Newton with apple tree

Isaac Newton’s apple tree

We are custodians of an apple tree with a very special place in history. Newton’s apple tree is intertwined with his discovery of the law of gravitation – a story Newton himself told.

In the orchard at Woolsthorpe Manor we are custodians of a very special apple tree. Yes, the very tree from which an apple fell and caused Newton to ask the question: ‘Why do apples always fall straight down to the ground?’

The tree first put down roots around 400 years ago. For at least 240 years it has been shown to visitors as Isaac Newton’s apple tree.

Here he began to think about why everything always fell down — not sideways, or upwards — and came to the conclusion that there must be a power (now we call it a force) that draws them. ‘How far would that power extend?’, he thought. ‘Why not as far as the moon?’.

The story of the apple falling inspiring Newton is a scientific legend, but there are many truths in it. We know he was constantly inspired by the natural world around him. This caused him to question, explore and experiment. Later in life, Newton himself told the story to his biographers, both William Stukeley and John Conduitt, and they recorded it in their writings.

» the notion of gravitation. was occasion’d by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. «

The real thing?

People have been coming to visit the tree and the manor house at Woolsthorpe ever since Newton’s time. When a storm blew the tree down in 1820, pilgrims came to see it lying in the orchard. Sketches were made of it and the broken wood was used to make snuff boxes and small trinkets.

That might have been the end of the story (and some sources claim it was), but contemporary drawings confirm the tree remained rooted and re-grew strongly from the base. This is the tree you can see now.

Both the oral tradition and the dendrochronology confirm that it’s the right age, and the Tree Council has certified it as one of 50 Great British Trees.

Caring for the tree

Today the tree is pruned regularly to keep it healthy; it continues to grow and bear blossom and fruit. A low barrier has been installed around it to protect the root run and give it some ‘breathing space’.

It’s a ‘Flower of Kent’ apple tree, a traditional variety, which produces cooking apples which are green with a red flush, of varying sizes.

A photograph by the apple tree is an essential part of a pilgrimage to Woolsthorpe — come and see it for yourself. If you are not able to visit us, there is no need to miss out. Click on the link below to watch a time lapse video of Newton’s apple tree through a whole year.

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Newton And The Apple Tree – Full Walkthrough And Endings

By Hikari in Games PC 21/08/2018

Publisher Sol Press and Developer Laplacian have released their new game titled Newton And The Apple Tree. it is an indie visual novel game where players play as Protagonist Syuji Asanaga who has mysteriously traveled through time to the 17th century.

Along with childhood friend Yotsuko Utakane, they will be able to see exciting advances in scientific discovery and also meet new characters.

Full Walkthrough And Ending Of Newton And The Apple Tree

In the game, you will be able to unlock new achievements and different endings for different characters.

You will be able to choose from many different dialogues and options which will shape your story of the game.

Before you proceed remember that for your first playthrough, you will be locked on either Utakane Yotsuko’s or Lavi Gier’s route. if you want to unlock more endings you will need to finish Lavi’s route 2 times.

Below you will find a walkthrough on how to progress through the whole game and get all routes

Utakane Yotsuko

• Teach her about sushi (you can choose any sushi)
• Explain that it’s not a problem of size. (you can choose any option)
• Say you forgot something inside.
• Think your way out.
• First Create Save #1 then – Wipe away her tears

Lavi Gier

• Here first Load Save #1 then – Help her up.
• Create Save #2 then – Must be my imagination…
• Deep Sleep. (you can choose any option)

Tsukumo Haru

• Here, first Load Save #2 then – From the Balcony…?
• Create Save #3 then – Go out to the balcony.

Emmy Felton

• Here Load Save #3 then – Better go to sleep.
• Drop the apple in front of her.
• Create Save #4 – Take Emmy’s Hand.

Alice Bedford

• Here Load Save #4 then – Talk sense into Emmy.
• I can come up with something better…
• This doesn’t cut it.
• There’s more…!
• I’m not over yet!
• It has to be “Baka-aniki”

Extra Scence

After you have completed all the above route go to the main menu there you will see an option “Continue+” on the button right corner of the screen. select it and you will enter the new scenario, choose the following option. you can do anything you want.

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Newton and the Apple Tree

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Newton and the Apple Tree is a RPG visual novel.

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Staff [ ]

Wasabi Ono [ ]

Laplacian’s representative who was responsible for planning, the script, supervision, and sound production.

Shimofuri [ ]

Kohki Ueto [ ]

Director and designer, he handles logos, UI, and goodies.

Bekotaro [ ]

Freelance illustrator who is in charge of Alice’s and Haru’s original designs.

Pellet [ ]

An illustrator in charge of Yotsuko Utakane and Lavi Gier’s designs.

Rickey [ ]

He draws illustrations and manga and for Newton, he drew backgrounds and the Baron.

j.bango [ ]

Translated the visual novel

Adam Haffen [ ]

«»‘Newton’ was actually the pen name of a brilliant-minded girl!?»

Protagonist Syuji Asanaga and his childhood friend Yotsuko Utakane, while tracking down Syuji’s missing grandfather, unexpectedly ended up traveling through time.

What they witnessed upon their arrival was the presence of a single girl right in front of them.

This particular girl would go on to be dubbed as the father of modern-day science, Sir Isaac Newton! That’s correct, Newton turned out to be a small, flat-chested girl!

Unaware of this, Syuji loudly crashed into the apple tree right in front of the girl.

«You do realize that I was just on the verge of making the most groundbreaking discovery, don’t you!?»

It was at the moment our main couple traveled through time, right then and there, that Newton discovered universal gravitation!

And just like that, through Syuji’s witless conduct, the great scientific discoveries of that century had all crumbled to ashes. What’s more, like the domino effect, this would gradually end up altering key points in history.

It is now sometime during the 17th century! The story is set at a prestigious English university called «Tenbridge University,» named for the fact that it spans a total of ten bridges! Will Syuji ever be able to rectify history and return to the present!?

Written by Laplacian as «an extremely funny, but also slightly touching» time travel adventure!» [1]

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Newton with apple tree

Неожиданно для описания и концепта глубокая новелла.
Да, тут есть дурацкий юмор, но он весь заканчивается в первые буквально полчаса новеллы; история, повороты и взаимоотношения весьма хороши и продуманы.
Из-за того, что главный герой является, по сути, обычным парнем — не самым храбрым, не самым умным и не самым везучим — ему довольно легко сопереживать, и его комплексы довольно понятны обычному человеку.
Сложно жить, когда вокруг одни гении, действительно. но даже они являются людьми, и они хотят того же, что и все остальные.

Новелла поднимает довольно интересные темы — сексизм, например, — и делает это довольно свежо и неизбито.
Однозначный плюс.

(I read the visual novel with the free and optional +18 patch, which includes H-scenes. There’s also a +17 patch if you don’t want full on H-scenes but still want some lewd moments. If anything, I recommend getting the +17 patch at the very least.)

Going into this I legitimately did not know what to expect. I was intrigued by the premise, thinking «Newton was actually an anime loli girl? Ok, where is this going?» to myself. I was gonna hold off until it was on sale or something, but my curiosity got the better of me and I bought it for full price. Now after having spent 60+ hours reading through all the routes with almost no extra scenes read yet (scenes that mostly come with the +18 patch mind you), I guess I can say that I have no regrets buying this one.

Keep in mind, I’m a slow reader and sometimes tend to leave my games open when I go afk, so my 60 hours is definitely not an accurate representation of the length of the visual novel. That being said, there is still a lot of content to read through. The story is pretty good for what it is. Childhood friends Syuji and Yotsuko travel to Tenbridge, England to search for Syuji’s grandfather, only to end up travelling 330 years into the past to the time of Isaac Newton. To their surprise, Newton turns out to be a young girl studying in Tenbridge. On top of that Syuji and Yotsuko, while travelling back in time, inadvertantly burn down the one thing that would bring forth what we know today as «Newton’s law of universal gravitation» — the famous apple tree.

If you’re looking for historical accuracy, I’m fairly certain the last time I saw it was being thrown right out the window. But that’s not what this is about. The story is definitely more of a «what if» scenario more than anything, it’s not meant to be a history lesson nor is it meant to be taken as historical fact. That said, I did learn some new things here and there. Not through the visual novel itself, but it piqued my curiosity enough for me to actually do some research on some of the things at hand.

I will have to admit though that I’m kinda disappointed with most of the endings, aside from one. Not going to get into too much detail, but I feel like a lot of the routes just end very abruptly. If you go through, for example, Yotsuko’s route, you’ll miss out on pretty much most of the important parts of the story. Now to be fair I understand where the devs were going with the idea. They wanted a true ending for «main girl», so to speak, and different character path endings for every character. I get that much, but it still kinda left me with some form of an empty feeling for most of the endings. I’ll say this though, there’s a point in the visual novel where you can’t choose a different route, forcing you to do Lavi’s path. After you’ve done that, all the other routes locked behind that choice will be unlocked. While I would normally say that I don’t really like that sort of. «choice manipulation», I guess. The way they did it though kinda blew my mind and made me see the visual novel in a different way. If you want a comparison, think Flowey from Undertale, and how he interacted with the world. That’s all I’m going to say on that. Oh, and make sure you do Lavi’s path twice, alright? You can skip through most of the dialogue though.

The soundtrack has some pretty good themes, with some ranging all the way to absolutely beautiful. My personal favourites are «With a loving embrace» and «Song of Wind». That’s. about all I have to say on that.

Overall, this visual novel was a treat for me. If you want to know if it’s worth 30 or more euros for this. I dunno, I can’t really say. I definitely feel satisfied having paid full price and having bought the soundtrack, but if you’re hesitant on getting it full price, just wait for a sale. I think if you like visual novels like If My Heart Had Wings or Fruit of Grisaia, then I think you’ll enjoy this one as well. Though this one is definitely less darker than Grisaia.

Newton and the Apple Tree is a charming visual novel that presents a pretty unusual story. If you are tired of stories about reversed warriors of Sengoku Era or the ones from the legends of Three Kingdoms, then this time you will have to deal with an absolutely different character – Newton, a famous scientist. But this is not the only thing that this visual novel can offer.

— The story and writing are rather good – I honestly do not think that both of them are something extraordinary or groundbreaking, but overall, I enjoyed the experience. I felt a great variety of emotions from happiness to sadness, from anger to embarrassment, etc. All in all, it is a lighthearted story that will turn out to be serious when needed; and there are several endings that will bring some new facts and events. I did not notice any typos, bugs or untranslated parts, so I think that the translation team did a great job working on this game;

— The music. Some tracks were pure gold – I absolutely loved the folk tracks and the main song. The music worked perfectly with the story and the characters. The atmosphere was just right and I never felt that the situation and its background track did not work together;

— The voices. Another good feature – all characters are voiced (except for the main one) and the actors did a great job creating emotions for them. I am sure you will like listening to different people in the game;

— The CGS, sprites and art in general. I loved all of CGs in the game: they are well-drawn with lots of details and bright colors. Characters’ sprites are very good, too. And the backgrounds fit every situation perfectly and are neat;

— User Interface (UI) is very informative and provides lots of settings. Let us look at the System, Text and Sound configurations, for example. There are many options to choose from: you can change text color and style, text window opacity (can be quite useful) or messages’ speed. If you want, you can listen to voices of all characters and either turn them off or make them quitter (if you hate high-pitched voices as much as I do, this feature will save a lot of your nerves). You can even select honorific settings – this is the first time ever I see such an option!

— The last but not least – you can jump to any scene you want to see. This is actually very useful because sometimes I wanted to replay some moments, and instead of just reading some lines in the backlog, I could come back to the scene I needed and watch it again.

— The characters. This is a tricky part – it took me some time to decide whether I wanted to mention this point among the positive features or the negative ones, and I still could not make up my mind. Why? Well, to start with, every female character has a well-known and overused personality: there is a tsundere, a childhood friend, a strange girl, etc. If you play a lot of visual novels, you will immediately start comparing characters to the ones with the same personalities but from other games/anime/manga. This could have completely ruined the whole experience for me, but the quality of writing and the story saved the day. Even though, as I have already mentioned, the characters are quite stereotypical, they feel alive and it was always interesting to read about their interactions, thoughts and adventures. Still, I think that the main character — Syuji Asanaga – can be annoying at times. I understand that he is supposed to be a simple guy, but gosh, he can act so…how to say it…childish and weak. Guy, you need to man up, and preferably not at the end of the game!

Oh, and I have almost forgotten: the villain is awesome! You will hate him with all your heart even if you do not feel connected to other characters;

— Just something I find annoying: why, just why did the main character had to grab two girls by their breasts the very first moments of the game? I actually had to facepalm when I saw this highly overused trope that was lacking only another even more overused one – panties showing under girls’ short skirts. Then it would be double strike for my poor head. Oh well, there is hardly any visual novel without fan service these days, it seems. I need to get used to it…some time…. Even worse is the fact HOW he acted during this scene. Just start reading and you will see what I am talking about;

— Some voices were just killing me – yes, Alice and Emmy, I am looking at you here! It seems that if you play a game in Japanese, there is always at least one high-pitched girl that hurts my poor ears. Good thing that I could turn their sounds off completely;

— To be honest, I think that despite being useful, System Configurations menu is overcomplicated. This is the first time I see such features as *Suspend Game*, *Copy Save Data* and *Overwrite Save Data* in a menu of the visual novel. Usually you just get these options while saving your game, not as separate buttons;

— I am not sure if it was intentional or not, but the text in the boxes with choices looks strange. For example: “Tell_her_about_the_value…”. See these lines? Well, you will meet them every time you have to make a choice – and I have no idea why there are here at all. Um, and is it just me, or is the text quite small?

So far, I have completed only one route – Youtsuko’s one – and it was a really nice experience (I even cried at some moment). Hm, so, what can I say to sum up my opinion about Newton and the Apple Tree? The game has its flaws, that is for sure. However, it also has a lot of good features that you will enjoy while playing. The story is not too long, but is just enough to bring a lot of emotions. The characters seem to be stereotypical, but they get enough development and have their own great moments and routes. The music is quite good, but nothing to write home about. The art is awesome and I have no complaints about it except for the fan service parts.

All in all, Newton and the Apple Tree is a good visual novel that might remind you of some other stories but which also has its own unique parts. I think you will not regret buying and playing Newton and the Apple Tree unless you really dislike blonde tsundere girls and the concept of time-travelling. I would also recommend trying this game out if you feel down – it has lots of funny moments and the endings can cheer you up.

A small warning: the first choice will not come right away, so you will have to read the story for some time before you get the chance to select an answer for the main character. So do not be afraid, it is not a kinetic novel.

Isaac Newton actually was a flatchested Tsundere Loli all along!

— This is an Adult Visual Novel — one with a free R17 and R18 DLC at that — originally designed to be R18, which is why I consider the R18 DLC as part of the whole and will include it in this review. If for whatever reason you are not interested in this content, or aren’t legally allowed to play it, you should just skip this review.
— Since many Visual Novels are similar in a bunch of ways, I’m gonna review this one on a few common aspects, trying to both include references to other VNs aswell as give independent explanations.
— This is my first impression. I will update this review when I progress further through this game.

Newton and the Apple Tree is an Upper Mid Tier Visual Novel.
Running on CatSystem2, a modified KiriKiri Engine version also seen e.g. on NekoPara Vol.3, this gives us most of the common, modern features associated with it. 120 save slots which you can easily copy around, auto and skip mode with respective behaviour customization, indepth sound settings with features like auto lower music volume during dialogue, skipping back and forth through choices (if available) and all the other default options.
Alongside that there is the modernized, not so hidden advanced settings menu where you might or might not have to manually enable smooth scene transitions for the game to not look like it actually being the 17th century.

Graphically the game features a nice artstyle with a somewhat vintage flair in 720p. The character sprites aren’t animated (no blinking or mouth movement) but change a few times throughout the dialogue with their medium variation, and have some rather funny yet lively on-scene movements.

The music is average and fitting both for the calm and more serious scenes.

The translation is good and the game even gives you the option to enable or disable honorifix name notation.

What can you expect from this game?
Newton and the Apple Tree is a story with it’s usual share of silly, humoristic moments not holding back on showing it’s adult roots with a lighthearted appearance that can go quite serious into the deep, emotional path of reverse time travel and its consequences. Oh yeah, and on top of that it also goes onto the science history teaching lane every now and then.

Featuring 5 routes + somewhat of a bonus, branching in a «ladder system» style — later/more true routes are unlocked after clearing the earlier ones and they all branch off at different points of time on the Common Route — the final content time sums to an estimate of around 30-50h, with the first branching point being after

10h and the first character route taking

5h (will update on further progress).
Choosing a route, if already unlocked the option to do so, is done throughout up to 15 dialogue decisions of which not every one is obvious.
The heroines — even though all titled some sort of «airhead» on the shop page — have uniquely different personalities, story involvement and problems to focus on with their route, the side characters aren’t too over the top and the protagonist goes beyond the average douche, having his own backstory and character development, as well as a face that’s shown quite often throughout the game.

After clearing the first route you unlock the gallery, where you can re-enjoy all 97 CGs, 14 OSTs, scenes and movies (opening, endings, lecture cut-ins) as long as you saw them ingame before.
*Should you be having problems with viewing more than one of said movies throughout the game with this or other VNs, there is a very helpful thread in the discussions*

Note: Since I don’t see a reason for it with a regular R18 patch, I have no idea about the R17 patch and its’ contents.

The R18 content of Newton and the Apple Tree is on par with the quality of the rest of the game.
With averagely 4 scenes per character and some uncensored CGs there is enough to enjoy over the span of the game. (Almost half of the H-Scenes are unlocked as bonus in the gallery after clearing a route.)
Having background moaning and no accompanying sound effects to boot, higher level voice acting and some more love/detail on the scenes around the actual act makes it a befitting bonus going with the flow of the story without being too assertive.
Also, it’s fully uncensored.

There are (so far) no fetishes at play, just plain vanilla action.
And when it comes to the depiction of bodily fluids or the inhuman stamina of the actors, it’s somewhat beneath hentai average, towards the «believable» section.

Is this game worth it?
If you always wanted to enjoy a lecture about the history of science, where Isaac Newton is a blonde, flatchested Tsundere Loli, that somehow turns into a deep reverse time travel drama when you don’t look — or you just want a good candidate for a new, smaller Visual Novel to try — you’ve come to the right place.
It’s mostly worth it’s money and there will always be a next sale.

8/10. Interesting premise and plot, decent characters, weak approach to technical details and romance that deviates from the main story too much.

First things first: this is one of the few games that was able to release in that 2018 period after Steam decided to let loose on 18+ experiences, and before they started cracking down again, so it has a patch (as DLC — no offsite downloads!). Patches actually, because there’s a 17+ and 18+ patch. I wasn’t interested in straight porn, so I went for the 17+ patch. It avoids the scenes but keeps pretty much everything outside of that including some discussion of what happened, and I think that’s the way to go here. I don’t know the difference between 17+ and the regular version.

UX and controls in this VN is fine-to-good. There are the standard config options, but if you bring your mouse to the top of the window, you can set some «engine options.» These include things like changing the game’s full-screen resolution (which—after some VNs which are forced into low res and make a second monitor and alt-tabbing a nightmare—is fantastic), where black borders lie (above, below) if you’re not using a 16:9 aspect ratio, and hilariously, an option to change the name of the program to «Notepad» when it’s minimized (it has a tip next to the option suggesting turning off sound the same way with a separate option). Presentation in this VN is pretty okay. The art is a little better than average, though I don’t care for the design of the girls’ faces. The music is usually pretty spirited and interesting — one of the main tracks has something that sounds like (to my uneducated ear) bagpipes.

«Mechanics» are the bog standard for VNs — you pick choices.

The writing quality’s okay—it didn’t really stick out to me in any meaningful way.

Most of this stuff is pretty tangential to the reason we play VNs though—the story and characters. So let’s head there.

Newton and the Apple Tree is a lot like Steins;Gate. There’s the time travel of course; there’s also the goal of setting right the problems that you’ve inadvertantly created, the fact that it’s set in a college/ with a group of characters at that «age» (the art makes this a little dubious, but the story’s design is very, very clearly for these people to be college-aged and in college), and importantly, the «route design» is much the same: there’s a critical path, it takes you through stages where you mostly interact with a single girl, and eventually have the chance to move to her route. They’re pretty momentary daliances: the main plot still remains (you never jump into an «alternate universe» where things totally chance, like G-Senjou), and these side routes mostly don’t resolve it at all. Perhaps because of this, they’re also relatively short (also like Steins;Gate). And finally, there’s a «main girl» who’s really, really obviously the «OTP» that you develop a platonic relationship with over time, that turns romantic near the end.

But this can’t be approached the same way Steins;Gate really can. While the main premise may be similar, the specific themes here are very different. Here, given the fact that this girl is Isaac Newton (and they do justify it a little bit, more on that in a moment), there’s a focus on larger-than-life figures and the «person behind the myth» you could say—this starts with the MC’s grandfather (who, if you read the store page, was the second person to get a Nobel Prize in Physics), extends to Newton, and then to other historical scientific figures of the time.

This story is also far, far less «actual science»-focused: while there’s a little discussion of the topics relevant to the time (like geo- and heliocentrism), there are no moments where you’re going to spend 15 minutes reading an exhaustive explanation of time travel theories, or a similar-length explanation of the time machine they use actually works; some time is spent describing it, but how it works is never explained. Similarly there are a few weird physics-breaking things in their theory of time travel, but again it’s not the focus.

Related to that is how this story discusses «science.» While the MC’s grandfather gets a prize in physics, thus implying his focus of study, the focus of study for the MC is left vague. The story always talks about him «studying science,» but science is incredibly freaking broad. Psychology and mathematics are «science,» and couldn’t be more different in their approach. This frustrated me a little. When I was a child I always said when I grew up I wanted to «be a scientist.» When I was asked, «doing what?» I had no idea. I was child, of course, but as an adult specifics matter. If you say you «stopped studying science,» whether you were studying human compliance behavior or pulsed lasers kind of matters.

I mentioned geocentricism before: an additional contrast is the historical focus of this VN. A character the MC confides in cautions him that he might be killed if he argues in stalwart defense of heliocentrism. The MC losing access to his smartphone is given attention. Japan’s global presence at that time (they closed themselves off from the world) is mentioned. The state and behavior of the Royal Society receives focus — the fact that they fund scientific publishing is something of a plot point (fun fact I learned because of this story: the Royal Society didn’t fund Newton’s Principa in part because of a book called A History of Fishes, which failed to sell at all, and the person who initially funded Newton’s volumes was back-paid in old copies of the failure). At one point someone mentions rats carrying «the plague» from a few years back (Great Plague of London [en.wikipedia.org] ). There’s an appreciable attention to detail here.

Similarly, given the focus (science) and the main population you engage with (girls), there’s also a slightly feminist bent. The reason for the Newton «fiction» is that the girl who proposed his ideas was unable to gain any traction with the Royal Society as a woman. It’s a big deal when the MC states «I don’t think there’s any difference between men and women, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t be scientists.» It’s a big deal when another character has difficulties accepting that Newton is a woman. The MC travels with a (female) friend of his who is definitely his superior when it comes to scientific knowledge, or even when it comes to being emotional vs. calculated. There’s not really any man «denigrating» or punishing here, but the also goes out of its way to point out that even in the present day, no woman has received the Nobel Prize in Physics. So that’s definitely an element of the story.

Additionally, this is an eroge, which Steins;Gate is not. This means that there is a more explicit «romance focus,» particularly on sex. It felt too rushed to me; more than once you’ll get a date scene, a sex scene and the characters sleep together (and are found by another character in the morning), and then there’s a sex scene 5, 10 minutes later. I had the 17+ patch so I didn’t see any scenes, but the before and after moments were there, and they’re not shy about discussing what happened. This is a spoiler for that content, but be warned — for two separate characters the scene afterwards talked about the MC watching them pee . I’m very glad I missed those (and I don’t want to know what the other characters’ scenes involved).

One character’s «route» is a little different. It’s required before moving on for story reasons, and realizing those reasons and the impact upon the character themselves is pretty cool.

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