I wrote an extensive review about everything wrong with this game, but my browser crashed and I lost everything. An hour well spent. Fucking kill me.
I can't muster the energy to write it all again, so I'll just quickly go over the good, the bad and the ugly, or at least what I can remember. By the way, this is based on v1.0.0a and only the slave route.
The Good:
I wasn't expecting much. I was simply expecting something along the lines of Book 1. Book 1 wasn't without its flaws and it even has some unfinished content, but at least it's a proper trainer game that gives you a sense of progression. Trainer games should operate under the simple rule that every few clicks is a step forward, and Book 1 tried to follow that rule (again, it has its flaws).
So what happened? What did they do to this game in all these years of development? Why did they decide to make the protagonist an insufferable manchild? Why did they give up on the trainer elements? Why are the sex scenes so incredibly dull and cringeworthy? Why is Book 4 the longest by far and yet also the one with the least substance? Why are the sex scenes in this porn game so unsexy? Why did they bastardize a game that had so much potential?
Don't get it twisted; this is a comedy game. The title should read, "Avatar: The Sitcom," because the humor in this game is so sickeningly overdone, forced and awkward that you could easily add laugh tracks on top of the jokes. If you're mentally challenged, easily amused and aren't here for the porn, then you'll probably enjoy the humor.
But at the end of the day, I guess it doesn't matter. People apparently enjoyed this thing, so all is well on the western front. This negative review is just a tiny voice in the sea of praise. Seeing people saying that "the sex scenes are hot" or "the trainer elements were executed well" or "the humor feels natural" and "the humor never gets old" is just... jarring. Am I the insane one?
But I think I understand. People are just glad to see this game actually being completed after being around for so long. I just hope you guys can look beyond the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia so you can see this game for the unfinished product that it is.
If you want a great trainer game set in the Avatar universe, then I suggest Book 5: Untold Legend of Korra. The progression is smoother, the sex scenes aren't goofy, the writing is better and the humor is much more natural. It's a game that actually knows what it wants to do, and does it well. Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I definitely recommend it.
I can't muster the energy to write it all again, so I'll just quickly go over the good, the bad and the ugly, or at least what I can remember. By the way, this is based on v1.0.0a and only the slave route.
The Good:
- Book 1 was an actual trainer game.
- Books 2, 3 and 4 have a multitude of unfinished/unexplored content that will never be finished. Hell, even Book 1 has some unfinished content.
- Books 2, 3 and 4 are like individual games and they can hardly be considered trainer games, contrary to what the "trainer" tag and "trainer" in the title might lead you to believe.
- Book 4 is just an amalgamation of dozens upon dozens of fetch quests, most of which are completely pointless and a shameless waste of time. Go from point A to point B and take an item back to point A in order to go to point C, then talk to someone in order to trigger an event that lets you progress to point D, then walk around until you talk to the right person that will let you move on to point E. Find a broken camera in order to prove that you're a real photographer so you can convince a girl to act in a movie for someone in order for that someone to owe you a favor in order for you to use that favor for something else. If reading these sentences gave you a headache, imagine playing through something like that again and again and again for hours. Does that sound like a trainer game to you? Trainer games aren't supposed to be this grindy.
- Books 2, 3 and 4 all introduce some random, pointless mechanic that serves no purpose and/or was left unfinished.
- Only Book 1 had a real sense of progression, which is the pillar of trainer games. All other books lacked that, their gameplay boiling down to fetch quests and mindless clicking in order to reach a point where a certain event happens and the girl is suddenly left at your mercy.
- Chatting with the girls is pointless in all books. Their lines never change no matter how much you've "progressed."
- Sex scenes have very little difference (usually none) between different levels of training.
- There is no way to make the girls fuck other guys. This was probably a result of pushback from the people who think that everything is NTR, or maybe the writer himself is one of those, but I just can't for the life of me understand why you would put a brothel in Book 3 when you can't even use it or profit from it. The game teases you at multiple points with the prospect of whoring the girls out before doing a complete 180 as the MC says the whole bullshit about "they're my personal hoes." Why not let the player decide? Why bait us with a fucking brothel that is literally just a home for two of the girls?
- Unsatisfying ending.
- Very few kinks.
- Other stuff that I forgot.
- The protagonist was fine in Book 1, but I guess the writer wanted to make him more iNtErEsTiNg and qUiRkY, so they made the protagonist actually retarded. Some of the "jokes" are genuinely painful to read, especially the self-deprecating humor or when the protagonist randomly starts yelling about how he has "won" the conversation. Oh, and misspelling names is funny, so the protagonist will do that all the time. Two-syllable names are very hard. Suki = Sushi/Sucky, and it only gets funnier when they correct the MC and he keeps misspelling the name on purpose. Now laugh. Fucking laugh. Why aren't you laughing?
You'll either love or hate the humor in this game. There is no in-between. The protagonist has way too many lines, and those lines are usually just brain farts trying very hard to be funny. Why does the protagonist talk more than the girls and why is he braindead? - The sex scenes aren't sexy, mainly because of the protagonist. Instead of some hot, steamy dialogue during sex scenes, all you get is an autistic ape cracking jokes, rambling incoherently or making pop culture references. The girls barely even moan. The sex scenes are instead littered with this guy going "UOOOOHHH TAKE MY SWIMMERS YOU FUCKING BITCH AAAAHHH SPLURT SPLURT!" but way more retarded.
- Choices don't matter, even choices that would normally matter a lot, like letting Korra get gang raped. It was so satisfying to see Korra completely broken, but then I found out that it had nothing to do with my choice. I guess a mindbroken and depressed Korra was too much for the writer, so they backpedalled and made it all okay again with some bullshit that was even more stupid than the canon material of Legend of Korra, which is saying a lot.
- Other stuff that I forgot.
I wasn't expecting much. I was simply expecting something along the lines of Book 1. Book 1 wasn't without its flaws and it even has some unfinished content, but at least it's a proper trainer game that gives you a sense of progression. Trainer games should operate under the simple rule that every few clicks is a step forward, and Book 1 tried to follow that rule (again, it has its flaws).
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Don't get it twisted; this is a comedy game. The title should read, "Avatar: The Sitcom," because the humor in this game is so sickeningly overdone, forced and awkward that you could easily add laugh tracks on top of the jokes. If you're mentally challenged, easily amused and aren't here for the porn, then you'll probably enjoy the humor.
But at the end of the day, I guess it doesn't matter. People apparently enjoyed this thing, so all is well on the western front. This negative review is just a tiny voice in the sea of praise. Seeing people saying that "the sex scenes are hot" or "the trainer elements were executed well" or "the humor feels natural" and "the humor never gets old" is just... jarring. Am I the insane one?
But I think I understand. People are just glad to see this game actually being completed after being around for so long. I just hope you guys can look beyond the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia so you can see this game for the unfinished product that it is.
If you want a great trainer game set in the Avatar universe, then I suggest Book 5: Untold Legend of Korra. The progression is smoother, the sex scenes aren't goofy, the writing is better and the humor is much more natural. It's a game that actually knows what it wants to do, and does it well. Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I definitely recommend it.