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I initially picked it up because of a net friend who got really into it and kept talking about it constantly. I saw it recommended every time I opened the google play store and looked like trash. It didn't seem very appealing but I guess I caved and gave it a shot.
My impressions; The story and world comes off like a Girls Front Line ripoff, but with gameplay that's admittedly more fun.
The art looks ugly and for some characters like it was made by AI. A lot of character designs can look retarded or ugly, many are just 2smutty4me. seriously half these girls look like they moonlight as strippers in their spare time or like they're into some BDSM shit (a couple you meet early into the story are literally into that). Enemies in the game look too busy design wise while also being monochrome like garbage straight out of a Michal bay transformers movie.
To be fair, I think these character designs are meant to appeal to a specific type of person, guys that think thick slutty girls with whips and chains and leather and stuff like that are hot, and that's just not me.
I played the game for a while to give it a chance, and was admittedly curious where the story was going, but I didn't make it that far before putting it aside. I tried a few times to get back in but the long updating process turned me away every time.
Then I saw they added this new character, Ranko Flora. She seems like a strangely nice character for this type of game that didn't really fit too well. I decided to throw everything I had at trying to get her, and that meant having to grind the game hard to earn the materials to roll for her (I'm a free player to the end.). She's the only thing keeping me playing now, she looks like she'd be snooty but she actually acts really cute and charming, so it irks me how the protag is very dismissive of her.
Playing more of this I found the plot seems to like emotional rug pulls, at least where I'm at so far. They set up something sad or even tragic and quickly after make it a non-issue. I've been told it gets a lot darker as it goes on so I guess we'll see how that goes, but for now it feels cheap, and as if narrative wise the story is being held back by the nature of the game (such as not being able to kill off playable characters).
Syuen comes across as a fun to hate character, and boy does this game want you to hate her. Normally I hate seeing harm come to girls, but she's one I make an exception for.
I think the UI is a complete mess, with what are essentially two separate main menus, and the main menu is a clusterfuck. It has what looks like popup ads and buttons overlapping other buttons, it just all feels like bad design. All over the place you also find overdesigned convoluted looked impractical mechanical garbage that just makes this look like a really ugly world to live in, or at least it would be if the protag wasn't banished to his own personal adorable looking simcity that clashes with everything else in the game and acts as a second main menu of sorts.
I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep playing this. I'm barely half way into the main story but I'm getting to what seems to be a really grindy point where it's hard to progress in the story and my characters need tons of resources to level up.
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