120 Yen Stories propose des récits romantiques au fil des quatre saisons japonaises, où des rencontres fortuites entre jeunes hommes et femmes tournent autour du mot-clé 120 yen. Chaque saison réunit un héros et une héroïne dans des histoires touchantes : trajets en train hivernaux qui ravivent des souvenirs d'enfance, rendez-vous estivaux devant des distributeurs automatiques qui instillent du mystère, gestes d'automne bienveillants qui débouchent sur une colère inattendue, et conversations printanières à la campagne qui allègent les poids de la réalité.
Ce visual novel présente des scènes de personnages statiques en perspective, avec des choix occasionnels pour faire avancer l'intrigue. Les joueurs progressent au fil de narrations interactives rythmées par ces vignettes saisonnières. Les amateurs d'aventures RPG à choix multiples y trouveront une expérience resserrée, portée par sa structure romantique et épisodique.
120 Yen Stories is a romantic adventure game from Nekoneko Soft, featuring a hero and heroine for each season, with the four seasons of Japan coloring the story of two people who come to know each other through their encounters with the keyword 120 yen. It is also the masterpiece of the famous scriptwriter Tomo Kataoka.
Gameplay
120 Yen Stories is a visual novel. As such, its gameplay has a level of interactivity and consists of scenes with static images of characters in a perspective, accompanied by occasional choices in order to advance the plot.Plot
Winter
A freelance young man and a girl, by chance, board the same slow-moving train to the countryside.
Through this encounter with the girl, the young man evokes his long-held childhood memories...
The memories of his childhood, when he thought he could do anything, are a little bitter now...?
Summer
In a sea of people and infinite chances.
If there is a so-called "fateful encounter", it must be something special and mysterious.
This is the story of a young man and a young girl who met by chance in front of a vending machine, and the story of a summer day between them...
Autumn
By chance, I saw a fortune telling on TV: "Helping others is the key to luck".
So I went out with the expectation of finding the key to luck on my long-awaited day off.
However, when he lent a helping hand to a girl in crisis, he was met with anger...
This is a small story of two human, somewhat unbelievable...
Spring
A young man who moves to the countryside meets a young girl here by chance.
The young man, who is content with the status quo and tired of reality, and the young girl, who also has anxiety about reality, meet in the country house.
The two of them keep communicating with each other, and unknowingly, they are influenced by each other...
