To be honest, I feel like visual novels that actually do focus on its story development often get drowned by all the dating sims. While I absolutely love romance visual novels, I have to say I found it quite refreshing to play one where the focus lies elsewhere. Although some romantic feelings get hinted here and there, Our World Is Ended feels more like a typical harem instead of including romance scenes. But at the same time, I think it was quite intentional as this visual novel seems to put all the clichés of anime together and sometimes it even comes off as a parody game, yet below the surface, there is much more hidden than it might seem at first.

Our World Is Ended opens with Reiji testing an Augmented Reality (AR) headset while getting accompanied by Yuno. You see, Reiji and Yuno belong to a game development team called Judgement 7. As the name already implies, there are seven members in total with Reiji being their part-time working director. Anyway, while wearing the AR headset, Reiji suddenly finds himself in the very same city Tokyo except that it’s empty and pretty much destroyed with his friends hanging on a building. This scenario, however, didn’t last for a long time and he finds himself back with Yuno being alive and quirky as ever. Without a lot of thought, he puts this incident off as a glitch and thus, Judgement 7 continues to work on their games.

Something I noticed immediately here is that comedy is one of the main genres in Our World Is Ended. As aforementioned, this visual novel seems to take cliché anime contents and even overdo them that much, that it’s just getting hilarious. Sexual jokes towards girls aren’t missing here but are, in fact, most of the dialogue between the characters here. I enjoyed that although the male characters are displayed as perverts, they still treat the girls with a lot of respect. I have to admit I found the sexual jokes quite entertaining, yet it takes up a very big part of the game so it’s impossible to play this game when you’re sensitive to this content. It’s important to say that it always happens in a jolly way and is not meant to be mischievous.

Not only comedy takes up a big part of this game but also slice-of-life. While Our World Is Ended is not supposed to be a slice-of-life game, it offers plenty of light-hearted scenes where you just read the characters going on dates, playing various games or simply just attend their meetings to discuss further plans with the game development. That being said, the story takes a lot of time to finally pick up, yet I honestly think these slice-of-life scenes are essential so the player gets to know each character better. While it might seem like these scenes are really unnecessary at first, they all greatly helped me to get attached to each character and I found myself rooting for them before I even knew what was going on.

A slow start with the story doesn’t mean it’s bad overall and I liked the premise that we had seven equal heroes here. While the player plays Our World Is Ended as Reiji, I had the impression that everyone could count as the main character and even if the perspective would be from another character, it wouldn’t make a difference to me. Thanks to the good character development here, I felt like I knew every character that well that I could have guessed what they are thinking in specific situations. I enjoyed that Our World Is Ended mixed so many genres and even includes sci-fi which I personally am a big fan of. And even in the sci-fi genre, this visual novel mashes up a lot of sub-categories such as time traveling, and loops, virtual reality and teleporting. This game just shows how successful an experient of different aspects could turn out.

Additionally, there are various decisions available in Our World Is Ended. I noticed that each choice is different from each other and therefore, I had the feeling that I was able to shape Reiji’s personality from a gentleman to another pervert. Choices are important here to get other endings although there are two different kinds of decisions. While the first one is a normal selection between different choices, there is a special mode which is called “Selection of Soul” (SoS) and takes place when Reiji gets flustered. In this mode, you’re deciding on an answer as well but the difference here is that it’s timed and the choices are sliding through the screen. When unable to select a choice, it will count as staying silent which has an impact as well. The thing I disliked here was that the choices aren’t popping up simultaneously so when I wanted to wait until I knew all the possible answers, the first one was already gone.

The story is quite linear in Our World Is Ended although there are multiple endings available for each character. When going through the first playthrough, the player is locked into the normal end and other endings might get pursued once you finish the game once. The branching of the story takes place very late so most of the time you’re getting the same content. Luckily, there is a skip-to-the-next-choice available here so that comes in handy for such a lengthy visual novel.

The artwork is gorgeous in Our World Is Ended with a lot of breathtaking CGs. Even the backgrounds were so detailed that you can see people or various objects even in normal scenes. Additionally, the animations available here are well made such as when the characters are hitting each other as well as the lip-synch. Overall, the colors are very vibrant and quirky, especially when the sprites are jumping up and down. Excellent voice acting isn’t missing here as well and a big plus here is that not only Reiji is voiced but he has his own sprite as well although he is not often visible. Ultimately, the game’s theme gets complimented by its cheerful and intense soundtracks.

Our World Is Ended focuses less on the game developing aspect but rather its main character happened to be game developers. After a short time I was already attached to each character, even though they were all so different, and just rooted for them to achieve their goals. It was interesting to get to know each character very detailed although that meant that a big part of the game solely had the purpose of introducing the characters properly. While the story gets a while to pick up, it managed to positively surprise me and the mash-up with sci-fi, comedy, and slice-of-life just fit so well to the game’s overall theme and intention. Although I have to say that the sexual jokes might be very exaggerated they don’t fail to entertain its reader, may it be just for getting reminded of hilarious anime scenes.

To be honest, I feel like visual novels that actually do focus on its story development often get drowned by all the dating sims. While I absolutely love romance visual novels, I have to say I found it quite refreshing to play one where the focus lies elsewhere. Although some romantic feelings get hinted here and there, Our World Is Ended feels more like a typical harem instead of including romance scenes. But at the same time, I think it was quite intentional as this visual novel seems to put all the clichés of anime together and sometimes it even comes off as a parody game, yet below the surface, there is much more hidden than it might seem at first. Our World Is Ended opens with Reiji testing an Augmented Reality (AR) headset while getting accompanied by Yuno. You see, Reiji and Yuno belong to a game development team called Judgement 7. As the name already implies, there are seven members in total with Reiji being their part-time working director. Anyway, while wearing the AR headset, Reiji suddenly finds himself in the very same city Tokyo except that it’s empty and pretty much destroyed with his friends hanging on a building. This scenario, however, didn’t last for a long time and he finds himself back with Yuno being alive and quirky as ever. Without a lot of thought, he puts this incident off as a glitch and thus, Judgement 7 continues to work on their games. Something I noticed immediately here is that comedy is one of the main genres in Our World Is Ended. As aforementioned, this visual novel seems to take cliché anime contents and even overdo them that much, that it’s just getting hilarious. Sexual jokes towards girls aren’t missing here but are, in fact, most of the dialogue between the characters here. I enjoyed that although the male characters are displayed as perverts, they still treat the girls with a lot of respect. I have to admit I found the sexual jokes quite entertaining, yet it takes up a very big part of the game so it’s impossible to play this game when you’re sensitive to this content. It’s important to say that it always happens in a jolly way and is not meant to be mischievous. Not only comedy takes up a big part of this game but also slice-of-life. While Our World Is Ended is not supposed to be a slice-of-life game, it offers plenty of light-hearted scenes where you just read the characters going on dates, playing various games or simply just attend their meetings to discuss further plans with the game development. That being said, the story takes a lot of time to finally pick up, yet I honestly think these slice-of-life scenes are essential so the player gets to know each character better. While it might seem like these scenes are really unnecessary at first, they all greatly helped me to get attached to each character and I found myself rooting for them before I even knew what was going on. A slow start with the story doesn’t mean it’s bad overall and I liked the premise that we had seven equal heroes here. While the player plays Our World Is Ended as Reiji, I had the impression that everyone could count as the main character and even if the perspective would be from another character, it wouldn’t make a difference to me. Thanks to the good character development here, I felt like I knew every character that well that I could have guessed what they are thinking in specific situations. I enjoyed that Our World Is Ended mixed so many genres and even includes sci-fi which I personally am a big fan of. And even in the sci-fi genre, this visual novel mashes up a lot of sub-categories such as time traveling, and loops, virtual reality and teleporting. This game just shows how successful an experient of different aspects could turn out. Additionally, there are various decisions available in Our World Is Ended. I noticed that each choice is different from each other and therefore, I had the feeling that I was able to shape Reiji’s personality from a gentleman to another pervert. Choices are important here to get other endings although there are two different kinds of decisions. While the first one is a normal selection between different choices, there is a special mode which is called “Selection of Soul” (SoS) and takes place when Reiji gets flustered. In this mode, you’re deciding on an answer as well but the difference here is that it’s timed and the choices are sliding through the screen. When unable to select a choice, it will count as staying silent which has an impact as well. The thing I disliked here was that the choices aren’t popping up simultaneously so when I wanted to wait until I knew all the possible answers, the first one was already gone. The story is quite linear in Our World Is Ended although there are multiple endings available for each character. When going through the first playthrough, the player is locked into the normal end and other endings might get pursued once you finish the game once. The branching of the story takes place very late so most of the time you’re getting the same content. Luckily, there is a skip-to-the-next-choice available here so that comes in handy for such a lengthy visual novel. The artwork is gorgeous in Our World Is Ended with a lot of breathtaking CGs. Even the backgrounds were so detailed that you can see people or various objects even in normal scenes. Additionally, the animations available here are well made such as when the characters are hitting each other as well as the lip-synch. Overall, the colors are very vibrant and quirky, especially when the sprites are jumping up and down. Excellent voice acting isn’t missing here as well and a big plus here is that not only Reiji is voiced but he has his own sprite as well although he is not often visible. Ultimately, the game’s theme gets complimented by its cheerful and intense soundtracks. Our World Is Ended focuses less on the game developing aspect but rather its main character happened to be game developers. After a short time I was already attached to each character, even though they were all so different, and just rooted for them to achieve their goals. It was interesting to get to know each character very detailed although that meant that a big part of the game solely had the purpose of introducing the characters properly. 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