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Review of Maitetsu

SubjectMaitetsu
Maitetsu - 18+ Restoration Patch
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Vote: 3.5
flat-is-justice on 2022-01-21
ReviewAs a lolige aficionado, I was very excited when I first heard the news that this classic of the genre would finally receive an English translation.

In the end, however, I didn’t even finish the visual novel, since I was bored to death halfway through. If you have a setting that makes no sense, better do something clever with it. But what I got instead was a dry treatise on trains. Make no mistake: This visual novel is about trains, trains, trains! Everything else is secondary, for example writing that doesn’t make the longest-winded scenes of Katawa Shoujo look exciting in contrast. It would have helped a lot if some of the characters had interesting personalities or if there was a slowly developing romance. But NOPE!

I also have to say that I found the concept of the loli train robots monumentally stupid. It’s so stupid that it wouldn’t even work in an over-the-top parody, and here it’s played completely straight.

I guess if you’re obsessed with trains, this could be THE visual novel for you. But it certainly wasn’t for me.

The artwork is fantastic, though.
1 point
#1 by lavenders
2022-06-30 at 04:57
< report >No shit Sherlock, this is a trainge. If you're not a railfan, you'll get run over.
#2 by flat-is-justice
2022-09-03 at 20:36
< report >Haha, yes. I bet railfans came so many buckets that they nearly died of thirst at the end of the game.
#3 by usagi
2022-09-04 at 03:46
< report >Well, you could use skip function for all train infodumps. It could make your experience a little better and vn's pacing a little faster.