Chulip

released on Oct 03, 2002

You and your penniless father have just moved into a rural town famous for an ancient legend. It's been said that a couple who kisses underneath the old tree will be destined to live happily ever after. With your eyes set on a girl living in a nearby pipe...you set out on your quest. Filled with a new determination, you've sworn to yourself that you'll do whatever it takes to kiss this charming little girl underneath the ancient tree and spend the rest of your life with her.


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Chulip quickly became one of my favourite games after I finished it. I live for these chill, small town Japan vibes. It’s a very slow, sometimes sadistic game that offers little guidance to the player. I can kinda see why it was so poorly received. But if you can get on its wavelength, you’re treated to one of the most relaxing and charming experiences you could have with a game. It features some surprisingly pointed social commentary too. It never gets too dark but it hits pretty hard as an adult.

I’m a big fan of the Japanese approach to open world design where the maps tend to be much smaller and far more dense than western open world games, and are focused on creating an experience that is closer to a simulation. Chulip achieves this perfectly and is its greatest strength. Its greatest weakness is that it does occasionally get a tad too obtuse, however, for the most part I don’t think it’s anywhere near as perplexing as people say it is. I 100%’d it and I’d say roughly 80% I did without a guide, maybe a little less. Anyway, game rules.

Hates the player, openly wishes you were dead, and still has nothing as annoying as the fishing tournament in their other game moon. How crazy is that

ive never found another game that makes me feel the same way chulip does, and its wholly unique in that sense. its super cozy, and the time management aspects almost remind me of something like Majora's Mask, where on replays of the game im always trying to get as many things done in one day as possible, and it's always a really fun time. it's also silly, but not to the point where its over the top. it puts something absurd in front of you, and everyone in the game treats it like its normal, which i think is a really good way of doing things. chulip is a game you can truly get yourself lost in, getting kiss after kiss after kiss, only to realize you've now been playing for 4 hours straight, and still wanna keep going. the only issues i'd say i have with chulip are that sometimes, certain solutions to puzzles can be a bit obtuse, but in the game's defense, every hint you need to solve them is there, you just need to find them. the other issue is that the save system can be rather unforgiving, and because it's VERY easy to take a lot of damage very quickly, you'd best be saving religiously. other than that, chulip is a hard recommend from me

This game is just fantastic. It has the familiar Love-De-Lic combination of comedy and despair, and it’s probably impossible to beat without a guide. But the manual (available on archive.org) has a guide sufficient to solve most of the tougher challenges, and if you do your best to avoid a guide you can still do a lot of the stuff in the game. You have to be patient, though. This is a game that asks you to spend a lot of time waiting and watching, and (especially early on) it’s not afraid to game over you several times in a row. But the gameplay works with the game’s themes really well, and this shit is just vibe city. Play it! Use a guide when you get stuck! Be patient!

A quaint, weird game that is as japanese as they come, but it's just as weird as it's charming and enchanting. If you can get past it's whymsical shortcomings, you'll find a game with a lovable world, interesting mechanics and characters with heart-touching stories.