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A Summer's End — Hong Kong, 1986

Titles
A Summer's End — Hong Kong, 1986
A Summer's End 夏天的一天 — 香港 1986
A Summer's End Xiatian de Yitian — Xianggang 1986
Aliasesあの夏の日 — 香港, 1986, ASE
Play timeShort (5h14m from 16 votes)
DeveloperOracle & Bone Studios
PublishersOracle & Bone Studios
Ledokot
Chaos Gate Team
Relations
Sequel

In The Ocean I Learned To Float

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Description

Michelle is a young professional working woman living in Hong Kong during the heydays of the 1980s. She meets Sam, a free-spirited woman and an unconventional entrepreneur, by chance after an incident involving a broken heel. They share a mutual attraction. As their relationship progresses, Michelle is forced to make a decision between traditional propriety and her newfound feelings. A Summer’s End is a modern romance. It is a story about seeking identity and meaning in a rapidly changing world where conflicting worldviews and cultures collide. It is a new media homage to Asian cinema and Hong Kong’s golden age of entertainment.

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Full reviews

By swordfish96 on 2021-06-16Vote: 8.5
<report>It’s a basic love story… but it’s dressed up really nicely.

The soundtrack is phenomenal with some great synthwave tracks evoking a pretty chill wistful atmosphere. There’s a nostalgic VHS cassette aesthetic to the system in general. The visuals are immersive with a substantial amount of CGs and sprite variations and it really pulls off that 80s neon soaked Hong Kong vibe. These aspects are great in themselves but put together they really make the entire aesthetic of the VN something special, giving it a cinematic yet dreamlike feel.

The story itself is a fairly classic mature romance between the contrasting personalities of the white bread girl falling for the downtown girl and learning... Read more »
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