ISLAND (2018)

Straight up, ISLAND’s a total must-play in the vn scene, even with its super obvious flaws that can turn new players off right away. The main issue’s all in the winter arc, where the pacing drags like crazy. Way too much filler detail makes players lose track of the core plot, n tons of scenes are straight up useless since they don’t move the main story forward at all. But once u power through that bloated section, the midsummer arc ties every loose end together perfectly. u might guess some of the twists, but never the full picture, n that’s exactly why ISLAND’s writing hits so hard for me. Ambitious, far-reaching storytelling hidden under chill slice-of-life moments, that’s exactly the kind of vn content I’m always down for.

[h1] Back And Forth Through Time For Love's Sake - ISLAND [/h1] "Island" is one of the best Visual Novels that I've ever played. Along with "Clannad", "Tomoyo's After - It's a Wonderful Life", and "Chaos;Child". As you can probably tell, the standard is incredibly high. This VN surpassed that standard, and got its way as my fourth favourite Visual Novel. I've been a lover of the medium for years and have read more than forty Visual Novels throughout my life, so I'd like to believe I know what I'm talking about when I say this: [u]"Island" is something special. [/u] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3734239175 What initially presents itself as a mysterious summer visual novel about a man who washes ashore on an island somewhere in Japan, gradually transforms into something far more ambitious. A remarkable story about romance with a heavy Sci-fi background foundation. Beneath that romance lies a surprisingly complex Science Fiction story involving time travel, time loops, paradoxes, reincarnation, mythology, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, the grandfather paradox, etc. If you liked how "Science Adventure/Steins;Gate" talked and portrayed about this Science…

The true ending literally invalidates the entire purpose of the entire story and causes more questions and plotholes. The more you think about it the worse it gets. I wish I was nitpicking, but since this is a VN it is not. If you take stories very seriously, especially time-travel, this is a waste of your money.

Somehow, I enjoyed the character endings more than the actual, true, for real ending.

When i played this vn for the first time i didn't noticed all that paranoia with time travel and liked slice of life part. But when i play it now... That's so dumb and mc such a coward. May be i'll play it in future for slice of life but it is unlikely to happen.

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