Departed Away

Interesting story, art is good and the ending is great

Pretty good. Funny, new, charming, relatively short. Doesn't waste your time.

As many others, I found this game REALLY disappointing and if I could go back, I wouldn't have bought this in the first place. Hope this money helps the author get better at...well...almost everything, I guess. First of all, almost everyone here praises the art and I'm proud of ANY artist that puts their soul in it, but we have to be honest here: ever heard of body proportions? And I'm not referring to the girls' "interesting" features (yes, they're all sexualized for no reason, even the protagonist's mother, the female teacher is straight up obscene and I don't even understand why she exists in the first place, she doesn't do anything at all); from the characters' sprites to the background people or any other background element, everything just seems to be the wrong size. Even the color palette seems kind of random sometimes, it's a real shame because I'm fairly sure the author made their best effort and I want to think they'll get better with time and practice, but right now I can't say I'm satisfied. Next is the story: cliché and predictable, as someone else mentioned before me. There are a bunch of subplots that don't go anywhere, they feel so random and don't add anything to these bidimensional characters, that's not how you make them more interesting for the reader. And also, the "good ending" doesn't make much sense, how can everything be back to normal in such a short time? No medicines after the big reveal? No nothing? The boring and stereotypical otaku boy just gets back to school and everybody seem normal about it too? The dialogues are the worst part by far, who the hell approaches strangers like this? Every time they talk with each other, they seem like aliens that try to imitate humans. They always info dump about themselves and don't really listen to each other, there's not a single organic conversation here. This vn didn't cost much, but I still think it would have been more fair for it to be free since it's so short and really, REALLY amateurish, not even finished I would say. Hope for the author to improve and create better games in the future.