Update One Hundred and Seven: 01 January 2018

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I’m going to keep this short, because this was a pretty throw-away visual novel.

I don’t know how to describe it other than 1. I didn’t like the tone in which it was written and B. I thought it didn’t do anything new or different with the kind of narrative it was. I can’t describe it very well - it’s like an essance, an air to the writing that makes me squint a little bit, like I’m tasting a wine and get a sour note. I mean, beyond the fact that this makes two visual novels I read in which the author probably has a piss kink and I really didn’t have to know that, it was just kind of… ehhh….

A lot of the ‘jokes’ fall very flat, and it starts very…. very slow, to the extent the game gives you an opportunity to skip the tech-heavy prologue, which is just… I mean, either have it written in an engaging way or don’t have it. There’s also a lot of pop-ups to explain tech references, most of which are mentioned once and then never mentioned again in any other line, so it comes across as just ‘look! I know these terms! I know these tech references!’ without actually mattering. Eh, not for me.

I originally wanted to finish this yesterday, to squeak it in 2017, but other things ended up getting in the way. I may be ringing in 2018 on a kind of disappointing note, games-wise, but I know it’s going to be a good one.

Next up: RNGesus decrees I play a game I just got!

See you soon!