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A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a action, pixel graphics and rpg game
developed and published by yeo.
Released on May 17th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 9 languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Korean and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 2,841 reviews of which 2,528 were positive and 313 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.94€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS: 7
- Processor: 1.2 GHZ
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 320 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS
- Processor: 1.2 GHZ
- Memory: 2 MB RAM
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You know how a snow globe sort of encapsulates within itself a certain kind of vibe and scenery? This is the closest way I can describe what this game is like. There is a certain aesthetic and feeling imprinted into this game and it just oozes with it. Themes like love, betrayal, the fleeting of youth, concepts like, coming of age, thinking about the world and your place in it. This entire game is just giving you a little peek through the window into Ringo and his friends lives. A lot of the dialogue is really interesting, even though it's very minimalist, you can get some really memorable quotes sometimes, some things really made me stop and think "Damn". You have about 40-60 days to live through the last days of high school and you are pretty much free to decide how you want to do that. You can be a delinquent all the way through, you can try to study and clean up your act, spend your days fishing, reading books in a cafe or working out, it has a kind of life-sim quality to it. It's a very good game with an overwhelming sense of melancholy attached to it. It's retrospective and almost meditative if you're in the right mindset when playing it. I recommend it wholeheartedly, it's unique and you'd be hard pressed to find another game like this. If the dev reads this review, I hope you keep on making games, you have a genuine authentic style to your work. I finished this game originally years ago and I still kept on thinking about it sometimes to this day, now playing it again with the new updates with the added content, it was even better. The ending always hits hard, I really love this game. Buy it for sure!
This game felt like a journey to me, not only the story is soo perfect and maturely written its also a reflection of our childhood and a reflection of friendship, loneliness and betrayal. While although it might not be everyone's cup of tea, its a must play for anyone who likes a great story and a good beat'em up gameplay. Masterpiece / 10
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is an open world life sim about a japanese deliquent in his final year of high school. It's quite directionless as the story seems to move on regardless of what you do. You can choose to go to school and study or explore the wider world with your chums, There is no quest menu for you to follow, most of the side quests start and finish up from character dialogues and missable cutscenes. You gradually learn how things work, and the sense of discovery became part of the experience for me. The combat is my favourite part of the game, it's fairly basic but ever so satisfying especially when you learn that there are 3 completely optional schools/techniques you can master. The art and animation is great, so is the music, check this game out!
After what was 3 years ago of discovering the game and not knowing what I'm doing, to finishing in my opinion one of the more better games I've played as of recently, The Friends Of Ringo Ishikawa has left a very distinct taste in my tounge, one that seems familiar from its core mechanics as a beat em up and other more unfamiliar experiences akin to visual novel or FMV rpg's of the past. I originally went into this game with the expectation of it being another faux Nekketsu-Hen game with its own unique twist to the formula and structure that made those games so good, and I was so wrong. There are small yet little immersive things you can interact with or participate in that makes it feel like you aren't just controlling Ringo but you are Ringo, from playing pool, to ruffling through pages of a book, fueling a gambling addiction, or losing a job, or even something so simple as taking a seat on a bench and having a cigarette. The minimalist approach in handholding or guiding you toward anything gameplay-wise like many other games of today really puts you in the shoes of someone at a precipice in their life who has no clue what's in store for them, yet still has only but one option: to keep going forward . Everything about this game from its open ended formula, hidden secrets or small detail things you'd have to discover after a subsequent playthrough, to the ending that calls back to the introduction of our player character Ringo makes for a game uniquely melancholic that carries weight in its story beats, yet action packed enough to keep you on your toes. If there were truly a complaint I had about this game it would be the simple fact that there wasn't more of it, more of Ringo and his friends and their paths moving forward, but perhaps that's the point. In my interpretation of the game the Ringo Ishikawa I started playing as and the Ringo Ishikawa I ended the game as is not only the same person but always truly had the capability to do what was needed to be done, by himself, with or without his friends. I would not hold my breath for a sequel or a follow-up to Ringo's life moving forward but if his story were ever re-explored or expanded upon I would be one of the first to know about it. To yeo, and his various life experiences and anyone else that has influenced him at any point in life, a big thanks for this game. As for the person reading this very winded review, The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, try it out.
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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa received 2,528 positive votes out of a total of 2,841 achieving a rating of 8.54.
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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa was developed and published by yeo.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is not playable on Linux.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Yes, there is a DLC available for The friends of Ringo Ishikawa. Explore additional content available for The friends of Ringo Ishikawa on Steam.
No, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
21
Developer
yeo
Publisher
yeo
Release
17 May 2018
Platforms
Remote Play
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