The final three endings featured in the game are the three bad endings which involve the death of one of the three main characters (either Makoto, Sekai, or Kotonoha) in violent circumstances. There is one ending in the game which is only made available when certain conditions are met for one of Kotonoha's or Sekai's good endings entitled "Carnal Desire" (Kotonoha) and "Bavarois" (Sekai) where Makoto ends up getting Setsuna pregnant. In one of these two, Sekai and Kotonoha both get together with Makoto, and in the other, Makoto has sex with various girls almost every day.
Of the other six endings, two are harem endings where the main character ends up with multiple girls. Of these endings, seven good endings are devoted to Kotonoha, five are given to Sekai, two are for Hikari, and one is with Otome. There are fifteen good endings where the main character, Makoto, ends up with one of the obtainable heroines in the game.
In School Days, there are twenty-one possible endings for the player to experience.
These include a video playback option in 1×, 1.5×, 2×, 4×, or paused automatically playing scenes without having to click until decisions arise altering the game's audio volume, or being able to enable or mute the voices the showing or hiding of dialog captioning as of patch 1.11 and being able to have a full or window frame game screen. Progress can be recorded and loaded separately into ten quick save files.Īdditional options include a variety of options to alter how the game is played. The game is audibly stereophonic with a music album of thirty-three individual tracks, sound effects and voices. School Days is different from other games of the genre in that it is presented with scenes of animated footage, instead of common static images, and how collections of scenes are divided into episodes complete with their very own opening and closing sequence. In order to view all of the endings, the player will effectively have to replay through the game several times and make different choices to direct the story in an alternate direction. Choices are internally tree structured so that each selection made will branch to a different story arc, all of which lead to erotic scenes and ultimately one of twenty possible conclusions. Like traditional visual novels, School Days is played by advancing through scenes of audible or textual character dialog and making action decisions when they are asked of the player. School Days has received two spin-off titles, Summer Days and Cross Days, and has made several transitions to other media, including a 12-episode television and two OVA anime by TNK, a two-volume manga by Homare Sakazuki, six novels and a radio drama series. JAST USA announced that, in co-operation with 0verflow and localization group Sekai Project, School Days HQ will be translated and released for English-language distribution in spring 2012. It was later re-released as School Days HQ on October 8, 2010, with improved graphics, additional story and new endings.
It was subsequently released as a DVD TV game by Stack, followed by an all-ages port titled School Days L×H published by Interchannel for the PlayStation 2, in both limited and regular editions, on January 17, 2008.
School Days ( スクールデイズ, Sukūru Deizu ?) is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by 0verflow and published by Stack, and was originally released for the PC on April 28, 2005.