Slice of Life
Nothing has related with me emotionally as a lot as Blue Wednesday. I’ve had my fair proportion of gameplay expertise with visible novels. Nevertheless, what struck me as extraordinary about Blue Wednesday is the simplicity of the narrative Buff Studio created.
The profound and heartening story of Blue Wednesday revolves round a struggling younger piano participant named Morris. Nevertheless, the slice of life narrative portrays some acquainted experiences you might need gone by your self. The sport explores Morris’ inside dilemma, psychological well being points, his monotonous life and his want to achieve his dream of changing into a full-fledged musician. If that sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of these are issues that each one of us expertise in our personal lives. The narrative’s ups and downs will stick with you lengthy after you may have completed this sport.
Strolling the Regular Life’s Path
Blue Wednesday doesn’t supply a lot interactive gameplay, although it does have a couple of mini-games. A standard one is a tile-tapping sport to assist Morris play the piano. Different mini-games embody cooking beef by making a protracted faucet and drag movement, and sliding puzzle items to complete a jigsaw puzzles. These assist to make the studying expertise extra interactive, as a substitute of it feeling like we’re merely watching occasions play out.
Many of the gameplay sees Morris exploring town and speaking to varied NPCs. The town depicted does give me a New York vibe, and it’s common in look, which is the attraction of this sport.
What’s So Particular in It?
Curiously, one may take pleasure in and play the sport not for its technical deserves, however for the soulful narrative one can relate to. Blue Wednesday is light-hearted in its try at storytelling and deep sufficient to depart a mark. Nevertheless, it’s extra in regards to the story expertise and the general heartening message: the strange life. However ‘strange’ within the sense of a ‘slice of life’, the place the gameplay isn’t about critical quest or gaining troops and allies. Not that something is flawed with that. No. However Blue Wednesday is precisely about what the identify is likely to be suggesting: a traditional, mundane Wednesday the place you’re feeling ‘a bit of blue’ randomly. It’s about life. And but what we often assume is ‘mundane’ is rendered inventive, philosophical and soulful. Now that’s saying one thing!
Blue Wednesday just isn’t your typical informal journey visible novel. What it lacks in superior gameplay, it covers within the stunning storyline which appears impressed from strange lives of human beings. It exhibits that even the strange is fascinating and renders a soulful word of melancholy that every of us have skilled.
Is It Hardcore?
Considerably. To an extent, story sensible.
Blue Wednesday leaves with a message: the uneventful just isn’t as humdrum as you assume. Life, the strange form, remains to be fascinating sufficient to be cherished.
