On Earth As It Is In Heaven - A Kinetic Novel

the story is bittesweet, bit reminded me with merchant memories a little pros: -nice story -character art is nice -had little animation cons: -there's some part without the transition between places make things really confusing to read -some bugs that makes sprite still showing up making screen overcrowded with character sprite -character expression is almost none, all the character except MC even doesn't have any variety of clothes -some part dialogue doesnt match with their own sprite -reused sprite although the cons were many I still think it's a good vn, hopefully devs going to fix those bug later

Very short, quite sweet, but there was no real choices or interactivity in the game. There was only a couple of CC arts and those were also not very special. No fast/skip mode whatsoever and the story started to drag on at certain points. I recommend this if you get it for a few euros or so, but its definitely not worth the amount it is sold for currently.

I helped kickstart this kinetic novel and, while at the time didn't realize there was an actual difference between visual novels and kinetic novels, I now know that kinetic novels feature no choices. This was still a great experience. The characters were very enjoyable, even though the beginning premise was a bit under-developed. I would have loved to learn more about the God of Calamities. Also, it was unclear for most of the story whether Sencil was [spoiler]ever alive, or if he was always immortal. Near the end, this gets hinted at, but I think it could have been a bit more clear with wording.[/spoiler] The plot was very interesting, although the nearly immediate inclusion of romantic implications made me groan a bit. (Said implications were only implied because [spoiler]the main character didn't recall what love felt like, having been immortal for so long)[/spoiler] However, the "budding romance" or whatever did progress very nicely and I did enjoy the direction the story went. Typos. Typos everywhere. Not only that, but a lot of the longer paragraphs had odd endings, starting a new sentence )(well, a new sentence fragment) that were never finished, not even being restated in the next paragraph. While the animated sprites were cool and all, I would have MUCH preferred the characters to express their emotions more often. Almost all the characters had a decent range of facial expressions, but they wouldn't change their smile to a frown until it was going to be relevant for a longer period of time. It was weird seeing the characters smiling while reacting awkwardly to mild insults. And the animated sprites would have been much more interesting if it wasn't just blinking animations. Sencil had wing-flapping animations early on, but that becomes irrelevant. The music was very good, and really fit each scene. The art was great, as was the writing. I really liked Sencil's simultaneous wisdom and naivety (i.e. [spoiler]Wondering if one tourist is a tsundere because he's having a hard time apologizing about being rude to Sencil earlier. Sencil implies that he learned the term tsundere the previous day, and it's so fitting for him to try putting the word to use, if only in his thoughts.[/spoiler]) ... I still don't understand one major thing, right near the end: [spoiler]Who was the weird nurse? Was she the God of Calamities? Was she the superviser who i can't recall the title of?[/spoiler]

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TL;DR: It has some problems, but if you can look past them, you like VNs, and the story sounds intriguing, give it a shot. [b]Pros[/b] [list] [*]Good story and good writing, sometimes rather colorful. Funny at times, heartbreaking at others. Some plot points you can see coming a mile away with the brightness of an atom bomb, but it's still very enjoyable. I don't regret the read at all. [*]The artwork is rather pretty. [*]The music is nice too. [/list] [b]Cons[/b] [list] [*]Typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation issues. It's not every sentence and it's not [i]too[/i] bad, but it [i]is[/i] noticeable. [*]Problems with characters on screen. This might be the [i]most annoying[/i] problem with the game. People will come in and be added to the story scene, but not show up on screen for a long time into their scene, if they show up on screen at all. Other times, people leave the scene but are still on-screen until a scene change, which can be a while later. Occasionally you'll have the situation where characters keep stacking on top of each other like a messy pancake; not all of them should be there at once. [/list] [b]Meh[/b] [list] [*]The VN menu system leaves something to be desired. The menu while in-story can be accessed by an indicator on-screen, so you can save, load, etc. A problem occurs, however, if you decide to save the game and continue reading; the prompt doesn't retract the menu on a press like when it opens it, it just acts like a normal page turn and switches to the next page; it does get rid of the menu then, but you'd better have read the previous page entirely before you save it or you'll have to reload the save to go back. Also, there's no proper Exit option as far as I can see, so you have to alt+F4 out to close it. [*]Characters have an extremely limited number of expressions, so in some scenes there'll be no change, or an odd use of the alternate. There are some blink animations though, so that's kind of neat. [*]Two white dots show up on the bottom of the screen; I've been assuming they're some sort of character targeting thing for the engine, but I doubt they're supposed to be visible. Still they're sufficiently out of the way that they're not too noticeable. [/list]

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An interesting kinetic novel, centered around a heavenly scribe who cannot seem to fulfill the full measure of the calamities he is ordered to undertake. And thus he is banished to the mortal realm to atone. But is his true place in the mortal realm, and not the heavens?

It's a visual novel. No choices. Just telling a story. There could be a lot of improvements and additions to it. But it's fine as it is.

物語の内容はさておき、ゲームの終了方法がわからないので強制終了するしかないというお粗末な作り。 Renpy製なのでVNTranslatorで自動翻訳出来る。VNTranslatorの翻訳設定はPapagoにしているが、だいたいの意味はわかる（機械翻訳なので意味不明な部分も当然あるが）。 翻訳中はゲーム画面上部に「Clipboard voicing enabled, Press 'shift+C' to disable.」という文がずっと表示されたままになるが、それを消すにはゲームフォルダ→enpyフォルダ→commonフォルダ内にある「00preferences.rpy」というファイルをメモ帳などで開いて、一番下の方にある $ message = _("Clipboard voicing enabled. Press 'shift+C' to disable.")という部分を $ message = _("")に変更して保存すれば画面上部の文章が消える。

I wasn't sure I would enjoy this VN based on the reviews. Maybe it's because I went in with such low expectations that I enjoyed it. Or maybe it's just that I have low standards. (Probably both). On Earth As It Is In Heaven is a Kinetic Novel, meaning no choices are made. It's basically a picture book where the characters can blink at you. It tells the story of a heavenly scribe, life, death, and everything in between. Let me forewarn that the grammar is... sub-par. Nothing horrible, exactly, but also not something that looks like it was read over. However, I enjoyed the story itself, and that made up to it for me. While I think that the price tag of $15 is very steep for this game, it's something that would be worth picking up if you happen across it cheap or free.