This is a story of three young girls residing at a prestigious academy accommodating the cohabitating students to a particular system allowing to strengthen their bonds.

While on the road to the newly chosen academy, Suoh Shirahane suddenly comes upon two of the future fellow students, both making a different impact on her.

The first one presents herself as Rikka Hanabishi and happens to be straightforward about her feelings – in fact, she takes Suoh by surprise when notifying her of how beautiful she finds the girl in front of her, nonetheless having just bumped into each other.

The second one, is a beautiful girl Suoh faces while proceeding with her path. As the fascinating girl happens to be standing under a cherry blossom tree, the whole view along with her beauty mesmerizes Suoh. After realizing to have locked eyes with each other, Suoh gets invited to gaze at the cherry blossoms together. The girl’s name is Mayuri Kohsaka.

The next day during the entrance ceremony you meet both of the girls getting a chance to get closer to them.
Turns out, the three of you will cultivate an important bond during the following years…

Saint Angraecum Academy is an all-girls Christian academy demanding adherence to its rules.
An significant trait of the academy is the Amitié system created in order to allow the students to support each other while forming important bonds that will also come along to the inner growth experienced together. The system includes a certain number of students sharing a room where to reside for all 3 years of academy attendance, while also spending most of the free time together while helping each other with studies and so on.

Given the fact the academy does happen to be quite isolated, together with the rules applying to it, all in all does create a certain environment that will surely help the scholars’ experience to result as unique and savvy.

Being a Christian school, its customs start from early morning with the attendance of morning prayer, however not all students happen to share the same religion beliefs, in fact the school’s duty is also to instruct the girls properly about all the things they’d have to learn in order to be informed enough to not feel out of place.

A curious detail is the students get to attend ballet classes as equivalent of physical education subject. It is expected to refine this way scholars’ femininity and composure.

You get to play as Suoh Shirahane, the female main character of the story. She appears to be quite introverted and withdrawn given she did not have any positive experiences with previous classmates nor any real contact with youngsters of her age. Still this does not discourage her to aim high towards her goals with positive resolve as she really wants to find the real friendship she happened to examine so often in her favourite novels and movies. In order to achieve the dream of making precious memories with someone however, she would first have to overcome her own limits such as the habit of being quite silent in order to avoid being isolated, as well as insecurities coming to so stated correct ways of approaching other people…

The struggles coming to opening up to people in proper manner are real, in fact she can notice during her first days at the academy straight away, that her approach might result too oppressive or sudden.
Therefore, there seems to still be a wall between Suoh and the other girls. Yet again, that is the reason she decided to attend the academy in question; to learn how to overcome her fragilities and have a chance to start anew.

Rikka Hanabishi is the typical composed girl refusing to break any academy rules, in fact she gets nominated as class rep. She took a liking to Suoh since their first encounter where she remained perplexed after Suoh’s sudden runaway which takes place due to embarrassment.

On the other side, Mayuri Kohsaka seems to be a tad less refined compared to other girls staying at the academy. For example, she tends to speak up her mind often with the usage of informal type of conversation. While she appears to be the kind of mysterious beauty, it is correct to assume that each of the students has something obscure to hide or overcome.

In this game you will find a variety of characters coming to classmates, upperclassmen and also some of the faculty members.

Each one is well portrayed and stands out with detailed personality traits as well as aesthetic particulars.

Flowers -Le volume sur printemps- is a yuri Visual Novel featuring many choices to take.
While it is enjoyable to have at hand many different paths to take, I happened to find the number of choices to be a tad excessive, hence some do not really take the player to different outcomes. For example, at some points the dialogue remains the same while the word usage might change a bit, still stating the same exact fact during both of the taken paths.

It is recommended to use a guide to have a proper route completion as the game features a certain number of dead endings to come upon.

As the main character we find a fascinating heroine motivated to overcome her struggles. Both sprites’ and CGs’ art is Miki Sugina’s beautiful artwork whose talent I personally got a chance to admire during my Kara no Shoujo gameplay. The traits are very delicate and feminine, fitting perfectly the story and creating a gorgeous experience while blending with refined storytelling of the game.

The voice acting is really soothing and accompanied by classy BGM. The game also features occasional sounds effects that do make the read pleasing and relaxing.
However, dramatic moments of tension will be featured as well as horror-ish story sessions taking place among students.

The only trait I found to be off was the usage of speech bubbles to state the heroine’s personal thoughts from time to time.

As Suoh happens to be passionated towards books and movies, there are some of the said references during gameplay, which is also interesting given she happens to spend her free time at the school library.

The whole gameplay covers 20h of time, which includes the reaching of all bad endings as well as true endings of the featured routes.

This game does portray delicately moments of tension and traumatic experiences, all in all creating a very interesting background.
The characters are mainly relatable and human I’d say, as in, opening up to themselves and having both precious moments of happiness and dark stages of brittleness.

The support offered among each other is very heart-warming and their personalities were interesting to study.

At first, I did not pay much thought to Suoh, however her astuteness managed to catch my attention.

Recommended for a pleasing Visual Novel experience featuring yuri romance and classy atmosphere.