Without Within

[b]Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Lou Holtz[/b] [i]Without Within[/i] is more of a short introduction rather than a full visual novel, to Vinty's story; and it is the first of InvertMouse's VNs that I've enjoyed. It has a charming narrative, and lets you decide whether you'd be interested in Vinty's journey in following games for yourself; since it is free. Well, here in this 20-minute narrative, you'll take a glimpse to Miss Vinty's life. One would like to say she is a calligrapher extraordinaire, but nope, she really is not. She is simply a young woman who tries to keep her dreams of becoming a world renown calligraphy artist alive, while she struggles to make ends meet. Her reality is full of responsibilities, harsh comments and random trolls, so she starts questioning what might be wrong about her luck. Is her work that awful, or is she doing something wrong? The game mostly consists of cartoony anime artwork and uplifting mid...

[h1][i][b]A very short Visual Novel about an ambitious girl called Vinty who has a dream to realize – to become a rich and famous public figure specialized in art calligraphy![/b][/i][/h1] [h1]Game’s premise:[/h1] [i][b]You play as Vinty, a young lady bearing a dream since she was a child – to become a calligraphy artist. While living in a very tiny and deteriorated apartment barely affording to pay her rent, the heroine keeps fantasizing about being rich, to the point this fantasy sometimes gets a hold of her reality thinking of herself as superior while trying to sell her works – that appear to not even reach an average level of decency in calligraphy field.[/b][/i] [h1]About Vinty:[/h1] Our hardworking main character who does not give up to her dreams at all! In fact, she does dream a lot and often does not realize when it is time to fall back when responding to rude customers. Often ending up in embarrassing situations, she is still the typical kind-hearted girl who would...

Extremely short, doesn't really tell much of a story, and the art is only so-so. Even for free, probably not worth your time.

well...a flash game can be finished in ten mins . this game is too short that give my a feeling like "aha...aha....em...the end????" looks like we have WW2 ,so i ganna check it out ,and i like this BGM

I really enjoyed this short little visual novel. The story was good and I like the art style. Artists will definitely appreciate the story.

It's fun :d

Vinty has little motivation and even less money. She's late on her rent and no one is buying her calligraphy. There are five decision points in the story; choose to be lazy or selfish at any one of them and you're quickly sent to a screen that says "BAD END". But, if she perseveres and holds true to herself ... ... then the story abruptly ends anyway, about five minutes in. There's just no point to this story, and nothing to recommend it. The artwork is bland. It could at least have wrapped up with a feel-good ending, something nice happening to inspire Vinty and help her find a new direction for her life; but instead I can't decide whether the ending is a joke that doesn't work or the developer just got tired of the story. The funniest part of this is that there are prominent "Q.Save", "Q.Load", "Save", and "Load" buttons for a game that can be played through to the "good" end in less than five minutes and which can be clicked through to the end in less than fifteen seconds.