I wasn’t the biggest fan of Blooming Nightshade but there was some promise there so I decided to give the sequel a go and see if it improvedI wasn’t the biggest fan of Blooming Nightshade but there was some promise there so I decided to give the sequel a go and see if it improved in any way over the original. I won’t say it got worse in many ways but it still has a lot of the issues I had with the original. I am guessing that the developer simply has a different vision than I would for their visual novels, which isn’t a bad thing, it just means that I am not a huge fan. The issues I am speaking of are mainly that there is a lack of choices, especially meaningful ones. After the prologue you simply choose which girl you wish to romance. When I saw on the store page that you can continue a romance from the previous game I thought it would mean importing a save but nope, you simply choose whichever girl you want. What can I say, I like it when the game takes my choices into consideration and branches the story accordingly rather than me just pick what i want. That being said there are few enough choices that branching would be difficult. On the store page it also said that the stories are longer but I finished my first play through in just three minutes longer than the original so I don’t know if that description is as big a difference as I thought it may be. The art was well done but the music was a bit repetitive. The lewd scenes were alright but do lack animation which many visual novels have these days.
I played Flowering Nightshade on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any spelling errors. You can save any time you want and it has twelve save slots.
Game Engine: Ren’Py 7.4.5.1648
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 252 MB
GPU Usage: 2-16 %
VRAM Usage: 626-1200 MB
CPU Usage: 11-25 %
RAM Usage: 2.2-2.3 GB
Much like the original I won’t say that Flowering Nightshade is a bad game but it isn’t the type of visual novel I enjoy and depending on your preferences it may not be yours either. It is free of charge so you can give it a try but there are a lot of better free visual novels I have played. I finished my first play through in twenty seven minutes.
My Score: 6/10
My System:
AMD FX-6100 | 16GB DDR3-1600 | Gigabyte R9 270 2GB | Mesa 22.1.4 | Manjaro 21.3.6 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 5.18.14-1-MANJARO… Expand
