I'd honestly give this game a 3.5/5, but I rounded up. It's better than average.
Simply put, the art, song, and cinematography on this game all feel great. It's refreshing to see hand drawn art, and it's also got a lot of hot goth girls.
The story is gripping as well.
Now there's something I want to comment on regarding the game which might surprise you. Despite my earlier praise, it's rough around the edges.
So let me describe my first playthrough, years ago. I wanted to enjoy fun with ladies so I ignored training and spent time with the girls. It ended badly for me. I wasn't unsatisfied by it, I laughed a bit and tried again, going down other small paths and seeing what I was up against. I prioritized training until I couldn't anymore.
I also noticed some fake choices. There's nothing wrong with the occasional fake choice. It gives a sense of control over the mc. It reminds me I'm making decisions, even meaningless ones.
Now, it has quite a few of these. You can ask for a drink in the casino, for instance, and all drinks lead to the same outcomes.
But some situations have choices that SHOULD have no meaning, yet have pivotal roles in characters. As an example, a character's death is determined by an extremely abstract choice you make. It's literally as meaningless as "go left or right."
And even if you pick the correct choice here, if you lack the skill requirement, it's irrelevant.
I didn't want to go through gender bender route, and considering the reward for such a route is hooking up with Liz, who is a glory-hole slutbag for Jared, (the highschool bully archetype at the college who took everyone and their grandma's virginity) I wasn't particularly interested.
But, if you want better outcomes to fights and choices you make, you need to train "skill." And skill is a stat you need to raise in the genderbender route early, or you won't have much of it later.
But what happens in the gender bender route? You train as a cheerleader for Jared and his team. You stuff your breast all over him in one scene. You get an unavoidable bj if you're a futa from the girl who slept with the entire town (except you). Then, after going through that entire route, you're occasionally spammed with options to whore yourself out as a girl. It's all so tiresome.
There's more of this in other areas. Specific choices must be made for specific results, and this feels a bit like the sandbox crumbles on itself. Eventually I realized I wasn't influencing the world as much as the world was influencing me. I was doing things I didn't want to just to achieve results.
So, I could praise this game for a number of things, and detail the characters and what I liked and didn't like about them.
However, I gotta say, a lot of things the game promises (this content is optional) is half-hearted as a promise, you need to traverse specific paths for optimized stats or you'll miss out on events later on in the game.
Simply put, the art, song, and cinematography on this game all feel great. It's refreshing to see hand drawn art, and it's also got a lot of hot goth girls.
The story is gripping as well.
Now there's something I want to comment on regarding the game which might surprise you. Despite my earlier praise, it's rough around the edges.
So let me describe my first playthrough, years ago. I wanted to enjoy fun with ladies so I ignored training and spent time with the girls. It ended badly for me. I wasn't unsatisfied by it, I laughed a bit and tried again, going down other small paths and seeing what I was up against. I prioritized training until I couldn't anymore.
I also noticed some fake choices. There's nothing wrong with the occasional fake choice. It gives a sense of control over the mc. It reminds me I'm making decisions, even meaningless ones.
Now, it has quite a few of these. You can ask for a drink in the casino, for instance, and all drinks lead to the same outcomes.
But some situations have choices that SHOULD have no meaning, yet have pivotal roles in characters. As an example, a character's death is determined by an extremely abstract choice you make. It's literally as meaningless as "go left or right."
And even if you pick the correct choice here, if you lack the skill requirement, it's irrelevant.
I didn't want to go through gender bender route, and considering the reward for such a route is hooking up with Liz, who is a glory-hole slutbag for Jared, (the highschool bully archetype at the college who took everyone and their grandma's virginity) I wasn't particularly interested.
But, if you want better outcomes to fights and choices you make, you need to train "skill." And skill is a stat you need to raise in the genderbender route early, or you won't have much of it later.
But what happens in the gender bender route? You train as a cheerleader for Jared and his team. You stuff your breast all over him in one scene. You get an unavoidable bj if you're a futa from the girl who slept with the entire town (except you). Then, after going through that entire route, you're occasionally spammed with options to whore yourself out as a girl. It's all so tiresome.
There's more of this in other areas. Specific choices must be made for specific results, and this feels a bit like the sandbox crumbles on itself. Eventually I realized I wasn't influencing the world as much as the world was influencing me. I was doing things I didn't want to just to achieve results.
So, I could praise this game for a number of things, and detail the characters and what I liked and didn't like about them.
However, I gotta say, a lot of things the game promises (this content is optional) is half-hearted as a promise, you need to traverse specific paths for optimized stats or you'll miss out on events later on in the game.