Hate Plus

This is a great story that hits a lot harder in 2024 than I imagine it did when it originally released. That said, while the story is superb, the execution is lacking. Having the ability to read a visual novel in essentially any order you want means that there can be no real pacing, something that is only sort of addressed with the real life time gates and later game file unlocks. After reading the last file and getting my ending dialogue, I was left with a feeling of "that's it? there's nothing else?" Still, I highly recommend this one, especially given today's political climate.

Has an achievement impossible to achieve

broken achievement that is impossible to get. don't buy if you care. also not as interesting as the previous game.

This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane. It's simultaneously 1. a tragic story about political maneuvering/political murdering/wealth disparity/having kids for the tax credit/the gradual tendency of society to get worse and worse until you give up and accept your fate and 2. an anime quasi-dating-sim where your virtual (girl)friend demands you bake her a real life cake (which I did not do because it was 8 pm and I didn't have the ingredients but I swear to god before I die I'm gonna bake that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cake because she deserves it.) The game doesn't have as much punchiness (for lack of a better term) as its predecessor, owing to the choice to let the player reveal the logs in whatever order they want, which robs the plot of any kind of climax (and robs the player of the feeling they're actually [i]solving[/i] a mystery), but I don't really care because the logs were so much more interesting to read; they actually all directly tied into one another in an interweaving way, as opposed to the first game where some of the side entries were completely unimportant and only existed for flavor. Oh, and the art and music is excellent as always (r.i.p raide.) I can only regret that I wasn't there a decade ago (to the day) when this game came out, but with the continued relevance of its commentary on how the fragility of democracy leads to regressive societies, you'd be hard-pressed to believe the game is actually that old. So much has changed since then and yet so much has stayed the same.

Hate Plus 是 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/209370/Analogue_A_Hate_Story/] Analogue: A Hate Story [/url] 的续作，是否值得游玩其实更取决于前作的感受。存档继承可以提前进第三条线，并不关键。但设定的补全，与人物的互动，是无法直接游玩充分理解的。 本作不太视觉，但很小说。美术素材比较少，画风也略显古老，画面完全健全无 NSFW。和前作类似，除了与 ai 的互动，绝大多数的文本都是记录形式的静态文本，也就是和读传统小说类似。但不再有需要解开的谜题，直接且紧迫的动机，可交互命令行的模拟终端；静态文本占的比例也大得多，因此游戏性更差一些。好在添加了点击式的人物档案，可以随时弹出人物的图文简介，前作韩国名字罗马拼音实在太难认了( 抛开 vn 的传统艺能 (指和纸片人 waifu 互动)，大量历史记录解释了，技术上已经能星际航行的木槿花号，它的微缩版社会怎会如此离谱：不像是给一个答案 ，更像是陈述事实。记录的时间跨度，主要是在木槿花号改朝换代前一小段时间，世界观与三次元现实更加相似。在各种因素的共同作用下，社会不可避免的走向滑坡。但并非站在一个上帝视角，说教应怎样别怎样否则社会就会烂掉，或是警告一旦发生某些事所有人都会遭殃。而是站在不同个体的视角，描写早在剧变发生前，日常生活很大程度上还没改变时，就在在乎的方面感到无力，痛苦与仇恨 (hate)，不论他们的地位，三观，和选择如何。为这个主题服务以外，这些文本也有一些娱乐性的看点，体验 be like 和老熟人一起围观 baby politics 见证 [spoiler]想到三次元韩国就更好笑了[/spoiler]，还有看 NSFW 小黄文磕 cp [strike]苦命鸳鸯.jpg[/strike]。 Hate Plus 的另一个特点，是作者对本游戏应该如何游玩体验，方方面面的强烈控制欲：不只是用剧情分支，cg 收集奖励，稀有成就这些老生常谈的方法。由于涉及剧透，如果确定不会亲自游玩体验，可以看看成就列表和社区内容感受一下，或许会带来意外的乐趣。只要不在意成就收集，和稍微被冒犯一下，所有这些控制措施，也都可以用非作弊方式绕过 (改系统时间也不需要)。能否接受纯看喜好，但不可否认这很独特。游戏嘛，别太认真。

I played this game and a third of the way thru it i got kind of upset by people leaving reviews about some kind of impossible to achieve achievement. I now know what they are talking about. This actually makes it one of the best games i have ever played. I loved analogue way too much for my own good and somehow I love this game even more. I cannot recommend it enough. i have already said too much. Play Analogue then Hate plus. I loved both games so much I'd buy them off sale for as many of my friends as i could.

Heavily recommend playing "Analogue: A Hate story" first! While this game depicts events preceding the first game, it will have a very different impact if you play in the other order. The story depicts the events leading up to the cultural change that lead to the societal in the first game, much more of a thriller exploring trauma and how power structures can make themeselves fall in on themselves. Similar mechanics to the previous games with a built in reading limit for each day!

Screw this bollocks. This game is a technical disaster, low-ass resolution (ever heard of HD, Full-HD or 4k?), scrolling feels broken and non-smooth in a game about scrolling and reading texts. SPOILER WARNING!!! Then the dev added a fake achievement. Level four revive blablabla. I dont mind that i cannot obtain that, but because of that i wasted HOURS of my lifetime, THE ONLY THING I CAN NEVER GET BACK to save *Mute from killing herself or wiping her memory, however you wanna call it. I tried everything, i even sorted the logs and only read the ones i deemed "important" to get *Mute a full picture of what happened, so she doesnt kill herself. But no. It seems the achievement is fake and there is no actual way to save the actual *Mute. And THEN i found out you could skip those ridiculous waiting times of 12 hours by pressing S only to get called a jerkface by the dev for doing that. But ofcourse she is not a jerkface for making us wait FOR DAYS in hope of getting a different ending. Dear Dev, please learn about the value of time, because that is the only currency we never get back once we spend it. You Hypocrite. You cheat us by giving a fake achievement, making us believe we could achieve something that we cannot, but us skipping time on our 5th playthrough is not tolerable for you? Screw off. Jerkface.

If you love the first game this visual novel is a must play. Sadly miss the command-line minigame from the first part) I expected this, not a rather annoying real-time lock and baking cakes for a fictional character)) And yeah, creating an achievement that is impossible to get for player except for the dev themselves is an absolutely demonic move. I don't know why Steam even allows such intentional trolling of completionists and exploit of the lack of rules regarding achievements.

DISCLAIMER: ONE unachievable achievement. Not cool, dev. Not cool. Unfair.