Grand Kokoro Is a BxB tragic, drama, romance story told in the form of a Kinetic Visual Novel. This story is about heartbreak, tragedy, acceptance, perseverance and mental health. Our main character has to learn to deal with severe clinical depression and suicidal thoughts all while trying to have a normal life.
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So usually, i don't write reviews but considering this is one of the best VNs i've played and it doesn't look like it got that much attention, i really felt the need to. First of all, this first episode (which i hope there will be more of) of Grand Kokoro has the perfect length. The story is paced really well and the 5 hours passed very quick. This game doesn't have many choices and none of them are affecting the progression - which is great because i really grew tired of these VNs making you brute force all possible paths for tens of hours to finally get the "real" ending. That being said, i completed this episode in one session because the story was really engaging. Grand Kokro tells a story about friendship, love and trust, along with metal illness and the "bigger plot" going on. It's a mix of great, wholesome and sometimes funny moments, as well as the dark ones which - not only once - managed to make me shed way too many tears. Some characters are a bit on the stereotype-y side but never to the point where it gets annoying and luckily these traits mostly are getting dropped as the story progresses. Most characters are really well written, the dialouges feel like actual people talking and their motivations are understandable. The protagonist - Elijah Grand - was very relatable to me on a personal level and i was always feeling what he felt (hence the tears). The VN-framework Seram Studios have used has a lot of flaws - for instance you cannot enable fullscreen, if you resize the window, the texts and controls are buggy. This was only a minor inconvenience for me, because i played it via Steam Link (which basically scales the window's content to the tv's resolution). Otherwise you would have to find a way to scale the VN to fullscreen without affecting the actual window's size - i wouldnt know which software you could achieve that with. Given the price and the length, there are few reasons to not play/read Grand Kokoro, if you are remotely into (BL) visual novels One of the perfectly valid reasons to not read it is that the VN is everything but light-heared and some its themes may trigger you - please read the developer's description if you have known triggers. I absolutely loved Grand Kokro (Ep. 1) and all that's left for me now is waiting and hoping for the second episode.
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Ya pasaron 5 años desde aquel incidente. Elijah [b]#pasivo alert[/b], un superviviente, lleva padeciendo alucinaciones sobre todo lo que es real o no [b]#sobredosis alert[/b]. En esta sociedad en la que vive, los supervivientes son considerados el escalón más bajo de la sociedad. Todo lo que se necesita para limpiar su status social es entrar en los Puros [b]#party hard alert[/b], con el fin de ocultar su verdadera identidad [b]#poca autoestima alert[/b]. Sin embargo, la sociedad tendrá otros planes para él [b]#mientras no sea nada raro, todo bien[/b]. [olist][b]PROS:[/b] [*] Historia sorprendente para un yaoi [b]#no se centra tanto en vincularse como en otros[/b]... es más centrado en amistad, pureza y sobre todo, en el pensamiento personal [b]#se me pegó lo serio... [/b]. [*] Música y efectos indispensables para la historia [b]#los efectos de haber perdido la cabeza son reales... o no[/b], pero eso sí, los sustos de ver sangre me hacen más fuerte. [b]#no he gritado en plena noche jugando a este juego... soy valiente.[/b] [*] Una larga duración con respecto a otros VNS [b]#dale como 6-7 horas[/b]... a lo mejor es que me acostumbré a los [b]#hentais precoces... maldita sea[/b] [*] Primer episodio [b]#de una saga que parece que no llega...[/b] me ha dejado con un cliffhanger increíble y tengo ganas de ver como acaba [b]#que el protagonista tenga una humildad que todos los poderosos se pongan de rodillas[/b]. [/olist] [olist][b]CONS:[/b] [*] Modo ventana únicamente, sin opciones para cambiar ni siquiera el sonido [b]#no los quería cambiar porque me pegaban sustos... o si[/b] [*] No sigue los hotkeys de Steam [b]#sin capturas, sin overlay[/b], el botón de WIndows es para [b]#skipear[/b], y no tiene vuelta atrás [b]#me ha dolido cuando intenté guardar el beso[/b], pero acabé haciendo skipeando toda la vinculación... [*] Juego no en español, pero tiene un nivel de inglés simple para entenderlo sin problemas [b]#casi spanglish... o no[/b] [/olist] [quote] Un VN donde añade una pizca de realismo [b]#en un mundo paralelo[/b], abordando temas como diferencias sociales y [b]#mental issues, todo suena mejor en inglés[/b] . Buena historia con efectos de alucionaciones... pero mala interfaz. [b]#7/10[/b]. [/quote]
The plot was very unique, good & interesting. I liked how it has dark moments & isn't all fluffy. I also liked the artwork for this game. I play a lot of VN's & the character's were well written in this the 1st part. I am looking forward to the rest of the story. I'm going to replay it since it is a bit short also I noticed there are virtually no screen shots. After I replay it I'll add a bit more to this since I'm the 1st reviewer... Alright I've been replaying it & apparently it is longer when you change decisions. Unfortunately it is buggy! I can't save most of the time which I had no problems with on the 1st play through; the game keeps freezing during Elijah's family history part. I did get through the frozen part during my 1st play through by re-starting the game I think over & over. Also I can't take any screenshots & I have no idea why?! Other than these bugs it is still very good.
Edit: Abandoned. Don't Buy. *thumbs down* Grand Kokoro - Episode 1 is a pretty good indie VN so far. At this point of time there are really not enough reviews for this little gem and only a couple of pretty useless comments, so I thought I'd write something. Hopefully the following text is comprehensible. I'm not a native speaker and I didn't sleep for 24h :P STORY 8/10 ------------- Very well written story so far, especially in comparison with other indie VNs I read. I liked all the twists and turns the story was taking. I also liked the mix between dark, depressed, happy and funny mood. I read my first 5 hours playthrough in one go, as I couldn't stop. Eventually I had to, because it's just 1 episode at the moment. Awwww :( Cruel world. CHARACTERS 8/10 -------------------- The characters are well done. I want to be bffs with Lucien, he's my favorite. The banter was hillarious. ART 8/10 ---------- The art is good. I esp. liked the poses of the sprites. Some stuff is animated and there are some nice effects. There are some minor things that could use a touch up, but I didn't really mind. MUSIC 7/10 ------------- The music was good. Of course I liked some tracks better than others, but the quality as a whole was good and most importantly: The music didn't annoy me. VOICE ACTING -/10 -------------------- There is none. I grew up with silent game characters, so it doesn't bother me. GUI 5/10 --------- The GUI is rather simple, but all the important buttons are there. I didn't mind it's simplicity. The buttons could be a little bit bigger though as I'm often playing on a tablet. MENUES 5/10 -------------- The menue is a bit too bare bones in my opinion and I think you can only access it while playing. There is no - volume control buttons for BGM, SFX and voice - settings, eg. for text speed, resolution, fullscreen/windowed mode ... EXTRAS -/10 ------------- No extras in this VN, meaning no - gallery - list of endings - list of scenes to replay I may edit this review later.
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