NEKOPARA Extra

Cute & fun bonus story for the fans! (7/10)

Another fine addition to the whole series. If you already love the girls, this gives you another peek into their lives, from what I gather to be roughly 6 months before V1 and maybe 1 year before V4. (Correct me if I’m wrong, Nekopara loreheads, I’m still split on whether or not the timeline of Extra -> V4 is exactly 1 year or exactly 2 years).

Although I am tempted to say it’s more tangible and is slightly better than Nekopara Vol 0; if you have to choose to play only one bonus game outside of main titles and didn’t actually get the bundle, I’d recommend this a bit more. Not only because MC is involved in them or me having a slight bias on favoring loli charas (I admit, those play a part); but also because the scenes actually feel like they try to depict decent dialogue and characterization at times and feels a bit less disjointed. Vol 0 was more of a train of fun hijinks more than anything. While in this, for example, the Azuki & Coconut scene was pretty sweet and show their bonds nicely. Though there’s a slight clashing relationship progression, if you remember the fact that they suddenly became childish at fighting each other at the start of V2.

Nevertheless, it’s still a bit for the freaks, because there’s still some amount of fan-service here, with Coconut, Vanilla and Chocola looking much smaller than you ever saw them. It’s still all very SFW and acceptably cute, but I’ll elaborate later on these. I think there’s some added value for the real freaks. Worth noting that I can’t even tell any growth differences for Azuki and Maple though. Maybe Cinnamon to a lesser extent is a bit smaller? If those 3 are your favorites and you expected to see them in smol loli form; dream on.

Information:

(•)Playtime: 1h49m59s. Mostly in auto mode and fully listening to all voice lines, clicking thru non-voiced stuff. Of course, I still feel like there’s a noticeable, unnecessary 1 sec delay in auto-mode that might not be on the level of V4’s snappiness yet.
Also worth noting that my steam playtime is longer because I was trying to farm the steam card drops. Somehow even after 2 hours I only got 1 card out of the starting potential of 4. I got the short end of the stick.

(•) Fully voice acted & Animated sprites. Generally the same level of features & Tech on V3 I’d think. Thankful that the petting features are temporary too and getting out of them reverts expressions.

(•) Play Order? The general consensus is that it’s fine to play these games in the release order. That is; V1 -> V0 -> V2 -> V3 -> Extra (This) -> V4. But honestly, I swapped Extra to be played last and I think it’s a reasonably fine alternative. It doesn’t impact anything by much, if at all, but still, since the bonus titles are more forgettable, I’d think it’s easier to notice the tie-ins to V4 if you play V4 first than the other way around.

(+) Pros & General Ratings (/10):

(+) Writing: 7.1. Mostly elaborated on reasons above; nothing mindblowing and is just cute Slice of Life scenes. The fact that it’s short and has basically nothing going on makes me put this below V2 and any other future main titles, for sure.

(+) Art: 9. Not much to say really, still the same level of consistency and cuteness as the other titles. Pretty lovely, and I didn’t notice anything inconsistent. Pretty numerous amount of CGs for what is 2 hours long. Coconut gets a special outfit that I think I’ve never seen before, and I think it’s pretty cute. Should make a return, honestly. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3453067655

(+) For the freaks (good). As someone who played Vol 4 first before this title, some of the lines made me raise my eyebrows. It’s not like they are blatantly putting out lewd innuendos or anything, but there’s a suspicious amount of room to believe that they tried. As a certified freak that I am, I admit I got some extra enjoyment out of these. Some little things said can be tied in to what happens later in the timeline. Promises to be ‘having a bigger and better Christmas party next year’, ‘do it every year’, after Maple talks about the fact that ‘this is a very White Christmas’ just reminds me of the whole Orgy scene in V4 and how they were all wearing Santa Hats and there’s an ungodly amount of white fluids.
The gifts that Vanilla asks for (a picture book showing animals) reminds me of her at some point from V2 or V3 being mentioned in dialogue to be watching lewd animal videos and at least ties in enough to make me think ”wow, she’s already interested in this from a very young age”. Heck, even Chocola asking for a toy sounds suspect because of this, even if not tied in to anything particular yet, I wonder if she’ll get H scenes with adult toys in them later. There’s also the leg numb moment and the girls making certain sounds while saying “don’t touch me there” to each other.

It’s all SFW, but pile enough of these, and it becomes a bit suspicious. Though I won’t criticize them for it, I did enjoy spotting these.

There’s also a lot of somewhat suggestive CGs outside of the sweet ones. Specifically, (minor) the girls getting body measurements in underwear, & a bath CG yet again like in Extra, except it’s fogged up. To a lesser extent there’s also them playing on the beach, although their outfits stay the same, looking at the skirt lines and how high up they are raised also compels me to say “nice”.

(-) Cons:

(-) Typos. Even for something this short there’s still three. One instance of “e a” (prob a brainfart of wanting to say ‘a’ but phonetically thinking of how it sounds like one way to say ‘e’), one missing exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, and something else I noticed but didn’t exactly manage to recall. I’m certain there’s exactly 3 typos in this though.

(-) ED video can’t be screenshotted, again. Well, not via steam screenshots, at least. Just shows a black screen again. It is what it is. Quite a shame because I thought the chibis were pretty cute.

(-) Some of the VA felt a bit slower than necessary. Yes, I get the point of Chocola & Vanilla being young enough to have trouble speaking, but there are moments where I wished they were slightly quicker with it or did it less often. Thankful they kinda stopped after the first half of the runtime.

I enjoy it. I’m glad this was included in the bundle!

hauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

fire

they are all babies i wish i could take care of all of them

good game

A great story and great animation. Fun characters and a good addition to the series

Prequel to the series, events leading up to Kashou opening bakery as well as Chocola and Vanilla joining the family. Rather short game, though story additions make it worth it.

Quite a nice, cute story of how Chocola and Vanilla came to be a part of the Minaduki family.

Highly recommend this for anyone interested in playing Nekopara. Like Vol. 0, there are no h-scenes.

This game is innocent.
Which plunged me into cosmic contemplation. Could the gravitational waves from a black hole be whispering through the pixels of this nekogirl? In that transcendent moment, cosmic timelines unfurled like parchment scrolls - the existential void suddenly brimming with celestial significance. Universal truths manifested as constellations rearranging themselves, while quantum mysteries dissolved into crystalline clarity. My grasp of spacetime entanglement deepened with vertiginous intensity, leaving me questioning the very fabric of our perceived reality.
So, could anyone send me a patch? I've "handled" the FBI (¬‿¬)
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Reviews: 8/10

It's playable.

♥ Meow! Meow! ♥ (ʻʻʻ)_(=^･ω･^=)_(ʻʻʻ) ≽^•⩊•^≼

King Von got shivers when he played this game

i love vanilla

♥ Meow! Meow! ♥ (ʻʻʻ)_(=^･ω･^=)_(ʻʻʻ) ≽^•⩊•^≼

Just buy them all

I don't normally like this kind of stretchy 2D animation, but this series is so good at it; it proves that this style of animation can work very well if you know what you're doing. The petting feature is adorable. Cinnamon is best girl.

cat girl

Every story has a beginning, thank god there's no H-content here

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10/10 and Shigure is still the best!

Love all the nekoopara stories, this prequel is adorable and still has the fun

uohhhh 😭

The prequel to the entire series that tells the story of when Chocola and Vanilla first entered the family. A bit short, but cute and wholesome.

Nice, cute, kawaiiiiii!!!!!

Loli Cat girls without any of the forced sex

I had way more fun with this and 0 then any of the other Nekopara games, if you want cute and wholesome family fun i 100% recommend it

Cute little prequel, not really that much to say about it other than that. Game's only about 30-60 minutes long, but you get both the OVAs as free DLC so it's a pretty good deal, especially if you get it in the bundle.

Enjoyment 6/10
Cute little prequel to the Nekopara series.
Doesn't overstay it's welcome like so many other Visual Novels that drag on and on.
The game is upscaling from a native 720p resolution and looks rather blurry on a 4k display.

most vile one yet

A short game that fills you in on the backstory of the characters from the main game.

i like boobies

Great story

Should be played first before the others as it will make sense

Gameplay is great but the story is about 2 hours long.

would recommend this to any VN fan.

7/10

I LOVE NEKOPARA!

i meana its cute i just its just weird kidna

I wish lolis were real

It was perfect down to the last minute detail.

I didn't think it could get much worse, BUT IT DID! Chocola and Vanilla are "kittens" in this volume and doesn't even know the MC for a year before wanting to be his partners. The scene were they are crying in a corner because they are lonely and the MC sleeps with them to comfort them is disgusting knowing what he does to them in a year. And promising little children you'll be their partner when they get older isn't okay. Hate how dense the MC is in this series. This game is literally just pedp bait.

The little sister is also worse in this game with how down bad she is lusting after her brother. And she makes it more clear in this game that she's trying to get her "pets" to also be her brother's partners. Especially telling Chocola and Vanilla that humans can take catgirls as lovers when they are kids!

As for product, it's a very short game with no dialogue options. Only good think about this game series is general is the art and animation.

Not only is this game weird because it‘s Nekopara and what not.. it‘s kind of just shit compared to the other ones LOL. Not worth.

Adult stuff aside, I have had a strong love for Nekopara ever since I 1st learned of it.
The storytelling, the art, the passion from each character, the family moments
Each and every time I fall more in love with this world <3
Even the anime itself was incredible too. Getting to see our beloved characters brought to life before us!
I cannot recommend this enough <3
It truly has gave me another great passion in life to admire with all my heart for years to come. <3

Depression never stood a chance.

I mean its like fortnite

Cute and funny with some emotional scene and a little fan service, the animated vol 1 and extra is the best if you want to see chocovanilla and other catgirls in action.

"NEKOPARA Extra"

Pros: Art, plot, humor.

Cons: small number of supported languages.

My rating: 7/10.

boing boing