Pink Rage Otome

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Pink Rage Otome 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. This e-book was slapped together with the godawfully bad RenPy Visual Novel/E-Book construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place here, no professional game development took place either, it's just a product of filling out templates in the construction kit. This E-Book has been translated from Russian into English... badly. If this was done through Google Translate, Google Translate should feel ashamed of itself. Regardless, the language in this game is broken and will put off a lot of gamers. I guess on the positive side, the Russian e-book wannabe author at least credited all the artwork, sound and other stuff he ripped off. Usually this stuff isn't credited, making the effort an asset flip/plagiarism, so, way to go for something ethical happening from one of these amateurs for a change. Getting past all that, the e-book itself is pure Russian (pretending to be Japanese) garbage. It's got a lame anime fan-fiction forced "humour" plot about being a "tsundere" girl, and to translate that from weeb, that means it's about a girl who acts aloof but isn't. That's a lot of mental gymnastics from the weebs for a pretty lame fiction trope. 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. 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. The poor quality of this E-Book is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak reader number was only 5 readers. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only reader activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality E-Book is to be expected. Pink Rage Otome is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the E-Book, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

I'm trying to decide if this game is bad on purpose. I really wanted to like it because the premise sounded interesting, but the writing (or rather, the translations?) is just terrible. I got the sense that it's aiming for tween girls rather than women in general because the humor is juvenile and at times mean. The art is cute, but not enough to save this. I seriously cannot play this game any more, it's doing my head in.

It ain't good. The plot is an interesting concept, but isn't nearly detailed enough and leaves a lot unsaid. I somehow managed to get multiple bad endings before following a guide to get a proper ending, which still didn't fulfill many expectations. I think I bought it on sale for like 50 cents, so worth the price I guess?

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I dont know whether it's poor translation or just bad story in general but good lord.

Boring story, very generic art/music, no voice acting, but hey at least I got 100% completion and 78 achievements in 30 minutes.