Might be a bit too early but as is now the game has a very interesting and promising start. And the choice of the setting being thrown blindly in a walled-off prison city is great, love it.
The story itself is intriguing and has interesting characters with well-written dialogue and good pacing. The visuals are not the best but good and the scenes are very well constructed and conveyed, the game in general shows and tells competent storytelling.
Also, the dev clearly put emphasis on the branching story and the replayability of the game adding a graph of the story tree branches at the end of the episode and a choice of in-game hints. Although I feel the present story choices are kinda lacking and don't change that much but seeing as it's just the first episode it might improve further on.
Overall this VN's first chapter impressed me and it has the potential to offer an interesting and unique experience so I recommend checking it out.
Edit: After the initial release the quality of the game unfortunately dropped. Instead of following the potential this game had and putting in the work, the devs seem to have chosen the easy route and just made the game into a generic mediocre adult VN with nice visuals.
The story itself is intriguing and has interesting characters with well-written dialogue and good pacing. The visuals are not the best but good and the scenes are very well constructed and conveyed, the game in general shows and tells competent storytelling.
Also, the dev clearly put emphasis on the branching story and the replayability of the game adding a graph of the story tree branches at the end of the episode and a choice of in-game hints. Although I feel the present story choices are kinda lacking and don't change that much but seeing as it's just the first episode it might improve further on.
Overall this VN's first chapter impressed me and it has the potential to offer an interesting and unique experience so I recommend checking it out.
Edit: After the initial release the quality of the game unfortunately dropped. Instead of following the potential this game had and putting in the work, the devs seem to have chosen the easy route and just made the game into a generic mediocre adult VN with nice visuals.