About This Game East Tower is a romance mystery visual novel with romancable guys, which has a lot of comedy scenes.We suggest you to play based on this order: Akio - Takashi - Kuon - Kurenai. In East Tower - Akio, you'll be partnered with the serious type guy, Akio.STORYSakuya Morita (name is changeable) was given a chance to try the latest virtual game attraction, East Tower. Within the game, players can transform into whatever they want to. Sakuya chose to transform into a man. She was excited at first, but then a sudden accident happened and she was trapped with four other men. Later, they decided to partner up and proceed to beat the game in pairs, hoping that it would be the way out.As a man, Sakuya wants to act as a reliable big brother. Therefore she asked the child in front of her to be her partner. However, he is not really a little boy, but his original form is after all an adult. Why did he want to become a child? Can both of them find a way out of there? Enjoy their lovely adventure which is filled with cute misunderstandings!CASTAkio - Taichi TanukidaAkio (Child) - Eruru TakedaTakashi - Souta HigurashiKuon - LerageRedhead Man (Kurenai) - SakatoDaiki Morita - Yuya KakitsubataPretty Lady (Yoshimi Yasuda) - misakiOTHER INFOOFFICIAL SITE: http://www.roseverte.net/east/en/FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/roseverte.gamesTWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/rosevertegames 1075eedd30 Title: East Tower - Akio (East Tower Series Vol. 1)Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, SimulationDeveloper:roseVeRtePublisher:roseVeRteFranchise:East TowerRelease Date: 25 Jul, 2012 East Tower - Akio (East Tower Series Vol. 1) short and sweet. Good if you like the strong, serious type with a side of gender-bender in your plot.. I definitely recommend you play this if you want to play a romantic comedy where you can turn your love interest into a freaking CARROT!. This is a cute little visual novella. It is one of a series of four, that basically are each what in a traditional visual novel is a path. So basically, consider this as having chosen your path first. Sakuya (you can rename her) is a young woman who... does not want to act girly. As such, when offered the chance to be a test subject for her cousin's new attraction for women, she manages to convince him to let her try the other attraction... the one geared towards men. In the first few moments, she finds herself trapped with one of the four other participants. In this title, a young boy named Akio (who isn't really a young boy). Oh, and since she can choose her avatar, she chose to partake as a male.There are three endings. The bad ending is unlocked if you make a wrong choice (one of which also unlocks an achievement about a carrot). The neutral\/friendship ending depends on you choosing the lesser of two choices at the end of a stage. And the good\/love ending is the better of those two choices. Oh, and choosing that better one also unlocks a small additional scene for the story (and accompanying CGs).The game is beautiful, at least for the time. I have a feeling this is one of the first products put out by this publisher, as it is a bit rough around the edges.Also, my suggestion would be to buy the East Tower Complete Edition. Especially as the last volume is almost three quarters of the price of the bundle.... I first had some issues with the game, because I disliked the German translation, but the developer was so kind to explain how to change the language to English! So I now can finally recommend this game whole-heartedly. East Tower Akio has been my favourite of the four Episodes. As the first entry of the series it has the weakest overall-plot (not because it was bad, you just get familiar with the game world itself, and the good thing about this series is the way they build up the plot over the following episodes, so Akio is more like setting the stage than anything else), but I liked it's lighthearted tone and Akio in general. While the sereies is more of a funny one, I felt like the plot thickens and gets more interesting and deeper the more you play. But as I said, Akio is like setting the stage, and because of this the story focused on him, which I enjoyed very much, as he's my favourite of the guys.. This review covers all 4 of the East Tower games in one. Simply put, the game isn't very good. The art has occasional good moments but most of it is pretty bad. The story is set up in such a way that it could lend itself to an interesting discussion of gender identity and digital sexuality but it instead chooses to do clich\u00e9 "oops, I tripped and grabbed your boob" moments. There are dialog options but the game is still very linear; you either die instantly, find a solution, or pick a solution that gives you a bit of extra dialog. I would not recommend any of these games except for Kurenai (which was admittedly pretty good). However, there are parts of the Kurenai story that won't make any sense without playing at least a bit of the other ones.The game is also way too expensive. I bought them all as a set with 40% off ($18 total) and I feel ripped-off. There are much better VNs available for much less. Takashi, Kuon, and Akio were each only about 1.5 hours of play time, which is not a great value.Finally, every time you finish a section (and there are at least 7 sections per game) the game tries to get you to post to social media. That really pisses me off. It takes me out of the moment to try to get me to advertise for a game that I paid for. Dear game devs, please don't do that!. I liked all four of the tower routes. Akio was the first one I played and I reallly enjoyed the route. Despite some of the negative reviews all of the routes are worth playing. Akio was adorable and the route made sense I would reccomend this to all my friends.
- tansaytermalub
East Tower - Akio (East Tower Series Vol. 1)
Updated: Mar 9, 2020