HimaNatsu: Of Churches, Sunflowers, and Long Summers

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虽然很想在开头骂上一句这价格怎样怎样，但转念一想，我的爱、我的深情、我的心安处都在这里，所以倒也少些戾气吧。 [spoiler]——赞美盛夏里向日葵的回忆。 朋友啊，你还好吗？ 身没有崩坏吧？心没有磨损吧？ 因为你是个担心许许多多，却对自己疏忽大意的人啊。 都会的喧嚣，匆忙，你一定每天都生活的兢兢业业吧。 不懂得懈怠的你，想必已经身心俱疲了吧。 朋友啊，让你的翅膀休憩片刻吧。 回到那个回忆的村庄吧，让一望无垠的蓝天，海角盛开的向日葵，再一次浮现在你的心胸吧。 你听到了吗？那钟声。每天在上你敲响的，祝福村子新的一天的声音。 你敲响的那钟声，现在也在我的心中回响。 时过境迁，人们背井离乡，夏季的钟声也消失了。小小的村中教会，也要合并进旁边城里的大教会。 朋友啊，我希望。可以再一次与你祈福。致这小小的教会小小的十字架，致这深远的回忆。但愿，这个夏天的回忆，可以充满了我们对未来的希望。朋友啊。我期待着你的归来——。[/spoiler]

14 years of waiting is finally OVER!

草帽小子来了😋

I've already read this in JP, although I rather re-read it in English too. HimaNatsu is a story about simple life, about simple people. Sca-Ji, and Makura in general has a certain reputation that inherits philosophical element within the complex nuance and narrative circling around the fandom, and it bloomed even in modern internet memes that even the much younger generation knows of some odd parts of weirdly manipulated expression by how they understand the ugliness of model masculinity that Takuji tried to portray. To me, HimaNatsu was the attempt for Makura to dislodge themselves with such perception, but that doesn't mean you won't face a particularly interesting narrative in HimaNatsu. A story doesn't need to be philosophical to have philosophical elements. After all, philosophy are just ideas that came from life. Life imitates art. Art imitates life.

Игра от авторов мне так так так.

A huge moment, since Himanatsu is the first game by Makura to receive an official English translation (if we don't count ATRI, since it was a collaboration project between Makura, Fronwing, and ANIPLEX.EXE) And while this isn't a SCA-DI's solo project, the creator of Subahibi and Sakura no Uta was a producer, wrote the text for one route (Yomi), created the plots for two routes (Yomi and Hina), and contributed to the common route, so his influence was pretty significant overall Some of you might be worried that this is just a moege, but that's definitely not the case. Take something like Ruka's route, and you'll get a ton of suspenseful drama that doesn't end within five minutes. Of course, you'll still get a lot of comfy scenes, but the overall mood is closer to something like, I don't know, Little Busters and Grisaia than Yuzusoft Speaking of which, the common route *is* very comfy. Having a little child among the main cast helps a lot, making it feel especially wholesome and simply fresh. Also, it stops the story from becoming horny way too often, something Sakura no Uta is guilty of, so in this respect, Himanatsu is in a leading position, since it doesn't annoy you nearly as much as its successor does (surprising, right?) Overall, the game also features routes written by the creators of ATRI (Hina's route) and H2O: Footprints in the Sand (Ruka's route), so make sure to take a look at them if you like these creators. That said, Yomi and Hina are arguably the main part of Himanatsu, so it wouldn't be fair to skip them in the first place And, of course, a Makura game wouldn't be a Makura game without its recognizable coloring and background music. They're as gorgeous as they are in Subahibi and Sakura no Uta and add a lot to the atmosphere So yeah, don't sleep on Himanatsu simply because it's less famous than Sakura no Uta. While it's not perfect, some parts of it are easily better and more fleshed out, so it's still a treat for any fan of the team (no wonder SCA-DI said that scenario writers Konno Asta and J-Sairo taught him a lot when it comes to writing games like this one) [url=https://x.com/ErogeAreAlive/status/2097993371469901843]—Visual Novel News, @ErogeAreAlive[/url] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45863634-Visual-Novel-News/lists/]Find other notable visual novel releases you might be not aware of[/url]