After playing this I started looking for games similar to this. There's gotta be. A pokemon slice of life is something I didn't know I needed but now I need more!! Love the game.
Usually fanfics like this are absolute dogshit, like for real, but this is amazing! This little dumb fanfic project rivals that of legit professional VNs. The writing is good, the story is enjoyable, the VN actually makes you do shit other than click the enter button. I love how, despite how little the author had to work with in the sprite department, they tried their hardest. The story is well thought out and is very... Pokemon. I few problems to think about, of course the game needs more consistent sprites. I'd love to see more content, it would suck to see this VN end, I believe there's definitely more material to be added. The route I took when playing this game is one where I romanced Dawn after the tournament, although I found out you could do it before the tournament. I feel like that should be removed, the route I took seemed way more realistic and made a lot more sense, the other one felt like easy romance if you know what I'm saying. I liked the side story about the protagonist and his scyther, I definitely feel like that bond added to the overall experience, and I would love to see that explored more. I love the addition of battles, it added some actual gameplay to the Visual Novel. Again I'd love to see more content, maybe more things you and Dawn can do. I also noticed that you can romance dawn and then continue the story only to be presented with an opportunity to romance her again, and by the time the second opportunity strikes it acts like the first romance never happened, and both the character and Dawn start admitting their love for each other again, in other words the game kinda loops, which was weird. I'd love to see the monetary system explored a bit more, I also think there should be some sort of way for the player to know how many days left they have until the cruise is over. Idk if there's any bad endings but maybe their should be. Anyways good shit, I'm definitely gonna be following the creator of this game like a cat and a mouse.
Aw, thank you so much friend, I appreciate the review <3 Yeah sprites are an issue, Dawn's consistent because it's all from one artist but when I decided to put in different characters I kinda winged it. In 1.0 the extra characters are all in the same style with my own sprites, still using the same dawn ones though so hopefully that doesn't clash too much. The quickest romance route is I think in there for people specifically going for it since you have to do pretty specific stuff and ignore just about everything contest related which I don't expect people to do by accident, I guess.
I'm also very happy with how scyther turned out, I didn't expect such a positive reception on something I'd made up myself rather than something about dawn, so that's nice. I would have liked to somehow make a proper battle system with health bars and a cool UI but that's a bit beyond my ability.
There are some bugs in 0.9 that time warp, hopefully I've fixed all those for 1.0. The money system was added when I as still finding my style, I think. I wasn't sure if was going to be a VN or a dating sim where you click around a map and have stats or something, so it's a vestigial holdover from those times. I did attempt to make the characters comment on how many days were left on the cruise in lieu of having a number just pop up on the screen.
I decided pretty early on that I didn't want any bad ends, partly because my little heart couldn't take writing one with dawn mad at you :c my excuse is that this is supposed to be a feel-good fantasy fulfillment story.
I remember months ago I saw you on /vp/ and encouraged your work on this, and I didn't expect to randomly stumble across it on this site. Can't wait to play it, I might even do a let's play.
I made an account to this just to comment on this game alone. Only a few minutes in and I already can hear the music/osts, from Katawa Shoujo. And the scene brings back vibes from it. So now I am expecting good things. I will update this with another comment later.
Bro, this game is fucking fantastic. I haven't played a chill VN in such a long time and this is by far the best one I've played. I mean that whole heartedly. Sure there's some bugs here and there but even then, the game IS enjoyable. You definitely have potential man. I honestly can't wait for more updates and if not, another game involving another character. Whatever your choice is, I'm sure it'll be beneficial regardless. Keep your chin up, you got it :)
The game is pretty much amazing I haven't read a vn story that good since once in a lifetime (no offense still think once in a lifetime is still the best) the writing is top notch something that most movies and games today don't have and the pacing of the romance is really great, not too ow not too fast and I enjoyed every part of that I hope v.0.10 or whichever comes out next comes out soon I would love to see an epilogue of this and props to you and your writing. If you wanna see a somewhat short vn that is cute and makes you want to see more of it this is a vn you should play thank you for making this.
Honestly speaking the only nitpick i have is with the stuff that would fall under potential copyright issues, but seeing as its an early version and that stuff will eventually be fixed its not too bad. Writing is quite good overall as is the general story. interested to see what else is in store.
Yeah, I mean I plan to replace everything I don't own eventually, but at the end of the day it's a free project so if they want their share of nothing, they're welcome to it.
I wish I could give an accurate time but I'm about to be very busy with real life stuff including moving across the country so it could be anywhere from a couple weeks to several months, unfortunately. It'll come out eventually, I'll say that much.
I'm so happy this exists. Dawn has been my favorite ever since I was a kid. I can't wait for 1.0 and the future of this! (Unrelated news, but I managed to get my hands on one of the Kotobukiya figures, which should be here within a month ^^)
Made my crush on Dawn I had as a kid watching the Pokemon anime come back. I don't know if I appreciate that. Very good Visual Novel regardless. The Katawa Shoujo soundtrack fits in nicely, the dialogue between the MC and dawn is fun, and the choice of Scyther as a side-kick is just uncommon enough that I think it's perfect. Truly looking forward top whatever comes next from you, whether it be Pokemon related or not. Keep up the good work!
I downloaded this out of boredom, ended up wasting 5 hours playing this begin to end, please continue this story. I never understood the joy of VN, now I do.
Really awesome VN, probably my favorite that I’ve played. It’s obvious you’ve put a lot of work into it, it really shows. Hopefully 1.0 is soon, it’s gonna be awesome <3
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yay 1.0
After playing this I started looking for games similar to this. There's gotta be. A pokemon slice of life is something I didn't know I needed but now I need more!! Love the game.
10/10
Usually fanfics like this are absolute dogshit, like for real, but this is amazing! This little dumb fanfic project rivals that of legit professional VNs. The writing is good, the story is enjoyable, the VN actually makes you do shit other than click the enter button. I love how, despite how little the author had to work with in the sprite department, they tried their hardest. The story is well thought out and is very... Pokemon. I few problems to think about, of course the game needs more consistent sprites. I'd love to see more content, it would suck to see this VN end, I believe there's definitely more material to be added. The route I took when playing this game is one where I romanced Dawn after the tournament, although I found out you could do it before the tournament. I feel like that should be removed, the route I took seemed way more realistic and made a lot more sense, the other one felt like easy romance if you know what I'm saying. I liked the side story about the protagonist and his scyther, I definitely feel like that bond added to the overall experience, and I would love to see that explored more. I love the addition of battles, it added some actual gameplay to the Visual Novel. Again I'd love to see more content, maybe more things you and Dawn can do. I also noticed that you can romance dawn and then continue the story only to be presented with an opportunity to romance her again, and by the time the second opportunity strikes it acts like the first romance never happened, and both the character and Dawn start admitting their love for each other again, in other words the game kinda loops, which was weird. I'd love to see the monetary system explored a bit more, I also think there should be some sort of way for the player to know how many days left they have until the cruise is over. Idk if there's any bad endings but maybe their should be. Anyways good shit, I'm definitely gonna be following the creator of this game like a cat and a mouse.
Aw, thank you so much friend, I appreciate the review <3 Yeah sprites are an issue, Dawn's consistent because it's all from one artist but when I decided to put in different characters I kinda winged it. In 1.0 the extra characters are all in the same style with my own sprites, still using the same dawn ones though so hopefully that doesn't clash too much. The quickest romance route is I think in there for people specifically going for it since you have to do pretty specific stuff and ignore just about everything contest related which I don't expect people to do by accident, I guess.
I'm also very happy with how scyther turned out, I didn't expect such a positive reception on something I'd made up myself rather than something about dawn, so that's nice. I would have liked to somehow make a proper battle system with health bars and a cool UI but that's a bit beyond my ability.
There are some bugs in 0.9 that time warp, hopefully I've fixed all those for 1.0. The money system was added when I as still finding my style, I think. I wasn't sure if was going to be a VN or a dating sim where you click around a map and have stats or something, so it's a vestigial holdover from those times. I did attempt to make the characters comment on how many days were left on the cruise in lieu of having a number just pop up on the screen.
I decided pretty early on that I didn't want any bad ends, partly because my little heart couldn't take writing one with dawn mad at you :c my excuse is that this is supposed to be a feel-good fantasy fulfillment story.
Loved it, man. Keep up the good work, and good luck on any future projects!
I remember months ago I saw you on /vp/ and encouraged your work on this, and I didn't expect to randomly stumble across it on this site. Can't wait to play it, I might even do a let's play.
Well you'd better shill it real nice, punk
I made an account to this just to comment on this game alone. Only a few minutes in and I already can hear the music/osts, from Katawa Shoujo. And the scene brings back vibes from it. So now I am expecting good things. I will update this with another comment later.
Fingers crossed
LEAVING ME HANGING HERE
Bro, this game is fucking fantastic. I haven't played a chill VN in such a long time and this is by far the best one I've played. I mean that whole heartedly. Sure there's some bugs here and there but even then, the game IS enjoyable. You definitely have potential man. I honestly can't wait for more updates and if not, another game involving another character. Whatever your choice is, I'm sure it'll be beneficial regardless. Keep your chin up, you got it :)
Aw, thanks a lot <3 Glad you enjoyed.
After getting past the error bere are my thoughts
The game is pretty much amazing I haven't read a vn story that good since once in a lifetime (no offense still think once in a lifetime is still the best) the writing is top notch something that most movies and games today don't have and the pacing of the romance is really great, not too ow not too fast and I enjoyed every part of that I hope v.0.10 or whichever comes out next comes out soon I would love to see an epilogue of this and props to you and your writing. If you wanna see a somewhat short vn that is cute and makes you want to see more of it this is a vn you should play thank you for making this.
Thanks, friend <3 glad you liked it.
Im getting an error at the inviting dawn to dinner segment it won't let me progress further
Yeah that's bugged, just click ignore on the error.
okay will do thanks for the advice
Honestly speaking the only nitpick i have is with the stuff that would fall under potential copyright issues, but seeing as its an early version and that stuff will eventually be fixed its not too bad. Writing is quite good overall as is the general story. interested to see what else is in store.
Yeah, I mean I plan to replace everything I don't own eventually, but at the end of the day it's a free project so if they want their share of nothing, they're welcome to it.
I thought copyright just works if their profitting of it or at least like there is a price on the game itself was that not how it works?
tell that to the leaf on fire project
I wish I could give an accurate time but I'm about to be very busy with real life stuff including moving across the country so it could be anywhere from a couple weeks to several months, unfortunately. It'll come out eventually, I'll say that much.
I'm so happy this exists. Dawn has been my favorite ever since I was a kid. I can't wait for 1.0 and the future of this! (Unrelated news, but I managed to get my hands on one of the Kotobukiya figures, which should be here within a month ^^)
Keep up the great work!
Caaaan do
Made my crush on Dawn I had as a kid watching the Pokemon anime come back. I don't know if I appreciate that. Very good Visual Novel regardless. The Katawa Shoujo soundtrack fits in nicely, the dialogue between the MC and dawn is fun, and the choice of Scyther as a side-kick is just uncommon enough that I think it's perfect. Truly looking forward top whatever comes next from you, whether it be Pokemon related or not. Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot <3 Yeah good ol' dawn crush as a kid is what inspired this in the first place.
I downloaded this out of boredom, ended up wasting 5 hours playing this begin to end, please continue this story. I never understood the joy of VN, now I do.
Nothing could be a better use of your time than virtual cuddles.
Cute story. I like.
Thank
Really awesome VN, probably my favorite that I’ve played. It’s obvious you’ve put a lot of work into it, it really shows. Hopefully 1.0 is soon, it’s gonna be awesome <3
Thanks bud <3
Is the player in this VN assumed male in the story? Just wondering.
Indeed
Ah, I see. Not for me, then, but I hope people enjoy it. It looks nice. :)
This is adult in tags do why does it crop out the lewd scenes? Just show the other half.
Or is it different from Android to windows versions I seen the Twitter media photos and see allot of good quality drawings that I don't see in-game.
The current version is unfinished.
Idk if I'm crazy but I think the sprites as they are are cuter that way <_<
There's lewd CG's in the finished version anyway, so hopefully that's acceptable.
The current NSFW scenes will be lewd in the finished version (1.0)?
Yeppers
Huh an entire VN about Dawn. Very specific, but ya know, sometimes you just gotta make what you're lookin' for on the interwebz.
sometimes there is some stuff you just can't find.
Oh I know that feel very well indeed...