Your Smile Beyond Twilight:黄昏下的月台上
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He thought he was invincible. He thought he didn’t need the pity or coddling of the world around him. He flatly turned down the concern of anyone except his parents.
Struggling through life with that mindset, he marched forward only to fall flat on his face.
Despair. He only realized only at his lowest how much he had taken for granted. He was neither a genius nor special. He was no better than anyone else.
But he realized too late.
Knowing how he once treated those around him in the past, he felt unworthy of help. As such, he willingly succumbed to his fate.
Even so, she dragged him out of that darkness and into the light. She gave him back his smile and made it brighter than ever. The world gave him another chance and gently embraced him, even though he didn’t deserve it.
Finally rejecting his notions of invincibility, he returned to his hometown for the first time in six years, bringing her along with him. Still fazed from having emerged from such a dark period, he wondered what he should do as his next steps.
Then, something changed.
The moment he got off that platform and breathed in the familiar yet unsettling smell of home, the world around him changed in a few timeless instants.
As jarring as a cold breeze in the middle of July, another girl’s voice enters the picture. No matter what sorts of dark secrets it may reveal, the work of providence itself ensures that what begins on the platform ends on the platform.
Steam User 23
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Your Smile Beyond Twilight: 黄昏下的月台上 is Lingtan Studio's second visual novel in Steam. It is a slice of life drama with supernatural elements featuring a young male protagonist Yunshan who recently lost his job in the city and decided to return to his hometown Tangyin with his girlfriend Jingxuan to visit his mother. While paying a visit to his father's grave, a mysterious girl suddenly shows up, claiming to have waited for him for a long time.
As a kinetic visual novel, there are no choices to be made, although the story is nice enough to keep my interest from start to finish. A volunteer translator fixed the English subtitles in 2017, and it is quite easy to obtain all Steam achievements with a published Steam community guide to help players with this part. The artwork and audio are also good, and the game comes with a free soundtrack DLC, leading me to write this quick thoughts blog post.
With that said, I feel that the achievement that requires using up all 30 save slots is a little redundant as the game is rather short with no choices that can be made, and a few save slots would suffice as it takes about an hour and a half to read and listen to all the text and dialogue. The short length also means not enough time is spent to develop some characters properly.
Overall, Your Smile Beyond Twilight is a short kinetic visual novel with nice music and well drawn artwork that I can recommend at any time despite a few minor complaints.
Pros
- Easy achievements
- Good visuals and music
- Reasonable price (comes with free soundtrack DLC)
Cons
- Rather short with no choices or routes
- Underwhelming character development
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Steam User 1
Decent for the price