The Lost Time Chronicles

Just gonna be straight up here, for a fetishist like myself, it really grinds my gears when a game has pics of women in pantyhose, but in the game they either aren't in any of the sex scenes, or they're immediately removed. Its an ok game, pretty short

I apologize for any grammar errors or misspellings. It's late and I decided I needed to write this while it was still fresh. Alright, this first showed up on F95 around May of 2025. I read through it then, it was incredibly short then, and figure, like most times, I'd give it a shot on Steam. Every once in a while I'm surprised and a devs has actually made progress before placing their project on Steam, but given the date it was posted and lack of updates in the community page, I didn't have much hope. Unfortunately, my feeling was spot on and nothing has been done with this since it's launch. Now, there are some VNs that take upwards of a year to get updated and if this is the case I will gladly update this review, however if this is one of those ... look, it's one thing to call something "Early Access" and have enough content to justify the wait which this doesn't. It's another thing to call something "Early Access" to make a quick buck with practically no intention of making any progress whatsoever and given that the original creator's Patreon no longer exists, and going by the name Tanoz Games (not 3xentertainment ಠ_ರೃ ) I have a feeling this is likely one of those titles instead. Again, if I'm wrong I will gladly update this review. Oh well, on with the review. The story would be interesting if it made any sense. The writing is incomprehensible at times and certain events/scenes are inserted so abruptly you think it was a jump cut made to accommodate Ai short renders. At one point, the MC spends 10-15 minutes on a Hollywood-like monologue trip just speaking absolute nonsense ... "these folders ... no names, no dates. But they're hiding something," he's literally looking at an empty basement with a furnace. WHAT THE ACTUAL F#CK!? I kept waiting for it to cut to Truman Burbank saying, "what the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking to?" It's that out of pocket. And this sh!t continues for what seems like another 10 minutes. Going up to boxes pulling what might be folders and just talking out loud to no one. At one point it literally looks like he's showing this sh!t to the furnace like a crazy person. And all of this would make sense if it played into the story about the MC losing his grip on reality but this action literally doesn't have anything to do with why this is being talked about. No, no, no. That would make sense. No, this is being done to explain the bullsh!t subplot which connects to the MCs dreams about being from a fantasy world, somehow. Aside from this one scene of pure mental breakdown, yours or the MCs I'll leave you to judge, the rest of this VN's dialogue is pure garbage. Characters seemingly have no depth or purpose outside of maybe the mother (not MCs real mother) and even scenes shared with her are the most vapid possible. Seriously, this reads like it was written by someone who thinks they can write high level fantasy but has clearly never read any. Look, I'm not expecting Tolkien here, but you could try to at least hit J.K. Rowling levels, my guy. This isn't even Twilight, bruv. Seriously, you didn't even bother to italicize internal dialogue to distinguish thought from spoken dialogue. SMH. Graphically this VN comes across as ... the only way to put it is baby's first VN. I'm not one to bag on visuals. In fact, 5-6 years ago this would be relatively acceptable. It's not like it wouldn't gain some criticism but nothing that couldn't be corrected in future installments. But by today's standards? This ain't it. The character models are fine for the most part and aren't made with outlandish proportions like so many AVNs today and for the most part the dev avoids glaring issues but there are a few odd visuals here and there. And genuinely the lack of animations is probably a plus for this. If this is how the dev treats stills I'd hate to see how animations would go without AI to assist. It definitely comes across as an older VN that it actually is. But the inconsistent lighting (dark one slide to a complete flashbang the next, and then back to living in shadows) is jarring. Match that with the character and object placements (mostly lack of) that have nothing to do with a scene or what's being spoken of are simply baffling. It's almost like the original objective was to make two different stories and the dev just decided to through all of this into one VN without any thought as to how any of it should work together. I understand that this may be the devs first project and there's potential here and "early access" doesn't mean final product. But let's be honest. VN's are final products typically. Early Access is just used to generate cash flow while the rest of the project get's completed and rarely do VN's need their entire first chapters reworked. So I feel it's genuinely fair for me to not recommend this VN to anyone looking for a good read. There are hundreds of better VNs out there. Thousands if your willing to go to other sites. This ain't it, so save your money, time, and sanity.

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