Sympathy Kiss
February 27, 2024
About a year has passed since Akari Amasawa started her new job as a designer at Estario, a mobile app maker. While she doesn’t dislike her job, she’s not deeply passionate about it either. After her yearly performance review, she’s given the opportunity to join the Estarci team. The company’s …
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75.7
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"Sympathy Kiss is a great otome game with its blend of romance and relatable experiences, with its office setting appealing especially to a more mature audience. While the faceless protagonist and rather compromised approach at some of the narrative beats …"
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80.0
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65.0
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92.0
"Sympathy Kiss is an enjoyable slice-of-life otome VN about working adults finding love."
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55.0
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60.0
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65.0
"It&s;s good to see that Sympathy Kiss is strong on the technical end, it just didn&s;t click with me. If you&s;re a little more amenable to dealing with people at the office, you&s;ll be able to get through it quickly …"
Read original review"Sympathy Kiss is a pretty solid choice if the "office experience" part of this appeals to you, and the lack of a more intense or fantasy-like plot isn&s;t a problem, as its proposal is the office slice-of-life drama. The game&s;s …"
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60.0
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70.0
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80.0
"Sympathy Kiss is a pleasant otome visual novel with good variety in its routes, a curious narrative about daily life as a Japanese salary woman, and great quality of life features as usual of Otomate. Though the inconsistencies of a …"
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85.0
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70.0
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65.0
"The idea of choosing between your personal and professional life in Sympathy Kiss is interesting, but there are elements that remind me of mobile otome games."
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70.0
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70.0
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70.0
"Sympathy Kiss delivers Beautiful art, mature and realistic slice of life romance,"
Read original review"Sympathy Kiss is a simple but effective visual novel, with plenty of charming hunks to romance and a familiar office setting."
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85.0
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75.0
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80.0
"There’s nothing particularly flashy or exciting about Sympathy Kiss. As a slice-of-life narrative, being mundane is kind of the point. With that said it is incredibly well-written and designed, and while the protagonist may or may not match up with …"
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70.0
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85.0
Story
85.0
"Sympathy Kiss has a premise that asks you what is more important. Is it having a good career or a good love life? Great artwork that has a small blemish on it due to posing the main character without their …"
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60.0
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55.0
Story
58.0
"Sympathy Kiss is a visual novel that’s got an interesting tech design backstory. With its unique setting, fun characters, and engaging story, it’s a decent visual novel, but compared to other visual novels, it’s not one I feel in love …"
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