Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole

Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole is a Japanese visual novel by developer KeroQ, starring a withdrawn high school girl with a rich inner world and sexual desires.

Anime and the visual novel genre

Beginning in 2010, anime culture began to spread throughout the Western world. At that time, store shelves were stocked with CDs of anime visual novels and other games from the Land of the Rising Sun. Today, all young people watch Japanese cartoons. If you like anime - welcome, this review will be interesting for you. If you don't like it - try to set aside your prejudices and savor this genre.

Visual Novels is not just a medium for nerds who have virtual romances with girls. Visual novels are a powerful semantic genre, a whole world. The sheer volume of text allows you to create your story with just letters and pictures.

Yuki Mizukami

The main character is a Japanese schoolgirl named Yuki Mizukami. Yuki is a rather private person, rarely sharing her worries with anyone. She often skips classes, simply because she doesn't feel like having a boring time, endlessly sitting at a study desk. Yuki smokes cigarettes alone and walks around town. Even at home at night, she opens the window and lights a cigarette under the moon. Yuki thinks she is antisocial, but this is just her inner belief. This is how she knows how to communicate and be friends with girls, even sometimes putting the bully boys and bully boys in their place.

Game plot

One day Yuki meets Zakuro, a mysterious girl who, drops stuffed animals from the tops of buildings. After spending the night at home together with their childhood friends, the twins Kagami and Tsukasa, they go on an astronomical observation trip. The school is rocked by the suicide of a student who talked a lot about the end of the world and called himself the savior of Japan. Everyone is just in shock. After a while, the characters have a heartwarming time going to an amusement park. So as not to spoil, I won't say specific things, but Zakuro's secret is revealed in this event. There will be a lot of deep and psychologically filled conversations, as well as same-sex love. Yes, yes, you didn't misunderstand. The walkthrough will not leave you indifferent.

Gameplay

The user looks at the anime characters, their images, and follows the text. The text consists of:

• Character dialogues
• Yuki's thoughts and reflections
• Narrative narration on behalf of the author

This allows you to fully understand the story. The game has many branches. If you compare Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole to a road, the player is driving along the road (reading the text) and stops at a crossroads to make a choice. His decision determines the further route. As you have realized, the game has many endings.