[0.4.6]
Review mentions some points of plot, anything crucial but be aware of it.
● Story/plot - 9.5/10
Plot is great, one of I enjoyed most in recent VNs.
I like it looks like another "big dick guy at school" but there is something more and that whole main plot I find interesting. I really enjoyed the "backstage" too, like MC playing real VN games, talking about real(?) anime with passion and I really felt they are interested in it in the way they were talking about it. It even made me looking for some anime to watch myself but meh, that's not for me unfortunately. Interactions and dialogues are solid in general with nice sense of humor. I also like intensity of action, it feels very natural although I was only like 3 days in-game time? Time traveling tho is dangerous topic to play with and is easy to make it look bad, devs handled it quite well I would say.
What I liked less were some behaviors sometimes, like what happened after "shit ninja". After 5 minutes it looked like they all got over with it. I mean lol, Brad had it on the phone, why didn't they watch it again and discuss it or show it to Jackie who knows shit about physics? They barely talked about it at all like it was "another day at school"... Also everyone is a bit too nice to each other in dialogues and MC mentiones too often that he helped someone with something, like he is hungry for praise or something.
● Graphics/visuals/renders quality - 9/10
I'm not anime fan but those who are will be amazed by these renders. Although I really like them, they are great quality and it is nice to see something different yet still at high level.
● Animations - 9.5/10
Same as above, top notch if graphics style in general suits you.
● Music - 5/10
I find it the hardest part for many VNs. Although music is fine and well matched there is too little variety of it and it often gets annoying when scene lasts a while and all I hear is 15 seconds looped music. Also there are some problems from the coding perspective I think, like new scene starts new song, I go next scene, go back and music sometimes reset and sometimes goes mute completely.
● Characters - 9/10
I love mimics and overall behavior of each character. They all act great, dialogues look natural with nice sense of humor. Tbh every female character is adorable and could be main LI, it is hard to like most just one of them and there are loooots of them. Despite this amount of them I didn't feel like they are repeatable or something, at least not in bad way. There are barely any male characters but it is better this way than having another jester-best-friend.
● Amount of content - 8/10
Well... It is E4 for now and I hope for many more to come, it took me some hours to get through it tho. Despite main plot there is anything really to do like free-roam or some mini-games, any character stats or so. That is not bad and I did not feel any need for for that since there is constantly some kind of action but still, it is just a VN type of game.
● Overall - 5/5
Great renders and animations, great characters, great and not easy to write well plot. Surprisingly this one is one of the top I ever played.