Azurea Juncture Demo

Although planes are by far the safest way to travel, accidents are still pretty gruesome, even if they happen very rarely. The difference is that there are almost never any survivors when a plane goes down, not to mention the fact that the passengers have plenty of time to think about their life as the plane is heading toward the ground. However, there have been interesting cases over the years.

Azurea Juncture is an interactive visual novel about a girl who survives a plane crash and wakes up in a strange place. It’s not the most compelling story out there, but the artwork is pretty nice, and it makes you a little curious over the course of the plot. Granted, the dialog is not brilliant most of the time and it’s actually way too long sometimes, but this is merely an early demo at this point.

You play the role of the girl who wakes up after the plane crash, and her name is Effie. As it happens, another girl greeters her and asks her a few basic questions to see whether everything is alright, but it turns out that the girl in question is actually some sort of sentient houseplant. Not only that, but she also has the power to heal people and get them back on their feet.

The other strange thing Effie notices after she wakes up is that the house she’s in is surrounded by ocean, yet it never sinks or gets splashed by the waves. As it turns out, this is thanks to magic wards that keep the house safe and intact. It doesn’t make too much sense, but at least it’s interesting enough to keep you guessing and clicking through the dialog.

Speaking of which, it would appear that you can make choices along the way, but you are actually just choosing what to ask the other characters, so you are not really influencing the story. However, this is still a demo version, so you may be able to steer the plot in the desired direction in the full game, or at least be able to reach multiple endings depending on what you say.

Azurea Juncture is not quite there yet, especially not when it comes to the quality of the writing and the story. Even so, it can improve a lot until the full game is released, and we can only hope that’s going to be the case.