I deserve a happy ending

I was so excited to get this novel for free as a steam curator. My group is not that big, so to get a game from my wishlist and Boys' Love VN to boot felt great. Buut...welp, I guess, as usual, my expectations were too high xD It's gonna be a neutral review. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2833390801 Things I absolutely adored while playing: +Art is pretty, backgrounds especially are very attractive, chibi images are always beyond all praise. +I've always been fond of fairy-tales, MC is a prince and the whole fantasy atmosphere was awesome. +The price is quite affordable. +An uncredible feature of deep and active interaction with the story, more than usual like in visual novels with great choices. +There're not that many BL visual novels (in my opinion), so I'm grateful for its creation despite all flaws. +Steam guide is available if you somehow struggle to get any endings. +I think the name of the game is amazing. That's a good thing to keep in mind that we all deserve a happy ending, the way we see that. +Nameable MC. +'Love' options are gorgeous. Elves are my passion, that sorcerer is stunning. Purple is my fav color, so their appearance is just perfect! +I appreciated that after the first playthrough while trying out other choices, the story didn't feel like totally skippable. I read quite enough new text. +Author's comments on the contrast between happy and meaningful endings are quite thought-provoking. Though it looks like (judging by the title) the game states we deserve 'happy' endings instead XD No deep meaning just shallow happiness. Welp, it's smth to ponder over xD https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832916569 Things that almost made me choose a thumb down: --The text should be seriously edited. The list of typos, mistakes is inexcusably long. --Btw it's said Spanish is available, but it's not for now. I believe store page should reflect the truth. --All chars are undoubtedly handsome but it hurt a lot to gaze at their beauty half cut, they were so big, really like giants, so they couldn't fit in the surroundings. I wonder how devs and beta-testers didn't notice it. It's VISUAL novel, let me enjoy the art. Sometimes I'm guilty enough to write a positive review for not that well-written novel just because the visual part was so stunning. I sincerely hope it can be fixed here. --No achs and there's no list of endings in the menu. So, I reach smth and I can't even comprehend what kind of ending it is, how many are left. The guide is available but how to figure out what I'm missing and what instructions to follow. That was disappointing. I don't think it's difficult to add it but it'd be quite considerate of players. --My greatest complaint xD Guys, why is it even called a BL novel?! Because there're no girls in the story? Is it the reason enough?! Welp, ok, one reviewer mentioned that it's wonderful to have a non-sexual BL game. But come on, what information do we get from the store page?! That the prince is trying to get his happy ending “by finding love”. It's so misleading! I'd even call deceiving! Because he is not! He doesn't think about love at all! His thoughts are about his kingdom and how to prove the king he is the next one to be crowned. That's totally unfair. I mean I've played some BL novels without explicit content story-wise or visually (the very latest game I finished and reviewed), but it's different! It's not about Boys' LOVE, it's more about Boys' FRIENDSHIP. And that's actually ok, sweet and why not really but I still believe the description of the game is confusing. --That fascinating feature of chars communicating with you, and the author's presence is fun and all but... it has some flaw. I always self-insert while playing, it helps me to experience smth new deeper, escape from familiar reality. But here I am me! Call me higher power or smth, I'm still just an ordinary player making some choices for the chars. I'm not the prince ready for great deeds to protect his kingdom. I get it, it's an inevitable consequence of quite a rare game feature but I'm still a little bit grumpy about that xD --I wish the option to continue skipping after the choices was available in settings. It'd save some time. --MC is typically annoying xD Nothing new here. Quite often he was so rude, impatient, arrogant... He realized it himself occasionally but still it was irritating. --Endings are abrupt, in my opinion. --The game feels short, I'd like more information at the end of first two routes. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2833400517 Actually, initially I wrote a neutral review with a thumb down but then counted + and – and it turned out there're more positive things mentioned. I still believe the game should be fixed. And I'll leave it to your own decision if it's worth playing. Despite being disappointed and annoyed from time to time, in general, it was enjoyable enough not to consider it a total waste of time. [table] [tr] [th]More thoughts about the game in a [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/readingnook/discussions/0/3419937087359586651/] Reading Nook [/url][/th] [/tr] [/table]

Шо його скзаать коли воно конєшно... о! Мальовка симпатична, та. А так... спроба в оригінальний сюжет та [spoiler]пробиття четвертої стіни[/spoiler] (фактично не спойлер, але мало шо), спроба хоч в якийсь сюжет взагалі це не сюди. Загалом враження, що це справді недописана історія, але не в сенсі, що ви допомагаєте ГГ отритмати той "happy ending", а в тому, що увесь текст це наче дуже-дуже короткі епізоди, повністю вирвані з контексту. Герої умовно (з патчем буквально, але про нього окремо) перестрибують з "ти хто такий взагалі?!!" до ліжка. Сцени змінюються з нічого, текст преривається й продовжує з зовсім іншого місця й ще зверху купа помилок. Я справді ледь продерся через цей безлад й переважно зробив це з впертості й бо гра дуже коротка. Але мені було фізично боляче, позаяк кількість та концентрація сюжетних дір тут така, що страшно сказать. Коротше якщо ну прям дуже-дуже хочеться (є багацько кращих ігор, навіть безкоштовних!), то виключно через мальовку й зі знижкою, а так ніт, бо це кривий підлітковий фанфік.

This is a strange one. It feels more so like someone presenting their idea for a game to you rather than them actually giving you the proper game to play. The story has a nice basis, but feels a bit rushed at times and like you shouldn't think too deeply on it or you'll be facing quite a bit of things that don't seem to make much sense. The sprites are also strangely positioned in a way that you basically keep staring at chests, because their faces are so high up you'll be lucky to see a forehead. For the price I'd say it's a nice thing to try if you just want to waste some time on a short visual novel. But other than that? Can't say that it's good. It could have been with a bit more effort and tweaking, but.. it's not. Unless curiosity is slowly killing you from the inside, I'd say you skip this one.

It is a short-ish game, especially if you're a fast reader like I am. BUT that's totally reflected in the price and has a lot of great quality CGs that more expensive games don't even have. The choices are very simple so it's not particularly hard, and there's a couple bugs that crash the game to the typical otome game engine error menu, but pressing ignore removes them as issues whenever I faced them so they weren't game breaking in the slightest. But in it's defence, the plot/setting was unique and refreshing, and the narration was surprisingly charming. Plus, there still aren't many BL otome games out there on steam, especially non-sexual ones like this. I really enjoyed myself and I'd happily continue supporting the devs in their further work.

[i]I Deserve a Happy Ending[/i] is a boy-love novel about a prince who never got his happy ending. It is up to us, the reader, to help him find one and maybe romance along the way. [h3]The Story[/h3] Now this is a story that is unique. You play as a prince who has an unfinished story to share with the reader. He needs your help to determine how his story will end. Will he find love and claim his rightful place on the throne or will his story go unfinished? That is up to us as the writer of his tale disappeared without finishing his story. The story can end in one of two romantic interests, a soft-spoken elf named Elyon, or a dark sorcerer from another time named Yvoress. There are seven endings in total but only 3 achievements (one for each love interest’s good ending and one for the true ending). Two of the seven endings are closed off until you complete the game once with either Elyon or Yvoress. One of the achievements, the True Ending is one of the endings that must be completed during the second play-through. Elyon has three potential endings, a good, bad or neutral. While Yvoress only has two. There are dead ends in this game and if this happens the main character (the Prince) will be confused and ask you to backtrack your story. [i]Depending on what choice you make at the start of the story will determine whose route you go down, Elyon or Yvoress. The two stories do not intertwine until you play though once and then the two alternate story-lines will involve both Elyon and Yvoress in one play-though together.[/i] [h3]Gameplay & Features[/h3] The settings for this game are your usual; display options, skip options, language (English or Spanish), audio controls and text speed. There is a gallery you can unlock as you play the game. And a nice touch during the credits is the change of backgrounds as it scrolls. The text is very easy to read and the hud clean and organised. [i]* Screen capture lovers you can hide the hud for some beautiful screenshots.[/i] Gameplay is your standard for most visual novels. A story in which choices pop up from time to time to allow the reader to steer the story in one of many ways the story can end. Usually with a bad, good or neutral outcome. The individual stories are very short. But considering some endings take more than one play-through that adds to the length. In terms of spiciness I played through the game without the dlc. So my experience was vanilla. Romantic but not spicy. However for those of you who do crave super spicy a free, uncensored dlc is available to amp up your experience. [h3]The Visuals & Audio[/h3] I really love how the characters are drawn in this game. Anime-style, cel-shaded and vibrant colours. The characters all have unique looks. And the chibi art is adorable, really well done. The character graphics or special moment art is just beautiful, I made sure to screen capture them for personal wallpapers. The backgrounds are equally beautiful and mesh well with the character art. [i]Some of my favourite special moments from the game…[/i] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3242888084 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3242888362 The soundtrack is nothing great to be honest, I kept my volume down low. The tracks themselves are instrumental and do fit the theme of the story but overall I found them distracting. The characters are not voiced but there are some ambient sounds which add to the scenes such as birds chirping or pages turning. [h3]Overall Experience[/h3] One thing I loved about this novel, despite it being very much on the short end, was the abundance of key artworks portraying special moments. Some games reward you with one at the end of each route or a few here and there but this game had so many beautiful moments to capture. I tend to first and foremost choose visual novels based on the artwork, it is what draws me in initially to a game. I like the unique twist of us, the reader, being the narrator of the story and the Prince breaking the fourth wall, so to speak, at the start of the novel. Also the ending (the true ending) also threw in a nice twist. An enjoyable, yet short experience to pass the time. 💘 [quote]Please follow our curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/4680120/]Otome Lovers[/url], if you'd like to see more reviews like this one! [/quote]

I received a free copy of this game for my curator, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32080131/]Games for Hopeless Romantics[/url]. [i]I deserve a happy ending[/i] is a short fantasy BL visual novel with metafiction elements. The story centers around the prince Alfonso, who is the main character of a novel which was left unfinished with the author's death; you the player must now fill in the missing parts by making choices, hopefully leading Alfonso to the happy ending he wants. There are two love interests, the nice but naive elf Elyon (whose route is extremely sweet) and the arrogant but powerful sorcerer Yvoress (whose route has an enemies-to-lovers flavor). After getting an ending with at least one of them, you unlock a third route, where instead of picking just one of them to journey with Alfonso ends up travelling with both—this route reveals the most about the game's story but has the least in the way of romance. The writing is serviceable but not amazing. There are some times where the wording is a bit awkward, and I saw a couple of typos. Nothing huge, but the script could have benefited from an editing pass. The metafiction elements are interesting in the unlockable route specifically (they don't make much of an appearance in the individual routes), with the game taking a different approach than a lot of other metafictional VNs do—one that's less critical of the medium. The game has no sexual content, and to be honest, not a whole lot in the way of romantic content either. I disagree with the other reviewer who calls this a "boys' friendship" game and says the description is misleading—the individual routes are both definitely romantic, and even the unlockable story route gives me too many polyam vibes to call it friendship. But the romance content is very tame; there aren't even any kiss CGs. So I guess that can be considered something of a double-edged sword: if you want something spicy, this definitely isn't the game to pick; but if you want something extremely tame, or if you want something that is much less likely to embarrass you if someone walks in, this is a good choice. The most impressive thing here is the art, in my opinion. The sprites are beautiful, as are the CGs, and there are a [i]lot[/i] of CGs considering the game's length: 16 total, which considering that the game only took me about two hours to 100%, almost feels like overkill. I'm certainly not complaining, though. The music is stock, which I wouldn't normally bring up (it doesn't really add or take away anything, it's just there), but there's one track used in a climactic part of the unlockable route which includes a very out of place sound clip of a girl speaking in Japanese. Its inclusion is genuinely baffling. I have to think that somehow nobody noticed it during development or testing...? But it's very noticeable and [i]very[/i] jarring. Overall, I can say that I enjoyed my time with [i]I deserve a happy ending[/i]; for the low price it's being sold at, it's worth it, even though it's fairly short.

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It is a very cute game! I liked the twist in the begining where Alphonse interact with you! that was very unexpected but fun. I loved how adorable Elyon is and I wish I could squeeze his cute face, and his interesting background story from the fairy realm, but I have to admit that Yvoress became my favorite with his difficult actitud, making fun of the prince everytime he has the chance, but in the end he has quite a soft heart. Going to the final route I got surprised with the unexpected revelation in the trama, but I won't spoild anybody with what would happend! If you want to enjoy a calm evening with something to play this game is a good option!

Игра оказалась не такой поверхностной и слащавой, как я изначально ожидал. Неплохая игра, в которую мне было приятно играть, пусть ничего особо выдающегося в ней и нет. Достаточно короткая, но концовок несколько больше, чем может показаться. Персонажи приятные, как и в целом игра. Понравился здравомыслящий и ответственный главный герой (без инфантилизма и чрезмерной эмоциональности), проживать это приключение вместе с ним было интересно. Разные руты передавали совершенно разное настроение, что также приятно удивило. Местами не хватало экспозиции - печально, но, пожалуй, простительно для такого малого размера игры. При относительно линейном сюжете вариации сцен/диалогов в зависимости от сделанных выборов впечатляли своими отличиями, но никогда не разочаровывали - хорошо написаны и персонажи всё равно остаются в характере. Играл с патчем. Кажется, я впервые вижу, чтобы цензурная и взрослая версии предлагали совершенно разные сцены вместо вариации "обрезанная и полная/расширенная". Вот это уже было действительно сюрпризом. Так что [пере]проходить интересно оба варианта. Технические замечания: Текст местами требует вычитки (играл на английском), одна мелодия как будто с копирайтом, один спрайт странно баганул в одной сцене. В целом - мне понравилось. Нетребовательным любителям жанра, ищущим лёгкое чтиво, советую попробовать.

剧情比想象中的复杂一点，[spoiler] 以为只是不用动脑的恋爱模拟小游戏，结果后期meta元素烧了我不少脑细胞 [/spoiler]，看得出制作很用心。男主左拥右抱两位美人实属人生赢家~