So I just finished playing through the whole game and right now I still have some raw feelings. Overall I enjoyed the game. I think the renders were excellent and I found Clara to be very attractive. They story was also enjoyable enough to keep me reading.
I will admit that I am not a fan of NTR, but I went into this game knowing it was there ahead of time and I still played it anyway so I am not complaining about it either. I even played through the game like 6-7 times to get all the endings knowing I might not always like what I was going to see. Believe it or not, I actually enjoyed the scene with Clara and Mark [after he broke the vase] the best. (Luckily Mark's face was not visible in most of it so it was not too hard to pretend it was the MC instead).
The scene that really bothered me was the party scene. I found myself physically yelling at Samantha through the screen as she kept trying to justify her reasons for staying at the party with Mark instead of leaving. I could feel the MC's pain and frustration of trying to do everything he could to get this girl he liked out of a bad situation, but no matter how much he tried to convince her it was like talking to a brick wall. There was nothing else he could do as the person he was trying to save simply refused to be saved. That resulted in the MC feeling Helpless, which in turn resulted in me as the player feeling Really Pissed Off !!
However, the fact that I am still sitting here stewing over a scene with a fictional character in a visual novel means that the game's writer(s) clearly did an Excellent Job. Eliciting real emotion is the ultimate goal for a storyteller as it shows that readers took a genuine interest in the characters they created. So for that I say .... Well Done!
It also helped that future scenes and playthroughs revealed new details about Samantha that made me care about her much less as the game went on.
Also, on a completely separate note, I can not figure out how to unlock "Chapter 4" in the Gallery. As I mentioned I played through the entire game enough times to get all the endings, but Chapter 4 remains Locked. Any idea how to fix that
Eon Able ?