My thoughts (not a review, but summary of my "love" route for most lovers and "white coronation" playthrough...
There are typos throughout the script.
There are a minimum of 5 lines of dialogue that are not translated to English - per chapter of the game.
There are summaries between chapters of the game which have non-translated text.
Some of the choice variables appear to be mixed up, with dead characters popping up as if they had never been slain. Mentions of events happening that never occurred.
Overall, the art is very well done, with about 10% of the still renders and 5% of the animations being "sandpaper" pixelated low-res renders.
The story begins bland and boring, tedious to slog through, but gets better as the game progresses.
Much of the legalese about royal customs and traditions were lost on me. Confusing and incomprehensible references and assumptions by the writer that "everyone knows" about such things. Not everyone.
Every crowd shouting scene has audio out of sync with the lines of text. So a line of text "Emperor! Emperor!" / "Prince! Prince!" / "For the Golden Order! For the Iron Will!" shows, then the next line, which plays the audio of the crowd shouting that text, instead of the audio playing at the same time as that text on screen.
In general, the relationships were strained, but effective. I was immersed as much as possible, until the non-translated text appeared or the out-of sync audio played.
I do hope that part 2 of this game will have more frequent image/animation changes. There were quite a few "group" scenes with a single still image and 20-40 lines of dialogue or narration. The image did not change at all, which made it feel incomplete.
Overall, I enjoyed the game, but felt let down and confused when the dead character popped up without anyone noticing or being surprised they were alive.
There are typos throughout the script.
There are a minimum of 5 lines of dialogue that are not translated to English - per chapter of the game.
There are summaries between chapters of the game which have non-translated text.
Some of the choice variables appear to be mixed up, with dead characters popping up as if they had never been slain. Mentions of events happening that never occurred.
Overall, the art is very well done, with about 10% of the still renders and 5% of the animations being "sandpaper" pixelated low-res renders.
The story begins bland and boring, tedious to slog through, but gets better as the game progresses.
Much of the legalese about royal customs and traditions were lost on me. Confusing and incomprehensible references and assumptions by the writer that "everyone knows" about such things. Not everyone.
Every crowd shouting scene has audio out of sync with the lines of text. So a line of text "Emperor! Emperor!" / "Prince! Prince!" / "For the Golden Order! For the Iron Will!" shows, then the next line, which plays the audio of the crowd shouting that text, instead of the audio playing at the same time as that text on screen.
In general, the relationships were strained, but effective. I was immersed as much as possible, until the non-translated text appeared or the out-of sync audio played.
I do hope that part 2 of this game will have more frequent image/animation changes. There were quite a few "group" scenes with a single still image and 20-40 lines of dialogue or narration. The image did not change at all, which made it feel incomplete.
Overall, I enjoyed the game, but felt let down and confused when the dead character popped up without anyone noticing or being surprised they were alive.
