Review of AMNESIA
| Subject | AMNESIA |
| By | Helpfulness: 3 Vote: 4cherryjam on 2021-07-08 |
| Review | Rating: 4/10 (“Bad”) ---- 3 points for Ukyo, 1 point for art Recommended for: ...I don't think I'd really recommend it to anyone. Just read/watch Ukyo's route. He is best boy. My route order: Toma > Kent > Ikki > Shin > Ukyo. Ukyo's route is the best by far. Least favourite guy? Eh....I didn't really feel enough about any of them to have an emotional reaction, but probably Toma or Ikki. Amnesia: Memories is probably the only visual novel that can make me yawn simply from thinking about it. That's how utterly bored I was while reading it. It's an absolutely terrible sign when four out of five of the character routes feel like a chore. The sad thing is that not all of them necessarily felt like that all the way through. Shin's route, for instance, had moments of being interesting. But sadly it was never meant to be. The only route that actually held my attention was Ukyo...and, depressingly, you need to play all the other routes to unlock him. Considering that the visual novel clocked in at over 30 hours for me, I wouldn't recommend sitting through this snorefest just for him. Even if he did make me actually enjoy the game for once. I suppose you could force skip through all the other routes, but I'm not sure the game is worth a sale price simply for Ukyo. Amnesia's plot isn't ground-breaking or exceptional. Its main selling point is, by far, the pretty art. The CGs are mostly gorgeous. Sprites are pretty but inconsistently placed; there are numerous times you can see them shifting a few pixels up or down as the characters change expression. Backgrounds are pretty meh. The OP and ED are very good, but the background OST is mostly forgettable apart from a few stand-out numbers. The characters are consistently written, but rather shallow. Kent is boring, which kills me because his VA is one of my favourites. Shin is okay. Ukyo is best boy. Toma is just grating, but I don't like his voice or his aesthetic. A lot of people will tell you Toma is the worst character with the worst route. I actually thought he wasn't that bad, though that's likely because I know of a character from a different otome VN that makes Toma look like a pure angel. Ikki is annoying for a whole different reason: the man doesn't have the balls to defend his own girlfriend. The vast majority of the game can mostly be described as shallow -- not that there's anything inherently wrong with that. But it's important to also make the game interesting...which it isn't. Dialogue is boring. There's nothing ever really interesting happening. It's not even a good slice of life, because I can't get invested in the heroine (who is worse than most otome protagonists), her friends, or her suitors. Some routes, it felt like a whole lot of nothing happened. TL;DR this VN is boring and not even Ukyo can redeem it. Not worth it even on sale. Just watch Ukyo's good route on Youtube. Go play Code:Realize, Cinderella Phenomenon, The Second Reproduction, or Black Wolves Saga if you want a good otome. |
| 3 points |