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back07's Artemis Blue Game Review

Artemis Blue game Review

Story & Playability

" It is the early 2060′s. A mysterious disaster that occurred in 2040, “The Great Change”, made it impossible for flights over 500 feet. The area between 500 feet and space where no aircraft is able to fly is called “Artemis’s hymen”, something that can never be broken. The Third New Tokyo International Airport was abandoned during construction (nickname Edowans) and now serve as a place for the remaining pilots to gather. In a world where flight over land is forbidden by law, these pilots still fly airplanes and run a transport agency that may include illegal work. Tajima Haru is almost 20 years old. She’s cheerful, honest, polite, and hardworking. She loves airplanes and have always admired the “sky” and becoming a “pilot”. She uses her guts to fly alone to America after high school and to obtain the pilot license after two years in aviation school. After returning home, she goes to an interview with “Kubo Air Transport” in “Edowans” to apply as a co-pilot. In that company was the legendary test pilot, Katsura Keima, who almost broke “Artemis’s hymen” in project ikaros. "


The story is about Haru’s challenge and experience as a pilot, and how she interacts with people in the company and other pilots. The story takes on a chapter by chapter format and each chapter introduces a new guest character or a big turn in events. The focus is on their slice of life, then later in a transportation job or resolving character problems (not much conflict).
The story in this game is pretty good. This is something you might see as a TV show and this game didn’t even need to be an eroge. The characters in this game were awesome, and the voice actors in this game were good (especially Haru’s). The characters created a great atmospere which lead to fun slice of life scenes and quite a few heartwarming experiences.
However, this game also had lots of faults in the story. First, some plot development were unconvincing (like Haru’s romance and her choices). There were lots of overdescriptive moments, and I hated repeated scenes of departure (not to mention bad english pronunciation and spelling errors in those scenes). This lead to bad tempo in the story from time to time. The biggest thing fault I saw was that the author seemed to switch gears in the final chapter. Before the final chapter, the story did an awesome job building up the story for what I believed was going to be resolved/challenged in a grand fashion in the final chapter. However, the “fire” seemed to be lost as all the buildup for challenging the Artemis Blue was completely thrown away in the final chapter and the focus went somewhere completely different. This change in direction left a lot of questions (such as what happened with Sara and Haru’s challenge on Artemis Blue) and it also left me annoyed at how the story went against my expectation of what it led me to believe.

Rating: 5

Graphics

The graphics were good, and there were lots of CGs for a game this length. There are almost 140 CGs, and there were quite a few CGs devoted to airplanes, too. Don’t know if that’s good or not. One thing I didn’t like was the proportion of the people in CGs, and also how the guys were drawn. A lot of the guys were poorly drawn in CGs and sprites. However, Ally’s cuteness is justice.

Rating: 5

Sound

The music is pretty good and matches the effect/story. There are 33 tracks, in addition to 3 vocal songs. The vocal song is pretty good and matching the story too. The BGM has lots of arranged old songs. It does the job, but I don’t think any were really memorable or exceptionally good.

Rating: 6

Fun

The story felt like it introduced a lot and made people assume a lot of things that may happen in the end, but actually went in a different direction. If you can look at the chapters individually, it may help.

Recommended for people who like slice of life, people who like drama.

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Genre :
~ Drama
~ Slice of Life

Rating: 6

Final Verdict

5.5000 (average)

Reviewed by back07, Jan 28, 2012

Comments

  1. SnickerdoodleNinja Retired Moderator Jan 28, 2012

    Oh, visual novels. ~ I might be interested if there were more in the US and more that weren't eroge. :(

    Anyways, I like how you covered both the good and bad without seeming biased, though I really would have loved to see a bit more depth and insight into those elements. For instance, we read that the characters are awesome, but what is it that makes them so awesome? That sort of depth as well as more elaboration on sound and art would really take this review up a notch further in my opinion. :) I'll be curious to see your next review!

    Note: You might not be aware of this, but MT tries to avoid major spoilers in reviews, so please edit some of the information regarding the endings-particularly in the Fun section-when you get the chance. Reviews that are not edited to remove spoilers risk deletion after about a week :(

  2. angelxxuan Banned Member Jan 28, 2012

    hmm an edited review, looks sort of sloppy and missing things, or was it like this before doodle's suggestion? what does CG mean? this review seems confusing and lacking any effort, style or anything at all really. From what I'm reading it looks like a slap of words together in an attempt to make a review. I've played several VN and know, for a fact, they have more than one character, and the plot was lacking for a better aide, thus where I think the editing of removing all the spoilers were stated. It would have been nice to see the rating for this, like for mature, which I know would possibly be due to it being eroge but maybe people might not know what that means. after a quick search myself I found that it might be interesting to venture into, but this one seems dry to me.

    I have read your other reviews, I think I've even commented on them, I do know doing reviews aren't easy but there is a group http://minitokyo-review.minitokyo.net/ that might be able to help if you're interested. it states the rules and gives a few helpful suggestions and the likes. Don't let my critique get you down, I see great potential but this review seems so choppy and dry to me as is. I hope to see more reviews in the future and don't be afraid to explore, read other reviews and find your own style. that's pretty much what I've done as have others. best of luck on your next review can't wait to read it.

  3. z827 Jan 29, 2012

    Well , to be fair , his story review isn't THAT bad - the first half was the intro and the second half was the general element of the plot.
    From what I can tell , the plot , apparently , have a bad... "flow" to it and like Chaos;Head , the major shifts near the conclusion of the plot had probably disoriented the player - leading to possible disappointment.
    The spoiler factor in this review isn't particularly overwhelming as a whole but eh... some brushing up is probably required.

    I also can't agree with angelxxuan's criticism about the term "CG" - it's a very common term used amongst VN players so at worst , it'll only prove to be a confusing term for those whom are new to Visual Novels.

    However , like the others had said , your review is a bit lacking in the other fields and it's probably advisable to expand on these areas a bit. Still , I'm learning myself so... keep it up , fellow VN reviewer =w=

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