My Secret Pets!

It feels like this game made by guys who never saw a girl or a woman, but heard of stereotypes. MC likes shopping, sweets, diets and crying for no reason. And Lize is everywhere, even somewhere where he is not: http://i.imgur.com/0cTA1Mk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0GdRzpV.jpg THIS IS LUFNA'S ROUTE, NOT LIZE'S. And this game even dares to tell you lies: http://i.imgur.com/wSofCFw.jpg

After playing through all the routes and stuff, here are my 2 cents: I do recommend getting this game IF on sale. If not on sale, i would say maybe it is worth it if you really are desperate looking for a little sweet romance story, full of prince charmings and beautiful ccgs. If not so desperate, then just wait for the next sale. Pros: - the artwork is really really nice (both character designs and backgrounds), also has a bit of animation here and there - the bishies (all of them are hot and their personalities are actually quite well shaped, despite the story being rather short) - the skin (most of the routes have a bit of fan service, with a hint of smutiness in them. It is neither too much nor too little, and it adds up quite nicely to the story of each character) - the overwhelming pink flowerish romance feeling (for me it was a breath of fresh air after all the angst, tragedy, unfulfilled wishes the otomes i lately played were filled with. Seriously, sometimes you just want to pay for something that doesn`t resemble real life, and this game provides exactly that, a little nice piece of a fairy tale) - the extra stories (epilogue and side story) are a nice addition, bringing you closure for each character Cons: - no "auto" button, which means you need to endlessly click through all the "...." and the "umm" replies - the music is not so great and it quickly gets repetitive and annoying - no voicing (yes i`m spoiled, i know) - the story is very short. too short in fact - after you complete all the routes, you notice that at some point the whole story doesn`t add up anymore - this can also be a plus, depending on personal preference: there is no truly bad ending (you know, the everyone-dies-end-of-the-world-broken-heart-forever type of ending) Overall probably 8/10.

Let's be honest here; this is a port of a game I played a little bit of on the phone. So naturally its meant to be something you can play on the phone to go. I prefer it on Steam though because you don't have to wait to play the next chapter, or pay. Also, it is explained in the story why the pets are trying to hurry up the relationship, and get you to say I love you.[spoiler] The pets have only one week within the contract that made them human to win you over, or they will die. Kind of like the original Little Mermaid story.[/spoiler] It does play into the story's mystery well that the routes are short. Because if your story relies on the others to be completed to get the full story; its best not to make it a slog to go through.

Not recommended. The mystery aspect was the only interesting thing about this whole game. I think it could have been even more interesting without the romance itself, which says a lot. I can't understand how the MC could forget her boyfriend utterly in a week and fall in love with someone else. It's not realistic and I would have preferred a more realistic view on that. Besides the bit of mystery at the last two to three chapters at the end, the routes' plots were unremarkable. There were some hilarious parts, but if I laugh during riskier or romantic scenes... Well, I don't think that's the point. The art was okay. It could've been better, it could've been worse. I liked the amount of colors the game had, especially in the clothes. Backgrounds were... normal. I don't really look at backgrounds unless they are really horrible or fuzzy. Some of the characters I liked and some... I didn't. One character was utterly unbearable and I didn't find anything attractive about him. Platonically, I could have liked most of the characters. Romantically... not so much. But the set of characters in general isn't as bad as I expected. I have to mention about the gameplay. I mean, if we romance a character, we should choose what [i]they[/i] like/need to hear. I understand if we shouldn't favor one character too much (because of the plot), but it still bugged me. Most of the options don't give us affection, no matter what we choose. It felt like a waste. Typos? Well... If there were some, I don't remember them. So, save your money. The game was funny at some points, but the romance didn't feel the least real. Okay, I liked one route, but only 1 out of 5 stood out. A little bit of underdeveloped mystery and a few humorous moments isn't worth the price, sale or not.

This is my honest review after getting all the achievements. SO when you first start off the novel you would be surprised how you might stick to priortizing your choices related to a specific character but you would not get the miracle ending. I mean i don't get it either but apparently not priortizing your pet but priortizing others would give you the miracle ending. It confused me a little- but it makes sense it would be a miracle if all pets are saved. For the happy ending only you should priortize the relevant character you like. So now, I have seen a lot of negative reviews, but frankly i personally enjoyed the VN. This is not one of the best I have ever read- but it was very fun nonetheless. However, I wished the story was longer and had more depth and meaning. [h1]Story[/h1] Story follows, young Jane who owns a lot of pets, she gets dumped by her ex and seems devastated. One day her pets turned human! and you can love one of them, but of course it has a price- your other pets won't be lucky and might die or just turn back to animals. The story lacks depth, and it seems like everything is on the surface- especially the reason why the pets turn human seems superficial. Each route would reveal a part of the mystery reasons why the pets turned human which is basically the whole depth of the story which I did not appreciate. The story has R-Rated 18+ elements so beware for that if you are not into such things. Overall the VN seems like a great target for the furry community (no hate) but I enjoyed it nevertheless. You have the main story for all the characters and separate sequels and date scenarios. [h1]Characters[/h1] What I did appreciate were the characters- they did not possess heavy background stories like other visual novels but they were pretty unique. You do not get yandere males every visual novel, but they were potential two of them (not full yandere) in the story. The animal characteristics are simillar to the human personalities. So, you have cute Lize, prince charming Assam, older bro Ramin, tsundere Lufna and well which I didn't like : your ex is also a dateable character as well. There were some characters with surprising plot twists, and the other secret characters should have been dateable. There should have been other more side characters for the story as well. My favorite characters were Assam (because piggies are cuties and Lize rabbits are my fave ^^) [h1]Gameplay and Bugs [/h1] So the gameplay has no major feats, there is no autoplay button which I think is kinda crucial for me. There is indeed a fastforward button so that's a relief. You can change the text speed and stuff on the settings, a bit of struggle was there to go into the full screen mode. There was a problem where even though I completed all the sequels and date scenarios- I couldn't get the achievement for reading all of the stuff on the VN. So I had to skim forward through them again which is a hassle, its better to use the fast forward in this situation since it would stop fast forwarding at the unread parts which is odd. The achievements might not pop up if you dont have an internet connections, the offline mode is not effective in that. If that's the case the achivements would not pop up when you restart the game in the online mode either, it would pop up when you get the next achievement if not you might have to re-do everything again. [h1]Art and Sound [/h1] So the artwork is ok, nothing mega beautiful but it was overall alright. The music is nothing fantastic and it suited most of the atmosphere. [h1] Overall [/h1] It's not a fantastic visual novel like Dandelion, but it did entertain me for a while. It was unique in certain aspects and needed improvement in most parts, but overall seems like a good idea for a story but not perfectly executed. I enjoyed the date scenarios and sequels for the most part instead of the main story really.

[b]TL;DR:[/b] Though it has some moments that are nice, most of the routes are poorly written and boring. The writer(s) didn't even bother to make sure the story made sense within itself and I found that very disrespectful to my time and money. --- [b]Overall Impression:[/b] I had to force myself to get through it. There were moments within the story that were nice (mostly in the cat and bird's routes), but I mark that down to being handled by different writers from the other routes. By the time I got to those routes, I was already fed up with the game. [b]Content:[/b] The game has fairly short sex scenes, but the language used in them can at times be overt enough some people won't like it. In all routes, the love interests are "very assertive" when they've decided to go ahead and push for sex. In one route (the pig's), I personally find it to be only a hair shy of sexual assault. She didn't resist, but she was scared and saddened by him forcing himself on her. Even if she forgave him, it rather upset me. For those that are sensitive to attempted suicide, the bunny's route includes it and you'll at least want to prepare yourself for it. The way it was handled was quite casual and that may either make it easier to handle or more upsetting, depending on your feelings. If you are sensitive to body image issues, particularly regarding weight, you'll probably want to avoid reading any of the "Special Scenario" bonus scenes. They all deal with the college's physical and the heroine having gained a few pounds she wants to lose in a week. The love interests are mainly very supportive of her goal, but the heroine is extremely upset about it. [b]Translation/Editing:[/b] There are a few typos, but this is the best translation and editing I've ever seen from this publisher. I'm pretty impressed, actually. The words flow very naturally and I don't remember much of anything by way of odd or stilted lines. [b]Art/Character Design:[/b] I personally didn't care for the art style, but it was quite serviceable overall. There were some nicer CGs, but not many of them and most of them were "affectionate heads", which is fairly boring. Some of them were actually so rushed I saw the background poking through the hero's face, which was really disappointing to see. [b]The Heroine:[/b] The default name for the character was "Jane Smith", so I went with that. As a result, I called her "Dumb Cardboard Jane" and saw no reason to change my assessment of her. She's extremely flat. When she's not flat, she's childish - and not even in the way that suggests "spoiled brat" because that implies there's any personality behind it. In many routes, she never once asked either the pet-boys or herself, "How" the pets became humans - she simply accepted that they'd chosen to do so because they loved her and conveniently ignored the part where they wanted to be her lover. [b]The Love Interests:[/b] For the most part, they're as flat as Dumb Cardboard Jane. In some routes, they would straight up remind Dumb Cardboard Jane of which tropes they filled. Like DCJ, they also were horribly immature. The bird was the most mature one of the group and possibly the only one in the entire game who had something like a brain. The cat was the next-most mature one. They were the only two routes that I enjoyed more than a brief scene or two in. [b]Story:[/b] Let me not beat around the bush here - the writing is, overall, complete junk. Some routes (the bird and cat's) were probably written by a better writer than the rest. Others were like reading very bad fanfiction written by a tween working on their first story. The characters were flat. The stories cut out all thoughts of development and skipped around like someone took an outline of the events in the story and thought that was literally all you had to write. And the concept of "time" didn't seem to exist in most storylines. For example - the heroine is eating lunch with the bunny the day after everyone changed into guys and she commented on how, "as always", his food was delicious. She didn't eat any food in the story by that point, which implies that when Lize was a bunny, he was cooking for everyone. This isn't the only time where there was an obvious, "Wait a second - that's not even possible.", it's just the one I'd ranted about to multiple people about, so it's the easiest one to reference. On a similar line, the pets all talk to each other as if they have always been human, there is a time limit of a week to win over Dumb Cardboard Jane's heart, and other than childish squabbling when Jane so much as looks at them for a second longer than anyone else, no one seems to make any particular pains to spend time with her unless it's their route, and the precious week they have seems to have entire days where literally nothing of interest happens, which is surprising considering the deadline. Even Dumb Cardboard Jane doesn't understand time. She wonders why she can't forget about her ex-boyfriend literally hours after she was "dumped". Only the bird seems to understand that it is perfectly natural to still be thinking about someone you spent six months happily in love with. I can't even say, "Well, it's a trainwreck and has its moments!" - It's not worth the amount of money the game costs for the good moments and the writing isn't even entertaining enough to be fun to read in spite of being bad. Even though I'd normally give the cat and bird's routes a solid C rating, the rest of the game is so insultingly bad I feel like they just hired someone's tween niece to write some of the routes and didn't dare touch them beyond correcting the grammar. [b]In closing...[/b] Not worth your time. I already bought it, but I wouldn't have if I'd known what a waste of my time it was.

“My Secret Pets!” had me thinking I was about to live my sad girl fantasy post-breakup... and instead I walk into my apartment and my literal PETS—yes, my rabbit, pig, bird, and cat—decided to turn into THIRSTY ASS MEN and start competing for my love. Like EXCUSE ME?? Y’ALL WERE LICKING YOUR OWN BUTTS YESTERDAY. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t consent to this. I didn’t want to be the bachelorette of a damn PetSmart. Main girl? Dumb as hell. Not a single brain cell in sight. No “how did this happen,” no “should I be concerned,” just “omg you love me? teehee” while surrounded by horny ex-animals. And the boys?? Flat. Immature. The rabbit wants to bite me, the pig is weirdly polite, the cat thinks he's hot sh*t, and the bird—THE BIRD—is the only one acting like he’s read a book. Oh and the spicy scenes? Girl. They short, abrupt, and aggressive. These men do NOT ask. They just decide it’s sexy time and the screen fades like I signed a waiver. ✨It’s not hot. It’s horrifying.✨ Story? What story. I finished an entire route in like 90 minutes. Zero depth, zero build-up, just "he’s in love, now pick an ending and get humped." This game had potential to be chaotic fun... instead I got trauma in a JPEG. Blocked. Reported. Neutered. #PetMeNot #MySecretMistake #GaslightGatekeepGoBackToTheCage

Although I understand the negative reviews, I think it comes down to how seriously you're taking the game and its story. Personally I really enjoyed it. The plot is entertaining and the art is good. My only complain is that there's no auto option. Also the music is repetitive and changes abruptly which could be annoying to some (but to me it was kinda funny) Not worth full price though.