie somewhere in the middle! But I lean towards recommending, because this is a very unique Visual Novel, the thing about which I loved the most is that it was obviously written by people extremely passionate about music records. There's a lot of knowledge about this (to me) niche interest packed into this story, which I liked - even though I personally am not interested in the technicalities and obscure musicians that any character deems important enough to talk about (sometimes at length!), it charms me to see the passion. The art is beautiful for scenery or showing entire rooms, but for closeups on the faces of characters I found the art style did not work too well. The visible brushstrokes had me overly focused on how the characters often feel extremely two-dimensional in personality (I can think of one character that felt interesting and extremely well-rounded to me, and sadly only met that character briefly). The story itself was interesting, but the game is not in a hurry to drive it forward, taking its time. It felt slow, but easy to get back into if I took the game back up after putting it down. All in all, a nice game. I struggle expressing the vibe it truly has, and I don't think personally I am overly fond of the mystery story aspect of it, but I do not regret buying it, for the very unique experience this was.

Beautiful art, interesting characters and story, I greatly enjoyed this game! One of my fav visual novel.

+ Histoire mature + Qualité des dialogues + Direction artistique magnifique - Un coup court Visual novel classique dans son principe (beaucoup de dialogues, choix multiples réguliers plus ou moins impactant, images fixes type diapositive, ...) AcrossTheGrooves se démarque par une histoire mature et un style "crayonné" très agréable à l'oeil. L'histoire nous fera voyager dans plusieurs villes d'Europe, en quête de l'histoire d'un mystérieux disque vinyl, en nous faisant rencontrer différents personnages, plus ou moins bien intentionnés, sur un fond de culture musicale. Les dialogues sont bien écrits, et il faudra compter 3h pour le premier run, puis une heure par run supplémentaire en accéléré, beaucoup de passages se recoupant et pouvant être passés. A noter un petit clin d'oeil à AlongTheEdge, leur précédent jeu : on pourra croiser, selon ses choix, certains personnages dans notre aventure ;)

nice story

Another great Nova-Box game.

Ich habe dieses Spiel wirklich geliebt. Habe mich so lange nach einer tiefgreifenden Story gesehnt und hier wurden meine Erwartungen definitiv erfüllt. Wunderschön, mysteriös, tiefgehend.. bewegend. Ein wahres, erfüllendes, liebevoll gestaltetes Kunstwerk!

The art alone would be worth buying this one, this art style is amazing, and story is also really good. I'm always worried that time-travel stories will lose themselves with all the possibilities of changes, but this one stayed quite centered and managed to land the plane very well. It's quite short, but I find that I like it, and it has good options of replayability. The only downside to me are the singing parts, which are quite bland for a game that talks so much about music, both in melody and lyrics, although the visuals compensate and these sections don't happen often.

Across The Grooves was great to play and very much on par with Nova-box's standards. I've enjoyed every game so far. Pros: - Great story with multiple endings - Lots of references to music - Artwork is the best in the business - Soundtrack suits the game to a tea - Two romance options with both genders - Easter eggs One con: The songs are very repetitive with lacklustre vocals. The lyrics certainly deserved more work as well. It would have been fun to have fully fleshed out songs from different genres/eras to reflect the main character's personality/choices.