Dal Segno Reviews

While not as good as Da Capo series it's pretty enjoyable, with great art, good voice acting and memorable characters. I recommend it. Ame best girl.

I am not gonna lie, I do get emotional when I can relate in a certain way, whether it is something that I need or something that I've experienced in the past. The stories of each character is unique in their own way, with a common goal of finding happiness. If you want to know those stories and gain a glimpse into the understanding of what it means to be happy, buy the game, I highly recommend it.

I have mixed feelings with this VN. I like some aspects of it, but I hate other aspects of it. Each route was interesting on paper, but their execution... Most routes were painful to watch at times since the characters act in a really stupid way. The only route in which I accepted the characters to act the way they did, is in Hazuki's route (black-hair). In the other routes, I believe they over-exaggerated the situations, which made them really annoying at times, but I could still understand them. Then you have Noeri's route (blondie) which made me want to cut my balls off, and pierce my eyeballs, and eardrums. In all the VN's I read, this has to be one of my top 10 most shitty routes. In a more positive light, one of my favorites things in this VN is that they chose good moments to make the characters go all the way, at least by my standards. It made those scenes feel more meaningful than just going from confessing to f*cking in two sentences. The other thing I quite enjoyed is that the MC, isn't half bad. And for something neutral... The H-scenes weren't too erotic. But I liked watching them for plot reasons

I got this game because I liked DC III. And while DC 3 was far from perfect, I still gave it an 8 out of 10. The art in this game is amazingly good, far better than what you see in the DC games, the characters all seemed pretty interesting and unique, they even managed to avoid falling into the standard archetypes for the most part. The MC was fine... a little too passive in my opinion but not insufferable or anything. Yet despite having a good cast of characters, I didn't like the novel overall and wouldn't recommend it. The reason is that while there were two good routes, a 7.5 and an 8 respectively, there were three bad routes, a 6, 4 and 2 out of 10. If I were to just aggregate them into an average score, I would have given the game a 5.5 out of 10, however all the routes STARTED good. The characters were cute, the romance was there (for the most part). But then the writers start forcing in drama and it feels more like I'm playing Rimworld than reading a VN. Why on earth would I compare this to Rimworld? Because there are a lot of totally random mental breaks for no apparent reason. Oh, you were too lazy to eat at a table and that was the LAST FUCKING STRAW! Now you're going to wander dazedly in 120 degree weather during toxic fallout for three days straight until you pass out? That makes sense. It might sound like a ridiculous comparison even now, but 4 out of 5 routes in this game have the drama centered around the girl having a mental breakdown. Only one of those routes (Hazuki's) handled it in a reasonable way the others were either just nonsensical (the 4 and 2, Noeri and Himari's routes respectively) or really melodramatic (Io's). Being honest, I was *this* close to dropping this thing and I told myself that if the fourth route wasn't at least a 7.5 I would. It was exactly a 7.5, followed by the best route (Ame's) which I gave an 8. To give a comparison, 4 of 4 heroine routes in DC III had mental issues going on in them (I like to pretend Aoi's route didn't exist because it was horrible and literally just exposition for the true route). However they were brought about from either long standing issues, understandable pressure, or because of the mcguffin big bad fog of mental illness that was a central part of the story. I don't have an issue with drama or mental problems in VN's as long as they're handled well. This one did not handle them well so ultimately I would say you can do better with your money.

[h1]Great Visual Novel, lovely engrossing Story![/h1] This game have read-time about 50-60hrs ( as for me, who is a slow reader, I see myself by 70hrs around ) [spoiler]So, I finished the Game now, and like I predicted: around 70hrs for me. It was a really good game and I had a bit Water in my Eyes, as I came to the end of Ames-route. Good Game, good Novel, really.[/spoiler] If you are interested in Nudity: [spoiler] Patch is existing.[/spoiler] [strike]I had my problems with Hazukis-route, but thats just personal, because I knew where the story would go to.[/strike] [strike]I had my problems with Noeris-route, but thats just (also) personal.[/strike] [strike]So far, I personally loved Ios-Route at most.[/strike] I can't tell, which Route I more prefer, Ios- or Harumis-Route. To prevent spoilers, I don't go into the story at all. My personal favourites about this game ( untill now ): + lovely Story, all Stories are interesting! ( even Hazukis- or Noeris-Route are interesting!) + partly heartbreaking Story about someone special... + I get greeted, whenever i start the game and get my goodbyes if i close it, i love it. :D + good art and music, but thats just a personal opinion. + good to read, as a non-english-speaker it's easy to understand (as for me personally ) + good synchronisation, but as always, thats just a personal opinion. + quite handy options, such as if you clicked to fast, you can go back to a earlier scene Contra points for me: Not really something to complain, I just had my issues with Hazukis-Route, because it was so slow to read and got in the really end interesting. Still good story though. I also had some problems with Noeris-Route, [spoiler] just towards the end it was annoying for me [/spoiler] but thats just a personal opionion, the story was still good. [spoiler] a bit nervvrenching that i have to read all stories to get Ames-route, but still not really a bad point.[/spoiler] I recommend you, to form your own opinion! Sincerly Kota PS: Good job Circus and the cast!

[h1]Likes:[/h1] [b]O[/b] Super comfy and sweet romance story with emphasis on theme about hapiness. [b]O[/b] Memorable and quirky heroines; excellent casts and good character developments overall. [b]O[/b] Soothing insert and ending songs (6 vocal tracks in total). [b]O[/b] Excellent voice actings. [b]O[/b] Overarching theme about true hapiness is consistently brought up and explored in every heroine route, providing an overall satisfying conclusion at the end of the final route. [h1]Dislike:[/h1] [b]X[/b] As a norm of this genre, the protagonist is extremely plain. [b]X[/b] Weird (but somewhat easily resolved) drama on every heroine route. [strike][b]X[/b] Several engine bugs, such as text encoding errors ("%" is shown as a numer string), mislabelling voice cut toggle option, and custom protaganist name not working in story texts.[/strike] [i][Update: 13/07/2017] Bugs are fixed as commented by the developer.[/i] [h1]Remarks:[/h1] [b]-[/b] If you are familar with other Circus titles (such as Da Capo series), this is bascially more of the same solid romance story. [b]-[/b] There are 4 heroine routes and one true routes. The first 4 routes can be read in any order. [h1]Conclusions:[/h1] Dal Segno is a slightly cliche, but very solid and sweet romance story with overaching theme about true hapiness. It has been a very comfy read (basically Circus being Circus). [spoiler]PS: 3 out of 5 heroines in this game wear hat. Is this also another hat simulator like Team Fortress 2 or what?[/spoiler]

Great game, if only my wallet was as full as the content in this game. IF YOU DO GET THIS GAME, PLAY EVERY SINGLE ROUTE. EVEN THE SECRET ONES. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in visual novels. This game reminds me of the Grisaia series, as every single character has a completely different route. EDIT: AN ACTUAL REVIEW The art is good. Ridiculously good. They even have particle effects. The characters are very lovable and relatable to many VN fans out there. The content is full [spoiler] in many ways [/spoiler] The one downside to this game is its hefty price tag, which is [b] completely worth it [/b]. Reminder that the 18+ patch is free and it's on mangagamer (link below). http://www.mangagamer.com/freedownload.php?product_name=D.S.%20Dal%20Segno%20(download) Well it says trial but ignore that... EDIT AGAIN: Some of the routes are very complex, each route providing a completely different story. To get the full experience of the game, play every single route. The character development in each route take a different path. For example,[spoiler]Hazuki is actually not Hazuki, but her twin sister. Her route develops her character by making her have 2 conflicting personalities, and our protagonist develops feeling for both personalities.[/spoiler] Having a bit more game time than the last edit, I can safely say that this was well worth the price.

Wonderful game. This game has 5 main routes, one for each of the five heroines(one heroine is unlocked after you complete the other four), and one normal route for the normal ending. Clearing all of these routes will unlock the True ending. In addition there are a few extra choices that appear in certain decisions after you complete the the first four heroines' route. This will let you see additional extra scenes. The art and character design are very lovely and beautiful. The music is pretty well done and I like it how each characters have their own theme. All the heroines are so lovable and have great stories. The game is pretty long and very satisfying so it’s definitely worth the price. If you want to play the game with h-scenes you can download the 18+ patch for free. I really enjoyed the game and I recommend others to play it too.

This is a (just about )multi path branching choice based VN. The story is the fairly generic 'boy' moves to new area and goes to school and through some choices gets 'girls' out of his normal target range. + reasonable art good sound gothic lollies - Generic bland story no sense of connection with the characters Plot lines not utilised DS is a slice of life VN set on an island where no one is unhappy; the MC moves there after advice from his cousin and starts school, the problem is that its an incredibly dull slice. Nothing really happens and there is no real hook to get you invested in the characters nor the story. It lacks that little bit magic (no pun intended) that the DC series had. Parts of the story line are underutilised (e.g. the happy numbers) and others are just ropey (the MC suddenly remembering he lost his glasses after weeks of not using them) and everything plods mundanely through to the end leaving you wondering why anyone bothered writing it in the first place (maybe the producers needed a new porch extension or their drive repaved or something). Everything that happens is generic and predictable and even the 18+ patch fails to bring any real interest. If the game could be equated to a colour it would be dysentery beige If you want a dull plodding slice of life VN then go for it but I would suggest going for any of the DC stories instead

I was on the fence for a while before I finally decided to buy this one. I thought the price was a bit on the high side seeing as lot of the recent visual novels that have been showing up on steam have been very short, often without even having any choices or alternate paths. I'm still not sure exactly what finally made me take the risk and buy this one. I don't usually consider visual novels until they drop below the $10 mark. In this case, I am glad I made the exception. The artwork was well done, The story is well written, you can't help but feel attachment to the characters. The authors really know how to get you to connect with the story. Each and every one of the story paths is ripe with emotion and really pulls you in. Even though there are a couple of text errors, mainly around the formating of "%" characters... seems every where there was one in the dialog it played havoc with the text.. Thankfully the context was still understandible, and there were only few instances of that issue Both the qualty and quantity of content in this novel are enough to provide adequate justification for the price. [spoiler]Having recently lost the love of my life to cancer, the Ame ending struck especially close to home[/spoiler]