Yes, I can confirm that. This is the Russian reality through the eyes of an ordinary resident. Damn, in the game it's not even hyperbolization, this is reality. Supporters of the Putin regime are not recommended to play this. The truth will sting your eyes. Anyone who wants to know more about Russia, I advise you to play in this game.
VN - Ren'Py - Completed - The Story Of A Good Girl [v1.0] [comrade_x]
-
RogueKnightUK
Terrible. I mean, really terrible.
It's not the terrible translation - I was prepared for the Engrish to be strong. It is that the 'plot', if you can justify such drivel as such, has all the depth of a story my children could come up with at 6 years old.
Every cliche you would imagine is here with not one original thing added to justify any of it. The MC is a shallow stereotype of bright girl in poverty from drunken stepfather. The stepfather is the stereotype alcoholic. The bad boy is the stereotype bad boy spoiled rotten by his corrupt but powerful mother. So, in short, the story, all of its characters, and the style of telling it, all suck hugely.
What about the art? Well, actually someone has a good eye for rendering at times, but is obviously struggling to render on some terribly ill-equipped rig. The result is that most of the time the artwork has been produced by rendering the foreground characters completely separately to the background, and then merging the two images really, really badly. Dark translucent boxes abound where these images are overlaid with not a thought to the quality of the finished result. The final result comes from someone who apparently has never even heard of alpha transparency.
I really wanted to give this game a shot, but ultimately it comes down to this - I could have put up with the lousy images to enjoy a great, well written story with engaging characters. Or, I could have put up with the terrible writing to see great artwork and really sumptuous renders. But putting up with one horror just to get more of another equally horrendous experience? Nope.
To attempt to be constructive here, as I said, someone has a good eye generally for a scene, they just don't seem to have the technical equipment and know-how yet to deliver on it. Forums like F95 are filled with people who can write well enough that people might excuse the current image quality, or alternatively, are filled with enough people who render high quality fan-art that people might put up with the current level of writing.
I think the dev has some good ideas, and is simply lacking the equipment, the experience, and the ability to dedicate the necessary time to creating something an audience might go for. Either the dev needs to spend a LOT more time on quality control, fixing image issues like those dark translucencies on overlays that ought to be full transparency, or to spend the necessary hours writing better, rewriting and editing until the quality is up to scratch.