Mai Petite Saigon
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About the game
Mai-Anne aced everything she was told to. When her little brother disappears, she drops it all and dives into Paris's drawing underground to find him. A 240-page graphic novel, read page by page, with its own music and silences.
Original Steam description
Mai Petite Saigon is a 240-page graphic novel, adapted as an animated read. It is not a game: you read. Each page appears at its own pace, bubble after bubble, with music, sounds and silences that never cover the drawing.
The story Mai-Anne is 26, with a maths PhD, a black belt in aikido and years of piano behind her. The perfect daughter. A genius impostor: she can slip into anyone's skin, especially the person everyone expects her to be.
Then her little brother Minh disappears. He was the only one in the family who dared to slam the door. Mai-Anne slams hers too, takes her sketchbook, her plush Coco Pouf and a handful of mandarins, and invents a name: Yu Mikan. She looks for Minh among Paris's artists, bars and penniless flatshares. And while she's at it, she means to lift the curse that hangs over her family.
What you'll find
The whole book, first page to last, in French or English
Page-by-page staging: slow pans across double pages, bubbles appearing one at a time, music and ambience that follow the reading
Deliberate silences on the heaviest passages
A making-of and extras
About 2 hours of reading
Before you read This story deals with exile, the Vietnam War, family pressure, depression and suicide. It doesn't try to shock, but it doesn't hide what hurts either.
About Anh-Thy went through Louis-le-Grand and a Parisian engineering school. It took him fifteen years to finish Mai Petite Saigon, his first graphic novel.
Demo and release information
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