I’ve played visual novels on and off for a while now – in fact I’ve even completed one (yes, just one). At Christmas I was given If My Heart Had Wings, a story about mechanical gliders and the people that make them.
More about the story below, but first what I’m going to do over the course over a few articles. So far I’ve completed the common route and am half way through the first heroine routes and as I play through each I’ll offer my opinions on each, give indicators on the few decisions you get to make. I’ll also let you know my opinion on the restoration patch, add-on ‘Sweet Love’ and anything else that doesn’t fall under the main routes.
In If My Heart Had Wings you play as male protagonist, Aoi as he returns to his hometown and joins the Soaring Club. The story goes into a lot of depth on it’s central theme of flying, but also focuses on overcoming ones limitations.
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I haven’t played too many VN. However this is one I picked up during a sale.
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I’d definitely recommend it – although you might want to start when you’ve got a bit of free time, it seems very long!
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I won a copy of this game in a caption competition ages ago. Still haven’t played it though. I like visual novels, but I was disappointed to learn that the Western release is censored.
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It’s definitely worth a play through. I was the same when I heard about the censoring but there is a fan made patch which gives you all of the extra content and fixes some of the translations surrounding it – I can find the link to the install guide if it’s useful?
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