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Shonen_Bat posted...

Highway Blossoms is great so I'd like to hear about that

It's my favorite visual novel for a reason! It's a fairly simple story, a romance between two women on a road trip who get swept up in a gold hunt. Their relationship just really resonated me. It wasnt perfect, I thought some drama in the middle was a bit unneeded, but the parts that were good were really good. Amber and Marina played off of each other super well, and the slow build into their romance was so sweet. I even liked the realism that a portion of the story is Amber trying to figure out if Marina is even into women, it felt so realistic. Even the H scenes (added via patch) added some neat characterization as opposed to just smut (not that I'm against smut, it was just nice to have more too)

I still haven't played the sequel, Next Exit, but I've been meaning to for awhile. I did play the next VN these people wrote, Heart of the Woods, and I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much. The friendship between the two main girls in that was compelling, but their respective romances both felt so contrived. There was no realistic buildup or doubts like HB had, just suddenly two characters are banging, and of course this century-old ghost is a lesbian, it's a yuri VN why wouldn't she be? Ugh. Amber and Marina had more chemistry in one scene than those two romances did combined.

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