Blossoms Bloom Brightest

This is a spoiler-free review table. If you find this helpful please consider marking it as such or leaving an award. Thank you. [table] [tr] [th]CATEGORY:[/th] [th]EXPECTATION:[/th] [th]SCORING:[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]EXAMPLE:[/b] Shows what a category(read from left to right) looks like on this table.[/td] [td]That you are able to read this table after reading this example category.[/td] [td]I give 0, 1, or 2 points for failing, meeting or exceeding my expectations per category and note why. After I add all the points to score the game. A perfect game earns 10 points.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]AUDIO:[/b] Both diegetic and non-diegetic sounds including music, effects, voice acting, user interface, and other sound designs.[/td] [td]Most game audio is clean, clear, and crisp. Any significant issues are fixable with game settings.[/td] [td]0 of 2 points. Most of it is serviceable but forgettable. The voice acting was disappointing; I heard no voice acting(in spite of having it turned on) until another technical issue forced me to turn off cloud saves, delete folders, and validate the game. It then only played for certain lines.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]GRAPHICAL:[/b] Particle systems and environmental effects, gameplay effects, user interfaces, cinematics, lighting and shadow, etc.[/td] [td]Cinematics should have no stutter. Actions and other graphics have few visual hiccups that don't break gameplay. User interfaces are easy to read. Any significant issues are fixable with game settings.[/td] [td]1 of 2 points. Nicely drawn characters but sometimes their facial expressions did not match the mood. I recall at one point them saying a character was distressed yet the model had a smile on her face.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]PLOT & GAMEPLAY:[/b] Includes the story and settings(if applicable) and the controls, mechanics and gameplay systems that should be keeping me engaged.[/td] [td]Game story and settings(if applicable) held my interest. Controls should feel intuitive or be reprogrammable. The mechanics and systems that should keep me engaged, at bare-minimum, stay rewarding.[/td] [td]0 of 2 points. No game-play since this game was a visual novel. The potential the story had was high and kept me reading through my first route and the non-repeated portions of the other routes in hopes of something. I did not find it and later followed a guide for achievements.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]TECHNICALS:[/b] Includes game stability, presence of accessibility options, how intuitive the controls are, etc.[/td] [td]User interface should be fluid. No major issues interrupt the gameplay and no hiccups hinder cinematics or gameplay.[/td] [td]0 of 2 points. Lots of issues. The biggest was spending over 3 hours ending my first route and not getting my achievement for it. To fix it I had to turn off cloud saves, delete folders, and validate. I was wrongly given the achievement for unlocking all gallery images upon relaunching.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]VALUE & CONTENT:[/b] The cost of a game, the content provided by it, my overall enjoyment from it and if I felt I got a good value from it.[/td] [td]My enjoyment from the game content should justify what I paid for it(1 point). I should be comfortable recommending the game at the price I paid for it(1 point). If I received the game for free I do this evaluation at full-price instead.[/td] [td]0 of 2 points. At the cost of "free" this was not worth my time. I do feel it would have been worth my time if not for the many technical issues and missed plot potential the game has. I would be uncomfortable recommending it to anyone; even achievement hunters.[/td] [/tr] [/table] After adding up the points Blossoms Bloom Brightest earned 1 out of 10 points! Technical issues and missed potential robbed the joy from this experience.

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I really wanted to like this and recommend it, especially since it's free, but I can't. The plot is strange, all over the place, and the bad pacing makes it worse... Everything felt so rushed, it made it hard to get attached to the characters in any way outside of just liking their designs, which ultimately impacted the likability of the good endings. The music is super repetitive and forgettable, the voice acting is okayish at best, each character only has a few voiced lines but they felt oddly placed when used. The bad endings aren't good either, [spoiler]with one including forced, stereotyped polyamory that felt more harem like than anything, and the other that included implied sexual assault, which isn't mentioned in the game's store page along with the other warnings such as violence and drugging, when it DEFINITELY should be. [/spoiler] It's really just... not good or worth your time :(

Pretty mid but it's free with easy achievements.

Un petit VN sympa et OK ? ouais je le conseille quand même

Historia aburrida. Las únicas líneas de voces que salen completas están en la promo, luego solo dicen monosílabos.