The Copycat [v1.3.0]
About twenty minutes in, the fourth major choice popped up. I obviously picked the wrong one, because not even five minutes later I hit a Game Over - and that happened while I still felt the real story hadn’t even started yet. A genuine "for real?" moment.
That’s simply how this VN operates. You get no hints about where your choices lead, and you’ll be blindsided again and again, either by sudden bad endings or by the story drifting into directions you absolutely never wanted to walk. Actually… scratch that. It drifts there anyway, no matter what you pick.
And you know what? I don’t even complain about that. Not like some people who cry about lacking "control". I actually enjoyed being shocked. Props to the dev for having such a twisted imagination that he managed to keep me glued to the screen for roughly eight hours.
Don’t touch this VN if you’re soft-hearted. The only genuinely decent and normal person in this entire world, Jason, is doomed to lose on every possible front in this dystopian nightmare. Let’s hope he stays strong, but I seriously doubt it.
His mother, the female lead, is a tragic character too, though it’s hard to feel sympathy for her. Her intimate involvement with Jamal - Jason’s bully and the murderer of her husband - puts her almost on the same moral level as him.
Overall, the dev rarely manages to make you feel any emotional connection to the cast at all, male or female. At best, I developed sympathy for maybe three characters.
Prepare yourself for exaggerated stereotypes, behavior way below the belt, and logic that seems to be on long-term vacation somewhere beyond Pluto.
That’s actually my biggest complaint: the story is nonstop over-the-top. It would benefit hugely from a few grounded, normal moments. Those would give the extreme scenes more weight instead of bombarding the player nonstop.
The renders are good. Not the best I’ve ever seen, but solid and fitting for what the story tries to achieve. Scenes feel complete and well-framed.
On the other hand, the models used for the female protagonist and many of the female side characters are genuinely awful. It feels like a caricature of the female body. I have nothing against big breasts or big hips, but here the sliders were pushed so far that the characters look like grotesque cartoon distortions of what should be human shapes.
The few animations are fine and placed appropriately.
This VN gives you far more story than lewd content. It gives you horror instead of romance, and zero realism. Whether that’s good or bad fully depends on what you’re looking for.
For now, I’m giving it a rounded-up 4 stars. I may adjust my rating once The Copycat is completed.
About twenty minutes in, the fourth major choice popped up. I obviously picked the wrong one, because not even five minutes later I hit a Game Over - and that happened while I still felt the real story hadn’t even started yet. A genuine "for real?" moment.
That’s simply how this VN operates. You get no hints about where your choices lead, and you’ll be blindsided again and again, either by sudden bad endings or by the story drifting into directions you absolutely never wanted to walk. Actually… scratch that. It drifts there anyway, no matter what you pick.
And you know what? I don’t even complain about that. Not like some people who cry about lacking "control". I actually enjoyed being shocked. Props to the dev for having such a twisted imagination that he managed to keep me glued to the screen for roughly eight hours.
Don’t touch this VN if you’re soft-hearted. The only genuinely decent and normal person in this entire world, Jason, is doomed to lose on every possible front in this dystopian nightmare. Let’s hope he stays strong, but I seriously doubt it.
His mother, the female lead, is a tragic character too, though it’s hard to feel sympathy for her. Her intimate involvement with Jamal - Jason’s bully and the murderer of her husband - puts her almost on the same moral level as him.
Overall, the dev rarely manages to make you feel any emotional connection to the cast at all, male or female. At best, I developed sympathy for maybe three characters.
Prepare yourself for exaggerated stereotypes, behavior way below the belt, and logic that seems to be on long-term vacation somewhere beyond Pluto.
That’s actually my biggest complaint: the story is nonstop over-the-top. It would benefit hugely from a few grounded, normal moments. Those would give the extreme scenes more weight instead of bombarding the player nonstop.
The renders are good. Not the best I’ve ever seen, but solid and fitting for what the story tries to achieve. Scenes feel complete and well-framed.
On the other hand, the models used for the female protagonist and many of the female side characters are genuinely awful. It feels like a caricature of the female body. I have nothing against big breasts or big hips, but here the sliders were pushed so far that the characters look like grotesque cartoon distortions of what should be human shapes.
The few animations are fine and placed appropriately.
This VN gives you far more story than lewd content. It gives you horror instead of romance, and zero realism. Whether that’s good or bad fully depends on what you’re looking for.
For now, I’m giving it a rounded-up 4 stars. I may adjust my rating once The Copycat is completed.
