Ayakashi Gohan - Stream 13 (Date☆Night: 12/05/17)
4My friend DeviousVacuum and I, in a quest to discover more about visual novels, have put together a stream called Date☆Night, where we're playing through a bunch of visual novels that I haven't had the chance to really sink my teeth into, and that DVac has never seen. We stream on Tuesdays at 9PM Eastern on https://www.twitch.tv/ChorpSaway, so feel free to stop in if you're free!
Our current game is Ayakashi Gohan, a heartwarming little tale about family and the connection between human and ayakashi (spirits). We follow Akane Rin, a young girl living in a small town where humans and ayakashi live together. As she lives her normal life, going to school and working at a cafe, she may find romance with the people of this peculiar town...
Both DVac and I are going into this blind! The fan translation was released earlier this year so we haven't had a lot of time to look at it beforehand, but we're optimistic about it!
Today, DVac is calling in from her off-site work hotel to try and make the date! However, things turn for the worse in Yomi's route and the game sidetracks from his development like, really hard. There's now this tengu, and some kind of weird abduction subplot, and really it just serves to worsen the story and muddy the narrative that the route should be building. Maybe it'll pick up at the end? We'll find out!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Pre-Stream Bumper
4:12 - The Stream/Ayakashi Route - Yomi's Route
2:17:25 - Post-Stream Check-In/Analysis
Thanks to DeviousVacuum (@DeviousVacuum on Twitter) for the thumbnail art!
Opening Bumper Music: Secret Base ~Kimi ga Kureta Mono~ (10 Years After Ver.) (Instrumental) by Ai Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu, and Saori Hayami