
“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.
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You are a Japanese language teacher.
One day, concerned about a student who has stopped coming to school, you decide to visit her at home.
What awaits you there are girls crying out for help—and a reality that cannot be saved by good intentions alone.
Choose your words. Choose your distance. Choose their futures.
Will your kindness save these girls?
Or will it become another cage?
Three girls. Sixteen endings.
Spring at Dawn, I Am a Monster. is a multi-route psychological horror visual novel about a teacher and three girls who have stopped attending school.
There are no knives.
Only human nature.
Dependency. Obsession. Family problems. Loneliness.
Nanatsu Kokorome, Nyako Maigo, and Ajimi Konoha.
Each girl carries different circumstances—and secrets she cannot tell anyone.
What will you say to them? How far will you step into their lives?
Your choices as their teacher will change your relationship with each girl.
Each girl has five different endings.
After witnessing all 15 of their endings, one final story awaits:
The Teacher Route.
After trying so hard to save these girls,
who—or what—was the teacher all along?
The right words and the right distance do not always save someone.
Helping them. Watching over them. Walking away.
Being needed.
Even when you believe you’ve made the “right” choice,
something may slowly begin to break.
Rather than relying on sudden loud noises or jump scares, the horror slowly closes in through conversations, silence, expressions, and changing relationships.
“Spring, at dawn—”
A monochrome world accented with red.
Beautiful spring scenery.
And within it, a growing sense that something is terribly wrong.
Experience a beautiful yet unsettling story of spring.
Three original theme songs, each created to accompany the story of one of the girls.
“Gomen nasai, Gomen nasai”
Vocal: Nanahira
Lyrics: Kaoru Nekofuji
Composition & Arrangement: TAKASUKE
“AZULAMENT”
Vocal: Gurutan
Lyrics: Kaoru Nekofuji
Composition & Arrangement: TAKASUKE / Takenori Shibayama (OplaSync)
“Ao ni Kei, Fuyu wa Itomete”
Vocal: Naozumi Takahashi
Lyrics: Kaoru Nekofuji
Composition & Arrangement: TAKASUKE
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I've come across Studio Charon games as a lil baby, the rpgmaker stuff namely. Overall I held it in pretty decent esteem, I knew it wasn't the pinnacle of story telling nor was it the greatest execution but at the very least it was great food for thought and seemed decently handcrafted My bad for not reading the warning on AI, however, but it goes from bad to unfortunately annoying to the point of being a valid reason to crash out First of all, english translation may have been reviewed but not enough to give the impression it's fine, on the surface it works, but while I cant compare translations cause I'm not JP, the word choice seems a bit bland and there a few words too many in certain parts of the game, also it wasn't made for english letters and they clipped out of bounds of the text box thrice <-- this part has been patched in day 2 update The story and themes are fine but since they're meant to make you contemplate, the EN translation being bad, and chatgpt is credited at the end of every chapter so alas....... it hurts................ 10 buckaroos man........................... As soon as I realized that, I came to notice what I'm 99% sure there is AI use in the videos / character openings - it's quite sad because the story is alright! It's otherwise decently authentic and the girls are individually alright, for Nanatsu I screamed at my computer "you're NINE but you sound FIFTEEN" and it didnt feel very genuine, but I really liked the other two routes, the finale is a bit whatever but I get the idea behind it, unfortunately my heart had closed to all its goodwill due to AI All in all it's rough, too rough to recommend imo because it fails at being honest, the artstyle could've been a good bet but it does raise the question of just how much is done through AI? Like a blackhole, it absorbs all creativity and prevents it from reaching our eyes Bought cause I was one of those kids who watched Manly playthroughs of Charon games to support the studio but I dont consider this one really worthy of their content Musics are nice, but overall I still feel like it's missing something, ggs
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Hours played at review time, across 84 reviews with recorded playtime.
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クリアまで1時間30分ほど。 クリア時にはほぼ全実績解除可能。 ビジュアル、BGMはかなり良い物の、ボリュームは少ないと言わざるを得ないです。 また、秀逸なタイトル通りな展開があるのも『ななつルート』くらいで肩透かしでした。 全体通して家庭環境に難のある不登校児童と真摯に向き合っていくというストーリーで、 正直期待してたのと全然チガウ…[strike]ややタイトル詐欺なのでは…バケモノどこ…?[/strike] 個人的に『ななつルート』は結構好きだったんですが… ガワだけ良くて全体的に荒い出来で、内容の割に高価格。 このゲームはとても人に勧められないかなぁ…
I'm almost certain that AI was used in more than just background images. Character route-start opening movies, some character talk-sprites and CGs looked, at the very least, AI-assisted, and at worst fully AI-generated based off some hand-drawn character sprites. For what it's worth, I do believe there was some human creation behind the character art. But with the sheer number of errors, inconsistencies, smudging/blurring, and other AI-ish tells a lot of it has, and with the disclosure that AI was already used for some of the background images, I can't trust that it wasn't used for this too. I have no way of proving it, of course. But even assuming that I'm completely wrong, I still don't think the game's length (roughly one and a half hours, give or take) paired with the iffy to bad quality of the visuals and English translation makes the game worth the price. It makes me sad, being a long-time fan of CHARON's games, but I don't regret giving this game a fair shot. It just happened to disappoint me far more than I expected it would.
返金依頼予定。 全実績解除で63分。 PRは性癖ストライクなので買ったが、文章の質が低くボリュームも全然ない。 単純計算1ルート4分なのでキャラに思い入れも何もない 主人公は先生だが、1人称2人称3人称すべて「〇〇先生」で日本人が書いてるとは思えないし、 選択肢の前後が全然文章繋がってなくて読み返しても分からん・・・?ってなる。 主人公が人生を投げうって女の子をかばうシーンが多々あるけど、ゲーム内でも初対面レベルだし フォローする文章もない。展開に無理がありすぎる。 文章力とか表現力以前の問題だと思う。 詩や俳句のような短くて味のある文章ではなく、普段読んでない週刊漫画雑誌の1話だけを読んだ気分。 お金儲けのためにキャッチーなPRして、ゲームの中身はスカスカってタイプ久々に見た。 ちなみに最後の先生ルート、3分で終わるし各ルートと全然両立できない文章になってる。 ポン付けって感じ。 システム面もバグがとても多い。既読スキップは壊れてるし、エンディングリストはプログラムコードそのまま出てる。 日本語設定してもUI回りは英語だし、動画に至っては昔の違法アップロードアニメみたいな字幕量で笑ってしまった。 当然DEMOからはセーブ引き継げない。 そこらのフリゲでももっといいもの沢山あると思います。もっともこのゲームが0円でも人には勧めないけど・・・
大変申し訳ないのですが返金申請しました 率直に、販売できるクオリティに到達していないです AIで作成された背景は物が溶けていたり、時空が歪んでいる 文章と背景に矛盾が多い、同じ場面でも間取りが変わっている AI利用を否定しないが、AIの駄目な使い方の見本市みたい 文章も再翻訳したような支離滅裂さ 時系列や人称代名詞は乱れており、口調や呼び方もかわる これだとサイコホラーではなく怪文書 ファン向けに設定資料集の販売と、作品が好評なら続編を検討しているらしい フリゲ時代にあった熱量はどこにいったのか、とても悲しい
バケモノなのは値段設定だろ 正直200円相当かなと思う まず、短すぎる(完全クリア済み40分) 光るところはあるし絵も主題歌も出来がいいのでパケ買いならありだと思う だがシナリオが足を引っ張りすぎている。 心情描写や背景情報、テキスト量が不足しすぎていてキャラクター全員が異常者のようになっており、感情移入が全くできない。あじみルートは結構好きなので、テキスト増やして作り直してほしい フルボイスであればギリギリ納得できる価格設定だが、現状は価格に見合っていない テキスト増えれば良ゲーになるポテンシャルは秘めているので頑張ってほしい
最大的问题:故事太稀薄。第一次觉得“薄如蝉翼”能拿来形容故事。 下载时看到只有 900MB,其实就初见端倪。 宣传里的“3 个角色、16 种结局”,其中12个都是“哈?这就结束了?”的断头故事。 包装得神秘的“最后故事”,也只是肤浅的说教,有什么禁止直播、录像的必要? 文本描写其实在线,尤其喵子路线,情感真挚、故事完整,单独拿出来算是不错的短篇。 但奈奈、亞美两条线就纯💩:宣传拼命往黑深残上靠,实际除了画面黑,剧情既浅又僵,甚至连结局都懒得多写两句。 通关后再看简介里那些关于故事量和深度的暗示,只觉得讽刺。
2時間どころか1.7時間で読み終わってしまいました。うーん、1000円する作品にしては正直低ボリュームだなあ。 登場人物の人数が極端に少なく、物語に奥行きがないです。とにかく短いです。 フリーゲームならともかく有料販売する作品ならもう少し力を入れて丁寧に作ってほしいというのが正直な感想です。
I'm a long time fan of Charon's works and they are my favorite visual novel creator. I did enjoy this visual novel a lot. It had some surprising elements and intriguing stories in each route. The character art is very cute, and the more scary/unsettling artworks are brilliant as usual. The extra ending was very meaningful with a good message. However I must put most of my focus, and express concern, over the usage of AI. I never have thought twice before purchasing a novel made by Charon. But this time I thought long and hard, if I should. Because I personally am very against AI in works of art and usually avoid it completely. I was conflicted. My favorite creator using AI felt very disappointing. I ended up deciding to support Charon's work regardless, but I do think many will pass up on this because of the AI usage. And that is a shame. There was some creativity with it's usage most of the time, but still. I loved the older works like original Menherafflesia, despite the backgrounds being ''only'' photographs with filters on them. It's a personal opinion of mine, and many might disagree, but I am very lenient on art/background quality and don't mind ''messier'' works. And at the end of the day, to me, anything is better than AI generated content. There was some noticably difficult sentences I couldn't understand properly, what they were supposed to mean, in the english translation. And in Ajimi's route the character name on textbox seemed to be wrong on multiple occassions: as in, wrong character saying the dialogue. Might be fixed later, but that was my experience today. Mostly it was okay, though. I aknowledge AI is a big reason why I was even able to read this novel so quickly, yet I can't exactly applaud it. I truly wish AI won't be continued to be used in future works of Charon.
Firstly, slightly biased as I am a fan of the older works from Charon. I will try to be fair though as I usually am. First and foremost this a series of short stories (each roughly 30min-1hr depending on how fast you read) They're nothing amazing, the stories themselves give just enough time to understand the character a bit and perhaps bond with them (I find this more directed towards Nyako personally, as she felt more fleshed out than the rest) The stories are acceptable, albeit they could have been expanded for sure. The games price is pretty cheap for what it is, the arts good, the musics good, the atmospheres good, the message is good. Fault points would be english translation, but I did come into this knowing that its translation was assisted by AI, it's still very readable, just a bit stiff or awkward at times. Overall if youre a fan of charon works, or short darker themes it's worth a pick up. If you're looking for something deep and engaging, this is likely a pass. 7/10 overall
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