Game version: Final
I quite like Gamecolon's (
ゲームコロン ) works. However, the game sadly didn't fulfill my expectations.
TLDR.:
- Final rating: 3.5
- Verdict: Play with cheats. Not worth the grind. Gallery is nice.
The plot is quite gripping and kept me curious the whole gameplay. The SAWish theme was neat, and the changes in the rules as you progress were clever and well done.
The battle system was different and suited well the ambiance and plot. In my opinion, it was creative and showed everyone that H-games with puzzle-focused combat do not need to follow the Candy Crush formula.
Regarding the technical specifications, the screen resolution was awful, nothing more or less. Thankfully we have some skillful members in this forum to mod the game for us, helping us enhance our experience.
Although the game has its qualities, it also has its downsides. The combat was too challenging and not straightforward, maybe because the game was machine translated.
One of the things that negatively surprised me was not to see a single anal scene. The way he handled it in his past works was superb. On the other hand, not seeing it here, for me, was disappointing.
Notwithstanding, there is something worst that got me off, the animations. The CG is good, but the CG animations were disgusting.
When I first saw the screenshots, I thought the game animations were Live2D, and please, do not take me wrong, Live2D is beautiful when well done, but this was one level below. The animations were lazy, just the image twitching, vibrating, bouncing, deforming, zooming in and out, in other words, just a few image manipulations techniques that were called animations.
All in all, the game is good but could be way better than this. If you do not see the release date, you could swear that it is the first game Gamecolon made. I know that the mechanics present in this one are newer, but I don't think it is worth giving up animations and other features in favor of it.
I was expecting way more from someone in a 5-year hiatus, enhancing his skills day after day.