Kindred Spirits on the Roof

I'm gonna try writing a serious steam review for once because this game gives me such a mix of feelings that as you can see weigh heavily towards negative but I still feel like I have a lot to say more than just "this is bad" protagonist chooses to fall in love with her (not blood related but still) little sister instead of the awesome nerd girl and I'm so mad. that's really where the issues start to grow for me. the first half does a really good job! it sets up the characters well and gives them good situations and developments and it was enough to get me really invested and attached. and then the second half is where it all starts to fall apart, half because of what I opened this with starting to be established and immediately obvious that's where the story is going but still spending a painfully long time not ripping the bandage off and saying it. but also because even beyond that the pacing slows to a crawl as the game tries to juggle the 6 couples it set up all at once and give them their own screentime which often amounts to just showing the same scenes a second time but with different and largely unimportant narration lines. it's here where I also started to realize just …

Guys just trust me. It's peak

I can't recall why I have so many Visual Novels. Likely from my days of buying every bundle I could like some kind of hording aardvark, hastily crapping things into my Steam Library as if it would someday be a bragging right. Anyway, I think the art is fine. Music is good. Voice acting, while sporadic, seems pretty solid too. But the story just isn't for me. I do think it's probably enjoyable for people that just love the heck out of Visual Novels like the way most people love the taste of sweet delicious spaghetti on a cold Thursday night.

One of the OG Yuri works out there, go play it

One of the best games and stories I have ever experienced. I love all of these couples (some more than others though), and I love seeing all of them get together! Even though there were so many couples to keep track of, it never felt boring because of how different the characters in each pairing are (I love Youka and Aki's dynamic a lot). Also, Yuna is such an amazing character and has great development throughout the story. It's so fun seeing her get over her past and begin making friends as she helps out the ghosts (or kindred spirits, as they would want to be called). I played through the game with the DLC after already experiencing the story (I watched it on YouTube awhile ago), but it was even better on a second go through with all of the new voice acting! Plus, the DLC gives a bunch of drama CDs as well that I'm about to watch, so I definitely recommend buying the DLC if you want to read this story, though the base game is still amazing. I've read a lot of yuri, and this has got to be one of the best one's I've ever read! Long live yuritopia!

Very deep and thoughtful narrative.