Pact Between Us

​[h3] 养成里的时光温情 [/h3] 作为主打兄妹养成的作品，《我的妹妹未来》无疑是同类游戏中的亮眼存在，其核心魅力在于新颖的多维度成长体系。不同于传统养成游戏的数值堆砌，本作通过 800 + 关键选择构建出动态且关联紧密的养成路径 —— 选择 “编程课程” 会提升妹妹的逻辑思维，解锁科技相关的社会实践；优先 “绘画兴趣班” 则会培养艺术属性，触发美术馆看展等专属剧情，学习、实践与休息的平衡策略，不仅影响属性面板，更直接决定妹妹是沉稳学霸、活泼艺术家还是暖心社交达人的性格走向。​ 真人实景拍摄是另一大加分项，从小学时扎着双马尾的稚嫩模样，到高中阶段褪去婴儿肥的青涩气质，妹妹的外形蜕变细腻可见，配合 live2D 技术实现的摸头、递零食等互动动作，以及近百套风格各异的服饰（从校服到汉服、JK 制服），每一步养成都充满可视化的成就感。剧情中兄妹间的日常互动尤为动人，深夜分享一碗泡面、考前一起熬夜复习、生日时偷偷准备惊喜等细节，将亲情里的温暖与牵挂刻画得真实可感。​ 游戏对新手十分友好，每日登录赠送的 “成长基金” 和自动规划的 “养成建议”，大幅降低了上手压力；但美中不足的是，换装界面切换时加载稍慢，且缺乏一键搭配功能，整理服饰时略显繁琐。不过 12 种结局的设定足以弥补这些小瑕疵 —— 不同选择导向的升学、就业甚至人生态度差异，让每一次抉择都意义非凡，这种 “养成即叙事” 的设计，让游戏不仅是冰冷的数值游戏，更像一段能亲手参与的、温暖的时光陪伴。

这游戏典型是属于之前口碑不咋样，宣传也不到位，但是玩进去还是不错的。真人版美少女梦工厂吧。反正游戏性还不错。值得推荐一下

Note: A tl;dr is included at the bottom of the review. I'd also recommend reading this review on its own page instead on the store page as it messes with the formatting that have been used in this review. You can access it by clicking on the "Not Recommended" or by going to [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/OiSa/recommended/3785720/]this link[/url]. Pact Between Us is a perfect example of a heartwarmingly fun, cozy story with a seemingly unique gameplay concept that is unfortunately heavily crippled and held back by its repetitive gameplay alongside possessing bugs & issues up the wazoo. If the game is more polished then I'd say that the game is "palatable" in the way that the gameplay section would still be feeling repetitive, but at least it wouldn't be as jarring as it is now. The scenes, while nothing too amazing, can come off as being rather wholesome good in the way that they do cater to a niche of people who enjoy reading childcare stories, in which I'd say that the scenes are good, but not good enough to make it worth sitting through everything else. Just in case some people think that I’m overexaggerating, then below is a non-exhaustive list of bugs & issues that I’ve experienced: [list] [*]Audio seemingly disappear and appear whenever they feel like it. It can be rather immersion-breaking, but worst of all it can come out during important scenes, so at times you’d have happy music & sad music playing at the same time during crucial heartbreaking moments in the game. [*]Characters spazzing out as if they have been possessed by Anabelle. [*]Inability to pause fmv during cutscenes which not only does not allow you to easily take screenshots but also means that you must commit to watching the cutscene since, again, you can’t pause them. [*]Memory (also known as replay) on the main menu allows you to rewatch scenes in the game, but not only does it not feature subtitles, but the main menu music is still there creating for a rather jarring watching experience. [*]Some repeat scenes (primarily vacations) aren’t skippable, resulting in a huge time waster on the player’s behalf due to having to constantly watch the same scenes over and over again. [*]Some scenes are improperly cut making transitions in-between shots to feel rather unnatural which breaks immersion. [*]Terrible English subtitles possibly due to the work of a very shoddy machine-translation work. I & You being used interchangeably and worst of all the little sister’s name (Weilai) is being translated to “Future”. [*]Texts on papers aren’t translated, meaning that without first reading through the game description or synopsis, then you would be bit confused as to the main drama of the story being that [spoiler]the brother is adopted[/spoiler], this information is crucial to the story, yet is hard to grasp until the very end of the story. [*]There are 3 kinds of audio in the game, voice, sound, and music. You can change increase and reduce the volumes, but by default not only is the music overly-loud making the vocals pretty much inaudible in most scenes, but sound seems to also be directly connected to voice in a way that if you have it lowered all the way down then some scenes that should have voice-over would be ended up being dead silence. [/list] Before going through with the conclusion, I’d like to briefly touch upon the endings first. Some of them feel like they ended rather abruptly, but this is mainly due to the work of the wacky machine translation. I say that the scenes and build-up of it all, while not really that rewarding, does give you bit of a punch to the heart(?) I believe that the rapid fast transition to the credit screen which changes the tune from sad song -> happy music really kills any sort of feeling that you might have prior to the experience, and without it + better translation then they their impact would have been felt a lot more. While I don’t fully agree with the whole message of "do whatever you want", I can still somewhat understand the goal of what they’re trying to say where instead of wasting time worrying about the future, you should learn to appreciate the present instead to which I can see it being relatable to a good amount of people out there. Ultimately, if there's a purely fmv-only version then I'd recommend it to those who are tired of mostly romance and/or action fmv and thus may be seeking more of a heartwarming story with (surprisingly) lack of romance, but since the gameplay & bugs are huge part of the experience (that can even ruin moments in the game mind you), then I don't think that I can whole-heartedly recommend it, at least not until a proper re-structure and/or polishing have been done to the game (which doesn't seem all that likely). Above all else, I’m now proud that my child that I’ve raised for 9+ years has now become a dancer and I couldn’t have it any other way. tl;dr: A heartwarmingly wholesome fun fmv that's heavily butchered by its drought out gameplay and lack of polish resulting with an experience that feels like it is overstaying its welcome. 6.5/10 (this review was typed with Colemak)

我觉得整体很好啊，不知道为啥女拳们还能泼脏水。女拳们的生活得过得多么不如意，才能把一个游戏想这么龌龊。感觉大未来演员选角一般般，中未来是最好的，颜值，气质，都是最棒的，小未来也不错。 我觉得应该换一下，中未来演大未来，这样最好。 话说中未来的演员有社交媒体账号嘛，想关注一下

真人版妹妹养成 ，画面操作 很复古 ，很有意思的游戏 。至于恋同啥的 玩过的 麻烦你来点真实的截图证据好吗？8个小时还没收集全成就 ，坐等大神攻略！

重复动画太多，每个月可以做的事太少，小演员长大太快，后续找的演员一点也不像前一个演员。

Story/Plot: Pact Between Us is a game in the vein of a child-raising/stat management game with FMV elements. If you played any of the Princes Maker or Long Live the Queen then you know the mechanics. The game starts with an older brother who decides to raise his sister after their parents died. The FMV comes in when certain milestones are reached like birthdays, as well as normal activities like jobs, etc. Fortunately you can skip them once they have played so if you do decide to replay it isn't quite as tedious. One problem with this game is while it technically has English subtitles, the translation really isn't good. I was able to make out enough of what was going on, but if the dev does well with this, I would recommend revamp the subtitles. Visuals: Basically there are two main visuals in this. One is a series of charts which show values which may go up or down like health, money or skills. The other is footage as mentioned above, as well as multiple endings. Most of the FMVs aren't very long, and I will commend the dev for at least having different backgrounds for many of the segments. There is one company that basically went to 'sit on a couch, and have the same wall all game' which dulls the experience. Gameplay: As mentioned this is a stat raising game, so you have to balance needs like money, rest, and health as well as trying to raise certain stats so you could unlock more advanced skills or other jobs. Compared to other games like this, this one isn't to difficult but you definitely won't get everything on one playthrough. Sound/Music: There are plenty of sounds and music in the game, as well as audio especially thanks to the FMV parts. Nothing really stood out to me, but neither did it detract. Difficulty: This game isn't to difficult if you decide to focus on a certain job or maximize a stat. If you are a completionist, there is no way you can get everything all at once. One other thing is that along the way, hints will unlock about how to get certain jobs at the end with what stats they need. Extras/Achievements: This game has Achievements, and they aren't to tough to get other than spending a bit of time However, to get 100% will require multiple playthroughs. And it is nice that after playing through most of the scenes, you can have an option to skip them. However, there were a couple of times that it didn't (like some of the celebrations) Recommendation: So would I recommend the game? If you don't mind stat raising and FMV sequences, then this might be up your alley. The price point isn't to bad either; $6.99 US. The one caveat I have to give is that the translation...well, it could be better. You can pick your way through it but sometimes wrong pronouns, names, or action words were used, and some of them took me out of the moment.

女性，性取向男，不是恋童癖，觉得妹妹很可爱，很喜欢，很治愈的游戏

Pact Between Us is the most "game" that Mystery Crown released so far (well for what concern their FMV division at least). I was surprise. It's a good game but my point is that you actually play this instead of having almost no gameplay or a very limited gameplay like some other title from Mystery Crown (even among some titles that I do like). The video quality is good, audio is ok (maybe a few line could have been better recorded but you might not even noticed that), editing is also good (for instance, in other games they have several scenes that cut abruptly but not here). The skip system is the same that they use in all their FMV games and while it's better than nothing, it is annoying and could be better but in Pact Between Us you can activate the fast mode after you finish the game for the first time, which really makes things better (this is on top of being able to skip a scene with the button); with that on, you can get all the achievements without making the game feeling too much repetitive. The translation is..understandable..is not perfect but there's way worst (and this is a problem among the majority of Chinese FMV) and in this case, honestly the not perfect translation created a scene that is hilarious to me. "The future is changed", i just love that (your little sister's name gets wrongfully translate as "future"). However as i said it is understandable and because you can change the future, I don't have any complains about the translation. Sadly there are no extras like videos, behinds the scenes or even pictures. Also, while there is a windowed mode, you can't resize it and it's basically the same resolution as a full screen. I could have used a resizable window mode while I farming for achievements after the first run but eh..is not a big deal. Keep in mind that is game is a managerial subgenre, very common in asia with some titles in the west as well, where you basically plan your activities, train, get resources and so on. I personally like this type of games and this is generally speaking a good game.

被宣传图吸引进来的，以为是像《火山的女儿》一样的养成系游戏，在一开始说[spoiler] 父母都死了，妹妹是父母收养 [/spoiler]的时候，我就觉得有点不对劲，以及一些留言便签内容的讨好倾向和“好感度”这个东西触发的不同结局，奈何已经超过15天不能退款了，为了对得起我花的钱，硬着头皮接着玩。妹妹越来越大，镜头也越来越图穷匕见，脑残的剧情，垃圾的表演，这个游戏在我的库里我都觉得丢人。