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Originally posted by woodelf:
Ok how about this.
If you talk about a non-engish game **, if first poster could give bit of a discription of just what they are playing it would be nice. ** 99% of all the games I want. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
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ONE is the first game made by Visual Arts, the team which brought us "Kanon" and "Air" (and soon "Clannad" [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]), before they created their own gaming company ("Key/Visual Arts") and thus is licenced by "Tactics". It was acclaimed as one of the best H-games of 1998.
As in many games, you play a highschooler, living his everyday's life at his aunt's. Living happily his everyday's life, though he wasn't aware of this happiness. Then some events would come, which whould break this normality...
As "Kanon" theme is "miracle", the theme in "ONE" is "eternity". As the introduction says (IIRC):
"In my childhood time, something very sad happened to me.
And so I fell from a world where eternity exists.
And while recollecting this time of ever smiling, and those tiny pieces of happiness, slowly and slowly I walked out of it.
And as time goes, I stopped growing, only crying. But, this certain day on this certain winter, the gate of time opened.
It was the first time.
The instant I started going out of this world.
"Eternity exists", to the broken toy the crying me was, this little girl said.
"It exists here" she said with confidence.
A world I had forgotten suddenly called to me.
The eternal world was calling me."
As so far, I only finished 2 girls' stories, so I can't make a full comment, but, so far, the stories were... interesting. What is interesting is IMO more that this game revolves around the protagonist's story, more than the girls. Or, if you prefer, that, though his growing relationship with a girl, the protagonist will, little by little, remember a time (a world?) he had forgotten (as in "Kanon" [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]). But, contrary to "Kanon", this point of this game is more the "healing" of the protagonist (though his love with the girl) than the "healing" of the girl...
I also liked the atmosphere of the game... and the girls, of course! ("ONE" contains some unusual girls, without them being weird or surnatural: Misaki-senpai who is blind, and Mio-chan who is mute)
[This message has been edited by olf_le_fol (edited 07-17-2002).]