H Scene Count- 10 Characters who all have about 6~ scene animation types.

Created by Osanagocoronokimini, translated by symplexity

Length-5-7 hours

RPG Maker MV simulation kinda game. You play as a shota on summer vacation.

Story

You are a kid named Me. You are on summer vacation and you are going to an island your aunt lives on for the break. You meet a sexy girl who ends up living with you and your sexy aunt. You hang out with the local kids, fight with bugs, find mysterious porn mags everywhere, and end up trying to have sex with all 9 girls and your male cousin.

Gameplay

The big mechanic in this is time passage, which is rarely a fun mechanic for me. People have schedules and you have to be sure to talk to this person on this day at this time and its just needlessly annoying unless its like Succubus Prison where its limited. Thankfully, only a small number of events in this are limited by day. Time passage though is annoying as you don’t get a decent way to advance time until you get about halfway through the combat part of the game. So if you need to wait until the night(a lot of events require you to wait until night at someones place), you will just sit there or move between screens as that usually advances time until you hit your goal and things happen. Only two girls have difficult ways to sleep with them, the rest are usually two step processes once you figure out how to meet them.

There is combat in this vacation. Bug combat. The kids on the island have a bug tournament and you jump right into it. It’s basically Rock paper scissors with a heal option and some skills in the paper group can block other options. You can collect better bugs and level them up to hit harder but its really just get lucky with some small degree of tactics thrown in. Winning fights tends to unlock more options for island exploration.

And that’s the main mechanics. Other then that you collect cans for money and run around trying to get into the girls(and a guys) pants. No real goal other then sleep with everyone and get achievements, a few of which let you skip sidequests on NG’s.

H and Other stuff

There’s about 3 real character models in the game. Child, teen and adult. For the most part all the characters who fall into the same model group have the same animations for their scenes with just different text and hair color. Scenes work in animation goes then stops, some text plays and then repeat until done. Text is mostly the girl making comments about the guys penis. You can also sleep attack the girls once you get the right stuff, but all those scenes play out the same exact way.

So while there are a lot of scenes in total in the game, a lot of them are basically just the same scene with a different coat of hair color. Nothing really exciting once you unlock the first few you’ve basically seen them all.

Verdict and Save

Didn’t care of this really. It was something different so I played it and while I don’t regret it it wasn’t really fun. A lot of time was spent just waiting for night to hit as on NG+ you run out of things to do during the day fast. The patch also comes with a walkthrough that takes out any challenge or mystery the game has which just leaves its bad writing and not fun gameplay.

So on the note of writing, I wish translators would understand when to not localize. So one of the achievements in this game is get 10 marbles. How do you do that? Drink lemonade. Does lemonade usually come with marbles? No. Ramune does. Ramune is not the same as lemonade. The packaging at the very least is completely different. On the other hand, having every character be called sister or aunt is silly. I know its a Japanese thing to call older women sister and mother age women aunt when you are a kid. That is not a western thing and does not work. It’s the same issue with adding sir and ma’am to everything because they had honorifics in Japanese. That’s not how English works. If you are going to translate Onee-san and oba-san, then figure out something else. Sensibly the kid would call most of the girls miss, like kids actually do. If that sounds bad then leave them as onee-san and oba-san as those work better as titles then sister and aunt do. I know this is a silly distinction, but its a culture thing and a personal peeve of mine. Honorifics and what kids call adults differs in different countries so if you are going to localize those, look at your own country/target language and make your choice based on that.

It’s not like the the rest of script was great either(stilted and a number of typos) but those were my main issues.  Reading Kimono aunt just sounds silly, same with blonde sister. And since no one in the game has a name beyond the kids and a ghost, you have a lot of weird titles that don’t sound good.

Save has all achievements and scenes unlocked in the diary section at the main menu. Should also have a NG+ with all the bugs.

My Secret Summer Vacation

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