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Review of BAD END THEATER

SubjectBAD END THEATER
BAD END THEATER
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historyeraser on 2021-11-01 last updated on 2022-02-13
ReviewOk, so like, this visual novel is pretty generic or whatever. Although the art is good and the dev actually took the time to change the UI for their Ren'py VN, (since most Ren'py novels don't even fucking bother) There's still some rookie mistakes despite this writer making like, over 10 VN's before this one.

First off, the novel falls for the trap of thinking that "More branches = better" even though each route is short af and getting an ending takes less than 5 minutes. For some reason there's not a lot of actual dialogue in this game, which is made worse by the fact that the prose is nothing special at all. Everything goes so fast that nothing sinks in and it feels you're reading a summary of this story instead of reading the actual story itself. Not to mention the characters feel super one/two note for people you're meant to feel sorry for.

Also, the novel does this bullshit where you can look at a flowchart and see all the branches or whatever, but, like, you can't fuckin just click on a scene be sent there or whatever! And the bullshit is compounded by the fact that the little personality variables you can set for the cast aren't viewable/changeable on the flowchart screen. Imagine how convenient it would have been just to been able to set the parameters at the fucking flowchart screen and then skip to the relevant scene to make a new choice!

Also, there was some meta shit in the true end that was completely unnecessary. Why the fuck did the writer think that was ok? Didn't they know how fucking eyerollingly cliché that is?

I feel that this VN would have been better if it was like, 4-5 hours long or whatever and actually spent time fleshing out the world and characters so we could actually feel something whenever they get killed. Any story would be better if it didn't feel like a fucking summary of itself.
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#1 by Myna
2022-01-14 at 23:59
< report >Hi, I was a huge fan of your Mean Girls: Senior Year review and noticed it was deleted. Is there any chance you could repost it or let me know why you decided to delete it?