Reviews

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  dim

  Jan 23, 2017

  I was going to play through all of this for the achievements as well as for the sake of the review, as I normally do, but it glitched me out of the game three times or so. Doubt I'm gonna finish it. Cute art and music, smoothish transitions, terrible characters that I just absolutely despise and hardly any valuable story. The vibe it tries to have is nice, but it's just lost somewhere in the background as the stupid, hateable characters argue in front of you all the time about whatever silly shit that occurs in no real human being's brain. It's kind of a disaster in the sense that it seems to have been written by someone who simultaneously hates and glorifies women. r9k? There's a bunch of technical things that are getting on my nerves and I can't tell if they tried to be archaic with the writing because it's just so bad. The dialogue is not realistic at all, making the already nonbelievable and one-dimensional characters plain ridiculous. This game is a joke. They tried here and there but.. the final product is just a joke. I understand that it was supposed to be presented just as a demo of the full game but that doesn't change its status as a game on steam that people are going to install and play.. which it doesn't deserve at this current stage.
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  Summer Laverdure

  Jan 25, 2017

  I can see why this is free. The story is weaksauce, the art is alright, it's certainly better than I could draw but it's not at the level I expect from a VN that intends to be commercially released, and the music is entirely forgettable. But the main problem is this engine, I don't know if they rolled their own or if it's some very cheap "make your own VN" thing, but aside from missing small things that every VN engine has, like text speed, it's buggy as all getout. The first time I played this, I got a few scenes in and suddenly the text and scenes blew by like a speeding car and crashed the game. The second time, I got what I assume is halfway through the game only for it to freeze on a scene transition and take me back to the main menu with no saves. This isn't ready for release, IMO. If it were fixed and tightened up presentation-wise, it might be an interesting little VN. But as it stands I simply cannot reccomend this.
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  The Crimson Fox

  Jan 29, 2017

  This prequel contains about fifteen minutes of inane bickering between a Prince and a Merchant, both unnamed, as if someone spent a while "free-writing" and then decided to make a visual novel out of it. There's no point, no plot, and only the barest shade of characterization. The author has not yet learned how to use punctuation. The innkeeper of the game's title shows up only briefly at the beginning, and then at what I presume is the end of this prequel. I say "presume" because after a line of her text, the screen faded to black while the music was still playing. A mouseclick brought up the main menu. I tried to start a new game, but then the new game's music and the old game's music were playing at the same time. I see no need to spend any more time on this.
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  thetyn1

  Jan 31, 2017

  This game has an annoying repetitive OST and the story is about a guy having a dream about a girl who works in the same inn as he is sleeping in
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  KrigarNooben

  Feb 6, 2017

  Yes; this was an unexpectedly good story. Well worth the time to play thru.
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  Puppy Czar

  Feb 10, 2017

  If I had one word to describe this: Awful. The art may be decent, but the story, which should be the main point of a visual novel, is really bad. In less than 10 minutes of playing I stumbled upon clichés after clichés. The game is divided into three branches, each putting one of the character in the main spot, with the Innkeeper, being the link between them. It starts out with The Prince having a wet dream about Elisa. Honestly, that was a bit too much, and that's right at the start. Right there, I knew I would dislike the game. The personality of each character seems to be really fluid, not constant, and it just screams "bad writing!". They are also all jerks with almost no redeemable qualities, even if you choose the good option. First, there's The Prince. Depending on your choices, he's either a cheapskate, a liar, a thief, someone's not respectful, someone who doesn't know what privacy means, or even a beggar. He also may force Elisa to do his binding, or even threatens the merchant for what he consider a small amount of money. No matter your choices, at least 2 of them will happen because he's a shitty human being. Second, there's the merchant. He's one of the most decent character, but still, he's trash. Not as much as the Prince. The Merchant acts as the rival of the Prince. He can be a liar, a thief, or a scammer. He also force Elisa to accept his gifts (where we see that she is highly uncomfortable) and he manipulate people to make him look good. Ew. Third, there's the Knight. The character with the least amount of interactions, and that's a good thing. He start off as saying women are worth nothing. Like, right at his introduction, we get to know how misogynist he is, sweet! He continue off, with the other characters saying he hasn't met the right one. That's some great heteronormative dialog here. He could be gay or even asexual, but the author doesn't want to. (I mean, I can let it slide a bit, depending on the time period this is set in, but... We don't even know if it's in the real world or a fictive world...) Anyway, the knight is a jerk no matter what you do, he'll treat the staff like shit. Depending on your choice, he may also treat Elisa like shit, too! He even spout a line totally not made for him, to the prince: "Respect others if you want to be respected in turn." ... Yeah, the same guy who treated others like shit. Wow. Lastly, there's Elisa. Not much is said about her, she seems to be doing drama for her amusement, and in one route we learn that she somewhat manipulate the men who love her for her pleasure. In one route, we get to see a bit about her past (by the prince who decides to read her private journal, from when she was a kid.) It's pretty much 5 pages of "I'm sad my dad died." It just feel shoehorned here, and it ends up only being used so the Prince scores points in her heart by blatantly lying about his mother's death. As for the engine itself... There's so much things wrong here. For no reason, I ended up on the title screen... With the game still playing. I could continue reading dialog while I was on the title screen. It happened 3 times, and I don't know how it happened. If you click-hold and move, it would be like you selected the background, which is so fuckin' weird. The skip function is really slow. I haven't tried autoplay. Honestly there's way better visual novel worth your time here, even for free. This one is just an uninteresting mess full of bad ideas, and it just makes me way less interested in the main game; which will be without me, for sure.
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  Seemone

  Feb 15, 2017

  The prequel looks promising, the music is very good and the art is amazing.
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  Naru

  Feb 15, 2017

  Over all a good game althought short, but its a prequel so that is to be expected. Amazing art.
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  Dallas

  Feb 15, 2017

  A little demo that advertises the full game. This is a great idea since now I know the quality of the full game and won't be ripped off. BTW this is good and you won't be ripped off if you buy the full thing.
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  RoyalGuardian7

  Feb 18, 2017

  So apparently all my random choices were bad karma. I'm a bad Karma Magnet. Joke aside, I played this game way back before patches and updates, I was quite surprise that many of the updates gave us a lot of gimmicks and a lot of new features. I also now understand why it has "that" tag now, because back then the artwork was not as "Juicy" as now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I really love the soundtrack and the girls are cute in this one. Also I always love stories about skirt chasing, it always funny. One thing that the dev team really need to see and fix is the interface, I mean when choices popped up it was quite messy. It would be nice if you guys clean up a bit about that one. Well then, looking forward for the main story. I hope it will be better than the prequel (for extra the thingies( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))
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  capitan.snake

  Feb 19, 2017

  Great game, can wait for the final version. Amazing art!
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  Beacon of Light

  Feb 19, 2017

  Pros: -Neat artwork for a VN. -Good music. -A few instances of comic relief. -User friendly VN controls. -Helpful autoplay option. Cons: -No option to go back to the main menu after opening a tab. -Story not interesting enough. 1.5 to 2 hours of gameplay to cover all the three story arcs covering about 15% of the main game. Serves as a good preview of what to expect from the actual game. Recommended for fulfilling its role as a free to play prequel. Although you could do without playing this game. Rating- 5/10.
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  Efeberku

  Feb 23, 2017

  Good game please keep up your good work :)