East 73: Magenta Fairytale Reviews

I found this VN to be very enjoyable! Firstly, despite the store page claiming the game to not have an English translation, there actually is one though it's machine translated and unfortunately got many flaws. Now altogether the game is very nice. The art is insanely stunning, with vivid colors and an eerily dream-like and nostalgic aesthetic, while the music is great and relaxing. There are three main routes that vary from each other and the story is mostly lighthearted yet touches darker and melancholic topics as well. Especially interesting I found the supernatural aspects, which I honestly wish had more explanation and story relevance (though I believe that the bad translation might have impact on my confusion about it). I also loved the main characters, they're all very sweet and funny <3 This game just generally has a very unique and comforting (though melancholic) feel to it and I loved it a lot. The only major problem is really the machine translation. For example, it wasn't able to stick with using the characters' normal names all the time but instead additionally used three different translations of the kanji just whenever it felt like it lol. Also some characters seem to use nicknames for each other, hence at the end EVERY character ended up with 5 different names... I actually managed to remember them eventually but at the beginning it was quite the struggle to distinguish the characters. Overall it was possible to understand the story but it was occasionally hard to follow the exact details and especially the dialogues (assumingly due to grammar differences) felt weird at times. That is quite unfortunate because it felt like I was missing out on a bunch of humour lol. In conclusion I can definitely recommend the game itself but not this translation of it!