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Adult · Visual novel

FairChild

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Released
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Platforms
Windows
Genres
AdultVisual novel
Developers
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Publishers
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Country
Japan

About

FairChild (FairChild -フェアチャイルド, Feachairudo) is a romance visual novel released in Japan, developed and published by ALcot. ALcot has also produced such visual novels as My Girlfriend is the President, and Clover Heart's. The game was officially released on December 14, 2007, playable on Windows as a DVD ROM. The gameplay of FairChild offers branching plot lines and a multi choice navigation, where multiple paths and endings are available for completion.

The game consists of six chapters, the first being the prologue chapter, and the rest featuring one of the five heroines. FairChild is an 18 prohibited game, due to the sexual content.

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

In FairChild, the player assumes the role of Takanashi Kazuki, who is the main protagonist of the game. Much of the gameplay is spent reading the Kazuki's narrative. Kazuki interacts with other characters by dialogue, which can be read in the text box near the bottom of the screen. The game's interface includes a backlog, auto mode and text skip. The player will often encounter decision points, where they must select one of the choices in order to further the plot in a specific direction.

The protagonist may end up with one of the five heroines, Kotori, Tobari, Yuuhi, Kokoro and Sakuya. However, depending on the decisions they make in the game, or from not attain enough affection from one of the heroines, they could also receive the "bad ending", where the protagonist ends up with Kotori's younger sister, Aine. Along with choices, the player will also have to select a heroine from the map select screen, and as a heroine's affection rises, more hearts will be increasingly displayed near the heroine, ultimately ending with a large heart with wings. Extra menus can be obtained, such as CG, music, H scene and bonus H scenarios, but only after the player meets the mystery man, who appears on the map as a question mark. Each time a heroine's route has been completed, new features will be added to the opening screen, such as CGs, and new instruments to the opening screen music, additionally, feathers appear on the screen when you have finished the game.

Story

The main protagonist of Fairchild is Takanashi Kazuki, a boy whose parents died when he was young, and despite the tragedy, in the present time, he lives an enjoyable, peaceful life in his aunt's house, with his childish, energetic cousin Hazumi Kotori and his sweet, gullible next-door neighbor and friend Hinamori Kokoro. Kazuki wants to live this life forever, however, nothing lasts forever. To gain something means to lose something. He and the people around him are all growing up into adults.

The game's primary focuses are friendship, family conflict, and romance. Other heroines in the game other than Kotori and Kokoro include Aizara Tobari, the teasing childhood friend of Kazuki, Arisugawa Yuuhi, Kazuki's cold classmate, and Kagami Sakuya, Kazuki's senpai who is the student council president.

Development

The project manager for FairChild was Kawahara Tatsumi, Miyazō Tokino and Sora Shimomoto worked on the game's scenario. The illustrations for the game were handled by Nimura Yūji and Aona Masao. Magome Togoshi, Manack, and MANYO provided the music for FairChild. The movie making was produced by Pachira.

ALcot officially released the game in Japan on December 14, 2007, as a DVD ROM, playable on the platform Microsoft Windows for the PC. Each chapter of the game was released separately as a trial before the FairChild's official release. All of the heroine chapters were released in November, whereas the prologue chapter was released on October 27, 2007, as trial edition. All of the releases, including the trials, are age rated 18+, as FairChild is an eroge game.

Reception

On Getchu, a major redistributor of visual novel and domestic anime products, FairChild was ranked ninth in the PC sales ranking for December 2007.

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