Grimm & Tonic: Aperitif

This a well put together game of choices that drive you to where the story is going to do and what is going to happen. I really enjoyed the play through of it and probably made some questionable decisions but that's okay! I would highly suggest this game. It is a good way to pass some time and just enjoy a little story game. I do hope they introduce more episodes in the future because I would for sure play again. I do feel that I will play it again to see if I can get any different endings in the game.

I LIKE IT! I hate visual novels so this definitely surprised me to be done so fun and easy and yet challenging!

This game was SO FUN! It has such an interesting story line and the stories of the characters are awesome to find out. The references are cool, as well. My favorite line: "Slavery wasn't abolished. They call it 9 to 5." I felt that in my soul. I can't wait to see more episodes!

It's short and sweet, really like the art too. Pretty cool. ^^

The art and characters are definitely quite charming. Unfortunately the game is a bit slow and thus boring. Can't see myself replaying it, even to get the last 2 achievements. It's just a bit of a slog to get through the entire thing, despite how short it is. Also a bit of an issue with continuity: in chapter 3 you have to look around for a side character, despite being told (at least in one of the outcomes) where they are at the end of chapter 2, which is a bit annoying.

Inicialmente fiquei pistolado com o jogo por não conseguir colocar em tela cheia e achei que seria uma experiência ruim (ganhei chave para streamar). Porém o jogo me surpreendeu positivamente. A história foi cativante e eu estou ansioso para jogar os outros capítulos no futuro (quando eu o fizer, eu atualizo a minha análise se necessário).

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Don't really like the artwork. Everybody looks kind of ugly imo, and having all the backgrounds be photographic is just lazy, and it looks bad. The background art needs to match the character art, and using photographs makes it look like you just don't give a ♥♥♥♥. Probably because you don't give a ♥♥♥♥. Also, just use renPy when you make one of these; Having to use the mouse button to advance the text in a VN is bad design. Play a few VN's and you will notice how convenient it is to be able to use the Spacebar or Enter keys to advance the text, & renPy does this by default. I'm pretty sure this is the only VN I have ever played where you can only use the mouse button to advance text. And I have played precisely 37 of them at time of writing. Also, if you are making a VN, don't have multiple choices that are all clearly the same thing written in a different way. Here is an example of a 'choice' that is clearly pointless on the face of it from 'Grim & Tonic': 1: 'You're not how much money you have in the bank.' 2: 'You're not the car you drive.' 3: 'You're not the contents of your wallet.' These choices look like they don't matter. If they do matter, it's arbitrary & not fair to the player, because they certainly look like they all amount to the same thing. If they don't matter the choice shouldn't even be there. The UI has what looks like a save button, but which does not appear to do anything. Again, this is functionality that renPy, which is free, includes by default. This is not worth paying more than 99p for.

might be fun, but was not for me

Bad