September 22nd marked a great day to Key fans everywhere. The long awaited English patch for Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life was completed. This visual novel takes acts on a “what-if” path if Tomoya had not called out to Nagisa at the bottom of the hill. It takes place after the Tomoyo Route in Clannad, but it can be played just fine if all you have seen is the Tomoyo OVA at the end of Clannad. However, unlike Clannad this novel contains glorious hentai scenes between Tomoyo and Tomoya. This novel is extremely “Key-like” in the fact that it's an emotional roller coaster of epic proportions. It also has a different artist than Clannad so their a minor difference to be noted in the art, but in my opinion it just makes it better.
Tomoyo After's development started after Clannad was completed and Jun Meada wanted to make a game based entirely on Tomoyo. He's one of the main people responsible for wrenching your hearts throughout Clannad, Angel Beats, Air, and Kanon. It also has beautiful music composed by the same people who did the scores for Clannad. But enough of my Key ranting though, if you enjoyed Clannad
GO PLAY THIS GAME.
And be sure to
go over to Doki (where you will find the torrent links) and thank them for a fantastic job after 17 months of hard work. Great job guys!
Lastly, be sure to have your PC's “Language for non-Unicode programs” set to Japanese. This is changeable by going into “Control Panel” and selecting “Clock, Language, and Region.” Once there click on “Region and Language” and hit the “Administrative tab.” After this just select Japanese(Japan) from the list and you should be good to go. Use the patch after installing the game, not before.