*on a single play, and the choices I've made, might be possible to alter things but I tried to stick with MC's personality and go about things "his" way and this is what I've come down to.
I like to embody the character I'm playing and one of my first gripes come from "out of character choices" for the MC He's a very emo, broken, husk of a man. He gets thrusted into situations that otherwise he would have never been in. A good handful of choices are very out of character and force you to respond in a way thats just not concurrent with the MC's behavior patterns. Also just kind of forced to make choices a little too early that have more impact than I would initially have thought. Leads into the problems that makes me shy away from giving this a 5. The writing is pretty excellent, the renders are beautiful, the animations looked good. It's not a bad AVN dont get me wrong, just some critiques in general.
However, the second issue is the LI's in general. Theres Victoria, Nami and Bella, anyone else should immediately be written off because they feel like an after-thought in the story. Even Victoria at times feels like an after-thought. It's mostly between Nami and Bella. There isn't much experimenting or establishing dating/relationships, it kind of goads you into making early choices in a sense. Which granted, sucks because out of the three, they all have a pretty strong reason to go for but you should also be able to test the waters just a little bit to understand what each impact is going to be.
Victoria is the first person you meet who has a significant impact on the MC from that short meeting due to circumstances, she really needs the MC because of said circumstances and it just feels off to push her away.
Nami is the unfortunate third-wheel lifelong friend(?) that has been by MC's side the whole time and is clearly suffering. Theres a deep connection and clearly alot of unspoken things between the two but isn't really expressed out loud you have to piece it together. Also would say its the MOST FAIR choice. People will see Nami as possessive, or controlling but I understand the character archtype of "missing your opportunity and feeling cheated" and thats Nami in a nutshell, without spoiling too much, you find this out fairly quick if anything. Nami's pretty damaged herself.
Bella is the bully that just holds similar issues to the MC that ends up hogging alot of his time and turns out they have a very strong impact on one another, this again is another obvious choice because they're practically inseparable once meeting and are always pushing each other.
Other LI's just cant really hold a candle to those three, theres not much to work with, nor time spent with them that make any significant impact. Would have been nice to test the waters, date multiple people, connect with them, figure out what makes them tick and what kind of person they are before being thrusted into something. Wouldn't necessarily say it has to be a harem, but playing the field when single is totally normal.
Good story, will see where it goes next.
I like to embody the character I'm playing and one of my first gripes come from "out of character choices" for the MC He's a very emo, broken, husk of a man. He gets thrusted into situations that otherwise he would have never been in. A good handful of choices are very out of character and force you to respond in a way thats just not concurrent with the MC's behavior patterns. Also just kind of forced to make choices a little too early that have more impact than I would initially have thought. Leads into the problems that makes me shy away from giving this a 5. The writing is pretty excellent, the renders are beautiful, the animations looked good. It's not a bad AVN dont get me wrong, just some critiques in general.
However, the second issue is the LI's in general. Theres Victoria, Nami and Bella, anyone else should immediately be written off because they feel like an after-thought in the story. Even Victoria at times feels like an after-thought. It's mostly between Nami and Bella. There isn't much experimenting or establishing dating/relationships, it kind of goads you into making early choices in a sense. Which granted, sucks because out of the three, they all have a pretty strong reason to go for but you should also be able to test the waters just a little bit to understand what each impact is going to be.
Victoria is the first person you meet who has a significant impact on the MC from that short meeting due to circumstances, she really needs the MC because of said circumstances and it just feels off to push her away.
Nami is the unfortunate third-wheel lifelong friend(?) that has been by MC's side the whole time and is clearly suffering. Theres a deep connection and clearly alot of unspoken things between the two but isn't really expressed out loud you have to piece it together. Also would say its the MOST FAIR choice. People will see Nami as possessive, or controlling but I understand the character archtype of "missing your opportunity and feeling cheated" and thats Nami in a nutshell, without spoiling too much, you find this out fairly quick if anything. Nami's pretty damaged herself.
Bella is the bully that just holds similar issues to the MC that ends up hogging alot of his time and turns out they have a very strong impact on one another, this again is another obvious choice because they're practically inseparable once meeting and are always pushing each other.
Other LI's just cant really hold a candle to those three, theres not much to work with, nor time spent with them that make any significant impact. Would have been nice to test the waters, date multiple people, connect with them, figure out what makes them tick and what kind of person they are before being thrusted into something. Wouldn't necessarily say it has to be a harem, but playing the field when single is totally normal.
Good story, will see where it goes next.