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So An Octave Higher was released on Steam today (discounted to $9.99 until the 3rd of April.) After seeing the trailer vids and all I was actually pretty interested, the graphics have a somewhat unique style and I like the fantasy setting w/ social class differences (it feels a bit similar to fault ms 1 in some respects).

 

I talked to someone who helped get it on Steam on Twitter and he said that "If you want the typical Japanese visual novel experience you won't get it. This was refreshing for me." I'd probably impulse buy this if I had the cash, lol.

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Yeah that's p. weird. I suppose they could mean something like "as many words as there are in a typical paper novel" - I'd put that at ~300 pages or 60k words or so, which admittedly wouldn't be that long in the VN world, but not short either.

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Supposedly the one review on Steam said he was 1.5 hours in, and the game said he was 15% complete.  So that would be ~10 hours.  Not terrible.

 

I like the premise, so this should be fun.

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Magic, music, reasonably attractive art (especially the background art); looks interesting! I will probably wait a day or two to see what pops up in the Steam reviews, and then as long as they aren't too negative, spring for it. Thanks for the heads-up!

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Bought this recently and I've been enjoying it so far, but I just like these kind of things in general. I agree it's a bit similar to Fault, but I feel the pacing is a bit better (at least in the beginning).

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If you're not too attached to the usual stereotypes you see in Japanese VNs this is pretty nice to read. The setting is explained in much detail, maybe a little too much detail for some people's tastes, but it's interesting to read how everything works in the world the characters live in.

The pacing is surprisingly good as well and the characters are interesting and likable (unless they are meant to not be :D ). Regarding choices: so far I only encountered choices when REAL decisions had to be made, so for me thats a plus because I don't like unnecessary choices. Personally I like the art, even the backgrounds are pretty detailed. The effect playing during character perspective switches can be quite annoying if perspectives change a lot. Imagine seeing a switch effect after every few sentences before it continues. I only encountered this once though, I hope it won't happen again too often.

 

So far I think its really worth the 10 euros I paid for it! I was pleasently surprised by the quality of it. I have to say it only got my attention after seeing it wasn't a typical Japanese VN, because I'm just really sceptic when it comes to OELVNs. I really hope more VNs like An Octave Higher will appear in the future. Also really looking forward to seeing more of Cursed Sight.

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