It's going to be a neutral review. This game was both enjoyable & annoying af.
[u]Praises[/u]:
+it's a nice, lighthearted, mainly relaxing otome made in a classical way when you just choose your love option without any ordeal, you don't have to guess, solve any riddles how to reach this or that route, I love it!
+Visually the game is very pretty, all the characters are handsome!<3
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+blushing guys are especially cute!
+looots of content. Every character has so many chapters. I was reading for such a long time, they all feel like family nowxD
+Only happy and good endings. That's an awesome feature! Despite all the trouble I could just relax as I knew happy ending is inevitable. Sometimes I loved just good endings even more. It's nice to play smth like this from time to time without any bad endings at all.
+there's a guide for happy ending! When I was frustrated I couldn't reach some ending, the author of the guide actually sent me a friend request to help. It always means a lot for me to see friendly fans of a story.
+the devs are very helpful, that's always so heartwarming. Once I came across a mistake in a guide, so the author contacted devs and they sent the correct playthroughO_O It's the first time I witness it! I'm impressed! When you know it's not some indie dev but... just wow, thank you!
+I loved all the stories of all the characters, how friendship, not only love saved them allxD they were all very different but still pleasant to interact.
+the size of the text was big enough for enjoyable read.
+some plot twists were surprising. I liked to see the development of MC's feelings. It' so much better when it's not just love at first sight.
+MC was so annoying most of the time that I'm grateful for all those chapters when the same events are shown from LI's pov. Some new exciting details were often revealed!
+despite high price their games often get discounts! But for all that huge content I feel like it deserves that price tag anyway.
+found one new feature I'd like to have in other novels with complicated branching: in the gallery you can click on locked CG and read in what chapter it's gonna be unlocked.
+CGs could be moved in the gallery, so I could decide for myself how to position it.
+I loved that the final part was called the LAST episode, so till the end you didn't know if you reached a good or happy ending.
+chars change clothes a lot. That's awesome! In so many novels they just have the same outfit all the time.
+the story was often funny, healing and sweet!
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[u]Complaints[/u]:
–When I just launched it, it was in JapaneseO_o I tried to click all the possible options but failed as it was not just one step to reach the language settings. I had to ask around for translation, download mobile translations, gosh, I was furious! So my first impression was VERY negative! I hope it's fixed now though.
--lots of typos;
--MC was annoying AGAIN, as practically in all otome games. Plus like in old style she was faceless, it looked so weird. And it always felt illogical that dating such rich and famous ppl I continue working as a servant. The guys were often possessive or jealous but...were totally fine letting me serve other guests. It even made me think that it's me who is in the wrong here as there's nothing shameful or odd in any job BUT then again she felt too distant to them like this. It still felt abnormal.
--I had to get used to unusual settings and it was annoying again at first. Save slots are terrible. so I just stopped saving and just read till the end of the chapter all the time and then just entered through the story part section and maybe it was the issue but I just couldn't skip as for whatever reason it always claimed that the text is unreadO_o
--It's annoying to skip through lots of chapters to reach another ending:( I even started writing down my choices, to be sure I choose different ones during my next playthrough buut so many times I just reached a happy ending AGAIN with totally new choices. It was such a waste of time!
--there's practically no new content when you replay the routes. After a new choice it's a couple of new sentences and that's it. And sometimes it's so obvious what the correct choice was supposed to be as other sound illogical in the text further:( only the half of the last chapter was new.
--music is kinda meh, I turned it practically totally off.
--I wish there was an adult patch:( I disliked those hints of sex scenes a lot. Mainly they were sentences like “and HE made love to me...”, “ and HE didn't let me sleep all night”, “I surrender myself to his passion” MC was too passive:((
--MC was too meek:( they had intimate relationship for some time but then in every route you have a bath CG and MC is just unbearable acting all shy about that. Oh no you'll see me naked wtf(－‸ლ)
--all the routes had practically the same names of the chapter. It felt a bit repetitive. Still enjoyable! But that same pattern was a bit annoying.
--the screen resolution available wasn't to my liking
--I couldn't use auto reading as it was toooo slow with huge AUTO word on the screen.
--what especially was frustrating is the lack of real choice(－‸ლ). MC acted in such a stupid way so often it drove me crazy (｀□′)╯┴┴ but when choices appeared it was, for example, like I decide not to go somewhere and voila in the next sentence mc says that she can't actually sit still and despite any logic and reason she does some nonsense. My first route was with a detective, it seems to me the way she acted there was especially stupid and the fact that she ignored not only his pleads but my own choices as well made me furious! It was supposed to be a lovely, relaxing otome, right? Rrright?!⋋_⋌ And once they didn't even care to lead somehow to a different choice. I decided 'Not to move' it was obvious that's the way any intelligent human being should act BUT(｀□′)╯┴┴ in the next sentence it's just said that mc MOVES⋋_⋌ That's some kind of mockery, really(｀□′)╯┴┴ And then as actually my LI begged me not to move he chides me when I totally didn't deserve it!!! and MC thinks “I should have done as he told” But I did! That enraged me a lot! The game just needs thorough editing and not only to fix maany typos but such frustrating unfair parts of text after choices.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3121390745
--practically in every route with every love interest there were moments that truly hurt because the way they treated her=me was unacceptable. I wanted to have an option just to break up with them! Quite often later some new info was revealed and you realized their behavior was justifiable but it still hurt and I still believed there was a better way of overcoming that obstacle. Welp, it's nice when that story makes you FEEL but still...
--price is not that low.
--I wish CGs could be not only in their huge size but actually in normal one as well, to be able to make a screenshot not only of the desirable part but of the whole picture as well:(
--the story doesn't feel finished at all:( It seems like there's supposed to be some continuation. Some questions are left unanswered:( What about Hikaru, for example?! In some routes he's so helpful, obviously knowing more than he shows, in my last route he acted kinda rudely to MC. He's too suspicious! Nothing at all is explained! Too many abrupt endings:(
--I disliked how characters often suddenly changed their outfit at the beginning of the scenes. Like you could start with some casual clothes in absolutely unsuitable setting but then the clothes changed in front of your very eyes.
So, the story has some simple writing and silly plot but it's sweet anyway, decide for yourself...
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