Wheel of Innocence

This cute short visual novel has disability representation and does it well. It also has yuri. ♥

As usual, I played a Steam game and, seeing I could write a review for it, decided to make my way there. I walked while thinking about nothing at all, a important pondering for me to share. Eventually, I finally arrive, and find Ridaru standing their. It was strange, as if butterflies is in my shoe. I tried to to tell them about the game, T-Th... T-th... But couldn't, I stammered. Suddenly, to the sound of the same song that had been playing while I walked here, I felt a hand on my shoulder. They told me it's ok, I can tell them later. For a change of pace, they brought up a game they were playing. Coincidentally, it was the one I had been. Afterwards, curious about what I had meaning to say, I told them it was to speak of this, and they said I completed my objective. I felt so ashamed... How can I be so pitiful? After Ridaru helped me, we mark a day to do some racing in their game that they owned, Jaded Rim. It have a lot of explosive mine which are fun to dodge. I can't wait! Satire aside, if you put Autotext on a fast-but-readable speed, ignore the first chapter being ultra-glacial, the most interesting chapter not being about the titular character, the nigh-constant presence of a single-tone of sad piano, then there's a non-zero amount of enjoyable drama in this story, which almost feels like about a sort of indirect cuckoldry. Some of the backgrounds are obviously "deep dream" AI-generated style imagery, as part of a filler section of medieval fantasy, of zero substance to the story. That should be skipped entirely. Overall, it feels both glacially paced AND as if everything happens too fast - it had too little time to tell a fleshed out story, and it underutilized the little it had. Excluding that one chapter, and the unintentionally comedic moments, what I liked the most was the wheelchair-bound protagonist, and what I most disliked is how the mundaneity/slice-of-life parts were written. If you've NEVER 'played' a story presenting itself as being primarily about this sort of protagonist, then play this. Otherwise, there's better things to play, like the demo of Our Life Beginning and Always.