I was attracted by the overwhelmingly positive reviews and praises like "fantastic story", "good writing" etc. so I gave it a try.
I am honestly super super confused just 5 mins into the game. The first few chapters were messy, the dialogue were ambiguous and uninteresting, the renders were subpar Koikatsu style, the introduction to the 10 or 15 (yes, that many) characters were mostly just showing their faces for 1 render and letting us know their names, which makes it hard to remember who is who and who is doing what.
I thought it will get better later and also I am looking forward to some H-scenes, so I kept going until chapter 15 or something. It is very difficult to do so because there is a location system which needs you to travel to 10 different locations just to progress one scene. After 1 hour of trying and I must have gone through like 1 millions words and dialogues, I am awe-struck that I haven't encounter a single H-scene, Yes, NO H-SCENE AFTER 1 HOURS OF READING 100K WORDS. And then comes every bad writer's favourite trick: they start to throw in supernatural elements to progress the plot. Changing from a school setting with friends to some superhero-destined-child of the god-save the world from the evil-shenanigans. All while trying to be funny but the dialogues are getting more and more cringe- worthy. The reveal of the Mc's father as a "living meme god" is one of the most appalling thing I've experienced in an AVN: it is not funny for people who aren't into memes, it is not contributing to the story a bit (if the writer is seriously constructing a story here) and it is just so off-putting I stop right there. And I start to wonder where all these "good writing" comments came from. Good writing in terms of what, putting all sort of random things into one pot to make a super messy stew out of it?
The MC is one of the worst you can get. The writer makes him almost unintelligent, unwitty, uncharacteristic to the point that he is just a tool to progress the story. Even the NPC at the roadside has more character than him. And I just cannot appreciate the choice of clothing the writer threw on him. That horrible 80 or 90 whatever disco suit. I cant.
All in all, maybe this game is for someone but it is not for me. I enjoy a silly story that is funny; I enjoy serious story that is exciting and deep; but I cannot enjoy a silly story pretending it is serious and deep.
I am honestly super super confused just 5 mins into the game. The first few chapters were messy, the dialogue were ambiguous and uninteresting, the renders were subpar Koikatsu style, the introduction to the 10 or 15 (yes, that many) characters were mostly just showing their faces for 1 render and letting us know their names, which makes it hard to remember who is who and who is doing what.
I thought it will get better later and also I am looking forward to some H-scenes, so I kept going until chapter 15 or something. It is very difficult to do so because there is a location system which needs you to travel to 10 different locations just to progress one scene. After 1 hour of trying and I must have gone through like 1 millions words and dialogues, I am awe-struck that I haven't encounter a single H-scene, Yes, NO H-SCENE AFTER 1 HOURS OF READING 100K WORDS. And then comes every bad writer's favourite trick: they start to throw in supernatural elements to progress the plot. Changing from a school setting with friends to some superhero-destined-child of the god-save the world from the evil-shenanigans. All while trying to be funny but the dialogues are getting more and more cringe- worthy. The reveal of the Mc's father as a "living meme god" is one of the most appalling thing I've experienced in an AVN: it is not funny for people who aren't into memes, it is not contributing to the story a bit (if the writer is seriously constructing a story here) and it is just so off-putting I stop right there. And I start to wonder where all these "good writing" comments came from. Good writing in terms of what, putting all sort of random things into one pot to make a super messy stew out of it?
The MC is one of the worst you can get. The writer makes him almost unintelligent, unwitty, uncharacteristic to the point that he is just a tool to progress the story. Even the NPC at the roadside has more character than him. And I just cannot appreciate the choice of clothing the writer threw on him. That horrible 80 or 90 whatever disco suit. I cant.
All in all, maybe this game is for someone but it is not for me. I enjoy a silly story that is funny; I enjoy serious story that is exciting and deep; but I cannot enjoy a silly story pretending it is serious and deep.