Salome's Kiss

I’ve never been so glad to listen to my intuition in my enter life about a game before; 80 minutes in and something told me I’d be wasting my time if I carried on playing this “visual novel,” and I use that term lightly. I refunded it, then went to the reviews to see I had made the right choice. This is not a visual novel. It’s a book with a few pictures because the dev doesn’t have enough of a budget to make it a visual novel, clearly. I don’t mean to be mean spirited but it’s quite a let down…though that can be said for most of this product which is much more mean spirited than a negative review like mine, for reasons I can’t go too deep into without spoiling the story. If I wanted a book with a picture to look at every 100 pages, I would’ve just picked up a book. The art is beautiful, no doubt about that, which makes me wish even more that this was a proper visual novel by its definition. I won’t include spoilers in my review but do listen to the reviews that contain spoilers, even if you don’t read the spoiler text. Save yourself the time and disappointment like I did.

Well... This was a shocking little twist of an ending. Good girl tricked by the bad girls to do a heinous crime and hang for it... How fun. Kinetic novel. Decent. Might want to get on discount.

原来是这个纯爱啊！ 原来不是小甜饼而是小毒茶啊！ 原来GOETHIC & SALOME指的是这个啊！ [strike] 发出痛苦地嚎叫 [/strike] [b] 痛并“快乐”地推荐给各位！ [/b] [spoiler] 亚瑟·兰利我对不起你啊，我不知道“我”这么蠢啊！ [/spoiler] 美术：整体上还不错，美术风格统一为英伦中世纪风格， 但 1. 主角立绘有点过于突出胸部了。2. CG的发挥有些飘忽不定。 音乐：音乐好听！加分项！ 剧情：看完之后恼羞成怒！有一肚子话想说但是不能剧透的憋屈感！ 作为视觉小说的剧情还不错，结尾部分的动机可以扩展一些~ 其他：1. 特别希望有配音，英文就行！希望追加！2. 中文译本里面有很多翻译错误+标点符号错误，希望修改！

Пожалуй, с меня второй русский отзыв на эту игру на просторах стима. Что я могу сказать, я прошла большую часть yuri бандла от эби... Даже если брать в расчет информацию о том, что она в стиле dark!, примерно такого исхода из множества !звоночков! уже во время прохождения игры, я поняла и приняла и составила финалочку, которую и увидела. Но все же, концовка меня расстроила [spoiler] я хотя бы ждала, сожаления от персов о их деяниях [/spoiler] На самом деле, эта история, для меня, была довольно тянущейся, нежели остальные. Может, все дело в манере повествования. Учитывая, какой "век" в самой игре Мне она показалась, более муторной, чем вообще любые новеллы, которые я когда либо проходила, за исключением, The House in Fata Morgana. От части, в этом и плюс, ибо готических, так скажем, новелл, которые решают потрясти тебя финалом - не так уж и много. Саму игру я и рекомендую, хоть и расстроила себя концовкой игры перед самым "HAPPY NEW YEAR'

This story is very sad but it is very well written. I was hooked the entire time. 10/10

一场意料之外，情理之中的悲剧。游戏的名字也暗示着这一切的坏结局。ebi—hime实在是太擅长描写这种有一些善良又个一些懦弱的女主角了。游戏是第三人称，但心理描写非常细腻，虽然描述的大部分内容都是日常，但却有一种神奇的魔力能够让人看下去。 女主角莉蒂夏是一个善良，又很有道德的人。但她的道德不只源于自身，她同时是一个充满着欲望的人。她的道德不允许她做那些事情，可正是因为这份压抑，让她以另一种方式用合理的心态做了错事，所以才造成了自己悲剧的结局。 虽然对于想要嗑CP的人来说这个结局不够友好，但不得不说一切都早有端倪，日常事件又带着一丝诡异的神秘色彩。游玩过程中很容易就代入莉蒂夏那种不知道应该相信谁，以及对其他角色的同情。游戏的音乐和美术也很加分，主题曲那种有一些悲伤惆怅又带着诡异的氛围很容易让人投入这个故事中。人物形象上珍妮弗，黛娜都是美丽有一定攻击力又让人忍不住注视。与之相反的是珍妮弗的父亲亚瑟，亲切又和善。但随着剧情发展却会发现珍妮弗和黛娜脆弱的一面，以及亚瑟那温柔背后的事情……整个游戏就在这种诡异的矛盾之中。不过女主角莉蒂夏的立绘有一些逊色，与其他角色相比没那么美丽。虽然外貌上看起来很成熟，但是内心感觉会更青涩一些。 为了避免师生恋，莉蒂夏是用自己难以接受的谎言逃离伦敦的。可新的学生珍妮弗，主动诱惑，挑起了她的欲望，扯断了那最后绷住的弦，莉蒂夏近乎于愚蠢地坠入了爱河，以至于她甚至没有通过其他人的角度来了解这个地方的人。珍妮弗到底是什么样的人呢，直到最后故事也没有解释，也许会比我们想象中的更黑暗。但其实我个人认为也许黛娜与莉蒂夏是相似的人，唯一不同的或许是黛娜与珍妮弗相遇得更早，相处得更久，感情更深。这也能解释为什么珍妮弗能那么自然地去诱惑莉蒂夏，那么在与莉蒂夏相处的过程中，她又是否有一刻心动呢？那就无从得知了。 在回顾故事情节的时候，很容易就发现莉蒂夏这个角色的行为相当矛盾，单独列出来甚至有一些割裂，但游戏对于女主心态描写得实在是太细腻了，这种割裂其实是源于莉蒂夏内心深处的矛盾和纠结。这种矛盾似乎注定会导致她走向最后的结局，无论如何，这个故事都太让人惋惜。 总得来说，莎乐美之吻这个故事有着很独特的风格，看完让人蛮惆怅的。日常和悬疑的分量把控得十分不错，很多细节都很到位，结局的反转也比较惊艳，看得人脊背发凉。非常适合喜欢观看矛盾的人物心理，对哥特式风格感兴趣的人来游玩，但如果是抱着看百合甜饼的人应该会失望。 [code] No Responsibility Review，只根据个人喜好进行评测： [url= https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36266776-NRR233] 无责任评测[/url][/code]

[h1] 不推荐购买，游戏无雷，但是结局意难平，就像被人喂了屎一样难受 [/h1] 不涉及剧透说，你以为的事实，和实际的事实，相差甚远。耳听为虚，眼见为实。你说做的一切到头来一场空，在别人看来只是笑话。在通关本游戏结局后，我会说莉蒂夏·里德不应该离开她工作了四年的地方，这是一个令她悔恨终生的决定。 最后说一句， 老实人就该被欺负？ 以下涉及剧透，如果你看了非剧透评论，依旧不死心，可以往下看 [spoiler] 简单说就是主角被人耍了，最后杀错人，实际珍妮芙和黛娜才是一对，珍妮芙计划借刀杀人，把自己的亲爸铲除以得到庄园所有权，和黛娜长相厮守。珍妮芙她爸事实上根本没有做那些事情，后面结局珍妮芙自己也承认了她父亲没做过任何不齿之事，都是她们两个在莉蒂夏·里德面前演戏撒谎，珍妮芙不惜和莉蒂夏·里德上床S E X，为的就是让莉蒂夏·里德死心塌地为她做事。而莉蒂夏·里德从来没有和庄园其他人真正谈过，没有从其他人口中了解过亚瑟·兰利是怎么样的人，仅凭珍妮芙和黛娜两个人的话，还有对珍妮芙的爱（莉蒂夏·里德自以为的爱，实际珍妮芙根本不爱她），而冲动下毒杀人。 游戏通关后，我和剧中的莉蒂夏·里德一样可笑，轻信了她们的谎言。 这也是我为什么对这个游戏打差评的原因，被喂了屎一样难受，我对结局感到不满意，玩弄莉蒂夏·里德的感情，还让她因此被上罪名，最后结局不用想也知道死路一条，就算不是，这辈子也只能呆在狱中了。老实人就TM该死？！我靠老实人就该被别人利用？气不过 [/spoiler]

Back when I was younger, I wasn’t particularly pretty, nor was very confident. I was plain and stiff. Relationships never crossed my mind and the little time I thought about it, it was only with defeatism. When this girl came to my life she made me think I could be loved, adored and enjoyed, I thought maybe that I weren’t so plain after all. It was my first relation, I was not really brazen, but I wanted to do things right, I ended being a laughingstock, misery skidded from my eyes forlorn and puffy. I think it’s around this time I grew myself farther from the others, this girl tensed every of my interaction and to this day I’m scared of trusting others. People laughed it off, calling it a kid's mistake, but is it ? I feel like I’m still the plain old spinster that I was back in the ages. And I think I would still surrender my heart that easily to a pretty girl who does everything to gain it, because why would they do themselves the trouble of seducing me ? I’m worth no penny, I’ve got heaps and heaps of flaws, I just can’t see why a girl would want to play me. So it hurt even more to think that I was played. I felt Letitia, it brought me bad memories up, but unlike me, she won’t get these hackneyed phrases of :« There are plenty o’fish in the sea» She’ll hang, hanged for being played by a mischievously sly fox. Every inches of my body suffer. I would've done every single one of her choices.

Warning this is not a game or VN, its a story with pictures. No choices. Its a gotic love story with a surprising twist at the end. And despite what other reviews say, the twist is properly forshadowed, as long as you know what the term "Salome" refers to. My only critic towards the ending is that it invalidates the entire story before. Why listen to 10 hours of inner monolouge of the main character if it becomes ponitless at the end? It just comes to late, ther should have been a bit more after the twist, instead of just a reveal and then over. You need a long breath for this story, but it is still a good one.

I don't usually go for dark stories, but the characters, writing, and art pulled me in quite quickly and kept my interest. I haven't gone through many of ebi-hime's VNs yet, but I did enjoy the few I have. Sometimes I think of myself a bit silly when I 'play' a kinetic (linear) visual novel without any choices; it's more akin to reading an actual novel or watching a show than playing a game, and I relatively rarely read books or watch shows. But I'm glad Salome's Kiss didn't have any choices. The story is powerful as it is, and it would've been weaker if you could make choices that resulted in a different outcome...