Wind -a breath of heart-

Wind -a breath of heart- didn't really live up to expectations. I was expecting some epic character development far beyond that seen in Tsukihime, as the latter fell into more than just the romance genre.

...what I got had some smatterings of action, some (over-played) drama, a cliché set of girls (the tsundere, the promised one, the imouto-that-isn't-actually-related, the girl-with-more-problems-than-the-others and the crazy non-human girl) and some really random characters that didn't actually contribute to the storyline. Of course, that last one may be more due to the fact that the people translating it seemed to cut corners at times, for the sake of 'making it flow better' as the original version was 'a complete mess'. It's a possibility.

This story could have been a lot better, and since the translating group seems to have a pretty good reputation (and didn't get completely flamed over cutting a few corners here and there), let's assume that the English translation is representative of the original work.

Um... it had an interesting premise, but I think it could have been improved by dropping some of the routes (i.e., one of the sisters at least). Hikari's route was completely 'what on earth?!', and one had to suspend their disbelief to continue reading at many times - particularly that route.

It was an alright piece of fun, but certainly not one of my favourite visual novels.