There are far too many LIs in this game relative to the number of renders. With the exception of family basically all of them are underdeveloped.
There is no variety or routes for any of them. The writing has potential; you find the secret of an annoying camgirl who follows you around everywhere. Seems like a good character to have a blackmail path with. Nope, instead the game effectively forces you into the path of performing a cam show with her.
Annoying cousin who is a total bitch to you for no reason? Nice, we can have a route where we break her will down? Nope, instead we are supposed to empathize with her for some reason and the game forces you into forgiving her.
Oh, also one of the most attractive models in the game is constantly teased as a character who is interested in you. You can see her thoughts that she wants you to ask her out. We see MCs thoughts that he thinks she is cute. But the player never gets an option to take initiative with her, and the MC, as is typical does nothing. As this is one of the only women in the game who never throws herself at MC, nothing happens. One of the other most attractive models is just given to your obnoxious comic relief friend character (who is a whole different issue with the game, given his randomly showing up in scenes and saying bizarre dialogue that is counter to the tone. I think this is an attempt at comic relief. If this is an effort to develop a normal friend character, oh boy). Why would you write a game this way?
Props for having a variety of models, some of whom aren't that attractive and some who are. But the variety isn't worth much when they are all underdeveloped, barely have any scenes, and their lust for the MC makes minimal sense but we're just bounced around from sex scene to sex scene.
Equally annoying is how passive the MC is. The only choices to make are whether you want to see the scenes of these various random women who meet you and then throw themselves at you. The MC being pathetic would be interesting if it was part of his character arc and he develops from that start, but instead we are stuck watching him stumble around inept in everything while women just throw themselves at him because of a stupid plot point. He's totally passive in everything and the lack of choices to be made renders you passive as a player too.
Oh, and the game effectively railroads you both into accepting a character as your girlfriend with no input and then also railroads you into cheating on her repeatedly? And then with no input from the player, MC reveals this to her? How is this effective game design?
As far as the writing goes, your relationship with one character improves by virtue of you stopping men from raping her. Repeatedly. There is more than one scene with this premise. Why?
The concept is ok here, and there is potential with some of these characters, but it is totally unfulfilled. On the other hand, there is one goth character who is very unique relative to other visual novels and also attractively rendered so that has some merit for uniqueness.
Edit: Season 2 has drastically better renders but the story is somehow even dumber.
There is no variety or routes for any of them. The writing has potential; you find the secret of an annoying camgirl who follows you around everywhere. Seems like a good character to have a blackmail path with. Nope, instead the game effectively forces you into the path of performing a cam show with her.
Annoying cousin who is a total bitch to you for no reason? Nice, we can have a route where we break her will down? Nope, instead we are supposed to empathize with her for some reason and the game forces you into forgiving her.
Oh, also one of the most attractive models in the game is constantly teased as a character who is interested in you. You can see her thoughts that she wants you to ask her out. We see MCs thoughts that he thinks she is cute. But the player never gets an option to take initiative with her, and the MC, as is typical does nothing. As this is one of the only women in the game who never throws herself at MC, nothing happens. One of the other most attractive models is just given to your obnoxious comic relief friend character (who is a whole different issue with the game, given his randomly showing up in scenes and saying bizarre dialogue that is counter to the tone. I think this is an attempt at comic relief. If this is an effort to develop a normal friend character, oh boy). Why would you write a game this way?
Props for having a variety of models, some of whom aren't that attractive and some who are. But the variety isn't worth much when they are all underdeveloped, barely have any scenes, and their lust for the MC makes minimal sense but we're just bounced around from sex scene to sex scene.
Equally annoying is how passive the MC is. The only choices to make are whether you want to see the scenes of these various random women who meet you and then throw themselves at you. The MC being pathetic would be interesting if it was part of his character arc and he develops from that start, but instead we are stuck watching him stumble around inept in everything while women just throw themselves at him because of a stupid plot point. He's totally passive in everything and the lack of choices to be made renders you passive as a player too.
Oh, and the game effectively railroads you both into accepting a character as your girlfriend with no input and then also railroads you into cheating on her repeatedly? And then with no input from the player, MC reveals this to her? How is this effective game design?
As far as the writing goes, your relationship with one character improves by virtue of you stopping men from raping her. Repeatedly. There is more than one scene with this premise. Why?
The concept is ok here, and there is potential with some of these characters, but it is totally unfulfilled. On the other hand, there is one goth character who is very unique relative to other visual novels and also attractively rendered so that has some merit for uniqueness.
Edit: Season 2 has drastically better renders but the story is somehow even dumber.