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i love this story iv read it so many times. Its so sad though but i still love it and all the other stories made by the company.
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brilliant game! All the tags are correct with Phantom Seeds. Great music, very deep (philosophical), and great art! Alternate endings was also a great idea! Only problem is it is a bit short. If you could make another one of this quality then that would be great. I doubt that would happen, but just something to say.
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Okay, not to come off as ignorant or anything... but I don't get it? In one ending she dies from a disease caused by her "brother", and in the other she survives while everyone else dies? That's not philosophical, the villagers were right! If Father had never taken the little brat in the village would've been fine.
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it kind of shows a moral to the story- don't be rude to others because no good comes out of it.
Also, it leaves me thinking- where did Yun come from? What was his people like? What was the desiase called? What happened after the entire village died- what did Une do?
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This is an emotionally moving game. It's true that we as humans push the blame on to that which we don't understand. As for everyone else on this, what would you do if you were in Une's shoes? Would you just stand and watch impassively as your younger brother burns at the stake, or would you at least TRY to do something? With these words, Phantom Seeds gets five tugged heartstrings out of five (no points for the reference/ripoff).
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I can't really figure out what yun's real identity is but... I dont know here some hints for everybody that was mentioned. 1. Yun can hear the wind singing. 2. The mountain can heal Yun. 3. He could predict the weather and the crops. Hmmm. To me it's like he is a seed or something. But I enjoyed this. I like visual novels cause there is usually a hidden meaning in them like in Air Pressure.
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there are two sets to the story..
one:Yun shows Une these seeds and when he dies and Une visits his grave there is a tree with the seeds that only she can see,she eats them and becomes healthy
two:when she vists his grave she says sorry and basicly dies
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This is... I can't describe it with any words in the world. This is just greatest! I've seen both endings, and each one was teaching. The "Good" Ending made me a little sad, but also proud of myself, that I tried to help Yun. Yun helped me after all too. I was just surprised they didn't kill me when I was all healthy. The Bad Ending made me paralyze, Une died because she did not even try to protect Yun. All the endings were great. PROBLEM OF THE GAME: Gallery doesn't work!
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the song ... final fantasy ???? hmm where have i heard it before!!! well w/e it was shocking at first i thought id hate it but i really loved it other then how they died sir...... you are maybe the greatest wrighter ive ever met.
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People should stop being Grammar Nazis. From the credits, their names don't exactly look English, do they? They did an amazing job, and considering they probably don't have english as a first language there are very few mistakes. So shut up and enjoy the novel.
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I have played this game over and over again, watching the story again and again. It is so sad. Every time I watch it, I look over every detail, wishing I could change what happened; allow Yun, Une, and their father to live. It's not fair what had happened, but this story really makes you think about humans. We fear what we do not understand. That is a sad flaw. In this story, that was Yun. He had to die because of a flaw we cannot change. Whenever I think of this story, I cry, wishing it could be different. Truly amazing. This story tugs at the very essence of one's heart. I wish I could have changed it, and made that family happy. They deserved more. They truly did. 5/5 I have never read a more moving story, even in the 50 or so novels I've read.
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This was a very interesting story and made me feel so at peace with myself. First time around, I was nice to Yun, that is just how I am, I am very open-mided. I loved the art shown in this, it was breath-taking and I loved how the characters where put as one color, Yun as green, Une as Pink, their father as brown and the Elder as white.
I found it interesting that the password for the gallery was a characters name in one of your previous games ^^ very nice. I hope to hear either more of this story or much more from you, for I enjoy your ideas, they are heart-warming and really bring the kindness and understand from people.
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The very begining the father says "we have plenty of rice this year!", i just can't help but think if its because so many people died....
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of all the games I've played from the ps1, ps2, ps3, xbox, xbox360, game cube, psp, dsi, computer games and so on. i liked this one the best even though it had no gameplay in it i would prefer to play this games than all the others ones i have. This truly is a beautiful master piece you've made. if there's more like this in the world than i would love to play them all.
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No way in or out of the city. Their only option is to kill the "change". There will be people that truly believe that killing them will save them. Most commonly are people that do it out of sheer desperation. Some go with it to fit in with the others. And then there are the rarest. People who know that this is wrong and inhuman and try to do something about it. I too believe that we are afraid of what we do not know of and what we don't understand.
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This story is an amazing one. It shows a part of the human nature that most people try to .hide or deny exists. We, as humans, are like animals sometimes. Survival comes before anything else. The sad thing is that what happened in this story could very well happen in real life. Imagine a small town. The one where everyone knows everyone there. They suddenly contact a very strange illness. At first people will try to find logical ways to cure it. That doesn't work and people start dying. The goverment seals this town off in hopes of stopping the disease. The people of the town will try to find a change that could have possibly did this. As more and more people die the townspeople start taking wilder and wilder guesses. All it takes is one person to say that someone new did it. A new family, a friend visiting, or some travelers. People will believe because it's their only lead. As more and more people die the remaining people will want the new ones gone.
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This story...it's so...sad...and...great.I can't believe they thought he was a cursed child just because he's different.Why did they burn him anyways?!I know they're mad,but burning him!?That's just cruel.I would have stopped them.Burning a child just cause they assume his bad news...no.That's wrong.I cried at the end.Those villagers...they aren't human.No human would think a boy is a monstrous cursed child just cause bad things happened after his arrival and he predicted that the crops will die. Une and her dad are true human beings.They didn't believe Yun was cursed.Une was so lonely after their deaths.Why did they villagers have to do that?Knowing she would be so sad and lonely.Killing a harmless boy,a great dad,and leaving a girl alone....that isn't worth it.They could have somehow send those who weren't sick to find a cure.
I love this story.5/5
Great work.Thank you for it.
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This was an amazing visual novel with an equally good story, but the only real down side that I can see to it is that it was short. That and a few spelling mistakes, but I'm not a spelling nazi so I won't worry about it.
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The story was a bit shallow, to be honest. And incredibly obvious. Grammar could've-- and should've-- been a lot better, and considering that words are the second most important kind of thing next to the art, that's a major flaw. The piano playing was great, though. Without it, you'd've gotten a two. With it I give you a three.
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This is a beautiful fable that tells so much in such a short period of time. It seemed to me that the people started getting sick after they burned Yun. The rice was one problem and they blamed him. Maybe they would have survived it if Yun were still alive and not dead because of the villagers fear. Maybe had been sent to save the villiage but they killed him. Having rice go bad is not as bad as everyone dying of an incurable disease. Une believed in him till the end and then in his death caused her to live. There is so much to think about in thia little tale so I'm gonna stop right here cause I could go on for hours.
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I felt so, so horrible about getting the second ending. Yun was so cute and sweet and he didn't deserve what happened to him. I cried harder at the second ending than the first.
"Do not fear what you don't understand. Understand what you fear." is a good quote to live by. 5/5 for overall incredible work.
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*At the start of the game* "This is sooo booring... why am I watching this?" *In the end* "Its already over? Oh I wish it would have lasted longer..." ;) Amazing story, I cried in the ending, so it deserved a 5/5
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after reading the comments i feel like i dont have a heart as i didnt cry during the story but mabye thats beacuse i know that that did used to happen beacuse people didnt understand stuff and feared what they did not understand and thats why i like this beacuse it has some realy good quotes like that like the ones i come up with when im bored
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I usually hate western manga, but this was pretty damn good. The drawings looked really good and it was sort of reminiscent of Mushi-Shi