Update One Hundred and Five: 28 December 2017
Resette's Prescription -Book of Memory, Swaying Scale-
7.4 hours, 13 of 13 achievements
4.5/10
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Oh man, that wasn’t very good.
Okay, so, Resette’s Prescription is an anime-style point and click adventure game - it was tagged a VN but it’s patently not a VN, it’s a more wordy point and click. It has watercolor backgrounds with vector anime sprites on top and it’s… it’s not great.
It chugs, even though it’s not a very intense game at all. The puzzles are either way too easy or stupid frustrating, and it’s sometimes hard to tell what to do next. That might just be me being dumb though - there was one puzzle that involved a scale and a set of weights that had me stumped for a good twenty minutes before my girlfriend waltzed in and solved it in 30 seconds. I’m telling you this because she told me to tell you and I’m going to hear about it if I post this review and don’t include it.
Beyond gameplay - and one VERY gamebreaking bug that has not been fixed and requires you to just straight up skip a segment of the game - the story is middling to… ehhh….
It’s just a chore more than anything else to play, and nothing could really save it.
Next up: An actual VN this time! PSYCHE it’s more choose your own text goodness!
See you soon!
I also got drawn to it by its name at first reminding me of Recettear. Good thing I didn’t buy it blindly.
Your next up looks pretty deceptive too! Because that cover art looks nice but the game is text only sadly.
oh my god, seems like a trainwreck. Then, it’s not related at all with the game Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale?
No, not in the least - the protagonists just happen to have the same name, and the art style is similar. I saw a few people get confused in the forums.
I wish it were - Recettear was amazing!