I just got caught up on this one after 0.2.
It's one of the few VNs on this site where the main character's depicted as realistically down on his luck and traumatized without going full doormat or descending into angsty hell. He's been through some shit, which has been established, and in a big way he's still going through it. I really like that his first instinct is always to call his shrink; it's a very humanizing reaction.
The actual main plot of this thing feels like gilding the lily. This could've gone ahead and been a whole story about the MC getting his life back together, while simultaneously getting to know all these new people who've popped into his life, and it would've been a perfectly decent VN with some realistic, interesting conflict.
The ridiculously human android at the heart of the story, the title character, is barely a factor at all so far, and feels like an unnecessary complication in a VN that's already got a ton of moving parts. That could change later, of course, but I went for a long time while actively forgetting Artemis was a thing.
Anyway: it's a good time. Good character work, jokes that land, an antagonist you're really going to love to hate, and 90% of the models are great. (The exception's Paige, who needs to fire her tattoo guy.) You won't regret checking this one out.
It's one of the few VNs on this site where the main character's depicted as realistically down on his luck and traumatized without going full doormat or descending into angsty hell. He's been through some shit, which has been established, and in a big way he's still going through it. I really like that his first instinct is always to call his shrink; it's a very humanizing reaction.
The actual main plot of this thing feels like gilding the lily. This could've gone ahead and been a whole story about the MC getting his life back together, while simultaneously getting to know all these new people who've popped into his life, and it would've been a perfectly decent VN with some realistic, interesting conflict.
The ridiculously human android at the heart of the story, the title character, is barely a factor at all so far, and feels like an unnecessary complication in a VN that's already got a ton of moving parts. That could change later, of course, but I went for a long time while actively forgetting Artemis was a thing.
Anyway: it's a good time. Good character work, jokes that land, an antagonist you're really going to love to hate, and 90% of the models are great. (The exception's Paige, who needs to fire her tattoo guy.) You won't regret checking this one out.