The Language Of Love

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  • Summary: After his mother gets into an accident, Tanimura Mitsuki has to put his life and education on hold. He lives with his parents in the sleepy countryside for five years, helping them run their humble family business -- while the rest of his friends leave home, and leave him behind.

    When    After his mother gets into an accident, Tanimura Mitsuki has to put his life and education on hold. He lives with his parents in the sleepy countryside for five years, helping them run their humble family business -- while the rest of his friends leave home, and leave him behind.

    When Mitsuki finally leaves the nest, he's twenty-three years old, and woefully behind with his studies. If he wants to get accepted into university, he'll need to re-learn everything he was taught during high school, and then some.

    Mitsuki moves to Tokyo to attend a rigorous cram school, with the hopes of passing his university entrance exams next spring. He soon finds, however, that his other classmates treat him like a social outcast, being the oldest at his school by far. It proves impossible to make friends, and Mitsuki consigns himself to an isolated, lonely existence...

    That is, until he meets the single mother, Himuro Kyouko, who just-so-happens to live in the same apartment complex as him.

    Mitsuki offers to help Kyouko babysit her daughter, Tama. Kyouko, in turn, helps Mitsuki study for his upcoming exams. Over the course of a year, the two bond -- first, as friends, and then as something more.    … Expand

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  1. Gaming Age
    Dec 23, 2020
    33
    I know that Visual novels aren’t the most demanding genre, but the good ones still reward you in some way, even if it’s just with an engaging story. The Language of Love doesn’t even have that, which means it’s very safe to skip it.

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  1. 3DOgaming
    Feb 21, 2021
    1
    The Language of Love is a straight forward Visual Novel with no options, choices, or interactions necessary. Understanding that visual novelsThe Language of Love is a straight forward Visual Novel with no options, choices, or interactions necessary. Understanding that visual novels are not for everyone, this game is an extreme in that category. The story follows Mitsuki, a student working to pass his university entrance exams next spring. During this journey to pass his exams, he befriends a single mother Himuro Kyouko and eventually enters into a relationship with her.

    The game, which does not fairly describe this title, can be completed within minutes if one does not wish to read the text, or can take several hours with over 80,000 words in this story.    … Expand
  2. KittySquid
    Feb 17, 2021
    0
    It's important that this is reviewed as a kinetic novel, rather than a visual novel, as it is completely linear and doesn't involve anyIt's important that this is reviewed as a kinetic novel, rather than a visual novel, as it is completely linear and doesn't involve any choices. It's completely up front about that, so to judge it as if you expected different would not be fair.

    It's a story that will last you a few hours, and personally I completed it in four sittings. Whether or not it is engaging will depend on what you're hoping to get out of it, but it can't be faulted for being exactly what it sells itself as.

    Romantic stories are nothing new, but this is a story about two people whose lives were put on hold for different reasons (Mitsuki deferred university attendance because of his mother's accident, and Kuoko missed out on higher education because she became pregnant).

    The two are brought together by her child, Tama, who is portrayed quite realistically. It's really a joy to experience building a parental relationship with her; it's not something I have experienced before in any kind of game.

    This is, however, a relatively short and simple romance novel with the charming addition of the development of a parental bond. Very little unexpected happens, and several common story beats are hit along the way. I'd have liked to see a little more development at the end, too.    … Expand