“There is a neverending summer.”
Some of you might remember that back in 2011 when Aquaplus announced Tears to Tiara II and Utawarerumono II, they also announced that Suzumoto Yuuichi, who we all know as the scenario writer of Planetarian, was working on a visual novel titled Jasmine with Kawata Hisashi (White Album) as the character designer. Years went by, and it was eventually cancelled in June 2015 (right about when another Key writer’s brand new work, which also has a feminine name as its title, was about to start), with Suzumoto assigned to the Utawarerumono sequels instead.
While we may never get to find out what this particular game was going to be about, I figured it would be interesting to speculate (particularly as a Key fan) what its story could’ve been about. Personally, the key visual and the tagline reminded me of the overarching theme of Air and Sola, and I can’t help but wonder if these three titles were different takes of the same theme by Maeda, Hisaya, and Suzumoto.
