Such a cozy experience man.

Everyone has a story to tell, be it the regulars that appear frequently throughout the story or the characters who only show up once or twice. And Jill sure knows how to help them drown their sorrows.

Even though the city in which the game's events take place is heavily implied to be a terrible place, most people manage to get by in their day to day and somehow find their own happines. If only for a few hours, visiting Va-11 Hall-A can help you put your mind to ease. Every dialogue is full of charm and feels real: the hacker who can't find a good enough husband, a pair of coworkers who need to relax or a sex worker sharing requests that seem out of this world. And sometimes that's what life is about, sharing a drink while venting about your troubles.

Time to mix drinks and change lives!

I only played it briefly back in 2018 and actually thought it was good. I wasn't in the mood for this game back then, but now that I've finished Coffee Talk and loved it so much, I wanted to give it another chance. A chill bartender simulation with a cyberpunk twist actually sounded quite appealing, and after a few years I've now finally finished it. I really enjoyed the game, but overall I found it much weaker than Coffee Talk. This was mainly due to the writing. I just didn't find the conflicts between the characters that interesting and the constant sexual innuendos really got on my nerves. I wish the developer had hired another writer, then this game could have been a little masterpiece. The graphic style, the music and also the gameplay all come together very well and create a cool cyberpunk atmosphere. So, even though I have my points of criticism, I had a good time with this game.

Forever grateful to have been able to play this wonderful game back in 2019. Not only was it made by people from my own country, which led me to understand and feel to a very close level how living here influenced a good chunk of the writing, but also, this being my introduction to the Visual Novel medium absolutely opened a whole new world for me and allowed me to find stories that I consider were life-changing, one of them, even saving me at the lowest point of my life.

Gracias por todo, equipo de Sukeban Games. Gracias, Kiririn51.

"Hora de misturar bebidas e mudar vidas!" - Jill

Muitos personagens interessantes e com uma jogabilidade simples, perfeito pra passar tempo.
A história e contada de uma maneira interessante pois é tudo por boatos e de clientes a personagem não "presencia" tudo.
Adorei. Outro Sugar Rush?

Eu fiquei completamente apaixonado por esse jogo e seus personagens. A maneira que é apresentada as relações já construídas entre eles e as que ainda vão se formar é tão natural que me fez querer não perder uma linha de diálogo sequer.

Ao mesmo tempo que ele mostra situações divertidas ou dolorosas que fazem você se relacionar totalmente aos personagens do jogo, é apresentado um mundo cyberpunk muito interessante de se conhecer e ouvir sobre, além da gameplay de drinks que é bem divertida de explorar.

Charming bartending simulator. Learning about each client's story and seeing how they connect was a nice touch. I liked how they managed the main character as well, since most of the main characters in visual novels usually feel bland or like a self insert of sorts, so such an interesting protagonist definitely raised my interest and enjoyment of the game.

There's a New Game + as well, but honestly as far as replayability goes I'd say one playthrough is enough to experience the game as a whole.

I have a fun story about this game - I really had to crunch to make the final rent payment in the game, I played poorly and was more interested in the characters than min-maxing the drink orders. I also was a really bad bartender in real life at the time, so it makes sense that I was a bad bartender in the game. As a result, I got to the deadline just under the amount of money I needed with a day to go. By serving the Media mogul a "Big Beer" rather than the regular-sized one, I was able to eke out just enough money, but my laptop battery died and I needed to play that final day out again. In this second playthrough, I forgot to give him the big beer and ended the day $2.80 short - netting me the bad ending. Something about that felt right, and I accepted the bad ending as my ending of choice.

A masterclass of story telling and character depth.

The world building was great, even tho you never really leave the bar (or your house for that matter) the game still does a solid job at making Glitch City and engaging town that feels lively (and quite dangerous at times).

All Characters you interact with have a solid amount of layers on them, and what makes them even more likable and organic, is the fact that they also interact with each other and are not limited to Jill, which leads to certain revelations and connections to feel really charming. (Someone has to put a restraining order on a certain press chief tho, he's a dangerous individual lol)

As for the gameplay itself, it was quite interesting, being able to mix drinks and serve them, which ultimately affects the endings you get is a cool idea for a VN, it felt very interactive, even more so the fact that you're getting little bits of character story by doing so,

The music is also nice, and you can certainly control the mood of a conversation by switching songs. (There were a couple of songs that were not of my taste unfortunately, but most of them were great.)

As for the art direction, I was always fascinated by the effort put on pixel art games, the art on this game was great, which also contributes to the world building at times (the attention to detail is great)

And you also get to play a side scroller Touhou minigame! (if you're up for the task, that is, lol)

All in all it's a really fun solid VN.