English
4.4
I just wish the 3D bodies matched their 2D illustrations more. In 3D the thighs are usually too small compared to how they look in 2D. Had to take a point off of graphics there, but I couldn't lower it any more because aside from that, the graphics, especially in 2D, and the cinematics, are 10/10.
As for the music... it's a crime that it's not officially released. Immediately became one of my favorite soundtracks, but I have few options to listen to it outside of the game.
Graphics settings are not customizable enough, so you may be stuck with it rendering at a low resolution, which I guess is due to your hardware. This alone severely impacts the visual quality and I almost want to remove another point for it. (it's not as important as the thighs, though)
As for the story, maybe it's just me but I don't like how I was thrown into very long text cutscenes before I even got a chance to care about the world and characters. I ended up skipping everything, then coming back to it later once I started to care about what's going on. I now go through all the story content I can find, except for the personal stories in the base since they take a while to fully unlock.
Replaying the main story missions costs Presence (this game's stamina) until you reach level 50 and unlock experience mode which allows you to do them for free. You start out on the newest chapters and can't play from chapter 1 until you go through the new stuff first. I get that the content is higher quality in new chapters, but the older chapters shouldn't be locked out. One of the chapters you have to do first is actually part 2 of another older chapter that you won't get to do until much later. Was this a bug? I can't go back and check without making a throwaway account somewhere.
Oh and I almost forgot... the forced tutorial is way too long. I think I was unable to do anything myself for 2 hours. I didn't even remember anything from the tutorial due to how eager I was to just play the game normally, so it was a huge waste of time. I learn by playing, not by anything else.
Anyway, I went through the early chapters to find out when exactly the player became married to all of the characters simultaneously. In the first few chapters, they have casual interactions, so I must have missed a lot of backstory by being forced to start on around chapter 15(?)... or so I thought. I found that the romance didn't happen gradually, it just suddenly came out of nowhere between the Yehrus and New Hentiro sagas, maybe even in one of those time-limited event chapters (which sadly are part of the main storyline, meaning it is possible to miss out on canon).
What I noticed in the early game is that it has that visual novel trope of requiring you to select a dialog option even when it's the only one available. Later on, they start to automatically show those lines as being spoken by your character instead, making for a smoother experience. However, later on the episode narration becomes way too verbose, and it feels like each scene drags on 3 or 4 times as long as it should. Might need a thesaurus on you as well, but that part's not necessarily a bad thing. The bad thing is that it feels like intentional stalling, trying to reach a specific word count, the writers showing off their ethereal vocabularies, etc., while there are sometimes just a few seconds of gameplay in between.
Also, sometimes the amount of text in the dialog box is too much to see all at once, and you'll have to either scroll through it or view the log. This was much worse back when the text was in the small interactive dialog box. Sometimes there will a black screen with text that appears at the center, and I know those cards usually go by fast to us due to the original language being faster to read... but you typically won't be able to reliably absorb that much information in such a short time. One episode (I think it was in a personal file) even ended right after a bunch of text flashed on the screen, so I had to replay the episode in full a few more times to get a chance to read it.
But yeah... I just played Marian's Queen of Pain personal file and then her Riptide personal file, and the differences mentioned before are apparent. Older stories with less verbose and overly poetic narration are easier to get through.
I'd prefer a hybrid approach, because I still think the newer stuff is more polished. I'd also like to be able to play the entire episode from the log screen, since not much happens visually anyway. With so much text, it really needs to cover the whole screen. The dialog box should be reserved for dialog, especially given how little text it holds. Most of the time, the illustration is just a generic reused image that has nothing to do with the story, and every event is just described in detail instead of being shown.
Voice acting. In English, specifically. Most of it isn't good. My immediate first impression was that it was AI, since most of them sound similar and the way they talk doesn't match the mood. Now I'm just convinced that there are only like 3-5 English voice actors voicing all of the characters. I like Marian's voice though.
Edit: LOL, just found out that they used to have male logistics officers (equipment pieces with character art) but replaced them with waifus a while back. Truly this game was made for people like me. Yeah, complaints aside, I'm still gonna be playing this one. High-quality combat, hot grills, and a stream of periodically-released outfits that tempt you into debt, it's a timeless combo. So far, my favorite chapters are Fogbound Dream and Maze of Darkness.
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