VN - Others - Completed - LOVELY x CATION [Final] [hibiki works]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    dnm13

    TL;DR - 6.6/10 - Unique story pacing, teachers heroine, but ambiguous mini game.

    Art - 7 / 10
    Averagely good. No particular problem, but nothing notable.

    Sound - 6 / 10
    This game has that system where you can input your own name as the protagonist, and if you do, there will be different lines and voices that differs from if you use the default name. And even if you use the default name, the voice will always sound awkward. This is generally true for every game that has this kind of system. Though other than that, everything is good for me.

    Character - 8 / 10
    It's quite rare (if any) to see a teacher as target heroine. In this game, you even got 2 of them! You can see character developments on each route, although not that much.

    Story - 8 / 10
    The routes are written quite uniquely. It feels like they're testing the water and challenging the common story pacing, where the story have problem, climax / resolution, and lastly ending. This game is not like that. Each route has different pacing, including the common story pacing that I just mentioned. Though as you might have guess, the different story pacing was kind of lacking in my opinion. Though some might like it.

    Translation & Mechanic - 4 / 10
    To be honest here, the game would be really enjoyable if the translation also covers the after school mini game. Also, the mini game was quite ambiguous or hard to grasp of the intention, especially when it's not translated. So you're left with using any walkthrough 100% of the time. Even now I still don't know the purpose of those bonus, like VIT LOV or one other thing that I forgot because I mostly ignore them. Also, the machine translation was not AI (I think). You can grasp the meaning, but some were hard to understand unless you proceed few lines after that.