National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition

Arguing with Yosemite! Making backhanded comments about Yosemite! Lighting Yosemite on fire! Fighting like a crackhead in a parking lot with Yosemite!

This is an excellent yuri visual novel. While the premise of living embodiments of National Parks sounds pretty silly on paper, this visual novel makes it work. The characters are all three-dimensional, compelling, and realistic - even the one with a volcano coming out of her head. Each of the story's 4 main characters has a very real story arc and it's a joy to watch them all help. one another grow. It's entertaining and a lot of fun when it needs to be, but also heartwrenching and tear-inducing when it needs to be. I highly recommend it.

I've been sitting on this one for... three years apparently, but my good friend Altair held a gun to my head and I'm glad he did. While it features a romance, it isn't really a romance itself, which may or may not interest one depending on what they're really after. What it's really about is willing oneself to rise above one's self-loathing and actually move forward, and maybe if you can move forward with a cute girl who is also a National Park for some reason that's even better. And at this precise moment in time I am maybe relating more to the protagonist's misery than I'd like to be, but maybe that's why it helped. Soundtrack is, of course, a common esselfortium W. She never misses.

This game shocked me in a lot of ways. When you look at this page it looks like a goofy goober game and it definitely delivers on the high jinx and some "What is even going on" comedy moments. The story always kind of hints at the darker aspects or kind of foreshadows but it always felt like "nothing like another good ole crying session or a goof or gaff won't fix" but MAN does stuff get dark. I waited for all the episodes coming out before consuming this and man was it worth the wait. I hope to see more out of this studio because this is a great piece of art.

Not usually the kind of guy to leave reviews on steam, especially not on a visual novel. But the visual novel in question has fundamentally changed the way I view life. I bought it thinking it would be some goofy dating sim centered around national parks as anime girls, and to a certain extent it is. But it shattered my expectations not only with how fantastic the story was, but the art, the voice acting, and the amount of genuine love and care that went in it. 10/10. the ending left my crying for the rest of the night.

'tis good. not my favourite of studio elan's, but i've sticked with it to the end and I quite liked it, too.