Hatsukoi Sankaime (2023)

Publisher: Ares
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Visual Novel
Where to get it: Website

How it feels

A quiet, emotionally introspective visual novel about navigating new love while haunted by the ghost of a past relationship.

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About

A censored port of Hatsukoi Sankaime. Everyone has experienced first love and it is a truly bittersweet experience. Taichi had also fallen in love once, but it ended very painfully for him. Two years later, he was ready to take a step forward and fall in love again. Just when he was about to begin his new relationship with a girl who he fell in love with at first sight, the ghost Rin descended from the skies. Aside from the colour of her eyes and her hair, she looked exactly like his first love. Will he be able to forget his first love and move on, or will he still yearn for it?

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