Curiosity Verbosity killed
the cat curiosity
I like the audiovisual style of
Milky Touch - the tasteful illustrations, the beautiful ladies, the atmospheric music.
There's also partial - and actually decent (which is rare in adult games) - voice acting (with some deviations between spoken and written text).
Sadly, the writing - even though it's (mostly) proper English - is fairly verbose (and flowery), to an extent that reading through
Milky Touch quickly turns into a tiresome slog rather than a pleasurable experience.
If someone feels the urge to write a novel, they should probably do just that - but this is a
visual novel, so the narration can (and should) be kept short and on point. Show, don't tell.
The story is also quite dull and sometimes doesn't make sense at all, for example:
As a birthday gift the MC's best friend lets him into his mom's office (who happens to be the school's headmistress) and asks him to hide.
And guess what?
On that exact day at that exact time she decides to enter her office to masturbate.
Sounds implausible?
Sounds plain stupid.
It would have made much more sense if they caught her red-handed (at home!) - or the MC's friend caught her and made a video of it.
Also, in many scenes illustrations and narration don’t harmonise too well.
It seems like the illustrator didn’t exactly know what the narration would be like (and vice versa) - and the person who put illustrations and text together didn't notice (or care enough) if they actually fit or not.
That way many scenes feel out of sync (like watching a movie with shifted / wrong audio track), for example:
- Even though it's said that Claudia puts on her uniform cap, it's never actually shown in the peeping scene.
- While Karen is still described getting comfortable in her chair, she's already shown full blown naked and masturbating.
I understand illustrations take time or (if you have to pay an illustrator) are expensive - still, it takes away from the immersion if characters and scenes aren't sufficently illustrated.
Some (side) characters aren't even illustrated at all, but simply shown as silhouettes.
Another immersion-breaking detail I recall is Claudia wearing her work uniform regardless of daytime (even while preparing dinner in the evening).
There are also scripting errors ("Victor's Karen" instead of "Victor's mom").
Bottom line:
Milky Touch shows a lot of potential, but for now the visuals seem to be its redeeming feature - beautiful illustrations, but verbose writing and a story which meanders between run-of-the-mill and implausible.