Review of Utawarerumono
| Subject | Utawarerumono Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen - NA Download Edition |
| By | Helpfulness: 0 Vote: 5japanication on 2022-05-19 |
| Review | I also gave SubaHibi a 5/10, but this gets a 5/10 for different reasons. SubaHibi had some great peaks but such terrible, extended lows that I had to drop it. Utawarerumono just has no highs period. The parts that try to be highs are so cringey. And it's not "HURR TOO ANIMEY BRO", no I love manga and anime. It's just bad and lazy writing-wise. We spend like 10battles on these tiny nations and then only 2 battles per huge nation. Did they just run out of resources? We introduce some big bad seeming guy only for him to get killed by the next big bad in 1 hour and then suddenly there are gods everywhere. The big reveals are so ridiculous. There's basically no monologue/narration which makes this VN more like watching a movie and it really hurts it. You just see reveals "matter of factly", meaning that if someone were to actually be Satan's son (just a hypothetical), he'd suddenly grow wings and start cackling out of nowhere instead of actually learning more about the lore, world, his character motivations etc. The best part of this VN were the characters and their interactions, they were fun and enjoyable and relatively high quality. I could give it a 7-8/10 in that area. I had more fun in the SOL sections of other VNs like Higurashi but still. At least around ML Extra quality maybe better. The 2nd best part is probably the gameplay. It was an okay, decent SRPG/TRPG but near the ending parts it got really bad especially the gimmicky maps. The worst part is the story which was serviceable at first -- I'd say it went from a 7 to a 6 to a 5 to a 4 and the ending might have been a 3. |
| 0 points |