The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.0.4...
Originally Reviewed on 12/14/2017
For me, this is a horrible and disturbing visual novel... At first I was fine with how things were going, and was starting to have high hopes (even with the broken english now and then) for the story in this VN, but you are punished by the author/s for some of your decisions...
Visuals are alright, not great... The backdrops are basic... I absolutely hate it that is VN has a suicide scene and they decided to show it as a visual... There is a sex animation dream sequence in the very beginning, but I felt it came out of nowhere...
The script has broke English here and there, but I could for the most part figure out what was implied when i ran into it... In the beginning there is a shot where the words were in Russian, so that had to be a bug... The over all plot was that the protagonist is an orphan adopted by a family, his older sister is an adopted orphan as well, his real parents and adopted father died, he has a young sister, and he was getting ready to head off to college, but before hand they were having a small get together to celebrate... The story begins to have moments where the protagonist's relationship with is older sister isn't great, but it begins to get better... But then the party occurs... You are presented with lots of choices during the party, some of which punish you in several varying ways... Such as if you drink too much, or drink too little, etc...
Several of the choices, regardless of how you choose to proceed, will lead you to go pick up more alcohol at the corner store (even though the VN calls it a mall)... Depending on how much you've drank, if you drink at all, when you walk your close friend to her house you either try to molest her and 'the end' or you kiss her as she's crying and become a bit closer, or you just hug her goodbye... If you do not drink at all or only drink so much without drinking too much, your older sister gets raped by a stranger at the corner store... During the lead up to the rape, if you run away, your punished with a 'the end', and if you try to protect her you get knocked out, and she still gets raped but this time you briefly see it happening... Eventually, once both characters get home, the protagonist and his mom get to a scene where your older sister has slit her wrists in the bathroom and dies (which they show as a full on visual) and you get a 'the end'... If you drink far too much, you throw up on your older sisters friend and 'the end'...
The last thing on gods green earth that I want to see in an Erotic VN/Game is lots of punishment for the choices you make, even when they seem like decent choices (like not drinking at all)... And the rape/suicide scenes were so totaly uncalled for and in bad taste, I just can't give this VN any chances to improve... It's not a completed VN, and just because of the 2 things I mentioned I have to just walk away from this one and never look back, regardless how it develops...
Why would you tell in the story how the protagonist begins to basically get on better terms with his sister (and I don't care if she isn't sister by blood), start to actually care about their relationship as the reader, to have her get raped and kill herself right afterwards, and the protagonist is incapable of stopping it regardless of the choices presented?
