It's funny. This and another game on this site, Triple Ex have a very bad reputation on here to a lot of people, especially Harem fans, yet I can't help but love these games. I've reviewed this game with a 5 stars a long time ago, I should probably review it again soon. But I was just thinking about this game in a nutshell. I was thinking, I like it. But why do I feel disappointed with each update?
The writing is good (minus the memes/references which I will get to), the characters are well developed (love it or hate it), and there is a clear path and goal as of late. One thing that is very hard clear to me is that the Dev's work hard to put together what they had planned on paper. The recent update and the fight they had with Ivan was pretty well done. It had a good pacing over all, and it didn't feel forced for a sake of it.
All this said, every update feels short. It's like we never get to experience these (IMO) engaging characters before we see the end chapter screen. There is never really a resolution. Chapter 17 felt like it left EVERYTHING in the air. Then Chapter 18 (most recent update) finally gave us some closure... only to take it back somewhat with another tease... I thought
killing off the Mom was a bad move in Chapter 16. Didn't feel earned. Came out of nowhere and made me uncomfortable with the hint that one of the characters might have
raped/molested MC's wife. However, after the end of this update, I can see it's possible that
MC's wife is perfectly alive and well, and it was all a set up by characters from the future. These characters at the end seem to be literal time travelers who were testing MC and their family. The young boy is apparently associated with the young girl MC rescued. The blonde girl, I'm guessing is MC's future daughter with the Niece. My personal thought. No evidence anywhere, just a stab in the dark. ANYWAY, I'll roll with the punches when it comes to these ridiculous plot points. It's in this games DNA. What I won't roll with is the things that take me out of the experience.
I don't do this often, but please
Burst Out Games, do a small bit of rewriting on this update. At least at the beginning. I felt the update was pretty Epic for being in a VN and it immediately started with me cringing so hard. There is like back to back references that TOTALLY took me out of the moment at the very beginning with
Daughter and Ivan fighting. I'm actually a HUGE fan of this game and it made ME pull back and say "What am i doing with my life" for that instant. This I find weird because it's clear to me that you guys are good fucking writers. Like literally, you can write your own lines. You can just write funny lines without involving other quotes. I laughed a few times during some of your original writing. It's not always necessary in every moment to add a reference. If you stuck the jokes to 75% original lines and 25% meme/reference I'd be fully on board. One thing I noticed is that halfway through the battle there were fewer references/memes. It's possible I didn't catch them, but yeah, as it ended the writing wasn't an issue for me.
Lastly, I'll talk about the Disappointment as a whole. I hope you don't read this and say "he's disappointed with each update" but I'm saying that the updates never resolve in a way to make you excited because it doesn't feel like the previous update gave you much of a pay off. So the last update is trying to catch up to the last's lack of pay off. For the future, I'd recommend that you add some kind of closure (like Chapter 18). The plot always feels like it's floating, like we're not fully understanding the events of it. That's OKAY... sometimes. NOT all of the time. It seems that for a while, the gang isn't able to decompress and swallow all the information much less the audience and we're left in the air. We're frozen and unable to feel the rammifications of when you try to gut punch us, we're just looking down and saying "are we supposed to feel something?" The gut punches can't happen if we don't feel grounded to the world. We've been floating since the scene at the ball/party with
Lucas and the other super people. Nothing I've seen so far, except for maybe a few scenes with Nika, have made me feel all that bad. Including the death
of the Mom, which I just felt was bad. Worse than her cheating honestly. I hope that with the next update
she's alive and well, otherwise
she was the most useless character ever and was wasted. No
cloning/manipulation/body double/mind control will be able to change that.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!
Edit: To the facepalmers, I don't understand. I merely shared my opinion on something. I didn't make any general statements about people, I didn't spoil anything outside of the spoiler tags, so I don't see the reason. If you don't like this game, fine, but if my opinion of liking it offends you, there are more productive ways of showing it, like commenting on what I say, not just crop dusting my comment with a Facepalm.
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