Happiness! Sakura Celebration!

Sometimes, it takes a real man to be best girl

这作品听别人说的是叫做风车社的，好惨......

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I went into Happiness! Sakura Celebration almost completely blind. The only thing I knew was that Windmill Oasis is the same one who made Witch's Garden which was also on my wishlist from years ago. To sum it up, I was pleasantly surprised. Coming in on a blank slate and expecting nothing, I struck gold. Over at VNDB I gave this a 9/10. (Rino best BTW). I like the production of Happiness Sakura Celebration. Lots of thought went into the subtle things like expressions of both the speaker and non-speakers mid-voice line. There's more to it than just that but these subtle things are really noticable. Though, the fight scenes I don't really like so much. They felt awkward, not out of place though. Another downside is the English text itself. I've noticed a lot of issues with word wrapping incorrectly, words getting dangled on the far right side on a new line, and names being outright wrong or swapped with another. The worst case of incorrect naming IMO is in Shizuki's epilogue where her name was even put as Suzuki. [h1]Routes[/h1] This will be in the order I've read the routes. [h2]Karen[/h2] Firstly, I had a negative knee-jerk reaction at the fact that the first route is forced to be Karen. However, I ended up fine with it because the route itself was decent and that I can understand the reasons behind locking the first route to her. Her route touched up on multiple things that are more deeply explored in the other routes and provide some background to MC. There was unfortunately nothing really surprising with regards to the romance in her route but the lore aspect did provide a lot. I say this but it is undoubtedly a pretty sweet route. [h2]Rino[/h2] Rino Best. If Karen wasn't forced I'd have immediately gone with Rino first since I already liked her a lot in the Common Route. Her route just made me like her a LOT more. The biggest reason here is of course Rino herself being a great character but the fact that her route definitely focussed less on lore and more about herself and the relationship with MC definitely helped. Both the personal growth and couple growth were really nice to follow through since you can see them really grow together. Did I say Karen route was sweet? Rino route easily stomps that and all the other routes in this VN. I love me some sweet romance that makes me squeel like a fangirl but Rino made me go past that and made me freeze and speechless. Felt my heart stop there for a few moments AND THEN I experienced a delayed goosebump reaction after calming down. "Be careful on what you wish for" is what I'd say to the cast in her route. I have no regrets immediately reading Rino route but some people may want to save her for last for satisfaction reasons rather than lore reasons. To me, Rino route overshadows ALL the other routes. If we exclude her and her route, I'd probably give somewhere around 7 or 8 rather than 9. On the other hand, if it was ONLY Rino's route this would be an easy 10 from me. [h2]Shizuki[/h2] Shizuki's route delves into the past and is the one which introduces the most amount of lore. She wasn't lying when she said that she's honest -- you can see in her route how expressive she is. I personally liked her second best among the cast but far behind Rino (Rino is too good). She's a sweet, yet awkward, brocon of a dork. Her route can be summed up as "Caring for Your Family." It is a bit weird that people didn't bat an eye towards incest, in fact they are openly supported by the people. I do have an idea, or a theory, on why this is the case. Big lore dump on why I think so: [h3]The Lore[/h3] [spoiler] There is a legend about one of the best mages in history from 1000 years ago. It goes such that the mage is in love with his sister but because of the public rejecting his love he has cursed the land which is still very much active in the present day. [/spoiler] [h3]The Theory[/h3] [spoiler] What I think is that due to this, the people would be scared of incurring another curse due to incest so they end up being more accepting of incest. [/spoiler] [h2]Fuuko[/h2] In contrast with Shizuki's route, Fuuko's route delves onto the possibilities of the future. Among the main heroines, she's the only one to hold some power in society so this is where the pivot of her route is. I personally think that it was a fine play on my part to finish the main routes with Fuuko since her route is what hints towards the overall solution to the main conflict in Happiness Sakura Celebration. [h2]True[/h2] The True Route, or Grand Route as the VN calls it, is basically [spoiler]the Harem Route[/spoiler]. In here, all of the secrets in the individual routes are revealed and laid bare. Combining these secrets to ultimately get their happy ending. Of course, there are some more reveals and stories on top of what're in the routes but it felt more like straightening out loose threads that were left dangling by the individual routes. One of the major reveals here I was actually expecting to happen ever since the common route ([spoiler]When they described what a mage does[/spoiler]) Personally speaking this is how I would rank the girls themselves: Rino >>>>>>>> Shizuki > Nao >= Fuuko > Mashiro > Karen > Mizuki. As for the routes: Rino >>> Karen > Fuuko > Shizuki > True

happiness is back on the menu

Will post a full review once finished. So far, it's god a good voice cast, nice art, and just overall fun characters. The setting of magic being commonplace allows for a neat twist on things. Edit: Finished at just over 30 hours. it's a completely inoffensive and narratively uninvolved VN, but the fun and comfy characters should make up for it, if you're reading this for the romance.

啊我真的是笨蛋...我在HF那边买了中文版（名字是Happiness！2 Sakura Celebration）以后，才发现自己也买了英文版...后续还出了FD（Happiness!2 Re: Lucks）。如果大家看完下面简介想玩，但英文水平和我一样差的话，可以考虑一下HF那边？ 故事的背景很简单：魔法是选择带来幸运未来的工具，但幸运与不幸必须保持守恒，否则便会为所有人带来不幸。一位魔法师发现了这个问题，于是通过种种办法，把这个不幸的范围缩小至每十年产生一个倒霉蛋。后来有一群魔法师知道这件事情，于是就打算以“幸福计划”打破这个传统，然而失败了~ 这部作品有剧情锁，但个人觉得剧情十分流畅，不会像箱庭逻辑那样出现剧情割裂、虎头蛇尾的剧本。 第一条只能通关花恋线，让玩家知道十年之前倒霉蛋逃过一劫的故事。 后续可以通关璃乃，枫子和炽月（个人最喜欢）路线，这些路线均为最后的True end铺垫。 True end剧情比较简单：和绮（男主）是一名很有天赋的魔法师，所以可以保留各个平行世界的记忆，从而创造让大家都能幸福的世界。最后大家同心协力，得以让大家都能通过魔法得到幸福，不会再有倒霉蛋了。 敝人感觉这部作品的人设很讨喜呢，魔法元素+校园，配合青梅竹马/妹妹/邻家大姐姐。前面几条路线的日常/后宫剧情比较水，后面True end整合所有伏笔挺惊艳的！

Happiness! Sakura Celebration! is a pretty run of the mill moege featuring magic, some plot, and some slice of life elements. I found the slice of life elements to be easy to read and funny, the plot was fine, but the ecchi scenes were not good. There's honestly not a whole lot to talk about with this title since - in my opinion - it did so little outside of the norm for a moege. It was easy to read without overstaying its welcome at any point, which was nice. The plot moved along at a decent pace - except for the Grand route which the first half dragged, almost [spoiler] as if the writer expected you to have taken a very long time to read through the rest of the visual novel and have forgotten most of the plot. [/spoiler]. However, for me the plot lacked much of a dramatic punch, ultimately feeling like it landed a bit flat where it was trying to hit hard. Past that the ecchi scenes are serviceable, but I wouldn't call them good, the writing - in the English version at least - had me laughing more than it had me horny. Overall, if you're a moege fan, I'd still recommend this as it's a decent read and interesting at points, and with the whole magical girl thing it hits on at least a few lesser seen character archetypes in moege.

Sugar? Check. Action? Check, but not too serious This VN is really good and enjoyable to read. Moreover the heroines are likeable and lovely. Their development in character and love is something very exciting to read.

Novela visual tradicional con un espectacular apartado visual y una trama de magia. Los diseños y las personalidades de las heroínas son geniales. La historia como dije previamente toma lugar en una escuela de magos y se centra sobre una maldición que recae sobre la ciudad cada 10 años. Me sorprendió mucho la calidad del dialogo. Los personajes no se van con rodeos y no veras demasiados de los cliches estúpidos a los que nos tienen tristemente acostumbrados estos juegos. Las rutas son muy buenas. Se diversifican mucho y cada una esconde algo especial(con una excepción...). 5 rutas y muchos añadidos extras al completar las rutas. Parche +18 gratis, sin censura. Happines! Sakura Celebration es un buen ejemplo de como contar una historia simple de la manera mas entretenida y digerible posible. Aunque debo mencionar que tropieza cerca del final con una de las rutas. Cosa que me hizo retirarle algunos puntos sinceramente... Pero a pesar de ello eso no le quita los enormes méritos que logra llegado a ese punto.