Christmas Tale - Visual Novel Reviews

6.5/10

I have started learning japanese, i find it quite useful

I find i do not like this novel it is not so well translated in english and why could the author not find other word to use instead of curse words. they shoul have listed this as for adult not good for kids or family as a christmas novel should be for.

Translation to english is soo bad, the story is boring and short, if it was free then maybe.

I changed this to a thumbs down after the bad ending drops a slur in the last line for no real reason. The story and writing are pretty funny to play through if you enjoy watching bad movies. Best played with a friend, I'm only giving this 4 stars instead of 5 because when I went for the good end to 100% the game I got 12/10 points in the forest scene and then it just hangs.

Ignoring all the grammar and saving issues, what I disliked the most wasn't that it feels incomplete, but rather that it's broken. Trying to get the usual or bad ending freezes the game, preventing me from fully finishing Christmas Tale. The only positive thing about this game I can give is that there's a skip button in the menu, unfortunately it can't be used to get passed the bugged area that is the frozen forest. Since it can't be fully completed due to being broken, I believe it's not worth any amount of money until the problem is fixed, however since the game's been out for over five years, that seems unlikely.

Honestly, I'd recommend this game if it weren't for the poor grammar and writing. I had trouble trying to piece together what the dialog was trying to say.

Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid an Egg.... It's almost that time of year again.. the fat guy in a red suit and sack... Not your Drunk Uncle Larry, but the man himself old Saint Nick,, a time for giving, a time for receiving a time for going into soul crushing debt.. Anyway,, the game in question is Christmas Tale - Visual Novel.. The Story You play as a character on Christmas Eve, he's depressed... I think, and he wants to buy tickets for some kind of show... I think... He does a bunch of random stuff.. and then the end???? Gameplay The game jumps right into the fray, you select your name and then jump directly into the game, no main menu, or options or anything else... The game plays like alot of other visual novels, you press a button, read text, and make a few choices which are supposed to have an effect on the game.. Pro's... It has Chrismas in the title??? Easy achievements, get another complete game in little over an hour.. Cheap price Con's poorly written (could be a translation error) like 5 total backgrounds in the game.. Window with Snow, Bed, Neighbors door, town, and forest.. Very generic, choices barely matter and alter like one line of text.. Not funny, not sexy, it's just meh, what is this game's purpose. Really short Recommendation I honestly can't recommend this game, unless you're able to get it for under fifty cent and even then many other games would be far more worth the fifty cent.. On top of the massive translation issues, the game suffers from technical issues, for a game this short having any technical issues is just inexcusable. The game could have been better if the choices made drastic differences in the game, instead of having one or two different lines in the next sentence.. Maybe introduced a few new characters, flushed out dialog, or anything else to make the game interesting and unique. Seems like something someone put together using Visual Novel maker in a matter of about 2 hours.. For a commercially sold product it's just not worth the price.. The only positive is the +1 and achievements which will give you an easy +1 to your completed games...