First of all, to the developer, sorry, but this is utter TRASH.
Now I respect other peoples’ opinion, like the FIVE star review before me, I do question the basis for that Five star though.
Where do I even start to explain and review this trainwreck.
Well let’s start with what’s most likely gonna be the ”go-to excuse”, it’s a ”Demo”.
Mind you, this is at least the 2nd update/demo, so you would expect improvements, fixes, refinements, etc. Demo or not.
I’ll try to give a FEW examples, there was just so much (for the little content there is atm).
Obvious AI-slop. Think and feel what you want about AI. Some devs uses it in a good way. Some devs/games just makes it a mess, this is such a case.
The ”art” has been, to use the dev’s own words ”photoshopped” , now with that horrible ’filter’ where it looks like pictures that’s gone thru the washing mashine 50 times, and been flying out in the world, hitting treebranches and being stepped on, etc. Is this artistic? Of course not, it’s to try and HIDE the AI used.
There’s been numerous ”renders” where there’s been 6 fingers on a hand, or 4, sometimes a mutilated leg etc. And the new ”artstyle” as they call it, just makes everything not only look worse, but sometimes it makes some parts melt together. There’s one render, cant remember what the woman was doing, but it literally looked like her hands were one entity, her thumbs were growing into eachother. Something like that.
Let’s leave the horrible visuals aside for now. Though the ”mom” is somewhat pretty at least. So that’s at least ..something.
Now the worst part, the writing.
I’m not gonna complain about the english, it’s better than some other VNs I could mention. So I’m not gonna point out the grammatical errors etc, I make those mistakes myself so it’s whatever.
But everything else. I swear, the few minutes of content I suffered thru here, literally made my head hurt. AND I started to wonder if it was me developing some form of schizo, or there’s more than one person writing this crap.
One scene we can have what ’sounds’ like either a re-telling, or a narrator, saying something like ”I thought X was feeling this or that”, directly followed after next clicked with X’s own thoughts using ”I blah blah”. I’m confused, who the fudge was narrating just one click ago?
Inconsistencies with the names, oh boy. Mom’s name is Sarah. But in dialogues and ’narration’ it’s almost always Sara (without H). Ok, fine, whatever, right? Well let’s take her ”son” then, Miki, Mikki, Micky. He has a few names all over the place. Like make up your mind dev, WHAT IS HIS NAME?! Even better, let the players choose their own name(s). I’ve already seen the dev’s excuse for this. ”it happens in translation”. Like wtf? It’s friggin NAMES. Maybe go over your script of YOUR game, check for ”Miki” ”Micky” etc. IF you’re not gonna allow players to name the characters, then at least get your OWN character names correct??
The way the dialogues are written is where my mind just goes out the window.
Miki/Micky/whateverthefuckhisnameis, talks to his MOM, and talks ABOUT her, TO her.
”I thought Mom would blah blah” – this is him talking TO his mom.
I dunno, maybe they talk like that in some parts of the world? But I’ve never talked to my mom, or a friend, and refer to them as a 3rd person. I’ve heard of people referring to themselves in 3rd person, but this...man..
Also, not only do the characters have different names, or rather spelling of their names here and there, sometimes the "thoughts" from Miki, the son, refers to Sara(h) by name, instead of mom. "Sara this, Sara that". A couple of scenes later, it's "Mom" again.
Kinda makes you wonder sometimes if the whole "mom" and possible incest, is just slapped on to get attention..
So all in all. The writing makes heads hurt. Most of the time, you do not know if Miki is THINKING or talking. It seems he’s doing BOTH in many conversations. Because he can say something that appears to be thoughts, but then immediately after ”mom” replies. So that means, he was SAYING this and not thinking? Just adds even more confusion. And again, this ”demo” is *SHORT*, yet it’s long enough to really make you feel like you’re going senile or schizo.
Obvious use of AI, and I can only hope this new ”art direction” the dev has taken, was planned from the getgo, and not just another terrible attempt at masking the AI.
It’s a shame really, because Sarah, she’s not unpleasing to the eyes, but this new ’artstyle’ ruins everything. I even prefer watching the obvious 6th finger or deformed leg – at least that adds some unintentional humor to this slop, than this ’artstyle’.
I really cannot recommend anyone wasting time on this VN.
MAYBE it will get better after several updates. But if you’re REALLY wanting to try it out, give it several updates/months before you do. From my experience, I dont see this one turning around and becoming something great. Might get improvements, but there’s nothing from what I’ve seen and read, that gives me a reason to think that 5+ updates from now this will be any better (or still being worked on).
But who knows, maybe you’ll love this trash, nothing wrong with that. The 5-star reviewer apparently thought this was a masterpiece for example. So who knows.
As of the ”Demo 1.0” there’s no sex, you get to see some tits and pussy for a bit. But that’s solo play, and not even that to be honest. Even if and when it tries to be ”hot” the writing just kills the ”mood”.
Feel free to try out this one, but you’re MUCH better ignoring this one for the nearest future.
Sorry to the dev, I understand you’re new, and all. But this isn’t good. And I’m not gonna slap on a high rating just because ”poor dev, he’s new, lets throw him a bone”.
MY mission with MY reviews, is to save people from wasting time on something – OR invest time if the VN is actually good.
This one has probably only one good thing going for it. Sarah..Sara..whatever spelling we’re using today. She’s pretty. That’s it.
As always with my reviews, I *WILL* revise my review in the future if the game has change for the better or worse.
This is for the 1.0 Demo - but I can easily bet that this review will be true for at least a few 'proper' updates from here on.
Especially since this is "just a demo", I want to be fair, and return in a few updates and give it another chance. But again, for now, and most likely the next few updates - just ..just avoid this garbage.
And I totally stand by the 1-star. There's nothing good here. Anything and everything is just sub-par or worse. Writing, horrible. "Graphics"? yikes.
Now I respect other peoples’ opinion, like the FIVE star review before me, I do question the basis for that Five star though.
Where do I even start to explain and review this trainwreck.
Well let’s start with what’s most likely gonna be the ”go-to excuse”, it’s a ”Demo”.
Mind you, this is at least the 2nd update/demo, so you would expect improvements, fixes, refinements, etc. Demo or not.
I’ll try to give a FEW examples, there was just so much (for the little content there is atm).
Obvious AI-slop. Think and feel what you want about AI. Some devs uses it in a good way. Some devs/games just makes it a mess, this is such a case.
The ”art” has been, to use the dev’s own words ”photoshopped” , now with that horrible ’filter’ where it looks like pictures that’s gone thru the washing mashine 50 times, and been flying out in the world, hitting treebranches and being stepped on, etc. Is this artistic? Of course not, it’s to try and HIDE the AI used.
There’s been numerous ”renders” where there’s been 6 fingers on a hand, or 4, sometimes a mutilated leg etc. And the new ”artstyle” as they call it, just makes everything not only look worse, but sometimes it makes some parts melt together. There’s one render, cant remember what the woman was doing, but it literally looked like her hands were one entity, her thumbs were growing into eachother. Something like that.
Let’s leave the horrible visuals aside for now. Though the ”mom” is somewhat pretty at least. So that’s at least ..something.
Now the worst part, the writing.
I’m not gonna complain about the english, it’s better than some other VNs I could mention. So I’m not gonna point out the grammatical errors etc, I make those mistakes myself so it’s whatever.
But everything else. I swear, the few minutes of content I suffered thru here, literally made my head hurt. AND I started to wonder if it was me developing some form of schizo, or there’s more than one person writing this crap.
One scene we can have what ’sounds’ like either a re-telling, or a narrator, saying something like ”I thought X was feeling this or that”, directly followed after next clicked with X’s own thoughts using ”I blah blah”. I’m confused, who the fudge was narrating just one click ago?
Inconsistencies with the names, oh boy. Mom’s name is Sarah. But in dialogues and ’narration’ it’s almost always Sara (without H). Ok, fine, whatever, right? Well let’s take her ”son” then, Miki, Mikki, Micky. He has a few names all over the place. Like make up your mind dev, WHAT IS HIS NAME?! Even better, let the players choose their own name(s). I’ve already seen the dev’s excuse for this. ”it happens in translation”. Like wtf? It’s friggin NAMES. Maybe go over your script of YOUR game, check for ”Miki” ”Micky” etc. IF you’re not gonna allow players to name the characters, then at least get your OWN character names correct??
The way the dialogues are written is where my mind just goes out the window.
Miki/Micky/whateverthefuckhisnameis, talks to his MOM, and talks ABOUT her, TO her.
”I thought Mom would blah blah” – this is him talking TO his mom.
I dunno, maybe they talk like that in some parts of the world? But I’ve never talked to my mom, or a friend, and refer to them as a 3rd person. I’ve heard of people referring to themselves in 3rd person, but this...man..
Also, not only do the characters have different names, or rather spelling of their names here and there, sometimes the "thoughts" from Miki, the son, refers to Sara(h) by name, instead of mom. "Sara this, Sara that". A couple of scenes later, it's "Mom" again.
Kinda makes you wonder sometimes if the whole "mom" and possible incest, is just slapped on to get attention..
So all in all. The writing makes heads hurt. Most of the time, you do not know if Miki is THINKING or talking. It seems he’s doing BOTH in many conversations. Because he can say something that appears to be thoughts, but then immediately after ”mom” replies. So that means, he was SAYING this and not thinking? Just adds even more confusion. And again, this ”demo” is *SHORT*, yet it’s long enough to really make you feel like you’re going senile or schizo.
Obvious use of AI, and I can only hope this new ”art direction” the dev has taken, was planned from the getgo, and not just another terrible attempt at masking the AI.
It’s a shame really, because Sarah, she’s not unpleasing to the eyes, but this new ’artstyle’ ruins everything. I even prefer watching the obvious 6th finger or deformed leg – at least that adds some unintentional humor to this slop, than this ’artstyle’.
I really cannot recommend anyone wasting time on this VN.
MAYBE it will get better after several updates. But if you’re REALLY wanting to try it out, give it several updates/months before you do. From my experience, I dont see this one turning around and becoming something great. Might get improvements, but there’s nothing from what I’ve seen and read, that gives me a reason to think that 5+ updates from now this will be any better (or still being worked on).
But who knows, maybe you’ll love this trash, nothing wrong with that. The 5-star reviewer apparently thought this was a masterpiece for example. So who knows.
As of the ”Demo 1.0” there’s no sex, you get to see some tits and pussy for a bit. But that’s solo play, and not even that to be honest. Even if and when it tries to be ”hot” the writing just kills the ”mood”.
Feel free to try out this one, but you’re MUCH better ignoring this one for the nearest future.
Sorry to the dev, I understand you’re new, and all. But this isn’t good. And I’m not gonna slap on a high rating just because ”poor dev, he’s new, lets throw him a bone”.
MY mission with MY reviews, is to save people from wasting time on something – OR invest time if the VN is actually good.
This one has probably only one good thing going for it. Sarah..Sara..whatever spelling we’re using today. She’s pretty. That’s it.
As always with my reviews, I *WILL* revise my review in the future if the game has change for the better or worse.
This is for the 1.0 Demo - but I can easily bet that this review will be true for at least a few 'proper' updates from here on.
Especially since this is "just a demo", I want to be fair, and return in a few updates and give it another chance. But again, for now, and most likely the next few updates - just ..just avoid this garbage.
And I totally stand by the 1-star. There's nothing good here. Anything and everything is just sub-par or worse. Writing, horrible. "Graphics"? yikes.