True Colours

[b]Note:[/b] There is disturbing content, so I will do my best to say so in spoiler text, and with major story spoilers, I'll also put them in spoiler text. [i]True Colours[/i] is a romance visual novel developed and published by Borealis. You take on the role of an unnamed gender neutral MC (with a customizable name), working at the office. However, things change when your boss hires three new employees and assigns them to your section. The MC has been spurned by love in the past, but perhaps they may find possible romance with one of the new employees. However, are these new employees or even the MC whom they appear to be, or are they hiding some deep, dark secrets? With that, I'll end my story synopsis here to avoid spoilers. XD As for the gameplay, there are numerous choices presented throughout the story. There's a short introductory scene, and then you can choose from among the three employees to romance: Brianna (the female option who's lively and professional), Malik (the male bisexual who's funny and laid-back), or Ash (the non-binary option who is quiet and takes some time to get to know). Once you're on a route, depending on the choices you make, you'll get one …

Well this game is well-designed, great character art, all art is good, music is impactful, voice acting is partial but sets the tone. I got scared out of my mind and confused but that is what a good psychological romance game is about - just hoping that after Ash's route the other two routes can compare to this. I feel like I played the best and scariest/most meaningful route first and I am hoping the other two are just as good! Great buy! Don't play in the middle of the night and don't imitate any of this story because it's horror not that you didn't know that.

Disclaimer: This review contains heavy spoilers for the game. Do not read if you want to keep the plot a surprise. Intro: I first played this wonderful and original visual novel back when it was first released. Due to personal reasons, I waited until now to review it. I feel that now is the right time to write about how this masterpiece that explores marginalized groups and how a terrible person can redeem themselves affected me and what I loved about it. And don’t worry, this won’t be nearly as long as my previous Venus: Improbable Dream review! So, now let’s get into my overall thoughts and conclude after that. Overall Thoughts: What I think that True Colours excels at compared to most other games like it is how masterfully its characters’ struggles and themes are intertwined and complete each other so well. Each of the three routes and their corresponding characters have their own struggles that the protagonist has to work with in order to redeem themself and rekindle their broken romantic relationships. I like how all of them, despite each route having a similar structure, manage to portray different things and feel tonally separate while showing different aspects of the pr…

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The background music to the game really adds to the immersion, the characters have so much life to them that you feel invested in getting to know them all. knowing theres different endings as well gives the game massive amount of replay value. Truly a remarkable journey and i will definitely be replaying to witness the other ending. 100% would recommend this lovely game to anyone.

I've been looking forward to this game since the Demo came out. I'm new to Visual Novel / Dating sims and was positively surprised on how fun it was. Theres alot of self reflecting happening and the games writing is well done. It makes you second guess yourself and once you get to a certain point in the game, you will eventually be sucker punched. Very well made. I have played through 1 Route so far and it took me 9 Hours to complete (Not counting all possible endings) If that is any suggestion on how long the game overall will be, take this times 3. Its absolutely worth giving this game a shot, I had a blast!