The demo of a free to play visual novel set in a world populated with dogs. You play as a Shiba Inu called Syd who comes back to her home Shiba Island after being gone for more than ten years. She meets old friends and new challenges.
Features:
- Included dog bark button in preference menu
- Random facts about dogs in menus
- Some other stuff where the game will notice how long you take to make a decision
- Dogs galore!
Visual novels… Two words that made me turn my head almost every time I hear about a new game. Since that genre recently gets more attention and love outside of Japan, I’m watching my backlog grow by the minute probably.
Strange to see a notable in such a niche and limited genre in the audiovisual and playable part, right? Above, in English and with the small letter. Well, that's how I would have liked the story of this strange and even inhospitable world of dogs and the strange things that surround it.
Summer with the Shiba Inu is a pretty unimpressive Visual Novel, with an uninteresting story, poor presentation, and an unsatisfying payoff with little in terms of drastic choices that made me feel as if I wasted my hour with the original route I took. When a visual novel feels like it’s filled with filler and uninteresting events without much of a...
It is a pity that A Summer with the Shiba Inu does not properly explore its potential, as it's visuals are colorful and attract attention. In addition, dogs are charismatic and have interesting expressions. However, the mystery is not interesting at all, the story is longer and more confusing than it should be and the game does not seem to know very...
A Summer with the Shibu Inu will intrigue the player with its various endings and cute character models, but its visual offerings and replay value are extremely limited overall. If you enjoy choose-your-own-adventure games, this is worth a try, but prepare to be disappointed in the ambiguous conclusions to every story.
