It's not completely awful. The bones are there. I struggled a bit between giving it 2 or 3 stars, because there is an underlying story that could be interesting if it had better writing.
I mean, I'm 30 chapters in and it seems like the majority of the dialogue has been:
Girl: "I'm not good enough to be in your harem"
MC: "Yes, you are."
Girl: "You're right. Why didn't I see it before?"
And the worst part is this happens multiple times for the same characters.
They'll be resolved one chapter, and back to sniveling about being unworthy the next.
Admittedly, the "main girl", Victoria, has a decent enough reason for this, but it happens like 5 times in 30 chapters, on top of at least 3 other girls going through this same cycle.
Aside from the above complaint, it's worth noting for anyone who might want to try it in spite of that, there are no mechanics in this game.
There is one (criminally simple) turn-based RPG combat sequence that implies that there will be more, but even when fighting one of the big bads in chapter 29, said combat fails to make a return.
Maybe it comes in later, but I haven't the patience to push forward in the hopes that it does.
The vast majority has just been clicking and reading. No choices and virtually no exploration. No customization, including the MCs name, which is... I think it's going for funny, but it's really just a dead meme.
This would all be fine, if it weren't such a slog to get through.
All that said, I'll be putting this one down for now. I might muscle through it later, but I don't have high hopes. I'm just glad it was free.
I mean, I'm 30 chapters in and it seems like the majority of the dialogue has been:
Girl: "I'm not good enough to be in your harem"
MC: "Yes, you are."
Girl: "You're right. Why didn't I see it before?"
And the worst part is this happens multiple times for the same characters.
They'll be resolved one chapter, and back to sniveling about being unworthy the next.
Admittedly, the "main girl", Victoria, has a decent enough reason for this, but it happens like 5 times in 30 chapters, on top of at least 3 other girls going through this same cycle.
Aside from the above complaint, it's worth noting for anyone who might want to try it in spite of that, there are no mechanics in this game.
There is one (criminally simple) turn-based RPG combat sequence that implies that there will be more, but even when fighting one of the big bads in chapter 29, said combat fails to make a return.
Maybe it comes in later, but I haven't the patience to push forward in the hopes that it does.
The vast majority has just been clicking and reading. No choices and virtually no exploration. No customization, including the MCs name, which is... I think it's going for funny, but it's really just a dead meme.
This would all be fine, if it weren't such a slog to get through.
All that said, I'll be putting this one down for now. I might muscle through it later, but I don't have high hopes. I'm just glad it was free.