Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- PC Review by Lolinia of We Touch Games – Developer/Publisher: Modern Visual Arts Laboratory – Genre: Visual Novel
Can a robot have a soul? Can a robot love? Can robots have feelings? In Modern Visual Arts Laboratory’s take on these questions, Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- (-Lucy-) is an emotional tale that explores these questions. Meet… yourself… (You input your own name and the character is referenced as “You”) and Lucy Valentine, an android that can laugh. An android that can think for itself and make her own choices. Not ‘it’, but ‘she’. -Lucy- is a heartfelt tale that shows that love is something beyond the boundaries of human relationships. With expressive artwork, fitting storytelling, and suberb audio, this visual novel is a rare gem. Many thanks to Modern Visual Arts Laboratory for the review key!
Straight out, the artwork is stunningly compelling. The character sprites, backgrounds, and CGs are all fantastically detailed. In short, the game is very pretty. I started with the artwork because it’s just that good. It’s pleasing to the eye and, to be honest, makes the game worth the ten bucks alone, in my eyes. Seriously, look at the screenshots in this review. LOOK AT THEM.
Ahem. All in all, the visuals are amazing.
However, not only is the artwork amazing, but so is the story. As mentioned previously, you are ‘You’, a high-school boy whose name is what you make it. He’s also a dick to robotkind. He believes that all robots are useless and only make humanity weaker. On his way home from school on October 12, he meanders around the local junkyard and finds a discarded “junk” android about to be scrapped. On a whim, he takes her from there and begins life with his funny new friend! … Okay, it doesn’t go quite like that.
The boy has some personal issues with robots and other things that I won’t divulge here due to spoilers (READ IT FOR YOURSELF), and the robot he finds, named Lucy Valentine, only seems to compound on them at first in his mind. However, he later finds out that Lucy is a very exceptional robot. Almost human, even. -Lucy- is not your conventional love story, and depending on the choices you make, things can end up very differently. The story is short and one can finish reading it in a day, but it says so much. In the end, what will you leave behind when your time on this earth is up? Legacy, fame, etc? Loved ones? Memories? And if you leave those things behind… does that make you human? Find out for yourself in this incredible story.
As if the art and story weren’t enough, the sound quality for -Lucy- is absolutely top tier. While only one character is voiced (that being Lucy herself) in the two available languages (Japanese and Korean), the sound effects and music truly shape the world. The soundtrack is short, but surprisingly doesn’t feel repetitive. The sound effects immerse you into the world to the point of almost feeling pain when someone falls or feeling the heat of a blazing fire as it roars in your ears. The whirs of a robot’s gears or the pomf of falling onto the bed. The audio is so fitting and just wonderful.
On the other hand, there were some issue with the game. Whether this has to deal with me upgrading to Windows 10 lately or not, the game crashed every time I tried to fullscreen it from the system menu. Reading it in windowed mode didn’t deter me from the story, but I’d like the feature to work. I probably could’ve gotten through the game faster (took me about a week) without all the distractions of blinking program windows in my task bar. However, other than that and some small English grammar errors, the game is absolutely breathtaking.
Would you take care of Lucy? Will you remember her? Will you create the eternity she wished for? Pick up this small, yet impactful visual novel on Steam for $9.99 USD today. A beautiful and emotional story awaits you.
Lolinia gives Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- a Drastik Measure 9.2 out of 10.0 (92).
