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Review of Find Love or Die Trying

SubjectFind Love or Die Trying
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Vote: 6
cheekyman07 on 2024-11-29
ReviewIt's been a while, after a busy bout of the game called IRL I have at last found some time to waste on my most beloved of mediums. That aside, on to the VN.

I would put 'Find Love or Die Trying' in the B-Movie category experience, it certainly has the right kind of title for it. One can enjoy this for entertainment and a few laughs, more if you find certain mediocrities funny/entertaining. Then forget all about it not long after.

The writing is out of touch, maybe even naive. trying too hard to relate to the current times and lingo. This resulted in the opposite of its intended effect, it had me rolling my eyes. It's like the kind of garbage lines you get from Marvel-type humour ''I'm sorry what?'' ''That shit was x'' ''UHH GUYYYS?'' ''insert quirky reference here'' haha guys you member that reference?! I member.

Lazy comedy. The person creating the scenes lacks skills and/or understanding of established comedy routines/methods. The romance is unconvincing and I did not care for most of the characters due to lack of character development. Though I appreciated the parodies of some characters, like Yui being so much of a trope with cringe levels purposely turned to max, making me laugh.

The heroines do all the work to try to win over the protagonist who largely reacts like this - ''Haha wow that's crazy'' ''Man that's great I like you a lot!''
Not only is this dynamic incredibly boring and unrewarding to read for me, but it also runs against the premise. The protagonist should have been the most proactive character here, but he is on rails.

It's not all bad though, it's moderately entertaining, just enough that I was not getting bored. The premise and comedy focus had the potential to culminate into something greater, not to mention the surprisingly decent sprite work and art. It's a shame that the writing is poor and has numerous mistakes. Phrases often being misused and/or repeated often enough to be annoying i.e. 'it was all I could do to' 'it took everything I had' must have been repeated at least 50 times or more.

The later twists are what promote it further into classic B territory but the good kind where the increasing absurdity gets more entertaining. Especially when the writer starts wanting the reader to take its plot seriously but it falls hilariously flat due to most of the twists and every character getting very little development so they all just come out like asspulls.

Worth reading on a boring day that you don't mind killing time on.
3 points
#1 by SkankinGarbage
2024-11-30 at 05:01
< report >It's weird, because despite agreeing on all counts, I'm very interested to see what he does next...well, "next" after he finishes the sequel to this game, which I can't imagine is going to be a big improvement.

But, who knows? I remember wondering when I finished, if the game would have been better if it committed harder to its comedy scenes and/or its drama scenes. Felt like they never wanted to go all-in on one or the other, even for a short amount of time.

Either way, there was a sort of passion I felt though this game, similar to a recent VN I played, Siren's Call; far from perfect, but it makes me wonder what they're capable of.
#2 by cheekyman07
2024-11-30 at 12:45
< report >I saw that as well, moments where I felt like the team was enjoying what they were making, difficult to describe or show. The writer is not too bad with the direction. Good with things like scene tone, sprite work and the overall presentation. The comedy at least could be good sometimes which is better than never, the dramatic parts sometimes too. So that tells me the writer CAN do it in better circumstances.

The team just need to slap this writer in the face to wake them up and tell them to put a lot more thought and effort into it, maybe do some research idk I'm not a professional ofc. Could produce something good if that happens, so guess we will have to wait and see.Last modified on 2024-11-30 at 12:45