Making this review much more as a reminder to myself to not play this game than anything else
the visuals are really great. in fact, one once starting playing this game will rapidly notice that the visual art is the main reason to persist through and tolerate the repetitive and annoying routine the game requires the player to do in the slowest way possible, even though the engine itself is perfectly fine because the real problem is having not only to walk the same path an infinite amount of times but also having to rewatch 2-3 seconds cutscenes everytime in basic actions(as in going to school, for example)
then, as quick to appreciate how good the visuals are, anyone can realize that maybe it just isn't worth going through hours of repetition to follow a story that barely shows consistent progress at all
even when the game does show other interesting points(such as the nice acid humor) they're still overshadowed by the frustration of not finding oneself able to make the MC connect with the wanted girl. a frustration big enough to make me look up the list of H-scenes just to end up seeing that I already had seen everything available with Flora, which would be:
-almost no romantic scenes or dialogue at all
-small cutscenes with a massive amount of grinding between them, resulting in abrupt construction of the relationship between the protagonist and the girl, which then would make it hardly interesting to follow, much less enough to tolerate such repetitive, slow and nonsensical grinding
-going from that to having not even intimate h-scenes with the character, just one sex scene that also includes another female character that had absolutely no relationship whatsoever to the quest before
in a balance, clearly the insatisfaction from the frustration given from both gameplay and writing aspects weight more than the positive points that make this game look momentarily good like the great artstyle and the provocative humor
more cutscenes, dialogues and h-scenes developing the characters relationships and a faster, more dynamic grinding process would already fix this game and leave any player satisfied
the visuals are really great. in fact, one once starting playing this game will rapidly notice that the visual art is the main reason to persist through and tolerate the repetitive and annoying routine the game requires the player to do in the slowest way possible, even though the engine itself is perfectly fine because the real problem is having not only to walk the same path an infinite amount of times but also having to rewatch 2-3 seconds cutscenes everytime in basic actions(as in going to school, for example)
then, as quick to appreciate how good the visuals are, anyone can realize that maybe it just isn't worth going through hours of repetition to follow a story that barely shows consistent progress at all
even when the game does show other interesting points(such as the nice acid humor) they're still overshadowed by the frustration of not finding oneself able to make the MC connect with the wanted girl. a frustration big enough to make me look up the list of H-scenes just to end up seeing that I already had seen everything available with Flora, which would be:
-almost no romantic scenes or dialogue at all
-small cutscenes with a massive amount of grinding between them, resulting in abrupt construction of the relationship between the protagonist and the girl, which then would make it hardly interesting to follow, much less enough to tolerate such repetitive, slow and nonsensical grinding
-going from that to having not even intimate h-scenes with the character, just one sex scene that also includes another female character that had absolutely no relationship whatsoever to the quest before
in a balance, clearly the insatisfaction from the frustration given from both gameplay and writing aspects weight more than the positive points that make this game look momentarily good like the great artstyle and the provocative humor
more cutscenes, dialogues and h-scenes developing the characters relationships and a faster, more dynamic grinding process would already fix this game and leave any player satisfied