Tranquil Tempest Demo

The goal of video games is to help people escape reality and be someone else for a few minutes or hours every day. Sometimes this can go a bit too far, given the fact that there are many cases regarding gamers that spend dozens of hours in front of the PC every week. Naturally, the rise of virtual reality might attract even more people to this hobby in the future.

Tranquil Tempest is a visual novel in which you play the role of a girl obsessed with a virtual reality fighting game, at least until things start to get a bit too real for her. The game features multiple routes you can take, depending on which character you prefer, but the story as a whole remains the same regardless of your choices. Thankfully, at least the graphics are gorgeous, especially the backgrounds.

The main character’s name is Juni, and as mentioned before, her life is pretty much synonymous with the virtual reality fighting game called Trankill. However, everything changes when she receives a notification from someone in the game, because people start to appear in her real life as well. Thus, a whole lot of trouble awaits Juni as she tries to find someone she can trust.

Since you can make decisions every now and again, that means that there are multiple story routes to follow. However, these routes depend on the character you choose to pursue romantically, because the differences lie in the way they treat Juni. Hence, every possible romantic partner has a unique personality, which should be fun to explore over the course of the story.

As mentioned before, the artwork is one of the best things about Tranquil Tempest, because every background feels cozy and enjoyable, in spite of the lack of detail every now and again. Every character is carefully designed to appear unique, and they usually come with multiple poses and facial expressions too. There’s no music included in the demo yet, but that’s not a huge issue at the moment.

All things considered, Tranquil Tempest is pretty tame in terms of story and character development, but it’s definitely well-written and enjoyable. Thus, we can only hope that the full version is going to be just as entertaining.