Corona Borealis has some good characters and a decent enough overall story but I wasn’t fond of the game’s scheduling mechanic. Basically youCorona Borealis has some good characters and a decent enough overall story but I wasn’t fond of the game’s scheduling mechanic. Basically you carve up your time with certain tasks and depending on what you pick it dictates who you grow closer towards. I’m fine with the concept but in practice it forces you to abandon learning much about all but one character if you want to get their ending or know a lot about them. I wish there was a way to somehow become close with one romantic interest as well as become closer friends with your Dad as I felt bad for ditching him over the entire summer. I also found that while early on you get a lot of conversation options with whoever you choose it really takes a dive later on to where you’re just watching the calendar screen go by. I also felt that, at least with Lacey, getting the romance option versus the friend options felt almost a coin toss or luck even if I followed what guides said. I also didn’t like how if you choose to call someone and they’re busy you lose relationship points with them. The art was well done and the music was decent as well. I thought the voice acting was good but I wasn’t a fan of how some lines had voice acting and others didn’t. It felt weird and you never knew when the voices would kick in and out.
I played Corona Borealis on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any spelling issues. You can manually save whenever you want and there are seventy two save slots. Alt-Tab didn’t work.
Game Engine: Ren’Py 7.2.2.491
Graphics API: OpenGL
Game Version Played: 1.0.0
GPU Usage: 0-93 %
VRAM Usage: 585-757 MB
CPU Usage: 2-8 %
RAM Usage: 2.5-2.9 GB
Overall Corona Borealis isn’t a bad game but there are lots of better visual novels out there. I just found that my issues outweighed how much I liked the stories and characters enough to really recommend it. I paid $14.31 CAD and finished my first play through in eighty six minutes.
My Score: 6.5/10
My System:
AMD FX-9590 | 16GB DDR3-2133 | XFX RX 590 8GB Fat Boy | Mesa 22.1.7 | Garuda | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 5.19.12-zen1-zen… Expand
