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Swan Song

Developer: FlyingShine
29 July 2005
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Swan Song completely failed as an ensemble cast, and its lore is completely incompatible with pornography, so it has virtually no value as an adult 18+ work (you will not get turned on for a single second).

Even halfway through the story, it becomes clear that the author clearly lacks the ability to lead the story in a way that conveys any meaningful message or turbulent emotion. Most of the characters no longer participate in the story after the first 30 minutes of the game, as most of their conflicts are not resolved at all. Almost every character except for like 1~2 guys stays the same for the whole game.

Thus, in the latter half, the story progresses solely on cruelty and absurdity with a few less boring characters, and suddenly every fucking person dies and the story ends. A very amateurish piece of work.

But, it's not that bad when you consider the fact that this is a visual novel after all. There are sooooo many worse stories than this one for sure. However, as you progress through the game, you can quite easily sense that the author really thought this game as a work of art rather than porn meant to be sold.

For example, games provide a lot, I mean a real fucking lot of philosophical lines about society and humanity. There are so many of them that it almost feels like the only reason this script was written was because the author wanted to show off how much he hates humanity.

And what's worse? Most of them are pure hatred against humanity, rather than sending a message or providing any moral story. Those cringe lines really pop out of nowhere in any possible scene.

So I cant really say this is an okay story because it's an VN. The author clearly tried to write an actual novel, not a jerk off material (yes this is technically eroge). But sadly he was not a pro writer.
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writing/scenario: The story is a classical tale of the nature of the human group in bad circumstances. I've seen it compared to Lord of the Flies numerous times. Disaster strikes and the group of survivors have to work together to build a new society. Despair, misery and conflicting politics/religious beliefs/opinions permeates this VN which is filled with violence, but there's also a surprising amount of lighthearted content which I suppose gives it a somewhat naturalistic feel. Even in dark times, people still try to cope with the situation to be happy. Swan Song takes a more novelistic approach to writing and I think it could be quite appreciated on RYM. The game follows the perspective of different characters at different times, and one guy in particular ends up downright evil. I think the game could've done a better job at fleshing out the character whose perspective you're following sometimes. Still I'd say the characters are cool and some of the minor ones are especially memorable.

visual: I like the snowy setting and the more subtle use of CGs. It's a bit unique in that the characters don't have sprites, but small portraits instead.

sound: The music isn't very good. The characters are voiced.

gameplay: Standard choice selection, but there's a decent amount of it and some branching in the story.

hentai: There isn't much H, but what little there is is there for story reasons and the game is better off for having it.

overall: A pretty dark VN with interesting flawed characters and overall an attempt at more realistic story telling and characterization. In my book it is not a triumph due in part to the true ending being way too much of a typical VN ending. One of the bad endings fits the game better, since this is not a typical VN. The main reason for me though is that the writing simply isn't confident enough. There are some contrived parts and that sort of thing always rubs me the wrong way. On the whole, though, it is a great success.
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