My friend gave this game to me
she said that she wouldn't talk to me unless I played it
I should have taken her up on the offer

althougt it contains a few unimportant choices and the plot is not the most trending one, it's still a enjoyable visual novel, i had it when it was on sale and i fell it worth the price

Ayumi makes me happy

This game is for passionate for hentai <3!

Sakura Beach is the first Sakura game I've installed. While it's a polished title, it's not quite what I was expecting.

Seiji is dreaming about stars to the point that he's forgetting that he has friends, Momoko and Ayumi. Both of them dragged him for a week on a beach and are trying to convey a message. Will Seiji understand?

The story itself is well-written: some good old "pervert" joke, when Seiji is not even one, the guy suddenly aware that these girls may be interested in more than friendship, some good poetry when Seiji is speaking about stars, etc..

However, it's in the gameplay that Sakura Beach is clearly lacking. Like Blue Rose or Shan Gui, you have a lot of dialogues. Contrary to Shan Gui, you don't have any cultural reference, apart the stars. Contrary to Blue Rose, the choices are really limited. In other words, too much dialogue kills the game. It's the same with Sakura Beach. That's the main negative point: apart siding with Momoko or Ayumi, which is determining your ending, for what 4 or 5 times, you don't any other thing to do. I understand that a visual novel isn't always about choices but I would have preferred more freedom for the player to choose his path than just waiting it after I don't know how many lines of dialogues and fan service pictures.

Sakura Beach, while being clearly in fan service (Momoko has huge breasts, contrary to Ayumi who seems more human compared to her friend for example), is still well designed. I loved the graphics and the backgrounds. And to top that, the music was really good.

Clearly, I liked Sakura Beach a lot but the fact that there were many dialogues before a choice is killing for me the game. I would have preferred a little more action (and when I say that, I mean, more choices, not anything else). Is this huge negative point outweighting everything? Sadly, yes. Blue Rose was more interesting in terms of plot but the length of the dialogue bored me to death. It's the same here. I was bored.

However, it's not because I'm rating it down that you shouldn't give a chance to it if you like visual novels with few choices and with a good story. However, I would wait for a bundle or for a discount.

No 18+ patch.

Bought it. Didn't work. Still doesn't work.
No support via Steam.
No support from Developers.
Waste of time, money and effort...

Sakura Beach is a Japanese Anime Visual Novel. Good artwork, animation, sound, story, gallery, english subtitles, background music. The controls and UI is usefull. Very tame artwork, a little ecchi like losing bikini tops but nothing showing naughty bits. The Story about 3 childhood friends on vacation at the beach, 1 geeky guy (the protagonist) and 2 girls.
Has 5 minor choices that change the dialogue in that section. Has two different girls to interact with. Has Ecchi and fanservice stylings. No patch needed, the artwork is as is. Good for a few hours of reading. Might be cliche. You could just skip throught the dialogue and get through the end to unlock all the pictures.

Get it with the Sakura bundle, when on sale. Could be worth deep sale price, if you really like visual anime novels, but not the hentai kind. If you want just the ecchi artwork, you could save your money and look at what others have posted on netz. If you are looking for Hentai and reason to fap, this VN does NOT have it.

For more info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqbSiLMCy6A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYvlaV3eTt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avoNpcW9ly0

http://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/705-blooming-love-on-the-summer-beach-random-review-sakura-beach/

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sakura-beach

https://gbatemp.net/review/sakura-beach.370/

i just can't see where all the hate for this games come from, they do fall a bit short, and yes, you would have a better time just buying grisaia or something more lenghty, but it seemed fine for me, i mean, i still could connect to the characters and i feel like people who just come out saying "it's just ♥♥♥♥" probably didn't even gave a chance to actually reading the story the vn had to offer, or it's just an apathetic ♥♥♥♥.

10/10 im gonna go watch some hentai now