I played the 2016 update - could've been an actually interesting experience if the writing wasn't so bad.
Finished with the big tits woman and was mad because I wanted to go out with the other one.
Cute little VN about Japan. I feel so enriched.
It has been 3 years since I played it, but I remember the romance being really bad and listen, I am a sucker for romance in games, okay? This one sucked.
Nonfuctional
miserable
I think some of my friends would kill me if I told them this was my first exposure to Visual Novels
Reading this before, during and a little bit after my first trip to Japan really made this VN more fun than it would've been otherwise. The characters and writing is mediocre, but I enjoy all the trivia and being able to visit Tokyo virtually and choose your itinerary.
Dangerous.
Wow as a fellow gaijin(foreigner) I found this very enriching and 良い
I think japan is very cool and epic and I am currently studying Katakana and once that's done I think I will move there
Because this game taught me how great the land of cherry blooms is
Sayonara(that means goodbye)
I think japan is very cool and epic and I am currently studying Katakana and once that's done I think I will move there
Because this game taught me how great the land of cherry blooms is
Sayonara(that means goodbye)
"An Informative, But Otherwise Basic Visual Novel"
I was a bit surprised by this VN. I assumed that it would be focused mostly on a romantic love triangle (like literally every other generic VN), but it turned out to be a pretty decent tour of Japan! The game's strength and uniqueness comes from its ability to teach you about Japanese culture and history, while still having a decent set of characters and some fun scenes.
The premise is really basic: you just arrived in Japan, and are being shown around Tokyo by some friends you made online. They turn out to be two cute sisters, and they serve as both your tour guides and your love interests throughout the game. The game operates on a daily routine, with you choosing a location to explore for the day (at least, most of the time).
The information presented is actually pretty in-depth. You will visit many locations like Shibuya, Ginza, and Asakusa (as well as many more, especially with the new DLC's), and your can learn about their meaning, history, and have some fun events occur along the way. The art in the original version is just "okay", so you might want to pick up one of the DLC packs in order to get improved visuals, more scenes, and more possibilities for both locations and relationship-building.
This game is sort of light on real "choice", but its still there. Depending on the locations you explore, you will end up with one of the two sisters. I didn't really like this gatekeeping aspect, as many first-time players would not know this is a mechanic (since it is never explained to you beforehand). Its easy to fast-forward back through the game and choose again, but its still a bit annoying.
A flaw that this game has is that sometimes the education aspect gets sidelined for the romance, and vice-versa. You could be learning about some rich history, and then get distracted by a dumb romance moment that adds very little, and it really takes you out of the experience. The same could be said for intimate moments - in traditional fashion, all "confessing of one's feelings" is postponed until the VERY end, so you'll have to suffer through the character's immature dialogue at times.
The game pretty much functions as a normal VN otherwise, so its easy to play. There isn't really anything super unique besides the education aspect, and the romance part is pretty basic (maybe forced in?). Its cute and has some realistic reactions at times (not wanting to focus on feeling with new person, wanting to put focus on the trip's education aspect, dialogue is sometimes normal-sounding), but at other times it seems blatantly forced in. Still, as far as VN's go, you could find much worse. I can Recommend this one to anyone looking to learn a decently rich history of Japan, and for those that would enjoy it in a VN presentation.
Final Verdict: 6/10 (Above Average)
I was a bit surprised by this VN. I assumed that it would be focused mostly on a romantic love triangle (like literally every other generic VN), but it turned out to be a pretty decent tour of Japan! The game's strength and uniqueness comes from its ability to teach you about Japanese culture and history, while still having a decent set of characters and some fun scenes.
The premise is really basic: you just arrived in Japan, and are being shown around Tokyo by some friends you made online. They turn out to be two cute sisters, and they serve as both your tour guides and your love interests throughout the game. The game operates on a daily routine, with you choosing a location to explore for the day (at least, most of the time).
The information presented is actually pretty in-depth. You will visit many locations like Shibuya, Ginza, and Asakusa (as well as many more, especially with the new DLC's), and your can learn about their meaning, history, and have some fun events occur along the way. The art in the original version is just "okay", so you might want to pick up one of the DLC packs in order to get improved visuals, more scenes, and more possibilities for both locations and relationship-building.
This game is sort of light on real "choice", but its still there. Depending on the locations you explore, you will end up with one of the two sisters. I didn't really like this gatekeeping aspect, as many first-time players would not know this is a mechanic (since it is never explained to you beforehand). Its easy to fast-forward back through the game and choose again, but its still a bit annoying.
A flaw that this game has is that sometimes the education aspect gets sidelined for the romance, and vice-versa. You could be learning about some rich history, and then get distracted by a dumb romance moment that adds very little, and it really takes you out of the experience. The same could be said for intimate moments - in traditional fashion, all "confessing of one's feelings" is postponed until the VERY end, so you'll have to suffer through the character's immature dialogue at times.
The game pretty much functions as a normal VN otherwise, so its easy to play. There isn't really anything super unique besides the education aspect, and the romance part is pretty basic (maybe forced in?). Its cute and has some realistic reactions at times (not wanting to focus on feeling with new person, wanting to put focus on the trip's education aspect, dialogue is sometimes normal-sounding), but at other times it seems blatantly forced in. Still, as far as VN's go, you could find much worse. I can Recommend this one to anyone looking to learn a decently rich history of Japan, and for those that would enjoy it in a VN presentation.
Final Verdict: 6/10 (Above Average)
Learning about Japanese culture and tourist attractions is kinda neat (especially the more practical stuff) but the romance subplot didn't grab my attention and there aren't many choices so most of the experience is just reading mundane dialogue.
A lot of the information is probably outdated by now too.
A lot of the information is probably outdated by now too.
Go Go Nippon is a short visual novel that serves as a surface-level travel guide to the main tourist areas of the Tokyo region. There's a romance sub-plot with the two sisters who are hosting the player character on his trip to Japan, but the focus is mostly on showing you trivia about the local attractions.
It's not necessarily a bad way to have a simple travel guide to give you ideas of where you might like to visit for real, but it's limited in scope and the writing isn't great - especially with how weird it is for your character to be obsessed with Japan, become entirely fluent in the language and then somehow be clueless about how toilets work.
It's not necessarily a bad way to have a simple travel guide to give you ideas of where you might like to visit for real, but it's limited in scope and the writing isn't great - especially with how weird it is for your character to be obsessed with Japan, become entirely fluent in the language and then somehow be clueless about how toilets work.
i played this in a skype call once and did the dumbest voices for the characters. its boring otherwise iirc
I'm kinda salty that this game got achievements after I had played it but didn't let me unlock them in retrospective. I'm not going to play such a tiresome visual novel again just to get my ridiculous Steam achievement addiction fulfilled.
As someone who saved this visual novel until I was close to visiting Japan in real life... to say Go Go Nippon was disappointing is a HUGE understatement.
The idea of it is nice: A short visual novel that lets you learn about some Japan tourism, and with some (hopefully) likable enough girls who teach about certain things about Japan that's practical.
However I can bullet list everything I dislike about this game (which is a lot)
-The execution of the tourist explanations is WAY too shallow, its either stuff I already know, or stuff I don't care about
-At least in the 2015 version I only get to choose 3 Areas in Tokyo before the plot forces me in Kyoto than another city, hooray for lack of choice, what if I wanted to stay in Tokyo?
-While it's nice to have animated sprites, they couldn't get voice acting for TWO characters in a ~10 hour game? Literally every other Overdrive title has voice acting for all their heroines.
-The lack of voice acting also brings down the admittedly nice feature of Go Go Nippon having the rare ability to have BOTH Japanese and English text at the same time. Voice Acting could have REALLY helped learning Japanese with the Japan infodumping if that's what they were going for.
-As far as the heroines go, Makoto was OK at best. Pleasant enough to talk to, but you can tell this is an old visual novel when she has a really lame "blissfully unaware she sucks at cooking" gimmick. One of the worst anime comedy tropes from that era.
-Akira is an incredibly obnoxious unreasonable generic tsundere. They attempt to give her "depth" in her "route" but does not exclude her behavior, and makes me wonder how the MC would come to get feelings for an unlikable POS like her.
-Speaking of routes, why did they try to force in romance here? Half or more of the dialogue is just the two sisters infodumping Japan facts and the main character is a boring white foreigner. The "routes" come in way too late, and even as someone who doesnt mind "self-inserting" this felt like cheesy lame forced quickly resolved melodrama for the final "romance route" chapters at the end of a route.
-Minor, but they should've focused more on how the characters knew each other online before the MC flew in. Maybe there wouldn't have been a dumb misunderstanding of MC not realizing the two were girls for a shallow joke. And maybe the romance would have made at least a little more sense.
I only visited areas that Akira showed me around which got me onto her route. So suffice to say did not have a good time talking with her most of the time. I don't care enough about Makoto or the areas she shows around to do her route.
When the only things I like are some of the CGs, the moving sprites, and BGM mostly being taken straight from Edelweiss, Kira Kira, and DEARDROPS (which is also half a flaw), that's not a good sign.
Go Go Nippon is both a disappointment as a Japan tourist game, and as a romance moege.
The idea of it is nice: A short visual novel that lets you learn about some Japan tourism, and with some (hopefully) likable enough girls who teach about certain things about Japan that's practical.
However I can bullet list everything I dislike about this game (which is a lot)
-The execution of the tourist explanations is WAY too shallow, its either stuff I already know, or stuff I don't care about
-At least in the 2015 version I only get to choose 3 Areas in Tokyo before the plot forces me in Kyoto than another city, hooray for lack of choice, what if I wanted to stay in Tokyo?
-While it's nice to have animated sprites, they couldn't get voice acting for TWO characters in a ~10 hour game? Literally every other Overdrive title has voice acting for all their heroines.
-The lack of voice acting also brings down the admittedly nice feature of Go Go Nippon having the rare ability to have BOTH Japanese and English text at the same time. Voice Acting could have REALLY helped learning Japanese with the Japan infodumping if that's what they were going for.
-As far as the heroines go, Makoto was OK at best. Pleasant enough to talk to, but you can tell this is an old visual novel when she has a really lame "blissfully unaware she sucks at cooking" gimmick. One of the worst anime comedy tropes from that era.
-Akira is an incredibly obnoxious unreasonable generic tsundere. They attempt to give her "depth" in her "route" but does not exclude her behavior, and makes me wonder how the MC would come to get feelings for an unlikable POS like her.
-Speaking of routes, why did they try to force in romance here? Half or more of the dialogue is just the two sisters infodumping Japan facts and the main character is a boring white foreigner. The "routes" come in way too late, and even as someone who doesnt mind "self-inserting" this felt like cheesy lame forced quickly resolved melodrama for the final "romance route" chapters at the end of a route.
-Minor, but they should've focused more on how the characters knew each other online before the MC flew in. Maybe there wouldn't have been a dumb misunderstanding of MC not realizing the two were girls for a shallow joke. And maybe the romance would have made at least a little more sense.
I only visited areas that Akira showed me around which got me onto her route. So suffice to say did not have a good time talking with her most of the time. I don't care enough about Makoto or the areas she shows around to do her route.
When the only things I like are some of the CGs, the moving sprites, and BGM mostly being taken straight from Edelweiss, Kira Kira, and DEARDROPS (which is also half a flaw), that's not a good sign.
Go Go Nippon is both a disappointment as a Japan tourist game, and as a romance moege.