This was the first adult visual novel I've opened. This brought me to the genre... found it on a game site, tried it on a whim... and it was pretty good.
The individual stories have conclusion, albiet an unrealistic conclusion... and the overall story was simple but complete. They didn't try to do too much with this, and it works because of it. Some titles in this genre have a problem of too many arcs and inability to tie them all together. This doesn't really suffer from that.
I liked the characters for the most part... they all seemed to have their own voice and style.
The visuals provoked some arousal and some of the situations did as well. I very much liked the corruption of the mean girl. That arc was paced well and was hot.
I liked the backstory flashbacks and I thought that part of the narrative was one of the more female friendly on this site in the way it respected women and their sexual satisfaction... although the ending was a pure fantasy and kinda broke from any real feminism, the story at least acknowledged female pleasure. Some characters I could see going for that ending... some it felt like a stretch... and choices matter toward the ending. You can flat out blow an ending with a particular girl very early on... you might get close to her but she won't be there at the end. I liked the choices in this, compared to most I've played since.
It has something to say politically, too. I could have done without this... but I tended to agree with the politics, so it didn't bother me much.
(By politics I mean it picks one issue -- personal freedom and censorship -- and builds a storyline around this, and draws conclusions.)
Since first opening this, I've found much better games and much worse in the genre... but it was good enough to make me search out more like it and introduce me to the f95zone site.
The individual stories have conclusion, albiet an unrealistic conclusion... and the overall story was simple but complete. They didn't try to do too much with this, and it works because of it. Some titles in this genre have a problem of too many arcs and inability to tie them all together. This doesn't really suffer from that.
I liked the characters for the most part... they all seemed to have their own voice and style.
The visuals provoked some arousal and some of the situations did as well. I very much liked the corruption of the mean girl. That arc was paced well and was hot.
I liked the backstory flashbacks and I thought that part of the narrative was one of the more female friendly on this site in the way it respected women and their sexual satisfaction... although the ending was a pure fantasy and kinda broke from any real feminism, the story at least acknowledged female pleasure. Some characters I could see going for that ending... some it felt like a stretch... and choices matter toward the ending. You can flat out blow an ending with a particular girl very early on... you might get close to her but she won't be there at the end. I liked the choices in this, compared to most I've played since.
It has something to say politically, too. I could have done without this... but I tended to agree with the politics, so it didn't bother me much.
(By politics I mean it picks one issue -- personal freedom and censorship -- and builds a storyline around this, and draws conclusions.)
Since first opening this, I've found much better games and much worse in the genre... but it was good enough to make me search out more like it and introduce me to the f95zone site.