Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-
stage-nana · 2015 · Visual Novel, Anime, Indie, Story Rich, Casual
PC
Very Positive94% · 199 📉 Recent reviews down 85%
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About Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-
The latest short, serious visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived!
There is nothing in this world.
Just endlessly falling rain.
The population here is exactly one.
Getting off the elevator one day, a mysterious world was waiting.
No one else was around, only endless rainy sky and weathered flagstones.
In this world, getting hungry and even death wasn't possible.
It was a world where time seems to have stopped.
Except one thing -- the rain continued to fall.
"This world has a population of just one. So get out."
A girl named "Rin" told the protagonist.
She declared that she was the lone mistress of this rainy world.
For how many years, decades, even centuries...
Has she lived all alone in this world?
Will the day come when the rain stops falling?
Included in the game is a copy of Narcissu 1st, as well as a brand new VERY short bonus episode.
It's very short, but hopefully is interesting for narcissu fans.
The game is playable in either English or Japanese, but due to technical constraints,
there is no way to change the language within the game.
NOTE
To play the game in Japanese, your Windows installation needs to be set to handle non-unicode text as Japanese
Overview
There is nothing in this world.
Just endlessly falling rain.
The population here is exactly one.
Getting off the elevator one day, a mysterious world was waiting.
No one else was around, only endless rainy sky and weathered flagstones.
In this world, getting hungry and even death wasn't possible.
It was a world where time seems to have stopped.
Except one thing -- the rain continued to fall.
"This world has a population of just one. So get out."
A girl named "Rin" told the protagonist.
She declared that she was the lone mistress of this rainy world.
For how many years, decades, even centuries...
Has she lived all alone in this world?
Will the day come when the rain stops falling?
Narcissu Bonus Episode
Included in the game is a copy of Narcissu 1st, as well as a brand new VERY short bonus episode.
It's very short, but hopefully is interesting for narcissu fans.
Changing language region
The game is playable in either English or Japanese, but due to technical constraints,
there is no way to change the language within the game.
NOTE
To play the game in Japanese, your Windows installation needs to be set to handle non-unicode text as Japanese
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Overall it's a pretty decent short read, though it didn't leave me as impressed as I initially anticipated. I quite like the concept and setting and especially the beginnings of both perspectives really intrigued me. I also enjoyed the whole depressing and sorrowful vibe, the atmosphere is fantastic. Additionally I absolutely adore the music, every soundtrack is so incredibly catchy! Plus the visuals are nice, in particular the background CGs. The plot itself is interesting but felt rather underwhelming to me eventually, however I'm certain that it's purposely made that way lol. I mainly think that way since the story touches a lot of interesting ideas but ended up being somewhat superficial in reality, which contributes to that underwhelming feeling. Despite lack of depth and logic, I still found the story captivating, emotional and enjoyable. Either way, I love rain.2 found this helpful
very pleasant and comforting vn. ^-^1 found this helpful
This visual novel is short but interesting story in a short period of time. It also isn't exactly light-hearted. Although it has screen resolution issues for me, as I cannot view it in full screen properly but it didn't affect my experience that much. The story is about and mostly set on a parallel world in which there is nothing but an eternal rain that bathes everything. In there, you do not starve, you do not thirst, above all, you cannot die. The story begins with the start of a man that just wants to die but hesitates to do so and the past of a little girl who cannot be apologetic to the gods so she becomes remorseful (I think?). But soon it will be evident that these two are going to be connected as they are two different stories that touch on events that will then intertwine in the final part. However, while I do like the music quite a lot but it kinda gets repetitive and I have gripe with some visuals like that one time where [spoiler]the umbrella got fixed by the male mc but it is still shown as broken, and I cannot see the shoe being fixed as well but that might just be a me issue.[/spoiler]1 found this helpful
Almost (but not quite) on a par with Narcissu 1 (which is a genuine masterpiece and one of my favourite works of fiction in existence)... is what I would say if the "Epilogue" chapter didn't exist. The Epilogue is a pasted-on "happy ending" that ruins every artistic point that the novel could feasibly have been trying to make. So I recommend that you buy it, read all the real chapters, and then imagine that it ends with the last real chapter and the Epilogue doesn't exist.1 found this helpful
A bittersweet short story filled with genre-typical elements of the supernatural. Best when bought on sale or as a pack of short stories.
Amazing!
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