RPGM - Completed - LOVE IS UNDEAD [v1.17 EN] [Liquid Moon]

A pleasant little diversion trying to navigate a post-zombie apocalypse with your own zombie-waif, Amber. Amber starts out feral, and the player has to strap her to a chair to interact with her. As the story continues, progress is made on an antivirus (and makeup) that restores her closer to her original mind and looks. As her mind is restored, she becomes more tractable and affable, and the player learns to interact with her out restraints.

The main gameplay grind is exploring a very few zones for "survival points", then spending points to create medicines and to explore more. The training grind is clicking on Amber in different poses to fill and empty various meters.

The MT text is weird, but the incoherent tone actually serves her adorkable semi-zombie state pretty well. The interactive animations are crude and not very sexy, but the character design is really very charming and fits the overall minimalist aesthetic of the game.

Cons:

- It's very short on content, maybe a couple hours, a lot of that grinding
- The rpgmaker implementation is buggy af, it probably crashed 10 times over the couple hours of play (luckily, it provides an autosave, so you don't lose that much progress)
- The UX organization is poor, many clicks to navigate menus with a single item, necessary actions hidden in deeply nested menus
- There are no meaningful or understandble 'mechanics' in the game
- Combat during exploration is inscrutable and reduced to "select a weapon and win or lose", and even that without consequences
- Amber's progress and h-action unlocks are inscrutable and not very compelling regardless
- There's no meaningful story motivation or endgame, afaik

Nonetheless, interacting with Amber is quite amusing for a while, and she doesn't overstay her welcome.

Game:
+ Very decent, small size (~322 MB of game data) trainer.
~ Single NPC.
+ Good character evolution.

Art:
+ Pleasant style.
+ Amber is cute, animation of her facial expressions and behavior are very decent and adequate to the action.
~ All the other graphics are very simplified, but doesn't spoil the game reception.

Sound:
+ Quite pleasant and unobtrusive music.
+ Sound effects are sufficient/decent.
- No voice acting.

English translation:
- Meh. Needs a lot of refinement - makes reception difficult and sometimes makes dialogues unreadable.

UI:
~ Not overly complicated, but not without flaws.
- Game control only with the mouse (L/R-click) :|
+ Holding the L-mouse button simplifies clicking a bit.
- Disabled keyboard shortcuts and suboptimally modified RPGM mechanics :|

Combat mechanics:
+ Ridiculously simple and clear.
Training mechanics:
+ Simple and clear.
- Too much movement on the training screen - constant showing, hiding and scrolling of images.

Grind / unnecessary clicking:
~ Not so much overly excessive.
- Training actions require clicking L-button twice, or at least holding it adequately enough :|
- Status dynamic division (elements always displayed on the left, and those available only after pressing a button) - there is a place to display all elements at once!
- "Communication" submenu items should be located directly in the Amber context menu...

Just making a really quick one to remember I played this, liked it, and recommend it (unless not into 1 or more of the primary themes). Was also long ago I played this, just saw it posted here new.

Its great would be 3.8/5 but giving it + 1 for 4.8/5 since its rare for these to be made and we could always use more in every way.

Its got the typical treat her well or treat her like meat and decent enough in everything.

Would say its definitely not as great as the raising the just really sickly gal, instead of zombie sickly, but still great.

This game is good. Has a lot of the Vibe "Living with SIster Monochrome Fantasy". It's not a long or in depth (no special skills or side quests) and the translation/syntax isn't optomised(Saying He instead of She and MC talking when it seems like the NPC should be talking) but feels very similar.

So if you liked that one try this.