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The company that develops Yume Miru Kusuri (Demo) is qberty. I assure you, you won’t be disappointed.Yume Miru Kusuri (Demo) is a free app for Android published in the Other list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment. It served as my gateway drug, and what a fantastic drug it was. It’s a very polished game that I would recommend to any newcomer to the VN genre. Nekoko’s route is definitely very real, especially to those who have experience with what happens in that route, but eventually the scenes leave the realm of believable, and that turned me off just enough to not give this game a higher score. It tried to be unique by going over-the-top at spots in all three routes, but that ended up being its downfall. It didn’t really set any standards in the VN industry. The real problem with this game is just how generic it is. If VNs all had menus organized like this, we would be able to have nice things. There’s even a BGM screen with all of the songs – something I wish all VNs had. It’s very similar to the system Katawa Shoujo uses, but with a much cleaner layout. The Scene Selection was split by character, and was incredibly organized – all of each character’s specific scenes, H-Scene or otherwise – are accessible via this menu. Probably my favorite feature in the game was the CG/Scene Select menus. The music was great overall, and fit all of the various moods (if somebody could transcribe “The Catgirl Stomped” for piano, I’d love them forever). The backgrounds, on the other hand, are just generic locations – school, home, convenience store, restaurant, amusement park – but the lines are clean and crisp, which pleased me. They are also very well-drawn, especially Nekoko and “Nekoko” (it’ll make more sense when you read her route). Aeka probably falls to the wayside for many, but the other two heroines seem like the memorable type. Are the characters memorable? I felt they were, but I’m really biased due to the fact that this was my first VN. All three of the routes are solid, well-written, and definitely give the reader enough time to understand just how difficult the stuff these characters are going through is. I’m still sad that the potential imouto route was scrapped at some point (I unfortunately do not have a reliable source for that, so I can only hypothesize that that’s the case, considering that the Scene Replay includes her, and a few very suggestive scenes remain in the game). I was able to draw a lot of connections between this game and some of the stuff I saw – or had to deal with – while I was in school, so that made the game a lot more real to me.īut the game is more than just you dealing with these “issues.” You also develop romantic relationships with all three of them, and there are plenty of H-Scenes to cater to a lot of different (vanilla) interests. Each of the characters has their own unique set of “issues,” which is an integral part of the VN as a whole. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s Cat Sidhe Nekoko, the catgirl “fairy” who just really wants to go back home. Or perhaps it’s Kirimiya Mizuki, the Student Council President who is very interested in pushing you to your limit in more ways than one. Perhaps it’s Shiraki Aeka, an outcast classmate of yours who is the victim of some rather intense bullying. You have a part-time job at a convenience store, and overall, you’re perfectly happy just living your life, until one of three different girls catches your interest. You play Kagami Kouhei, your run-of-the mill high school student who tends to keep to himself. Here’s why.Ĭreative censoring in an uncensored game. It’s a great coming-of-age story that explores some pretty deep themes, and it’s definitely worth your time. Originally released right before Christmas in 2005 by rúf (a now-defunct subsidiary of Will), and released in English by Peach Princess (a subsidiary of JAST) in 2007, Yume Miru Kusuri ~A Drug That Makes You Dream~ is actually pretty generic in terms of content, but its quirks lie with its cast of characters and situations that range from the tame to the downright insane. I installed the game later that day, and the next morning, I was finished with my first ever route. I found a copy of it (and only it, nowadays it’s packaged with Little My Maid by JAST) at a thrift store for $5, and I decided to purchase it. I never thought I would enjoy video games that were simply text and pictures, but that all changed with Yume Miru Kusuri. I have been playing VNs for nearly seven years now.
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