School ! Love ☆ Reflex

Игра 'School ! Love ☆ Reflex' – это довольно забавная и необычная аркада, которая, несмотря на свою простоту, может увлечь на некоторое время. Основная идея – уклоняться от летящих в вас признаний в любви, используя рефлексы и стратегическое мышление. Сперва это кажется легким, но с каждым уровнем сложность возрастает, и вам приходится придумывать новые способы выживания. Визуальный стиль игры, хоть и незамысловатый, но приятный глазу, а динамичная музыка добавляет азарта. Персонажи довольно карикатурные, что создает комичный эффект и не позволяет воспринимать происходящее всерьез. Однако, игра быстро становится немного однообразной. Отсутствие глубокого сюжета или значительного разнообразия в геймплее может привести к тому, что интерес к ней угаснет достаточно быстро. Тем не менее, в качестве короткой и незамысловатой развлекухи, чтобы скоротать время, 'School ! Love ☆ Reflex' вполне подойдет. Особенно, если вы любите простенькие аркады, проверяющие вашу реакцию.

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"School ! Love ☆ Reflex" is a sad bit of junk from Japan (who you would really think would be better at coming up with great games, but they just don't get PC gaming, it's all consoles or nothing). This is a weird, wordy e-book about a loser who gets rejected at school and therefore has to play a demented and badly made Pong minigame. Yeah, that's all there is to this, simple enough and yet even so the developer couldn't work out how to finish making the game. The developers abandoned this 3 years and 11 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment, with the hideous MS-Paint tier "art" uglying up your screen. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $1 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. So this is "free", but it's abandoned. Worse, it was never intended to be free. The developer intended to charge for this if it ever left Early Access... but the developer just couldn't be bothered. Making this abandoned pollution that gamers need to filter through when searching for products made by more ethical developers who fulfill their promise to deliver on their Early Access commitment instead of breaking that promise. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 2 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.