PARQUET

A captivating visual novel about a "man" born from mere memories of skills and ideas on his quest to see what humanity has to offer. To see what "normal" is to someone far from such. Along the way, he comes across the energetic Tsubasa and the aloof Rino. As the player learns more about them, they will also learn about the very unique circumstances that tie the women together. Plenty of laughs, cute moments, and drama dot the journey throughout. As is par for Yuzusoft, the graphics, audio, and voices are superb. The technical depth of the Settings menu alone left my jaw hanging for the sheer number of functions packed into it. The most critical one IMO is a timer indicating when a voice line is finished, ESSENTIAL for any JP (or any foreign language for that matter) voice to know when it's safe to advance to the next line without wasting time waiting. This is mostly a kinetic novel and what little romance is present takes a backseat; this is RIno's and Tsubasa's story with Kanato as a participant (until the After Story). Which is perfectly fine. Another high quality release from Yuzusoft!

Ehh, it was okay. I think the strongest point for Parquet is the quality. The art is crisp, sprites have a lot of different expressions and move mid-dialogue, that type of thing. The story and characters weren't terrible, but not great either. The story was basic. I think my biggest problem with the characters is mostly the main character kind of having no personality. Other characters are a bit better. As for the gameplay itself, just click through it. There's one route, no options, takes about 6-8hrs. Wavy middle thumb.

8/10 More fluff on the main story would be nice but since it made up to it in the After-Story, it was still enjoyable. Felt quite short to me still. PS. You can't end the After-Story like that without making part 2 Yuzusoft!

As for my review, have in mind that this is the first visual novel I played. The entire game doesn't seem to have much of a choice, it's rather just reading, I don't know if all visual novels are like this but yup, the only "choice" ya have is more about the ending of the game. Well, now going to the main story and such, this game is kinda hard to play because it's so *BIZARRE* and I mean it! First of all, all the men in this game are so ugly or boring for no reason at all? The artwork for them is so strange and it doesn't fit well with the rest, ya can notice that more with the main character artwork (why is him so ugly? Like...). WELL, at any rate what makes me even more uncomfortable is that the main character is supposed to be more likely emotionless but he isn't at all? Well I could have got that wrong but he is a "human" I guess. The entire game seems to develop around a technology called IBM and such, but well, that ya should discover playing I guess. But I don't really get the whole thing behind the prologue because the main character doesn't act like a genius nor like a robot, he literally seems "human" (because he acts a little strangey, not robotic, rather just forced).…

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Visual novel with great story and beautiful artwork.