Natsuiro No Kowaremono After Fixed đź’Ž

But then you notice the glitches.

Natsuiro no Kowaremono is not a "fun" game. It is a slow, humid, psychological sunburn. It will make you distrust the color blue and the sound of wind chimes. natsuiro no kowaremono after

Natsuiro no Kowaremono was developed by a now-defunct studio called Crescent Moon , and it was infamous at release for being a "buggy mess." Reviews from 1999 complain about save files corrupting, text boxes randomly scrambling into ASCII garbage, and character sprites "melting" into static. But then you notice the glitches

Veteran fans of this cult classic only need to hear two words to shudder: The Pool . It will make you distrust the color blue

But if you are tired of visual novels that hold your hand, and you want to feel the same dread that players felt in 1999 when their floppy disks started making a sound they had never heard before... find the patch, turn off the lights, and get ready for summer.

Have you played this obscure gem? Or did you think I was making this up until you Googled it? Let me know in the comments below. And for the love of god, don't date Yukino first.

Without spoiling the exact horror, let me just say that Natsuiro no Kowaremono plays with the concept of "Save Scumming" in a way that Undertale and Doki Doki Literature Club! would popularize nearly two decades later. When you reload a save file, the girls know you left them.