No One But You Reviews

"This is not some dating sim game where you just go around getting to know people" -Yui Game is very aware of itself, and it makes that fact known 10/10 EDIT: I have finished all of the routes, and might I just say this is the best game I've played in a long time. The feels were felt as I watched everyones stories unfold. Even the good endings weren't always happy ones. If you enjoy these types of games, or are looking to get into them, buy this.

Fantastic visual novel with surprisingly dark and heavy storylines! Not a lot surprises me, but there were a few times when I just had to sit here, mouth LITERALLY ajar, staring at my screen in shock at some of the conclusions. HAD to 100% this one to do it's writers justice!

Spoiler-free TL;DR: bad writing. Spoilery TL;DR at the bottom Pros: -Art was pretty nice -Music was ok -Characters were ok Cons: -Game often jumped forward weeks/months, even when it seemed like significant things were happening in that time -For example, despite never choosing to talk to one character, during a timeskip I seemed to befriend them - no explanation for this was given -BAD WRITING - WILL EXPAND UPON THIS BELOW, BUT THERE WILL BE SPOILERS -Could use some refinement - music tended to stop abruptly rather than gradually fading out, some art was rough in places -The date shown in the top-right corner became glitched on two occasions, permanently showing the wrong day (didn't affect gameplay, but did bother me a little) Now then, allow me to elaborate on the writing. I played through Megumi's route and, up until the point where she became my girlfriend, everything was fine. A little bland, perhaps, but enjoyable. Then a new teacher showed up at the school, raising about fifty pedophile flags as he did so. He starts to torment Megumi behind the scenes, until you film him arguing with her and threaten to upload it online. Then Megumi tells you her tragic backstory: a year ago, the same teacher started teaching at the school, tormented her sister for a while, then tried to r*pe her. Megumi saw this as it was happening and tried to stop him, causing him to "accidentally" violently murder her sister. Then he got caught. But, one year later, he's somehow out of prison, and teaching in the same school where he committed r*pe and murder. The only explanation given for this is one line in which he says how "expensive" it was to avoid prison. After sharing her backstory, Megumi becomes more confident in standing up to him, and it seems like life is back to normal again. As a result, she and the main protagonist both show a remarkable lack of concern about their pedophile/r*pist/murderer teacher. Surprisingly, this turns out to be a bad idea, as he then goes to her house at night, presumably to r*pe and murder her. She sends you a panicked voicemail, you run to her house rather than contacting the police or asking your mother to drive you there, and then it turns out she killed him. SO, TO SUMMARISE: a pedophile/r*pist/murderer is caught pedo-ing/r*ping/murdering, avoids prison, returns to teach at the school where he pedo-ed/r*ped/murdered, pedo-es for a few weeks, you stand up to him, stop caring that he is a pedophile/r*pist/murderer, he goes to your girlfriends house, presumably to pedo/r*pe/murder, then she murders him. After that, you can tell her to turn herself in or run away with you. I picked the first option, which led to her having sex with me, and then turning herself in. I'm assuming that the sex would've happened regardless of my choice. There was no sex scene; apparantly there will be a patch for that soon. After seeing pedophilia/r*pe/murder being executed so poorly in this route (why the fuck isn't he in prison; you can't pay your way out of r*pe/murder charges, let alone be re-employed by the school where you did the r*ping/murdering) I am forced to assume that the writing for the others is equally poor, so I don't intend to play through them. Kinda feels like I've wasted my money. TL;DR: Kinda bland, until a r*pist/murderer who was caught in your school a year ago, and inexplicably avoided prison, returned to teach at the same school one year later and, despite knowing this, you and the sister of the girl who was murdered show a remarkable lack of concern. AND THAT'S JUST ONE ROUTE. Also, why does steam censor the word "r*pe"? It took a good few minutes for me to add all those asterisks in, time which could've been spent ranting to myself about the poorly executed rape.

This VN was a wonderful experience to me. I didn’t expected much to be honest (unfortunately there are a lot of VNs that have such a beautiful design, but the story/characters are bad… So I’m used to be disappointed at this point), but honestly… It was way better than I thought. The art style is truly beautiful, BGs and BGM were also amazing. And the story that is apparently a simple/cliche one, is saved by the characters. I really enjoyed them, every single one! Megumi was my favorite girl. [spoiler]And I did not expected that kind of ending… Wow. o_o[/spoiler] [spoiler]Also the “Ryo’s route” caught me off guard. I liked it, but it sure was a big surprise, haha![/spoiler] I really cannot wait to see more works from these developers. 8/10, might be one of the best dating sims I’ve played on Steam so far.

Well I only played one run myself but really enjoyed it. It really grabs you and whisks you away. Deffinitly addictive. There are some pretty dark twists however that the game doesn't prepare you for so be cautious when continueing forward. Although not perfect as I did find some flaws in the story not reconizing that I didn't complete certain events though it treated me like I had refering to scenes I hadn't seen this is really only a minor complaint. All in all if I hadn't already settled on a in game waifu I would deffinitly play again and my only true complaint is the game wasn't longer as I find myself wanting to continue on in this world interacting with these charaters much much more. For the price they're asking I would consider this a must have however you may aswell skip the steam version and go for the unrated version as aparently is has much more of that juicy content we all crave.

Starts out happy and cheery, also quite funny. But things take a sharp turn after summer. Only played through Megumi's story. Can't replay the game because seeing Megumi brings tears.

Your mother decides that you should move with her to the city you grew up in when you were born: except that you were a victim of an accident there when you were a child, don't remember your childhood, the accident, the place, or the people you met there. Look, this is begging to be your generic anime story of the boy who doesn't remember his past. And it is. You can already guess half of the characters and the plot. To make it worse, the character development is shallow to an unbelievable level, up until the point in which your "route" is decided. After that point, the other characters will play a minor role, or even totally disappear, and the story will develop the "Chosen Character". You'll be somewhat at the middle of the storyline - but there will be only one or two choices left to make, everything else is linear. "Chosen Character", quotes intended. I personally have lacked any sort of empathy towards any of the characters until I reached the last quarter of (some) of the routes. Some of the endings are very forced in the "oh well, that escalated quickly" vein, and ruined the empathy. The art is very good, that is true. Apart from the hand of Yui. The H-Scenes are pretty good too, but I'm not sure if I could recommend a game based purely on that. After so much bashing, I must admit there is one pretty well done ending. One. It was almost worth it. Linux port is sloppy because of the bug in Renpy. Achievements are fine, you basically needs to get all endings.

No One But You is a choice-based Visual Novel published by Unwonted Studios and Sekai Project. [h1]About the story:[/h1] You play as Hideaki, a transferred student who just moved to his hometown (Okutama) cause of familiar reasons. After undergoing an accident you seem to have lost its recollections along with the memories you kept as a child. The story begins peacefully slowly heading into melancholic direction as you start learning more about heroines' background stories and your past. [olist][h1]Favourite chara:[/h1] [*] Shiro [*] Chinatsu [*] Megumi [*] Yui [*] Ryo [/olist] [olist][h1]Favourite route:[/h1] [*] Megumi [*] Yui [*] Chinatsu [*] Shiro [*] Ryo [/olist] The duration is average, you can enjoy some well done art and a mediocre story. In all sincerity this game won't show you anything really new, yet you'll be able to enjoy it if interested in romantic stories and inspecting well described personalities. [list][h1]What else you can find in this game:[/h1] [*] TW:Blood [*] White-haired heroine [*] Heroine with glasses [*] Nice OSTs [*] Violence [*] Well done backgrounds [/list] [h1]Overall:[/h1] I recommend purchasing this game while on sale. 6/10

Recommended because I'm glad that I played through it once. But I'm never playing through it again. The game is written extremely well, to a fault. You connect very easy with some of the characters, and then when all the bad shit starts happening you really get hit hard by it. Even the good ends are sometimes bittersweet. One route in particular made me actually sick to my stomach and I could hardly continue. If the goal was to illicit emotion, I guess 10/10. Play through it once, but. I can't do it again.

Summary: This game is broken, unfinished, lachluster, and disappointing. Had potential but, seems rushed and unpolished. I'm not going to lie I really wanted to see this visual novel do well, and I had been following the production process in the last couple of months leading up to it's release. However, I'm sad to say that I am very disappointed in No One But You. The reason I am sad to say that, is because I am someone who one day aspires to produce a visual novel of my own, and as such I wanted to support someone trying to do the same. Especially someone who lives outside of Japan like myself. That being said, this visual novel features no audible dialogue even though we were told before release that it would include it, and the game contains an option in the game menu for "voice volume". However, none of the characters are voiced, and all dialouge is simply written. This means that they were planning on including voiced characters in the final game, but that was scrapped for whatever reason. I was hoping there would be an update or something so we could actually hear some of these characters, but that has sadly not come to pass and it has been several months now since it's release. Now, I can go on about the art style and how I am not a particularly big fan of it (which I'm not), but that would be slightly biased as some might say that they particularly like the art of the game. However, my main beef with this title is it's lack of continuity among the story arcs. Let me give you an example. In other visual novels/dating sims, the player character is presented with a choice or choices at certain points along the story's progression. What the player chooses to do at these points directly affects the narrative, and I believe the BIGGEST sin the author of a visual novel can commit is making it so that those choices do not affect the plot appropriately. Case and point, there is a decision point in this game where the main character Hideki is presented with a choice where if you choose one option you end up performing a prank with one of the story's heroines Megumi, if you go with the other option this prank never happens. So, on my first play through I chose the option where this prank was never pulled. However, much to my confusion later on in the story this prank is mentioned in converstaion as though it had happened, despite the fact that because of the choice I made it schould have never happened. This alson happens with some of Hideki's relationships with some of the other characters in the story. After one brief conversation with the character Yui, the tsundere character, I decided I didn't want anything to do with her and whenever there was an option to go talk to her I chose not to. Then, what do you know a couple months pass by in a time skip, (which this game is fond of by the way, not a big fan) and suddenly, and inexplicably Yui and Hideki are friends, and I'm left sitting there like, "When the heck did that happen?! I was avoiding that stuck up b****." The story seemd to not be programmed in a way to differ from certain story lines and automatically asumes that you made certain choices that you didn't make. Which leads me to ask the question. Why include choices in this story if they won't affect the progression of the plot? I mean I'm fine with some stupid choices here and there in a visual novel, but at least have them affect the progression of the story appropriately. Heck, even if there was a choice for Hideki to eat a sandwhich or some sushi for lunch in the story, it wouldn't affect the story much, but if you put that choice in there and I have Hideki eat sushi and an hour later Megumi is asking how he liked his sandwhich I'm going to notice that! This story also includes some non sensical plot points and events, and overall just left me feeling uninvsted in the story. Which is sad, because I wanted it to be a lot better, and it could have been. I would have gladly waited longer for a more polished and complete title with all that was promised in the Kichstarter campaign. I would have even paid more money, but sadly that is not the case and we are left with a finished product that is a fraction of what it could have been. Don't waste your time and money here and instead fork out the extra cash for titles like Clannad or Princess Evanglie.