I have to admit I was looking forward to this one, here are some thoughts after playing it. The renders are quite good and there's a solid amount of content. The writing however, leaves A LOT to be desired, things are way too over explained, especially with character thoughts. the different languages were cool for a moment but got old really fast. A lot of shock value just for the sake of it, with moments often feeling forced and unnecessarily exagerrated. I'll say that I like the attempt at trying to cover all the characters and their interactions and how they relate with one another. That being said, most of the love interests are totally ruined for me, with alice being the only one without mountains of baggage. Note to devs : please please please for the love of god if you're going to base the premise of your story around a main love interest, a main girl especially if it's a childhood friend, etc.. MAKE SURE YOU CAN HAVE A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, stop adding mountains of unnecessary baggage, I get the premise of painful seperation and all. But having her become a junkie/dealer that has a boyfriend could not be more undesirable. Players are already grasping at straws here to convince themselves that she's still a virgin. In case of Seperated childhood friends that eventually reuinite, especially if they're still in their early 20's, A reuinion story where said Love interest saves herself for protagonist is much more powerful than one where they don't. Also, not enough backstory on the mom with her reveal at the end of the episode being again shock just for the sake of it. Also, PRO TIP: if you're including a LI with a promiscuous past, don't get into the details of how depraved she was. I'm pretty much done with my rant here, but one final point that's directed at devs in general which irritates me deeply when it comes to shaping an MC and their romance . Romance isn't just about fixing broken people, understand that you are allowed to have standards. I'm not saying that a LI should be perfect without baggage and 1 or two is fine while almost every LI falls into this category, but a regular white knight that accepts any woman with any past with out any standards for themselves is nothing but a rebound at best. You find the love interests thinking of where they wanna go with the mc (maybe he'll fill the void, maybe he'll fix me), but not once does the mc think for himself about said love interests. I know this was a long rant, and really i'm sure the devs worked really hard on it and that some people may have enjoyed what I didn't and that's fine IT's just the demo of this gave me a certain standard and expectation since it had so much potential writing wise which unfortunately was a wide miss for me. I wish the devs luck and support and i hope i provided constructive criticism that wasn't just angry ranting for no reason. Unfortunately I'm not going to be following this game update by update, but I will revisit it when it's much farther in development and hopefully much more fleshed out
