枝江往事 (2021)

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im man of culture, i see anime girls, i press the button

枝江往事 is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This is a Chinese high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the authors various imaginary girlfriends. It should surprise nobody that this is some of the cringiest garbage ever to infest Steam... and the quality of the writing alone makes 14 year old repressed goth schoolgirl poetry look like Yeats. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, inst…

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[h1]Before I played 枝江往事, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

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