Only You

"Only You" follows Yun Xinyao & Jiang Xiyue, two opposite personalities who both attend the same elite academy, Moxiangshan. Yun falls for Jiang at first sight, and over time those feelings twist and grow into something obsessive & ugly. As Yun finds out about the behind the scene bullying that targets Jiang, she becomes willing to do anything to protect or save her from the situation, no matter the cost. I want to preface this by saying I didn't particularly enjoy this visual novel until it got to the last perspective. For me personally, it kind of dragged, especially through the middle with Lins perspective, but the last half recontextualized everything for me and honestly made me do a complete 180 on the game. There's a lot of good here. The art is eye candy (especially the CG's), good story, the character writing is quite frankly amazing in my eyes, with pretty realistic motivations and reasons for why things happen. I can't really fault any of the characters for what they do (though I did find Yun became obsessed a bit too quick; that's a personal take though), and the soundtrack, while I think being copyright free, was beautiful. The game kind of has a Psychological or Dra…

The English translation is disappointing. Some chinese texts are not translated, pronouns are wrong from time to time (he/good boy/the man being used at multiple times when it is girls in the scene) or awkward You's, My's and I's that don't fit the context of the scene/text. There's a lot of typos or weird forms of speech, sometimes quotation marks are randomly thrown anywhere, sometimes Renpy console errors appear in the text box which has you guessing what the original sentence was. Now for the game itself: Lots of CG reuse. MC's (Xinyao) dialog is a bit awkward in that it feels very chuuni [spoiler](I understand the MC is an otaku, but even so...)[/spoiler] which makes a bit hard to go through sometimes. Also about MC's voice, the mic sometimes sounds a bit... when she speaks loudly. I would've cut some time away from MC's section because it felt repetitive and flat at points from all the CG reuse. Still, even though I saw the [spoiler]Xiyue plot twist coming and felt more surprised by how forgetful MC was to not realize it. I liked seeing Xiyue's thoughts a lot! I only wish it didn't end there and we actually saw more, it felt like an abrupt end compared to the 'ending' Xi…

Lets address the elephant in the room right off the bat. Yes, the English translation is very rough at some parts (it even becomes a string of letters & numbers at a few points). Yes, the sound mixing is bad at certain points, especially when the character Yun is shouting the mic peaks & is shrill. BUT if you can get past that this yuri vn is engaging and the story is very interesting. Its told from both of the mc's perspectives so you have to basically read it twice but I think that gives it a more complete picture when you learn what each girl's motivations are for their actions. If you like yuri vns and you are willing to put in a little extra work deciphering a few badly translated sections I highly recommend it.

In this visual novel there are no choices, you just watch the story unfold. The story is told in a multitude of POVs to give you the full picture, the order in which these POVs unfold is amazing for the story telling. Without spoilers, all I can say is that there are many twists. Don't trust anyone, other than that it is an amazing visual novel and now my expectations are higher for my next one. PS: This is what you call toxic yuri so some dark themes are present. In the end you'll be flabbergasted to see that both parties are exactly where they want to be.

While the concept is interesting, this visual novel suffers from an abysmal English translation, alongside rehashing the main "story" through three different points of view. There were perhaps two or three moments that I felt genuinely interested, only for that interest to be stymied by the poor translation and the long-winded, repetitive story. I would not recommend this.

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