No One But You

This game really speaks to me. Asking advice on the internet about going on a date with a cute girl. I was told to countlessly kill myself. Just like real life!

Summary: This game is broken, unfinished, lachluster, and disappointing. Had potential but, seems rushed and unpolished. I'm not going to lie I really wanted to see this visual novel do well, and I had been following the production process in the last couple of months leading up to it's release. However, I'm sad to say that I am very disappointed in No One But You. The reason I am sad to say that, is because I am someone who one day aspires to produce a visual novel of my own, and as such I wanted to support someone trying to do the same. Especially someone who lives outside of Japan like myself. That being said, this visual novel features no audible dialogue even though we were told before release that it would include it, and the game contains an option in the game menu for "voice volume". However, none of the characters are voiced, and all dialouge is simply written. This means that they were planning on including voiced characters in the final game, but that was scrapped for wh...

Recommended because I'm glad that I played through it once. But I'm never playing through it again. The game is written extremely well, to a fault. You connect very easy with some of the characters, and then when all the bad shit starts happening you really get hit hard by it. Even the good ends are sometimes bittersweet. One route in particular made me actually sick to my stomach and I could hardly continue. If the goal was to illicit emotion, I guess 10/10. Play through it once, but. I can't do it again.

Spoiler-free TL;DR: bad writing. Spoilery TL;DR at the bottom Pros: -Art was pretty nice -Music was ok -Characters were ok Cons: -Game often jumped forward weeks/months, even when it seemed like significant things were happening in that time -For example, despite never choosing to talk to one character, during a timeskip I seemed to befriend them - no explanation for this was given -BAD WRITING - WILL EXPAND UPON THIS BELOW, BUT THERE WILL BE SPOILERS -Could use some refinement - music tended to stop abruptly rather than gradually fading out, some art was rough in places -The date shown in the top-right corner became glitched on two occasions, permanently showing the wrong day (didn't affect gameplay, but did bother me a little) Now then, allow me to elaborate on the writing. I played through Megumi's route and, up until the point where she became my girlfriend, everything was fine. A little bland, perhaps, but enjoyable. Then a new teacher showed up at the school, raisin...

Starts out happy and cheery, also quite funny. But things take a sharp turn after summer. Only played through Megumi's story. Can't replay the game because seeing Megumi brings tears.

Your mother decides that you should move with her to the city you grew up in when you were born: except that you were a victim of an accident there when you were a child, don't remember your childhood, the accident, the place, or the people you met there. Look, this is begging to be your generic anime story of the boy who doesn't remember his past. And it is. You can already guess half of the characters and the plot. To make it worse, the character development is shallow to an unbelievable level, up until the point in which your "route" is decided. After that point, the other characters will play a minor role, or even totally disappear, and the story will develop the "Chosen Character". You'll be somewhat at the middle of the storyline - but there will be only one or two choices left to make, everything else is linear. "Chosen Character", quotes intended. I personally have lacked any sort of empathy towards any of the characters until I reached the last quarter of (some) of the rout...

I tried going down Yui's route. Accidentally went down Ryo's route. 10/10 Would go down a boy's route again!

Edit to Update Review; see bottom: There are a lot of nonsense positive reviews spamming this game to look acceptable, so I thought I'd throw my hat in with the negative side. I think most of the negative reviews hit it very well. It's a poor VN, but worse than that are the developers questionable actions. Just an amateur research into the game shows this game never should've seen the light of day in it's current state. They released a broken product for a cash grab, and their inexperience is destroying what could've been an acceptable game. This is the type of release that gives kickstarters a bad name. Without even having to touch how broken the game is, I can unequivocally give this game a negative review based soley on the broken promises and frequent evasion of the developers. Update: Just like this game, my updates will be severly lacking. Please do not support these devs in any way. This game is incomplete and the devs are trying to make you pay extra for the fu...

If seems cute with the pink hair, beauty and single. Is the fuc%&#$ crazy as IRL. I rly hate VN for gods sake. But I like the artwork and the music. I didn't expect that end ;A; and I like the foil badge. Tbh I bought it at first for that. But then caught me. Also the auto skip was nice just taking choices without think as IRL again.

"This is not some dating sim game where you just go around getting to know people" -Yui Game is very aware of itself, and it makes that fact known 10/10 EDIT: I have finished all of the routes, and might I just say this is the best game I've played in a long time. The feels were felt as I watched everyones stories unfold. Even the good endings weren't always happy ones. If you enjoy these types of games, or are looking to get into them, buy this.