the echo of history as i am trying to avoid spoilers is about the founder of the town and his secret lover and there descendants to a crime that ether you will die trying to keep a secret or show reveal it and move on
Flynn's route was the first route I did. I really didn't like Flynn's ending. It felt really Anti climatic and when I thought there was going to be more to the story.... It ends and I still dont know what happened. Which is a shame. I liked Daxton. I wish he was more relevant to the plot.
Sitting on the ending for a day. I realize what my issue with the ending is. There is no resolve to his character conflict. Not saying it needs a happy ending but I feel like what happens to him could of been handled better on resolving his character conflict instead it ended on more questions then answers.
Playing threw all but Jenna's route. I see what was going on with Flynn's route more. However. Makes me wonder. Will there be a True ending route? Because if Jenna's play out as I think it will. I feel like this game would be proper suited if it had a true ending route.
I think only Carl's route and Leo's route have more than one end but...If you play all the other routes you may understand what really happened there. I be really disturbed with that end and sad with TJ's end. So after play the other ends I figure out the reality are not the reality.
what.?! 3 end?? but but how?? the ending i get is first carl don't need me so we're just friends and second is when the freaking spirit posses him and tried to kill me! what's the 3rd!! please i wanna know it!! I'm so curious why there's a naked carl pic there and they didn't even use it...damn it
Yes, Tony's just said it there but... I saw a handsome panda in Santa Lucia. The novel still short but... Have no full naked pics of him... I have been thinking about how he looked like in the moment I saw him naked.
Maybe when I get better I will just ask my bear friend to meet me as panda in Second Life. If my back stop to pain allowing me be able to sit front my computer.
Have anyone found the gallery yet? I thought there isn't one so It supprise me when it suddenly pop out from nowhere. Of course i get curious why and retrace what i did for it to come out...
Well, i won't spoil you guys the supprise. I will just drop a few hints for you.
1. Pay attention at the end of Flynn's route.
2. You pretty much look at it all the time when you open the game.
3. Or just randomly stumble into it like me.
Good luck to all who haven't found it yet!
Even though all the bad ends upset me and make me feels bad i still have fun playing this VN. :)
It's the best VN game I ever played I hope it keeps on getting better and better the fear of this game is so good and that makes into a very good game the characters are awesome! everything about this game Is awesome everyone needs to try it out you may learn something new about things Echo Is so God like
I first heard of Echo Project from Studio Klondike/Orange Juice Dog's Astatos Kickstarter last year, and I have to say, I'm absolutely smitten with Echo (as well as Adastra and the Smoke Room).
I have to say, this, in all seriousness, has to be one of, if not, the best-written works I have ever read, and I'm not just talking about visual novels. All the characters are so genuine and flawed. I am astonished at how much work has gone into the writing. It has disturbed me, saddened me, and at several points, made me laugh out aloud as well. Absolutely remarkable.
As a gay furry who's a big fan of horror, Echo is everything I've ever wanted in an experience (well, except for a 'Golden Ending,' where everyone is happy and everything is resolved, but I know that's not what Echo is about).
If I was a richer man, I would definitely be pledging as much as I could for more and more works from Echo Project, but for now, I've been trying to tell as many people about these as I can.
...
And I kinda wanna watch Luche Lobo, too, if he's shirtless the whole time...
this story is so beautiful, tragic, heart-breaking. It brings tears to my eyes... there's certain beauty to such dysphoria, misery, melancholy, sorrow and the horror of despair.
what happens in echo... stays in echo... along with your heart that just broke there...
Hey~ This is the same guy from before and earlier I tried to download the game in my laptop but just like my phone's problem there have been some error and system said it's 'forbidden'. What does it mean?
I had no problems installing it in my Samsung tablet with Android 9. If the battery of my Alcatel phone with 6" screen and Android 7, didn't die. I could try in it.
A problem I had with others novels like Major/Minor and Lovers of Aether. Is that I never be able to do them work in none of my devices with Android 4. Only worked in my old Samsund tablet with Android 5.
Maybe I could try installing in my old Acer tablet with Android 4 too. I don't touch it in years. Since I only tried install stuff in my phones.
Excuse me but I need some help here...I'm new to this vn genre game and 2 months ago I'd downloaded it in my phone and I've finished the Flynn's route and I thought that was the 'end' of the game so I deleted it(and like I said I'm new)but when I tried to download the game again, I got some problems like it only download halfway through and then the system said that the download failed. I tried again multiple times but I still can't download it and it's stressed me out. Please help with this problem. Thank you Q~Q.
This game is incredible, incredible story and characters, extremely well made dialogues, I already finished Leo's route and now I'm starting the others, the story is so vivid that I was afraid of the characters meeting the creature, this game has so much potential. And for those of you who haven't yet donated, please donate, it really helps the developers.
Hello there, really a nice work. And recently I happened to read a book called"waterways" , written by kyell gold, at the same time playing this game. I'm wondering is there some connections between them. Cause I think their MCs are super similar.Otter and wolf (still think it as a red fox) in the game, while otter and red fox(yep) in the novel. And I think they have so much same characters. It made me so happy to both play and read😘
Played Leo's route and I was very angry and genuinely upset that I had to go on a walk, but now that I've cooled down, I appreciate the good ending because that's what both Chase and Leo deserve. They were in a toxic relationship, even from the start of it, and thus I think Leo deserves to be his own person rather than someone who obsesses over one guy. Chase fueled the fire so it wasn't helping anyone. While one can argue that they could've fixed it and grow as a couple, in which I will have to agree, that's just not the theme of the story. Maybe in another timeline? Hopefully? Please? If not I'm thankful this game exists. Thank you Echo Project and everyone who helped bring this game together!
I just played Flynn's route and the ending confused me so much. What the heck happened to Flynn? How did he become that... thing? I feels terrible and horrified at his ending. Sure he's a jerk but i don't think anyone deserve that fate and it only confused me further if it was just some hallucination...? Some kind of space and time loop that send "him" perhaps back to where TJ saw "him" and then that closet and worse is that possesion/madness thing at the end... I think i need a little time before i play the game again...
I found they added a Clarification text in Flynn Ending. In the version 0.43. But I have no idea where it is in the Android version. I don't even can load stuff from Help button in the Android 9.
This VN is really great, the one that really make me wanted to cry so hard ;-;
[Below from here contains spoiler, read ir at your own risk]
It's really sad tho to see that most of the ending is bad (i just played TJ's route, Leo's route, and now on the way Flynn's route).
I think i have some of unanswered question. Like, is it really Sydney that wrote the whole Treasure Hunting thing? Yeah it's almost impossible, and i really think that someone made it. Also i think this only happened in TJ's route (or did it happened again in another route?). And in TJ's route, Carl was found with the paper of treasure hunting. In Leo's route, Carl wasn't found with the paper, that means they was never found the real killer? (In TJ's route, it was said that TJ killed Sydney). I need to play all the route to figure it out
Also, the game really freakin' me out because the first route i selected was a bad end. In the TJ's route, Chase is obsessed. In the Leo's route, Leo is obsessed.
Is there really no true end? Only Leo's route when Chase ended with Kudzu has a screen said "The End" is it supposed to be true ending? (or atleast that is the event that most supposedly to be happened?)
Yeah after Flynn's route, i'm going to check Jenna's and Carl's. Hope to get the answer to my unanswered question.
Overall really great VN, i really thought that there were good ending, but maybe not
The treasure hunt was written by TJ. Chase and him feel guilty because they killed Sydney. The treasure hunt was a way for TJ to escape from his demon and a way to trap Chase in revealing that he is the one who killed Sydney.
I am confuse did TJ do this on purpose or was it a accident since. i don't know if they ever said it or not long time i played it. Then what really grind my gear is yeah what the heck is going on in Echo i mean in TSR we are getting why the hysteria started but not what the think is(so i hope the will be answere in cliff route).
Since is earn for closure i mean all bad ending i know it is a horro game but i would love to figure out what it is and how to counter it is this to much to ask.
Also i am sad for Sydney in Flynn route we get to know him and i am sad that he had to die.
Overall great game, amazing structer and pacing. It really prevents reading from being a chore unlike most projects of this style. leos route seams a bit forced though. The character interactions go from normal to out of character to contradicting previous interactions. I hope some story fixes are inorder to make it more cohesive.
Gonna keep it short (hopefully), one of my favorite part of the VN is the accuracy of the environment, yes echo is fictional but I have a vague idea of where it would be, as a local to the actual Pueblo I can vouch for the validity of the heat, the aridness, and how the characters react. Great VN keep the updates coming, I have a request, a selfish one at that, but maybe sometime in the distant future have an echo without the supernatual stuff, yeah? 10/10 either way
As someone who doesn't play VN's, I couldn't have predicted at all just how thoroughly this game gripped me and how invested I would become in these characters and their stories. Coming fresh from their other game Adastra; I found my expectations subverted at every turn, the layered narrative giving every route value and providing context and another piece of the puzzle to an overarching story, a far cry from the relatively straightforward and comfortable (by comparison) plot of Adastra.
I must stress that comfort isn't the kind of feeling you'll find with this story. Echo absolutely leans more on the psychological horror aspects rather than romance, I expected as much from what little I'd read about it, I didn't expect however how genuinely uncomfortable it would make me. Playing at night, alone and in the dark obviously helped greatly with immersion, but it's a testament to the writing how deeply it affected me with words and tension building alone when compared to most modern horror games. It wasn't as much in the way of expecting say, a monster to pop out for under my bed, but an overbearing sense of anxiety and uneasiness, that would often climax with distress, anger, and of course; sadness.
Speaking of, one route's ending hit me in a way few other fictional works have, leaving me so distraught I felt legitimately sick and had trouble sleeping that night. The other character routes aren't emotional cakewalks by any means, but those who have played the game likely know which one I'm referring to, with the information revealed therein recontextualising much of the story and greatly shifting your perspective on certain characters. I think it's a major achievement that depending on when you go through this route the kind of narrative you'll be getting can change significantly, though I personally see it as ideally being run through after a couple of the other ones.
Regarding other elements, from my limited exposure to VN's I think it is about what you can expect in regard to visuals, the character art is good and distinctive and the full illustrations, while sparse, are beautiful and accentuate important scenes. The music is also quite good and helps with building the atmosphere, I was actually surprised by the number of tracks in the game.
As far as criticisms go, apart from some minor typos sprinkled throughout the routes, I found certain parts of one route to be quite dragging and repetitive, and for one of the decisions that could lock you into a bad end to be essentially an arbitrary coin toss kinda sucked. The same route narratively is also probably the weakest, as it deals with a background plot to the town that while interesting, is much less emotionally involved for the characters than the other routes. There is good character development in this one though. The next problem I have I admit is quite subjective and some may even see it as a strength, but I personally found the lack of closure in most of the routes to be quite disheartening. I thankfully finished the game (at least until Jenna's route finishes development) on the one route I found provided a real satisfactory conclusion, though maybe I was just desperate for a happy ending and what I got was as close to that as I could get. I do hope the devs consider creating a final route after they complete Jenna's, perhaps unlocked after you finish each route, if not for closure, but just so I can spend more time with these characters I've become ever so invested in.
Echo was an absolutely fantastic experience and I would totally recommend it, I'm very excited to check out this team's other work, and whatever they'll be creating down the line, they've definitely made my quarantine a little less dismal!
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so i finished the game so far the echo means different for each of them
echos of history
echos of life
echos of sin
echos of chains
you get what i mean when you play it i wonder
what is the last echo
now on to the prostitute story line or according to its context haven't played it yet
I don't understand. Like I think understand who "history" is referring to but I am kind of lost and played through everything that is out as of now.
the echo of history as i am trying to avoid spoilers is about the founder of the town and his secret lover and there descendants to a crime that ether you will die trying to keep a secret or show reveal it and move on
Yeah, but what are the other Echoes you are referring to
I thought I finished the game. but I dont get what you mean, for real. I might need to play it again. And again. And again.
Well I guess I know who represents echos of sin, but the other three? Nice job man, good puzzles.
SPOILER
Echos of History : Carl
Echos of life : Leo
Echos of sin : TJ
Echos of chains : Flynn
I don't really see where the story of Jenna is going so i'm not sure about the last echo.
awww you ruin the surprise i think jenna is going to have to face his family and confront them
Haha sorry 😂
Is it bad that I don't like Chase, but like Flynn?
I mean I don't like Leo and I like chase sooo no it's not bad at all!😂
Flynn's route was the first route I did. I really didn't like Flynn's ending. It felt really Anti climatic and when I thought there was going to be more to the story.... It ends and I still dont know what happened. Which is a shame. I liked Daxton. I wish he was more relevant to the plot.
Rio de Janeiro, May 17th 2020
I started to understand it after play the other routes.
Understand what really happen in Echo.
After 7 ends, I can't say I saw a happy end. Maybe a good end but I don't think a happy end. But the kind of story isn't to be expected a happy end.
Mewing,
Pandrine
Sitting on the ending for a day. I realize what my issue with the ending is. There is no resolve to his character conflict. Not saying it needs a happy ending but I feel like what happens to him could of been handled better on resolving his character conflict instead it ended on more questions then answers.
Playing threw all but Jenna's route. I see what was going on with Flynn's route more. However. Makes me wonder. Will there be a True ending route? Because if Jenna's play out as I think it will. I feel like this game would be proper suited if it had a true ending route.
I literally hated this. GAG ME. Leo's route was just so bland and its so uninteractive.
The ending for the Leo route honestly has me in a heartbroken/weird mood. My dang heart hurts after that ending :c
Am I the only one who thinks that the adventures Devon and Cameron get on during their paranormal investigations would be an interesting spin-off?
Does Flynn route have a Good Ending like how Leo route has Good Ending and Bad Ending?
I mean the ending where he doesn't... y'know... "go red" forever?
I think only Carl's route and Leo's route have more than one end but...If you play all the other routes you may understand what really happened there. I be really disturbed with that end and sad with TJ's end. So after play the other ends I figure out the reality are not the reality.
Anything but pissing scenes
umm.. is there a part where chase had sex with carl? i kinda look at the photos of the game and found some naked carl pics uwu
chase is my name so I was a little freaked out when i first saw this
hahaha dude, really 😂
Where? Where?
3 ends in Carl's route and I am still... oh yes... I forgot it...
I didn't want to remember it. *closes his eyes* I can't see it again.
what.?! 3 end?? but but how?? the ending i get is first carl don't need me so we're just friends and second is when the freaking spirit posses him and tried to kill me! what's the 3rd!! please i wanna know it!! I'm so curious why there's a naked carl pic there and they didn't even use it...damn it
the third one you get killed by Jenna (John)
Naked Karl pic ?
Yes, Tony's just said it there but... I saw a handsome panda in Santa Lucia. The novel still short but... Have no full naked pics of him... I have been thinking about how he looked like in the moment I saw him naked.
Maybe when I get better I will just ask my bear friend to meet me as panda in Second Life. If my back stop to pain allowing me be able to sit front my computer.
I feel the same with Daxton in flynn's route. He has a shirtless sprite but never did we get to see a shirtless Daxton in game to gawk at.
haha this thing's makes me curious
Have anyone found the gallery yet? I thought there isn't one so It supprise me when it suddenly pop out from nowhere. Of course i get curious why and retrace what i did for it to come out...
Well, i won't spoil you guys the supprise. I will just drop a few hints for you.
1. Pay attention at the end of Flynn's route.
2. You pretty much look at it all the time when you open the game.
3. Or just randomly stumble into it like me.
Good luck to all who haven't found it yet!
Even though all the bad ends upset me and make me feels bad i still have fun playing this VN. :)
do the pissing scene, cowards.
It's the best VN game I ever played I hope it keeps on getting better and better the fear of this game is so good and that makes into a very good game the characters are awesome! everything about this game Is awesome everyone needs to try it out you may learn something new about things Echo Is so God like
Pee your pants
I will.
HOW DARE YOU MAKE ADASTRA SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL AND GAY MY HEART WILL NEVER RECOVER!!
Do the pee scene McSkinny
i don't want the janice piss scene
I first heard of Echo Project from Studio Klondike/Orange Juice Dog's Astatos Kickstarter last year, and I have to say, I'm absolutely smitten with Echo (as well as Adastra and the Smoke Room).
I have to say, this, in all seriousness, has to be one of, if not, the best-written works I have ever read, and I'm not just talking about visual novels. All the characters are so genuine and flawed. I am astonished at how much work has gone into the writing. It has disturbed me, saddened me, and at several points, made me laugh out aloud as well. Absolutely remarkable.
As a gay furry who's a big fan of horror, Echo is everything I've ever wanted in an experience (well, except for a 'Golden Ending,' where everyone is happy and everything is resolved, but I know that's not what Echo is about).
If I was a richer man, I would definitely be pledging as much as I could for more and more works from Echo Project, but for now, I've been trying to tell as many people about these as I can.
...
And I kinda wanna watch Luche Lobo, too, if he's shirtless the whole time...
I be sad and very disturbed too for almost a week after few ends to start to understand it with the other ends.
In fear of back too visit Carl. Lol
this story is so beautiful, tragic, heart-breaking. It brings tears to my eyes... there's certain beauty to such dysphoria, misery, melancholy, sorrow and the horror of despair.
what happens in echo... stays in echo... along with your heart that just broke there...
I havent even read this vn. I have a weird feeling about this..
Same lol, i even got little scared and felt goose bumps to try this game... :(
Hey~ This is the same guy from before and earlier I tried to download the game in my laptop but just like my phone's problem there have been some error and system said it's 'forbidden'. What does it mean?
I had no problems installing it in my Samsung tablet with Android 9. If the battery of my Alcatel phone with 6" screen and Android 7, didn't die. I could try in it.
A problem I had with others novels like Major/Minor and Lovers of Aether. Is that I never be able to do them work in none of my devices with Android 4. Only worked in my old Samsund tablet with Android 5.
Maybe I could try installing in my old Acer tablet with Android 4 too. I don't touch it in years. Since I only tried install stuff in my phones.
Ps: I really regret that I deleted it because your game was such a masterpiece that I'm gonna cry QwQ.
Excuse me but I need some help here...I'm new to this vn genre game and 2 months ago I'd downloaded it in my phone and I've finished the Flynn's route and I thought that was the 'end' of the game so I deleted it(and like I said I'm new)but when I tried to download the game again, I got some problems like it only download halfway through and then the system said that the download failed. I tried again multiple times but I still can't download it and it's stressed me out. Please help with this problem. Thank you Q~Q.
This game is incredible, incredible story and characters, extremely well made dialogues, I already finished Leo's route and now I'm starting the others, the story is so vivid that I was afraid of the characters meeting the creature, this game has so much potential.
And for those of you who haven't yet donated, please donate, it really helps the developers.
Hello there, really a nice work. And recently I happened to read a book called"waterways" , written by kyell gold, at the same time playing this game. I'm wondering is there some connections between them. Cause I think their MCs are super similar.Otter and wolf (still think it as a red fox) in the game, while otter and red fox(yep) in the novel. And I think they have so much same characters. It made me so happy to both play and read😘
SPOILERS
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Played Leo's route and I was very angry and genuinely upset that I had to go on a walk, but now that I've cooled down, I appreciate the good ending because that's what both Chase and Leo deserve. They were in a toxic relationship, even from the start of it, and thus I think Leo deserves to be his own person rather than someone who obsesses over one guy. Chase fueled the fire so it wasn't helping anyone. While one can argue that they could've fixed it and grow as a couple, in which I will have to agree, that's just not the theme of the story. Maybe in another timeline? Hopefully? Please? If not I'm thankful this game exists. Thank you Echo Project and everyone who helped bring this game together!
i had to calm my heart down after leo's route...
i just had to hold myself together before i completely lost it
I just played Flynn's route and the ending confused me so much. What the heck happened to Flynn? How did he become that... thing? I feels terrible and horrified at his ending. Sure he's a jerk but i don't think anyone deserve that fate and it only confused me further if it was just some hallucination...? Some kind of space and time loop that send "him" perhaps back to where TJ saw "him" and then that closet and worse is that possesion/madness thing at the end... I think i need a little time before i play the game again...
I felt like... what?!? after I saw that end, minutes ago. I felt like try find if have another end... but so weird to think about.
It just freezes the game.
I found they added a Clarification text in Flynn Ending. In the version 0.43. But I have no idea where it is in the Android version. I don't even can load stuff from Help button in the Android 9.
ohh god .... theres no good ending for me in carl's route....
i cried when he said he dont need me.... having nightmares bout him haha kinda silly... i wanna be together with him.. fck
Lol, something like that happened with me in real with a ram friend.
He just told me I was not his friend.
I just feel cracked.
yahh i could feel yah.... its so bad you cant cuddle that ol fluffy ram. uwu
Oh!!! Carl have a nice belly. Chase looks so funny looking at it. The best face I saw from him till now.
yeah i could agree with that and.. that's the best carl scene ever...of course because it's the only cg there but i want to see the kissing scene!!
This VN is really great, the one that really make me wanted to cry so hard ;-;
[Below from here contains spoiler, read ir at your own risk]
It's really sad tho to see that most of the ending is bad (i just played TJ's route, Leo's route, and now on the way Flynn's route).
I think i have some of unanswered question. Like, is it really Sydney that wrote the whole Treasure Hunting thing? Yeah it's almost impossible, and i really think that someone made it. Also i think this only happened in TJ's route (or did it happened again in another route?). And in TJ's route, Carl was found with the paper of treasure hunting. In Leo's route, Carl wasn't found with the paper, that means they was never found the real killer? (In TJ's route, it was said that TJ killed Sydney). I need to play all the route to figure it out
Also, the game really freakin' me out because the first route i selected was a bad end. In the TJ's route, Chase is obsessed. In the Leo's route, Leo is obsessed.
Is there really no true end? Only Leo's route when Chase ended with Kudzu has a screen said "The End" is it supposed to be true ending? (or atleast that is the event that most supposedly to be happened?)
Yeah after Flynn's route, i'm going to check Jenna's and Carl's. Hope to get the answer to my unanswered question.
Overall really great VN, i really thought that there were good ending, but maybe not
Just played TJ to end this morning, my pillow is so wet now.
... I just had a dream with a black (striped/spoted) lizard guy. I think not that I know the difference ...
Just not going to tell what happened in the dream because of ... it is private. 8p
Loving Flynn's route.
... what!?! Lol... should I read The Smoke?
The treasure hunt was written by TJ. Chase and him feel guilty because they killed Sydney. The treasure hunt was a way for TJ to escape from his demon and a way to trap Chase in revealing that he is the one who killed Sydney.
I am confuse did TJ do this on purpose or was it a accident since. i don't know if they ever said it or not long time i played it. Then what really grind my gear is yeah what the heck is going on in Echo i mean in TSR we are getting why the hysteria started but not what the think is(so i hope the will be answere in cliff route).
Since is earn for closure i mean all bad ending i know it is a horro game but i would love to figure out what it is and how to counter it is this to much to ask.
Also i am sad for Sydney in Flynn route we get to know him and i am sad that he had to die.
is there any char. that is datetable?
Yes, but actually no.
welp kinda true
Maybe Leo. But have some stuff in the Flynn route. Just... the end did me so disturbed.
Overall great game, amazing structer and pacing. It really prevents reading from being a chore unlike most projects of this style. leos route seams a bit forced though. The character interactions go from normal to out of character to contradicting previous interactions. I hope some story fixes are inorder to make it more cohesive.
*Spoiler alert^
Heyy? Just wondering on leo's route. Is it really the 'Good' ending that chase having to end up with kudz and leaving leo out?...
Hi¡¡¡, what's new in the current update? (0.46)
more stuff to jenna
Gonna keep it short (hopefully), one of my favorite part of the VN is the accuracy of the environment, yes echo is fictional but I have a vague idea of where it would be, as a local to the actual Pueblo I can vouch for the validity of the heat, the aridness, and how the characters react. Great VN keep the updates coming, I have a request, a selfish one at that, but maybe sometime in the distant future have an echo without the supernatual stuff, yeah? 10/10 either way
As someone who doesn't play VN's, I couldn't have predicted at all just how thoroughly this game gripped me and how invested I would become in these characters and their stories. Coming fresh from their other game Adastra; I found my expectations subverted at every turn, the layered narrative giving every route value and providing context and another piece of the puzzle to an overarching story, a far cry from the relatively straightforward and comfortable (by comparison) plot of Adastra.
I must stress that comfort isn't the kind of feeling you'll find with this story. Echo absolutely leans more on the psychological horror aspects rather than romance, I expected as much from what little I'd read about it, I didn't expect however how genuinely uncomfortable it would make me. Playing at night, alone and in the dark obviously helped greatly with immersion, but it's a testament to the writing how deeply it affected me with words and tension building alone when compared to most modern horror games. It wasn't as much in the way of expecting say, a monster to pop out for under my bed, but an overbearing sense of anxiety and uneasiness, that would often climax with distress, anger, and of course; sadness.
Speaking of, one route's ending hit me in a way few other fictional works have, leaving me so distraught I felt legitimately sick and had trouble sleeping that night. The other character routes aren't emotional cakewalks by any means, but those who have played the game likely know which one I'm referring to, with the information revealed therein recontextualising much of the story and greatly shifting your perspective on certain characters. I think it's a major achievement that depending on when you go through this route the kind of narrative you'll be getting can change significantly, though I personally see it as ideally being run through after a couple of the other ones.
Regarding other elements, from my limited exposure to VN's I think it is about what you can expect in regard to visuals, the character art is good and distinctive and the full illustrations, while sparse, are beautiful and accentuate important scenes. The music is also quite good and helps with building the atmosphere, I was actually surprised by the number of tracks in the game.
As far as criticisms go, apart from some minor typos sprinkled throughout the routes, I found certain parts of one route to be quite dragging and repetitive, and for one of the decisions that could lock you into a bad end to be essentially an arbitrary coin toss kinda sucked. The same route narratively is also probably the weakest, as it deals with a background plot to the town that while interesting, is much less emotionally involved for the characters than the other routes. There is good character development in this one though. The next problem I have I admit is quite subjective and some may even see it as a strength, but I personally found the lack of closure in most of the routes to be quite disheartening. I thankfully finished the game (at least until Jenna's route finishes development) on the one route I found provided a real satisfactory conclusion, though maybe I was just desperate for a happy ending and what I got was as close to that as I could get. I do hope the devs consider creating a final route after they complete Jenna's, perhaps unlocked after you finish each route, if not for closure, but just so I can spend more time with these characters I've become ever so invested in.
Echo was an absolutely fantastic experience and I would totally recommend it, I'm very excited to check out this team's other work, and whatever they'll be creating down the line, they've definitely made my quarantine a little less dismal!
I just reached a end of it and I can't stop to cry.
... I just dreamed with a black lizard guy (I think not that I know the difference) ...? after that.
I love this VN so much! Now going through Jenna’s route and I really like where it’s going so far, can’t wait for the next update!
This game will haunt me forever if he doesn't confess in at least one ending.
But I feel that's what you were aiming at weren't you?
Im unable to download the game on my Android device, is there a special app I need?
Welp! Finished two character routes. Thanks for the post traumatic stress disorder! I can never sleep in the dark ever again. ;w;
Lol remi d me of when Iwas kid fear of the dark.
Now, I use to like the dark sometimes but playing it during night after midnight is so tense.
I will need something to sleep.
Hello while reading the story I got, "Image 'bg black' does not accept attributes 'fade'. Does anyone know what this means?
its an issue with a transition and cant be fixed by you - only the devs.