If you decide to read Shooting Star Hill (see previous post in thread), I also wrote a separate, spoiler-filled story analysis piece.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/visual-novel-analysis-shooting-star-hill/

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My review of Shooting Star Hill, the official English version of the freeware 2005 Japanese visual novel, Hoshi no Furu Oka. It tells the story of a lonely (alien?) girl and the boy who wants to befriend her. I enjoyed Shooting Star Hill and it is one of the better entries from the review project that I am doing. It takes about one hour to read and remains free to download and run. Linux users should either run the Windows version under WINE or replace the old Linux ONScripter-EN executable that comes with the game with the most recent build (links and instructions in article).

(Note: I should really replace those old screenshots with borderless screenshots... someday.)

https://thenewleafjournal.com/visual-novel-review-shooting-star-hill/

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If you are not familiar with ACE Academy, my review of that game is a far better place to start than my review of Kaori After Story (moreover, I would recommend not deciding whether to buy Kaori After Story, even on sale, until playing through Kaori's route in ACE Academy).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/ace-academy-visual-novel-review/

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Back in June, I reviewed ACE Academy, an original English language visual novel by PixelFade Studios. Kaori After Story is a side-story sequel to one of the five main routes of ACE Academy. Because it is set for Christmas and New Years, I decided to hold off on a review until the season was right. My impressions are a bit mixed, but for certain ACE Academy fans, it is worth the sale price (not full price, however).

Because I am posting from Linux Rocks, I note that unlike ACE Academy, there is no native Linux version of Kaori After Story (the former was written in Ren'Py, but I think the latter uses Unity). However, the Steam version is DRM-free (credit for that) and I ran it using WINE with no issues or special configuration.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/kaori-after-story-review/

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