Underplayed Gems

Mermaid no Kisetsu (2001)

Mermaid no Kisetsu cover
Platforms
PlayStation
Genres
Adventure, Visual Novel
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The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A calm, everyday-life visual novel where mundane routines and budding relationships are quietly shadowed by a small, unresolved mystery.

slow-pacedslice of lifemysterious undertonerelationship-focusedeveryday settingmild mysteryquietlow-key

About

The game follows Masato Takahata, a high-school sophomore, living alone, going to school classes and working a part-time at Aqua Rouge cafe. The setting is in the near future with technological advancements, but the living style didn't change that much. One day you find a strange note with an address of a home page. You check it out only to see the ominous warning text. While you're not trying to figure out the mystery behind it, you will traverse town meeting various people, mostly girls and women, with whom you'll work on relationship to become friends with, or something more.

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.