Natural – Beyond Nature –

I got this game as a gift from a friend of mine a while ago, and it was a nice surprise since I’ve been wanting to play Beyond Nature since it was released on Steam. It’s a short visual novel about a genderless MC named Olea and two mysterious girls: Flori and Llima. Her fates became intertwined because of a tragic past event, and that changed their lives a lot in the following years.
The main goal is getting “fragments” by choosing certain answers, and that will unlock new endings and CGs, leading the player to the “true ending”. Each gameplay takes about 30 minutes, and you’ll have to replay a few times until you get all the fragments. This can be frustrating since a few scenes and the transition effects cannot be skipped, and you’ll probably need a guide to help you with the missing fragments. The art style is beautiful and I especially love the painting. BGM is good too, sometimes it stops out of nowhere and things get very silent, but that wasn’t a problem to me. The story was nice, nothing amazing but it wasn’t bad either. I liked the characters even if we have little time to know them better because of the fast paced narrative.
6/10. Overall, I recommend this game when it’s on a good sale and if you’re feeling like solving a mystery, even if it means that you’ll have to replay a lot of scenes.

This seventh visual novel from Zeiva Inc feature a gender-neutral protagonist Olea who had suddenly quit his/her job and decided to leave town and take a bus or walk towards a remote island village of Calcari Village which had been isolated for many years after a devastating earthquake and mudslide which caused many of its former inhabitants to leave the village and an ancient olive tree to wither and lose its leaves and flowers. As Olea settles into the village, Olea will meet Flori and Llima, two young adult girls who share their souls and visit the olive tree regularly in order to stay alive, a few minor supporting characters and 3 child spirits who will visit Olea in his/her sleep each night over 3 chapters(includes characters from Zeiva Inc's earlier visual novel Voices from the Sea). In subsequent playthroughs in Beyond Nature mode after accumulating sufficient memory fragments, the child spirits will reveal themselves more fully and Olea will eventually acquire sufficient wisdom and memory to revive the olive tree, reach 2 additional hidden endings and unlock all bonus content.
Although there are no Steam achievements to obtain in this game and the Steam take screenshot button feature doesn't work, the game has a memory fragment counter that will track and record each memory fragment that is awarded with each different decision Olea(the player) makes and each different ending reached throughout in different playthroughs and there is a guide available at Zeiva Inc's website that will help players get all memory fragments and reach all 6 possible endings in the game. The game has beautiful artwork, great opening movie, theme song and soundtracks. Recommended when game with original ending theme DLC are at discount or in bundle offer as it takes less than 10 hours to read through all 6 endings and bonus content.

I just bought this today since I was in a VN mood and I wanted something short. I read <sin>'s negative review and how he mentioned it being 3 hours at max. Unfazed by the negative review, considering that I wanted a short game to kill the afternoon, I decided to get it anyways to kill the afternoon. I am happy to say it was a good decision.
The story, while quite short, is nonetheless interesting enough to hook you to want to see the 'true' end. The art is gorgeous. The music's not half-bad, but not such a strong point as the art.
For such a short story, one negative point is how often you have to run through the entire game multiple times to get to the different choices. I would have liked an option that included an auto-skip rather than, "Hold the down arrow."
But otherwise, it's well worth the price; though I payed a bit less since it was on sale. I will keep myself updated on the new games released by this studio.

If you enjoy short, atmospheric visual novels, I highly recommend Natural - Beyond Nature -. This bittersweet tale of two young women bound together by both magic and trauma, and the visitor to their remote village who might be able to help them, is a lovely relaxing read. You might want to keep the official guide on hand to make sure you collect all the "fragments" that unlock the endings and bonus content, since the skip function requires you to constantly hold down the button, making a bit frustrating to try to explore all the options yourself. But it’s worth it to see all the pretty art in the ending variations.

Natural - Beyond Nature
Recommended
Length: Very Short (1-5 hours)
Number of Routes: 2 (multiple endings)
Choices: Yes
Failure Possible: Yes
Character Rating: Pretty Decent
Story Progression: Pretty Decent
Chaotic Elements: Yes / Very Minor
Music Rating: Decent
Achievement Difficulty: 0
Additional Thoughts:
Rather short but still decent. Ending path depends on certain choices, however its easy to keep getting the same two endings. The true endings are hidden behind seeing every choice and the other endings. There is no way to stop skipping if content is unread.

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It's pretty good. The story was interesting, the visuals good, and the writing didn't strike me as bad. My one problem is the price for what you are getting. There is not much there and it's hard to recommend for $10, or even $6. But as soon as a deep sale happens, you owe it to yourself to check this one out.
PS, I didn't get all of the endings (I really only care about the true ending) because I saw that it wouldn't really take much time to see them all.