OASE - Other Age Second Encounter Reviews

Pretty fun dating sim if you give it a chance.

I have played the prequel (Other Age) of this game in my highschool years, and I liked it despite it being very hard. So I treid OASE when it just came out, but it was even harder(x1000) than the previous one. With no walkthrough available at that time, I had to give up on it. I recently came accross it again, and this time with the easy mode available it went much better. This is what I consider as a collecting game, the main purpose is to collect endings. So it is a shame that there is no achievements available. Some people mentionned there were very long cutscenes (what?!), have you not noticed your keyboard's enter button?? Pros: - Good collection game - Beautiful art - Nice music - Interesting concept - Many secret paths/alternative endings - Press enter to skip, press q to cheat on some of the minigames Cons: - No achievements - Needlessly hard (some mini-games are quite hard, yes I'm talking to you cameraman dude, but with some practice I became a pro lol) - Pixel hunting (very painful) - Repetitive (Dude quests are common to all characters with minor variations) - Some typos, spelling and grammar problems in text Overall: 7.5/10

It`s a 2010 game and, honestly speaking from today, part of the game sucks. Mainly due to the extreme difficulty, as it`s literally impossible to achieve certain things unless you are REALLY patient or, should I put it, lacks anything better to do. And in some cases, that`s not enough. You HAVE TO be directly hinted by the authors themselves before you end up wondering whether the game is designed to be beatable. But that`s also to say, the rest of the game is GREAT. If you take it more as an artbook than a mere game, you`ll be surely fascinated. The authors are, so far as I`ve seen, one of the best artists, aesthetically speaking. So long as you`re not in a hurry to "beat" the game, instead just view it as an amazing sightseeing into the world they created, it`s not only great. It`s FANTSATIC. My first hearing of the game was at some shabby online minigame site around 10 years ago. I played its incorrectly named demo, and immediately got fascinated. At that time online payment was way undeveloped, and I had to send an international bill to purchase, so I did. That`s how I first got the game. The time I spent on this game should be able to match that of a 3A work like Witcher III, and I`ve satisfyingly achieved all 60 endings. That`s really a painful grind, but also a nice and wonderful view into this world the authors created. This time, I`d like to once more support the authors via Steam. Thank you for the game, and hopefully, just make more and better games!