A very nice visual novel, which falls into all the "standards" of its genre and will definitely satisfy every player's needs ^^
This game, as its predecessor (of course, Last Days of Spring 1 xD), has nothing "revolutionary" but everything in its right place. Good save/load features, a great plot, many choices and different endings, a simple but overall useful and responsive user interface (you can configure the skip and auto options, sound options, text speed and so on) and really great graphics, which make a greatly blended contrast between the backgrounds, which look like real paintings and the character sprites, which are made in a standard but well-made and detailed Japanese/anime style.
And well, this game actually outruns its predecessor under every aspect - mainly for what concerns the plot depth and the graphics; actually, you're not even -forced- to own the first one in order to enjoy this chapter in my opinion, definitely.
Anyways, I also read many negative reviews on the first title that became positive when focused on this one, which is really an improvement under every aspect - but still, I'd suggest the player if he/she can to play through the first, short chapter of Last Days of Spring in order to get really everything right. But it won't hurt to play this one alone, in any case :)
The whole story will take you many hours if you wanna see every ending, and it features your female main character who gets invited by her best friend in the States for a class reunion - the first game was about high school mates, while here Yuka has graduated five years before - and well, there will be lots of options, choices, romantic endings and also bad ones, of course!
As you can see, it's a light-hearted visual novel with no adult contents or even fantasy ones; it's most reality-based and I really enjoy all these visual novels every single time if they're well-made like this one. It's not compulsory to ideate astonishingly new and fancy plots, if you're able to come up with a nice story like we're presented here :)
So, as I was saying, while the first game in this small series followed the lives of some high school students who were en route to graduating, here you'll find them all already in their adult life five years later and so, there will also be more "adult" themes like friendship/relationships and grown-up responsibilities, other than the usual romance ones that still are the core of the game as they were in the first instalment.
All the characters in my view are greatly designed and well-developed, I didn't find any major flaw in the whole game and if you take it as a "non-professional" issue it's a great one in this category :)
If you like visual novels at all, and especially visual novels with touches of humour, light-hearted relationships and friendship, this game's really a must-buy - maybe it costs too much (and the DLC too, which is great since I loved the music, which falls mostly under a new age/lounge genre), but it's really worth to be played.. even if you didn't like that much the first chapter, which still I keep on recommending :)
For every visual novel lover in the end, this one's one of the best titles here on Steam in my opinion and although it has still some flaws (mainly in the graphic field, everything could have been done better like the menus artwork, the text, the windows and so on) they're definitely nothing important - you'll for sure enjoy a lot this novel, even if you're not into this genre that much.
This developer studio is really putting out very nice novels on the market and I'm always looking forward to their new games - this one's by far one of their most beautiful ones, and so, definitely recommended! :)
