Yuuki Ashikaga is a high school freshman in his second semester at the fictional Sakakino Academy, who from his regular visits to the library, grows enamored by Kotonoha Katsura, a classmate who also comes to read. The game is audibly stereophonic with lip-synched voice acting, sound effects and background music. Like the games before it, Cross Days is presented with limited animation. In the game's yaoi routes, the protagonist crossdresses as a maid and engages in homosexual intercourse. These choices are intricately linked to alternating routes of plot, moderately changing the direction of the story as each is made, ultimately leading to erotic scenes between characters and one of various endings. These are essentially played by watching and listening to episodic sequences of story and then selecting, or ignoring, clickable actions or responses when they are presented to the player. In the weeks following this, after it was illegally found on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, a trojan horse disguised as the game was released, publishing the personal information of unknowing users online for public access.įollowing the game's release, Cross Days made transitions into other media: a manga was serialized in the Kadokawa Shoten magazine Monthly Comp Ace from April 26 to Augthree light novels were published from September 15 to October 29, as was a strategy guide a radio drama was broadcast during development and the game's original soundtrack was also published by Lantis from April 24 to July 21.Ĭross Days is a visual novel. From February 2009 to March 2010, the game was postponed a total of six times, going on to perform marginally-well upon release. The game is the third installation of the School Days line of series, succeeding Summer Days.Ġverflow announced work on Cross Days in December 2008. Though the game requires little interaction from users, Cross Days engages the player through a nonlinear plot that they are given opportunities to change the course of during play.

The story, a dramatic slice-of-life, follows the life of Yuuki Ashikaga, a high school student who becomes the ambivalent love-interest of two girls during his second term, and the effects this has on himself and his relationships with other characters. Cross Days is a Japanese erotic visual novel developed by 0verflow, released on Mafor Windows and later ported as a DVD game and for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).

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