Séduit en premier lieu par le chara-design, ce jeu est mon premier visual novel dans le style yuri. Et je ne suis pas déçu! L'histoire, la narration, les personnages, les musiques! J'ai tout adoré! Le jeu est empreint de légèreté et les personnages sont tous attachants. J'ai aussi beaucoup apprécié le travail des doubleuses (coup de coeur pour celle doublant Hina).

Si on doit citer des points négatifs (totalement mineurs pour moi) : le format vidéo du jeu qui doit se jouer en mode fenêtré non redimensionnable sous peine d'avoir les images du jeu mal mises à l'échelle. En ce qui concerne les musiques, elles sont répétitives, mais comme la plupart d'entre elles sont calmes, elles passent inaperçues et accomplissent efficacement leur mission de donner l'ambiance voulue selon la situation.

I'm going to first talk about facts, then get into my personal thoughts on the game. Spoiler-tags are used liberally, and I'm not going to bring any big spoilers into the review whatsoever--I want you to experience the game on your own!

Really, just try it.

Nukige being defined as a game where the plot only exists as a vehicle for sex. If you're looking for graphic content, this is probably not the game for you.
Spoiler includes the length of time before reaching the first 'erotic' scene:15 hours

How partial? Well... about a fifth. From my estimation (not looking at raw files, but simply from my experience playing the game...) it seems to be somewhere around five to six hours of voice acting. That's more than any single season of anime will have, anyway. All of the funniest, most exciting, or most painful moments are acted--it is a slight disappointment that it all isn't, but, they made sure they got the most out of the performances, and they are well-done.

They're somewhat modest about mentioning it, but there are over a dozen tracks, not including the opening and ending. Their usage and application in each and every scene are great and help reinforce the writing and bring it to it's fullest emotional potential. Some of the tracks you WILL connect to emotionally by the end.

There's more details about this throughout my review, but, putting it here as well. After getting the 100% completion, I had spent 26 hours myself.

There are some choices to be made, and some alternate scenes and dialogues to be had, but you're mostly along for the ride. There is some non-linear experience, and plenty of perspective changes, but the story is pretty much set. There might be an alternate ending--I don't know yet though, and its definitely something you should experience for yourself! Gameplay is mostly just taking the story at your own pace, and choosing what parts you want to see first.




I played the demo before playing this game--it's available from the developer's website and is roughly 2 hours in length (at least, for my reading/emotional engagement speed)

I played the game immediately upon release from the developer's website, some many hours before the official Steam release. I slept around 4 hours after making it through a decent bit, and then finished it. I imported my save into the Steam version by simply copy+pasting the save directory.

I spent 19 hours playing through the main scenario after speeding through the identical demo scenes, leaving me with a 21 hour playtime. After completing the main scenario, extra scenes were interspersed throughout--a large amount, actually. I would estimate at roughly a quarter of the main scenario in length--you're getting closer to 30 hours than 20 with this game, at my speed.

EDIT2: I finished all of the extra scenarios. They are VERY numerous (78 in all!) and well written and fill in every gap. It took me an additional 5 hours to read them all, so that raises my time spent to 26 hours before full clearing the game. And even if the main scenario is over, the extra scenes are VERY much worth your time.


!!NOTE!! This review is a work in progress. This concludes my fact-based guide. I will be updating this review with my full thoughts on the game shortly. It'll be pretty long, so I'm writing a TL;DR (even though you can't read it yet...)

TL;DR: This game is an amazing piece of media, of fiction, of art. Of love, of what love is, and the hardships that come with love... well-written characters that are engaging, genuinely funny jokes and seamless localization. Kindred Spirits on the Roof is a bittersweet treasure.

Ce n'est pas ma VN yuri préférée, mais franchement elle est très bonne et vaut le coup d'oeil.

De la pure romance en veux-tu qu'en voilà ! C'est pas cucul et en plus c'est drôle. Une VN rafraîchissante en somme.

Points positifs :
- Musiques, chaque couple a sa petite variante sonore si vous tendez bien l'oreille ;)
- Doublage partiel très agréable
- Graphismes, c'est beau, c'est agréable pour les yeux
- Des histoires touchantes (même si clichet faut avouer)
- Des persos tout aussi touchants et attachants
- De l'humour

Points négatifs :
- Kinetic (choix sans influence réelle sur le déroulement de l'histoire), j'aurais aimé avoir de vrais choix avec de vraies conséquences
- Un perso qui me plait beaucoup même si on la voit pas tant que ça et qui n'a pas sa romance dans le jeu, mais bon y a du subtext avec un autre perso (pas de nom pour pas de spoil)
- Vive les clichets (sans que ça soit vraiment gênant)
- Le prix plus de 30€ pour une vingtaine d'heures de jeu (MAIS vu le niveau graphique, le son et en fait le contenu globale et le temps qu'ils ont du passer à faire cette VN, je crois qu'on peut dire que ça les vaut bien).

Potentiellement un classique du VN Yuri dans le pure style manga. Les fans du genre foncez, pour les autres faut voir, Il est quand même question de Yuritopia.
En espérant que mon évaluation vous sera utile, tchuss ;)

Let me start off by saying that I’m a gay girl and that I’ve been eyeing this game ever since it got released in Japan, which was back in 2012.

Was the wait worth it?

Hell yes.

As another reviewer has mentioned, this story does have a very porny premise. Two ghosts rope MC into playing yuri cupid for various couples in the school so that the ghosts can spy on them and learn how to make love to each other, as girls—yes, this is morally questionable no matter how you word it—but despite this, the story is not centered around sex at all. Really. It took me around 12 hours to reach the first nsfw scene, and all the way up those 12 hours, the story focuses on developing relationships, emotional connections, friendship. Rather than sex being the focal point of the game, it feels very much like a beautiful culmination to everything that couple has experienced together up to that point—from the confessions, to the trials and tribulations of trying get their love reciprocated, their sense of stability after ironing out misunderstandings.

Also, while the whole “b-but we’re both girls!” may seem excessive at some points, homosexuality in Japan is still very much condemned. But that’s one of the most refreshing things about this game: not only does the story touch upon real issues like social stigma and family expectations, but it also doesn’t write off the girl/girl romances as just a phase, like so many other works in yuri genre do. One couple in particular discusses and plans their future together in the face of a homophobic society, and that really resonated with me.

As someone who has also tried out the Sono Hanabira series, which oversexualizes girls (and even glosses over the fact that one of them is a huge age gap student/teacher lol), I am very happy that this game doesn’t treat homosexuality as a joke or something just to fetishize. I really felt like the story was reaching out to girls in similar situations, living in fear of condemnation yet still brave enough to face their feelings and look forward to a brighter future.

Setting aside my accolades for the story, the voice acting, art, and music are also superb. The nsfw scenes are very tasteful, and despite the fact that the OST is about 12/13 tracks, the songs are catchy enough that I never felt bothered by it.

Conclusion: if you love girls, love girls loving girls, love a good story, please get this game. It’s $30, yes, but there’s around 30 hours of gameplay, so it’s well worth the money. You won’t regret it.

Help girls realise they are gay.
If they are not gay, make them gay.

Surprisingly well-written, despite its porny premise (two dead lesbians want to bang so that they may ascend to the afterlife). I enjoyed the pacing and the changing POVs. There is very little sexual content; it took me roughly 10 hours of reading before I saw any, and none of it is explicit. Notably, there is absolutely zero fanservice or gratuitous sexualization of the exclusively female cast in this game. Instead, the characters are interesting, well-designed, and thoughtfully written. "Kindred Spirits on the Roof" is a bright, warm, funny exploration of first love, treated with gentleness and authenticity. I'm grateful for the opportunity to have played it.

Ce jeu est absolument fantastique. Prenant, profond, varié, vraiment on ne s'en lasse pas, et il est suffisamment long pour bien en profiter. Un peu cher, peut être, cependant?

Visual Novel fort sympathique, je l'ai trouvé drôle et attachant à la fois.

Il y a beaucoup de personnages ce qui pourrait sembler un peu étouffant mais globalement j'ai apprécié de lire leurs histoires (même si je concède comme d'autres évaluation que certaines romances semblent un peu plus rapides (trop ?) que d'autres particulièrement la dernière).

Le jeu contient de la nudité évidemment mais que je ne trouve pas utile uniquement au fan service mais plus présent comme un élément sain d'une relation de couple.

Bref, si vous hésitez à vous lancer et/ou que le genre yuri vous intrigue ce VN d'une vingtaine d'heures est à découvrir sans modération ! (à condition de comprendre l'anglais bien entendu)

Graphism, story, sound a really good visual novel

Suivez quelques mois de la vie de Toomi Yuna et de plusieurs autres personnages aussi attachants que peu originaux dans une histoire légère pleine de fantômes, d'uniformes, de courses poursuite dans des couloirs, de rougissements spontanés, de cœurs qui battent la chamade et de premiers baisers.

Vous aimez:
- Les romances lesbiennes (Qui l'eu cru?)
- Les bons gros clichés scénaristiques
- Les histoires au ton léger et à l'humour omniprésent
- Les dessins globalement agréables à l'œil, que ce soit les personnages ou les fonds.
- Les bandes sons qui collent à l'ambiance mais qui finissent par se répéter
- Le 800*600, la HD ce n'est pas votre tasse de thé
- Toomi Yuna
- Payer une trentaine d'euros pour lire pendant 20-40h
- Les scènes longues et qui n'apportent rien au scénario
- Montrer au monde que vous avez bon goût

Vous n'aimez pas:
- Les VN entièrement doublées
- Les histoires tristes
- Avoir réellement le choix dans le déroulement du scénario
- Les histoires qui ne vous demandent pas de repasser quelques scènes pour débloquer des bonus à la fin
- Les personnages aux personnalités complexes
- Les rebondissements imprévus (quoique)
- Les titres censurés sur Steam
- Les histoires qui tombent dans la vulgarité gratuite
- Les titres compatibles avec l'overlay steam

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