- Jul 20, 2020
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First impressions:
So this seems to be basically just a remake of the previous project the dev was working on.
The renders are well done, but overall there so many glaring issues that really prevent me from enjoying it:
1. Arbitrarily changing the control scheme and adding in "gamified" interactions that do little to nothing for the actual experience (e.g. the warming the sister up). While the "animations" can be automated, it still wastes time and artificially pads out "play-time".
2. Transitions and dialogue speed are slow, along with a few transitions that just don't seem to be needed, and again just pads out time for no reason really.
3. The story is cut and dry cliché. Again, it's essentially just a remake of the first project they did, but even that was same set up.
4. This one has been addressed by the dev, but the English translation needs serious help. Definitely needs a full rewrite so that the dialogue is more natural. Not really the fault of the developer, but still worth noting.
5. The MC character seems unusually mentally stunted with how he acts, overall, just doesn't seem natural unless the dev is 14-15 years old or something, then it'd make sense.
The design and art are really well done, the choice to try to make this more of a "game" instead on focusing on the story and character dialogue is an odd. I wish you the best, but I can't see someone really paying for a product like this when there's many other VN's out there with just as good renders and better dialogue/story for free. Maybe in time things will improve on further iterations, but it's just not there yet.
So this seems to be basically just a remake of the previous project the dev was working on.
The renders are well done, but overall there so many glaring issues that really prevent me from enjoying it:
1. Arbitrarily changing the control scheme and adding in "gamified" interactions that do little to nothing for the actual experience (e.g. the warming the sister up). While the "animations" can be automated, it still wastes time and artificially pads out "play-time".
2. Transitions and dialogue speed are slow, along with a few transitions that just don't seem to be needed, and again just pads out time for no reason really.
3. The story is cut and dry cliché. Again, it's essentially just a remake of the first project they did, but even that was same set up.
4. This one has been addressed by the dev, but the English translation needs serious help. Definitely needs a full rewrite so that the dialogue is more natural. Not really the fault of the developer, but still worth noting.
5. The MC character seems unusually mentally stunted with how he acts, overall, just doesn't seem natural unless the dev is 14-15 years old or something, then it'd make sense.
The design and art are really well done, the choice to try to make this more of a "game" instead on focusing on the story and character dialogue is an odd. I wish you the best, but I can't see someone really paying for a product like this when there's many other VN's out there with just as good renders and better dialogue/story for free. Maybe in time things will improve on further iterations, but it's just not there yet.
