Cafe Stella is a fantasy-slice of life-romantic-comedy visual novel.

I have to admit before most other points: the automode in Cafe Stella is brilliant.
In all the other Yuzusoft titles I had a hard time dealinjg with it, but with Cafe Stella I didn't had to change anything, it just worked from the start. Thanks alot, whoever is responsible for this. THANKS!

This solves one of the biggest flaws I had with Yuzusoft Games.

The only flaw now left for me is the length and depth of the extra Character (I would soooo wish there was a bit more CGs and story from Suzune.) But that is complaining at a high level

Another big one for me is the fact that I could safe more than 12*10 Voice lines (I love to safe them, for learning pronunciation and also for listening to some funny scenes).
Maybe I overdid it with 12*40 safes and ended up crashing my game several times, but thats my fault, Cafe Stella shows you 10 pages you can safe up on and I just continued to safe more.

Otherwise it is the normal Yuzusoft positive points:

• the music fits very well
  
• there is life in the novel because of the background sounds (like did they actually go on a festival and recorded some background noises?)
  
• You have alot of facial expressions
  
• the sprites has little animations which adds life to it
  
• and the storytelling doesn't feel slow or delayed

And if you are interested in a patch: There is one

About the routes:
I've finished all five routes and there is not really an route order, I would still recommend that you read Kannas Route as last and maybe Natsumes as penultimate. Suzunes Route is avaiable after you finished any route, you can read her route whenever you want.
Otherwise I dont want to spoil anything, so I wont go in any deeper than that.

If you are interested in how long it took me for the routes and in which order i read them:



but I'm a slow reader so take it with a grain of salt.

Thanks alot for the good work Yuzusoft and the whole cast and anyone who worked at it!
It was a pleassure to read this novel!



MfG

Kota

I had a big problem with the automode because it was mostly too fast, even if I used the slowest mode you can chose between three modes "normal"(wait till voice is played) "voice"(wait only when next line is voiced) and "speed"(go after automode speed) and none of them worked for me, but that could also be a localization problem and not an programming problem, i have no clue about this stuff. I for sure can't read a whole sentence while someone says "Ah".

Otherwise I can not mention anything negative about Riddle Joker

What I loved the most about Riddle Joker was the fact that you can safe voicel lines and you can safe more than 10(*10) voice lines.
The art is very nice and there is alot of movement because there isn't a single facial expression over 10 sentences but you got multiples in one sentence to add life in the conversation.
There are a lot small gimmicks that add life to the surrounding such as the chirping of the birds in park.
The sprites had little animations which was also very nice.

And if you are interested in a patch: there is one

About the routes
I've finished all five routes and must say I love it.
I read another visual novel of yuszusoft (Senren Banka) and was worried that it may have alot of overlaps in the respective routes but that wasn't the fact. I would still recommend to read Mayu as penultimate and Ayase at last, because Mayu touches the tip of the true story and Ayase is the "true" story.
Otherwise it isn't important if you start with Hazuki or Nanami (Chisaki is avaiable after the first completion of another route).


If you are interested in how long it took me for the routes and in which order i read them:


but I'm a slow reader so don't take it for granted.



Thanks alot for the good work Yuzusoft and the whole cast and anyone who worked at it!
It was a pleassure to read this novel!



MfG

Kota