English: 9
User Interface: 8
User Experience: 6
Art: 8
Dialogue: 4
Story: 8
Opinion: 5
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Avg: 6.86/10
I want to say first and foremost, I know most of my gripes with the story will not be changed. Unfortunately. BUT, the UI has actually gotten a facelift. I'm so proud. (The options menu could still use an edit and it is using some template I see in all these VNs BUT STILL, -golf clap.-) And I also wanna say, I still do like this story. Good world building, a couple good characters, some good monologues. But if you review a game just to counteract views that are different than your own without giving thoughts or critiques, you don't give developers points to work on and improve. I'm gonna re-read this and see if any of my views have changed. I also realized waaay late that I'd helped and talked with Dev in the Renpy discord. Small world, nice guy. And hopefully the game won't end right after a bunch of ads for other games so I won't be reviewing this after being annoyed by padding and commercials lol. I will say, the real issue with this VN is the dialogue. All of the brain dead LI's do is gush about MC for showing common fucking decency. And NO ONE ever talks or references something that has happened outside the two weeks MC has existed, save for Aliza's neglect, Sina's mercenary work, Zoey's accident, and Lily's attack. And even then it's a large lore dump section, focused on that character's trauma. Not sprinkled into personable dialogues as you learn about the characters, because the LI's all just walk up to MC to tell him their life story. Not to mention the "wholesomeness" and the memes/references. I'm not saying to never do it, but it's a bit too much here. But, here we go, synopsis, complaints, score, summary.
The story opens with MC literally falling from heaven, god's gift to women. He's an angel pushed out of Elysium to protect him from Zenera, a supposed Disney-esque villain that attacked to get to him for... Reasons. Well, actually, we just don't know them yet, as FOR ONCE on this site, it's not some dumb contrivance, we just still don't know what MC even is. She wants him for his power, and there's some hint as to some sort of relationship he has with Zenera, but this story is padded more than A-cups in a D-cup bra. Luckily for you, the reader, it's padded all with (in my opinion, wholly unearned) sex scenes. But I'm getting off track, MC falls to Earth and is rescued by Rosa. A mage that also runs a school for girls. She takes him home, unsure what to do, and wakes him up to get answers. Of which, he has none. Then Lily, her daughter, comes home, sees him, then falls for him immediately. (Almost) Every "romance" with the girls happens like this: She sees him, she gasps, he either says "Hi" or isn't even aware she's looking at him, and then she's obsessed with him. There are two women that don't follow that pattern, we'll get to them in a bit. I digress again. MC is very unconcerned that he's fallen to Earth, and instead of trying to get back right away, he wants to explore. I will excuse this early bit of apathy as he doesn't know the situation yet, but he never really seems to have a sense of urgency. And MC just wants to go to school. He is 500 years old. An angel. And a very powerful one at that. This story bring up a few times that he had "one more year" but what could one year of earth school teach an angel that's been in school for who knows how long? But whatever, that sets up the plot device for MC to meet the 24 women that will fawn over him.
The first thing MC does is go to a mall and what happens? I think EIGHT girls do the aforementioned gasp, and fall in love. And it's not a subtle scene, the story goes to every group and makes sure you see that they drop what they're doing and gawk at MC. Anyway MC and Rosa go clothes shopping so he can attend the academy and it sets up Rosa as a love interest, showing how emotionally frail she is while still keeping some childlike glee. It does an okay job, but MC just kinda says "Don't be too hard on yourself, you're pretty and fun." And Rosa's now in love with him. And through the rest of the time leading up to his first day at school he meets a few of the girls and they're all smitten completely. Then MC makes it to class, the rest of the girls fall for him, a zombie even comes back to life over him, and the day just kinda skips to MC fighting Sinavera and ending up in a coma for days. During the "fight" Really it was a chokehold and a fiery punch, you learn MC has some non angelic powers. And this point of mystery is still unresolved. But it introduces the only LI that has character development, Sina, unfortunately her intro is overshadowed by MC's gary-stu powers activating. Then, I think, after the coma, Jyn relays Zenera's message about the Blood Moon. Less than two weeks away, something bad will happen. Obviously, she's warning she will attack the Earth and from this point until the Blood Moon, MC pretty much does nothing. He goes on dates, karaoke, "solves" all the LI's problems, and references a lot of movies. But he had a week and a half to train, figure anything out, prepare for a war, anything. But he doesn't. It's a lot of "wholesome" interpersonal not-drama then suddenly Zenera makes good on her word, attacks, and everyone is shocked. Then mid-battle this update ends. So if you're like me, and enjoy the world building, mystery, and villains that seem like they might be justified in their actions, you get blue-balled.
I'm well aware most of the people that are enamored with this story still laugh at memes like "hand-holding is too lewd" But this strange crossover of wholesome and lewd just feels off to me. All the sweet or friendly banal scenes all read like an episode of barney and friends. As if they're younger than they're supposed to be. "Don't worry [LI Name], you can do it" "(everyone cheers/awwweee)" And this does the issue I have a lot where it feels like no one in the story has ever done anything ever preceding anything here. And the "romance." Since there's only one woman (possibly two) that's not in Love with MC right away, Sina is the only character I can think of that is even interesting. Sure, Aria has a "rough" back and forth with MC but she was introduced on the day of the blood moon so it took a whole 3 hours for her to fall for him. MC turning into a babbling idiot when the girls are forward, him being literally 25 times their age, is too much. Maybe I missed it somewhere, but the ONLY hint as to why he's like that is the context clues on how angels are regarded. That and his just complete disregard for going home or even trying to do anything other than get 20 girls knocked up make MC the weakest part of the story. If you're really curious about my gripes I have my notes and old review below.
So to my scores, obviously the English is great, I think I saw barely a few spelling mistakes, this isn't written by some russian shovelware dev. The UI and UX got a huge facelift and it all looks really good. I will say the quick menu is a little big and intrusive but two thumbs up. The art is still great. It's some of the best Koikatsu visuals that are on this site, hands down. The dialogue is "AWEEEE THATS SWEET" "(gasps softly)" or "[INSERT PREQUEL MEME/MOVIE QUOTE HERE]" and it's just grating. It doesn't even stop when there's serious fighting scenes, tone it down a touch moving forward, please? The story I love, I'm intrigued, I'm hooked, I want to know more. The shame was the padding, I just think it could have been done a little differently, but I'm excited to see how this all unfolds. Keep up the good work, Dev.
TL;DR: I like the story, the art is good, the UI is almost completely reworked, and it feels like a passion project a lot of the time. The constant references, light speed love stories, and an MC that I just don't like currently drag this down.