This game is a direct follow up and, while I do greatly appreciate a Dev doing actual world building, the problem is it's boring as sin. And I'm not talking as one of those troglodytes that need a sexual interaction every five seconds to like a VN on here. In fact I'm sure I'm the only person complaining about story on this site... I mean every aspect of this story is just plain boring. There are no stakes, MC is more powerful than god. There's no emotion, it's already established that MC is a sociopath that feels nothing, only familial attachment to Chiel and other people like him. And there's no flow in the conversations, everyone's dialog feels stiff and kinda unnatural. And believe me when I say I really want to like this, it has an actual story but it's ALL POLITICS. You know, the reason why the Star Wars prequels sucked? And it's reiterated by the fact that MC doesn't even care about what's going on ever. Why should I care then?
The story is: You follow Garrett (or renamable through mod will be MC in this review) he is a psionic super soldier that has the strongest abilities of every species at this space colony. I will say the opening scene is the first and probably only time he ever gets hit? If that tells you how overpowered Dev made him. Anyway, it's 5 years after the first story, he knocked up all his women and the kids are born. He has to learn to be a father figure to 7 kids, give or take? All the while solving issues on the station. Someone is smuggling a lethal drug on the ship and they found evidence of a supposedly extinct alien race that may be confrontational. Those are the broad strokes and the rest is MC going back and forth to his love interests continuing his "ambassador work" and by that I mean he has sex with aliens. I don't wanna spoil much as some of it is actually interesting.
Usually I'd get into the love interests but if you're playing this you already know the majority. And I don't have a lot of good to say about this. I do wanna say, I liked the first one for the most part. This one improves on render quality, at least in terms of textures and that's it. But everything else is the same. It's all long winded conversations that almost always end up with MC coming up with the perfect plan for everything. And even the sex scenes are boring. They all go like this: A slideshow of the characters stripping. They kiss a bunch then get into the first position. Then a two frame animation of one of the characters pistoning into the other. But only one part of their body moves so it looks like they're breaking bones to do the motion. Then rinse and repeat that for the three or four sex positions. It's not great. I UNDERSTAND a lot of the talking is "futuristic military" jargon and such. But even when they're not talking in a counsel room, everyone talks and feels so robotic and stiff. Not just the emotionless MC. And the last story had the happy ending. I don't get why there needed to be a sequel. The only "loose end" was what does the last part of MC's DNA cocktail look like, but an open end to that helps add mystery.
ALL OF THIS ON TOP OF THE DEFAULT RENPY UI? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CHANGE 3 PICTURES AND FIND A DECENT FREE FONT.
To the Dev: You are very good at world building, I get that. Both universes you've made are not bad. But the dialogues between characters needs to be worked on. And the Saitama/Goku protagonist is boring, there's nothing to be invested in with minimal stakes. And if you have a Saitama, you need a Mumen Rider to have interesting character progression people wanna follow.
TLDR - Lots of space politics, boring sex scenes that add nothing, and stiff dialog and "animations." If you liked the first one and want more, here ya go.
