Friends: Seishun no Kagayaki

Friends: Seishun no Kagayaki

Released1999
Friends: Seishun no Kagayaki is a Sega Saturn port of an adult visual novel Dousoukai for PC. It was released 3 years after the PC version and has all the adult content removed but is fully voice-acted. This is the first game in the Dousoukai series and starts with you on your way to a nice resort to reunite with some of your classmates from high-school. In particular, your tennis team members. The game focuses on romance and features full map of the place you're staying at as well as the rural town and its surrounding area. The game occurs through one week time and lets you visit any location on the map during both daytime and nighttime, which advances the time. An icon of a character marks when someone is at some location, but not who the person is. This visual novel features typical static anime characters sprites with light animation such as talking animations, pasted over background images. CG event scenes occur with the right character at the right place and time. Your dialogue choices and actions affect how the story progresses and if you will end up with one of the heroines or help with the match-making for your friends.

Details

DeveloperFairyTale
PublisherNEC Interchannel
ReleasedApril 29, 1999
StatusReleased
GenresVisual Novel
ThemesDramaRomance
PlatformsSEG Sega Saturn
ModesSingle player

About This Game

An invitation arrives from a friend from the old tennis club in middle school: a reunion, one week away. The week is the game. You can pursue the first love you left behind when the club disbanded, or find someone new, or focus on bringing two other people together instead. The reunion is the deadline. Who you are when you arrive is determined by what you do in the seven days before it.