Update Three Hundred and Three: 19 April 2019

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I want to thank my kyoudai, Shax, once again for gifting me this visual novel over the holidays! I’m glad I got a chance to play it, and without him that may have been very far in the future, indeed.

This is a little bit of a strange one. Set in Taiwan, you play a rich young man who is kidnapped by two sisters and held for ransom. And then… you get released. Or die. Or they let you go. Or you die.

The story is painfully straightforward, and there’s a large political class struggle aspect to it that is handled rather clumsily. Protag is a huge dickhead at the outset, of course, blaming the older sister for her poor position and saying she’s just a whiner etc. etc. rich people aren’t at fault etc. etc. He changes his tune as the game goes on and he gets to know both girls better, but it’s not really… interesting or compelling. Like, ‘oh, I guess people really can’t help being poor and that’s sad’.

The art is lovely, which is a bonus, though not being able to save whenever is a little annoying. The choices are all timed, which doesn’t lend anything to the game.

It was an okay time spent with it, but not anything in particular to write home about! I always have such a hard time writing about games like this…

Next up: I like finally being able to play games I’ve had for a long-ass time.

See you soon!