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Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ Review by OneManArmy


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This review doesn't contain any spoilers, so feel free to read.

 

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Description

Tomoyo After's story revolves around Okazaki Tomoya and Sakagami Tomoyo. Tomoya has graduated from high school and is now employed as a garbage collector. He and Tomoyo are now seeing each other in a romantic relationship, though Tomoya lives alone in his apartment. One day it is discovered that Tomoyo has a younger half-sister named Mishima Tomo who had been living with her mother, but was recently abandoned. It is eventually decided that Tomo will live in Tomoya's apartment for the time being.

 

 

Art

Here's something harsh right at the beginning, I don't like Key's art at all.

 

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Yeah, I'm serious. I was never able to understand the appeal of Clannad's or Kanon's character design. I always had the feeling that those eyes could firing their lazers at me.Anyway, I was really happy when I realized that a different artist worked on Tomoyo after. I especially liked how she mainly used intense colors and smooth lines. This way the characters are looking far more realistic. To keep it short, I finally liked the art of a game made by Key.

 

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Music

The music is totally awesome but sadly highly underrated. Especially the piano tracks were nothing but pure heaven for the ears. Actually, I'm a sucker for calm tracks and so it's not really surprising that I loved the OST of this game. Seriously, I can't remember a single track that annoyed me. Oh and the ED is superb.

 

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Characters : Tomoya

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The picture above is from the memorial version of the game, you won't find that sprite in the translated game. Tomoya itself was exactly the guy you remember from the anime or game. He's working his ass off for Tomoyo's sake, he's friendly, a little bit perverted and tries to solve everything on his own. Like I said before, Tomoya ist just Tomoya, and that's a good thing.

 

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Tomoyo

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Just to say it beforehand, her whole personality slighty changed. Her behaviour is for example 100% more adult. She's still the same tomboy though. Her change in personality is obviously the reason why a lot of people dislike the game but screw it, I liked the new Tomoyo. She also has another voice actor btw.

 

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Takafumi

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Probably the funniest character of the game. And that's all I can remember about him, a funny guy.

(He's also something like a computer freak)

 

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Tomo

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She's nothing but a poor excuse for Dan Ushio. =(

 

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Tanako Kanako

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An old acquaintance of Takafumi and a huge tsundere. She was sadly pretty plain and I didn't care for her at all.

 

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Story : Part 1 - Takafumi x Kanako

Where should I start?

Well, Takafumi and Kanako are something like friends, or were it at least in the past. Because of some reasons Takafumi doesn't want to be in her near and usually tries to avoid her. That's all I can say without spoiling the whole problem. Let's say the route totally felt like Key.

 

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Part 2 - Tomo's Story

I didn't like that part of the game at all.

It seemed that the whole purpose of Tomo was to show Tomoyo's mother instincts. The story and drama didn't feel real and it was written in a weird way. This is just my opinion but Tomo's Route was mainly annoying and basically a cheap copy of Nagisa's route.

 

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Part 3 - Tomoya x Tomoyo

FInally, the best part of the game.

It's a little bit hard to write about it because I don't want to use any spoilers but I'll try my best. The first half of this route is nothing but decent slice of life stuff. But then, suddenly, shit happens and the game turns into an emotional rollercoaster. And dat ending was just so freaking heartbreaking that it destryoed my fragile heart. Many people don't like that ending but in my eyes it fits the whole message of this game better than the new ending.

 

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Dungeons and Takafumis

If you finished the game once then you're unlocking a little RPG fighting game. It's silly and fun so check it out. You'll also get two new CGs (after completing all stages) but both of them are not really worth the trouble. If you like RPG stuff then play it, otherwise avoid it.

 

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My Famous Last Words

Mashiro, I love you!!!

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On the topic, I actually enjoyed the game more than I should. Then again, I really like Tomoyo and her new personality was really refreshing. I'm usually bored by long slice of life parts but not in this case. The humor was excellent, the music great, the art good and the story decent/good. And thumbs up for the ending. Is there anything left to say?

 

 

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8,5/10

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meh..i thought you were asking for ME patch >>>

 

 

I'm looking for the English version as well, just like you say it's not release yet, so rather than wait for the English patch better I play the japanese version first. :)

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the ending in memorial edition different from Regular version right??

 

aaaa, i'm asking to much question, i'm sorry... :(

 

Yes, I believe it has an extended and/or different ending.

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the ending in memorial edition different from Regular version right??

It's fundamental different and doesn't convey the message of the game as good as the original ending, at least in my opinion. Also, the memorial version doesn't add anything important to the game, it only removes sex scenes and the like, adds a stupid looking sprite for tomoya + one new scene. There were also some new lines but those are streching specific scenes too much so that they'll loose their impact on the reader.

 

To keep it short, it's not worth to wait for the ME version, just play the regular one.

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It's fundamental different and doesn't convey the message of the game as good as the original ending, at least in my opinion. Also, the memorial version doesn't add anything important to the game, it only removes sex scenes and the like, adds a stupid looking sprite for tomoya + one new scene. There were also some new lines but those are streching specific scenes too much so that they'll loose their impact on the reader.

 

To keep it short, it's not worth to wait for the ME version, just play the regular one.

 

There is no Happy Endiing in ME??

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there's no difference in ME's ending and the 18+ ending

the difference were like baa-chan said..

ME removes all the H-scenes and added a few new lines and scenario

 

damn, I guess in the ME will be a happy ending, from what I've seen in a particular forum in ME there is a happy ending :( :(

 

thanks for the info...

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