How to Take Off Your Mask

There is basically two paths you can choose from; Human and Luccretia. The first few chapters are pretty similiar but afterwards they differ a lot. I do recommend starting with the human path. It does show that the game is a bit older but it has a lovely story. pros; - beautiful japanese voice acting (even the heroine gets voiced as well as the name if you don't change it from the suggestions) - the graphics are a bit outdated but fit the visual preferences from back then - thumbs up for the humour - several fitting soundtracks - you are able to start from every chapter without needing to save neutral; - for my personal taste the cat part was sometimes a bit too much. i'm still confused at the one time where there is some constant meowing going on. Overall i would say that path is more focused on being entertaining while the human path is more focused on romance. in the end they complement each other to get more intel about the whole plot - i personally think it's a bit weird that how her personas get treated differs that much (on the one side she gets treated like an older and on the other side treated like the younger sister. kinda the heroines fault for acting so differently as in trying to overcompensate) - would have preferred a bit more variety with the LI's cons; - a lot of stuff never gets explained. there is a lot of plot you could have used that got kinda wasted. yet again, there is other parts that follow after this but they have a new main character there - on fullmode it gets a bit blurry for me For the playtime it might seem a bit overpriced but keep in mind how much it actually costs to pay for proper voice actors. Still - since I feel like they didn't use the full potential of the story, I only recommend buying it on sale.

This is also kind of a reccomendation for another series of otome games that I am possitive anyone who likes this series will also enjoy. Skip next paragraph for my actual review. This is the first of a three part series designed like the free to play Holiday Otome series by Synokoria (avaliable for download on itch.io) with each game having a separate protagonist, as well as each squeal being a continuation of the world story told throughout. This means that in the later games, the relationship from the previous game, while no longer being the focus, are still present in the story, and you can see how their relationship pogresses on the side along with each new protagonist. However not only that, but the overall narration of both series, meaning the humor, drama, angst and fluff are all similar. All of that aside, this is a very good game. Not only the graphics, but the story as well. The series only has one love interest per game, but otherwise has all the other goodies of other well-known otome games. I genuinly have nothing bad to say about this game or the series as a whole. As for if you should get the origional or remastered version, other reviews have already laid out all you need to know for you to make the decision that is right for you. Happy simping everyone!

How to Take Off Your Mask is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. I mean, we don't call reading a Choose Your Own Adventure novel "playing a game", do we? No. This is a lame dating/romance novel where you read about a cat-girl who tries to date some guy and work out why people don't like cat-girls. Probably because they are the subject of so much anime club dropout garbage like How To Take Off Your Mask. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. There's no options to change the resolution for the E-Book or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality visuals. Comically, this E-book is presented with Adobe Flash/AIR (I'm not making this up). Talk about not using the right tools for the job. Might as well try to bake a cake with a screwdriver. The extremely poor choice of E-reader engine here is a major contributing factor to the defects with the E-Book. You can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries, or from bookstores for a fraction of the price of this "game". Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

wspanila gra ktora poruszyla moje serce i wzbudzila sympatie do osob furry <3<3<3

A cute coming-of-age story about learning to be honest about your feelings to the people you care about via the narrative device of waking up one day as a catgirl.

Repitan conmigo chicos; "no hay que ser furros"

[b]How to Take Off Your Mask[/b] est un visual novel mignon et léger (F x M, avec un seul prétendant) qui prend approximativement [i]5 heures[/i] à terminer. (Mon temps de jeu est biaisé car j'ai perdu ma sauvegarde en changeant de pc (ce fut frustrant), donc il y a à enlever 3 heures de mon temps total.) La première route prend environ 3 heures à compléter avec une bonne vitesse de lecture, le reste se finit plus ou moins rapidement grâce à la lecture rapide. Nous suivons l'histoire de [i]Lilia[/i] et de son ami d'enfance [i]Ronan[/i]. La jeune fille se rend compte un jour qu'elle se réveille avec des oreilles et une queue de chat... Son corps a rapetissé aussi, nya! Nya? Sous cette forme elle ne peut s'empêcher de dire [i]Nya[/i]. Suite à ça nous suivons une intrigue fantastique dans un univers où les [i]Lucrétiens[/i] sont mal-vu par la société... Qu'adviendra-t-il de la pauvre [i]Lilia[/i]?! Et surtout, comment cela affectera sa relation avec son ami d'enfance... Le visual novel se construit en [u]2 branches[/u] : - La première où on suit + la partie humaine de [b]Lilia[/b]. - La deuxième où on suit + la partie Lucrétienne de [b]Leea[/b]. [b]How to Take Off Your Mask[/b] est le premier visual novel d'une [u]trilogie[/u]. Passons à une petite analyse ! ♥ ♥ [u]Points positifs[/u] ♥ ♥ - Le VN est [b]mignon[/b], [b]léger[/b] et [b]rafraîchissant[/b], que ce soit au niveau de l'[i]histoire[/i], de la [i]direction artistique[/i] avec des personnages et des décors adorables. Très colorés pour la grande majorité des décors. - La [b]musique[/b] du jeu est très bien travaillée. Nous avons un très beau générique (digne d'un anime) au chargement du jeu et en fin de route, ça ne reste que mon opinion, mais c'est un de mes génériques de VN préférés, l'interprétation est vraiment réussit et il reste en tête ! (Vous pouvez déjà avoir un aperçu dans la deuxième vidéo de présentation de la page Steam.) Les OST tout au long du jeu sont très biens également et collent avec les situations du scénario. - [b]Intégralement doublé[/b] ! Que ce soit l'héroïne, ou même les personnages les plus secondaires ! Le casting est très bon (surtout celle de [b]Leea[/b]) et on ne s'en lasse pas. - L'[b]intrigue[/b] fantastique est très prometteur. Si il n'y avait pas eu de suite à ce premier volet, j'aurais sans doute mis ce point dans point neutre, car ça fait qu'on se retrouve avec une histoire assez [b]courte[/b] (mais je n'ai [i]pas[/i] eu d'impression de [i]rush[/i]). Bien que la trame principale soit plus ou moins résolu à la fin des deux routes, il reste encore différentes questions en tête. Notamment [spoiler]Qui est donc le "grand méchant" dans cette histoire? Que veut-il? Où sont les parents de Lilia?[/spoiler] J'ai bon espoir de trouver mes réponses dans les opus suivants. - Ce VN alterne entre un humour léger et un ton plus sérieux, et c'est bien maîtrisé. - Les [b]CG[/b] sont très beaux ! - Beaucoup de slot de sauvegardes. Vraiment beaucoup. C'est beau pour les yeux ! (Même si à mon avis, vous n'aurez même pas besoin de la moitié !) - Les [b]achievements[/b] s'obtiennent plus ou moins facilement. - ♥ [u]Points neutres[/u] - ♥ Bien que je ne lui ai pas demandé, mon jeu a été mis par défaut en français. Alors je n'ai rien contre le français étant bah.. française, sauf que j'ai l'habitude de jouer mes visual novel en anglais. Donc je jugerais ici la qualité de l'écriture française. - La [b]traduction[/b] est bonne. Par moment j'ai tiqué un petit peu mais sinon c'était très bien, et ça avait même un certain charme et on arrive à comprendre et à suivre l'histoire. - - [u]Points négatifs[/u] -- - [strike]J'ai perdu mes sauvegardes et j'ai du recommencé depuis le début, ouiiin. Je rigole, évidemment![/strike] Plus sérieusement, je trouve très peu de points négatifs. [h1]Conclusion ?[/h1] Je conseille ce VN à toutes celles et ceux qui veulent se lancer dans la franchise [i]Eroolia[/i]/la trilogie des [i]How to[/i]. Moi-même à l'écriture de cet avis je n'ai pas encore joué aux deux suivants (ce que je me dépêcherais de faire!), mais ce premier épisode m'a grandement convaincu. Si vous cherchez un visual novel mignon et sans prise de tête, foncez pour celui-là ! Je recommanderais cependant d'acheter la version [i]Remastered[/i] du jeu, qui ajoute des petits plus au jeu. Et ce sera également plus rentable au niveau du prix. (Si vous voulez tout de même achetés cette version, je conseillerais de l'acheter en [i]promotion[/i], le jeu est de bonne qualité, cependant il parait bien élevé comparé au prix de [i]Remaster[/i].)

super cute game, my favorite from the series ^w^

This game - I know, I know - why would a gamer like myself have a soft spot for this visual novel series? It makes me laugh. It's honestly cheesy at times and the date of when it was made shows. But I watched Dodger play this awhile back, never finish, and then I saw it in a Fanatical bundle. So I grabbed it. If you want a laid back story to unwind on after playing a grueling FPS or triple A game this is the one for you.

This is an alright visual novel. There are plenty of better options available though.