Review Version: v0.1
Overall Rating: 4.5/5
With this project not having any prior reviews I'd figure it's time to write up a quick one.
Story
It's clear from the get-go that the dev has a story he wants to share with the audience. and doesn't compromise the plot or characters in trying to rush through it. While the underlying mystery may lean a bit more towards the obvious, it still does it's job by engaging the player with questions such as "what happened to me", and "what's going on with this town".
It's difficult to discuss much more on the topic of the story due to being in the very early stages, but the dev is showing quite a bit of promise with what's already here.
Characters
So the game focuses quite a bit on two primary LIs: Lori and Chloe. There's technically a third LI in the form of your ex, but that's significantly more complicated than what this review is intended to discuss. Regardless, every character has some kind of intro that showcases their personality which at least avoids the common issue of one dimensionality.
As for the main LIs themselves, it's quite obvious they've received far more attention as both Chloe and Lori are distinct from the rest of the cast. Lori is an archetypal hoodlum girl with an extroverted personality. Despite being antagonistic most of the time she appears to have a rather tender side to her if the player manages to gain some chemistry points with her.
Chloe serves as the opposite as she's someone whose severely introverted, but seems to also have a deviant side to her. In following the "opposites" trend, the best way to approach Chloe is to focus more on love rather than chemistry. Despite that difference, both her and Lori seem to require quite a bit of time investment before they'll pursue anything with the player, which is a breath of fresh air considering how many projects forego any kind of proper build-up.
Renders
There's not too much to add to this section aside from the overall quality of the renders being above average. The primary positive though stems from the dev not abusing post-processing effects to create artificial "cinematic" scenes that seems to plague almost all of the highest rated projects on this forum.
While the character models are box standard DAZ assets they're at least
proportioned realistically, which makes sense considering the underlying story is potentially dealing with a rather heavy theme. I personally find it refreshing that not all models are supermodels sporting a perfect hourglass figure, toned abs, and pop idol makeup.
I'll definitely have to come back to this review to update it once a few more updates have been released, but I wanted to publish something quick just to get this game a bit more visibility. It's a promising initial release with a dev that does seem to care about his project.
Overall Rating: 4.5/5
With this project not having any prior reviews I'd figure it's time to write up a quick one.
Story
It's clear from the get-go that the dev has a story he wants to share with the audience. and doesn't compromise the plot or characters in trying to rush through it. While the underlying mystery may lean a bit more towards the obvious, it still does it's job by engaging the player with questions such as "what happened to me", and "what's going on with this town".
It's difficult to discuss much more on the topic of the story due to being in the very early stages, but the dev is showing quite a bit of promise with what's already here.
Characters
So the game focuses quite a bit on two primary LIs: Lori and Chloe. There's technically a third LI in the form of your ex, but that's significantly more complicated than what this review is intended to discuss. Regardless, every character has some kind of intro that showcases their personality which at least avoids the common issue of one dimensionality.
As for the main LIs themselves, it's quite obvious they've received far more attention as both Chloe and Lori are distinct from the rest of the cast. Lori is an archetypal hoodlum girl with an extroverted personality. Despite being antagonistic most of the time she appears to have a rather tender side to her if the player manages to gain some chemistry points with her.
Chloe serves as the opposite as she's someone whose severely introverted, but seems to also have a deviant side to her. In following the "opposites" trend, the best way to approach Chloe is to focus more on love rather than chemistry. Despite that difference, both her and Lori seem to require quite a bit of time investment before they'll pursue anything with the player, which is a breath of fresh air considering how many projects forego any kind of proper build-up.
Renders
There's not too much to add to this section aside from the overall quality of the renders being above average. The primary positive though stems from the dev not abusing post-processing effects to create artificial "cinematic" scenes that seems to plague almost all of the highest rated projects on this forum.
While the character models are box standard DAZ assets they're at least
proportioned realistically, which makes sense considering the underlying story is potentially dealing with a rather heavy theme. I personally find it refreshing that not all models are supermodels sporting a perfect hourglass figure, toned abs, and pop idol makeup.
I'll definitely have to come back to this review to update it once a few more updates have been released, but I wanted to publish something quick just to get this game a bit more visibility. It's a promising initial release with a dev that does seem to care about his project.