/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Finished エーテルの砂時計, it's by the author of Hello, World which is why I tried it.
It was pretty short, probably less than 1mb of text
Anyways it was weird, at times (mostly during the fights) it was written pretty brilliantly, the protagonist was pretty awesome and there was a decent setting and plot somewhere but everything about the slice of life and heroines was pretty terrible, which is bad since the game itself has pretty huge focus on them with most of the actual narration being from them even.
The plot itself had potential but went far too fast to deliver anything substantial, it always kill me when a game like spend half of its time on inane slice of life while glossing over an actually really elaborated setting.

For other things, the game has a LOT of animations, during ero scenes or during the fights, the production values are pretty high, too bad the art is terrible so all that effort end up mostly for naught.

Anyways it's not a landmine, the second half of the game was pretty passable if too much on fast forward (game is mostly straight road by the way, you get to choose one of the 3 heroine in the last chapter but it changes pretty much nothing), the setting is nice and there was some decent moments (mostly with the protag messing with people) and some cool and pretty well written fights but it's not something I'd recommend.