When Our Journey Ends - A Visual Novel

I really loved this VN and the story its loosely based on. On her way home from school, Mariko who spends her train rides alone (as she is the only passenger), gets transported to a magical world in-between the spirit world and human world. What's not to love? Pros - Beautiful art - Engaging story - Fun characters - Animated backgrounds Cons - Kinda short - The extra stories were 'hard' to find (not really, but I wasn't aware of them and found them by accident) Conclusion: If this visual novel only had its main story to offer, I would have been a little disappointed. For its quality, it would still be well worth its price, but I felt the main story could have had some more user input, or at least a little bit more story to offer. The extras really give this visual novel a well-rounded story and while everything combined is still kind of short, I greatly enjoyed how this 'Journey Ended'.

“When our journey ends” is a fantasy Visual Novel about a girl that rides a train (where she is the sole rider due to the remoteness of that brings her to a station called “Midway” that lies in between the human world and the spirit world. And here is where I’m going to stop talking about the story as I don’t want to throw out any spoilers. There is a lot I want to discuss concerning the storyline and this time I will purposefully leave it as my 2nd to last category so there are no spoilers (Music and Audio will come last as it will refer to the story segment). Art - Backgrounds The backgrounds are really beautiful, they seem to be hand painted with poster paint and they are fabulous. Clearly a lot of love and attention has been put there and the color scheme really gives a fantastic feel of a mix between nostalgia and fantasy. I really loved how the backgrounds were animated with things like snow falling, water moving and leaves being blown by the wind. I also liked the ...

Charming. Delightful. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey!

The good: good artwork, background and illustrations. Does feature voice acting, and in English for those that do not understand Japanese and want to actually understand what characters say. The bad: the story is rather short. The engine used to run the game is terrible. Auto mode does not work, and many features are there but hidden behind keyboard shortcuts. The story: rather linear, with two endings that are to be honest not too different from each other; plus some extra content after completion. Although trains might be proeminently displayed on the store page, they are mostly background, as the novel delves into spiritual folklore. The verdict: very expensive at base price. Do wait for a sale if interested. 6/10.

I like this visual novel and its nice that it had voice acting. The story is quite unique and very well put. However, some of the voice acting doesn't match the text or it has been fast track ahead the text that comes on. It very enjoyable even though of that error. I have played it and the achievement do come up in the actual game but steam hasn't recognised that I have earned the achievement, which is a shame. Maybe I'm not hitting the right choice for the achievement but I will experiment and see. I would like to see more games like this one. Not with the same story of course but with the traditional Japanese character designs. I will like to play it again.

Fantastic artwork and some wel done voice acting I especially like Hachiko's voice and a story that I certainly enjoyed 'reading' along and very lovely music. Kind of short but was worth the price as i will be back to go again for the art and music. Only a couple of choices to make but it is a visual novel not a choose your own adventure story .