Depression and suicidal ruminations on whether or not life is worth living despite the end being an invariably painful and lonely death run wild. Underlying trauma rapidly floats to the surface. Not only does the world begin to crumble, but the cast’s sanity and ability to masquerade as well-adjusted people do, too. It’s an interesting and effective technique, one that is criminally underused in eroge. Regardless of what jokes or upbeat conversations are happening in the text, it’s impossible to look away from the scenery in many cases. It all comes together to bring about a very distinct feeling of slow, inescapable, advancing ruin that tramples on the memories of both the protagonist and the reader. The background loses clarity and fades to grayscale over a certain segment. The loop wears down reality with each iteration and the destruction gets worse each time. Places that held emotional significance in previous loops are destroyed in an almost calculated manner while the physical world progressively decays around the cast. To elaborate, the visible setting quickly begins to “sync up” with the story. Thankfully it paid off, as it almost always does. Similar to Bengarachou, Asairo, and several other greats, the scenario writer was deeply involved in the production process and obviously had a lot of input on how the game would ultimately look and be presented. The use of ambient noises and a fitting soundtrack are implemented wonderfully, but I feel like the visual presentation in particular is worth going into detail on here. Looking back, I’m probably most impressed with how well the game uses a variety of elements to drag the reader into the story and forces them to experience everything alongside the cast. It also manages to establish its own identity quite well and doesn’t rely on the typical tropes (not that they existed in 2001), so please don’t let this turn you off from giving it a shot.
#EROGE ANDROID READER FULL#
I’m willing to bet that almost everyone reading this post has already seen some variation of this structure done elsewhere, but it’s worth mentioning that this is the earliest version of this sort of story that I’m aware of in eroge, beating out even Cross+Channel by nearly 2 full years.
I’ll go ahead and get this out of the way now – this is not exactly a new concept in the year 2017. From this point forward, things begin to go in somewhat of a different direction. As fate would have it, our group of fun loving art students are trapped in an endless loop of the same week.
It’s just the four of them and a nursing android named Su that the protagonist repaired after the group happened to stumble across her half buried and forgotten underground… yeah, just roll with it.Īs the week (which ends up being mainly silly hijinx and a few spooky dreams from the MC) comes to a close, the cast finds themselves inexplicably transported back to the first day of their training camp with only vague, yet very real feelings of deja vu. We’ll talk more about this later.ĭiving right into things, the game is based around a group of art club students spending the last week of summer vacation together at their school for a week-long “training camp” of sorts.
I am pleased to announce that I was not disappointed. It would continue to be recommended to me several times over the next few years and heralded as a game that would make me want to die, which is honestly probably the best possible way to sell me on any piece of media. Pandora no Yume is an eroge I first heard about quite some time ago from a random post on /jp/.
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