Save My Scrap

[H1]Fixing the android parts was the easy part[/H1] Thank you Unio Anou for the curator copy. This is nonetheless an impartial review. You play as a repairman called in for what should be a routine job: fixing a 20-year-old android. Simple enough, right? Wrong. Harima is way more aware and independent than she should be, and she’s very determined to make one thing clear: she is against being repaired. She reads, she argues and discuss deep topics with quite strong opinions. What starts as replacing parts quickly spirals into something much heavier. While helping Miomaru, Harima's owner, repair her from head to toe, the story digs into consciousness, consent, boundaries, cruelty toward robots, and what actually makes someone human. It’s not subtle, but it works. I got obsessed with the writing and the world-building also helped tons (especially the six radio stations you can choose in the car each morning, each giving a different slice of how androids fit into society). It’s a small touch, but it adds a lot. The puzzles are there too, short and simple enough not to hijack the story, which is exactly the right call since this is a visual novel first. You’ve got lots of settings, manual saves with multiple slots, clear achievements, and four endings that actually change based on your choices, so replaying isn’t just for checkbox hunters. And the story? Absolute emotional sabotage. I loved it. It’s been a while since a visual novel hit me hard enough to leave me sitting there in silence afterward, but this one managed. It goes places, dark places sometimes, and handles themes like suicidal thoughts with enough care to make them land. My main complaint is the localization occasionally switching Harima’s pronouns between they/them and she/her in ways that didn’t feel intentional, which made a few conversations awkward to follow. Also, selfishly, I wanted more. Not because it feels incomplete, but because I was so into it that reaching the end felt like someone unplugged me too soon. This is one of those rare short stories that makes you want to immediately go back for every ending. If you like thoughtful stories, character-driven writing, or games that leave your brain wandering around afterward, this one is worth every cent, full price or not. [quote]For more reviews like this one, please check out [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45639970-Ele%2527s-Little-Recommendation-Corner/][b]Ele's Little Recommendation Corner[/b][/url]! For a smol bat streamer with a side of ADHD yapping, look up [url=https://www.twitch.tv/eleanoramanticore/about][b]here[/b][/url]![/quote] [quote]For reviews covering all types of indies, recent and old, don't hesitate to drop by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/][b]IndieGems[/b][/url]![/quote]

I just ranted and raved about this for 15 minutes straight on Discord, so I owe it to the game to leave a proper review. I'll mostly be copy/pasting what I wrote there, changing a bit of wording and redacting profanity that I used in the original post for emphasis because I absolutely love this game. [I love the writing here. The pronoun usage is a bit... confusing, but I think that the localization was trying to differentiate between modes that english just doesn't do. It comes off initially as "Someone's either they/themming a she/her or she/her-ing a they/them", but I think it's a matter of respect and formality rather than identity. Which is interesting in a game that chooses to be about what this one is, but there's so much delicate material here to work with. The translator tried to preserve something in japanese that just doesn't work quite as well in english. Our language sucks. This game and the localization efforts do not. The art style is beautiful, the puzzles are great and engaging. And wow, the art is amazing. Harima is a character that I deeply, deeply appreciate. The game also tackles concepts like consent, trust, boundaries, respect, and humanity with such a wonderful and delicate touch. What you are doing is intimate. There is no way around it. You are getting your hands inside of an android's electronic guts while they're powered off. This puts you in a position of so much power, and them in a position of such vulnerability that there's no way that it isn't some degree of intimate. Not sexual, notably. Intimate. Joints, tendons, wires, and it's treated with the weight that it needs to be. I love this game. It's so beautiful. If this game sounds like your kind of thing, go for it. It's $8.79 on sale right now. $10.99 if you get it at full price. I have played two hours of this game, there's more to it to explore, and I'd say that it's worth $11, even at just the two hour mark.] Final notes, unless I revise this review after getting more endings: The PC specs section just says "windows 11". Works fine on Win10. Says that it's best played with a controller. I used mouse and keyboard and felt that the gameplay was smooth and have had no issues. There's also a rather heavy trigger warning that they could've put in the beginning that might help some people about an event later on in the game towards the ending, particularly an (end-game spoiler, about 85% in) [spoiler] attempted suicide [/spoiler] but doing so would also spoil a bit and ruin how visceral that event is, so I understand the desire not to include it. But it could do with a warning about that somewhere beyond just the warning that the game -does- provide about imagery! Overall, I love this game a lot. It handles sensitive topics well and with respect, I highly recommend it.

アクションゲームもパズルゲームもあんまりやらない ガチのゲーマーなのでこういうのは基本やらない でもＸで見かけたのをきっかけに アンドロイドとかＡＩとかみたいなのは好きなので やってみました。 ゲームとしては簡単なパズルがあるだけと言えばそう ボリュームも2,3時間あれば１週終わるぐらいだと思う 短いとか少ないとか言われると思う だけどストーリーは面白かったし、色々思うことがある内容ではあった これをやった記憶も私の中に残るだろう。 私は初回プレイでハッピーな終わりだったので マルチＥＤらしいけどハッピーなENDじゃないなら やりたくないから次プレイするかは分かんない。 やって良かったとは思う。良い話だった ボリュームもやりたいゲームがいっぱいあるこの時代に あれば良いってもんでもないと思う。 私は好きです

An interesting story about androids. Mostly a visual novel with a couple of very simple puzzles and a few choices. Looks and sounds nice, although it could use more pictures and tracks. Some parts of the story don't make much sense, but it's fun to read, so it doesn't really matter. It's more of a "feel" than "think" story anyway. It's not as long as my playtime suggests, by the way. You should be able to 100% it in 4-5 hours. [spoiler]Objectively:[/spoiler] 8.4/10

とても好きなストーリーだった…！

Не плохая визуальная новелла про починку робота (андроида) с иногда головоломками. Жаль пока без перевода. https://youtu.be/WEqB5skZmt4

非常好的游戏，被美术风格吸引而来，玩起来看到的画面的感受是对于仿生人的描绘既给到人机械的真实感，也有带着作者自己的温度。 喜欢讨论科技，讨论仿生人和人类的关系的作品。作为人类来说，生活中出现了和自己类似的存在，这样的存在可以通过AI的系统学习而知道对应生活中的特定情境应当产生怎样的情绪。我想即便一开始能清晰认定这样的存在是仿生人，在某些标准下是没有生命的，但是渐渐的随着日积月累的相处也会对其产生感情吧，渐渐地把对方认定为同类，认定为生活中不可或缺的存在也是十分可能的事情。 也许是机器人也好，是人类，是猫猫狗狗也罢。人类好像都不需要对方是一个活物，只要和一个载体有足够的时间下的共同事件经历，在自己的种种情感中因这样的一个载体而发生了心境的改变，也许就足以对这样的载体产生羁绊了。是人类，是仿生人又怎样呢，是生命是机械又何妨，这样的一个载体在自己的生活中扮演过自己赋予ta的重要角色，就足够建立起感情的纽带，堂堂正正地说ta是我重要的存在了，重要的存在也未必要是人。 “两个残次品惺惺相惜，导致了如今的结果” “所以哪怕是为了给他一记套颈过身摔，我也非要让 [spoiler] 望央丸 [/spoiler] 醒过来不可” 感谢两位游戏主人翁呈现的故事。两位在不知不觉间，通过每时每刻，一点一滴的相处，建立起了很难说是相依存的关系...不如说是并不是我需要你才可以活下去的相依存，而是为了让你能活下去，过得好，即便燃尽我自己也毫不足惜的关系。让人实在是非常感动。 很开心游戏有[spoiler]让两人能够开心地一起生活下去 [/spoiler]的结局，[spoiler]造物和造物者[/spoiler]的可以为了对方放弃一切的关系...也非常触动人。一切可以触动人心的关系都是在一点一滴的日积月累中发芽生枝的，时间之所以珍贵可能也不只是为了自己能在这时间里做点什么，也在于能在这点时间里和周围的存在，载体，产生怎样的感情和关系吧。 一如既往地感谢译者flankoi的无比优质的翻译，现在几乎是看着译者翻译的清单来挑选游戏游玩了，清单就像是必吃榜单一样。也感谢作者的在呈现故事上的细思，玩每一个puzzle的时候都没有觉得无聊，也没有觉得puzzle是必须要赶紧糊弄过去的，领奖励前的必须完成的无聊任务一样。相反每一个puzzle玩得都很尽兴。今后也会继续关注您的作品的。

The Government doesn't want you to know it but [spoiler] the robots are gay [/spoiler]

I really, really enjoyed this story. It's the kind of story that can really only be told with androids. The tale is quite straightforward but I found myself thinking about companionship, emotion, what it means to be an android, what it means to be a human, how much someone's self and personality is tied to their body, and things like that. I will be thinking about this for some time. I do love sci-fi where it's so grounded in sci-fi that it would be hard to do any other way, and the core is philosophical. The puzzles in this game are all fairly simple, but are varied and a welcome break from reading. I only played through one route so far - ending 3-2 - taking me 4.5 hours, but that's because my brain is not letting me focus like it used to - I think in normal circumstances, I would have read it faster. So the reading length is quite short. But, as I think the story will stick to me for a while, that time carries a lot of value.

A really great game with a great story, the puzzles are good and intuitive but I would prefer that save states were automatic at key decisions to make completing other endings quicker. Great game, cheap if you buy on discount!