I review Until We Meet Again, the free official English version of Soremata, a freeware Japanese visual novel written in KiriKiri in 2005. Most of the game takes place on a nearly empty train -- and it has a striking (not to mention impressive) gray-scale aesthetic. Moreover, the way the characters are integrated into the background is interesting. A solid effort let down slightly by its short length.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/until-we-meet-again-visual-novel-review/
I do have a few notes for my fellow Linux users. Most of the visual novels I am looking at from three translation festivals from 2005-2008 were written in ONScripter-EN, and can run natively on Linux. Unfortunately, Soremata was written in KiriKiri, which is also open source but only produced Windows-only games. Soremata also requires a Japanese language environment and I had to run it in virtual desktop mode. I detailed the process in a separate post.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/adventures-installing-soremata-on-linux/
N.A. Ferrell
