Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World-
Kaito wakes to find himself in a strange room, with no memories, and a taciturn girl named Yonagi by his side. Upon learning of his role, he immerses himself into three wondrous dream worlds with her. When all three stories meet a bitter end, Kaito recovers his memories, and the true story unfolds.
Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- is a story rich, visual novel and romance game
developed and published by Laplacian.
Released on February 09th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 3 languages: English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 598 reviews of which 530 were positive and 68 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Microsoft Windows 8.1 or higher
- Processor: Intel Core2Duo 2.4GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Sound Card: DirectSound
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Cyanotype Daydream or A Daydream's Blueprint, is one of the best visual novels I've ever read. The story is unique in a way that you must go through other stories in order to progress to the main story. These stories are referred to as Case 1, Case 2, Case 3 and Case 0. I started with Case 1, but I heard people beginning with different cases, such as 2 or 3. Cases 2 and 3 are set in the same worlds as Laplacian's previous visual novels: Newton and the Apple Tree and Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons. However, these cases stand on their own, so prior knowledge of those works aren't needed. That said, Cyanotype Daydream takes place hundreds (?) of years after Future Radio (because the first underground cities were built around 2150, and Future Radio was set in 2061) I really enjoyed the Case 1 and 2 but Case 3 stood out as my favorite, mainly because of Momonouchi Sumomo. Her energetic, eccentric personality is absolute wife material, and she’s stunningly beautiful. I also can't emphasize enough how good spencer's voice acting is. It's incredible. I didn't like him at first but he grew on me. He was the equivalent of brainrot in the 16th century. I laughed so hard when he appeared in Case 3, as if he somehow time-traveled to the future, picked up a last name, ditched his noble status and embraced a goofy tropical shirt while working as a famous photographer. He still retained his signature personality and charm. I'm playing with the restoration patch, so in the epilogue about 70% of it involves going through all the h-scenes the main story didn't do, as well as the conclusions for each case. Each case also comes with its own OP and ED, and the music is phenomenal. You can also hear tracks from laplacian's previous works. My favorite soundtrack is from Case 3, while Case 0's OP is my favorite overall. One downside is that the reader stays confused until the near end. Only then the story delivers an info-dump to explain the truth of its setting. While it's ambitious, the explanation isn't properly done right. That said, I'm happy it won Best Scenario in 2020, totally deserved. Yonagi best girl. note: the story heavily relies on the heroine, so If you don't like her, then you might as well drop reading the vn all together.
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A heart shattering masterpiece of it's own kind. A story that you won't easily forget. That is the story that awaits you.
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I think Cyanotype Daydream is good... but with A LOT of asterisks. On a technical (I guess what some might call "objective") level it's pretty solid with likable, developed characters especially around the main protagonist and the main love interest of each of the 4 linear romance stories. The way everything is tied together, especially the setting, is pretty cool. CASE 1 through 3 are generally above average pacing wise for unique interesting love stories. All of them plus CASE 0 are interesting tragedies that are in some ways an improvement over many popular emotional nakige. Unlike titles by KEY, Cyanotype doesn't go too hard on being overly melodramatic to try to make the reader cry, with better proper buildup on having the characters' emotional scenes be more authentic and less "anime-like". While all the main heroines are interesting, Yonagi is pretty easily the standout, but it's admittedly unfair since she by far has the most amount of screentime. But when the "genki nice girl" can be popular even to people who don't like that archetype shows what happens when, once again, emotions are more authentic instead of just trying to be a bunch of anime archetype checkboxes. So where do all these "asterisks" come from to 'only' give this supposed masterpiece a 7/10? I'll use literal asterisks to explain: * Two of the cases having age gap romances made those stories more uncomfortable AND predictable, and therefore less personally enjoyable. It's especially bad with CASE-1 with a 30 Year age gap, and it got WORSE when you realize the context of it in CASE-0. * Some of the humor (what little there is) was pretty lame and repetitive. No, a femboy asking people to touch his weewee, a busty woman "femdom slapping" you and calling you a slave, and a 30+ year old woman calling people candy, peaches, and bitches isn't funnier the more you use the joke. * While I did mentioned Yonagi is the standout character her personality sadly got slowly shafted to be more and more of a plot device so it made her not as great as I'd hoped. * While I did mention it didn't fall into the trap of other nakige of being overly melodramatic... many times the emotional moments didn't hit as hard as they could have? Many times my reaction was more "oh that's interesting" instead of... feels. ** So while the characters' emotions I said are authentic, sometimes the emotional scenes end a lot quicker than I was expecting despite all the buildup. ** Similarly a lot of the emotional scenes don't hit for me since... a lot of the scenes were told through narration and monologues instead of... character dialogue. When all the main protags are not voice acted that also hurts. * Speaking of the writer Ono Wasabi relies too often on pace-breaking monologues, narration, and exposition in general. You have interesting characters, why not do the worldbuilding more though show over tell, instead of paragraphs of boring lifeless narration? * It's especially bad with a character called Asama in CASE-0. Any time he wanted to do his long sci-fi 'lessons' I wanted to be like Michael Scott from The Office (US) and yell "AAAAAhhh I'm gonnna KMS!!" It's unfortunate, I wanted to consider this a masterpiece like many do. It does a lot of unique things, has likable and/or interesting and authentic main characters, actually properly explains "nakige magic" in its own sci-fi way so the latter twists don't feel cheap, and overall has a solid message. It's just too much of the actual storytelling techniques annoyed me enough to only consider this a "fine" VN but nothing great. Still something I'd recommend but I would have include all the caveats I mentioned above. On a meta note, I think Ono and Laplacian got a little too much of a rush and arrogance trying to go all-ages as a company after this 1 title did pretty well. They should probably make another masterpiece title before trying to be the next modern KEY.
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It feels criminal how underrated this game is, it really is something that everyone needs to play. It's three visual novels in one, all of them with the overarching theme of a taboo romance. They're all classified as cases, and when you first open the game you'll be thrust into a random one until the story progresses further - where things will start to be explained. Each case is amazing in their own right, with stellar art, music, and voice acting. It'll hit you in the feels over and over, before dragging you right back into another story to start again, it really is something special. As for the localisation and censorship, I didn't notice anything weird with the translation - which makes me think that they fixed it after its initial release. The lack of H scenes, and the revision to character settings and ages during case 1 is a bit jarring, primarily because you can tell it was revised. It's definitely not enough to hamper any enjoyment from it though, and there's an unofficial restoration patch you can find online if you want that. I played the game with it but it didn't make big enough of a difference for me to say you need it. You seriously won't regret reading this, it's an incredible experience that I'm glad I stumbled upon. It'll definitely stick with me for some time after this.
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This game probably surprised me the most out of any VN I have ever played. If you think this game looks boring or stupid you're wrong. It was masterfully written in a way I haven't seen before, in that it isn't a game about "getting the girl" or anything like that. This is a story about humanity, and the will of a girl. It takes you through 3 "cases" or different stories as you slowly figure out what is actually going on. Incredible storytelling, music, characters that feel so human and real, and all of the heroines are voiced by the incredible Yuu Asakawa, the voice of plenty others in the game/anime world, with my favorite performance of hers being Rider in Fate/stay night. You will love the heroines, unique stories, and the atmosphere and science fiction elements it creates. Don't sleep on this game. If you hear bad things about the localization, just download the restoration patch.
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