Sakura Sakura

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[table] [td]Brought to you by [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/candytray]Superfabs Candy Tray[/url], through my curation, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32749084/]here[/url]. Please do join and follow if you like my reviews! It's much appreciated! [/td][/table] [b]Sakura Sakura[/b] is a hentai-based romance visual novel about a guy that’s going through school, and has to make a choice on which love interest he may pursue. There are two choices in each of the scenarios, and it makes replayability fun, trying both out. One thing that shocked me was the sheer amount of bonus content this has. You collect the usual CGs, have the ero scenes, make choices… but once you finish the main stories, you get to see your original character as one of the supporting characters in a bonus story with one of the other characters being who you are playing as, instead. It’s quite an interesting way it’s been done. Finding all the secret “sub-routes” leads to a final bonus ending story, but it’s quite a long read. Story’s good, and I ran into about four or five grammatical errors that were fairly minor. Fun characters, good humor throughout, and some good feelings going through the game overall. It takes time to get to the romantic parts during the initial story phase. The next few kick off with them much quicker once you’ve finished enough of the previous arcs. I was not expecting so much in this game, but it’s got a fairly large bit of content! Had a good time completing it, even though I could’ve just stopped with the first few flings as the main character. [table] [td][b]Pros:[/b] [list] [*] Character personality/art [*] Humor and story [*] Replayability! [/list] [/td] [td][b]Cons:[/b][list]   [*] Drawn out, especially the ero scenes [*] Not many choices mattered a whole lot overall [*] Some predictability for me [/list] [/td][/table] [b]Conclusion:[/b] There sure is a lot of game here for the price! I’ve played some VNs close to this range without even having half the material. If you love reading, this one’s great! However, on that note, the sex scenes can get a bit boring and redundant, the way they feel in description. Also the way the females are portrayed was a little offensive to me with the back and forth during their foreplay/sex. Hard to explain, but it felt weird - like for example, if she said to stop and they decided to go. This was kind of a weird dynamic to me, and I didn’t quite understand it. Perhaps it’s just me though. Just a slight issue I had overall, and probably part of why some of the scenes were a bit boring. It didn’t take away from the overall story though. It’s a great game that most adult VN readers would no doubt enjoy! I would like to note that the Steam Store 18+ dlc Patch contains mosaics, so it's kind of... an incomplete work. There might be other options out there. :P I usually get more... in depth, so sorry for the lazy review. Hopefully it covers all the main aspects one is interested in when searching for good visual novels. Hard to put to words, as is any art to be critiqued. It's worth it at the asking price! Special thanks to [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32110520-Simetria-League/]Simetria League[/url] for their support!

Typical Anime Romance Comedy with a little bit of love triangle, I highly recommend this game because it had a great stroy, decent art, and it got 18+patch for free. It's become one of my favourite Visual Novel I've played.

Old school drawing is the best :3

The main character is such a ♥♥♥♥♥ he gets bullied by children, we have a saying "talk ♥♥♥♥ get hit" smack the bastards in the face, the mc cant even be called human, the comedy of the anime is bullying a braindead kid with broken ribs, feels torturous to play through, like its made for masochists.

由Hiqosoft于2009年发行的三角恋题材ADV《樱x樱》，虽然本作在国内非常冷门，但是在日本却有着相当不错的讨论度。在批评空间中，除了《白色相簿》系列外，是极少数能获得80分以上的三角恋题材ADV。 [h1] Hiqosoft [/h1] 本作的开发商Hiqosoft，也就是ハイクオソフト，在2018年申请了破产，第一作《死库水警察》于2004年发售，算起来话一共有14年历史。然而在这14年里发售的作品寥寥无几，一共只有5款游戏，其余都是FD或者外传性质的短篇。在国内Hiqosoft的其余游戏知名度也非常低，其中最有知名度的应该是于2006年发售的第二作《四叶草（四娘物语）》，这也是唯一一部有民间汉化的作品，“我不是萝莉控，只是我喜欢的女孩刚好是萝莉而已。”这句话就是出自《四叶草》的男主。《四叶草》也像是Hiqosoft的亲女儿一样，不但有两个FD，更是在2008年被改编成了动画。实际上Sol Press曾经也试图让《四叶草》登陆steam，然而在鸽了一年多后商店页面就消失了，估计大概率是因为女主猫宫诺诺长得太幼了。《樱x樱》作为Hiqosoft的第三作，也算是仅次于《四叶草》的一作了。本作在发售前跳票了11个月之久，FD更是跳票了30个月，在当时有众多跳票的游戏全都翻了车，也让粉丝们格外担心本作，不过好在发售后反响良好。本作也有不少人试图进行汉化，不过很可惜的是至今没人能全部完成，在当时国内甚至连本作的资源都找不到，可见有多冷门。 [h1] 剧情 [/h1] 在4月的入学季，稻叶 彻终于来到了仰望已久的名门学校麟德学园，与过去在男校中的悲惨经历告别，连女孩的手都摸不到的日子一去不返了。为了能够进入自己心仪的系部，彻早在入学前就早就选好了要去女生最多的地方——Maison lune。然而命运总是喜欢和人开玩笑，好不容易考入学园的彻被安排在了Maison lune角落的一所破旧学生宿舍月见庄中，不但环境没法和Maison lune其他宿舍比，就连舍友也是和自己兴趣毫无关系的体育系部。 然而彻没想到的是，自己刚来到月见庄就遭遇了两名舍友新田 晶以及布施 直树表演双簧，企图把他拉入体育系部，就在关键时刻宿管兼班主任的樱 菜菜子及时赶到，阻止了两人的阴谋。为了不浪费菜菜子老师的好意，彻选择了美少女云集的美术部，然而没有任何绘画经历的彻自然没能通过考核。就在这时，身为副部长以及同班同学的桐岛 樱却突然替彻说话了，在副部长的担保下彻终于作为临时部员加入了美术部。 一边是在学校中严肃而私下里如同母亲一般关照学生的樱 菜菜子，另一边是如同冰山美人一样但是关照部员的桐岛 樱，与两个樱欢乐的三角关系就在这个樱花盛开的季节开始了。 [h1] 系统 [/h1] Hiqosoft的每部作品都有非常特殊的系统，本作中有一个月见庄宿舍系统。每天都有宿舍活动时间，人物会以像素风格的小人出现在画面中，并且人物的行走、接电话、开门等动作全都有，非常有趣。通过选择进入不同的房间触发剧情，有时还需要进入对应房间寻找触发剧情的道具。本作共有100个收集道具，部分道具中隐藏有CG，因此每个选项都可以尝试选择。 [h1] 体验 [/h1] 游戏的剧情分为三个阶段，第一阶段是彻的故事，而第二段则是直树的故事，是另一段三角恋的故事。女主一位是舍友兼青梅竹马的新田 晶，另一位则是直树的网络青梅竹马立花 胡桃。第三段则是一年后的故事，算是后日谈，主角再一次回归彻。另外有一个细节，游戏的开始界面中，当前阶段的两位女主会站在C位，其余的则会退居次席。 本作的CV演出相当出色，配乐和歌曲也很好听，游戏中还有蜡笔画风格的插图，演出效果非常棒。不过部分CG还是有些拖后腿，主要是在人体构造上。立绘的小头像倒是亮点之一，表情差分非常丰富。游戏的系统也很有趣，现在的游戏中已经很少见这样独特的系统了。 彻的性格可以说是比较标准的男主性格，非常单纯并且不像直树一样着迷于工口游戏，不过这种性格的男主往往都会在攻略过程中让人感到非常捉急，不知道是不是十多年前的纯爱作品里流行这种男主，反正我玩过的几个游戏里的男主多多少少都沾一点。另外一说，本作的FD《樱x樱 文化祭》是以彻和两位樱构建的全新故事，但彻还是这么个让人着急的性格。相比起来直树的设定就是标准损友了，男二有的属性基本上都有，在剧情的第一阶段中，直树和晶也是搞笑情节的主要触发者，但是在第二阶段他成为主角时，剧情也开始变得有趣了起来。本作和《白色相簿》系列最大的区别就是，游戏的剧情非常欢乐，完全不会有胃疼的桥段。 [h1] 总评 [/h1] 抛开游戏题材来说我也是非常推荐本作的，无论是演出效果还是故事剧情，或者是有趣的行动系统，都让本作有了非常好的体验。在三角恋题材热度被《白色相簿》系列占据大半江山的今天，翻出这样一部游戏，一定也能获得不一样的体验。 [quote]sbeam丧尽天良，我与黄游共存亡！加入[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/sqyx]色情游戏[/url]与[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/HY_Master]黄油大师[/url]，一起发掘好玩的黄油吧! 顺便也可以关注我们的鉴赏家：[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34401083]色情鉴赏[/url]与[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33741419/]黄油鉴赏[/url]，因为懂你，我们只推荐你想要的~[/quote]

Sakura Sakura is one of the first visual novels I've read. I picked it up back when I was a beginner and had no idea how to pick VNs, and it ended up being a disaster. I constantly felt frustrated or just bored, and had to more or less drag myself to the finish line. What went so horribly wrong, you might ask? - The characters often act in ways that's nowhere near what a reasonable human being would act. They're also way too mean to each other, especially at the beginning. - It suffers from "anime sexism", where girls hitting guys is played off for laughs. I don't find violence funny, and it happens way too often in this VN, often over something extremely minor. The worst part is, when girls are targeted for violence, it's treated as a serious matter. Double standards, much? - The plot is about school clubs that are apparently taken way too seriously, and I just can't relate. Dude, chill, it's just a club, the fate of the world doesn't depend on it. - Nearly every character is apparently a bigshot, and conflicts are generally resolved by who's the "most powerful". It ends up being very anti-climactic. But the most damning weakness of this VN is just that it doesn't stand out in any way. I can forgive a few weaknesses if it also has strengths, or is unique in some way. But it's a bog standard romantic visual novel, rehashing various cliches from anime and other VNs, while bringing nothing new to the table.

[h1]Video review (including score):[/h1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VfVp19yuoY [h1]The rundown:[/h1] [b]Pros:[/b] + Actually decent love triangle + Great HD art + Facial animations + Configurable honorifics and keybinds [b]Cons:[/b] - Wonky pacing - Lackluster config menu Sakura Sakura is yet another pure love story visual novel to make its way to Steam, this time from Sol Press, the same company that brought over Newton and the Apple Tree a few months ago. For being a pure love story, Sakura Sakura brings with it a surprisingly decent love triangle, but also suffers from the poor pacing common to the genre. [h1]Pros:[/h1] [b]Actually decent love triangle.[/b] Normally, a love triangle is a cause for pain in romance visual novels and something not often seen in pure love stories, but the love triangles here in Sakura Sakura manage to avoid that pitfall. The game takes this tried and true story setup and manages to spin it in such a way as to avoid being annoying. As a result, it goes fairly light on the cheap gimmicks, misunderstandings, and other tropes that often plague VN love triangles. In fact, the game had more drama outside of the love triangles than it did within them. While they definitely did not come without some drama, it really felt like a breath of fresh air compared to the drama-filled and clichéd love triangles usually seen in the genre. [b]Great HD art.[/b] It seems like most visual novels nowadays are forced to stretch their art to reach 1080p, resulting in blurry assets regardless of how good the art may be. As such, I was quite surprised to see just how well the art scales in Sakura Sakura. The game may not run in widescreen, but when scaled up to 1080p, the art and other assets look fantastic. I did not see any jagged edges, blurry lines, or other artifacts that usually result from such upscaling. The art itself is pretty good as well — it is just made that much better by the excellent scaling. [b]Facial animations.[/b] To go along with the great art, Sakura Sakura makes the game even more immersive by adding basic facial animations. These animations come in the form of blinking and moving the mouth when speaking, the latter of which is even synced with pauses in sentences. They are not only visible on character sprites, but characters depicted in CGs as well, making such scenes a whole lot more lively. Of course, these animations can sometimes look derpy, but they look good for the most part and I definitely appreciated their addition. [b]Configurable honorifics and keybinds.[/b] Sakura Sakura may be lacking in the config department overall (more on that later), but it does have two options that I hardly ever see included in most visual novel releases: the option to toggle honorifics and the ability to change keybindings. The former is something I wish was present in more visual novels, as it satisfies both those that want an experience more akin to the original and those that want a more localized experience. The ability to change keybinds is something I would consider essential for any modern-day PC game release, so it really is a shame that most visual novels completely lack this option. Sakura Sakura at least offers basic keybind config support, although it definitely could be improved (such as allowing multiple keys to be bound to a single action). Sol Press is definitely setting a good example with these two options, so I hope that other VN localization companies follow suit. [h1]Cons:[/h1] [b]Wonky pacing.[/b] Unfortunately, Sakura Sakura suffers from a common problem affecting most pure love story VNs, that being bad pacing. Not only are the common routes extremely slow, but the character routes are almost the complete opposite, providing for a rather jarring shift in pacing. In fact, I was surprised when I reached the end of my first character route, as I had hardly spent any time in it compared to that of the common route prior. Part of this is due to the number of subplots covered in the common route (some of which the game could have definitely done without), but it largely comes down to how the game managed its pacing – it was either too fast or too slow, there was hardly any middleground. Had the game spread this pacing out evenly, the character routes would have been much more impactful, but as it stands, they really just feel rushed. [b]Lackluster config menu.[/b] While the inclusion of configurable honorifics and keybinds is definitely a plus, Sakura Sakura is sorely lacking elsewhere in the config department. It has most of the basic settings one should expect from a modern VN release, including text speed, auto speed, skip options, and character voice options, but completely lacks other important features, such as animation options, font customization, and cursor options. For example, while I did like the facial animations, I can see how some may want them to be turned off, an option the game does not currently offer. On top of that, the game does not allow its regular animations to be configured. By regular I mean the animations that are often limited to just fade-ins, such as character pose changes. Some of these animations are quite slow, resulting in a noticeable delay between lines. In fact, this bothered me so much that I oftentimes found myself double-tapping enter in order to advance to the next line and skip the animation fading at the same time. The game has a few other problems related to its lackluster config menu, but these are the two examples that stood out to me. [h1]Overall:[/h1] For a pure love story VN, Sakura Sakura definitely has some issues, especially when it comes to its wonky pacing and lackluster config menu. However, the game does manage to tell a decent story, one with a love triangle that is actually not annoying for once. On top of that, the game is very well-done graphically, with nice HD art and even some simple facial animations to make the game more immersive. As such, it earns my recommendation — it may not be the best, but it is definitely better than most. Follow my [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/3215371]Steam Curator Page[/url][/b] for more reviews + videos!

As all my friends say, I’m very picky when the subject is Visual Novels, I love them, but I also have an extremely specific taste, thus I usually spend hours and hours searching for VNs to find one I would like to play. So, it’s a hard task make me feel willing to buy a VN and even a harder one to make me love it, however Sakura Sakura managed to do both. Let’s start talking about the negative points first. In certain moments during the gameplay/reading I felt that humour was unnecessary used or overused, of course I know that we are talking about a comedy here, but I think that the typical anime humour ruined some dramatic or tense dialogs and moments of the story breaking the mood of the scene, I reckon that some scenes would have been better and add more to the story if their moods hadn’t been broken by humour. The other and last negative point is the loose ends, I feel that some parts of the story aren’t well explained or detailed and we just have to accept that it happened, but it doesn’t bother me that much because I love to create my own interpretations of the situations when I’m reading a VN and these “loose ends” give me space to do it (but of course that I don’t want a VN full of loose ends, and fortunately it doesn’t happen in Sakura Sakura). It is important to say that these negative points aren’t frequent during the VN, they only happen sometimes, so don’t worry, they won’t ruin your reading. And note that both negative points aren’t problems or fails of the game, they are just things of personal taste, so they might be positive to you or someone else. Well, let’s talk about the positive ones now. Something veeeery important to me in a VN is its length and unfortunately most of them here in Steam are quite short, taking usually 2, 5 or at maximum 10 hours to finish, what makes you don’t feel connected with the characters, because you don’t have the necessary time for it, you barely start playing and it is already over. But this VN is not like that, I’ve finished the story in almost 30 hours, what can sound a lot for a “just reading” game, but honestly, for me it doesn’t feel a lot, the time flies when you are reading, and furthermore, all this time being immersed in the story makes you feel attached to the characters and develop feeling for them, what really changes your experience. The artwork is fantastic, the drawing style of this VN is very beautiful and clean, making it very pleasant to look. All the scenarios are well-done and detailed; the facial expressions of the characters change according to the discussion and situation, fitting perfectly to what is happening as the scene flows; and the CGs are gorgeous, so much that one of them became my wallpaper. Audio: the soundtrack is excellent, it contains good songs for all the different situations you’ll find during the plot, happy song; sad songs; tense songs and of course the romantic ones, what improves a lot the reading. The dubbing is also amazing, the voices fit very well in the characters and the fact that all the dialogues are completely dubbed makes a huge difference. I don’t think I could spend 30 hours just hearing generic phrases being repeated over and over as how it occurs in other visual novels, it would be quite boring and annoying. However, all these positive things would mean nothing if the plot wasn’t good, but it is. The story is a high school slice of life, what pleases me a lot, once it’s not full of fanciful and impossible fictional things in its plot as it happens in almost every VN. Of course, somethings that usually don’t happen in a high-schooler life happen in this plot, but they are not impossible, this plot could be someone’s life, another reason that made me feel attached to the characters while I was reading. The story is quite catchy and immersive, my mood and feelings were constantly changing according to what was happening in the story and you’re always wanting to know what will happen next, countless were the moments I caught myself cheering for the protagonist and sharing his feelings. To conclude, I loved to play Sakura Sakura, it has a great story and it is a well-made VN. Although I’m now sad because I didn’t want this reading to end, I surely had a good time with it. I know the price is a bit salty, but I strongly recommend the game, it worths. I hope you have an awesome experience while playing it.

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