LongStory 2

I expected more. As of now, the game is not worth buying. The dating sim aspects are an afterthought, despite the game being tagged as a dating sim. Every love interest has like 3 scenes with MC, the scenes were well written and sweet, but short. Most of the game is focused on searching for TH, despite other characters telling MC to stop searching for them. I felt like my choices did not matter, I wanted to stop searching for, but the game followed through the search anyways. The TH forum is also deeply problematic, I guess it was intended as a fanpage, but it came across as a Kiwifarms clone. We were promised to see our beloved characters in high school, which was not the case. I think the game was too ambitious with the poly pairings. Story presents us with a lot of options regarding dating and choosing a high school, but ironically these choices have almost NO IMPACT on the plot. If the story were more linear, longer and not as much focused on the TH search, it would have been great. The game does not have any save load buttons, as far as I am aware. If these things got fixed, I would reccomend.

Overall, it's not bad. It doesn't feel nearly as fleshed out or emotional as Long Story 1. Feels kinda rushed, like when they ended Later Daters. I'm hoping they'll add to it in the future with actually attending HS. How emotional could it be if you and your lover are going to different schools, and/or they meet someone they get close to and MC is jealous? Is it worth full price? .... Not right now. Maybe in the future, if they add to it. If you find it on sale for $5-$10, maybe... I don't think it's quite worth $10, but some people may get more enjoyment out of it than I did. It only took me like an hour and a half my first play through, while Long Story 1 took at least double that (4 times as long actually, I think). I feel like this would've been better as a DLC for the first game. In 9.6 hours I played: Marcel's route, Turkey's route 3 times with just quickly clicking past read portions, and Colin's route once. 5 routes in less than 10 hours, even for a VN, is really short. Pros The whole crew hanging out MC dons their detective hat again More flirting options Jane isn't completely awful Cons Hanna is annoying and meddlesome as usual Jen (always) The story isn't deep Super short

Love Marcel <333

It was nice to revisit these characters again, I first found this game when I was in high school myself so it's been a while. It certainly felt a lot shorter and like there was less time with each character. It was nice to see the small differences between how romantic interests/friends reacted to stuff but there wasn't too much added to the story from the first game so it feels like a short story/filler game than a second installment but it was still really sweet. It will be very interesting to see if they do anything else with the story or characters :)

great game but bad objective