7'scarlet

A game that continues to crash every few minutes. You can crash as soon as under three minutes in. There are no Auto-Saves and your Quick Saves will get deleted the moment you crash. There are also freezing issues and you can't play this game offline. If you wish to torture yourself with continuously opening the game every 2 minutes or so, you can have [b]FUN[/b] with this one!!! And yes, this issue is known for years already and no one even [i]cares[/i] to fix it. So nothing new there.

TLDR: Grooming and Pedophilia are present in the last route of the game. If you must, buy on sale and refrain from playing the remaining route. CONS: 7-Scarlet is known as one of the worst otome games, and for good reason. Its writing fails to live up to standard and the game is considered 'alright' even for its time. The plot is all over the place and its length barely gives you enough time to get to know the characters, much less stir up any emotions within the events that take place, and half the time playing I just found it to be boring and ridiculous. It was more of a chore to get through and the few moments that did pique my interest were few and far between. The main love interests had no reason to fall in love with you other than the fact that you're the 'heroine'. One of the guys locks you up because... what, you knew him for two days as children? All of the plot points are so out of the blue. I thought the serial killer guy was going to be a romantic love interest, because frankly that makes more sense than your thousand-year old zombie grooming BROTHER. Have I mentioned the brother? I have a screenshot of his route where it says, and I quote, "As Ichiko enters middle s…

I completed the game a while ago but didn't write a review because I was left without words and I still am like that. This game is something else. You would think it would get repetitive since the actions happen during the same days and in a small area in all routes, but oh boi. I don't know what else to say, so I'll leave it at that.

i hate and like the game imo. not love it tho just like it.i was bored for the first and 2nd route ngl but the more i play and the more lore was discovered the more it made sense, this is the type of otome game where u lowkey gotta pick a side to see from other perspective in a way, well for the first 1st and 2nd route tho WAS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BOOORINGGG, im so sad that im not rlly attatched for any of the character. I LIED IT WAS TOA TOA WAS MY FAVORITE WHATS UP WITH MY FAVORITE OTOME CHARACTER THAT I GEN CANT SHUT UP ABOUT KEPT ON DYINGGGGGG... okay but not rlly attached in a way i think i can like literally get over this after 2 day since i didnt play that route literally literally yknow what im saying, i didnt even realize toa have a true route until near the end shouldve added the more cg need to be discovered cuz like damn i didnt even realized it i thought i was done so i thought toa was just like what the ♥♥♥♥ is he doing there soooooooo , also no idea why they decided to make the damn pseudo incest that i highkey think is just a damn incest cuz mf homegirl of an mc kept calling him a brother while kissing like dont pmo hoe,JUST DONT ADD THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROUTE LIKE DAMN!!!! AND IM HELLA…

I overall enjoyed this game but it left me with a lot of mixed feelings. The voice acting, art, movie, music, characters and writing were amazing! i especially love love LOVE the song 'Lovesick' by A-TO and have been looping it for weeks after Toa's route. The story was very detailed and the atmosphere was lovely. i love that theres an order of route to follow where it slowly unravels the whole mystery route by route. Its such a good game! Now my biggest problem was how naive and lacking the MC's personality is, i mean i initially thought she was a cute shoujo girl and really liked her for the first 3 routes... until i started Sosuke's route...it started off so good and then 80% of the CG is just her hugging sosuke, NOT EVEN IN DIFFERENT OUTFITS. it just gets repetitive especially since sosuke's route is one of the longest one. If u go through all the CG's u can see how all the other characters had cool action scenes and variety of fun scenes and sosuke's CG is basically just the 2 aliens hugging eachother meme. Its such a shame cus i was so excited for sosuke, im such a sucker for the smart nonchalant types who slowly warms up to MC. but alas, i couldnt stand MC in his route. Yu…

You can pick this up at a 75% discount, but with all due respect, such a lazy port doesn’t deserve even that. They should honestly add a special achievement for anyone who manages to complete it on Steam Deck. It is possible and somehow I even had the impression that it crashed less there than on PC. Still, 2–3 crashes per route was basically normal for this game. Then I reached the Secret Route, where that number went up to around ten. That route alone already leaves you with the feeling that you’ve just been fed a steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but having the game crash over and over again multiplies that feeling a thousandfold. No, thanks. For girls looking for an actually meaningful mystery/horror VN, I’d recommend Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly instead. Or 9 R.I.P. if you own a Switch.