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...
(12/07/2017 - Original Review - v0.2.1)
I couldn't complete this visual novel/game, and not because it was horrible, I just couldn't keep re-reading it because of the poor English translation... As an example, when responding to the girl after the protagonist gets knocked out, you refer to her as cold-hearted as well as other banter between the two characters that sounds more like insults being fired back and forth... In real life, if someone started talking to me like that I'ld get pretty upset, not actually like the person... Or when the protagonist says "I don't want to seem rude or something but this tea stuff resembles not only tea" which I have no clue what that is even referencing, but that is just one example of how confusing the translation is... Now, don't get me wrong, it isn't unreadable it's just a bad translation that starts getting confusing during the dialogue...
And perhaps it's a cultural thing for the origin for the author/s, but I've never heard of being on a school campus, and then having some random guy come out of nowhere and start a first fight for no apparent reason, knocking someone out, and not having it witnessed and/or the guy/gal being arrested for grand assault... Or at the least, having campus security arrive, rather then a single girl coming to the rescue, after the fact (with no security or police involvement)... And the way the characters spoke back and forth, there were references now and then that I just couldn't relate to or understand...
The visuals were good, and it seemed like the story was going in an ok direction, it's just the language barrier, needs someone to properly interpret and re-write the current English translation, into something more understandable and less literal...
I wish the authors the best of luck on this one, but the English version needs a LOT of work still...
(01/26/2018 - Review Update - v0.32.3)
Well I am impressed by the update to the English translation/interpretation, is it has improved 110% from the last time I played this VN/game... Bravo to whom ever did the re-translation...
Now that I can understand it, I really liked this VN/game... It plays out almost like a dating sim in a way, as you can make lots of choices some of which will determine which woman's story path/s you want to go down... I tried a couple of them (not all) to see how their content went (Helga and Anne)... Helga was a shy girl who needs more love and romance to win her heart, where as Anne needs a firm hand up front, and she loves experimenting sexually, yet she has a gentleness about her once a bond is formed... I think Anne just needs some love and attention to win her heart (almost like she's been hurt too many times which accounts for her attitude in the beginning)... After sex with the teacher, and saving her job, I didn't try pursuing her story after that... And after all the yelling stuff with the first woman, i didn't see much of her story playing out after that, so I assume prior choices sort of closed her story line mostly (dunno)...
Although I do really like this VN/Game, there were a few moments when I had some concerns... There are occasions when the protagonist basically acts a bit crazy and is over mean, especially with the original woman... It started off when they both went to open up to one another in his apartment, and he just interrupts her over and over without letting her speak much... She sort of shuns him because he is being a bit overzealous... And because of his attitude towards her, she tries to make him jealous, but that just makes him worse... From there he kind of becomes a complete jerk towards her, until later choices, where you have the opportunity of being more calm (you can still continue being a jerk as a choice as well)... It felt very out of character for the protagonist, almost like he was being a spoiled brat who just had his toys taken away kind of jerk... After he has his way with Anne, sort of forcibly, he goes mostly back to being a decent main character... During all those tense moments I started to worry about what kind of protagonist I was immersing myself into, and questioned if I should continue, even though I did continue, and he did improve... It felt as though if he had only let the original woman speak, before he acted like a spoiled child, that maybe he wouldn't have been such a jerk, but it is what it is...
As the title suggests, there are some minor twists now and then, a few which had me confused, but I just rolled with them... Like with the lady in the Deans office, I tried several different choices to see if her dialogue changed after the meeting was over, but it didn't... With the things she said, making it sound like the Dean had some sort of sinister plans for his teacher... I couldn't tell if some major twist was being hinted at, or if it was nothing to worry about... It was a bit of an odd plot twist tease, as thus far nothing too melodramatic was happening in the story... I sort of feel good about there NOT being some major oddball twist in this VN/game, that would throw the overall story on its head... Sure, there are some minor twists with the different women, but nothing over the top, which feels refreshing... Guess we'll need to wait and see...
Overall, I liked my re-play through, and especially liked the re-translation/re-interpretation as it is pretty much spot on and makes way more sense then it originally did... Again bravo for that... I look forward to future content, as I like having the different choices with choosing which woman to go with rather then having them intersect too much... I will definitely revisit this game later down the road...