About This Game The latest short, serious visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived!OverviewThere is nothing in this world.Just endlessly falling rain.The population here is exactly one.Getting off the elevator one day, a mysterious world was waiting.No one else was around, only endless rainy sky and weathered flagstones.In this world, getting hungry and even death wasn't possible.It was a world where time seems to have stopped.Except one thing -- the rain continued to fall."This world has a population of just one. So get out."A girl named "Rin" told the protagonist.She declared that she was the lone mistress of this rainy world.For how many years, decades, even centuries... Has she lived all alone in this world?Will the day come when the rain stops falling? Narcissu Bonus Episode Included in the game is a copy of Narcissu 1st, as well as a brand new VERY short bonus episode. It's very short, but hopefully is interesting for narcissu fans.Changing language regionThe game is playable in either English or Japanese, but due to technical constraints, there is no way to change the language within the game.However, it's possible to change the region for the game, as documented here:https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8487-WSCN-4121NOTETo play the game in Japanese, your Windows installation needs to be set to handle non-unicode text as Japanese:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-system-locale#1TC=windows-7If you experience issues, please email support(at)sekaiproject.com 1075eedd30 Title: Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-Genre: IndieDeveloper:stage-nanaPublisher:Sekai ProjectRelease Date: 30 Dec, 2014 Ame No Marginal -Rain Marginal- Download Now 5\/10I'm hesitant to recommend this game for a number of reasons. It's not worth its full price and is hardly worth getting at half price. I did enjoy the game, but I believe I got this for less than half price. Worth a consideration for 60% off or more.Negatives:-Aside from the first 20% of the game, it feels like you are watching a sloppy brainstorm type proposal for a visual novel. It doesn't have much direction, and the direction it has is imprecisely dragged out, making a lot of the story repetitive and monotonous. You could say the limbo in the novel has realistic effects. In Sekai's defense, it is probably extremely difficult to get excitement out of a limbo concept-The same 5 or so backdrops are used for about half the novel-The music is not an enhancement to the novel at all. It sounds like filler, honestly. Other visual novels have mastered this while this one hugely underutilizes music-From the beginning the story is nonsensically depressing. Stories can be good and sad, but at times it honestly felt like I was reading about mysticized teen angst, and the suffering was mostly self-pityPositives:-It is cute-The ending isn't extravagant but satisfying considering the quality of the story-If you don't need a story with progression and would be satisfied with just keeping company with mediocre characters for a few hours, it is entertaining-There are a handful of endearing moments between charactersI enjoyed it considering my discount and the fact that I had nothing else to do for like 4 hours. (lot of idle time recorded). fantastic vn, highly reccomended. I like this game, but if you have no experience with this writer or visual novel in general, I won't recommend it. Go get Narcissu instead (It is free on steam by the same writer), and come back if you end up liking his style of writing.To put it simple, it was a short and sad story about a girl becoming the lord of a never-end raining world. There wasn't too much happening with the plot. Rather, it was the mood that kept me reading. The male character was a depressed salary man, but that didn't affect the story. (The writer's other work, Sumire developed by nekoneko soft, incorporates the setting of a depressed salary man way better.) After finishing the game, you will unlock the bonus content, which is the full game of Narcissu 1 including an extra little chapter not in the free steam version.I like the game music. It fits the sad and depressing story. The artwork is hm...I doubt if anyone can fap on it, but you never know. I bought the game when it was super cheap during summer sale, and it worths the money.. What will you do if you are trapped in a empty world where time have stopped. When the rain never stop falling, when sickness, hunger and death never existed, a world where only one person can live in? Ame no Marginal is a short kinetic novel made by Tomo Kataoka, the creator of Narcissu 1st and 2nd. It portays the lives of 2 particular characters.A troubled young man who tried to take his life by attempting suicide on the 7th floor (The rooftop) of the building that he is working in. Only to find himself going back to work the next day. Curiousity soon led him to the 8th floor of the building. The floor which never existed until that day. Upon entering the 8th floor, he finds himself in a place that he had never been to before, a world with an everlasting rain. He was soon greeted by a young girl who have been living alone, in the cold and empty world where the rain never stop.Ame no Marginal's storyline is well written and very engaging, the depressing yet touching storyline, along with the appropiate use of soundtracks is able to portray the right mood. The voice acting is also excellent and the characters are also well drawn, Overall, Ame no Marginal is a very good Visual Novel. If you have read Narissu and enjoyed it, then, I'll definitely recommend you to try out Ame no Marginal.10\/10 will spend a millennium walking through the river in the rain.. I liked the author\u2019s previous work, so I picked this up immediately on release without even looking at what it was about. What I liked most about Ame no Marginal was the mood, created by the music and visuals. Unfortunately the characters were a bit flat, and it didn\u2019t end up packing the punch I was hoping.That\u2019s really my only problem here, that it\u2019s lacking in depth. The cast is tiny, and yet there\u2019s not much work put into making them fully realized. It makes it feel like a fairy tale. It gets the mood right, but smooths out details. It becomes a problem because one of the main characters is talked about as if he\u2019s a person, but you never get much of a sense for him. He\u2019s generic male protagonist, and he doesn\u2019t belong here. This story called for more than that.That said, Ame no Marginal is still nice. Parts of the story were excellent. It\u2019s mostly in the second half it started to strain credibility. And when the ending hit I wasn\u2019t feeling it at all. But still, the music was great and the early parts of the story were gripping, so overall I\u2019d say this is a success. I imagine many will be more forgiving than I am, and I\u2019m happy for you. Finally, it\u2019s probably overpriced for what took me ~90 minutes to finish. But sales will take care of that if it\u2019s a problem for you.. This non-interactive story is about a suicide-prone white-collar (an unnamed decoy protagonist) who gets sent into a mostly empty parallel world, where he meets this (also unnamed) girl who's been living alone there for over a millennium. Apparently because people can't die in it. The rest i can't spoil, but the story isn't as lighthearted as the art style makes it seem to be. It's an amazing tear-jerker if you don't mind fantastical elements. But it's still pretty good if you do.You might first want to try "Narcissu 1st & 2nd", which's free on steam, to get an idea on how stage-nana works. And at least Narcissus tries to stay grounded to reality.Pros:+ Short, yet amazing story.+ Soundtrack fits perfectly with the mood.+ No choices, so just sit back and enjoy a good tearjerker.+ Female protagonist didn't suicide this time!+ Voices sound great. might be annoying for some players, though.+ Contains an extra chapter for "Narcissu 1st", another work by the same developer.+ "Rin" is legal.Neutral:* Story gets juggled between two routes (present\/question and past\/answer) before converging, making it hard to follow the events in one of them. But it's still a good way to expose the world to the reader.* Handwave galore: much is left unexplained. better being minimalistic than ruining its world with silly tropes.Cons:- Silly title. it's hard to say it with a straight face.- The art could use a bit more work.- There are only a handful of images, which often get reused.- Characters are rather simple, especially the white-collar guy. you could replace him with a block of wood and the story would still go on regardless.- Requires fair amount of suspension of disbelief. - Story can get a bit too DBZ-y. Heck, most of the setting is inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, FFS.
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