her tears were my light

Visual novels have always been associated with friendship, love, or just plain hooking up with whatever hottie you like most, but few manage to capture you with a story as compelling and as original as her tears were my light.

Unlike most visual novels where you take on the role of a boy out looking for girls, or a girl out looking for boys (or anything that fits the Yaoi or Yuri genre), here you take on the role of one of the most primordial elements in existence: Time. As you tread across the galaxy in an endless search, you finally meet Space, which within the visual novel is anthropomorphized as a young girl. Space feels all lonely, and she is constantly crying, both because the loneliness saddens her, but also because her tears turn into stars, and she wants to fill the endless void of the universe with as many stars as possible.

Since you are Time and the flow of events go as you please, you can play around with the control buttons in a way that affects the storyline. More precisely, whenever the discussion or flow of events goes in a direction that makes Space sad again, you can always press the rewind button until a moment you see fit to change whatever mistake you made. This ability to use actual mechanics common in visual novels in a way that affects the story (with the occasional breaking of the fourth wall) is a feature that makes you feel like you actually control time. As far as the artwork is concerned, everything is minimalist and simple, yet cute and satisfying at the same time, and you might even develop a crush on Space as you play the game.

The story eventually unfolds into something heartwarming, and you, as Time, will want to press the "Rewind" button a thousand times so that you can go back and relive the story over and over again. Either way, Space's cuteness will indeed make you say to yourself that "her tears were my light."