Eyes Like the Tide

visual novel with multiple endings

Obviously, I'm going to review this visual novel favorably, as it's a literary adaptation of the work of one of the greatest authors humanity has ever known, but in it the player will find so many problems that I feel I have no choice but to make up for this recommendation by listing and discussing every fault I found in detail. First of all, there are serious problems with the English translation. It was clearly done in a rush and not very attentively, as there are many choice options that are untranslated, the menu just before quitting is missing text and there far too many deficiencies overall. For instance, there's a line where Bento says (in the original PT-BR version) "há coisas que não se dizem", or words to that effect, and this was translated as "there are things that are not said", which makes no sense since it would sound much better to translate this excerpt as "there are things better not said", or words to that effect. Often the main problem with the translation is its low quality, but at times the issue is that it creates a strange formality that I know one wouldn't find in the original Machado de Assis novel. For example, there's an excerpt in which Sancha tells Cap…

tl;dr: It was interesting to read, not for itself (it's just a love story with a weak male lead and could-be-better structure) but as an echo of a classic that I'll never read (although reading about it was very interesting). [spoiler]I think of the three routes I saw, only cheating with Escobar was satisfying, because Capitu Deserves Better[/spoiler]. (I love Capitu. She can do no wrong.) I see the potential, the book might really be great! It's just that the VN stays pretty superficial. "Time passed... We so wanted a child..." YOU JUST GOT MARRIED. I hate when people despair about babies after barely four months of trying (especially when their best friends had a baby after over two years of marriage) Maybe, however, the happy couple [i]didn't[/i] get married two whole years before them as the text says, but instead of the same day; because the biggest and unforgivable problem here is that the timeline is near unreadable. Capitu will summarize a period, then tell an event that happened in that period, then another, then summarize the same period, then another event, then a lot of time will pass, and she'll talk of the present, but then the past again, it's all confused. It does…