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Review of V.I.R.T.U.E.S.

SubjectV.I.R.T.U.E.S.
ByHelpfulness: 2
Vote: 6
htc89234 on 2022-11-27
ReviewVIRTUES has 7 different girls you can pursue and they all kind of increase "separately" which can make the game feel a bit weird when you get scenes with more than one character that feel as if the progress you had isn't there anymore. That's just a common mistake of indie VNs that have a specific path for each girl while also having a harem system, though, so it doesn't bother me too much. The models are slightly varied and are all decent in my opinion, and the characters are shallow but not necessarily bad.

What lowers this VNs score is that the story is essentially nonexistent. The game feels a bit unnecessarily long for what it is, and the character story arcs tend to feel a bit useless to downright bad; it's really just a boring preamble with minor backstory characterization leading up to the sex scenes of whatever character model you fancied most. Further on, the game has several "interactions" that feel either unnecessary (such as the map and day time system only existing for you to pick a girl to go after, a classic of these types of VNs) or only used for repeatable sex scenes otherwise (such as 'spending time' with a girl and being able to repeat a scene you've seen; another classic for these types of VNs). Since they're so common everywhere, it's annoying, but not enough for me to lower the score.

All in all this is a pretty straight-forward "pick your girl, get sex scenes" VN. It doesn't stray away from what it does, and it plays to its strengths somewhat well. It knows what it is and it does just that.
2 points