Dragon Essence - Color My World -

This eighth visual novel from Zeiva Inc feature a female protagonist Chi An who was born colour blind. After an encounter with the dragon Tian Zhao, Chi An was able to see all the colours around her again. Years later, Chi An would be betrothed to her childhood friend Ming Jie who is studying and working hard for her with the blessings of both sides's parents, while Tian Zhao would re-appear into Chi An's life again and cause Chi An to question her perceived lack of personal freedom and the responsibilities expected of her. Chi An would also meet a half-dragon boy Tian Xi and a dragon priest Xu Wei, both with their own background story and personal motivations where Chi An could have an ending with. Although there are no Steam achievements to obtain in this game and the Steam take screenshot button feature doesn't work, the game has an in-game achievement page that will track and show all unlocked in-game achievements that are awarded upon fulfilling various different conditions over multiple playthroughs where bonus unlockable extra content in the form of a side story, CG, character backgrounds and developer comments will be awarded upon obtaining all in-game achievements. The game has beautiful artwork, great opening and ending movie, theme song and soundtracks. On a linked Tumblr page of Zeiva Inc's website(Orz Corporation), a soundtrack DLC and a guide for the game was announced to be in development(3 June 2017), while an announced (reverse) harem ending (1 April 2017)seem to be in the bonus unlockable side story. The guide is now available at Zeiva Inc's website. I had originally planned to recommend the game when at discount of less than $10 (as it takes less than 10 hours to obtain all achievements, read and unlock all bonus content) or if the announced soundtrack DLC comes in a free DLC and when an annoying bug where a red screen might occasionally appear and block out all view of the screen is fixed, I have decided to reconsider and recommend the game at the current discounted price of 20% off at the time of this review after reading through the developer comments that this game took up to 6 years to produce and involved a lot of hard work from the developer. Overall, recommended for fans of Zeiva Inc(me, me! xD), those who enjoy visual novels in an ancient Chinese setting with a bit of background information on traditional Chinese culture, beautiful artwork, great soundtracks and does not have any Steam achievements.

This game is well made and quite beautiful. The art is amazing and captivating. The story is well made and given a lot of thought. So why can't I recommend this game? While many endings are available, they all left me feeling quite depressed with tears running down my face. That said, if you can get past this one hurdle, this game is for you. But for people like me who need a good ending that satisfies everything, you're money is best spent elsewhere.

Clearly I should have read other reviews/discussion on this game. Because there is no happy ending at all. All four of them are depressing, and the four endings are all you get. For a game that's twenty bucks (or even the fifteen it's on sale for now), it's short, has too few endings, and the mini-games are completely pointless, you don't even have to play them. I've never been so massively disappointed with a game, and I sorely regret wasting the money

It's my first Zeiva game and... The story, music and art, everything isn't bad, feels a little too childish, not enough background perhaps ? But... If you're looking for an otome game where you can choose the person you want to be with, it's not for you. If you're looking for a game that end well, it's not for you. Otherwise, go for it !

The art is gorgeous, the music is good, but this game is absolutely not worth $20. The routes are very short, you can play through them all and get all achievements in one afternoon. Plus, none of the endings are satisfying in the sense that there is no happy ending to this game. I'm not sure it it's to make some point about futility and/or selfishness, but either way, I feel thsoe points could have been made in different ways. I would not suggest this game to people, especially if they haven't tried this genre before.

I like how Dragon Essence combine everything I like in one game dragon, fantasy and historical setting. Like all Zeiva art this game have beautiful sprite, cg and background. I love it. All the years of waiting are worth it. But reading the ending makes me wish there are more so if there's a chance Zeiva will release bonus content for this game I will definitely go for it. Anyway I like how at the beginning we are able to see the world according to Chi An view. Reading the prologue make me think how fitting the tittle "Color My World" is. The writer also manage to describe the struggle woman of that time have to face and of course the struggle of being different. The endings are easy to archieve and the developer has kindly left us hint on how to get the other ending. Still even with that I find myself left with lots of archievement to unlock. Will try to get that when I went for the last 2 endings. Well if you are a fan of Zeiva game than you should know what to expect. However this game is completely different from the X series. It's much more lighter but stick to reality even if it set in a fantasy world with fantasy element. It's an enjoyable experience with a bit bitter taste. I recommend it for everyone to try it.

It's beautiful, it's sweet, and the art is amazing, but don't be suprised if you feel depressed after playing

A story that is funny at time, but that can also make you shed a tear. I always liked the art and the stories in ZEIVA's game, once again I was not disappointed. The art is gorgeous, the characters are endearing I couldn't help but get attached to all of them (Even the Dragon Priest) Finding all the ending and completing all the achievements wasn't too hard (It was actually fun) The music is fitting and the ending song is really beautiful (Such a nice voice) I can recommend this without hesitation. 10/10

我买这款游戏是出于纯粹的好奇心 adobe flash 10制作的flash游戏 swf格式在浏览器下运行还可以快进（虽然没卵用） 内容还算丰富，但是价格不划算 （68在橙光游戏里能送多少个花，还能买两个艹猫，然后我买了个flash游戏，简直是乐之） 建议打折入手 算是幻想类，事实设定细节不用太在意.... 好吧 我还是有些在意.... 色盲检测图什么玩意！ 官配结局还算不错，故事连的起来 同情那个明傑，好人卡+原谅侠.... 这大概就是好人的待遇吧 徐威线蛮唐突，霸道总裁. 关于结局，多数人叫得出名字的以叛逆为主题的经典中国爱情故事神话有几个是好结局捏（滑稽）

So more one game from Zeiva Ist is very good, But if you just wanna happy ends, so this game is not for you. Art is beautiful as always and with personality, it is not that standard of anime that we see everywhere in the anime these days. The backgrounds are beautiful, simple but perfectly matched to the story. We have a first Yandere here from Zeiva. <3 I followed the development of this game like many others of Zeiva and other Visual novel and I am happy about how this game came out. Well rather than trying to please everyone we have a story that leaves a bitter taste in the heart, but at the same time behind laughter and joys. And it's very real, and it still brings a little hope and shows that it always has a positive side even in the worst cases. [spoiler]But if you do not like classic stories like Tristan and Isolde, it's best not to catch that game.[/spoiler]