"Be warned, this VN may not be suitable for certain viewers/players."


While I had followed the VN for a while but didn't purchase during it's launch because I was occupied with other game, so I had completely forgotten what this game's description was about and dived straight in a few months later.. while I expect the story can get dark BUT I never knew it was THAT traumatizing. Oh well, anyway..

Storytelling was amazing, intriguing and it's dark enough to haunt me for a few days. It involves murder, cannibalism and even suicide.. definitely not recommended for the faint of hearts. Experience a world in a long period of time where food and water are so scarce that vast majority of people are struggling with literally nothing, powerless, eventually hunger drives them insane, desperately would do anything to survive even the most unimaginable ones. Artworks are absolutely stunning, often times they are so detailed that may cause some discomfort as well. There is something worth to mention as some viewers would get an ick when seeing the part where an underage girl is being disciplined or misunderstood there'd be some romance development in this.. while I won't really write any in detail here because there's already bunch of other players pointing that out so I'd suggest to either avoid playing this VN or at least skip that one specific part if it's making you truly uncomfortable. I believe there is no romance throughout the whole game because there's nothing indicating the Main Character "Liang" and the little girl "Sui" is interested in each other here unless it says otherwise in sequel (if any). VN completion fell quite short, there are 2 different Real Endings and it can be completed fairly quick if you're fast reader. One of the True Endings have certainly crushed me for days too. The VN is fully voiced except MC and narratives. Great background music, certainly matches each scenarios very well. I find the English Translation were okay, there are very few minor error but it's understandable and much better than the previous VN title they have released.

Overall it's a brilliant VN to experience, in a way it made me realize that I am in fact quite blessed despite I personally still have a lot of disadvantages in some aspects. Thank you ZerocreationGame.
Absolutely worth try playing at least if you're mentally prepared / interested in rather dark Visual Novel.

I honestly can't do this visual novel justice through a review. So my short answer is ]buy it. It is an amazing game and worth more than the listed price, in my opinion.

The storytelling in this visual novel gets you invested in the plot and the characters more than any other visual novel I have played. It does this so well that you feel extremely bad about choosing one of the bad choices because it affects the characters you have become so invested in. Importantly, it doesn't use sexuality to get you invested in the story, unlike many other games in this genre.

Scenes get reused a lot for the travel portion of the game. It more than makes up for this with the other scenes.

The game focuses on very dark topics that can be quite gruesome at times. The main issues the game covers are human trafficking, kidnapping, suicide, starvation, murder, etc, and many of these things happen to children in the game.

良い点
・中国人視点の歴史を題材にした内容
・中国語音声の演技がいい

悪い点
・題材が中途半端(例えばこの作品は飢餓が共通のテーマとしてあるのだが、その描写に中途半端な印象を受ける)
・ギャルゲ的な要素が途中強く出てくること
・歴史的用語について説明が殆ど無いこと
・訳が一部不安定な点

返金可能な時間までプレイしました。
EDは賛否両論とのことなので返金するか迷いましたが、ギリギリまでプレイして返金を決意しました。
作品のテーマ的にダークな作品を期待していました。
しかし、途中の街で風呂に入るシーン辺りからその傾向が薄くなったと感じました。
よくあるギャルゲみたいな雰囲気が強く出てきて違和感。

途中明かされる旅の目的(結末)にも違和感を感じます。
人を買う目的がそれ？
しかもあり得ないくらい金掛けて？(今の日本人の感覚だと1億とか2億じゃ済まない金額)
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