Review of The Guts!
| Subject | The Guts! |
| By | Helpfulness: 1 tomtheerogeman on 2019-06-28 |
| Review | Every now and then I would click the random visual novel link on the menu to pass the time, and long ago I when I saw the cover art for this game, I instantly recognized the woman as the one from a hentai I watched years ago. And there's not 1, but 6 different VNs in this series. While I enjoyed the hentai and wished there were more than 2 episodes, I don't know if I'd go so far as to read all the VNs, I don't like the comedy THAT much. By now of course I realize that a lot of the hentai OVAs that are floating around the internet are actually based on eroges that were released prior. But anyways, back to this game. The art is horrendous, the game is poorly programmed (see t12188), the music is a complete mess except for 1 song, and it attracts negative comments on EGS. But that's sort of what gives this novel it's character, and why I bought it. I guess this is like the VN version of link, because it's "so bad it's good." This is a short VN where the protagonist spends some of his days off school at a construction site where he works part time. His mornings and afternoons at work are simulated using a minigame where you have 5 seconds to click the left mouse button as quickly as you can. You're supposed to clear a work quota by doing this, and the quota just keeps increasing as the days go by, to the point where it becomes physically impossible to meet it. That's when I realized that the enter key usually does the same thing as the left mouse button in a VN, so I tried pushing that as well and now I can do double the work. It might be considered cheating because the game never tells you that you can use the enter key, but who cares. Contrary to a lot of VNs, this game doesn't seem to have any clear routes. You're very often given a list of places to go throughout the construction site and elsewhere, but it's impossible to tell where each girl is at any given moment, and the game won't give you a bad ending for spending time with multiple girls. Your interactions with each character during breaks more often than not leads to sex, and unlike most games this doesn't change your relationship with them at all afterwards. They just act like normal coworkers, as always. The characters have pretty much the same personalities as in the anime, however I don't think Yoshida Eimi ever appeared in it. She's a deranged woman that stalks you throughout the day, and one time in the park she threatens to call for help if you don't rape her. Days later she shows up again wearing a piss yellow trench coat, flashes you, and then sex ensues. Also Tanigawa Harumi is in the anime as well, it's just that she looks completely different later in the series and VNDB doesn't allow multiple images for 1 character. Those are the only things worth pointing out about the characters. I unlocked 63.7% of the CGs after a full playthrough. There's no walkthrough for this game on the internet, nor does the game keep track of which lines you've already read. So I guess I'm going to leave it at that, there's no way I'd try to unlock the rest of the CGs if the game can't give me a stiffy. And honestly, that's probably why there's no walkthrough. The last thing I will note is that this game probably shouldn't be tagged as having a shota protagonist. It's likely tagged as such because the developer is related to Complet's and the last game in the series is clearly a straight shota title. However for this game I can't find anything to suggest that the protagonist is a shota, and he says somewhere that he played baseball in highschool and goes to college. I downvoted the shota tags and will do so for other VNs in the series whenever I decide to read them. |
| 1 point |