A Summer's End — Hong Kong, 1986 v1.3.1
Rain on neon signs, sticky heat, that kind of city-breathing-on-your-neck feeling. This game catches that and then quietly slips a girl into your head who does not have her shit together at all, which is exactly why she feels alive. You follow Michelle, who tries very hard to be the “good” daughter, the nice office lady, the one who doesn’t make her mother worry. Then Sam walks in like a walking bad idea in perfect 80s fashion, all soft smile and sharp tongue, and everything starts feeling a bit too loud and a bit too wet between the legs at the same time. The sex is not cheap porn spam, it crawls in. Long looks on a crowded tram, a hand that stays on a thigh just a little too long, a tongue that pauses on the lip before going lower. When the first actual oral scene hits, it feels earned, like, fuck, finally, they stop pretending. You can almost smell the sweat and perfume when Sam pushes Michelle up against that apartment wall and tells her to keep quiet because of the neighbors, then goes down on her anyway while Michelle’s trying to remember how to breathe. And somehow it is still romantic, which kind of pisses me off because I didn’t expect to care this much.
What got me is how slow everything burns, like a cigarette you keep forgetting to finish. This is not one of those click-next-and-everyone-is-naked-in-5-minutes things. You sit in a cramped family home with Michelle while her mother talks about “proper” life, “proper” man, proper everything, and the words sting way more than any dirty scene. There is one moment, tiny, where Michelle wipes the condensation from the bus window with her finger and draws nothing, just stares at the city lights outside. Nothing happens there, and it killed me more than the sex. Which is funny, because the game is horny as hell when it decides to be. Sam teasing her in that tiny cinema, fingers skimming under the skirt, pretending to adjust her stockings while Michelle’s whole body locks up, terrified someone will see and at the same time wanting exactly that, to be caught being a “bad” girl. The game loves teasing more than the actual climax, and I kinda hate it for that while clicking like an addict for the next scene. There are choices, branches, different directions things can go, some of them sweet, some of them rougher, and I absolutely missed one whole path because I was too stubborn about one dialogue option and I refuse to go back for now. The world feels so full you can almost forget there are multiple endings hiding under it. Or maybe there were fewer than I thought. Honestly, I got too caught in Michelle trying to lick Sam’s fingers clean after a messy makeout session in that cheap hotel room, pretending she doesn’t like it while doing it way too eagerly. And now I forgot what I wanted to say about the culture stuff. Anyway, it’s all there, all tangled up with their thighs and all the shit they can’t say aloud.
Added: Sep 20, 2025 💬 0 🎮 1k