30.1 hours played
Written 4 months ago
Saw it on sale for 5 Euros, read the reviews AND I noticed that most of them had quite the playtime (20+ hours). And, yeah, if you do pick it up and enjoy it, you can easily sink 20+ hours into it!
Now, I'm not gonna comment much on the main story - let's just say it has its ups and downs.
Some of the side quests are really funny and the recurring characters make the world feel much more realistic.
The character customization isn't the best, but there are some hidden items that have really strong effects! I was expecting the same old "this item is better because it has higher stats", but that's actually not the case, since those effects make up for the potentially lower stats!
The combat does get a bit boring later on, and I just switched to easy because it wasn't as much challenging as it was boring to spend more time dealing with enemies that pose no real threat other than having very high HP pools.
It's also pretty amazing how they managed to create so many extremely elaborate puzzles in such an outdated game engine, even if I do feel like some of them could've done with being less cryptic.
Honestly, even the 18+ scenes (do yourself a favor and get the patch) are great, and even if I only finished one route, I gotta say the romance was pretty well done - it did feel like a well-earned reward for the MC when it happened!
And then there's the excellent voice acting - they even voice acted THOSE scenes :o I've played other VNs with 18+ patches before, and those never had it! At least, not in English, hehe.
All in all, a surprisingly fun game for anyone who likes this sort of amalgamation of genres!