Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack

so what do you think about this videogame? me: quack! are you f64king serious? me: quack, quack, quack! come on, please to be serious! me: quack, quack, quack, quack! ok, let's do this, if you liked, say it you quack, instead of no, you don't say anything, ok? me: quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! :D

A twist on the epic story of Penelope and Odysseus. She loves ducks and he loves playing the trickster but will he end up being the one tricked into giving his heart away? [h2][u]The Story & Gameplay[/u][/h2] An adorable story with just one love interest but multiple endings, two ending in love and two in friendship. I truly adore the way Odysseus admires and adores Penelope, lifting her up when she doubts herself and wanting her to be true to herself. He loves her for who she is and she does not have to change for him. Truly a wholesome, loving relationship. 🌶️ Spice Level - slightly more than light. There is a nude male figure but with a towel around his waist so not showing any bits but still a bit spicy. [h2][u]Settings & Features [/u][/h2] Settings & features include; display options, skip text options, text speed, auto-forward time, and audio controls. You can also unlock a cg gallery as you play with gorgeous cg’s and bonus material. There is also lore to unlock and lots of save files. [h2][u]The Visuals & Audio[/u][/h2] I love the artwork in this novel, the sprites are hand-drawn and (I think digitally painted) with watercolours/gouache. The backgrounds also look done in watercolours with a canvas filter applied. Either way beautifully painted and illustrated. The sprites also have small facial animations. Odysseus is partially voiced and really well done (especially when he is flustered or caught off guard). Him blushing is cute too. The music is a soft score of piano melodies that fit the flow of this story. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3501787593 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3501832581 [h2][u]Overall Experience[/u][/h2] I adore the writing in this novel and the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope. At one point he says to her “I do hope you’ll keep finding more reasons to keep loving me and more”. Just pull at my heartstrings! He is too adorable, and she is so kind and shy but ends up being able to be bolder with him. He is cute when he gets all flustered by her. A great read. Loved the writing & the illustrations. I hope they do more stories like this one in the future with adorable twists to historic stories or mythology. 💗 [i] Update: Achievements fixed! [/i] [hr][/hr] [quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/] Follow [b]IndieGems[/b] [/url] for more reviews like this one. [/quote] [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]

A legit 10/10, it is unfortunate that we only have partial voice acting just as the description stated. However, it is still a very wonderful game, and I do not regret buying this one bit. I love both Penelope and Odysseus, they make a cute couple. Furthermore, I really love Anta's art style and games, especially <Trapped with Jester>, and it is FREE too! Plus, I am really looking forward to the completed version of <Thorns of the Villains> ever since you released a demo version of it, however, I really hope that you will release it on steam as well. Good luck, and rest tons! [b][i] I will always support you [/i][/b]

This game is sooo cute, I love how it kept true to the spirit of the original stories while adding fun little twists. The characterizations are so good, I absolutely adore Penelope in this!! Odysseus was really cute and funny too. I feel like it's probably a difficult task to make a character like him into an otome love interest (given all the war crimes he does after this lol), but y'all did a great job! I also really appreciated the back button as someone who accidentally skips line a lot, I feel like that's a feature that isn't in nearly enough VNs. And I also enjoyed all the extra bits, like the lore. 100/10 game, definitely recommending this to my friends!

总觉得把珀涅罗珀和奥德修斯这种在我眼里跟薛平贵王宝钏差不多的故事改编成纯爱小白花恋爱喜剧很讽刺，原作确实登味规训味十足但珀涅罗珀再怎么魔改也不能魔改成那种爱脸红的小女孩吧，而奥德修斯像一个偷奸耍滑的软饭男。这部里面的感情过渡也太突兀了，见了没几面到底怎么爱上的？鸭子元素到底是怎么来的好诡异啊，游戏里鸭子一直在乱叫好吵。

[h3] 鸭子公主与骗子大王的爱情故事 [/h3] 看到主标题，相信你会产生很多疑问，“鸭子?”“骗子?”“鸭子公主”是指一位吸引着鸭子、可以与鸭子交流的公主，而“骗子大王”是指一位擅长挑拨离间以此来生存的他国国王 [h3] 故事展开[/h3] 因为一位国王的召集，让Penny(公主外号)与Odyssey因为嘎嘎声邂逅，Penny因为与鸭子亲近而遭到孤立，没有朋友，而Odyssey也因为骗子的刻板印象，遭到排挤。就这样，不知不觉两颗心开始慢慢靠近，但他们遇到了很多困难，父亲的固执阻挠，从陌生人到相互了解，这本身不是一件容易的事，最关键的是，他们能否克服自己内心的不安? [h3] 你的名字[/h3] 两个人的名字也都有着深刻的含义，Penelope(公主本名)意味着“灾难”——包含着Penny儿时一段痛苦的回忆，Odyssey意味着“给他人带来伤害”，他们都曾想要舍弃自己的名字，却因为这次相遇，成为了自己独一无二的名字 [h3] 游戏亮点[/h3] 1.鸭子伙伴：在男女主克服困难的路上，鸭子伙伴们起着很关键的作用，有着很多有趣的互动和场景，相信在结束游戏后，你会对他们的印象很深刻 2.古代常识的科普：在古希腊的生活中会出现什么有趣的知识，通过推进剧情去了解更多吧 3.各有深意的结局：是遭到背叛、成为朋友还是成为恋人，两个有趣的灵魂会发生怎样的碰撞呢？ [h3] 总结 [/h3] 总的来说，《Pre-Odyssey-Love-at-First-Quack》有着清新的卡通画风、可爱的UI设计，有趣的故事与人物，是一个值得一玩的故事 [table][td]欢迎关注鉴赏家[url= https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45519015/]“无趣评测”[/url][/td]

Just finished the first ending! Will continue to play it. I loved the developers free games and have been excited for this one to come out. It’s short, but cute. (Only an hour for one ending) I think all mythos should have ducks added to them. I will get the other three endings! I do wish the side characters had faces though.

[b]Quack Quack[/b] Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack (which I’ll shorten to just Pre-Odyssey) takes place in ancient Greece, specifically in Sparta during the shared reign under Tyndareus and Icarius. As you can guess by the game’s title, it also takes place before the events of The Odyssey (and also The Iliad, but that won’t make for a great title) and is during the time that a lot of princes and kings came to try to win Helen’s hand in marriage. However, we’re not following Helen in this tale as we instead follow her cousin, a young woman named Penelope. Her and her immediate family came to visit as her Uncle called them to help elevate her cousin’s mood. Though, Penelope just keeps to herself due to the combination of not really being close to anyone in her family and being seen as that weird “duck girl”. In fact, the first thing we see when starting the game is Penelope talking to a flock of ducks that have gathered all around her. Penelope can actually understand them and she’s just hanging out with them outside as she’s lamenting about the current situation and how shabby she is compared to her cousin. Though, unbeknownst to her, someone spots her conversing with her ducks. The man himself, Odysseus the trickster king of Ithaca, happens to be walking past. He’s first shocked as he spots Penelope being surrounded by ducks then shocked even more as he realizes that she’s having a conversation with them. Though, instead of being weirded out like everyone else, Odysseus becomes intrigued. Enough to want to talk to her and ask about it. Penelope actually spots Odysseus as he’s still watching and, by the time she’s done blushing about his looks and gaining the courage to talk to him with the help of her ducks hyping her up, Odysseus is right there to spook her and to satisfy his curiosity. Penelope practically falls in love at first sight (though it takes her a while to really realize it herself) and their first conversation was actually a very good impression on him despite some of his comments. Luckily, this wouldn’t be the first and last time, but the start of their friendship and eventual romance. I really liked the story here. The writing style was really enjoyable, the ducks were a cute addition that definitely elevated the story, the pacing was just perfect, and I loved the romance between Penelope and Odysseus. The humor here is so good as well. There’s a mix of text and visual jokes and, combined with them having the perfect timing, didn’t fail to make me laugh every time. It also made the characters so much more endearing to me. I also really liked how Pre-Odyssey uses ancient Greek mythology and culture to build this scenario of how they might have met and fallen in love. It stays mostly true to the mythology that it's based on, but it does take some liberties here or there to fit the story that it wants to tell. Don't worry though, it's not the type of changes that puts a worse light on how they were originally depicted (if you know what I'm referencing you know), but enhances them and fits in-universe. Like the biggest change is Penelope being able to understand ducks and that was used to enhance the story as they hold an important role in the story, is believable considering everything else that happened in mythology and that she was the daughter of a water nymph, and it makes Penelope and Odysseus more endearing. The other small changes were to fit with the story or to keep the game’s rating down. It also certainly helps that the game does make sure to point out the changes made. [code]💜 Check out a more in-depth review for Pre-Odyssey at [url=https://witchsreviewcorner.com/2025/07/09/pre-odyssey-love-at-first-quack-review/]Witch’s Review Corner[/url] 💜 [/code] Penelope and Odysseus were so cute together and they really did compliment each other well. You can tell they brought out the best in each other right out of the gate and they’re romance is so sweet. There are some variations of the love confession and they were all so cute and lowkey made me squeal (there are even three unique kiss CGs, and I honestly was only expecting one). You can’t help but root for their happy ending. As you’re reading, you’ll get choices every so often which will either determine what Penelope will say next or what she’ll do next. Some choices will just add a different line or two, some will send you down a slightly different scene, while some will send you down a whole different ending route path. I definitely recommend at least getting all the (main) endings. Depending on your choices, you can be missing a whole chunk of the game if you stop at one ending. And trust me, those scenes are definitely worth it and give so much more perspective and depth to the characters and the romance here. After you get one of the endings (that have an achievement tied to them and has a credits sequence), a couple things are unlocked. The Gallery is unlocked so you can admire the CGs again. A walkthrough also becomes available, which helps by nudging you to the different ending routes. This certainly will help you out if you’re having trouble. Lastly, there’s the Pre-Odyssey Theater! This is basically a bonus extra where this iteration of Penelope and Odysseus talk about this game, the myth that inspired it, the reason behind the game's name (which is so sweet), and an aspect that couldn’t really be touched upon; how The Iliad and The Odyssey went for these two; and their thoughts on a hypothetical sequel. It’s framed where they’re talking about it in the future and they’re pretty quick and comedic segments. Combine that with them bantering all throughout and it has the added advantage of not feeling like an infodump. Other than that, there are two extra features that you can go into that have no prerequisites. You can go listen to the music that the game features again and there is a lore glossary. You can actually check this at any time as you’ll get notifications of a new lore entry being added as you’re playing through the game. The lore glossary is a mix of giving you background history on the characters here, future characters and events, and reasons why certain things were chosen for this visual novel. It’s actually quite interesting and the entries are written well. They don’t feel like lore dumps as they’re written in the same style as the main game (just with an educational purpose to them), they were nice quick reads, and there’s even some humor in them. I definitely recommend going to read the lore bits whenever a new entry is added as you’re playing. I don’t have any negatives towards Pre-Odyssey. I wished there was a button mapped to quickly get to the Lore tab to save a couple seconds, but that’s really it. It was also a bit annoying having to sit through the credits every time, but I did really like the full sequence. [h1]Verdict[/h1] Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack is a short and sweet visual novel that is so easy to love. So much that you might not want to stop playing until you get to one of the endings as it’s so fun and engaging to read through. There’s so much to love about this game as it has wonderful writing, a really sweet and cute romance between Penelope and Odysseus (who are cute, endearing, and surprisingly relatable), the humor, and the wonderful artwork. Not to mention that it mostly is faithful to the mythology that surrounds these characters, with changes only being made to enhance the interpretation of these characters. I highly recommend picking up Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack as it is well worth the full price. [code]💜 Check out my other reviews at [url=https://witchsreviewcorner.com]Witch’s Review Corner[/url] or visit my Curator[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28714255/] The Witch’s Corner![/url] 💜 [/code]

I've played the demo on itch quite some time ago. This version is a totally different deal, much improved + achievements!

Pre-Odyssey is a very short otome that can be completed in a sitting or two. I played this when it was originally free to play on Itch.io and enjoyed it so much that I was happy to buy its updated release on Steam. Aside from the voice acting, I think the eye blinking in CG animations are new, and the in-game lore archive is new, but the rest is largely the same as the original release. The dialogue is very modern with narrative jokes that wouldn't make sense for the time period, but I thought they were fine since this is a very non-serious game. It's light-hearted and funny, and the addition of the ducks make it impossible for anything to get truly dark even when the game gets around to discussing a depressing backstory. If you love Greek mythology this is an easy win as there are a *lot* of references to various myths, some of which are fairly obscure! I don't normally like otome with just a single love interest, but since this is the story of two established mythological characters and we never really saw a full length myth about Odysseus and Penelope's courtship, I was quite happy with this. My only complaint is that the in-game walkthrough (unlocked after first good ending) is a little janky. I don't think it's intended to completely hold your hand since it describes itself as giving players a hint to find the rest of what they need, but at least one of the choices is out of order and the options it tells you to pick are often worded slightly differently from the actual text in game. I still managed to 100% the achievements in just under 3 hours according to Steam, but if you are an achievement/CG hunter it might be easier to use the walkthrough as a starting point and then when it ceases to be useful, leave a bunch of saves all over the place to reload and try other choices.