Others - Goodbye Eternity [v0.11.0] [RNGeusEX]

My Love/Hate review

Visuals

I have much to say about this game. It is beautiful. I really like the animations. The UI is smooth and very appealing.

But that's where the good things end...

Gameplay

Despite the great looks this game doesn't have much to offer. Not only from a storylines, but from a gameplay too. I do not understand why add money and stats if you don't use this mechanics. If it's just to be like everyone else than why add them in a first place. It would be so much better if we could utilize the stats to make different choices e.g. choosing a maledom path with Noriko using confidence or strength, or charisma for a corruption path with Asami.

Sitting there and trying to find all the places with money is an interesting idea, but why? Only place where money is used is in the beginning when you can give ALL of it to Yasuka. And you don't have a choice, the MC just does that.

Much like with stats money could be a very promising mechanic. But both of them are, for the lack of different words, useless.

Characters

Characters are a handful of cliches that are beautiful, but cannot offer meaningful interactions. They are created only as a playtoy for MC (not a player). They have stupid reasons for acting like they do and most of the time they don't even have a consistent personality. It is best shown in the latest updates (0.7 and 0.8).

I will briefly say that MC is boring not only because of his cliche backstory but also his looks. He is plain as boiled cabbage. And his yellow eyes don't make a difference. He isn't likable, he isn't interesting, he doesn't offer much and his personality shifts so much in scenes. I would be much happier playing any other male character from this game. Akira and Minato, despite being antagonists, are much more likable and interesting, though their reasoning for acting the way they do is questionable. And by the way what is the problem of showing MC's sprite naked? It is just very otherworldly seeing a naked girl near a guy in trunks.

I played this game two times: firstly, I played choosing Love path for both Asami and Yasuka, and they offered a unique playthrough, than, I played their corruption path (by the way paths are chosen by clicking one button, but i will talk about this later) and it was as unique as Love paths and i liked it. But then a Sakuya and Noriko storyline came.

Your previous choices lead up to the same things. Both Asmai and Yasuka (and Noriko in the Sakuya story) act the same way and say the same stuff. For some reason Yasuka doesn't act like an obsessed [over MC] lunatic and takes her previous personality of a caring mother. And Asami finds a middle ground between being her past self and rejecting her new self DESPITE of the path. The way she calls MC "My love" while she is in her tomboy phase is just lazy.

Noriko's storyline is stupid. Well maybe not the storyline, but the reasoning behind her actions. Acting like a brat, making stupid decisions, that made a boy who you fell for miserable is just not the reasoning I was hoping for. It sounds more like a lazy excuse just not to think hard enough. And with a teaser of continuation of femdom path one can only wonder how they will give this reasoning for different Noriko.

I won't say anything about Sakuya. People before me made really good points about her and the storyline. I will only add one thing. When her storyline begins the prompt is written "Sakuya restricts your movement" but, unfortunately it was done from the beginning.

Story

One of the reviewers [@Simp Cattu] said a really good thing " ...it's like a badly written powerplay fantasy of a teenage boy ..." And I couldn't say it more perfectly myself. There is no good storytelling in this game. Things just happen, most actions don't have consequences. And if they have it is quickly solved by Makumba and/or the gang of fangirls.

Setting

In my opinion setting, chosen for this game, other than naming some things like in manga or anime, or visuals isn't used as well. This story could have taken place in every part of the world. Saying "konbini" instead of "convenience store" doesn't make the setting more japanese. It's just make it derogatory.

Choices

When you create such a game and you offer people an option of choosing an action or line of dialogs, most of them are supposed to be somewhat meaningful. Even if it changes one line of dialog. But here 80%-90% of choices don't do a thing. The best example is Sakuya's storyline where we have an option not to free Akira, but the game just refuses. You have to play a perfect story as it was intended.

This game gives you an illusion of choice, just to trick you into thinking that you mean something to this world and characters. But actually this game is as straightforward as it can be.

NSFW scenes

I will say it now. I really enjoy sex scenes in this game. They are beautifully animated. I like the slight change in poses. But that's it. Last updates (0.7 and 0.8) added scenes that had great visuals but that lacked meaning e.g. Sakuya on a springs (the second one of the floor) just strats out of nowhere. It feels rushed. And by the way, she said she is a virgin and then just went on full length in all of her holes. Why?

Noriko's scenes just start the same way. MC rushes to talk to her and is so distracted by naked Noriko and of losing his dominant position that he just starts having sex with her. No teasing, no preludes and absolutely no meaning beside just giving you sex scene.

Future

This is just my speculation

I don't remember who it was, but some user on this site made a great statement "most games just try to be just like another popular game with mother/daughter harem" and i believe that this is what is happening with Goodbye Eternity. Adding Asami's Mother and Mentioning Sakyua's Mother that "soon will be released from prison" just solidifies this claims. This game just tries to create a mother/daughter harem for MC.

Conclusion

I have a Love/Hate relationship with this game. Despite not liking a lot of things about this game I still wait for new updates just to be disappointed about the story. I try to justify many, many things about lacking sides of this game. I will be playing this game in the future and wait that at some point it will be better. This game had so much potential. So much it could be. But unfortunately we got what we got.

I have came back to the game when the game was in its early stages and it was like 0.1 or smth, and tbh, the story was kinda refreshing including the sex scene lmao. That ending though why leave a cliff hanger like that. Though I wouldn't spoil the story, I like to say the game is well design and the story is really good. I'll be looking forward to this game in the future!

Absolutely incredible game. The art is amazing. The animated sex scenes are very hot. The story is interesting and just the right amount of dialogue. The pace of the story is great and I can't wait to see what comes next! Highly recommended.

A quite average, or below average game with excellent graphics.

- Art: 5/5
- Story: 1/5
- Characters: 2/5
- Writing: 4/5
- UI: 5/5
- Mechanics: 2/5
- Pr0n: 3/5

The worst part is clearly the bad story and the dumb, boring characters, the writing is actually pretty much okay. Which is a real shame because if the writing was worse then I could have dropped this shit earlier, wouldn't spent so much time playing it. But this is a tricky one, it deceives you with the beautiful art and decent writing.

Despite the great artwork its not even good for mindless fapping, there're too much grind and pointless dialogs for too little erotic content. And although it's a sandbox game it's mostly linear, there're some meaningful(?) choices but otherwise you progress linearly with the story and the love interests.

Very good game. It's best strength is the art, and it doesn't drag on at all. Decent amount of sex scenes with a variety of very fleshed out girls. My only gripe is more of them should be POV. The story might seem a bit convoluted and even like some girls have no content, but oftentimes to get to some girl's next content you first have to progress in another girl's quest line.

Story is a bit repetitive, the author seems to have only 1 method of creating tension and drama, but the individual relationship progression with each girl is good. I was surprised by how good they were - Sakuya, Yasuka, Asami, Noriko all had satisfying development with the mc in terms of getting closer and more intimate, with complementary scenes. Also very much looking forward to getting to know Asami's mom and Sakuya's mom in future updates.

Pretty Goodbye! One of the best looking games here! Gameplay is fine and the grind is mostly ok. I hope this Dev keeps up that amazing piece of art and don't become a scammer like dark cookie. I will continue to support him!

This is one of those sandbox games that is a kinetic novel in disguise. I thought you'd be able to go around town and interact with events in the order of your choosing but that's not how this game plays out. The premise is cliche in that you're a loser who gets granted a magical second chance and gets transported into your own body approximately 30 years before you meet your demise. The MC then begins the game by saying he no longer wants to be a wimp and wants to change the future. Well, the game fails to deliver on this as the MC pretty much stays mostly a wimp throughout the entire story.

This is one of those games where you're pretty much forced into sex scenes whether you want it or not. You have to go through each girl's route one by one before you can access another girl's route. The game is filled with extremely one sided characters. And they are quite extreme. Either the villains do very heinous things such as condoning murder and rape or the love interests themselves wish death either upon you or your loved ones. There's even one scene where you're given a choice to free an antagonist or not and if you choose not to free him, the game says you can't do this and forces you to choose the other option. As soon as you free him, he decides to try and rape your girlfriend. The MC, the wimp that he is, confronts him but lets him go scott free. The decisions and actions of both the villains and the love interests are so highly contradictory that it makes liking them difficult.

The game is just plagued by bad writing all over the place. For instance, the MC remembers his past well enough to try and do something to change his future. But there are parts in the story where he just suddenly doesn't remember his past which makes for horrible writing. Let's not forget to mention that without the patch, the story makes little sense as well.

The only good thing about this game is that the art is nice. The animations are very basic and rudimentary. But there's other games out there with just as good art, but much better dialogue, characters, and plot.

4.5 stars with 144 reviews, of course I'll play this. Welp, don't always believe everything you see, because this is not a 4.5 star game. The characters are shallow and uninspiring to know. My best friend treats me like an ass, and I am just licking it up. Don't say 'fu$k off' to my nasty step-sister because she will be even meaner, that is until I give her the old finger bang within 10 minutes of the story opening. How about I change my wimpy ass into a real stud by training with the really muscular African American guy who likes music. I'll grind that and so many other stats all the while getting the same scenes during each instance of grinding. I love it when my lewd novels are a chore. It makes me put my wiener back into my pants and do some other boring chore. Yea!

This visual novel is way too long and bloated, with a pointless story, idk what is with this porn VN that try to be present themselves as a worthy script to be read, with deep themes or coplex characters when in reality they are the opposite.
Its an art bait with no gameplay mechanics at all, such a slog just to get through one plotline for the most ridiculous sex scene situation before getting thrown in another story path equally bad.

up to version 0.7 the story was at least interesting
every character got introduce fairly properly
the MC at least have a clear goal
tension and climax.... literally
for 0.81 it feels like everything got introduced but then never got elaborated
like the mc reveal is past story details and then never mentioned again then the ending have almost nothing to do with it
the 2nd "mc" never elaborate further on her action, the story is fairly... halfass
the first part of the story is still ok but pass 0.7... meh

First time writing a review out of the absolute sufferings I have had from the story. The player character is someone purely dominated by his dick and will stop everything he was carrying out, be it anger, frustration, or hate when he sees a female char naked. (Yes, the Noriko plot is infuriating, and we can't do anything but forgive??? I'd rather choke her!!)

Extremely childish and brain-dead writing. I cannot believe just how ridiculous the story progresses, the characters personalities and story progression constantly contradict each other, feels like a stupid dream of the main character overall, or the author himself.
The system is also practically useless.

Art is good though

Well, it's basically the Petting Zoo version of NTR games, which is fine. There is a lot to like about it.

The art is great, especially the characters and their facial features. The H scenes are well integrated, the story is coherent and well done. Animations are excellent.

So if you are one of those harem types and feel like skirting the edge of danger without the chance of your feet (or pants) getting wet, this is the game for you. It really is excellent for what it wants to do.

It'd be so much more excellent if it had actual choice and consequence, i.e. you being able to fail and face the result, but alas, that is not to be.

But then, Disney movies are popular for a reason too.

Enjoy it for what it is.

Starting with my personal take, the game does have its merits. However, you might be wondering why the two-star rating. Well, let me share my perspective as a player:

The game kicks off in a somewhat cliché manner, but that's fine. Many great works begin with clichés and eventually turn out to be impressive, right? So, let's delve further.
The introduction of the female characters brings a mix of personalities; the tomboy (Asami), the dominant/submissive (Noriko), the classic romantic (Yasuka), the Yandere (Sakuya), and, in the future, the abuse victim (Chiaki).
What leaves me a bit disappointed? They have beauty and interesting personalities you can follow them, and feel, how can I say, a little fond of them? I think that's the word.
You have Macumba who, by far, is one of the best characters with dialogue that makes you laugh, and even gives hope to the player sometimes. There's dickhead Kimochi, who is a typical Otaku figure, but not as hateful to catch.
However, the story suddenly takes an irritating turn. The protagonist made it clear at the beginning that we would probably have to deal with drug trafficking, and prostitution, among other things, BUT THAT WAS IN THE FUTURE. Hasn't even a month passed since we woke up? Out of nowhere, Noriko is already involved with Akira, Yasuka is thinking about becoming a prostitute, and Asami wants to give up herself to be what Minato will "probably" want. Like, what? The protagonist in this new version literally said "I am mentally the oldest among us" (Him and the girls including Yasuka)
But tell me, does he seem mentally like a 40+-year-old guy? Damn, what do you mean!? Our choices do not match our age in reality. This is the biggest problem, and it's what makes the game difficult to play. On the one hand, it's great to see the story developing and everything, but man... Not being able to refuse Akira's command to release him!? Serious!? I AM FORCED to release the psychopath, and you know what's worse? Moments after that, Akira ALMOST RAPED our girlfriend in front of our eyes! Are you serious, man? Then we met him a few times later after that, why the fuck didn't we kill him!?
WE ARE FORCED TO ACCEPT YANDERE, okay, that's how it is, great! But she’s going to help us now, right!? You fuckin' take an iron bar, give the MC some balls, and kill this son of a bitch, ask Yandere to help conceal the tracks, damn it! But no, you can't... The protagonist can almost die a thousand times, he can have his girl almost raped by a maniac, but kill the maniac? Oh no, he has to be the cute protagonist, rainbows and shit.

Yes, I loved the game at the beginning, I hoped that we, as a protagonist who back a mistaken life, would be more knowledgeable, mature, and decisive. I saw someone commenting here about thinking the game is about a "teenage boy who just discovered alpha male trope existence", my friend, it would be much, much better if it were about that...

If you want to make a game that has trafficking, prostitution, serious problems to solve, and above all; A game where the protagonist is 40+ years old, plan his moves competently. There's no way a butterfly can survive in a swamp. And that's how I feel when I play this game these days.
I really hope things change, but help, no, I guess it won't... The game ended (0.8.1) with the fat bastard going to kidnap Asami, and we will probably have another miracle happening to prevent rape or a concrete rape scene. Am I excited to play? ARE YOU EXCITED TO PLAY IT? But earning 2k$ per month, I don't think my quitting makes any difference to the developer.

This game is really good. Not only the graphic part is very-very well done, but also the story is interesting.
I liked the way the characters are drawn, especially how their outer appearance pretty much matches their inner appearance.
The sex scenes are superbly done, you can see physical details that in other games you can only dream of.
Congratulations to the developer, he is very talented.

great game the art is fantastic one of the best I've seen on this website, the story is a bit unintuitive but the music and art more than make up for it. Personally a huge fan on the music and the ambience it creates.

The graphics are incredible, maybe one of the best I've ever seen for this unique style in novels but story's gotta be one of the worst one's I've ever seen as well, for real. The graphics aren't enough to redeem this horrible story.

I thought this was a story about a guy getting a second chance at life but then there's a psycho yandere girl that threatens to kill his loved ones if MC doesn't stay with her, ties him up and rapes him constantly and in the end MC likes her. What the fuck?

There's a (one of many, really) psycho guy steals her diary and MC's girlfriend, after knowing the yandere girl kidnapped and raped him, TELLS HIM TO HELP HER AND HE DOES. Like seriously, what-the-fuck? Why would I want to help her? Why don't I have a choice in the matter? I "rejected" her every step of the way, got kidnapped, raped and told to help her anyway. OK, the psycho guy is a piece of shit scum of the earth and I would've liked to kill him, but the girl isn't much better and the other girls want to include her as well. This is where I stopped and I'm actually surprised I powered through this much.

The player doesn't really have much say in what happens besides probably acting submissive or dominant towards another girl that treats MC like shit from the beginning but starts caring about him eventually after getting blackmailed by him. I got a warning at some point that the psycho girl was going to do stuff based on my actions and hurt the ones MC cared about but to tell the truth, I didn't get to choose much. I rejected the girlfriend but still ended up with her and got with the older red-haired woman without getting to choose anything either and those are the ones she threatened MC with. Like, how does that make sense? Choices didn't seem to matter at all when it comes to story progression.

Once again, the art is really wonderful and it could've been great if it actually had a decent story to tell with but as it stands, it's just wasted potential. After the first few minutes, the fact that MC went back in time stopped mattering for the story as a whole. There are a few mentions at it but it's really nothing of importance. The regressions adds practically nothing to the story.

God, the animations on this one are awesome. There's some sense of choice with the choosing parts. The BDSM elements are amazing. Cast is quite nice and differentiated for now. The game does features those annoying quests that I don't like but everything else is beyond good.

I really like this game a lot. Sandbox games seem to be loved or hated with very little in-between, but I think this one would go a long way towards convincing the haters that the genre has a lot to offer.

Great visuals and sound, really pretty animation, and characters/story that really pushes things to an overall great experience. Would love to see more gameplay features implemented in the future (something I think sandbox games sometimes lack), but all-in-all I'm very interested in seeing what this game offers us down the road. Kudos to the dev for a great game.

The art is great, there's rarely any game with such style of drawing that is so distinguishable. But that's about the only salvageable point of this game that saved it from being 1/5 stars.

The story itself is horrendous, it's like a badly written powerplay fantasy of a teenage boy who just discovered alpha male trope existence. I can vaguely see an interesting plot that the dev is trying to tell, but the execution is just down right cringy and hard to swallow.

There is no world building. Characters have no personality. The introduction to each of them, including (and especially) the MC, is short, lifeless and even confusing at times. Details are hastily thrusted in to quickly get to the "main plot" like a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces not fitting together.

The MC acts high and mighty at times during interaction with girls to show off "cool guy vibe", but occasionally makes stupid and oblivious decisions for plot convenience. He just absent-mindedly ignores the consequences of his own actions on people around him until the story calls for them to appear. His knowledge on the future of everyone seems to be a major drive of the plot, but it rarely shows anywhere, and when it does the MC just gives a few lines of thoughts about it and moves on. Noriko being exploited and later found in a canal, dragging Yasuka down the path of depression, Asami's disappearance causing Macumba to be jailed wrongfully... he never showed to be compassionate or thoughtful about changing them, just simply lived on and passively waited for things to happen. Sure, he does try to solve problems, but his determination is pathetic, the solutions are half-assed, there is no real effort in him trying to turn his future around, in a way he is steadily walking the path to becoming his old self.

The later complain can be explained in two ways:

1) The other NPCs are tasteless and have no real charm, really just a horde of mobs to revere the player. Everyone makes logically questionable choices and constantly acts out of character just for our guy to intervene and act cool for a moment. Noriko and Asami's personality twists are the peak examples of that - nonsensical and are only there to prove how the MC can change people's lives (even so the interactions leading up to those moments are questionable at best).

2) Or, the main story is being rushed for the author to finally get to the triumphant conclusion that's been on the back of their mind since the start. Characters might later have their own storylines that better explain their life decisions, but for now the progression is beelining straight to the end, ignoring any development for both the MC and the people around him. There is barely any "sandbox" element in here, the progression is so tightly packed there is usually nothing to do other than the one or two interactions the story allowed at any given time. The dev can simply skip the free roam map to teleport the player straight to their next event and there would be no impact whatsoever.


TD,DR: GE is a nice visual novel with distinct art style, should give you a pleasant time to play if you're hungry for some instant-noodle inseki fantasy. Otherwise, don't put too much expectations on it but that's about it. I really am trying to stomach through the rest of the current build to see if there's any improvement, but the more I read the more I despite the MC's pathetic attitude to everything in life. This is not even on the inseki category any longer. Maybe this kind of story will vibe with you, but it really falls all over the place for me.

UPDATE: Due to a recent conversation with my friend, I've decided to replay the game (v0.7.9) from a different viewpoint. We have come to a conclusion that this game is of wasted potential. The developer has an interesting idea in mind and great art to boot, but no actual story to tell. At the time of this review, the game feels like a bunch of separated "cool events" that the dev came up randomly under the loose idea of "time isekai", stitched together into a mismatching and confusing collage. There are almost no coherent transitions, the setting just shifts unpredictably toward the "next major event" with no development or adequate characters / plot building - which slightly justifies how the MC reacts to the world, everything happens too fast and radical for a spineless weeb like him to reasonably process. Overall still 2/5.

Extremely overrated game, this game started to disappoint me straight away, firstly it lacked a decent introduction about the MC in his past life, it simply starts with him in his new life

The world, MC repeating his life (No logic and I didn't like the plot), already knowing everyone, and ruining future events. because like, all the clues you get about the MC's past are through key moments that you meet the characters, like Asami, the girl who disappeared by accident or Macumba who was accused without being able to prove his innocence.

Every male character in the game, except Macumba, is a complete piece of shit. the developer obviously takes great care to adhere to Japanese culture, but it's almost never this aggressive and obnoxious. It's also not explained why they are this way, which makes the whole experience even more hollow.

Other things that bothered me, you help Sakuya against Akira for the second time, and the mc uses his past life wisdom and wets akira's schemes, Sakuya screws akira, then she labels the mc for being the same type of man as akira . Seriously, are you going to help and just fuck off? The worst part of all this is that you later find out that she wants to be a porn star... man, I thought she would be a waifu but I was already cut off at the root, doing Sakuya's sidequest became annoying for me after that.

Azumi; Well, right away I'll let you know that I'm not a fan of tomboy girls, much less of brunettes, I was already planning to ignore all of your content but that's impossible since MC now has to play cupid to help her get with Minato, oh what the fuck! the first interaction with a girl, and for me to help her get with another guy? I wanted to ignore her right there. but the game despite giving you a choice, you have no choice, and are forced to help her! Anyway, whether you like it or not, you help her, and tell her the truth about Minato, then she reacts strongly and tells you to go pasture! Then she shows up at her house and asks if you would agree to be the fake boyfriend to make Minato jealous, but I refused right away and ended up making an annoying friend.

Lack of female character and lack of lewd scene, in the game there are five girls, excluding Noriko, Sakuya and Asumi, leaving only Yasuka and Minato's sister for me, but I'm leaning towards Yasuka, there really aren't many girl options in a game that is to be harem?!

Four hours of play and I haven't seen a perverted scene, which makes the game boring.

I conclude that the game is average, just overrated for now! has great graphics and great art but that's not much to combat the flaws I mentioned. Also, I experience a lot of lag in the game's UI when navigating between locations!

Ah, yes! Macumba is the best brojo in the game!