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Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2016

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Quick resume

From renowned visual novel studio Key, this is the sequel to the highly acclaimed visual novel CLANNAD. Featuring a truly memorable continuation to Tomoya and Tomoyo's journey, Tomoyo After promises to draw you even further into CLANNAD's world.

Global score

91/100

Genres

Adventure, Casual, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy

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    Pros

    • Deep emotional story and character development
    • Strong connection to clannad and tomoyo's route
    • High quality music and voice acting
    • Multiple endings and replay value
    • Optional rpg minigame adds variety

    Cons

    • Lack of hd graphics and dated ui
    • Limited interactivity and choices
    • Some players find early story slow or off-character
    • No chinese language support
    • Rpg minigame can be tedious for some

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Value

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      "Players feel they get good entertainment value and progression for their time and money."

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    • Violence

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Survival, Competence, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Idle.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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