The 257th Element

I just love the aesthetics of this game <3, fell in love instantly with the Characters, cant wait to know more about Tokimune and his friends Hamakado romanceable? She is just my type :3 UwU

Me gusta la manera en que el juego te va introduciendo en la historia y con la sensación de querer conocer más y más de ella, cada personaje tiene su carisma y te mantiene en una atmósfera cómoda.. A pesar de su aspecto sencillo tiene lo necesario para ser una buena historia tipo novela gráfica que te sumerge por horas sin que te des cuenta.. Hasta el momento lo eh disfrutado mucho 10/10.. Ampliamente recomendado 😀

great game, excellent graphics, 10/10 music and an excellent story. very good novel to watch between moments. I would like it more if the dialogues were slower

It is a very interesting game, I had never played anything of this style, but I really liked the characters and how the story developed, without a doubt the music was what captivated me the most.

Para ser una de las pocas novelas visuales que he jugado, me he quedado con una buena impresion. Su historia es basicamente como la de un anime, con momentos divertidos entre sus personajes y un poco de drama y misterio al mismo tiempo. El concepto de su historia es muy interesante y gracias a su musica, se ambienta muy bien, en un futuro no muy lejano pero bastante distinto al nuestro

Tras haber retomado algunas novelas visuales que tenía pendientes, me topé con The 257th Element y decidí probarla. Aunque en primera instancia no logró capturar mi atención, decidí continuarla y he tenido una buena experiencia. El juego nos pone al control de Masakazu Tokimune, un estudiante japonés con una vida bastante normal. No obstante, el mundo en el que habita es distinto al nuestro, pues tras el descubrimiento del elemento 257, los muertos pueden regresar a la vida. A través de este hilo conductor, el juego nos relata una historia con toques dramáticos, románticos, y la mayor parte del tiempo, humorísticos. Si bien el misterio del elemento 257 está presente en la mayor parte de la aventura, convivir con los carismáticos personajes que forman parte de su mundo será el plato principal. En lo que refiere a su apartado artístico, The 257th Element hace un buen trabajo, contando su historia en lugares variados que dotan de diversidad a los fondos. Por otro lado, los personajes cuentan con múltiples sprites y según sus desarrolladores, con actuaciones de voz muy pronto. Su banda sonora (a excepción del opening) cumple con su prometido de ambientar la historia y acompañarnos en esta aventura colegial. Para concluir, no me queda más que recomendar este título, pues a pesar de no ser una obra maestra, es perfecta para los amantes de este género en busca de algo nuevo y poco conocido.

The main reason I bought this game was because I love the art and because there's not only Japanese but even English voice acting! The positive reviews also helped. In hindsight I should have known something was up with those reviews. When you take a look at them you'll notice that all of them only played for a few hours and yet they claim it's a long game. Some even admit they haven't finished the game because it's long but they haven't played in a year. There aren't really any playthroughs online, no professional reviews, no statistics, so how do all of them even know how long the game is? Clearly at least some must be fake. That doesn't change the fact that the artwork is really gorgeous and that there's English voice acting and it's actually quite good. The writing however not so much. In the few hours I've played. Yes I also only played a few hours but I'm not pretending otherwise. In that playtime I've only been going through meaningless chatter. I get that we want to get to know these characters in slice of life settings before the main story starts. However, the characters looking for a cat (that we as the audience haven't seen yet) by going through the cats and it's owners history of favourite and meaninful places to them for about an hour in game is tedious and not my idea of riveting storytelling. The protagonist also has the tendency to share his thoughts all the time. During conversations, during the search for the cat... like all the time we read his thoughts on everything. It was fun for the first 5 minutes as there's a fourth wall breaking element to it where he explains stuff to the reader. It gets tedious very fast and like three quarters could have been cut from it as it almost never contributes anything to the story or setting. There's also a bit of a technical issue if I can call it that. Not any bugs or glitches but it has to do with how fast the text goes. With visual novels, especially english speaking ones, I like to sit back and have them play on auto. That way it's like I'm watching an anime. A lot of visual novels go so slow that the conversations become unnatural because of all te pauses. This game has the opposite problem. Characters talk fast but especially the non-spoken text goes by way to fast to be able to read. It might seem like a small gripe seeing as it only affects auto mode but it's a big one for me. I'm now at the point where I think the main story starts. There's a bit of a mystery and riddles to solve. I can't say I find the mystery very intriguing though.

Es una gran historia para jugar con mis hijos, aunque me gustaria que tuviera opciones de censura para que diferentes edades puedan jugar y no sea tan dificil configurar los controles parentales. En fin y a Los Cabos!

是没有日文语音，而且语音不能跳过，每句话都要等讲完才能点击下一句。

Jaa está bueno a primera vista se ve simple pero al entrar ya se nota la calidad, en lo personal siempre había querido jugar un novela visual y este juego es bueno para empezar, esta muy bien ambientado y la música me gusta, historia interesante aunque me falla al momento de querer avanzar y retroceder pero nada que no se pueda arreglar, y nada como las waifus 10/10 😉 eso sí una versión en español estaría genial jaja _______________________________________________________________________________ Jaa it's good at first glance it looks simple but when you enter you can already see the quality, personally I had always wanted to play a visual novel and this game is good to start with, it is very well set and I like the music, interesting story although I fails when trying to move forward and back but nothing that can't be fixed, and nothing like the waifus 10/10 😉 a Spanish version would be great haha