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The story takes place in a small city at Michima Cape, seemingly an island outside the city of Tokyo near the Ocean. The city provides everything we need to live a peaceful life thanks to a city center with different shops and stores and beautiful beach.

We take control of the protagonist and young student named Kazami Yuuji who was sent by his company to a special academy known as Mihama Academy. This is a special facility built entirely for one purpose, to support students with difficult psychological and post traumatic conditions in childhood where a normal life is no longer possible in the current world. Kazami Yuuji wished nothing more then a normal school and student life which was granted to him by his company.


In this school the moment we are admitted and welcomed by the Principal Tachibana Chizuru, it is also home of five students which lives in the school dorm:

Kazami Yuuji did not have a normal childhood and was not able to attend a normal school as he should have. Still suffering from is past, he is able to forget his worries while staying in the Academy with his new schoolfriends, yet events begin to take place that remind him that he has still not recovered from his traumatic childhood.

Zakaki Yumiko is the daughter of East Beach Railway Express Group's CEO Michiaki Sakaki which is also the one responsible behind the construction of Mihama Academy. Her personality is very abnormal and she isolates herself in her room for the most time in the dorm. When she feels uneasy around the other students she is quick to threaten them with a box cutter that she is always carrying on her.

Matsushima Michiru tries very hard to take on the personality of a tsundere. She wears her hair in twintails which she bleaches regularly to keep them a pure blond color. It is a mystery as to why she chooses to stick to this quirky personality so strongly.

Suou Amane is the so called "Big Sister" of the group of students. She does act like a big sister, always trying to support others how she can. She is a mother figure for Makina since she is the one who took Makina under her care.She is also a very skilled cook since her parents own a restaurant.

Irisu Makina is the youngest of the girls and also the most childish one of all the students. Due to her very hard past and family affairs Makina lost her sense of comfort around other people and will put great effort into avoiding contact with strangers.

Komine Sachi is the latest to arrive at Mihama Academy before Yuuji. Sachi took the habits of always wearing a maid uniform, always ready to help with any task or request made by her friends, even able to complete ones that seem to be impossible for her to achieve in the smallest amount of time.

After the entry in the academy, Yuuji continues his previous daily habits and is not allowed to talk about about his formal "job", only able to tell others that it is a cleaning company.

Yuuji was not given any specific order to attempt and involve himself with others at the school, and initially he didn't make effort to do so. However, as time passes his friendship begins to grow between the different students at the academy.


The Fruit of Grisaia presents us with high quality visuals and well detailed CG's. The artwork is very beautiful and adapted to the weather, light and darkness, and also adapted to each story. I really love how the visuals and artworks where adapted to each of the characters and flashbacks. It gives the reader an additional feeling of the actual situation and how the story flows.

Additionally to the already genuine art, we are provided with additional wallpapers downloadable for desktops, sweet avatars usable in any kind of forum or as profile picture, and even voiced content from the main characters in the visual novel usable for notifications and calls on mobile.This is a truly respectable free addition from the developer!

The characters mostly wear only 2 uniforms since the story takes place in a academy so they wear mainly school clothing. For events outside the school some characters tend to keep the school clothes while others do change into casual attire.
The game can be played in both window and fullscreen mode.


The story is something that turned out to be amazing and really shines compared to other novels in this genre. I read all the routes and didn't find a single one that I did not enjoy. I couldn't even complain about getting a "bad" ending as both the good and bad endings impressed me in how they handled each.

The deep details, the humor added into it, sarcasm of the characters, the personal circumstances from each character showing a point of psychological madness and post traumatic suffering, this all make me think about where the idea comes from. The story is stated to be fiction, but I truly think the emotional traumas that the characters go through is so well thought out and executed in the novel, that they may have been inspired by real life situations from real people.

I am impressed with the fact of the dull atmosphere and dark past of everyone's background that the Academy itself seemed to be a small paradise. The students are able to enjoy themselves and play together forgetting any worries, allowing them to live the most normal life that they could experience.

My only dislike in this novel would be that every route seemed fall in place to the main protagonist's main plan. I was missing the moment where we had to adapt to a situation that didn't fall into his plan or had elements that happened that were not what he wanted as an end result.

The other thing that I felt was lacking was that we learn mostly nothing about the protagonist himself. We have three routes showing that the protagonist could have a slight connection to the other students but there is only one that actually goes into slight details explaining some of Yuuji's past so that we understand his own problems.



My overall thoughts for The Fruit Of Grisaia are amazing to say the least. This visual novel includes a lot of different elements such as truly deep and well detailed psycho traumatic scenes, very awful childhoods that all of them have to bear within them, a nice and pleasant humor added to perfectly distract from the dull atmosphere at the right moments, and also the unique personalities for each character that provides a great deal of diversity into the story.

They added an amazing assortment extra content such the fantastic CG's, music tracks, opening and the ending songs from each route, wallpapers, and ring tones. This is something the developer went above and beyond on compared to most visual novels. I can only say, this visual novel is a masterpiece in its own rights.

In regards to my suggestion for the Steam version versus retail version, I can say that the Steam version does have a few scenes that would abruptly cut off that would normally lead into the H-scene. However, the sexual content is not what should be the main attraction or topic in this novel.

You absolutely can enjoy everything The Fruit of Grisaia has to offer regardless of which version you decide to purchase. This is without a doubt my favorite visual novel I've read to date. Its a must read and I strongly recommend playing through all the routes to get the full experience.

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Märchen Forest is a dungeon JRPG developed by PrimaryOrbit and published by Clouded Leopard Entertainment. This game was first only available for consoles, recently being brought to the PC platform.

Note: There are two different versions of this game on Steam, Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest gift plus the DLC Märchen Forest: Requiem of the Astral World, and also just Märchen Forest which is a complete version with the DLC already packaged in. My review is based on the newer complete and reworked version.


We live in a Forest, still unknown to the open world, filled with lots of mysterious creatures and events. Mylne, the little girl we will have the honor to accompany through her adventure was given to an old Pharmacist to take care of her while her mother had to go away for some time.

Mylne, eager of discovering new capabilities and knowledge, was experimenting over the cauldron of the old Pharmacist. Thanks to this she was given the possibility to learn to brew potions with the Pharmacist giving her lessons and overviewing her.

Success didn't wait for us very long. After gathering ingredients and taking parts in a quiz game around Mushrooms we successfully reach 3 pharmacist titles in no time.

After having conjured a spell that brought Winter for a few days over the warm forest, Mylne discovered a hidden entrance to an underground cavern. This is where we start our true adventure.
In search of our mother, we take things at hand and we start working our way through this labyrinth.

On our way down we encounter lost souls, haunting through the galleries of the labyrinth, which we will have to defeat to continue our way. The deeper we go the more new souls are blocking our way and the stronger they are. While we fight our way down we can gather items, which are necessary to give us upgrades for food, health, armor, weapons, relics, notes, and ingredients necessary for cooking and brewing potions.

All the while we travel down the labyrinth consuming food. This means we have to be able to provide ourself if we don't want to die from hunger. The First Layer of the labyrinth is designed to help gather a good amount of food while food becomes scarce the further down the dungeon you explore. This provides an additional touch to the game by giving us a sense of realism and challenge since food is not easy to acquire deep down.

While exploring more and more of the labyrinth we end up discovering Flamel's Laboratory. Flamel is a highly capable alchemist and researcher from the past millennia. This is where we find our first clues about our mother which are quite surprising and with this information a new adventure begins.

For this second adventure, we are this time not alone which is a very appreciable change. Rosetta, the girl buying our relics from the previous Labyrinth is accompanying us. With her on our side we start our way through the unknown depths of the Astral world, again gathering for all kinds of items and ingredients, but also be careful with new types of enemies which are very strong and hard to defeat.

A lot of new elements give us a completely new and dark story, where we also discover elements of Rosetta's past thanks to Lethe, Mistrel of Dusk, and her music box. We see what Rosetta had to go through and what led to her being what she is today here and now. But what called us still remains a mysterious matter until the very end.

In addition, before we face the final boss, we have the possibility to make our way back to the entrance, which will give us the opportunity to unlock access to new bosses and a brand new Dungeon with new enemies even stronger than the previous ones.
What secret hide the new dungeon is a mystery which has befallen the dead Researchers, trapped in a dimensional world unable to die.


The game is presented as a gathering and Dungeon JRPG. We level up Mylne by challenging lost souls and monsters and upgrade her skills by finding rare materials and defeating bosses. This game is also about survival, where you have to search for food, cook and brew potions, and defeating enemies along the way.

Aside from this, a couple of small side games can be done, as example completing a Mushroom quiz or even helping an Owl to discover the Astral world through different quests.

The Dungeon is presented in layers, with each having a number of rooms that also may contain their own labyrinth to get through. Be too careless, and death awaits you by walking over traps. The game keeps a consistent feeling of suspense knowing that danger may be lurking around every corner. Progressing through the dungeons unlocks the story further.

What starts out with a story featuring a happy-go lucky catgirl eventually moves into one with a much darker tone. This took me by surprise and was something I absolutely was not expecting.


Märchen Forest is presented to us in a 3D animated world, with beautiful graphic design and very cute character arts. The CG's are often flashing us with a bright light at first, then transitioning into some very beautiful and stunning backgrounds to the scene, with also a well-detailed dungeon world, scary-looking monsters, and souls. All this combined together gives the story-flow an even darker appearance to the game.
The game is fully voiced, contrary to its predecessor which was only partially voiced.

The music fits the tone of the game quite well with a variety of different instruments depending on the current story-part.

You can play in both full-screen mode and windowed mode, but I highly recommend playing fullscreen as it is a pretty game.


The game does not feature any routes, but there are a few missable events if you simply follow the story that will take a second playthrough to obtain all of them and unlock the achievements.

There are 29 Steam achievements, with most being very challenging get.

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