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Pros:

  • A lot of adult scenes
  • Multiple endings

Cons:

  • Loud repetitive music
  • Some lines not translated to English
  • Characters smooshed in scenes
  • Too many interactions

Explanation to Negative Feedback

Loud repetitive music

This had to be one of the most annoying aspects of the game, as it can become really loud and obnoxious and in your face. I also didn’t want to just put repetitive music here, because a lot of games have repetitive music and that’s not really saying much in the way of it being a con in itself.

But yeah, I was doing commentary for my patrons (shoutout to my Patreon supporters, both free and paying), and this music was blasting.

It’s not even bad music, honestly. It’s the kind of hype music you’d get, probably during certain events at a circus, so it’s not like none of it makes sense, but there’s only so many tracks and after it goes through all of them, they repeat.

Some are on the lighter side, but one specifically has trumpets and really gets into it. That’s the one that probably causes the biggest issue.

Some lines not translated to English

As far as the visual novel aspect, I only came across one line that had Russian text to it, but when it comes to looking into the phrases section of the clues, that’s where you see all of the Russian words that have yet to be translated, and I don’t know how they managed to skip all that, because there are a lot of phrases.

Bear in mind that the translation is skewed when you first look at the phrase. If you click onto it, then it’ll show the phrase and information about it in English.

Characters smooshed in scenes

It’s obvious that the character models were not made to fit into the scenes, because they don’t look good, with being stretched and smooshed to fit into the environment. I guess they were so focused on making the art look good for the visual novel portion, they just didn’t care about the scenes themselves.

Too many interactions

Gathering the items and the time limit reduction for doing so isn’t bad.

What’s bad is the whole talking to nine different people and choosing each item for all of them. It’s just not possible to do within the time limit you’re given, so you’ll have to go through multiple save states to figure out who responds to which items, because sometimes they have nothing to say to them and it’s still a time reduction.

That’s just with the items.

You have to remember there are also phrases people say that you can get more information on by speaking to other people about them, and that’s even more time to use.

I went through this game so many times and had to write down the items that actually gave vital information from each girl so I didn’t waste time. And even then, I wasn’t able to go through every phrase for the girls, so there’s so much to do here in a small amount of time and it can become overwhelming and exhausting.

Explanation to Positive Feedback

A lot of adult scenes

While there are animations in the game, the animations don’t really pertain to the adult scenes.

And while there are quite a lot of adult scenes, maybe 20 or more, not all of them are “engaging,” so to speak. Some of them are just the ladies teasing us with the whole look but don’t touch ruleset. Still, naughty images are naughty images.

The only actual downside is there’s not a lot of different scenarios. A lot of it’s them doing the same type of interaction, which my not be as interesting to some, but some of you might not might.

You might even prefer it.

Multiple endings

There’s an ending for every character in the game, including yourself, if you fail to find a proper suspect via proper accusations. I like the idea of getting multiple endings just by choosing the wrong suspects and not having any real repercussion to it, aside from the fact that a murderer got away with doing what they did and it’ll probably happen again.

There’s just so many items and info that you acquire within the game that even by gaining a lot of information, there’s a chance you’re still unable to pinpoint anyone, which I don’t think is all that fair.

But yea. With so many characters, there’s a lot of paths to take, if you want to blame anyone and everyone.

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