My personal opinion of this story is just that.
The story certainly shows a more accurate depiction of drug addiction and the damage it will do to people, you cant just 'love them' better, its a horrible sickness that a person has to want to fight themself.
The game has a couple of pretty hot chararacters too so thats a bonus. (my personal favourites are Audrey - Lovely but not the diabetes inducing tooth rot vaiety.
Barb is pretty, kinda badass and actually has a pretty interesting character development arc.)
That said the story can feel incredibly slow. It adds to realism if that's your cup of tea. (I believe it is referred to as slice of life), but i guess makes the story telling a chore to read through if you're less keen (perhaps a few well implemented time skips might have been beneficial, in my opinion).
If you like one specific girl (who isnt the starting girlfriend) and wanna chase that? This game will be an even bigger crawl. And I mean that purely because there are quite a few different women here to consider, and sometimes it can be quite a gap between even seeing them. In the mean time you must eat your peas and wait.
(yes, there are plenty of litle wobble your toggle scenes in the VN buuuut only if you are so inclined by all the characters (specific ones will be few and far apart in my experience).
I kept playing this (all the way to the end of the update) because I wanted to give it a fair shot since it is so highly rated (One of my favourite VN's had an awful intro and without another review urging me on I would've ditched it)... But it just never seemed to have that click moment for me where I was truly invested.
Again all personal opinion. But I wouldn't recommend this VN unless you have A LOT of time on your hands, really enjoy looong text heavy stories, and/or want to learn a little more about substance abuse without the sugar coating of traditional media.
The story certainly shows a more accurate depiction of drug addiction and the damage it will do to people, you cant just 'love them' better, its a horrible sickness that a person has to want to fight themself.
The game has a couple of pretty hot chararacters too so thats a bonus. (my personal favourites are Audrey - Lovely but not the diabetes inducing tooth rot vaiety.
Barb is pretty, kinda badass and actually has a pretty interesting character development arc.)
That said the story can feel incredibly slow. It adds to realism if that's your cup of tea. (I believe it is referred to as slice of life), but i guess makes the story telling a chore to read through if you're less keen (perhaps a few well implemented time skips might have been beneficial, in my opinion).
If you like one specific girl (who isnt the starting girlfriend) and wanna chase that? This game will be an even bigger crawl. And I mean that purely because there are quite a few different women here to consider, and sometimes it can be quite a gap between even seeing them. In the mean time you must eat your peas and wait.
(yes, there are plenty of litle wobble your toggle scenes in the VN buuuut only if you are so inclined by all the characters (specific ones will be few and far apart in my experience).
I kept playing this (all the way to the end of the update) because I wanted to give it a fair shot since it is so highly rated (One of my favourite VN's had an awful intro and without another review urging me on I would've ditched it)... But it just never seemed to have that click moment for me where I was truly invested.
Again all personal opinion. But I wouldn't recommend this VN unless you have A LOT of time on your hands, really enjoy looong text heavy stories, and/or want to learn a little more about substance abuse without the sugar coating of traditional media.