Tide Girl: Phenomena

the visual presentation and weird relationship between the two leads endears this game to me a lot. its short and introspective and messy in a way that draws you in. but what really took away from my enjoyment is, the way its written feels very machine translated. it made it hard for me to fully grasp whats going on sometimes. I still think its worth playing but I hope the english translation gets an update in the future

Bad English translation. I had no idea what was going on. The music and style are pretty cool but kinda pointless when you don't really understand it. I think it's funny that the positive reviews of English speakers is just confused people thinking it's deep when it's just the bad translation making it really hard to understand.

Tide Girl: Phenonema is a very experimental visual novel. There are short walkaround sections, the text autoscrolls with the speaker almost always of screen, and the visual style being very reminiscent of Monogatari. I loved all of it, especially the music, which really suits the introspective yet intense nature of this VN. You follow a schoolgirl named Jing Xi through her daily school life that's upended when one of her classmates, Ku Yue, takes a sudden interest in her. This story dwells a lot on toxic nature of gossip, with bits of scifi worldbuilding sprinkled throughout. Despite having issues with the translation I found TG:P a fascinating read and plan on shilling it to all my friends. Toxic yuri ftw!