Memento of Spring

This kinetic visual novel by Bright Onion Studios features a young teenage girl with a pair of cat ears, an unusual magical aptitude, large delusions of grandeur, a complete lack of manners with people around her and a sharp wit Juliane von Westerholz as the Calamity Princess. Being under the care of her guardian Amalie Pennywhistle who both live together in a seaside town within a medieval kingdom of Marsalis, Juliane has a daily routine of eating large amounts of food and sleeping long hours each time whenever not causing damage to neighbours' property while Amalie has to pay for both of their daily living expenses and apologize to neighbours on her behalf while reporting Juliane's progress to the Royal Lanviere Academy who have paid for both of their living expenses. One day, the Royal Lanviere Academy sent a young researcher Autumn to be Juliane's private tutor while a local thief Eleta Foxton happened to steal a mirror from a local merchant Constance and hide it inside Juliane's ...

In all my years of playing visual novels, both good and bad, i've never come across one that would fill me with as much pure concentrated boredom as this game did. The writing in this game is very awkward. All characters sound the same in their manners of speech, as well as more than half of the gameplay is due to the narrative going and talking about meaningless things. Characters talk in a way that sound less like the characters actually thought of that, and more just that the creator wanted to shoehorn in as much complicated english terms as possible for it to look smart. There's quite a lot of standing around talking about nothing important compared to the amount of rising action for the plot. Characters don't behave realistically at all, which I can overlook for the magical world portion of characters, but the IRL characters act bizarre as well. In the end there wasn't really anything interesting about this story, nor was there really much to get to enjoy out of the characters,...

This, well this happens to be the second visual novel I've ever managed to play to completion. I read rather fast, so it took me a little over an hour to finish this, but now that it's over, I'm feeling something I haven't felt in a long time. The sort of emotion you feel after you've finished a great series, be it games, books, or movies, and you've just set down the book, or shut off the television. And that's when it hits you. It's over. You've finished. There's nothing left to do. You know the story, you know the characters, and unless you really feel like it, you're probably never going to play this again. I doubt many others will feel the same way, but I hope that at least a few people will read this and pick up this story. It's trully one of the best I have had the honor of witnessing recently. Bright Onion Studios? I've never hear of you before this, but thank you. Thank you for letting me partake in this beautiful story.

I only bought this for two reasons; catgirl, and because my friend recommended it to me. Having said that, Memento of Spring provided me much more than I could have ever expected. I found all characters and their dialogues very entertaining and consistent throughout the entire story, which was surprisingly much longer than I had anticipated at an estimated 10 hours. Plenty of laughs were to be had, and the narrative and presentation made it surprisingly easy to get immersed. The background music is primarily piano tracks that do a superb job at maintaining the tone of the story and scenarios without being intrusive. It's a shame the soundtrack isn't available as a separate DLC (as of writing this review, that is). Overall I definitely recommend Memento of Spring. It has enough story content to justify its price, and moreso if it goes on sale. Definitely a hidden gem of a story that I fear will go overlooked simply because of its relatively simple-looking artstyle. If I had anything t...

A good memento to start spring, Interesting characters and story.

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This turned out to be quite a fun read. Juliane's behaviour is quite unique in its way. Just because your smart doesn't mean you can act as your above everybody else. Featuring: Unlucky Caretaker Amalie Pennywhistle Calamity Princess Juliane von Westerholz Substitute Teacher/Researcher Autumn Stuborn Handywoman Constance Happygoing Handywoman Eleta Foxton Unlucky Worker Lily Waitress Brigadier-General Yukari Short Fuse Headed Hitomi Easygoing Friendly Lady Kokone Straighforward Artist Student Tsukiko [b]Pros[/b] [list] [*]Nice art [*]Setting is interesting [*]Characters are interesting in their own way [*]Music is relaxing [*]Well written [*]Good comedy, golden at times [*]Good asking price [*]Good length [/list] [b]Cons[/b] [list] [*]Very few instances of the wrong name being displayed with the sentence shown on screen [/list] 7.9/10

Juliane is my spirit animal! Interesting story, I loved the art of most of the characters. The idea about sending people into a different world would have been done better, like I really wanted to see their reaction of more modern things, like cars, trains and so own, not just manga ... I really wish that the developers will gave us more of these characters, but I dont think that will going to happen since the ending, Still it is a nice little kinetic novel, nothing groundbreaking, also a bit short, and has some repeating stuff over and over, but overall, I would give it a 7/10

I knew I was on to something when I purchased a certain story advertised for catering to the fond of spoiled princesses. I was not wrong, Juliane has now forever been immortalized into the proud collection of my favorite characters. Overall this was an excellent novel, every component of it was detailled, thorough and expertly crafted. The characters were the favorite part for me, the entirety of the cast is very memorable and very enjoyable to read. These characters are also quite well designed, and have lifelike flaws and virtues, well rounded and appealingly complex. Quite a few surprises about why they act in a certain way will become apparent. This being a visual novel, is quite dialogue heavy, which I enjoyed. Clever and witty conversations are the order of the day, and my free time became that much better for it. It has genuinely hilarious jokes, and all too often I found myself giggling at its somewhat dark humor. The cast is all female, which I found enjoyable and maybe ...

Eh. I feel like I might have liked this when I was an edgy teenage girl, constantly plotting world domination with my friends. Completely wholesome, no adult content (except occasional references to death/murder/world domination). The story goes: confusing and slightly annoying - confusing but potentially interesting - funny - tedious - aggravatingly tedious - hopeful that the end is coming - annoying - tedious - mildly interesting - starting to get tedious again - urgh when will this end - wait was that really the end? Phew. - no wait, it wasn't. - oh look the real end, that feels even less like the end! Honestly it should have ended by achievement 8. After that point it just becomes stalling and padding. Not that it doesn't have some amusing moments after that point of course. But I don't think it was really worth reading after the apple-lanche. Spoiler alert; the obnoxious brat doesn't grow as a person, but her prescence is watered down later in the story when there are 5-6 o...