Eat, drink, and fall in love at Bellflower Bistro. Bistro Days is a fun, over-the-top romantic story with choice-driven plots and multiple endings.
Positive
13 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Y | Y | Y |
| Chinese (Simplified) | — | Y | Y |
| Chinese (Traditional) | — | Y | Y |
Boring.
[h1]Spoiler Free Review![/h1]
I'd heard mixed things about Bistro Days, but the nice quality artwork and cute premise drew me in nonetheless. It does have very minor drawbacks, but overall it's a thumbs up from me. Let's dive into why!
The artwork is indeed very appealing to look at (especially the food art!). When it comes to the backgrounds, there are various scenes that could have done with a new bespoke background, but instead, the shot simply zooms to a smaller portion of the same one. This doesn't entirely set the scene in some instances, but then as a game dev myself, I completely understand how expensive and time consuming art creation can be, so I can't exactly fault them for getting as much use out of a small bank of content as possible. The backgrounds themselves are lovely and colourful. The sprites are where the artwork really shines - they're detailed, with plenty of facial expressions, and the fact that they all blink independently of each other during conversations adds an extra nice feel to things. There's good use of movement with the sprites too, so it does feel like you're interacting with people as opposed to just looking at a bunch of images. The soundtrack is nice, although a few more pieces would have been great - I found that things got quite repetitive after a while, and there were a couple of emotional scenes that were slightly dampened by the fact that the soundtrack simply continued the jaunty upbeat song it was already playing, instead of transitioning to something more fitting to the mood (but again, possible budget constraints could have contributed).
As for the plot and gameplay, the game has a cute premise and does quite well in using the trope of 'super hot girls in your local cafe AND THEY'RE SINGLE' without actually playing into too many overdone tropes. There's no fanservice and no lewdness for the sake of it. The length of the overarching main plotline was great in keeping the game at an enjoyable length (about 7-9 hours) without it dragging on. I wouldn't have wanted too much more. The plot is also great for tying in the events of each girl's route, so everything feels quite natural and well integrated. There are plenty of player choices along the way, so you don't feel like you're spectating for too long. The characters themselves were pretty well balanced too, and played into various stereotypes without doing them too hard - they were still believable characters that you'd enjoy getting to know irl, rather than overblown and overexaggerated like a lot of VN characters are. They also each deal with relatable problems that a lot of people experience, which humanises them even more.
I'll spoiler this next part just in case people don't want to hear about the types of endings this game has: [spoiler]I was slightly disappointed to realise that each route essentially only has one ending, so you can't exactly screw anything up - you just get different CGs and dialogue, but the outcome is the same every time. This felt like it took a bit of the excitement and player interactivity out of it, but if you come at it from a perspective of just enjoying a sweet story and not having much impact on what happens, then you'll enjoy it. I definitely still did - it wasn't a dealbreaker.[/spoiler]
One snag that sticks in my mind is the skipping function. There is a chunk of narrative that's shared across all three routes, since the main events of the game take place in all of them. However, the ability to skip text stops once you exit the common route and begin a specific girl's route. So even though certain scenes are identical across all three routes, you can't skip them and have to go through them again. You also cannot skip any of the scenes that use the phone, no matter where in the game they are. I actually also encountered Ren'Py error screens quite often when using the phone. It doesn't really disturb gameplay, as the 'ignore' function just puts you right back onto the next line of narrative, so you don't lose anything. It's just a momentary annoyance that comes up somewhat often. Not sure how many others have experienced this, though.
Overall, this was a short and sweet experience. It's not the greatest VN I've read, and won't tug super hard at your heartstrings, but it's well thought out, very appealing for the eyes and takes you on a cute little adventure helping dreams come true and finding love along the way! I recommend.
[h1] 用最若至的剧情，选择送到你面前的女主角. [/h1]
仿佛写的日式gal文的展开但台词文本和背景又给人一种十分怪异的翻译腔又带点怪怪的机翻味道，外加上只有几处关键场景会发声以外其他地方只有尬到发指的西洋老姐的语气词配音.
选项很多，但可以鼠标滚轮直接返回重新选择，主要是很多选项都太内个了，几乎可以说是型扫饶的话了，而且加好感的方式也十分直接，选了选项后加好感的女主角的蹦出来说她也喜欢OO（选项里的内容），再加上人物立绘挺普通的，只能说不难看，和这若至灌满了水一样的剧情合在一起，纯纯浪费时间.
最关键是有些CG只能在推的过程中去截，因为主页的CG集根本没有，巨tm离谱.
还有那沙皮后日谈，就是把前面的内容换成不同的女主说的几句话，后面就原封不动，我真的谢.
哪来的勇气卖这么贵的
This is a nice story about an aspiring (but as of yet, unsuccessful) food blogger who is invited to be a part of a cooking competition, and has to work together with one of the girls to make a winning recipe. The story isn't too impressive or exciting, but it is solid, and each route has two endings depending on if you helped the girl of her choice overcome her issues.
It also has great pictures of food and cute CG's of the girls, so that's a nice bonus.
A very sweet visual novel featuring cafes, cooking and cats.
Whilst I've only completed one path so far, I can say it's been a very nice story.
The graphics are lovely - both characters (which are partially animated) and CGs too
There are a few grammatical errors near the start, but they don't distract from anything.
Well worth getting and playing, even if it's just for the food.
Gute Visual Novel mit ein paar Dialogoptionen um die Route zu bestimmen, otisch sehr stimmig dargestellte Charaktere und Hintergründe, Leider ist bezüglich der Charaktertiefe eher Standardkost angesagt, die üblichen drei klar abgegrenzten Mädels, jede differenziert aber in Ihrem Klischee verbleibend. Die Story ist nichts weltbewegendes, teilweise vorhersehbar. Alles nicht schlecht, aber auch ohne Alleinstellungsmerkmal im Genre. Die Vertonung ist stellenweise vorhanden und wenn Sie vorhanden ist, dann wirklich gut, d.h. die Stimmen der drei Mädels passen für mich sehr gut zu den Charakteren und was vertont ist macht den Eindruck das man darüber nachgedacht hat wie man dem relevanteren Teil mehr Bedeutung gibt. Technisch ist das Spiel sehr gut, keine Abstürze, keine mir Aufgefallenen Bugs oder Textfehler.
Für den Preis und die wahrscheinlich vorhandenen Produktionsressourcen eine wirklich gute und empfehlenswerte Visual Novel in ordentlicher Länge, Aber an die Produktionsqualität der großen japanischen Genrevertreter kommt das Spiel nicht an.
It's a cute, sweet and short Visual Novel. All of the routes and the characters have distinct personalities and charms
You can be male or female for this VN.
It's a funny and, as I went on the Lilly route, a very Cute VN.
Good art work and story with some voice acting.
There are some emotional spots here and there to add to the drama.
All in all, I recommend this, and now to go on another route, if I can resist Lilly.
ps; Well, I resisted Lilly and done the Rose route.. Rose is also very cute though in a different way to Lilly.
She also has a more challenging upbringing to. There is also a surprise later in the game about Rose.
pps;
Iris,, what a path of chaos and fun. She can be very cute but you find out that she is quite vulnerable
to. Her route is just as fun as the others, and, like the other paths, your family is connected in some way, which shocks Iris lol. Iris is also very passionate later on. Iris also gets some very surprising news near the end.
First impressions are positive! Was surprised by the partial voice acting- but the performances are great! Everything about this is very professionally put together, lots of slick polish, surprised more people haven't played or reviewed this. Still need to see how the story unfolds, but I gotta say so far I am very excited from what I've seen so far!
One of the sweetest VNs I've ever played. Surprisingly light on fanservice (not a criticism, a complement). All routes were fun and engrossing and I loved all the girls but my heart belongs to Rose. Only complaint I have is an extremely mild one. I just wish there was more content because I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Bellflower Bistro
Big thumbs up from this gay girl.
Came for the waifus, stayed for the food.
Sweet and heartwarming game. Very well written, looks and sounds good. Definitely a good purchase!
从偶然在商店中看到这款新游戏，到14个成就全解锁，只花了我8小时。
先说立绘吧。立绘--怎么说呢，这好像是欧美的开发商，所以立绘看起来其实不那么“二次元”，而且也没有很多的cg和海报画面，也没有live2d，也没有很多的人物装扮和动作。不过，这作为一个视觉小说游戏，其实也足够了。
但是我比较有感触的，主要是剧情。
大概讲一下感受吧。
首先，这个游戏给我的感觉就是，它不像是个游戏，更像是一部小说。我第一个解锁的是莉莉线，说实话当时完全没有任何感觉，这里面唯一可操作的选择题也没有给我明确的指向，虽然我现在三线解锁，但是我仍然不太明白是怎样在看似毫无关系的日常问答里面从三个女孩子中选出其中之一的。
但是，这才是生活啊。
我们在生活中碰到的事，遇到的人，做出的改变，很有可能都只是源于一个看起来毫无关系、毫不起眼的选择。
这个游戏也是如此。
这里面不会有让你从三个人中选择其一这样的问题，也不涉及善恶抉择或者生离死别，有的只是我们在生活中会碰到的爱情故事。
这也是它打动人心的地方。真实的爱情，感动人的并不是轰轰烈烈的各种各样，而是在日常生活中两个人因为彼此之间的影响逐渐变得越来越好、越来越相像。三个女孩子各有各的特点，但是在这里面，我们所扮演的男主不是完美无缺的人生导师，不是八面玲珑的情场老手，也不是全盘接收的宠妻狂魔，而是和她们一样，有优点也有缺点，也会因为别人的夸赞脸红，会因为生活中的小事而烦忧，会因为朋友的建议而做出改变的，一个平凡而普通的人。
也许我应该对三个姑娘心怀愧疚，毕竟我是抱着galgame的心入的坑。没想到，你们会如此像真实的人，如此平凡而普通，又如此闪闪发光，深入人心。
