A PERFECT DAY
Reliving the tribulations of a childhood in ’90s China
Developer Coconut Island Studio
Publisher Coconut Island Games
Format PC
Origin China
Release 2022
There
isn’t
much
to
do
as
a
teenage
boy
in
the
1990s
here.
You
can
daydream,
do
your
homework,
or
slip
out
to
look
for
your
crush.
Will
you
tell
the
truth
about
your
dad’s
lack
of
culinary
skills?
Waking
up
from
a
nap,
you
realise
that
you
fell
asleep
in
the
middle
of
a
monotonous
class
This magazine, which is now plastered with stickers, is one of Liang Chen’s prized possessions – along with a series of collectible cards that feature aliens
While the fashionable way to evoke nostalgia in videogames is to replicate the look of titles fromclassic hardware – the vibrant hues of the 16bit SNES palette, the crisp monochrome of early Macintosh games, and the stark colours and blocky graphics of games harking back to the Atari 2600 – Chinese developer Coconut Island Studio is taking a more artistic approach for this visual novel rich in wistful longing for simpler days and the recent past. Idyllic scenes of 1990s China are presented as distinctive hand-painted art on canvas. Its imagery is beautifully rustic, depicting a world unspoiled by the complexities and messy politics of modern life.