Uncensoring patch for Steam, since people can't get it stateside anymore: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NEPRGBURnd6DPWM_rN0kJ_rXhELj0hNC?usp=sharing

BOTTOM LINE: I still recommend it, if only for SHIRONE and what Sara could have been.

(Meta)spoilers ahead.

SHIRONE is a brilliant, passionate pianist android imouto with a tragic fate, thus the ultimate heroine. Or so I thought, when Sara, the scientific genius who created her, totally stole the show: I hadn't been so invested on a VN girl in years (if ever). She was logic and reason embodied, embedded with brutal honesty and a desperate need of love. Her arc was a fierce advance into her every spot, until reaching her innermost and becoming one by the final means of transhuman leap... Or so I thought, until the final sprint when both Sara and SARA gave it all up to some improvised Sein-zum-Tode garbage speech. Yuuri is barely worth mentioning; YUURI's lesson was spot on, but also immediately disregarded as a mistake.

In short, I felt betrayed. They betrayed a seeming transhuman masterpiece for the sake of conservative humanism, natalism and whatnot. I do am sad that Minori, also creators of 'Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two' and 'eden*', went down. I couldn't see 'Trinoline' as a worthy swan song of them; but I still recommend it, if only for SHIRONE and what Sara could have been.

Post edited on 30th Jan 2020, 11:27am