/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Alrighty. I already wrote about this game so maybe that helps keeping this shorter.
First of all, I did enjoy this to an extend. However there is a whole lot wrong with this.

-Writing: The author repeats everything way too much. You will realize this pretty fast, as it gets even comedic at times where within 10 lines you get essentially the same line 4 times or so. One way to deal with this is just to randomly not read a narration text-box or skim narration. If this part would not be a case, it'd be actually fairly well paced.
Unfortunately hand in hand with that goes that the author wrote things in a way too predictable way, and if it wasn't predictable, it's deus ex machina. With the exception of like once, though as nice as that was... even that was ultimately overshadowed by one of most dumb deus ex machina moments the game has to offer. The true route was unfortunately the culmination of all the shitty writing and was standard, predictable and shit in so many ways that it's probably better to just not pay much attention to it.
Finally game rules. As long as it was simple, it was okay. But as soon as the author tried to makes things more complex, the balance go ruined. The worst here was Claire's route. This was just nuts in so many way.

Even with all of that, it can still be somewhat enjoyable thanks to most of the characters being nice. It could've been better though. The game features two psycho girl nutjobs, but one is considered "okay", while the other isn't (and is not a heroine obviously). I think the author was somewhat aware of this (hopefully), but it was never given time and importance. After all the girl is just nice and doesn't want anyone to get hurt, right? Even if that means locking them all in, so they remain safe and sound. Or she would kill herself if she has to kill one person. She is NUTS. Which is fine. But why is nobody caring...?

Finally, this is suffering too much from its moe roots. There are certain battles of life and death with people sometimes dying, and yet the art is reflecting nothing of that. Not even injury. What? How! The girls also sometimes feel like they are in a bit of a wrong game with their designs. Especially someone like Misaki... but whatever, I went there already. And yet there's very little content a moege fan would want. At least half the ero is unlocked after seeing the respective epilogue of a girl. Barely random dates or anything like that.I'm sure all the Lump of Sugar fans felt very weird when they tried this game.


Well, at least this has nice music, a nice cat and best girl Claire. She is even a gamer girl who likes her Dark Souls and Pokemon IV training. Fairly amusing little epilogue she got herself in that regard. VERY little though, as all epilogues after the true route are.