As I have promised to Spectator-san, here I give my first Impressions of OMnY.
Before saying anything, I have to stress the point, that I have played it only one time through to one possible ending, so my thoughts about other popssible endings are only speculations.
Anyway, I think after playing the game, I at least know, how the game works. So, this kind of information should be quite accurate.
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Owarinaki Maidotachi no Yoru LE
(?Endless Maids Nights?)
This game is a multipath multiending adventure in a similar manner (and thus, a comparable difficulty level) as “Snow Drop”.
At the beginning, two choices decide, which one of the four possible girls (Silvia Syms, Sophia Eng, Silje End and Mary Stuart) becomes your first maid.
After this, on six simulated days, the Snow-Drop-Like game begins:
During each day at two times the player can select for the main character (Claude) one out of three places in the mansion to go to, meet there someone and, if someone is there, a dialog with this someone begins.
Depending on the things, said in these dialogs (during some dialogs, the player may also at a point chooose, how Claude should answer, so this dialogs also depend on that decision of the player), the finally reached ending changes for better or worse, so some dialogs would be better never seen, while others must not be missed.
After the second visit of a place in the mansion, the day is over and the night begins.
Each time, the selection of the place to go to pops up, it is also possible to skip right to the night of that day, which means, the “first maid” would appear at Claudes room and a h-scene with her (that also depends on what has been said in the dialogs before) would follow.
There are no visible meters in that game, but obviously, the dialogs and made decisions affect some invisible meters. These meters affect the later dialogs, as well as the attitudes of the other characters to the main character (Most obviously: if the chosen “first maid” looks stressed when the Claude visit her at day, there is something bad in the air. If she blushes and smiles at him, when he appears, he has gotten her affection.).
About the story, I want not tell too much, because:
a) I don’t want to spoil too much of the game, before a decision about its portation to english is made
b) my japanese is not that good, so my translation would be inaccurate to some extent (there were too much Kanji, I still did not recognize).
I am not sure, if it is possible to reach a good ending in this game, because I have right now just reached one possible ending in the path of one of the girls. This one was a neither good, nor bad ending, most alike the “normal ending” in TCI. Also, some bad endings occur during the six days, if too less of the right decision are made.
In order to enjoy the game the way, it was meant, I will most likely concentrate first on learning some more Kanji, before trying to play it again.