History VisualNovel / EverlastingSummer

* CicadianRhythm: Used as a blatant ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' reference, along with mishearing one of the characters' name [[spoiler: Foreshadowing the Miku/Masha ending, where it gets turned UpToEleven.]]
* TheDitz: Miku, [[spoiler:much to the frustration of Masha, who has to play her role.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: If you try to exit the game, on the screen asking if you are sure you want to quit is an image of
[[spoiler: Yulya]]. Unless you marathon through at least five playthroughs and have made a start on your sixth, all without quitting, her appearance on this screen will be long before you encounter her in game.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: the entire cast, but especially [[spoiler: Red!Pioneer in the DLC]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Zhenya.

* ScrewYourself: Given eventual revelations as to who or what [[spoiler: Yulya]] is, the fact that [[spoiler: Semyon has sex with her]] becomes this. Or perhaps it can just be seen as taking MindScrew a little too literally?
** Although it becomes a more traditional form of MindScrew when, in her ending, you can [[spoiler: choose to end up with her back in the real world]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Semyon, oh Semyon. [[spoiler:Especially Red!Pioneer Semyon, whose utterly terrifying route you get to view ThroughTheEyesOfMadness.]]

''Everlasting Summer'' (Бесконечное лето) is a Russian-language [[RomanceGame Bishoujo Game]] VisualNovel developed by Soviet Games, and which is also available translated into English. It is an [[HGame eroge]], although there is an option to [[AdjustableCensorship disable adult content]], and some distribution outlets have [[Bowdlerise/VideoGames removed the option of adult content]] altogether.

** OrWasItADream: Yet, in all of the good endings, Semyon is able to [[spoiler: meet the girl he romanced along that route]]. In some of them, [[spoiler: she even mentions that ''he'' seems familiar, as if she dreamed about him]]. And finally, in the "Harem Ending", [[spoiler: Semyon, after waking, meets ''all'' of the girls, at the same time, after they all came looking for him as the guy from the dreams ''they'' all had]]. Mighty suspicious. [[spoiler:Especially as he and Lena manages to spend a good portion of their lives married, until they wake up one day. With all the others they wake up right after the camp ends.]]
** DreamWithinADream: The [[spoiler: Miku]] route, which starts out innocent enough but quickly spirals into a NightmareSequence.
** DreamWeaver: Towards the end of [[spoiler: Yulya's route, Semyon is told that she is his own consciousness given form. Yet after waking, he is able to choose to make any of the girls he dreamed about appear before him, ''including'' her!]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: If you try to exit the game, on the screen asking if you are sure you want to quit is an image of [[spoiler: Yulya]]. Unless you marathon through at least five playthroughs and have made a start on your sixth, all without quitting, her appearance on this screen will be long before you encounter her in game.

* GloriousMotherRussia: This is a given, seeing as this takes place in a Soviet-era Young Pioneer camp.

* RealPlaceBackground: Sovyonok's layout and locations are largely based on [[http://wiki.mephist.ru/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%9E%D0%9B_%22%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%22 SOL "Volga"]], a real-life recreation camp.

* {{Expy}}: Miku. It's all in [[NamesTheSame the]] [[{{Music/Vocaloid}} name]].
** Most of the female cast for that matter are based on Russian internet meme mascots, and Electronik and Shurik are both anime-style versions of actual Soviet-era live-action TV characters.

* ImprobableAge: All of the characters who are members of the Young Pioneers, with the exception of Ulyana. They are presented as if they are older teenagers, certainly old enough that the [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]] Semyon is not conflicted, at least for age-related reasons, to have sex with them during their routes. However, the upper age limit for Young Pioneers is 15, after which they could join the Komsomol. (In fact, near the end of Slavya's route, when Olga Dmitrievna is upset with Semyon's actions she threatens to withhold recommending his joining the Komsomol.)
** Made even more ludicrous by a disclaimer at the beginning claiming that [[BlatantLies all of the girls in the game are at least 18 years of age]]. Except Ulyana of course, who is ''obviously'' younger than the others, but she doesn't have any sex scenes at all (although she does have a few spots of fanservice which are kind of disturbing when you think about it).
** Which is [[ValuesDissonance somewhat understandable]] if one knows that in Russia [[FreeRangeChildren the level of maturity expected from a teenager]] is significantly higher that in, say, United States.
* ImprobablyFemaleCast: There are 3 named male camp residents, including Semyon himself, in comprasion with 8 female ones. Lampshaded by Semyon when he meets Electronic for the first time, comparing the camp with the kingdom of Amazons.

** Which is [[JustifiedTrope quite understandable]] if one knows that in Russia [[FreeRangeChildren the level of maturity expected from a teenager]] is significantly higher that in, say, United States.

* OffTheRails: [[spoiler:Yulya's route centres on this. The world Semyon is in has begun to abandon the script it runs on, starting with his new-found ability to talk to her when he never could before, a mysterious city appears in the distance, taking the girls outside the camp leads to in-universe CharacterDerailment and when you seem to be approaching the city, going back to the camp upon hearing of an impending disaster leads Semyon to find Sovyonok a GhostTown and all its inhabitants vanished, yet ignoring their cries for help will lead to them showing up later on the bus, completely fine and unharmed.]]

** Which is [[JustifiedTrope quite understandable]] if one knows that in Russia [[FreeRangeChildren the level of maturity expected from a teenager]] is significantly higher that in, say, United States.

** OrWasItADream: Yet, in all of the good endings, Semyon is able to [[spoiler: meet the girl he romanced along that route]]. In some of them, [[spoiler: she even mentions that ''he'' seems familiar, as if she dreamed about him]]. And finally, in the "Harem Ending", [[spoiler: Semyon, after waking, meets ''all'' of the girls, at the same time, after they all came looking for him as the guy from the dreams ''they'' all had]]. Mighty suspicious.

** DreamWithinADream: The [[spoiler: Miku]] route, which quickly spirals into a [[NightmareSequence Nightmare]].
** DreamWeaver: Towards the end of [[spoiler: Yulia's route, Semyon is told that she is his own consciousness given form. Yet after waking, he is able to choose to make any of the girls he dreamed about appear before him, ''including'' her!]]
* [[spoiler:AlternateUniverse: the explanation for all iterations of Semyon's story all being "true". Yes, even the Miku route.]]

* CatGirl: Yulia, [[spoiler:who's the primary heroine of sorts in the game's final storyline branch.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Lena's]] route starts out seeming fairly innocent and as light as many of the others. But by the end it can get quite serious, and, especially if you get the bad end, rather depressing. Likewise, the [[spoiler: Miku / Masha]] route takes a rather dark turn.

* EarlyBirdCameo: If you try to exit the game, on the screen asking if you are sure you want to quit is an image of [[spoiler: Yulia]]. Unless you marathon through at least five playthroughs and have made a start on your sixth, all without quitting, her appearance on this screen will be long before you encounter her in game.

* [[spoiler:MarryThemAll: Given that they mention the *other* endings as having already happened, there is a high probability this is actually the *canon* ending. Well done, Semyon.]]

* TheMultiverse: [[spoiler:Camp Sovyonok seems to serve as the center of a web of different universes simultaneously, in each of which Semyon makes different decisions and leads to different outcomes. The HaremEnding seems to imply that Semyon is able to collapse the alternate realities, as he retains his memories of all his other lives--and so do the girls, all of whom have gathered to see him again in the real world. But this turns out to not be the case in the Zhenya DLC, where the Red Pioneer is still trapped, and Semyon returns to the Sovyonok one more time to help him escape into his own universe with Zhenya.]]
* OffTheRails: [[spoiler:Yulya's route centres on this. The world Semyon is in has begun to abandon the script it runs on, starting with his new-found ability to talk to her when he never could before, a mysterious city appears in the distance, taking the girls outside the camp leads to in-universe CharacterDerailment and when you seem to be approaching the city, going back to the camp upon hearing of an impending disaster leads Semyon to find Sovyonok a GhostTown and all its inhabitants vanished, yet inexplicably ignoring their cries for help will lead to them showing up later on the bus, completely fine and unhindered.]]

* RealPlaceBackground: Sovyonok's layout and locations are largely based on [[http://wiki.mephist.ru/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%9E%D0%9B_%22%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%22 SOL "Volga"]], a really existing recreation camp.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:Red!Pioneer has a bad case of this which leads to a severe case of SanitySlippage, but also, all "real" iterations of the girls as well as the original Semyon, in the [[MarryThemAll Harem Ending]]]]
* SceneryPorn: big time.
* ScrewYourself: Given eventual revelations as to who or what [[spoiler: Yulia]] is, the fact that [[spoiler: Semyon has sex with her]] becomes this. Or perhaps it can just be seen as taking MindScrew a little too literally?

* [[spoiler:SendInTheClones: all those creepy faceless Pioneers? All iterations of Semyon. Every last one.]]

%% * [[invoked]][[ That One Song]]: Players looking to unlock everything in their gallery may be frustrated by one song, "Reminiscences," which seems to be unobtainable through normal game play. Currently the only way to unlock it seems to be to play through a mod or user created scenario that makes use of that song.
** The song itself, though part of a soundtrack, was used only in the Winter Tale, a short VN vignette about Semyon and the gang celebrating New Year in Sovyonok made by Eroge Team in 2010 as an apology for the ScheduleSlip.

The player takes on the role of Semyon, an ordinary young man with thousands, even hundreds of thousands of those like him in every ordinary city. But one day something completely unusual happens to him: he falls asleep in a bus in winter and wakes up... in the middle of a hot summer. In front of him is "Sovionok" - a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization Young Pioneer]] camp, behind him is his former life. To understand what happened to him, Semyon will have to get to know the local inhabitants (and maybe even find love), find his way in the complex labyrinth of human relationships and his own problems and solve the camp's mysteries. And answer the main question - how to come back? Should he come back?

-->'''Semyon:''' Oh, yeah, and I'm [[Franchise/{{Transfomers}} Optimus Prime]], born nine million years ago in the Highlands of Scotland.

* ImprobableAge: All of the characters who are members of the Young Pioneers, with the exception of Ulyana. They are presented as if they are older teenagers, certainly old enough that the [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]] Seymon is not conflicted, at least for age related reasons, to have sex with them during their routes. However, the upper age limit for Young Pioneers is 15, after which they could join the Komsomol. (In fact, at one point in the game, when Olga Dmitrievna is upset with Semyon's actions she threatens to withhold recommending his joining the Komsomol.)

* [[spoiler:TheMultiverse: Camp Sovyonok seems to serve as the center of a web of different universes simultaneously, in each of which Semyon makes different decisions and leads to different outcomes. The HaremEnding seems to imply that Semyon is able to collapse the alternate realities, as he retains his memories of all his other lives--and so do the girls, all of whom have gathered to see him again in the real world. But this turns out to not be the case in the Zhenya DLC, where the Red Pioneer is still trapped, and Semyon returns to the Sovyonok one more time to help him escape into his own universe with Zhenya.]]
* OldMaid: invoked on Olga by [[spoiler: Red!Pioneer in the Zhenya DLC]]. Borders on ChristmasCake if not for the setting being on the wrong side of the Sea of Okhotsk.
* OldSchoolBuilding: Even though Camp Sovionok isn't a school, the old campsite is functionally identical to the Old School Buildings used in other visual novels by being an abandoned location filled with lots of mysteries.

* WildWilderness: Sovionok is apparently on the edge of this, to the point where going just 200 meters in might get you permanently lost.

The game, built using the UsefulNotes/RenPy Visual Novel Engine, was first released as a Russian-language demo (consisting of the first two in-game days) on New Year's Day in 2010. The full Russian-language version of the game finally received a freeware release in December of 2013. An English version became available in November of 2014, still distributed for free, via {{UsefulNotes/Steam}}. Many people were quite surprised that the Steam release retained the game's eroge elements. Alas, this was to be a short lived surprise when, a few days after release, Steam released an update which removed all of these elements from the game. Fortunately, it did not take players upset at this long to discover [[GameMod a way around it]].

** Made even more ludicrous by a disclaimer at the beginning claiming that [[BlatantLies all of the girls in the game are at least 18 years of age]].

* [[invoked]][[ That One Song]]: Players looking to unlock everything in their gallery may be frustrated by one song, "Reminiscences," which seems to be unobtainable through normal game play. Currently the only way to unlock it seems to be to play through a mod or user created scenario that makes use of that song.

The player takes on the roll of Semyon, an ordinary young man with thousands, even hundreds of thousands of those like him in every ordinary city. But one day something completely unusual happens to him: he falls asleep in a bus in winter and wakes up... in the middle of a hot summer. In front of him is "Sovionok" - a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization Young Pioneer]] camp, behind him is his former life. To understand what happened to him, Semyon will have to get to know the local inhabitants (and maybe even find love), find his way in the complex labyrinth of human relationships and his own problems and solve the camp's mysteries. And answer the main question - how to come back? Should he come back?

* Main/AllJustADream: The game begins with Semyon falling asleep in one place and waking up in another. That he is just dreaming is one of Semyon's suspicions. In most of the endings, [[spoiler: this is seemingly played straight when Semyon wakes up.]]
** Main/OrWasItADream: Yet, in all of the good endings, Semyon is able to [[spoiler: meet the girl he romanced along that route]]. In some of them, [[spoiler: she even mentions that ''he'' seems familiar, as if she dreamed about him]]. And finally, in the "Harem Ending", [[spoiler: Semyon, after waking, meets ''all'' of the girls, at the same time, after they all came looking for him as the guy from the dreams ''they'' all had]]. Mighty suspicious.
** Main/DreamWithinADream: The [[spoiler: Miku]] route, which quickly spirals into a [[Main/NightmareSequence Nightmare]].
** Main/DreamWeaver: Towards the end of [[spoiler: Yulia's route, Semyon is told that she is his own consciousness given form. Yet after waking, he is able to choose to make any of the girls he dreamed about appear before him, ''including'' her!]]

* {{Main/Animesque}}: Although set in Russia and originally released in the Russian language, the style of game play and visual design of the characters clearly take influence from Japanese visual novels.

* Main/BlatantLies: A disclaimer at the beginning states that all of the heroines in the game are at least 18 years of age. Even though they are all members of the Young Pioneers youth group. Even, apparently, Ulyana, whose underage status becomes a plot point. [[spoiler: By the end of the game, this ''does'' become true of all of them]], but that is rather splitting hairs.

* Main/CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Lena's]] route starts out seeming fairly innocent and as light as many of the others. But by the end it can get quite serious, and, especially if you get the bad end, rather depressing. Likewise, the [[spoiler: Miku / Masha]] route takes a rather dark turn.

* Main/EarlyBirdCameo: If you try to exit the game, on the screen asking if you are sure you want to quit is an image of [[spoiler: Yulia]]. Unless you marathon through at least five playthroughs and have made a start on your sixth, all without quitting, her appearance on this screen will be long before you encounter her in game.

* Main/FullNameBasis: Olga Dmitrievna. Neither any of the characters, the narration, or even the display of the name of which character is speaking, ever calls her by anything other than both her names -- which is exactly how students always refer to their teachers in Russia. Excessive familiarity and fraternising between students and teachers is strongly discouraged in Russian educational system.

* ImprobableAge: All of the characters who are members of the Young Pioneers, with the exception of Ulyana. They are presented as if they are older teenagers, certainly old enough that the [[Main/OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]] Seymon is not conflicted, at least for age related reasons, to have sex with them during their routes. However, the upper age limit for Young Pioneers is 15, after which they could join the Komsomol. (In fact, at one point in the game, when Olga Dmitrievna is upset with Semyon's actions she threatens to withhold recommending his joining the Komsomol.)
** Made even more ludicrous by a disclaimer at the beginning claiming that [[Main/BlatantLies all of the girls in the game are at least 18 years of age]].

* Main/ScrewYourself: Given eventual revelations as to who or what [[spoiler: Yulia]] is, the fact that [[spoiler: Semyon has sex with her]] becomes this. Or perhaps it can just be seen as taking Main/MindScrew a little too literally?
** Although it becomes a more traditional form of Main/MindScrew when, in her ending, you can [[spoiler: choose to end up with her back in the real world]].

* [[invoked]][[Main/ThatOneAchievement That One Song]]: Players looking to unlock everything in their gallery may be frustrated by one song, "Reminiscences," which seems to be unobtainable through normal game play. Currently the only way to unlock it seems to be to play through a mod or user created scenario that makes use of that song.

* [[ThoseTwoGuys/VisualNovels Those Two Guys]]: Aside from player-controlled Semyon himself [[spoiler:and his alternate loop versions]], the only two male characters who receive any focus are Elektronik and Shurik, the two members of the robotics club who often act as a pair.

* HatesBeingNicknamed: Olga Dmitrievna. Don't you ''dare'' refer to her as "Dva-cheh".

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: It stretches "childhood" a bit far, but at the end of Ulyana's good route she makes Semyon promise to marry her when she grows up.

* LoveTriangle: Semyon has absolutely no clue he has fallen into one of these with [[spoiler: Lena and Alisa]]. Either you choose one or neither ... [[spoiler:until you unlock the HaremEnding]].

* RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler:Red!Pioneer has a bad case of this which leads to a severe case of SanitySlippage, but also, all "real" iterations of the girls as well as the original Semyon, in the HaremEnding]]

* [[spoiler:HaremEnding: Given that they mention the *other* endings as having already happened, there is a high probability this is actually the *canon* ending. Well done, Semyon.]]
* Main/ImprobableAge: All of the characters who are members of the Young Pioneers, with the exception of Ulyana. They are presented as if they are older teenagers, certainly old enough that the [[Main/OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]] Seymon is not conflicted, at least for age related reasons, to have sex with them during their routes. However, the upper age limit for Young Pioneers is 15, after which they could join the Komsomol. (In fact, at one point in the game, when Olga Dmitrievna is upset with Semyon's actions she threatens to withhold recommending his joining the Komsomol.)

* {{Main/Meganekko}}: Zhenya.

* Main/ShrugOfGod: Seemingly invoked by the name of the achievement acquired upon finishing the [[spoiler:Miku]] route: [[spoiler:"What is this I don't even"]]
* Main/SpoilerOpening: Whenever the game is first opened, there is a screen containing disclaimers including, "The game doesn't contain any propaganda of voluntary (or not) ending one's life." It doesn't take a genius to figure out from that that at least one of the routes, before the end, will contain [[spoiler: a character's suicide]].

** The song itself, though part of a soundtrack, was used only in the Winter Tale, a short VN vignette about Semyon and the gang celebrating New Year in Sovyonok made by Eroge Team in 2010 as an apologize for the ScheduleSlip.