Rakuen 2017

Is it still worth playing?

A 2017 adventure game created by Laura Shigihara, made with the RPG Maker XP engine and released on May 10, 2017, a sprite based exploration game in which text boxes carry most of the communication. A boy in a hospital ward is visited by his mother every day, and she brings a book called Rakuen about a magical land with a Guardian of the Forest who grants wishes. She tells him that the world in the book is real and they can visit it together, and to earn one wish he has to finish a set of challenges. His main task is to collect pieces of music for the new friends he makes, which puts music at the center of the story. He meets odd characters, such as a grumpy onion and a pretentious rose, and does quests for the hospital patients and their fantasy world avatars, such as finding lost items and solving logic puzzles. A story about music and friends still makes a gentle game to play.