Review of Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO
| Subject | Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO |
| By | Helpfulness: 0 Vote: 3DarKnight36 on 2024-11-03 |
| Review | The first half of this visual novel is fine. There weren't any real stand-out routes to me; they all were simply okay. One thing I didn't really care for is how each of the girls would suffer a bad ending if you didn't follow their route. But I guess it doesn't matter because the story forgets about the other girls as soon as you locked in to one particular route. Either way, the second half of the game is where it went completely off the rails for me. Now, granted, from the very beginning of the game, I knew there was going to be some weird sci-fi mystery and the main routes perpetuated that with time-loop shenanigans. But at least there were choices throughout the first half of the game. The latter half is completely kinetic. It's incredibly long, and man, do the writers think they were smart or something. Most sci-fi you can safely tuck into one of two categories - one that doesn't really try to explain things and relies on you to simply take the science with a grain of salt; and the other that does explain how the science works to help make the story more believable. For some bizarre reason, the writers chose the latter option, but forgive me for saying, they did a really bad job. It just sounds like nonsense, and forced logic to make the universe work the way they want it to. All of this really boils down to the writing is not great. And there is A LOT of writing. This game is not short. It's 40 hours min and I read at a solid pace, and will skip voice lines fairly often. The art style itself is fine. It's not going to amaze you or anything, but it works. The music gets old. There's not enough music for a 40 hour game. Oh, and two of the girls are the main character's blood-related daughter (because why not I suppose). In one case, it's somewhat handwavy in that they don't know they're blood-related due to more time-loop stuff. But the final heroine (the one the game concludes with) the MC literally raises from a child. Sorry, but that made me feel weird. |
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