Unfortunately, he is constantly caught up in the regular affairs of the camp life, sent on errands, and at one point even helps locating a missing pioneer. Eventually, he decides to try to find out what is going on here, how he got here, and how he can get out. Pretty much the only three letters going through the protagonists's head during all this are a repeating W, T and F. He is greeted warmly by one of the "Pioneers", as they call the camp youth, and is helpfully led to the camp leader, who welcomes him to the camp and gives him a brief orientation. Instead he finds himself in a modern travel bus standing at the gates of a "Camp Sovyonok", a summer camp for soviet youth in the 80's communist Russia. When he wakes up, he's no longer on Bus 410. He waits in the snow, gets on good old Bus 410, and falls asleep. A typical Russian 2chan anon named Semyon gets on a bus to a university reunion, which doesn't interest him too much (he dropped out, after all), but he figures it's something to get him some non-digital human contact. These extras can be played by going into the game's settings, scrolling all the way down, and opening the "mods & user's scenarios"Īnd now, on to the story. Once you have finished the game, though, it gives some amazing new depth to the whole thing. It shouldn't be touched with a 10-foot pole until you unlocked all of the game, because it comes with a dose of mindfuck you'll undoubtedly overdose on unless you already built up some tolerance (and understanding) from getting through the main game. * Another extra, "One Pioneer's Tale", is automatically downloaded with the game a (free, duh) DLC that looks on the events of the game from an interesting different perspective. * Winter Tale: a little (probably) non-canon Christmas present from the creators. I actually liked this one better than the original ingame one. Obviously, don't play this until you got to that end. Here are the essentials: * Everlasting Summer on Steam (free) * The official site, which has the official "hentai patch" (really just a file which unlocks the stuff they locked out, presumably by Steam policy)Īnd some official extras: * Alternate 'good' ending to the "Alisa" route. To put it bluntly, this is a game pretending to be a classic "get the girl" eroge visual novel, until you scratch off that top layer, and get some chilling glimpses into what the heck the word "everlasting" is doing in the title.įirst of all, the links. and I'm still lost in the abyss of amazing story depth of Everlasting Summer. Katawa Shoujo blew me away in its sincerity. In both cases the idea was juvenile and even crude, until the actual writing started. Katawa Shoujo, in essence, started as some people on 4chan's anime & manga board getting the silly idea of "let's make an eroge visual novel about cripple girls!" Similarly, from what I've read, Everlasting Summer started when people on the Russian 2chan board decided "let's take all the mascots that frequent the memes on these boards, and make an eroge visual novel about them!" Now, I mentioned Katawa Shoujo, and I mentioned this being "its Russian counterpart". In fact, I heard about the game because my brother was humming it and couldn't get it out of his head. This trailer's music, which is both the intro video music and the credits music of the game, made me fall in love with its soundtrack immediately. The mentioned names are, in order: Slavya, Lena, Ulyana, Alisa, and Miku.