I'm Oh, So Busy...: A Week with Yoshimi

$9.99

Release Date:: Nov 13, 2020
Developer:: The Berry Guild
Publisher:: The Berry Guild
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Indie Casual Steam Achievements Family Sharing Single-player

About This Game

📄Story/Summary:

New beginnings can be a challenge, especially when they start hundreds of miles away from home!

I'm Oh, So Busy...: A Week with Yoshimi explores a week in the life of Yoshimi Adelina Hertz as she makes her way in the world after finishing school. She deals with the challenge of finding her place in the world and the trials and tribulations that come with moving somewhere new. While at the same time, understanding her own insecurities and sense of self.

She comes armed only with her dreams, a pet, a head full of nostalgia from her childhood, and all of her good and bad habits. Boston is a very different place from the quiet and peaceful Midwestern life that she's used to, and now it's on her to make the most of it.

How will she handle this? Will it be a good week for her? Was this all a mistake?

Read and find out!

Genres: Dark comedy, slice-of-life, drama.
Resolution: 1280x720
Current Build: v1.1.5

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📄The Credits:

General

Story, Development, Music Production, Art Direction, Voice Casting - berry
Script Editing - berry & DefeatedSanity
Programming - berry & Dodobro
Sprites & GUI - Erickiwi
Backgrounds - Fuyu no Kawa
Sound Effects - FreeSound, Soundbible, YouTube, & Soundsnap
Animation - RingoBonBon & Sonraya
Engine - Ren'Py (Version 7.3.5)

Voice

Yoshimi Adelina Hertz - Anastasia Lyle
Mr. Michael Hertz - Poppletron
Mrs. Eriko Honda-Hertz - Amanda "Panda" Parker
Stu Jeffery Bennet - Darrell Andre Humphrey
Mrs. Sandra Bergen - Amy Saville
Derek - Michael "Speedlemon" Flaherty
Hamad - Jackmack
Vivaan Manikivasakam - Mike Vallas
Nathan Skies - Joshua Waters
Gym Leader - Kevin Couto
Airport Worker - Kevin Couto

Sound

Axian - The Plan [ORIGINAL SONG]

CRÆTION -
Snowed In
Blossom
Cosma
Wish
Want
Sway
Contemplation
Memory
Lullaby
tmrrw.
Time and Place
Summer Sky
Beachside
Cherry Blossum
Dark Sides (w. Laura James)

idealism - last time

furino - listen to tommy with a candle burning

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📄Features:

- A kinetic story that can be read through in approximately 2:30 - 4 hours, depending on how fast of a reader you are.
- 25,349 words and 2,304 dialogue blocks.
- 19 colorful, 3D backgrounds depicting settings in urban life and the everyday life of Yoshimi.
- Dark comedy and dramatic elements.
- A lo-fi soundtrack with 18 tracks from various producers like furino, idealism, CRÆTION, and an exclusive track from Axian that was made just for this visual novel!
- Can be played on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Full/Partial voice acting from 10 different actors.
- 13 vibrantly illustrated cutscenes.
- 322 expressive character sprites spread out across 7 chapters. This includes alternative outfits.

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User Reviews

Mostly Negative

3 user reviews

33%

Positive

User #033130 english

40 min at review

Not Recommended

For what is advertised as a dark comedy drama this story seems largely void of dark comedy or drama, and is mostly just a monotonous internal monologue simulation. While it is expected for a story to take time to escalate, forty minutes in and absolutely nothing has happened besides the protagonist relentlessly talking to themself about the most ordinary boring things. Forty minutes it takes for the story to progress from the protagonist arriving at the airport, taking a taxi, then arriving and falling asleep in their new apartment. The protagonist has almost nothing interesting or funny to say about anything, all they can do is perpetually ramble about extremely ordinary and unexciting things. It doesn't even serve much to establish their character as the main thing the reader learns is their academic background and basic childhood. Forty minutes for that information, forty minutes of that information continuously rehashed for zero advantage. It seems like this might be translated ...

User #342327 english

2 hrs at review

Recommended

[quote][h1]Check out my website: [url=https://pixeldie.com/]Pixel Die[/url], for more content.[/h1][/quote] The glory of the Slice of Life genre for games, sitcoms, and TV is the exclusion of a plot to allow more time for the characters, their relationships, and their emotions. It's a testament to the writer's credentials when you can keep an audience motivated to watch without a constant rise in tension and the proverbial exhale when the set conclusion sets in. Sometimes a week can be eventful in more ways than one, but that's all you're getting here. I'm Oh, So Busy touches down on the life of Yoshimi Hertz, a budding woman moving from the comfort of her hometown in Iowa to the bustling future of her new career in Boston. After a rather turbulent flight, a tired but excited Yoshimi gathers her belongings and heads to her new apartment. With a nice high-rise apartment to settle into, Yoshimi and her pet ferret Cinnamon Bun tackle a week of starting a new job, figuring out new so...