Konomi is your neighbour and childhood friend and a bit too loli for my taste. Please note that I have only completed the paths for Tamaki and Yuma. For continuity’s sake, TH2 makes occasional references to maid robots and even has one as a minor character.Ĭharacter-wise, almost every stereotype is well-covered here. But we all know that it was all just an excuse to have Multi in the original game. The single difference between the To Heart universe and ours is the existence of maid robots. Well, other than that one maid robot in the game. The maid-(robot-)maniac best-friend sidekick character, Yuuji Kousaka
Nothing that will be out-of-place in a normal high school romance drama. Unlike games like Air or Shuffle!, there is almost completely no supernatural elements in the game so the stories revolve mainly around your daily school life with the girl and her sad-and-tragic past / dark secret / promise to go to Toudai together / whatever. There are many girls to choose from and each one of course has her own backstory. The semi-loli imouto-kei osananajimi character, Konomi Yuzuhara As with most games, each location is marked by a chibi avatar of the character whose event you trigger if you go there. Gameplay is limited to the typical dialogue and location selection. Crescendo was quite a memorable non-Leaf visual novel for me. Other companies have also released visual novels subsequently, although it remains a minority sub-genre.
And I suppose such a system allows the script to be, as the name suggests, closer to an actual novel (albeit one with a lot of dialogue).
It does obstruct the art, but you can hide the text anytime. As far as I can tell, this arrangement has no real advantage over the textbox used by most games on the market, so you can say that it’s purely a personal preference whether you like it or not. Leaf was the first to employ such a system and it continues to be part of Leaf’s unique style. Other flagship titles by Leaf include Comic Party, Utawarerumono and Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu.Ī visual novel refers to a specific sub-genre of AVGs where the text is superimposed over the art instead of occupying the bottom half of the screen. It’s very loosely related to the original To Heart, one of the games which Leaf is best known for. The transition to PC adds 18+ content and falls under Leaf, essentially the same company by a different name (for their adult titles). To Heart 2 is a visual novel originally released for the PS2 under the Aquaplus brand name.
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