Winter's Empty Mask - Visual novel

I've finished this game in ~20 hours. I had a great time in Winter's Empty Mask. Now I'll why you should play this one if you like Visual Novels. Main features: — Unusual story about ~16 years old girl, who is professional killer with mystical skills. [Its not a spoiler. You will find it out for 30 minutes from start of game] — Interesting storytelling from two points of view. Game, roughly speaking, divide on two phases: night and day. At night you playing as killer and fight with bosses. At day you looking on results of these fights as usual student, who actually studies in 1 school with serial killer. — 8 different endings: 6 bad endings, 1 good and 1 is true ending (which also can be considered as good) — Good fights with different bosses. You should pick your own strategy for different bosses. Some of them are frankly weak and you can beat them easily. Some of bosses have good physical resistance, some have magical resistance and other. — Visuals. All that concerns visual components is very good. More of them I like CGs. — Music. Music also was made good. It suitable for different situations including boss fights. — Interesting characters. Its different characters here with their own nature with good and bad traits. This is annoying, pleasant, shyly, aristocratic and other people here. The most character I've like for is Ansel, by the way. Things I liked in this game: — Not very tightened storytelling. Its not very long story in WEM. I like it. The story is not too long to tire of it and not too short to feel dissatisfied. The size of story is perfect. — Visual part. Its good. CGs is so atmospheric, sprites made good, background was animated and this is great advantage of visual part. — Music and sound design. Composers did music well. They made game so atmospheric. As for me, there is more tracks could be used in game. Some of them could annoy close to the end, but its not for me. Music wasn't annoying for me. As for sound design it very good too. Its immerses players in atmosphere of the Winter's Empty Mask's world well. — Combat system. Its interesting. When we play as killer, we could use some magic skills. There is not a lot of them, but they are good and doing well. — Dark and intense atmosphere of visual novel. Where killer coming to victim, its really tense and player feeling hopelessness of victims. Things I'd prefer to add: — Obviously thing — its more languages. One of my russian speaking friend saw this game and said: "Oh, its cool game you playing now. I wanna buy it, but I can't read text in english". This point its not bad for Spanish language men and other people who can easily read Winter's Empty Mask in English. I think you should to think about translating game to Francias, Russian, Italian and maybe some other languages to make this game more accessible to different countries. — There is original level of difficulty and casual level here. Its great. If you are common player, you'll be joy with a normal fight. If you are casual player, you can play in casual mode, it will be easier for you, but you can still fight with bosses to estimate combat system. I think developers maybe can add opportunity to skip battle. When I skipped all text to make another choice and select another one root, I defeated bosses again and again, when I just wanted to skip text and select other root. — I think player need guide how to select roots. I am not experienced difficulties with selecting roots and walkthrough WME, but some people need guide. Summing up, Winter's Empty Mask is very very good visual novel, which should be played by every VN-fun. Considering that fact how Eternal Night Studios made previously projects, now mexican studio (if I'm not mistaken) come to new level of making Visual Novels. For now Winter's Empty Mask — is quintessence game in Eternal Night Studio's career. I recommend this game to every men, who like VN's. Thank you!

es sorprende ver la evolución del trabajo de Eternal Night Studio. Cada nueva Novela Visual que hacen, supera la anterior, y eso lo digo con lo poco que llevo jugando, que ya apunta maneras!!

Текст рівня "мій перший фанфік", система бою, бо наша ГГня-Мері настільки крута, що її неможливо вбити, якщо це не черговий незрозумілий "босс", сеттінг типу "ми знаємо все про Японію з аніме" і, звісно ж, купа помилок, бо переклад англійською робили наосліп і з 2019го року проектом ніхто не переймався, щоб хоч щось виправити. Гроші на вітер, навіть зі знижкою.

¡Que gusto ver una novela original totalmente en español! Gratamente sorprendido con la calidad del producto, en especifico resaltando: - Historia: interesante y fácil de leer, con varias perspectivas para mantener el suspenso y no hacer pesadas las secciones; los personajes me han caído bastante bien, sobretodo las bromas entre el protagonista y Reika, que les da una química muy natural. Vale la pena intentar sacar todos los finales, algunos son bastante sorprendentes. - Gráficas: las ilustraciones de pantalla completa son de una calidad profesional destacable; si bien los retratos de los personajes son un tanto mas sencillos, no es nada que rompa la inmersión en el juego, y tienen bastantes cambios de ropa/expresiones. - Música: los temas de pelea son todos originales, particularmente me ha gustado aquel con temática oriental; complementados con melodías atmosféricas mas sencillas para las secciones de lectura. - Jugabilidad: el minijuego de batalla es bastante innovador, teniendo la necesidad de pensar estrategias individuales para cada enemigo, aunque la suerte puede jugarnos una mala pasada de vez en cuando, por lo cual se agradece la inclusion de el modo casual para cuando solamente queremos continuar con la historia o estamos rejugando para sacar otro final. En conclusion, no esta nada mal por el precio, dándonos unas ocho-diez de horas de entretenimiento si nos dedicamos a sacar todo, y sobretodo la oportunidad de apoyar nuevos talentos. ¡Cuatro de cinco estrellitas, y en espera de más producciones!

From the amazing story line that draws you in, to the unique character designs that connect you with the characters, this game is by far one of the most amazing Visual novels I have every played. The games music, artwork, and story line are beautiful and very well put together. I have yet to lose interest in the game at all! I always find myself losing track of time as I get lost in the story line, and get put into either Ichirou's or Yuki's point of views. I'd recommend this game for anyone who loves great and original visual novels!

[h1] 游戏介绍 [/h1] 《Winter's Empty Mask - Visual novel（冬天的空面具）》是一款由Eternal Night Studios制作并发行的独立爱情冒险类型AVG游戏。游戏的舞台发生在城市Momiji，男主人公Ichirou最近搬回了这座城市，这时他与儿时老朋友Reika在次相遇，但是也在学校遇到了一个陌生少女Yuki，于是在这俩种感情的冲击之下，他将如何做出选择，这将取决于你的心中的答案。 [h1] 游戏的画风 [/h1] 游戏的CG制作我觉得还是挺不错的，十分的精良，而且对于人物的绘制我感觉也十分的用心，有着很不错的欣赏性，特别在最后进入个人线之后，CG的作用就有着很不错的展现，让我们可以很好的体会到男主与女主俩人之间的感情。立绘方面我觉得有待加强，感觉不是很对我的口味，不是很细致，而且面部表情数量有点少，感觉表现力不是特别强。游戏的背景感觉非常好，感觉有一种动漫的既视感，所以带来了很不错的视觉体验。 [h1] 游戏还带有小游戏 [/h1] 游戏进行到晚上的时候，我们将扮演杀手，和各种东西进行PK，玩法比较类似于RPG游戏的玩法，我们可以在普攻中穿插技能，来进行对抗，只要用好补血技能，基本上可以很容易的就获得胜利，而且小游戏的设计又很好的带动了游戏的互动性，玩完之后我觉得应该增加一个跳过战斗的选项，这样也可以为更多的玩家提供方便。 [h1] 游戏的剧情 [/h1] 游戏的剧情相对较长，且一共有俩条个人线，但是结局一共有八个，所以说有6个坏结局，但是只要避开一些选项，就可以进入女主的好结局路线，我就说一说Reika线，这个线的好结局还是挺不错的，特别是进入个人线之后，感觉还是很甜蜜的，CG就有很好的体现，一起去饭店吃饭，互相推心置腹，可谓是俩人建立很不错的感情，剧本也对俩人的性格的塑造也很细致，让最后的感情也变得更加真挚，看到最后日后谈俩人并肩而站，俩人互露笑脸的那一刻，也许这就是幸福吧。 [h1] 游戏的优点 [/h1] +精美的CG +人物的性格的塑造 +悬疑的剧情 [h1] 游戏总评 [/h1] 总的来说，这款游戏还是很不错的，主要推荐给AVG游戏的爱好者。 评分：7/10 [quote]欢迎加入[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/HY_Master]黄油大师[/url]，一同挖掘好玩的游戏吧~ 欢迎关注[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33741419/]黄油大师鉴赏家[/url]，查看趣味性评测 各种类型应有尽有。加入我们，搜寻更多精品游戏吧！[/quote]

The writing starts out as overly edgy and chuunibyou-esque, but eventually becomes readable if you can make it past the first hour or so. Similarly, the combat appears to be overly simple at first, (leading me to almost abandon the game) but becomes fairly engaging and nuanced later on. The romances are adorable, and the endings are pretty memorable. Music does a good job of setting the mood in most cases, especially during battle. The CGs are great, but some of the art is lacking to the point where it hurts the experience. This is especially true during the game's first battle, which includes a sprite that is downright embarrassing in my opinion. The world-building, themes, dialogue, and plot progression are unremarkable in every way, but serve as an adequate vehicle for moving the romances, character arcs, and battles along, all of which made this game fun for me in the end. If I can nitpick for a bit, there are a lot of very simple flaws that hurt the game's credibility. The resolution on the title screen CG is completely messed up, and what otherwise would be a very nice opening menu is a pixelated mess. Another example: during combat, characters' health bars go into the negatives after they are killed. Finally, mediocre prose aside, there are a decent amount of noticeable grammar mistakes. There is no excuse for releasing a finished product with sub-par grammar. If you can't find an editor, feel free to contact me directly. Despite all these flaws, I had fun. Overall, definitely wouldn't recommend this as someone's first VN, but veterans of the medium who can empathize with the blemishes that come with indie titles will probably enjoy it. I have my eye on Eternal Night Studios, and I hope that they continue to improve as time goes on.

[h1] <-- Review written for [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752/] 3 Point Play [/url] --> [/h1] For starters, you've gotta endure at least one hours of the really edgy writting to get into it. I mean, I won't lie. It doesn't start very well, at least, not from my POV; if you're an avid Wattpad/Fanfiction reader, you might enjoy it, but if that's not the case, you will have to ENDURE it. After that one hour, the VN starts getting interesting, still edgy, but the actual character development begins when you get to the first school scene, when the protagonist will switch from the one you had a the beginning, to a dude who happens to bump into the previous protagonist. When you've reached an hour, the story will develop as it follows: You'll accompany either the new protagonist or the old one as they either go through school life or through a murdering spree. It's a pretty interesting setting, pretty much like the writting style and structure, you'll be switching between characters as you progress through the story. I can't say much more without spoiling it a lot. The story, once again, is really edgy, but it can be pretty heartwarming as well. You'll be dealing with some really grim characters, and even trying to reinstitute the meaning of humanity in one of them. The battle system is okay; honestly, I'm not very fond of it, as I'd have rather just skip those. The spritework is goes from pretty good to pretty bad on some expressions. The phrose is kinda weird, it's not actually a professional work nor anything like that, in fact, I found it kinda weak for a VN, and switching to spanish didn't improve it a lot. Either way, as I've mentioned, even with those small details, the story is charming and the characters are pretty likeable, specially Yuki, whose bad ending I ended up getting, though I don't know why, since I think I actually took the right choices. I also have some complaints about the very divergent CG/sprite styles. That's pretty weird, CGs are top-tier, in fact, I'd say they're among the best ones I've seen in these kind of VNs, but somehow, the sprites (though serviceable and good-looking) are just so far in terms of style. The BGs, in some cases, seem to be really out of place (can a place be out of place though?) like the one from the cafeteria, for instance, being really bright and cartoony, in contrast to the really grim story. All in all, I'd give it a 7/10. There are some things that can be improved on. I'll update the review as soon as I reach some other endings, though.

Ahora que he conseguido todos los logros puedo dar mi opinión acerca del juego, y debo decir que es magnifico, la historia es buena, atrapando al lector rapidamente, el arte de las imagenes CGS es estupendo, la musica se combina perfectamente con la narrativa de la historia. Si quieren una historia romantica, con toques oscuros definitivamente deben comprar este juego,

Me esta gustando bastante; personajes carismaticos y entrañables, una historia muy interesante y entretenida, el arte visual no esta nada mal y el soundtrack le queda bastante bien. La unica cosa de la que podria quejarme es que los combates pueden volverse un poco tediosos al rejugarlo, pero al menos el modo casual ayuda un poco. Recomendable para cualquier persona que guste de las visual novels.