The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

A masterpiece of storytelling. The choices you make have significant impact. Prepare to spend days enduring the unendurable and suffering the insufferable to pave the way for humanity’s future greatness!

The only thing scarier than the sheer scope of this 22-route, 100-ending story-heavy RPG is that, somehow, it manages to justify having such an ambitious narrative. Every emotion, every surprise, and every character possible is in here. By the time you even hit credits for the first time, you realize you’ve only just scratched the surface.

The tactical combat is interesting and fun. The death-related mechanics incentivize you to play in ways that I doubt any other game does, and it feels very satisfying and rewarding. Unforturnately, 90% of this game is a visual novel with terrible writing. I thought I could enjoy some campy fun with ridiculous characters, but it turns out it's just boring. It's a dozen characters allowing the plot to slowly happen to them while repeatedly yelling at you about their one personality trait. The game assumes you're very stupid, and it's written as if they were getting paid by the word. The travel system feels a bit underwhelming, and I feel like the gifting system is going to end up revolving around playing the game repeatedly rather than paying attention to the characters.

what a mess, so much pointless repetition with so little payoff.

호불호가 갈릴 수 있겠다고는 생각함 개인적으로는 만족스러웠음 간단하게 평가해보자면 [h1]장점 [/h1] 1. 압도적인 분량 2. 단간팀치고 스토리 나쁘지 않음 3. [h3]한 글 화[/h3] [h1]단점 [/h1] 1. 쓸데없이 시간잡아먹는 구간 너무 많음 2. 단간팀 작품 안해본 사람들에겐 굉장히 불쾌할 수 있는 스토리 호평을 할 수 있었던 가장 큰 이유는 같은 팀이 만든 같은 가격의 레인코드가 너무 창렬했기 때문임. 그거에 비하면 다소의 단점을 무시 가능할 만큼 장점이 압도적으로 큼. 애초에 멀티엔딩조차 없는 기존 작품들과 비교하면 엔딩 100개나 만들어준개 장하다고 생각될 정도. 물론 쓸데없는부분 많긴함 특히 메인이 되어야 할 전투파트가 갈수록 단순 작업이 되어가면서 그냥 스킵마려운 파트가 되었다는거 딩동-하고 방송울리는거랑 변신하려고 자해씬 나올때마다 졸려 뒤짐 괜히 사회에서 도태된사람에게 추천한다고 적힌게 아님 그 정도로 시간낭비가 많음 한글화가 된 현시점에선 그나마 여러 패치로 좀 나아진거라 카던데 그 전엔 정말 끔찍했을듯... 그래도 한글화 해주신 분들에게 감사하는 마음으로 하자고 마음먹었던 것이 생각보다 퀼리티 괜찮아서 전체적으로 호평할 수 있었던듯 단간론파나 레인코드 안해본 사람들에겐 비추 권선징악이나 깔끔한 연애라인, 완전무결한 해피엔딩 그런거 없다는거 정도는 미리 알아둬야 함

Kind of a weird experience, though maybe just because I am not as big a fan of visual novels in general. The initial playthrough was fine when everything was fresh, but more I played this game to see what branching paths had to offer, the less I felt I was getting out of it. So many of the events are repeated and the ones that aren't it seems like you have to wait forever to progress through to their conclusion. Eventually you can just skip all battles. Also, so many of the stories of alternate branches seem to provide little value. I feel like the "best" "alternative" branches would offer some insight into different events, characters, and the world but these are few and most of them are just kinda ask what if you had to deal with a different weird scenario and a few ways how it could turn out, while offering little to enhance the overall story, if there could be considered to be one past the scenario you are presented with at the beginning. I think I would have liked it better if [spoiler] there was a Last Defense Academy 3, 4, 5, etc where you retained more memories and sequence of events kept changing in response to you looping instead of only doing so at LDA 2 and as part of the S.F route. I don't think the game needed 100 days or 100 endings.[/spoiler]

One of the best games I've ever played. I wasn't sure what to expect but it's my GotY 2025 over Clair and KCD2. It's hard to write a detailed review without major spoilers. The game certainly isn't perfect (I think the 'free time' could use additional activities), but it's an incredible experience that I recommend highly if you have the patience for seeing it through to the end.