About This Game StoryIn the middle of a forest isolated from the rest of the world lies Saint Angraecum Academy, an all-girls school. This is where Suoh Shirahane, a painfully shy girl with a mysterious past, will begin her first year of high school. Follow her as she navigates new friendships within the academy’s special “Amitiė” partner program and attempts to unravel the many mysteries at the academy, including occult rituals and the mysterious disappearance of fellow students, all while trying to pass her classes.Within the halls of Saint Angraecum Academy, spring warms into summer, as does Suoh's friendships until they too blossom into something much more. 7aa9394dea Title: Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-Genre: CasualDeveloper:Innocent GreyPublisher:JAST USARelease Date: 17 Aug, 2016 Flowers -Le Volume Sur Printemps- Download] First of all, let me stop you there by saying that my playtime isn't representative of the number of hours I surrendered to this game. There were a lot, because this thing just would not wrap it up. The transition between the second and third acts felt like a freaking Cousteau expedition. Digging my way out of the epilogue in particular was a physical triumph. It felt a lot like getting through the last books of Paradise Lost, if Paradise Lost were as bad as it is long. There are some spoilers below. I don't care, and I don't think that you should care either. Buckle up. Buddy, Flowers starts out like Scooby Doo Yamayurikai and then goes full Yandere Nice Boat. I'm no yuri dilettante and this isn't my first rodeo, so I made sure to do my homework before jumping in. I browsed the Steam reviews and looked at the pretty screenshots and thought I was gonna get some cute girls doing cute things. Well, I got hardcore stunted on, lemme tell you. The first hour is a real Pied Piper. Droopy Dog has a couple of unctuous meet-cutes with Tweedledumb and Tweedlemegane-chan before the narrative gets capped like Bambi’s mom and everybody starts throwing down and having PTSD flashbacks. These kids need a safe space and some anti-psychotics, but nobody in this game does anything except screw up a perfectly good yuri. The last chapter gets a bit cheeky and proudly trots out a desultory piece of Joseph Conrad and then the whole cast absconds to a cathedral in the middle of the night to have a Wangst competition and compare pathologies. It’s like Dueling Banjos but with mental illness. Tweedledumb had me fooled for a couple of minutes but that cow with the glasses was a real piece of work from day one. You’d think that being romantically and psychologically victimized by the moe equivalents of Casper’s Ghostly Trio would make the protagonist the most likable character in the game by default, but you’d be wrong. Droopy Dog is among the worst and droopiest romantic leads I’ve ever seen in a visual novel. She gets chucked around by the rest of the cast like an old ventriloquist dummy who's just been lobbed off the stage. She huffs and she puffs and she indulges in creepy internal monologues that could've only been issued from the primitive rodent brains of some middle-aged Japanese dudes struggling and failing to convincingly write a horny teenage lesbian. It should be noted that the game is less than forthcoming about the fact that its main characters are literally fourteen years old; whether or not that's a turn-on for you is between you and your probation officer. I’m a grown woman and this crap made me feel like an accessory to a crime. I finished Tweedledumb’s route and spent the duration of the end credits wondering if I should throw my PC into the bathtub with a toaster. There's no sex or nudity, but Droopy Dog's protracted appraisals of her classmates' pubescent bodies are frequent and gratuitous enough that I'm just waiting for the FBI to show up and confiscate my harddrive. Skip this exhausting softcore melodrama and play Kindred Spirits instead. Now that's a game worth going to jail for.. This game is simply beautiful. The art style and soundtrack are stunning, and the characters and storyline are wonderful. The voice acting is great too, so there really isn't an aspect of this VN that is lacking. It has a lovely, whimsical feel to it that I haven't felt in any other VN, and is the only one that has made me both laugh and cry.Would love to see the sequels get released on Steam. I will definitely be buying them!. Came for the yuri, stayed for the feels.. Girls can't love girls! Its forbidden love!. So I just get a game over at the end of Chapter 2 and I don't understand why.. Fantastic game. 10/10 story and writing. This game is like a perfectly prepared dish. You should be excited to play. It is full of happy adventures and clever interactions. It is a must buy of the niche visual novel industry. By far a classic as much as katawa shoujo, except much more wholesome.. Yuri is Love Yuri is Livewe need like this. By far one of the best visual novels I've ever purchased, and I have too many to count at this point. The translation to English was smooth (albeit there are some errors, but those are unavoidable), the art work was beautiful, the music was well done, and the story flowed well. I believe the amount of choices throughout the novel are well-spaced, and have a suitable amount of impact to the story line to make them more fun than a chore. The visual novel has an entrance sequence, which was really fun to listen to and see previews to each individual romance featuring the main three characters. It also has an official credit song, which was great as well.Another feature I really enjoyed was the voice acting of the characters. I normally avoid keeping the voices on, as they tend to be poorly done and the Japanese distracts me when I am trying to focus on an English sentence (as my brain is trying to translate while reading my native language). However, this voice acting was almost professional quality, and I really enjoyed listening to the characters speak! I read pretty quickly, but found myself pausing to listen to the full Japanese version of the text before proceeding to the next piece of dialogue. I strongly recommend this visual novel to anyone who prefers a girl-loved story without all the nudity that tends to come with them. Reader bewarned, I am about to go into depth with some of the things I disliked below, which contains spoilers for storylines that can be experienced in the visual novel. If you don't want any major story spoilers, please only read the first paragraph of my review. Thanks!--While I loved this visual novel, and praise it highly, I had a bit of an issue with the "thinking" mechanic that it uses. I think it's really cool to involve the reader / player of the visual novel with solving mysteries, however solving said mysteries was nearly impossible and the choices would impact your game negatively without you even realizing just how big of an impact it has right away. The things this visual novel expect you to notice and figure out right away is astonishingly impossible (there is one that involves figuring out a character's name via 'the language of flowers', which is a hard thing to figure out unless you have a) read the book they are referencing her name from and b) know flower language). Of course, I understand it's meant to be challenging, however there were some of these mysteries that took me four or five times to figure out by going back into saves. The most annoying part was that for some of them, it never explained just WHAT was wrong, or that I had been incorrect right away.Aside from the mystery solving mechanic, my next gripe is about the Mayuri ending. For the most part, I felt that the transitions and the relationships in the game were built well and that character traits were fleshed out and well explained. However, the moment you reach the pivotal moment of the romance beginning on Mayuri's route, the transitions regarding the romantic scenes between Suoh and Mayuri feel more sloppy and rushed. Mayuri jumps from being heartbroken, to being in love with Rikka, to being in love with Suoh in the matter of weeks. I wish that the romance would have been extended to grow over the course of time, like the friendships had been. Then, just as I was beginning to prepare for the ending of the game, the romance suddenly was ended via Mayuri leaving the academy. In my humble opinion, it was left unclear if Mayuri had left of her own volition, or if she had been expelled. Shortly after receiving the information, Suoh tearfully prays for the first time, and then the game abruptly ends. It left a sour taste in my mouth, and made it hard for me to want to go back and play through Rikka's romance in fear that the same abrupt ending would occur.I'm all for tragedy and star-crossed lovers, but the relationship had just been created for the reader to adjust to, only for it to be swept under the rug. Over all, it left the ending feeling cheap.Other than those two gripes, I still adored this story, and plan to go back and replay it in the future for Rikka's romance. Like I said, the music was absolutely gorgeous (seriously, the credit songs were awesome!), the artwork was stunning, the flow of the story (apart from Mayuri's romance story) was great, and the voice acting was the best I've ever heard for a visual novel.Definitely will be looking for other games from this company! :). So, here it is, the most anticipated Yuri Visual Novel developed by Innocent Grey is finally on steam, Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- .I finished the game several days ago, before we get into the review, you might also want to skip the entire review and read the pros and cons at the end of the review... just in case you guys can't understand my english.Alright let's not prolong my boring chat and go straight to review shall we?CHANGELOG :4 Nov, 2016 - First time Posted24 Nov, 2016 - Error Check29 Jan, 2017 - 100% Completion (Both Route finished)==========================================Story : 9/10==========================================Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- or Flowers -The volume of Spring- is an School Romance/Yuri Visual Novel where the reader will experience the love story of Suoh Shirahane (A girl with stunning beauty but also an quiet, anxious, timid girl) in a Japanese Catholic School.Story Presentation in Flowers is in Episodic Format or separated into few Chapter, there's 8 Chapter total (7 in non-canon route) where most of the chapter focused on character getting themself into certain conflict and there's minigame where you need to solve those conflict.The Story is well written each chapter where the character build their romance through action bit by bit not because the director said so, not only that but this Visual Novel also have good melodrama inside, so expect the feels train.Now let's talk about the route, there's 2 route/heroine to choose one canon/Mayuri Kousaka and one non-canon/Hanabishi Rikka, remember how Suoh personalities i mention earlier? quiet, anxious, timid girl, the route you choose will determine Suoh personalities in the future, if you choose canon route Suoh will be more confident person meanwhile in non-canon route, Suoh will remain... well, same as before.I already finish both route. First, here's my though about the canon route, it's amazing but ended with "disapointment" and the chapter 7 is kinda dumb, it feel forced to resolve the conflict at that time.Meanwhile, the non-canon route is also ended up disappointing, why? because the story went down same as the canon route, the only differences is there's 5-6 new scene that doesn't really matter or significant with the heroine you pick in non-canon route/Rikka Hanabishi, if you're expecting her route to be fully written chapter only for Rikka, then guess what, you didn't get what you want.Character : 10/10==========================================Now here's the first good part of the character in this Visual Novel, This visual novel introduce you Suoh Shirahane as the main character alongside the two main heroine and several side character, with the small cast character the writer could use every character potetial to maximum and yeah they manage to do that, every character is well written and developed really well include the side character, they feel realistic (not plot-device and not "2D character in term of story), you never knew what stuff they going to pull, everyone is unexpected in this Visual Novel. That's what the make the character here realistic and interesting, you also might find the character is annoying/un-likeable but that's what make the character them a good character.==========================================Art/Grapich : 10/10==========================================Second good part of the visual novel, The artstyle is gorgeous (thanks Sugina Miki), the character sprites is amazing, the CG is beautiful and temptingThere's a lot of Visual Novel where you fap to H-Scene or Character, however this one... you can fap to it's artstyle. ==========================================Music/Sound : 10/10==========================================Third good part of this Visual Novel.You love piano? then you'll love the soundtrack in this Visual NovelToo bad they didn't sell the OST as DLC :(==========================================Enjoyment : 10/10==========================================I really enjoy this Visual Novel, Great Story, Solid Character, Amazing Art, Beautiful and Calming SoundtrackWhat else not to enjoy?==========================================CONCLUSION==========================================+ Great Story+ Each Character is developed really well, include the side character+ Likeable and Interesting Character+ Melodrama+ Stunning Artstyle+ Beautiful Soundtrack+ Rikka Hanabishi- ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Minigame- Non-canon route is locked, you need to finish the game on canon route first before unlocking it- Sequel is not yet releasedI recommended this Visual Novel, doesn't matter you love Yuri or not, you have to read it.What are you waiting for, READ IT!!I hope JAST USA release the sequel ASAP*I've finish both route, now what i need to do is fixing grammar error and make it more easier to understand.. A very, very beautiful and sweet novel that depicts love and friendship at their purest forms (and even the problems that may come with those things...).Amazing art, soothing soundtrack and heartfelt emotions and dialogue.The story might seem slow at first, but as soon as it picks up, you won't want to leave the academy and the girls. Some moments of the novel might surprise you!My only problem with this novel is that some puzzles require very specific knowledge of certain subjects (or sometimes you just can't understand the meaning of the questions). They probably do make sense on their own in the Japanese version.The true ending got me even more attached to the characters!I just can't wait to play the other novels of the series. Regional Availability: We've been hearing reports of some regional availability issues. We've contacted Valve about this issue and they'll do their best to resolve this problem quickly.. Update & Regional Availability: Game Update. Now on Steam: Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-!: We're very excited to announce the release of the most anticipated yuri visual novel of the year, Flowers -Le volume sur printemps-!We'd like to thank all the fans who've given us support during development. We at JAST USA put our all into making this release something you will love. Please enjoy!Continue the discussion with us at: http://jast.us/Flowers-Spring-Discussion. Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- is now available in Chinese: Happy Lunar New Year!We’re excited to announce the Flowers series is getting official Chinese localizations, in addition to English.You can get the Chinese language versions of Flowers Spring and Summer now on Steam. The next upcoming title in the series, Flowers -Le volume sur automne-, will also include both language options.
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