Sakura MMO

A barebones visual novel that wants to pretend it's romance rather than an AVN with a "Hidden" 18+ Patch where the majority of its "content" is hidden. It's got a VERY bare bones story and very surface level characters with absolutely no depth and literal in the way of character development.

It's alright, the characters and setting are decent enough. I liked Neve the most but it feels like past a certain point in the story she becomes more of a background character than any sort of main love interest. At its core this is more than anything else a harem VN. The yuri stuff is almost not even secondary but further removed than that. It doesn't in any meaningful way land as a real yuri story, for me personally, and felt like the yuri was more or less for like, fetishization purposes instead of anything else. This is not the end of the world though, just a relative disappointment compared to what could have been possible with Sakura MMO. There is a storyline along with some minor dialogue options but again the story comes off as like, justification for having a roster of characters to have engage in lewd situations with. It's sort of lazy but there is a charm here, but it's hard for me to really pinpoint what the charm is. The main character at the very least has some amount of personality and is like an actual character, as opposed to some of the other Sakura games that I've tried where the MC was completely bland and almost non-existent, like Sakura Gym Girls.

SAKURA MMO: A TRANSCENDENTAL CRITIQUE OF THE AVATAR Sakura MMO begins with one of the most philosophically irresponsible propositions ever placed before a human being: What if the person you pretend to be online is more real than the person who goes to work? Kotone lives in Tokyo. Her life is repetitive and painfully ordinary. She works, returns home, plays Asaph Online, sleeps, and repeats the sequence. Inside Asaph, however, she is Viola. Viola is a dark witch of overwhelming power, feared throughout the world, attended by a devoted maid, and capable of reducing formidable opponents to administrative details. Then Kotone falls asleep and awakens inside Asaph as Viola. At this moment, the distinction between role and self suffers a catastrophic systems failure. Sakura MMO asks the more dangerous question: If the unreal world permits you to become the person you experience as most authentically yourself, what exactly was unreal about it? This is not merely isekai. This is ontological privilege escalation. Kotone has crossed the boundary between representation and embodiment. Yesterday, Viola was an avatar. Today, Viola has hands. An avat…

quite an interesting story it is pretty good and with 3 different routes cant wait to see how they expand on this story

6/10

Music and art are good. The story is ass. Doesn't make sense at times and had several typos, but worse of all are the characters, specifically Viola and Neve, they're horrible. Even making some of the better decisions (as much as I could anyway) they remain horrible. The 'plot' was okay. [b][u]Overall[/u][/b], eh. Because the story and the characters are so terrible I wouldn't recommend. The 'plot' is not good enough to overthrow that.