VN - Ren'Py - The Girl Who Confessed to Me [v0.1] [SalfetkaFIVE]

Flew over to here from SalfetkaFIVE's other project, imo this is the weaker project. The camera just does alot of funky things in this one with some moments of neat positioning. It rings to me as an earlier project than the other one by way of dialogue and camera angles, not that there's anything wrong with that. I think it still has some strong potential, but I am a little bit more hesitant about this one compared to the other one- and I'm not sure I can put my finger on why that is.

Hopefully, SalfetkaFIVE does recognise the strengths of an anime-centric style. Because they mentioned in their Patreon that their style was initially more realistic, and imo it's harder to fall short with this style than with a realistic one. But this does come off as a lower effort creation, and I do hope- should they properly work on this one- that they do put a genuine effort into making this rather than just shoving it out there to get an audience for other projects.

Still, despite its drawbacks, there's something about these narratives that feel like listening to dramatic reddit stories that you can't take yourself away from. I think that's SalfetkaFIVE's true strength, for as tropey as these projects are. I look forward to seeing what become of these things!

A short introduction into what seems to be a wholesome romance VN. There isn't a lot here at the moment but it does a good job setting up the headspace the MC is in and introducing the LI. It also ends on a nice little cliffhanger to keep you invested in what's gonna happen next.

The grammar, spelling, and syntax are all good. No 'engrish' here. There were a few minor errors but thats to be expected in an initial release like this.

Surprisingly for a first release this also has both music AND sound effects to liven up the experience and they are done well. However there is the common error with both the music and sound effents being governed by just the music slider in the options menu instead of the music being controlled by the 'music' slider and the sound effects being controlled by the 'sound' slider. This means that the sound effects are actually quite loud and if you turn down the music slider to compensate the music is so quiet that you can't really hear it anymore. Hopefully this is fixed in the future.

There is also the weird choice to make the MC 'nearly 21 years old' and still in high school. I can only think of 2 reasons you'd do that for a VN like this.
1: To make the MC a loser so the relationship has a chance to better him and give him some character growth.
2: To make sure the characters are above the age of majority in every counrty so there aren't any issues with selling the game. (This one is less likely but ya never know).
Neither of these reasons makes much sense to me but it is what it is.

Also a short aside, I have no idea what the first review is yapping about I played throught the whole game (what little there is) and never encountered any error logs or crashes. I have to assume they messed up their install somehow? I also have no idea where the second review is coming up with the "His friend is secretly banging all the female students and he ends up with the trap", this is literally never even hinted at in the game so I guess it's just his wild assumption about the story.

All in all a very good start to a wholesome romance VN that I am excited to see and read more of.

Not enough content for an honest review. The MC is super weird though since he is still 21 and in High School. Also I think his 'friend's probably fucking all of the real girls in school while MC is bout to get with the lil trap. But I am a sucker for romance so I'll check back with this one. Also, I didn't experience any crashes. Really this only needs like 2.5 stars but but review before mine is a bit unfare.