Others - Completed - Pattern Screamers+ [v1.0.01++] [Strange Girl, Fouzi]

A VN we didn't ask, but maybe did deserve.

- Shitty autosaves forcing you to resave and occupy extra save slots.
- No Ctrl-skipping.
- No gallery.
- Useless "open world". The Look/Talk/etc. and room picking could be cut entirely, saving us a ton of clicks.

+ The "neutral" and """true""" endings are hilarious.
+ The plot is quite dense, you either fight of fuck someone. Usually fuck. Everyone, their panties and their figurine.
+ After the fifth explosion, the girls stop killing us and become 100x times less weird. Even the princess.

The plot is rather good, the game design is the real horror.

For me I highly enjoyed the game, I got hooked more and more into the story the further I went, and there were certain characters that I absolutely loved like Jack that homie. The endings were pretty nice, but the true ending was ABSOLUTE cinema. And I liked how it tied to the neutral ending.

Even though the saves were a bit bothersome with how you had to do a double save since there wasn't an auto-save part of the menu. And it was a bit of an issue to find the right locations to progress but I didn't mind it since I could just go in quickly and press right arrow + left button the arrow to skip the "Let's go somewhere else" stuff.

For me I can enjoy things easily but this has made it into my top games.

At first the game was kinda hard since I have to try repeatedly to avoid game over, but then I started focusing more on the story line since things started to get interesting. Didn't expect the story to be my taste, minus one star because it's more like a visual novel to me, but still good.

The resolution feels incredibly unsatisfying. So many elements were left unexplored, threads of the story abandoned without closure.

I must admit, I’m quite frustrated. I invested three hours reading this, hoping for a rewarding conclusion, only to be met with a lackluster "good" ending. They repeatedly insist that the character isn’t human, only to reveal in the end that they actually were — a twist that, instead of feeling clever, comes across as misleading. The narrative circles the same point five times, and somewhere along the way, the entire purpose of the story seems to unravel.

This, unfortunately, is why I’ve grown disenchanted with visual novels. The writing itself felt unpolished, riddled with clichés, and the plot spiraled downward after the second chapter. I kept reading, holding on to the hope that it would eventually redeem itself — that there would be some payoff for my perseverance. Yet, that moment never came. And that, perhaps, is the greatest disappointment of all.

great porn and a normal story

Review done after playing version [v.0.6.0.4b+] (not completely as im stuck)

Even if the game is in development, the glitches, bugs, softlocks and even the game's progression make it very very hard to play. The game's checks for progressing further into the story are very obscure and NO GUIDANCE is given or told.

There isn't a way to know the current objective or what to do or even what can be done. Doing things at random and clicking everything even unneeded rooms seems to help in progressing but even that painful method fails because of obscure compulsary progression prompts that appear after interacting with a scene and going to that room again.

The game also suffers from uses of restarts of cutscenes which also serves as an issue for progressing. Hints are present in dialogue but they are quite obscure, 'once seen and gone' and not specific enough to help. Most importantly, these hints can sometimes be incorrect or misleading too (which lead me to a mind boggling softlock).

The last technical issue I have to mention is the save system.

• The intro cutscene (about a pattern screamer) can't be seen on a save file that played the intro already, meaning new game on a used save file or deleting it through the load menu will make you start from the 'arrival to mansion' part.
• the automatic saving can be useful sometimes but most times a liability and can't be toggled.
• loading saves sometimes restarts the game.

The technical part is out of the way. The game's art style is beautiful BUT Jumps around/Changes a lot for characters. Atmosphere and location's are very good. Story seems to be going well and alright. Gameplay mechanics are pretty good but adjustments are always welcome.