English: 5/10
User Interface: 3/10
User Experience: 4/10
Art: 4/10
Dialogue: 2/10
Story: 2/10
Opinion: 2/10
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Avg: 3.14/10 [2/5]
To say that I've been avoiding this one is a bit of an understatement. I have TRIED to get past the opening and the mountains of useless lore. But I never could. So, this time around, I'm going to try forcing myself to play through it. No only to see if these glowing reviews are made by people that don't read. But also to know if there's anything that could be considered good somewhere deep down. Everything I remember is: MC is insufferable, perverted, and just generally unpleasant. None of the humor lands. There's too much world building, in the sense that the dev STOPS you from playing/advancing to explain every minute detail of this uninteresting piece of lore, repeatedly. The jokes and emphasis on MC's flaccid, useless penis happen almost as much as the lore dumps. And all in stellar broken English. So all that grating, trite, uninteresting stuff provides a giant barrier for entry. But I am going to try to make it to end of current content, if nothing else, so I don't have to try ever again. As always, this is started before getting into the game (And generally my reviews are me bitching as I trudge through the story)
You start as MC, his name's supposed to be "Biden Joe" because funny haha... But he's an old degenerate pervert that dies, reincarnates as a rapist about to die, dies again, and then in some kids body. Assisted BY GOOGLE. Didn't even change the spelling to something that isn't directly a possible lawsuit waiting to happen? But this isn't my game, not my circus. Anywho, he has Google in his head, some "Ancient knowledge artifact" that does direct lore dumps into MC's brain so he doesn't come off as stupid as he actually is. Even though he's still only as mentally sound as a ham sandwich. He has no energy, knows nothing, and makes every mistake possible. His dick doesn't work, the country makes fun of him for it and for being stupid. I will say, part of that isn't his fault. But I do solemnly believe that if he were the original owner of the body, he'd still have made the same dumb choices. Moving on, you meet MC's fiancee Lily... And her mother Lilian? Really working those writing muscles. They came to call off the wedding because MC is useless and pathetic. Then, insulted, Darla beats up Lily's dad and they leave. The Engagement is off. It then cuts to "A beautiful woman wearing glasses" But she has no glasses. Stuff like this means they either don't edit, or don't look at the images they use after slapping shovelware together. Either way, the scene tells that MC got a perfect score on his quiz and they think he's a genius. Even though we all know, google gave him the answers.
Eventually we get to the school. MC tries to get put in the female dorms by saying he identifies as female. Wow, so funny. BUT, they make that poor taste humor a reality because MC's roommate is a woman. The same... "Joke..." Twice in a row. At least MC gets hit in the face, because I want that for him. He's also sure to constantly ogle every woman that exists, so, if that doesn't annoy you, I'm jealous. MC gets to his first class, and the 'joke' here is the teacher is senator Armstrong from Metal Gear, except, he has a woman's voice because steroid joke. His pubes also constantly clip through his pants, so have fun looking at that. And, in MC's infinite wisdom, instead of asking the magic being in his head, shouts to the class "Can magic help with sex?" This bothers me for two reasons. One, why ask this dumb shit in front of a class? And two, he's supposed to be the 'smartest,' why ask such a stupid question? Next class, he shouts I'll tell you if you kiss me. Is he 8? Is this elementary school? Because he sat down thinking "This girl has more developed breasts than girls her age" Women, on average, stop developing around 18, they're in college? Then, Natalie(the teacher) says he's just a small boy. It honestly feels like this section was written for another game where everyone was underage, thank god that didn't happen. He never actually tells them anything and gets two kisses anyway. And if you go to the bathroom afterwards, Nayomi is in there and shouts "pervert, hentai." Now, I want to say this. Your English sucks, you're not Japanese. Why add japanese to your poorly translated vietnamese story? None of this has anime vibes, why is this here?
The japanese continues, you see Darla say she's gonna marry MC in a lore dump, then ANOTHER LORE DUMP. Followed by a fucking trump reference, saying he's jealous of MC. It's at this point I do not think I'm going to be able to make it through this dumpster fire. Everyone is jealous or infatuated with MC for no reason. The story is just folklore with sex or mild sexual assult and memes thrown in. The visuals are bad for HS CGs. And NONE of the characters are any good. I'm looking, but I don't see even a 3 star game here. They copy pasted mountains of old stories, put in a bunch of bad jokes, even added QTEs and minigames. But they forgot to make a good story. Or good characters. This is the second game I've not been able to finish before reviewing
Honestly, unless whatever folklore this is from interests you, or HS games REALLY do it for you, skip this. The Enlgish is bad, UI/UX is dead stock. The CGs aren't even that good, it's all blown out HS default animations. The whole story is MC's quest to have a working penis to have sex with his 'NOT'mom. And even then he's a "funni joke" being Joe Biden as a horny teenager in a world where Vietnam is the only place left. All the characters make fun of MC, rightfully so, until his dumb cheat codes activate and he beats "Unpleasant lacky #4" or whatever to prove them "wrong..." If you want a better experience watching someone on a quest for a working penis, go watch Jobless Reincarnation. But this feels so low effort and low brow that it just gives me a headache.