Playtime:
4184 minutes
Wonderful Everyday, better known for it's original name "Subarashiki Hibi" (from now on "Subahibi"), was born as a remake of "Tsui no Sora" (End Sky), but ended up being its own thing, a sort of alternative version of the original story. You don't need to read Tsui no Sora first, but you will probably feel like jumping to it after finishing Subahibi.
It's one of those games that had to be heavily cut and censored to be able to be sold in Steam, but you can easily get the patches, both official and unofficial, to return it to its original glory. There are three patches, one of them optional.
The game is also playable on SteamOS, but you will need to do a few tweaks if you want to use the same fonts than in Windows.
I think this is one of those stories you better go into knowing as little as possible, but at the same time it's important to know about that "little" part, so you understand what kind of experiences can you find here. You can mostly ignore the Steam synopsis, as it only includes info on the first chapter, which is quite different from what you will experience in the next ones.
Subahibi will offer us an opportunity to experience its bizarre but beautiful world from the eyes of various troubled characters as they battle through their days filled with mysteries and curses, and a prophecy of the incoming end of the world. As the story advances, it will become increasingly difficult to differentiate if what we are watching is reality or fantasy, a bad trip or a dream.
Many crude situations are extensively depicted: from mental illness to suicide, from bullying to many kinds of raping. Sometimes hard to stomach, many of these situations will be a depiction of the mental health of the characters, and the game won't hide on creating scenes that will leave a bad taste on the players' mouths.
For those players who are looking for an easy to digest romantic story, as the first impression of the game may suggest, they won't find it here. Now, if you are up for a story of many grey areas that invites you to think, loaded with supernatural mystery and an extensive range of complex characters (and many others you will want to kill), then, I'm sure you will soon be enraptured with its world and looking for a rooftop where you can quietly read you newly bought copy of Cyrano de Bergerac.
👍 : 10 |
😃 : 0