In short, this game has good animations towards the end of the game but other than that, it is an all over the place mess.
What I like:
Summary If you plan to play the game on mobile, I would suggest to stay away because this is not worth it (I had many more bugs on mobile that I just didn't elaborate on here). Otherwise, other than the art style and some animations, I don't think this holds water, there isn't much that draws you in to play the game. Me as a completionist, if I got far enough into the game I like to finish them so that's what I did unfortunately.
What I like:
- Some of the animations are nice, especially the ones towards the end of the game, where the dialogue in the animation is a comic style one and has 0 coherence. The other are just few key frames.
- The art style is nice. It looks hand drawn, making the characters feel juicy and soft which is appreciated.
- The game has a lot of bugs. Not game breaking ones, but annoying nonetheless. Some bugs for example are the speaker name not changing to the actual speaker, forcing you to guess whose talking by the context.
- Design choices and inconveniences, like the grindy making money to progress.. After some time I started to use the cheat in the settings, the money generation wasn't fun and was pointless gameplay-wise, it added nothing to the game. I even didn't try to play with the other stats management, I started the game with them off from the start. Unfortunately most devs have no idea what they are doing... They think it adds some gameplay and makes the game more interactive but instead they make the game unnecessarily tedious.
- The characters and story are very shallow. Everything happens so fast and have no build up. One day Mary just suddenly in love with you, just like that. There are additionally many more places like this where the story is incoherent and inconsistent.
- The game has a guide that tells you what to do with every character at any stage. On the one hand, this is good because most devs doesn't know how to design a sandbox game, so they develop a sandbox game which is not really sandbox, on the other hand, this makes the game feel like check listing a shopping list.
Summary If you plan to play the game on mobile, I would suggest to stay away because this is not worth it (I had many more bugs on mobile that I just didn't elaborate on here). Otherwise, other than the art style and some animations, I don't think this holds water, there isn't much that draws you in to play the game. Me as a completionist, if I got far enough into the game I like to finish them so that's what I did unfortunately.