Natural - Beyond Nature -

This seventh visual novel from Zeiva Inc feature a gender-neutral protagonist Olea who had suddenly quit his/her job and decided to leave town and take a bus or walk towards a remote island village of Calcari Village which had been isolated for many years after a devastating earthquake and mudslide which caused many of its former inhabitants to leave the village and an ancient olive tree to wither and lose its leaves and flowers. As Olea settles into the village, Olea will meet Flori and Llima, two young adult girls who share their souls and visit the olive tree regularly in order to stay alive, a few minor supporting characters and 3 child spirits who will visit Olea in his/her sleep each night over 3 chapters(includes characters from Zeiva Inc's earlier visual novel [i]Voices from the Sea[/i]). [spoiler]In subsequent playthroughs in Beyond Nature mode after accumulating sufficient memory fragments, the child spirits will reveal themselves more fully and Olea will eventually acquire sufficient wisdom and memory to revive the olive tree, reach 2 additional hidden endings and unlock all bonus content.[/spoiler] Although there are no Steam achievements to obtain in this game and the Steam take screenshot button feature doesn't work, the game has a memory fragment counter that will track and record each memory fragment that is awarded with each different decision Olea(the player) makes and each different ending reached throughout in different playthroughs and there is a guide available at Zeiva Inc's website that will help players get all memory fragments and reach all 6 possible endings in the game. The game has beautiful artwork, great opening movie, theme song and soundtracks. Recommended when game with original ending theme DLC are at discount or in bundle offer as it takes less than 10 hours to read through all 6 endings and bonus content.

I got this game as a gift from a friend of mine a while ago, and it was a nice surprise since I’ve been wanting to play [i]Beyond Nature[/i] since it was released on Steam. It’s a short visual novel about a genderless MC named Olea and two mysterious girls: Flori and Llima. Her fates became intertwined because of a tragic past event, and that changed their lives a lot in the following years. The main goal is getting “fragments” by choosing certain answers, and that will unlock new endings and CGs, leading the player to the “true ending”. Each gameplay takes about 30 minutes, and you’ll have to replay a few times until you get all the fragments. This can be frustrating since a few scenes and the transition effects cannot be skipped, and you’ll probably need a guide to help you with the missing fragments. The art style is beautiful and I especially love the painting. BGM is good too, sometimes it stops out of nowhere and things get very silent, but that wasn’t a problem to me. The story was nice, nothing amazing but it wasn’t bad either. I liked the characters even if we have little time to know them better because of the fast paced narrative. 6/10. Overall, I recommend this game when it’s on a good sale and if you’re feeling like solving a mystery, even if it means that you’ll have to replay a lot of scenes.

I love Voices from the Sea, but this game does not quite live up to it's predecessor. There are about 3 hours of content here (being generous) but each "run" is only ~30 minutes long. I found it annoying to need to replay the game this many times to see subtle differences. The music is good but gets cut off frequently before the track can finish. The most notorious time this happens is during the "Day 2" title card, which awkwardly divides a tense scene in half. In general the pacing is a bit wonky. I believe there is a "true" route once you collect all 30 fragments, but I haven't been able to find the last one. The game offers no hint as to what scenes you are missing, and I've almost exhausted my patience. The story is good, but I would have honestly enjoyed it more as a properly paced kinetic novel. I hope Zeiva can learn from this title and mature as storytellers. Verdict: grab it during a deep sale.

故事是不是讲得太快了 感觉很暴力?= = 《音乐：至少不会让人不舒服,感觉还好啦。 音效：某网同款，所以也还好。》 收集系统到是感觉有些突兀，挂在对话框下面。 其他到是没什么，如果不是特地寻找的话，很难找到的游戏，但是立绘非常棒。 [b]对的，立绘非常棒![/b] [spoiler]Adobe Flash Player10瞩目[/spoiler] 所以还是很喜欢的，有兴趣的可以玩一玩 因为立绘很棒 对的 很棒 很棒 同厂的作品相信热衷挂卡+1的人也见过不少： [b]Train of afterlife [/b] [b]X-note [/b] 如果对游戏质量没底的可以对比这些作品。

I just bought this today since I was in a VN mood and I wanted something short. I read <sin>'s negative review and how he mentioned it being 3 hours at max. Unfazed by the negative review, considering that I wanted a short game to kill the afternoon, I decided to get it anyways to kill the afternoon. I am happy to say it was a good decision. The story, while quite short, is nonetheless interesting enough to hook you to want to see the 'true' end. The art is gorgeous. The music's not half-bad, but not such a strong point as the art. For such a short story, one negative point is how often you have to run through the entire game multiple times to get to the different choices. I would have liked an option that included an auto-skip rather than, "Hold the down arrow." But otherwise, it's well worth the price; though I payed a bit less since it was on sale. I will keep myself updated on the new games released by this studio.

If you enjoy short, atmospheric visual novels, I highly recommend [i]Natural - Beyond Nature -[/i]. This bittersweet tale of two young women bound together by both magic and trauma, and the visitor to their remote village who might be able to help them, is a lovely relaxing read. You might want to keep [url=http://zeiva.net/game/natural_guide.html]the official guide[/url] on hand to make sure you collect all the "fragments" that unlock the endings and bonus content, since the skip function requires you to constantly hold down the button, making a bit frustrating to try to explore all the options yourself. But it’s worth it to see all the pretty art in the ending variations.

Story is way too short to make us care for the two main characters. And the dialogues are not very good. You have to find 30 fragments to get to the "true" ending. I gave up after my second run. The fade to black/animations are impossible to skip and are therefore a pain. Not enough changes in history between choices made additional runs really tedious. Plus technically it is quite bad.

This game is okay BUT I follow dev official guide, pick all the choice LITERALLY and still missing Fragment. Ofc I'm afraid that missing something so I DID replay the game for 2 times (2 route) before I contact the dev. But they seem sure that only because I did missing something. Well, no. How could I mistake when they number one by one each fragment? But they insist so ofc I replay and got the same result (that's the prof that I picked all the choice already). And NO SKIP FEATURE just killing me with all the clicking. And I didn't got my last 2 ending + side story because I'm missing Fragment (why did they force player to completed 100% to get side story and extra while they got no skip?) THAT'S IT! I won't buy any Zeiva game from now on until they add skip feature for their next game; or force player to completed 100% / master their mini games to unlock extra and stuff without contingency plan (if player can't master the mini games or if they got same problem as me).

剧情短小完全对不起这个价钱，你厂对游戏的定价总是充满信心 我怎么也预料不到，这个东西竟然是幽灵种子和大海之声的续集 明明是英文小说，一句“天下没有不散的筵席”生硬直接翻译成英语，难受得不行 等你厂什么时候把前世之旅做出来再考虑买吧

super nice and cute anime pc game! I realy liked it + Im realy in LOVE! you can buy/play it!