Glisten to your heart: The courage within you - Don't give up (ep. 1)

Sometimes we just need a little push to better express virtues like courage, friendship and sincerity.

Meet the Virtues, they are magical beings who live in a secret city above the clouds and whose purpose is to help us, virtuans, learn to express our virtues. They may use their special Instruments (like a whistle) to make us feel brave or friendly in a blink of an eye, but they can only complete their missions if they make us learn how to express virtues by ourselves.

Courage is a Virtue with confidence issues who hasn't completed a single mission in her life, but when she has a fateful encounter with you, a spark of hope begins to light in her heart. Can you help her be a great courage Virtue?

[About this game]
Glisten to your heart is an episodic story-driven game based on the “Glistening Virtues: Courage finds true courage” novel, but with story changes, side stories, new characters and the biggest change of all: you! You may be an invisible entity from a world beyond the game, but you’re also one of the main characters in the story and your decisions might get you new conversations, essences and even major story changes. The whole point of the game is to make you feel various emotions, as you get inside this world, interact with those amazing characters and help them with your words, warmth and jokes.

[Episode 1 – Don’t give up]
THIS EPISODE DOESN’T END IN ANY CLIFFHANGER! The ending is a fine one and completes a really long day in the life of Courage, but will leave you excited for what’s going to happen next.
In this episode, you’ll meet Courage and a lot of other Virtues and interesting characters as you help her train in the simulation building and complete her first mission. She's supposed to make a little boy named Sam face a haunted mansion to make his adventurous friend Andrea happy, but is that the only courage issue on this mission? Or is there something more?
This episode has over 6-8 hours of play!

[Characters]
All characters are imperfectly-perfect and I hope you get to like each one of them. Here are some of the interesting ones you’ll meet along the way:
- Courage

A not so brave courage Virtue whose hobby is to collect lost things from our world. She has a thing for cats too.
- Mother Love

The gentle mother of all Virtues who almost never leaves her office.
- Wisdom

A stern wisdom Virtue who is Mother Love’s assistant and loves technology and the Japanese culture. She is not Mother Love’s daughter and has a crush on her.
- Kindness

A beautiful kindness Virtue who's always wearing gorgeous clothes, like his kimono. He’s always helping others and has some troubles when it comes to saying NO.

Key features

• A heartwarming tale of courage and hope

• Make small decisions to get new conversations, items, jokes or learn more about the characters

• Make huge decisions that affect the story (even the characters will remember your past decisions)

• Get to know the characters with optional Free talks

• Solve courage issues, like the fear of being yourself or telling your friend you’re too scared to do something

• Fill up your encyclopedia with Virtues’ vocabulary and rules, life lessons, jokes and fun facts about the characters

• Play minigames like Face your fears, Choose correct thoughts and more

• Break the 4th wall! Some characters know you’re just a player and they’re inside a game

• Emotional licensed and original soundtrack to make you feel like watching a movie

• Do you like retro stuff? Then you’ll love those Pixel art graphics and 90’s references