Friday 5 June 2020

Reinventing the Wheel - Totono

Review of You and Me and Her (Totono)

Alternative Titles:
Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi
lit. The Love of You and Girlfriend and Girlfriend



Rating: 9/10 (Excellent)
One-liner: Possibly one of the most meta VNs in existence

Synopsis:

Shinichi is a regular high-school student with a bit of an inferiority complex. He is childhood friends with Miyuki, the school's idol, but wants to keep a low profile so as to not attract too much attention. Miyuki, on her part, 'not-so-secretly' harbours feelings for him.

He also meets a strange, pink-haired girl named Aoi on the roof. They become friends, and he tries to make her more normal because she seems completely out-of-touch with reality. Miyuki eventually gets roped in and they become a trio.

And then it all comes crashing down.

Review:

This will be a bit of a different review, because you must go into this blind. Suffice to to say that this game blew apart every other VN I have ever played out of the water. The story isn't amazing per se, but what this VN set out to do is simply unmatched in anything else I have ever seen in this medium.

There are two heroines in the game, as shown in the cover, and you only get to choose one. I mean it. There are no do-overs.

That's really all I can share, because doing anything else would be spoiling the game, and I really don't want to do that because this game deserves every person who is remotely interested in VNs to try out. Try not to use a walkthrough unless you're really stuck, and after you past that point, close it down and resist the urge to touch it again.

Verdict: PLAY IT

P. S. Try not to get too attached to the save function.