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• gamedeal user

  Feb 19, 2017

  Don't play this game while hungry. It exhibits some images of extremely tasty-looking food. Pros: - Over-the-top cuteness - Gorgeous artwork, featuring doll-like characters - Interesting story - Good writing - Multiple story paths, including bad and good endings - Some humor - Yuri (cute & romantic, not erotic) - Food Cons: - Some typos - A lot of recycled dialogue, but that's common of VNs Super cute yuri story! I definitely recommend to those who like VNs and works of ebi-hime.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 31, 2017

  + Beautiful artwork + HUGE variety of food, complete with delicious-looking CGs + Cute romance plotlines + Lots of endings, including friendship routes - Stiff and unfunny writing - Gets repetitive - Soundtrack gets annoying after a while I came here after playing and enjoying Ebihime's other GL visual novel, Asphyxia. Unfortunately, I didn't have quite such a good experience with Strawberry Vinegar. The formal, stilted dialogue that worked well in Asphyxia's Romantic poet-inspired world is just bizarre in the mouths of modern adults and children. In Rie's case she's meant to be unusually mature for a child, but even a precocious 9 year-old isn't going to say things like, "Spare me your sentimentality", or "A neat little sophism that encourages the importance of family meals." It would be *slightly* less weird if the main characters were at least teens, or if people found the way she talked hilarious or cringeworthy, but she's taken completely seriously. Rie is a fairly classic kuudere type who sometimes comes off as more bratty than charming. Her behaviour is rarely called out unless you're *so* awful to people you get one of the many bad endings. This is especially noticeable with her attitude toward her stay-at-home dad. His treatment in the narrative is grating, with an uncomfortable refrain of "get back in your gender role." Rie frequently references his lack of self-respect, including to his face, and at one point says his apron would be "perfectly fine―if you were a woman." Really, Rie? The rest of the writing is a mixed bag. Rie and Licia are genuinely adorable together, as are Rie's parents, who make an odd sort of beta couple. The culinary writing is a bit lacklustre―this is no Chocolat―but the sheer variety of food makes the eating segments some of the most enjoyable. It helps that the artist did a great job on the CGs. On the flip side, the story can't quite seem to decide what tone it wants to take. For something about a little girl making friends with a demon through the joys of food, the story dips into weirdly dark territory. There are multiple endings where you can actually die, and at one point Rie's mother randomly waxes philosophical about the horrible origins of Rie's name and how having children is self-centered. (Thanks, mom?) There's a jaded edge to the narrative that's jarring against the goofy baking shenanigans, and the two sides never reconcile into anything cohesive. My main problem is the slow pacing. The same jokes and character interactions occur over and over again without adding anything to the story. Rie overanalyzes *every* line anyone says, which interrupts the dialogue and drags things out even more. Overthinking things is part of her character, yes, but that doesn't make it any more enjoyable to read her umpteenth internal monologue. By the time I got to the romantic climax of the best ending, I just wanted to hold down the skip button. TL;DR: If cute girls and tasty-looking pictures of Japanese cuisine are all you're after, Strawberry Vinegar will suit you just fine. Sadly the flaws in the writing kept me from enjoying it.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 14, 2017

  I've played ton's of VN's, Don't always write reviews on them.. just the one's that stand out the extra mile! Strawberry Vinegar was cute all the way through! I try to limit my screen shots to a limited amount per game but unfortunately with this one I just couldn't stop.. the food in this game looked SO GOOD!! Beautiful game, beautiful artwork, a decent story, really hard not to like it & rate it up! :) I love cooking & with this, I was just too excited to see what meal would come up next.. I even had to find real recipes online for some and make them myself at home to enjoy. Opened up a totally new dinner menu for me this month ;) <3
• gamedeal user

  Aug 6, 2017

  Incredibly cute VN that shifts the focus on romantic relationships between adults to the budding friendship between two children. Strawberry Vinegar features a 9 year old girl named Rie who is responsible, cynical and deep down very lonely. She is one day visited by Licia - a demon from Hell. Licia demands that Rie make her delicious food throughout the course of a week or she will reap her soul. Licia is here on a "vacation" to see what earth is like, and Rie becomes her caregiver throughout the course of a six day period. Although resisitive to having Licia around at first, Rie is unable to resist Licia's innocent, friendly and loving nature and learns that having a friend isn't so bad after all. The two girls bond through their mutual love of food and through their opposite but also complimentary personalities. The game has great music, cute and colorful artwork and backgrounds, and features tons of photos of yummy looking food! The photos of the food and ebi-hime's descriptions made me feel really hungry. To read through all of the unique dialogue, it took me about 4 hours in total. There are a total of 5 different endings, a wide variety of gallery art, and also additional things such as: concept art, cut content that never made it into the game, and the writer's thoughts on each character. Would recommend to those who like a very tame and light hearted VN (no swearing, nudity, etc), and for those who like ebi-hime's other workings.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 17, 2018

  very cute, and any 'yuri' media that doesn't sexualize their child protags is a plus from me.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 25, 2017

  ✿ Cute story ✿ Unique character design ✿ Beautiful artwork It's a good short VN, I recommend it if you want something lighthearted with enjoyable visuals.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 4, 2019

  Food Food And more Food haha Loved this Game Based Around Demon Girl whos gonna Reap the Soul of the MC Girl If she does not Feed her food. Thats Basiclly The whole story Not Joking She goes Around stores festivals Bakes cooks etc All to please Her in Feeding her. If she Fails though Something evil Might come And Eat her Not kidding But DL the Game its fun And Cheery And Very Nice ^^ I think well I would Recc to Anyone who loves Food And Lots of it.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 22, 2017

  The golden combi of Ebi-Hime and SillySelly did it again. This time is a wonderful and adorable tale about a young demon daily and a little cynical girl meeting and building a relationship (being friendhip or a lovely romance), lots of delicious food and the weirdly in love couple of the complete opposites parents of the girl. Rie is content with her life. Yeah, she maybe is a loner, but she prefer it that way. And yes, she's maybe a bit cynical, but she's happy that way. That's it until a little Demon Girl arrives at her kitchen, eats her just baked cookies and threaths her to reap her soul. Unless she feed it with delicious food! For a week, Licia, the Little Demon lives with Rie and her parents. Slowly they became close and if you play you cards right a beautiful friendship can blossom. Or even maybe the sweetests love!! And of course, we gonna see the most delicious food, after all, we don't want our souls reaped, right? I must confess that after getting killed in a bad end (I kinda deserved, even if was a bit of a disproportionate retribution, for being a jerk!) and seeing that the yuri was advertised as small, light and so I stopped playing and forgot about the game. But Hanako (Hella Yuri curator), tell me recently that Strawberry Vinegar was rewarding in regards to yuri. So I gave it another try... And it delivered in a wonderful way. I got the romance ending in my first try and was wonderful. The building with Rie doubts and cold facade cracking was amazing. (And the yuri fangirl noticing was so funny and cute, Mayuri, you're top tier Sis!). And the ending. Was VERY rewarding!! I can't thank enough Ebi-Hime and SIllySelly for making it and Hanako for pushing me a bit to finish it. Was ADORABLE!!! Loved it!! Long story short: The good: - Absolutely adorable and wonderful art, a given being SillySelly the artist. - A lovely cute story with plenty of fun moments. - A very adorable and beautiful romance path - Quicky and loveable characters. (The weird couple that Rie's parents make is pretty fun and endearing). - The food! The bad: - Don't play with empty stomach PS: I want an spinoff of Mayuri and Hime... yeah, I ship two background characters with not even faces.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2018

  Pros Nice light hearted story revolving around food and friendship. Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling. Music & art were really well done. Cons Depending on choices, certain characters appear moody and lack emotional maturity. A buy if you like ebi-hime's previous works.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2017

  After really liking Ebi-Hime's free VNs on Steam, I had high expectation for this one. Sadly... This game never live up to them. The main characters feels shallow, it's full of otaku references (a turn off for me) and the story is just... Totally not interesting. The humor really feels forced, the romance too. I quite forced myself to finish it, in hope of seeing something interesting. Nope! I can give some points for the cute drawings, the great food drawings AND descriptions. Other than that, meh. The soundtrack is pretty forgettable too.