Volleyball Heaven

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This game has a lot of issues with choices not being recognised (I don't even mean the choices end up meaningless, though that happens too - I mean you will make a choice and then in the next scene the game will act like you chose something different). The flag checking isn't accurate. Also, for a game that makes a point of telling you when you move between weeks, it sure does start to just skip multiple weeks a lot as the game goes on. There may have been more contact planned that wasn't added in the end, but it looks not great as is. I'm guessing, considering the unremarkable story, that the main draw is the sex scene slides. Not sure why, since the camera jumping around during those slides really kills any potential vibe. It's just a badly made game trying to ride mediocre horniness, and failing.

An interesting western yuri VN that focuses on the struggles of being a rural lesbian in the south pre-legalization of gay marriage in 2015 that moves into the upper-class city for university and maintaining friendships and team harmony with strangers and a distant friend for a sport casually played by the protagonist. Rika best girl. For complaints...Lana in her own route I actually really liked but in every other route is very hard to not find unlikable and it is rather annoying that being a doormat is basically how you win her route, and there's a lot of mentions and scenes of unwanted attention and sexual harassment from men for a yuri game which wouldn't be as bad if it was dealt a bit more into the seriousness of it and how it especially is harmful for lesbians that face such situations outside of it being something that grinds the gears of Kayla and Zoe. Noticeable typos. In some routes like Emily's the way Kayla's internal monologue is written at some points feels out of character and more like something Rika or Lana would say. Overall a 7/10 and an interesting take on the yuri genre as well as first GXG only work from Winter Wolves which created the lovely "Always Remem…

Yeah, it's okay.

The characters are realistic in the fact that they basically all have some amount of trauma. Fundamentally, though, I didn't expect to feel this emotionally exhausted from a dating sim. Was the game fundamentally _fun_? No. No, it wasn't. The first ending I got turned out to be the least problematic for me. I wasn't totally happy with it, and I was worried there might be self-harm if my relationship with that character dropped too low on other play-throughs. I had no idea that was actually the best ending possible. This is messy high-trauma lesbian drama where even the good endings can make you feel uncomfortable. (And there is 100% guarantee of new trauma that requires trigger warnings during some of the routes. Not just old trauma that shaped their character before the game started.) I'm sure that some folks will love it. That said... Looking at the achievements tells a lot about the game. 20-25% get through at least one ending, but this is a dating sim which is purely choice-driven (no random or RPG elements) where 70-80% of players do not feel compelled to get all of the achievements. In no way is it physically difficult to get them, but it is emotionally difficu…

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