I was gifted a copy for my birthday from a friend that knows I like Lovecraftian stories. While this is well written, it is not a game, and is does not even qualify as a visual novel as they typically have at least a few divergent choices. This is just the same handful of pictures with a few variants that are usually just different facial expressions, with text that slowly appears,I was gifted a copy for my birthday from a friend that knows I like Lovecraftian stories. While this is well written, it is not a game, and is does not even qualify as a visual novel as they typically have at least a few divergent choices. This is just the same handful of pictures with a few variants that are usually just different facial expressions, with text that slowly appears, unless you maddeningly hit your left mouse button a few thousand times. Apparently adding a text speed slider, or a keyboard equivalent of the mouse button was too much to expect. The story is at times humorous, childish, and then suddenly becomes adult. However it has no choice at all, so there is no replay value. As for the nudity tag on Steam, that is due to a single gratuitous picture (plus two cropped versions, and one with a different facial emotion) with uncovered breasts to earn the nudity tag on Steam, hoping for a few extra sales.
The text should have been displayed in paragraphs instead of slowly teasing out a single sentence and then requiring another click to advance. The flipping back and forth between art that is virtually identical to the previous image, only to return to the exact duplicate every second line, to punctuate each minimalist box of text does nothing to make this more entertaining. Of course it would have meant this three hour click-fest was boiled down to the approximately 60 minute story it really is. But that would have easily qualified for Steam refunds, so more time was spent figuring out how to draw this out than to make it into either a proper visual novel, or better yet an actual game. With the only effort going into a handful of static pieces of art, a few different facial expressions for each, and other quick and dirty edits, as well as the writing, many would probably be using that to get their money back. If this were not a gift, I know I would be.
This is worth about $1-$2, so wait for a sale. It should not be long given how gameplay examples on YouTube probably covered this already. But with no Metacritic reviews, it is my duty to save you some time and just watch a playthrough. They are all identical. It will also save your left mouse button from an early death.… Collapse
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