One: Kagayaku Kisetsu he (1999)

Developer

Tactics

Platforms

PlayStation

Genres

Adventure, Visual Novel

How it feels

A hushed, contemplative visual novel where everyday routine quietly blurs into an unexplained, dreamlike inner world.

melancholicquietintrospectivemysteriousslow-pacedwistfulbittersweetdreamlike

About

One's story revolves around Kouhei Orihara, the main protagonist, who suspects that at some point his current life will change while living a peaceful daily routine. Due to this, he begins to seclude himself in the Eternal World, a world within his mind. The game's main recurring motif is a focus on the Eternal World, a mystical alternate space which is never clearly explained, and the details of which are unknown.

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