The short version is: “My Sister My Roommate” is a fun game, well worth the time investment to play through it, being simple and short enough that it never overstays its welcome.
As a side note – this review will be completely spoiler free (other than mentioning character names).
Compared to your average visual novel “My Sister My Roommate” has very simple dialogue lines, in part due to how self aware the game is, the game knows that it is a visual novel and embraces this entirely, which gives it a very unique vibe – often times the author uses the dialogue, and characters, to put out social commentary, or references to other similar visual novels, and on every single one of those times it is done in a very entertaining way.
STORY:
While simple, a shy guy going into college, the story does have its merits, mainly being able to keep up a very good pace whilst keeping itself interesting.
Being rather short works in the game’s favor, as it is very unlikely to get “old” or “boring” whilst playing from start to finish.
The dialogue, whilst not complex in any way, does a very good job in being entertaining, often cracking jokes at itself or at the expense of one or another character, always in a fairly lighthearted and friendly way.
Because of how many references to other visual novels the game throws around it might not be the best entry point to this type of game, it is likely that I didn’t get all of them myself, but the game I noticed being referenced the most is “Acting Lessons” which is another game I highly recommend.
With that being said the narrative’s main idea is to be “fun”, and it does accomplish that, in large part with unexpected lines of dialogue, with characters trying to “act” a certain way or the main character’s thoughts.
CHARACTERS:
All of the main cast members feel very distinct from one another, them being small in number also helps them standout when it is their time to occupy the spotlight.
The main character being beyond clueless as far as social cues go works wonders for comedic value, whether or not his misinterpretation leads to his success.
Nikki’s (the sister/roommate) easygoing counterpoint to the main character’s shyness in particular is very interesting to see, especially when she is doing something that he can’t really understand and his confusion is demonstrated to the player via his thoughts.
SEX SCENES:
To be perfectly frank I don’t really care about the sex scenes on this type of game, they’re not really why I’m playing and most of the time I just find them boring, there are very few that I find graphically enjoyable.
With that being said it’d be unfair for me to be harsh to games on this specific point – I’ll not kink shame though, go nuts people – that’s why I’ll write about them either way.
I wouldn’t say the graphics of them specifically are all that good, I did find them rather bland and generic – their writing also appears to rely on said graphics (in a way) because there’s not a lot in the means of description and/or dialogue.
This game does rely on its sex scenes quite a bit and as mentioned they’re not all that much entertaining, still, the rest of the game is interesting enough that it is still worth playing (unless you’re planning to just skip dialogue for some reason, I wouldn’t recommend it then).
CONCLUSION:
If reading through a short but fun story that is very much aware of what it is sounds interesting to you – give “My Sister My Roommate” a try.
It is worth how much time it requires to be finished, with many funny moments carefully placed along the narrative, whilst it does have some less interesting moments they’re not enough to cause any real issues to your perception of the whole narrative.
With all that being said – “My Sister My Roommate” would be somewhere between a 4/5 and a 5/5 game, but since you can’t really rate partial numbers, and I do think that it is a really enjoyable experience, it feels more deserving of the latter.
CREDITS:
If you played and enjoyed this game do consider supporting the creator on Patreon at /Sumodeine.
Special thanks to Sumodeine, the creator.