Scenes from the Heart Part 1 First Impressions
Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this product from https://www.game.press
Being a game reviewer can be challenging sometimes. I find games that I think will interest me, commit to reviewing them, and then discover they are aggressively not for me. While it hasn't happened too often in my career, especially as I've gotten better at discerning what is and isn't my cup of tea. Scenes from the Heart - Part 1 is so aggressively not my cup of tea, and I'm a bit at a loss on how to cover it. I think there's an audience, albeit a very niche one, for this game. I'm just not it.
Scenes from the Heart is the first project (on Steam at least) from Zamius. The story covers our main character, who goes from being a lonely boy to befriending two girls. One of them is the tsundere Chisaki Namichi, who loves music. The other is Konaka Motomi, who enjoys drawing lewd art and participating in improv. Yes, they are both options for romance.
The story is told as a flashback. The game opens with the three-person development team having just won a visual novel demo contest. In the interview that follows, MC details how he met the two girls and how they came to make the demo.
It's very reminiscent of a 2000s harem anime with generic characters and tropes, and multiple accidental breast groping hijinks. It's cute, fluffy, and light-hearted, if a little thin. There's voice acting, the character designs are cute, and there's some adorable heart behind the writing that shines through most of what, for me was a slog.
