The animations in Genesis Order are subtly better, e.g., the character's faces are more mobile and register expressions better than previous NLT Media games.
The game play is inferior IMHO. There are fewer and less interesting locations than Treasure of Nadia and the artifacts needed for crafting are scattered randomly in ways that make zero sense making them unfindable without repeated guidance from the Oracle, e.g., baking soda and vinegar located in a safe in Andrea Kimura's kitchen! The mini-games. e.g., basketball, are pretty hopeless and uninteresting and the new puzzles promised, which players were supposed to be able to design if they chose to, have so far not appeared. Dependency on the Oracle (help system) is total and I don't see how anyone could move forward far without it because there is no coherent plot, story or logic in the way that scenes are presented or essential items are placed.
On top of this if you don't stick to the linear way specified by the developer you can end up stuck and unable to advance at all, because steps taken out of sequence have stopped other events/scenes from being triggered, and the only thing you can do is to wind the game back to an earlier point and replay again from there. Finally the sex scenes, although animated well, are hopelessly perfunctory and so much less hot than they could have been with more build up and intimacy.
The broad humor often makes me smile but "wham bam thank you ma’am" sex doesn't cut it in games for me any more than would in real life. Further all the girls and women seem to be horny for the MC all the time without explanation, e.g., nymphomaniac because of an aphrodisiac serum or sex virus as mentioned at the beginning of the game but not since, and willing to have intercourse anywhere at the drop of a hat, e.g., Heather and Hannah banging the MC in a sopping smelly muddy swamp with an alligator wandering about in the background! Overall IMHO The Genesis Order is a great RPG game and NLT Media talented and industrious but who knows what heights they might have reached if the game's underlying structure, plot and story was as good as its art and there were better and deeper relationships between the characters.
To me Genesis Order seems like a hurried creation, lacking imagination, which concentrates on animated sex scenes and disappointingly neglects everything else that makes for a masterpiece. The frequent update schedule is doubtless to blame for this but I think it's kind of a pity given the developer's obvious ability.(After all that I deserve a
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