It's such a shame that this is such a massive misfire after how good Lust Epidemic and Treasure of Nadia were, but the drop in quality many players noted through The Genesis Order now looks less like a blip and more like a worrying trend.
Yes the visual quality is still there and yes there is a lot of content, but by this time NLT seem to be so committed to the formula that they established in those early games that nothing feels fresh or interesting anymore. The animation is high quality but the story feels contrived, the characters hollow, the sex scenes cheap. Puzzles for puzzles' sakes, mysteries that inspire no intrigue, new game mechanics that feel more like padding than new ideas, and a baffling switch to an isometric display which further slows down a treasure hunting game style which already occasionally tended toward being finicky or laborious.
I don't see myself picking this one up again. I'll have to wait and hope that NLT reconnect with what was actually fun and exciting about those earlier games and course correct with their next project.
Yes the visual quality is still there and yes there is a lot of content, but by this time NLT seem to be so committed to the formula that they established in those early games that nothing feels fresh or interesting anymore. The animation is high quality but the story feels contrived, the characters hollow, the sex scenes cheap. Puzzles for puzzles' sakes, mysteries that inspire no intrigue, new game mechanics that feel more like padding than new ideas, and a baffling switch to an isometric display which further slows down a treasure hunting game style which already occasionally tended toward being finicky or laborious.
I don't see myself picking this one up again. I'll have to wait and hope that NLT reconnect with what was actually fun and exciting about those earlier games and course correct with their next project.