A Sketchbook About Her Sun
A Sketchbook About Her Sun is a PlayStation 4 adventure game released in 2022 developed by Team SolEtude. It centers on story, case, or mission progress, character and object interaction, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 4 twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, speaker, light bar, or motion input where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 5.2 / 10
About this game
A Sketchbook About Her Sun is a PlayStation 4 adventure game centered on story, case, or mission progress, character and object interaction, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while HD output, HDR or PS4 Pro modes, HDD streaming, surround audio, and television-distance interfaces need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include HDD installs and loading, patch version, storage space, DualShock 4 battery life, PS Camera or PS VR requirements, visual modes, frame rate, and network services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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PlayStation 4AI review
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An intriguing music-led concept with little meaningful interaction.
A Sketchbook About Her Sun on PS4 works more as an interactive indie-rock album than a conventional branching visual novel. Lucia’s stream of consciousness follows eleven Red Ribbon songs. At selected moments, players choose a thought, and a short diary entry responds at the end of each chapter. A review explicitly covering PS4 finds the music and pleasant drawings appealing. The Planet X chapter is the standout: sketches are changed, erased and redrawn in ways that make Lucia’s emotions visible. Much of the rest is thinner. A few images and animations repeat until a song ends, diary pages often merely rearrange chosen words, and repeated playthroughs follow almost the same events without a satisfying conclusion. The roughly half-hour format is not itself a fault, but the uneven chapters and limited consequence reduce its impact. Simple interaction makes entry easy. It best suits listeners open to abstract, music-led introspection rather than players seeking substantial choices or a clear ending. The PS4 store lists English screen text only.
Strengths
- Red Ribbon’s album gives the brief journey a coherent emotional tone.
- The changing Planet X sketches make Lucia’s thoughts more tangible.
Weaknesses
- Repeated imagery leaves several chapters feeling stretched to song length.
- Diary responses and repeated runs add little meaningful consequence.
Who it is for: Listeners who enjoy indie rock and a short, abstract interactive narrative.
Play notes: Expect roughly half an hour, few meaningful branches and English screen text. The source supplies no measured frame-rate data.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Brief by design, yet uneven and unrewarding to replay. | Reviewed | 4.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Choices shape wording more than meaningful outcomes. | Reviewed | 4.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Music and a standout sketchbook chapter exceed the uneven visuals. | Reviewed | 6.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Simple PS4 interaction, with an English-only reading barrier. | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Team SolEtude
- Publisher
- Fantastico Studio
- Release date
- 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Interactive Narrative · Primary genre
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyThird PersonPuzzle SolvingLinear LevelsMain Story 10–20 HoursStory-drivenSlow BurnInvestigationExploration3D Graphics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 4Worldwide2022
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Sources
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