Yukar From The Abyss

되~~~게 한가하면 플레이하세요. 개인적으로 마신루트 말고는 다 별로였습니다.

I died within the first 18 minutes of playing, but did that stop me from nope! This is my first visual novel and I was not expecting how great the sound effects were...and the voice actors oh yesssss. If you like playing otome games then , this is the one for you~!

It's lowkey criminal how underrated this game is; there are 4 LI's, each with three endings plus one after story. All the routes are super engaging and the art is absolutely gorgeous! 10/10

[h1]良い点[/h1] ・シナリオ。個人的に[spoiler]ハッピーエンドだけでなくグッドエンドもお気に入りです[/spoiler] ・UI。クイックセーブやログから戻る、ルート分岐後からプレイするなどの操作が容易でストレスが全くない [h1]気になる点[/h1] ・背景[spoiler]やヒーローの本性[/spoiler]が写真を加工したもの。没入感が損なわれる ・スチルによって塗りが統一されていない。別ゲーやってたかな？というテイストのスチルが突然出てくる。同じカラーパレットを使うなど統一感を持たせる工夫があると良かったように感じます 気になる点はあるものの、[b]インディーのクラファンを募りつつ完成したゲーム[/b]ということを考慮すると、UIやシナリオなど割くべきところに重点的に限られたリソースが注力されていて好印象でした。同スタジオの新作が出た際にはまた購入しようと思います。少しグロかったのでそこが気にならない方にはお勧めできると思います。

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9/10

Cute little otome.

This is not the worst Otome VN that you can read, but it is not good either. [b]I'll start from the praise[/b]: + Voice acting was good + Music was good [b]Mixed feelings[/b]: - Art was mostly good. I liked Character sprites, but not every side character had sprite. CGs were mostly good, but the ones for Huaisu was clearly made by a different artist and I did not like them much. Some backgrounds were photos, which is fine, but sometimes photos did not match what they should depict (e.g., castle rooms look like modern day hotel). - Dictionary... Some of the words were just transliterated from Japanese into English and I felt that it was not always necessary and just made reading harder. To illustrate my point, please, tell me how this sentence reeds out to you: "Ainu[1] live in Ainumoshir[2] and after death should go to Ponkamoshir[3], not to Kamoymoshir[4]", with the dictionary entries: Ainu - human Ainumoshir - realm of humans Ponkamoshir - realm of the dead Kamuymoshir - realm of gods. I... just think that the sentence can be rephrased to make reading easier. To be honest, there is such a missed opportunity here, it would have been cool if gods used different language from humans and used words from the Dictionary. But no, gods are speaking exactly like humans. More to that, the god, who was isolated for centuries, uses modern geographical names, which he should not know (instead of the old names of locals, he uses modern names that were given to places by the nation who occupied the land while the god was in isolation). Maybe I just thinking about it too much, more than authors of the game. [b]What was bad[/b]: - The plot is rushed and poorly thought out, which is the sad, because the setting is interesting. The demon god plotline suddenly starts, without any buildup, and suddenly ends (if you don't stay on his route). Actually, most of the events suddenly start and end, they just happen. In the most routes, the main villain of the story is just ignored in the end or dealt with offscreen. It is a mess... - Romance is rushed and not believable. All events of VN take a few weeks and I can hardly understand why the MC would like the boys, or why would they like her. The demon god is the worst offender in this: he is awful, [spoiler]was casually murdering people in the past and continuing into the present. But you see, he was deceived by a woman once, and, you know, genosided a whole nation because she asked and he didn't think to check her words. He treats MC poorly, but he was deceived in the past, so he is not guilty apparently, and he loves flowers, and he is hot, so he is good in his heart or something.[/spoiler]. Huaisu route is not much better: [spoiler]the guy wants to do ... a thing ... and then he just changes his mind, just like that[/spoiler]. - Bugs: the image was blinking sometimes, the music was missing sometimes. Given the weak writing, inconsistent art and bugs, I would not recommend taking this game, at least not for the full price.