I really can't begine to understand why this game have so many good ratings.
Ok, the graphic is terribly outdated, but the game is old and i think they did the best with what they had, sure this is not my concern with this game.
If i have to put it in one sentence only it would be 'no one can really understand the meaning of outstaying your welcome until they played this game'.
It's atrociously long and immensely boring. Not that being long is a bad thing but in order to be long you need to feel the lenght with something meaningful. This game just doesn't do that.
The plot keep going in circles, quite literally since the 'game world' is made of about half a dozen locations that you visit a gozzillion times each, now grinding for supposedly needed resources, not going after the 100th mcgaffing, now going to uncover the next clue of a non-existing confused story, now grinding some more to minigame-build some structure that has no meaning whatsoever for the gameplay.
It's like this games wants to be like 10 different type of games and it doesn't have the technology to be any.
It starts like a survival game, which i skipped with the option, at the beginning of the game, to have plenty of food, but i'm sure if i played with no cheats the only difference would have been that the gameplay would have been even more long, extenuating and grinding. I think there is no actual limit to the time you can spend farming resources. Plot events seem to be triggered just by doind some action at some place when you decide to, so you can farm as much as you need just wasting your real life time. But that said, even if i didn't really care to farm, my resources never dropped below the initial ones so i guess the whole survival game is barely an inconvenience.
Then there is the VN. Now, i'm not sure, i haven't really tried, but i'm pretty sure there is one one route and you can't really make any meaningful choice. You just grind and run around from one scripted event to the next. So basically it's not even a VN, it's a Kinetic Novel. With grinding.
Then there is the homebase management game. You are supposed to improve the settlemente and build new structure and improve defences for... nothing. Because the plot is all scripted. You build the structures because the story says so. They get destroyed because the story says so. You lose the base because the story says so. You don't even build them. A 40 kg 1.50 teen girl does it, with her bare hands and she menage to build villa level of rustic buildings in like 4 days for building. BARE HANDED.
Then there is the fighting horror game, but you just need to grind your stats and get the brand new weapon that does a lot more damage, you know, when the story says that you do. Just that. No challenge whatsoever.
Then there are the minigames which are minimal, to say the least, the give absolutely no challenge and they repeat themselves to the nausea.
Then there is the porn. Which at the beginning is not even bad. Yet the game is so insanely overbloated with a story that goes absolutely nowhere that even the sex scenes become so repetetive and unwelcome that you find yourself fastclicking through them just to skip foreward. At the end of the scene it ask you if you want to repeat it... No. I do not. And some sex scenes are even repeatable events. As if you wanted to stretch this nothing of a game even more.
And finally, oh so glorious, we have the story. The abismally uninteresting, illogical, trite, underdeveloped story...
So, there is a global catastophe, started by an experiment gone wrong in a mad scientist's secret facility. Apparently the whole human race went extinct (i think? The game doesn't really bother saying anything about it). The only survivors are:
- Conveniently MC, which is immune to... death i presume?
- Some sort of nature goddess because... no idea.
- Conveniently the mad scientist because the plot needed an antagonist.
- Conveniently a dear childhood friend of MC, who, conveniently, is a bangable chick.
- Conveniently two cute girls to have more assess to fuck.
And then random things happen, like there are animal ghost mosters to kick, there are person ghost monsters to kick, there are trips downtown to collect mcgaffins and clues on what's happening (spoler allert, we never really get to know what and it's nothing much anyway). The mad scientist become some sort of god as powerful as just a random tall dude and a certain point he even turns into a chick because... no, really, no reson, it never have any impact to the story.
So MC gets this little harem, they fuck most of the time, which is considerate since the grinding/surviving/managemente/fighting/horror-story part is completely pointless and they have to spend time somehow. They have to fight back attacks from the pathetic ghost army of the mad scientist that is constantly defeated by 4 barely legal young girls and a dude with a back injury, MC learns magic but this has barely any impact on the story, and so on.
Despite the incident seems to be a human extinction level of event, the whole story is basically a quarrel between 2 group of neighbors: the mephistophelic mad scientist downhill and the hillybilly farmers family uphill.
Then the plot which manages to unfold at the same time in a convoluted and non-existent way gets to the final battle.
At a certain point the MC and his harem forfeit the multiple firearms they possess for the far superior boyscout handmade twigh bows they improvised and go to the bad guy lair where he waits for them to give the villain final speech and FINALLY die without even giving the player an actual challenge.
Then there is another sex scene to save the life of the MC by jizzing all the girl in turn that i swear it was so stupid that my brain started to bleed.
So, all ends well. Mankind is still extinct, or at last we think it is, the game doesn't bother mentioning. The villain is dead. His plan is obliterated but we never really learned what the plan was in the first place. The hillybillies are back to their farm house to farm, fuck and play DnD. All the girls are happily pregnant and their offspring will have the saddest life imaginable, fucking each other and giving birth to yet another generation, this time with sever genetic problems due to inbreed.
THE FUCKING END
It took me a few month to end this game because after a while i couldn't stand but to play a short time, mostly fastclicking through and with weeks in between.
The best part of all the experience was to delete the game right after and recover a few GB of my hard drive.
Ok, the graphic is terribly outdated, but the game is old and i think they did the best with what they had, sure this is not my concern with this game.
If i have to put it in one sentence only it would be 'no one can really understand the meaning of outstaying your welcome until they played this game'.
It's atrociously long and immensely boring. Not that being long is a bad thing but in order to be long you need to feel the lenght with something meaningful. This game just doesn't do that.
The plot keep going in circles, quite literally since the 'game world' is made of about half a dozen locations that you visit a gozzillion times each, now grinding for supposedly needed resources, not going after the 100th mcgaffing, now going to uncover the next clue of a non-existing confused story, now grinding some more to minigame-build some structure that has no meaning whatsoever for the gameplay.
It's like this games wants to be like 10 different type of games and it doesn't have the technology to be any.
It starts like a survival game, which i skipped with the option, at the beginning of the game, to have plenty of food, but i'm sure if i played with no cheats the only difference would have been that the gameplay would have been even more long, extenuating and grinding. I think there is no actual limit to the time you can spend farming resources. Plot events seem to be triggered just by doind some action at some place when you decide to, so you can farm as much as you need just wasting your real life time. But that said, even if i didn't really care to farm, my resources never dropped below the initial ones so i guess the whole survival game is barely an inconvenience.
Then there is the VN. Now, i'm not sure, i haven't really tried, but i'm pretty sure there is one one route and you can't really make any meaningful choice. You just grind and run around from one scripted event to the next. So basically it's not even a VN, it's a Kinetic Novel. With grinding.
Then there is the homebase management game. You are supposed to improve the settlemente and build new structure and improve defences for... nothing. Because the plot is all scripted. You build the structures because the story says so. They get destroyed because the story says so. You lose the base because the story says so. You don't even build them. A 40 kg 1.50 teen girl does it, with her bare hands and she menage to build villa level of rustic buildings in like 4 days for building. BARE HANDED.
Then there is the fighting horror game, but you just need to grind your stats and get the brand new weapon that does a lot more damage, you know, when the story says that you do. Just that. No challenge whatsoever.
Then there are the minigames which are minimal, to say the least, the give absolutely no challenge and they repeat themselves to the nausea.
Then there is the porn. Which at the beginning is not even bad. Yet the game is so insanely overbloated with a story that goes absolutely nowhere that even the sex scenes become so repetetive and unwelcome that you find yourself fastclicking through them just to skip foreward. At the end of the scene it ask you if you want to repeat it... No. I do not. And some sex scenes are even repeatable events. As if you wanted to stretch this nothing of a game even more.
And finally, oh so glorious, we have the story. The abismally uninteresting, illogical, trite, underdeveloped story...
So, there is a global catastophe, started by an experiment gone wrong in a mad scientist's secret facility. Apparently the whole human race went extinct (i think? The game doesn't really bother saying anything about it). The only survivors are:
- Conveniently MC, which is immune to... death i presume?
- Some sort of nature goddess because... no idea.
- Conveniently the mad scientist because the plot needed an antagonist.
- Conveniently a dear childhood friend of MC, who, conveniently, is a bangable chick.
- Conveniently two cute girls to have more assess to fuck.
And then random things happen, like there are animal ghost mosters to kick, there are person ghost monsters to kick, there are trips downtown to collect mcgaffins and clues on what's happening (spoler allert, we never really get to know what and it's nothing much anyway). The mad scientist become some sort of god as powerful as just a random tall dude and a certain point he even turns into a chick because... no, really, no reson, it never have any impact to the story.
So MC gets this little harem, they fuck most of the time, which is considerate since the grinding/surviving/managemente/fighting/horror-story part is completely pointless and they have to spend time somehow. They have to fight back attacks from the pathetic ghost army of the mad scientist that is constantly defeated by 4 barely legal young girls and a dude with a back injury, MC learns magic but this has barely any impact on the story, and so on.
Despite the incident seems to be a human extinction level of event, the whole story is basically a quarrel between 2 group of neighbors: the mephistophelic mad scientist downhill and the hillybilly farmers family uphill.
Then the plot which manages to unfold at the same time in a convoluted and non-existent way gets to the final battle.
At a certain point the MC and his harem forfeit the multiple firearms they possess for the far superior boyscout handmade twigh bows they improvised and go to the bad guy lair where he waits for them to give the villain final speech and FINALLY die without even giving the player an actual challenge.
Then there is another sex scene to save the life of the MC by jizzing all the girl in turn that i swear it was so stupid that my brain started to bleed.
So, all ends well. Mankind is still extinct, or at last we think it is, the game doesn't bother mentioning. The villain is dead. His plan is obliterated but we never really learned what the plan was in the first place. The hillybillies are back to their farm house to farm, fuck and play DnD. All the girls are happily pregnant and their offspring will have the saddest life imaginable, fucking each other and giving birth to yet another generation, this time with sever genetic problems due to inbreed.
THE FUCKING END
It took me a few month to end this game because after a while i couldn't stand but to play a short time, mostly fastclicking through and with weeks in between.
The best part of all the experience was to delete the game right after and recover a few GB of my hard drive.