Blackberry Honey

Admittedly I have this on multiple platforms. I love this story with my whole aching heart. When I heard another one was coming out soon, I just had to come back to this and go through this story again.

画风不行，制作简陋，但剧情还行百合小甜文

This is the slowest visual novel I've ever come across. In six hours of plot, precious little has happened. Plot points repeat almost wholesale across multiple scenes, other plot points are introdced and then unceremoniously dropped, character development takes one step forward, then two steps back, with individual people acting alternately out of character. The cast is fairly large, but few actually matter besides three people. At one point, the protagonist's father changed from a sailor to I don't even remember what. This genuinely feels like it was written by AI. I'm not saying it was - it's not noted on the store page and I have no proof. But it READS like it. If you stripped the art and music (what little there is of that), what you'd be left is a slow, plodding, meandering story which goes nowhere most of the time. Maybe that's AI, maybe it's a particularly amateur writer. Either way, it's just... draining to sit through. Every time it feels like something of interest is about to happen... TIME SKIP, next day. And as to the graphics... there are barely any. Most talking characters have ONE sprite. Lorina has two - one in a maid uniform, one in a night gown. All sprites are staring directly into the camera, despite speaking with each other, for their eyes do not move. And that's for the lucky characters. Some only get a single headshot with no changes in expression. A character could be crying and distraught, but there's their headshot smiling a cheerful smile. And a lot don't get... anything at all. The priest gets nothing, the cook gets nothing, the three boys get nothing. Occasionally, there's a splash screen, usually for a sex scene. While those have decent technical quality, the characters in them never stay on-model. They feel like completely different people, often in a different art style as drawn by a different artist. Or - again, as I suspect but can't prove - by a different AI prompt. And there are so few of them. You know that image of two girls kissing that's the game's defacto thumbnail? Yeah, that's one of... I think four that I've seen? Total? The whole game feels so incredibly "cheap". And yes, I get it - it's a visual novel. Those are famously very cheap. But even by those standards, this cuts corners. At one point, a character offers to style the hair of the protagonist. Would it have been SO much trouble to change her character sprite to account for the new hair? Would it have been so much trouble to show a shot of the priest reading a sermon, considering how often we go back there? Would it be so much trougble to show character slightly different when they're supposed to be sick, or keep them from frowning when they're crying? I've played a fair few visual novels over the years, some better than others. This is probably the most hollow I can reacall off the top of my head. Cannot in good conscience recommend. *edit* Slight correction. As a 2017 game, this is unlikely to have been made with AI. So I guess that leaves us with "shovelware", instead. Either way, the result is the same - a hollow, shallow experience which feels slapped together on the cheap.