At first, I thought the story would be very interesting, because it starts with a mystery.
I was highly disappointed when said mystery is unravelled in like 3 hours of game time (if you except the lenghts dialogue has, see later).
Yes the "worldbuilding" is complete.
But complete doesn't really mean original, innovative, or interesting.
It's a generic modern (but not scifi nor cyberpunk) world where myths (vampires and such) exist and tries to live. Think the tv series "True blood" for something with a lot of identitical themes.
Vampires here just use the "all is false information in the stories" trope to avoid what is their weakness, and what would kill their involvment in any realistic setting: they do not have the classical weaknesses of the sun, still water, garlic, church, doors, etc.
Just in fact, vampires are "sucking blood" but only if they want, not that they need (which is ... unininteresting at best, boring and destroying any point of having "vampire" theme at worst).
Other races exist but are not yet so important than the vampire.
Vampires live in "clans" but since vampires are just "made" not "born" (unless MC which may well be the first male vampire (which should not exist but justifies his "MC"-powers to resist and survive everything which should have killed him after 1 hour of story) or something like that according my own understanding of what I played) this raises the question of : where do first generation vampire from?
And MC is a detective. You would expect him to analyze, ask and understand?
Well forget it. MC has little interest in asking questions. Most characters who KNOW things will say sentences like "Oh mr detective, I know everything, but I have an appointmenet, let's speak later [as in "when the creator of this VN has completed his idea" or "if I were to speak now, as would be the case in any real setting, the story would be over now... and only the romance would live on"].
Problem is, except that "mystery" (and I uses quote marks because I don't feel like it is a really ininteresting mystery, since it's cliché to use a "virgin of any knowledge MC" in such a setting) , there is only one other thing in this.
What other thing?
Girls who fall in love with MC at first glance.
I'm not sure for every girl yet (because there are numerous) but I would dare to say that by the end of the story, I see only a handful not to be included in the harem.
And yes, it means : 100 times the same bodies/(empty) personalities/boobs&ass sizes. Yes some girls are tall (which is not unusual) then you have mini girls (like 1m30) because "why not" I guess.
If girls were less numerous, they could be interesting.
Helas, when you have 25+ girls with names and contact with MC, expect nothing.
And... well there is nothing.
Time on screen is divided between girls.
Girls form "groups"/"clusters". I expect clusters to meet each other, untile the big "harem" formation.
Oh and for a "sex is slow" story? I feel like it's a lie. The first sex scene appears in 30m of gameplay, and there are already: kisses, fingering, blowjobs, even sex (!) with "random girl I just met" and "friend/colleague".
Also let's speak about music and writing:
- music. Generic and not really conveying scenes themes. What a mood killer.
- writing: long texts, long monologues, the author wants you to know that MC is checking boobs, then speaking, then turning his head; etc. If the dialogue was interesting or profound? it's not. It's 10 years old view of a story. Characters have nothing interesting to say, which is not a problem in fact: most persons in their life speak of not life-changing topics every day. What they bought, what they played,what they read... but here characters only speak about one of those things: MC, the "myths" races, sex.
It's quickly boring because they are repeating the same things in loops.
Ah and about the harem? you know, a harem story is usually good because each girl has a role/place and maybe when girls need to adjust to each others, and there is tension and maybe even fear that one girl would not accept the harem or something like that.
Here? every girl is okay with MC in the usual and cliché "I love you so i don't care if you love every girl you meet too" way. BOOOORING and UNINTERESTING.
So if I were you, I would play anything else. There are better harem stories; there are better character driven stories; there are better settings and mysteries.
The only thing I liked is the fact that there is no bugs that i'm aware of. That is quite good. Helas, it's a basis for a work, not enough for the work.
I was highly disappointed when said mystery is unravelled in like 3 hours of game time (if you except the lenghts dialogue has, see later).
Yes the "worldbuilding" is complete.
But complete doesn't really mean original, innovative, or interesting.
It's a generic modern (but not scifi nor cyberpunk) world where myths (vampires and such) exist and tries to live. Think the tv series "True blood" for something with a lot of identitical themes.
Vampires here just use the "all is false information in the stories" trope to avoid what is their weakness, and what would kill their involvment in any realistic setting: they do not have the classical weaknesses of the sun, still water, garlic, church, doors, etc.
Just in fact, vampires are "sucking blood" but only if they want, not that they need (which is ... unininteresting at best, boring and destroying any point of having "vampire" theme at worst).
Other races exist but are not yet so important than the vampire.
Vampires live in "clans" but since vampires are just "made" not "born" (unless MC which may well be the first male vampire (which should not exist but justifies his "MC"-powers to resist and survive everything which should have killed him after 1 hour of story) or something like that according my own understanding of what I played) this raises the question of : where do first generation vampire from?
And MC is a detective. You would expect him to analyze, ask and understand?
Well forget it. MC has little interest in asking questions. Most characters who KNOW things will say sentences like "Oh mr detective, I know everything, but I have an appointmenet, let's speak later [as in "when the creator of this VN has completed his idea" or "if I were to speak now, as would be the case in any real setting, the story would be over now... and only the romance would live on"].
Problem is, except that "mystery" (and I uses quote marks because I don't feel like it is a really ininteresting mystery, since it's cliché to use a "virgin of any knowledge MC" in such a setting) , there is only one other thing in this.
What other thing?
Girls who fall in love with MC at first glance.
I'm not sure for every girl yet (because there are numerous) but I would dare to say that by the end of the story, I see only a handful not to be included in the harem.
And yes, it means : 100 times the same bodies/(empty) personalities/boobs&ass sizes. Yes some girls are tall (which is not unusual) then you have mini girls (like 1m30) because "why not" I guess.
If girls were less numerous, they could be interesting.
Helas, when you have 25+ girls with names and contact with MC, expect nothing.
And... well there is nothing.
Time on screen is divided between girls.
Girls form "groups"/"clusters". I expect clusters to meet each other, untile the big "harem" formation.
Oh and for a "sex is slow" story? I feel like it's a lie. The first sex scene appears in 30m of gameplay, and there are already: kisses, fingering, blowjobs, even sex (!) with "random girl I just met" and "friend/colleague".
Also let's speak about music and writing:
- music. Generic and not really conveying scenes themes. What a mood killer.
- writing: long texts, long monologues, the author wants you to know that MC is checking boobs, then speaking, then turning his head; etc. If the dialogue was interesting or profound? it's not. It's 10 years old view of a story. Characters have nothing interesting to say, which is not a problem in fact: most persons in their life speak of not life-changing topics every day. What they bought, what they played,what they read... but here characters only speak about one of those things: MC, the "myths" races, sex.
It's quickly boring because they are repeating the same things in loops.
Ah and about the harem? you know, a harem story is usually good because each girl has a role/place and maybe when girls need to adjust to each others, and there is tension and maybe even fear that one girl would not accept the harem or something like that.
Here? every girl is okay with MC in the usual and cliché "I love you so i don't care if you love every girl you meet too" way. BOOOORING and UNINTERESTING.
So if I were you, I would play anything else. There are better harem stories; there are better character driven stories; there are better settings and mysteries.
The only thing I liked is the fact that there is no bugs that i'm aware of. That is quite good. Helas, it's a basis for a work, not enough for the work.