beach bounce and beach bounce remastered

They say that you only have once chance to impress someone with something and that you don’t often get a second chance. In all, Beach Bounce has been improved considerably in my eyes but there’s still room for improvement. Just be aware of this if you play the game yourself. A bit jarring, but nothing major in my book. For instance, in one game I end up going to the beach towards the end and I meet Minami for the first time but they seem to know each other. Who we actually do get to see briefly in a couple CGs.Īnd speaking of cohesiveness, there is one admittedly minor issue that I have with the flow of Beach Bounce and I’m pretty sure that I’ve read elsewhere that this is a big deal for some players, but depending on which dialogue options you choose throughout your playthrough you can get a disjointed story. There is some real weirdness that goes down throughout the game but overall I feel like things are much more cohesive as a unit instead of everyone throwing themselves at the protagonist.

We find out why Rei is so cold around Tomo and Sakura’s sexual preferences are much more subtle and downplayed. In the remastered, finished version of Beach Bounce everyone is very much toned down and the writing actually makes some sense in the way events are handled. Which was especially jarring for Rei (the ice queen) and Sakura (the self identified lesbian), but you can read all that in my previous reviews. Previously everyone acted strange around Tomoyo, hanging over him without any real reason. As I said, Beach Bounce is not a perfect visual novel, and it certainly won’t win awards, but the girls are a lot more believable this time around. Which brings me to what I consider vast improvements in the writing. As far as I can tell only a few CGs were added that I don’t remember spotting in my previous playthroughs, and maybe a few new facial expressions for the various girls.

Honestly, this was the one area that I had absolutely no problem with anyway. Which makes sense considering that the majority of the assets were already done from the first two parts. While the writing itself was completely reworked (more on that later), the one thing that didn’t change was the artwork. And, frankly, I think the rework, for the most part, improved the title immensely. With the “remastered” edition finally wrapping up the first game (there are two more sequels planned down the road) I finally decided to take a look at what has been changed. In this case, though, I’m glad that I was proven wrong. Despite controversies surrounding AJ Tilley and his projects, as well as issues with the original writer, I honestly didn’t think that Beach Bounce would ever be completed.

Beach bounce and beach bounce remastered