Chilla's Art The Bathhouse | 地獄銭湯 Restored Edition | Full Game Walkthrough | No Commentary
445It's finally time to archive another Chilla's Art game and this time its a remake of one of their previously released titles. The Bathhouse received mixed reviews from fans, but also had an issue on Steam to where it was apparently unplayable. I'm not entirely sure what the issue was since I had recorded and archived the game on launch, but maybe something went wrong during an update.
Anyway, this time they remade the game and its their best looking game yet. We play as Maina who has moved to the countryside to work as a staff member for a local bathhouse. It is up to us to do customer service and keep any customers out who break the rules. It feels a bit like Chilla's Art is toying with the gameplay style of That's Not My Neighbor.
Along your shift you will meet all sorts of strange and funny characters and it never got too stressful to where I could not handle what the game was asking of me. The game is by far Chilla's Art longest game yet and a few minigames do outlast their welcome a little bit.
I actually lived in Tokyo for 8 years of my life and thus I absolutely love Japanese culture and part of that culture are the onsen and sento bath houses. I have visited many and that is probably why I was actually a big fan of the first Bathhouse game by Chilla's Art. Despite so much critique from others, it was actually one of my more favorite titles since there was a lot of things I felt connected to.
This time around it sometimes feels a bit more absurd and I hope that they will stay focused on storytelling and atmosphere, which is what they always excel at. Parasocial was one of their best games yet and I hope they will keep that line in their upcoming titles. One interesting thing about this game is that in order to get the good ending you actually need to replay the game multiple times since it gives you key items from previous playthroughs. I don't think Chilla's Art has ever done this before and it felt surprising and fresh.
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