Game: Cafe 0 ~The Drowned Mermaid~
Played On: PC
Console: PC/Steam
Future Release: October 11th, 2011 [
Steam]
Genre: Visual Novel
Basically
A girl's spirit with no recollection of her past finds herself in Cafe 0, a mysterious Cafe in the middle of nowhere. Served with only a glass of water by a perculiar waiter, Sui--soon, she realized, that she is about to relive the last seven days before her death.
Surrounding her are Ami, a girl who claims to be her best friend, Tooru, a boy who is rumoured to be her previous boyfriend and Shou, the school's doctor.
What are their connections to her past and how are they related to her death? Will she be in peace with her past or will she haunt the living?
It's all up to you to decide.
- Steam synopsis
Mizu's Thoughts
Cafe 0 is an interesting game from roseVeRte, at first it doesn't give you much on what's going on until much later when you find out how dark and deep the story can get. This game reminds me of the series called Amnesia where you are a girl without memories but in this case, you have seven days to put your heart together and enter the afterlife.
Sounds simple but I am guessing it is not.
You have three major characters you interact with and one character who acts as your guide and will help annoy you until your time is done. Since this is the demo, you only get to try out one day and then expected to buy the full game to find out what happens in the end. Which I will admit, is a tantilising idea, since I am now interested in the story and the characters you both play as and interact with.
Now onto my notes I made about the game, since this is my first time playing it.
I spent, more or less, an hour playing this game.
Some of the art is good but it irks me somewhat, I am guessing it is more of the eyes than the whole art itself.
The music is pretty good, quite dark which is appropriate for this game, the sounds used are nice but the one thing that irks me about this demo is when the music was a lot louder than the voices but this won't impact the full game in any way, which is a nice bonus.
Yes, since this is a visual novel game and I am prone to reviewing these a lot, it has simple mechanics where you just simple point and click and occasionally making choices, which will impact the outcome of what happens. You are given the usual choices of what to name yourself and what you can do the next day, this is usually who you interact with.
I think this game has a lot of potential to be excellent in it's story, not so much for the art or music, to be honest. I may obtain this during the next sale to review it fully.
Note: the demo only contains the Japanese voices, the full version is unvoiced for some reason.
Probability of Purchase: Very High
Progressing from VLR #2, I will express my new views on characters and possibly my new feelings about the game, since so much has occurred and I am to the point where I am seeing new things occur in the game.
So today is the release date for Until Dawn.
Previously on VLR review~~
Game: Sakura Clicker
So for the last few days I have been playing Virtue's Last Reward on the PSV, hence the horrid images.
This game is part visual novel and part puzzle with a whole lot of dark yet mysterious themes, like it's predecessor, 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, which got me into the Zero Escape world.
Game: Cafe 0 ~The Drowned Mermaid~
I spent, more or less, an hour playing this game.
