I absolutely love this game. It's an excellent achievement for a first outing by Stone Fox.
The story is interesting and the writing is excellent. The dialogue between the characters is fun and witty. It even got me in the feels a few times. They felt like real people and reminded me of how my own relationships are. I especially appreciate the high level of self awareness the dev has in his writing.
The characters models are perhaps the best I've ever seen in a VN. The women are all absolutely gorgeous, and all of the characters are emoted exceptionally well.
There are references to other well known excellent VNs that got a smile out of me. Jaye sends you a selfie with Lexi from Leap of Faith, and later you see a character reading a paper with the front page story being Lexi getting engaged. Having played OiaL in the past and Lexi being best girl I kind of got a kick out of the references.
There is also an instance where you walk into an electronics store looking for a new phone for Mallory and you look at the VR headset from Eternum. That got a smile out of me as well.
The music is also well done.
The only real downside is Jaye and Mallory are the only real two LIs, and the game is written with Jaye as essentially the default LI with how much past the MC has with her. If you date both of them at the same time the game will make you choose between them near the end. Which is a hard choice since I really liked them both. Jaye and Mallory had grown to be close friends so it would have been nice to have an option to be in a three way relationship with them, but I understand making you choose.
There are also a lot of side women you get down with (most only once) who are a constant through the game that you never really get closure with. They were all well done as well. It would have been nice to see something with them at the end.
I would highly recommend this game to everybody.
The story is interesting and the writing is excellent. The dialogue between the characters is fun and witty. It even got me in the feels a few times. They felt like real people and reminded me of how my own relationships are. I especially appreciate the high level of self awareness the dev has in his writing.
The characters models are perhaps the best I've ever seen in a VN. The women are all absolutely gorgeous, and all of the characters are emoted exceptionally well.
There are references to other well known excellent VNs that got a smile out of me. Jaye sends you a selfie with Lexi from Leap of Faith, and later you see a character reading a paper with the front page story being Lexi getting engaged. Having played OiaL in the past and Lexi being best girl I kind of got a kick out of the references.
There is also an instance where you walk into an electronics store looking for a new phone for Mallory and you look at the VR headset from Eternum. That got a smile out of me as well.
The music is also well done.
The only real downside is Jaye and Mallory are the only real two LIs, and the game is written with Jaye as essentially the default LI with how much past the MC has with her. If you date both of them at the same time the game will make you choose between them near the end. Which is a hard choice since I really liked them both. Jaye and Mallory had grown to be close friends so it would have been nice to have an option to be in a three way relationship with them, but I understand making you choose.
There are also a lot of side women you get down with (most only once) who are a constant through the game that you never really get closure with. They were all well done as well. It would have been nice to see something with them at the end.
I would highly recommend this game to everybody.