English:............8/10
User Interface:.....4/10
User Experience:....6/10
Art:................7/10
Dialogue:...........5/10
Story:..............3/10
Opinion:............4/10................
Avg:.............5.29/10 [2.65/5]
I've never played this. To say I don't like the "ex ultra soldier just trying to get laid" shit story, is an understatement. If you're not annoyed just by the default name of the protagonist, I'm happy for you. "Rex Richards" which translates to "King Dicks" if you're not in the know for what "Rex" means. His name might as well be "Chad Thundercock". But don't worry, he has a photgraphic memory and is super smart too. There's also the banner image for the thread that's stretched in just the right way to strain your eyes. Not to mention the main menu. "Intel, Reload, Operations, and Exfil." I get CoD is fairly common, but games generally don't rename common buttons like this. "Gallery, Load, Options, and Exit" There's also the fact that the pause menu, in the main menu, has two Intel buttons which is hilarious. I haven't even started the game yet and there's a litany of issues. If I start this game and it tells me to "stay frosty" I'm gonna scream. From the reviews I skimmed, I'm not excited. To my surprise, no, it doesn't open with "Stay frosty" it opens with "This is a slow burn and choices matter. Oh, also War never changes." So it's laterally(no, not literally) awful. The first lines of dialogue are essentially "I have a photographic memory and was awesome at sports, my military family made sure I was a soldier because soldiers are cool. AM I COOL YET THIS IS AWESOME?! Even when I stopped training, I trained more. Cardio sucks, but I LOVE PUMPING IRON. Amirite boys?" You've gotta be kidding me with this. If you really can't tell, "Ex/Current Super soldier finding love amidst evil big business" is tied with "MC returns home after X years and suddenly the family wants to have sex" and "College" stories for generic slop to me. It's overdone, it feels like propaganda at worst and is annoying at best. But here we go.
Here's my warning: This is a very long review, I expect most to say "fuck that" and jump down, I get it. But when I write this long, it generally means I WANT to like the game. If I didn't, I would give two paragraphs essentially saying it's slop. This has elbow grease in it and I can understand why some might like it. But it being a slow burn means the writing needs to earn it. It also means the player has more time with their horny brain turned off to take in the story. So it lends itself to be taken more critically.
This one is edging on being bad. It has to turn around after this. There's story and dialogue issues, entire wrong scenes are shown, grainy renders a lot of the time the list goes on. But if the story and writing can actually take a moment to talk or think about what is happening, it could be good. But no, you have these big, life changing things happen but no one thinks about it at all. The ONLY time we see that is the later parts with Angelica. You have notes of abuse, cancer, neglect, sexual assault, violence, murder, and plenty more that you COULD have the characters talk about. But no. Gotta have an anecdote about MC's time in the military. It's a shame. The English, I gotta be honest, there are times it felt weird and they use the wrong words but It's fine. Near the end I started to doubt this person speaks English, but who knows. The UI got a minor facelift from default renpy, but nothing amazing. The UX I had to bring down, there were TWO FULL SCENES that used the wrong CGs for the WHOLE scene, not just an image. It'd be funny if they didn't try to present this so professionally. There's also an image of Kendra at the end where it is mostly noise, so it wasn't done rendering. How that made it in we'll never know. The art, it's fine. Typical DAZ stuff, grainy and floaty videos, floaty elbows, hands that have never held a phone before, and faces that only have 2 or 3 expresions. The dialogue is hit or miss. The early stuff is definitely a miss, my god. In case you forgot, MC was in the military for 6 years. But eventually, the writer lets his characters talk and banter. It's not so bad. The story I do not care about. There's too many unrelated things that are being smashed together, it's a clusterfuck. And not only that, it's not until way later you're made aware it's supposed to be semi-futuristic. They just shove this sci-fi stuff at you and you're meant to be like "Okay!" But overall the story doesn't grip me, the characters don't interest me, I can't take another surface-level ethics class that lasts 5 minutes, I'm not waiting for another girl from MC's past that we never knew about before that moment to show up. It's unfortunate. I see the effort, I really do. But it's just not for me.
User Interface:.....4/10
User Experience:....6/10
Art:................7/10
Dialogue:...........5/10
Story:..............3/10
Opinion:............4/10................
Avg:.............5.29/10 [2.65/5]
I've never played this. To say I don't like the "ex ultra soldier just trying to get laid" shit story, is an understatement. If you're not annoyed just by the default name of the protagonist, I'm happy for you. "Rex Richards" which translates to "King Dicks" if you're not in the know for what "Rex" means. His name might as well be "Chad Thundercock". But don't worry, he has a photgraphic memory and is super smart too. There's also the banner image for the thread that's stretched in just the right way to strain your eyes. Not to mention the main menu. "Intel, Reload, Operations, and Exfil." I get CoD is fairly common, but games generally don't rename common buttons like this. "Gallery, Load, Options, and Exit" There's also the fact that the pause menu, in the main menu, has two Intel buttons which is hilarious. I haven't even started the game yet and there's a litany of issues. If I start this game and it tells me to "stay frosty" I'm gonna scream. From the reviews I skimmed, I'm not excited. To my surprise, no, it doesn't open with "Stay frosty" it opens with "This is a slow burn and choices matter. Oh, also War never changes." So it's laterally(no, not literally) awful. The first lines of dialogue are essentially "I have a photographic memory and was awesome at sports, my military family made sure I was a soldier because soldiers are cool. AM I COOL YET THIS IS AWESOME?! Even when I stopped training, I trained more. Cardio sucks, but I LOVE PUMPING IRON. Amirite boys?" You've gotta be kidding me with this. If you really can't tell, "Ex/Current Super soldier finding love amidst evil big business" is tied with "MC returns home after X years and suddenly the family wants to have sex" and "College" stories for generic slop to me. It's overdone, it feels like propaganda at worst and is annoying at best. But here we go.
Here's my warning: This is a very long review, I expect most to say "fuck that" and jump down, I get it. But when I write this long, it generally means I WANT to like the game. If I didn't, I would give two paragraphs essentially saying it's slop. This has elbow grease in it and I can understand why some might like it. But it being a slow burn means the writing needs to earn it. It also means the player has more time with their horny brain turned off to take in the story. So it lends itself to be taken more critically.
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This one is edging on being bad. It has to turn around after this. There's story and dialogue issues, entire wrong scenes are shown, grainy renders a lot of the time the list goes on. But if the story and writing can actually take a moment to talk or think about what is happening, it could be good. But no, you have these big, life changing things happen but no one thinks about it at all. The ONLY time we see that is the later parts with Angelica. You have notes of abuse, cancer, neglect, sexual assault, violence, murder, and plenty more that you COULD have the characters talk about. But no. Gotta have an anecdote about MC's time in the military. It's a shame. The English, I gotta be honest, there are times it felt weird and they use the wrong words but It's fine. Near the end I started to doubt this person speaks English, but who knows. The UI got a minor facelift from default renpy, but nothing amazing. The UX I had to bring down, there were TWO FULL SCENES that used the wrong CGs for the WHOLE scene, not just an image. It'd be funny if they didn't try to present this so professionally. There's also an image of Kendra at the end where it is mostly noise, so it wasn't done rendering. How that made it in we'll never know. The art, it's fine. Typical DAZ stuff, grainy and floaty videos, floaty elbows, hands that have never held a phone before, and faces that only have 2 or 3 expresions. The dialogue is hit or miss. The early stuff is definitely a miss, my god. In case you forgot, MC was in the military for 6 years. But eventually, the writer lets his characters talk and banter. It's not so bad. The story I do not care about. There's too many unrelated things that are being smashed together, it's a clusterfuck. And not only that, it's not until way later you're made aware it's supposed to be semi-futuristic. They just shove this sci-fi stuff at you and you're meant to be like "Okay!" But overall the story doesn't grip me, the characters don't interest me, I can't take another surface-level ethics class that lasts 5 minutes, I'm not waiting for another girl from MC's past that we never knew about before that moment to show up. It's unfortunate. I see the effort, I really do. But it's just not for me.