Recent reviews by Gumak

Best thing ever.

Himawari is likely the best, most touching visual novel on Steam, and perhaps the best I'll ever have chance to read.

Make no mistake, this is no mindless, feel-good title filled with cute girls. Quite the opposite, as soon as the first chapter ends and the real story begins, wave of despair and suffering will hit you with a force of speeding truck and it will not stop any time soon, even if you think it will. But that's the point.

The best way to describe Himawari is a mixture or character drama, romance, sci-fi and coming of age story. All of those are present but none of them takes the lead. It's a well-executed combination of many different elements coming together as more that just a sum of its parts. And most importantly, it's a motivational piece unlike any other you'll find it this medium.

Social anxiety, depression, jealousy, obsession, fear of growing up, giving up, coping with loss, uncertanity of future - Himawari speaks of very intimate, personal themes. Your mileage may vary, I must admit, but if any of these resonate with you, Himawari will hit right where it hurts. It made me laugh, gasp in exhilaration, curse out loud, cry my eyes out and cheer for characters' happiness.

Get over yourself. Your loss is somebody's win. Life is not only your story, and you won't always be in the spotlight. Doing your best and working hard does not guarantee best possible outcome, this works only in anime and real life is not so simple. Avoiding your fears does not magically make them go away. Pretending not to notice will not fix the problem. You're not some special snowflake, but it doesn't mean that you'll never be happy. You just need to keep moving forward. Youre not entitled to anything.

Catgirls from Nekopara will never be real.
Girls from Grisaia or Princess Evangile wouldn't necessarily fall for you.
Heroines from Sakura series would all have their own relationships by the time you'd meet them.

It's not a story I wanted from my escapism fantasy chinese powerpoint girlfriend simulator, but it's a story I'm genuinely grateful I had chance to read.

Thank you for this.

Great ending of the series.

Step 1: Take Fate/stay night.
Step 2: Replace servants with angels and demons.
Step 3: Remove 90% of slice of life/food stuff.
Step 4: Add generous amount of production values.
Step 5: Add polished, high quality translation.
Step 6: Insert almost entire voice cast from Monogatari/Index series.
Step 7: Set pacing to "breakneck".
Step 8: Cook for two hours.
Step 9: You get Tokyo Babel.

Ciekawy pomysł, ale przeciętne wykonanie. Masa źle skompresowanych przeywników filmowych (nawet w dialogach z npc-ami) a gra niejako przechodzi się sama. Uciążliwych bugów nie ma, sporo opcji graficznych do konfiguracji. Warto się skusić za 5 euro, ale więcej to chyba już nie.