In my opinion, this is a very nice Western visual novel, with English voice acting and everything at its right place.
We finally can find here (I'm saying "finally" since some days ago I played another Western visual novel with Japanese-like artwork which had an enormous lack of settings, features and so on) almost all (with a notable exception - the artwork/gallery section!!) the things we need to enjoy visual novels, especially those with multiple endings and such!
The layout is a little bit indie/amateurish, but nothing that affects the story when you're into in. We have skip and fast forwards options, save/load features, everything works fine.
The artwork really shines in this title - both backgrounds, which look like paintings, and character sprites are really drawn in an awesome way, of course it's in a Japanese/Asian style but there are no problems at all in them set into a Western plot (more specifically, this game's set in the States). Too bad there's no gallery option!
And as I said, being an English game, fortunately we've got some great voice acting - just make sure that you know a good English (oh, no grammar mistakes and spelling typos, not a common thing xD) since the game won't support any other language, but the addition of the voice acting in a visual novel that isn't even that short is great in my view.
The story itself is great too, starting with your main character in a depressive situation, without job and without a girlfriend, but with a world of choices and opportunities in his near future. We've got some endings to explore ;)
And as I was saying, the game deals with depression and mental illness themes too, not only positive outcomes - of course, you'll have to make dozens of choices. It can be relatable, but everything is written with consciousness - like, nothing's left randomly or even in a way that could inadvertently hurt players who are or have gone through hard times - like me, suffering from mental health problems for more than 15 years.
I'm accustomed to everything, being an adult, but I recognize that touching sensible themes like these - and this visual novels opens with such a base - could be a plus or a negative thing. And in this case, I felt that everything was at its perfect spot. I felt that the story was well-written from the start to the end, and never out of the rails.
It's a dramatic story, but not a depressing one. There'll be lots of philosophical talking, and humour too :)
And I found this awesome. Visual novels aren't forced to deal with romance, or to talk about girls or magical themes. They also treat mental illnesses and deep feelings that aren't completely related to the romantic relationship ones. So, while I love to play every kind of visual novel, I felt some refreshing air playing this one.
The story will also deal with drug addiction, as more characters will unfold - mainly, a psychiatrist and the manager of the protagonist's ex girlfriend, both dealing with deep personal struggles.
Plus, I also won on SteamGifts the soundtrack for this game and it's really great, I loved both the voice acting and the soothing piano music, relaxing and great to listen even as an OST, outside the game.
They really made an awesome work here in my opinion, both in the artistical department and in the pure novel one. The fact that there are few achievements and endings is not a negative one, since you'll have to make as I said multiple choices and even if you won't have a dozen endings you'll still have many different outputs and you'll be able to see how the story unfolds in many different ways.
As I said, completing everything will take you many hours, maybe less than 10, but still this isn't a free game that can be completely finished in an hour. Its price is of course too high, but it can be found on giveaways, sales, bundles and such so I don't think there's a problem for what concerns getting this game, at least the base one - although the deluxe edition is really recommended! If only it had some gallery feature.. :)
I have read older reviews (this game was released a year ago, in the beginning of 2017) and I don't know if it had patches or upgrades, but as I played I found no problems at all, no glitches, bugs or crashes and the skip system is super fast; the save feature too works perfectly as of these weeks.
Overall, this visual novel has lots of positive aspects and if on one hand it could have had many improvements, on the other hand it's definitely great as it is even without a gallery section or more "friendly" user interfaces, not taking into account of course the fact that one could expect a longer or deeper story, but these are personal aspects that could probably never find an output in a "perfect" visual novel.
Fix Me Fix You has all the positive tips that one might ask from a visual novel not dealing with romantic things, or magical ones, but rather ordinary life and mental illnesses. The artwork is awesome, and the voice acting is great (all of course subtitled, since I couldn't understand many words having never studied English and coming from a Neo-Latin background), there are no bugs of any sort in all the hours I spent here and the plot developed in an awesome way, the endings are all great and you'll manage to be engaged into the story and its few (but awesome) characters in a short while.
So, add this to your wishlist if you like visual novels in general and I think you won't be unsatisfied for many hours :)
