Artificial Mansion

It's been awhile since I've had a chance to enjoy a visual novel, and I've wanted to get back to the genre. So why not jump back in with this one? It's about...dolls that come to life and battle. Well, that's certainly a choice of all time... Artificial Mansion is the wild story of Reuben, who recently inherited his rich uncle's mansion. After discovering two life-sized dolls named Lottie and Briar, he suddenly finds himself in a battle for his life. For five nights (heh heh), he and his new doll friends must survive against Adelaide, another doll who's evil and much more powerful. Thankfully, during the daytime, Reuben gets a chance to put his dating sim skills to test with Lottie or Briar, which will determine the good ending he gets upon surviving. It's up to the player to make the right choices for him to survive though! Any good visual novel will need solid art, and Artificial Mansion delivers in this regard. The character designs are quite nice, striking a nice balance between details and overall appeal. I feel like Adelaide's design is missing something that Lottie and Briar have, but they're all great. The CGs do a fine job matching the main style as well, which is greatl…

I've been rather prejudiced against Visual Novels, leading to a particular bias against anime-style, both in art and in dialogue/character tropes/development/etc. Well, RhinoGearz, this one hobbyist making budget-friendly VN's over here in the Americas, made my reconsider my biases in a sweeping way with the awfully corny yet charming Dimension of Monster Girls, leading me to check out more of his stuff. Any seasoned VN fans, especially weaboos, who insist on Japanese-made, or hyper-japanophile-made, 'high-budget' stuff best turn away now. They won't like the praise I have to give for this little project. This, the moreso as it's hard not to compliment this game without mentioning what it does right that other VN's actually from Japan (and from the dens of really hardcore of japanophiles with money to swing) I've tried so often seem to get wrong - which, to be fair, RhinoGearz himself has in past titles as well. In accepting Artificial Mansion as the small project it is, and that RhinoGearz's head man is indeed one guy taking his vision and inspiration in his own hands, I find Artificial Mansion to be my favorite of his pieces yet in the way of choices, pacing, and character bui…

A Doll Might Kill You.

The art is nice but the story is inane. Rather for younger audiences. Still it is well executed.

it short. i finished in less than 4 hours. story a bit simple. art is nice.

Decent VN, really reminds me of Rozen Maiden. The two disappointments were no [strike]BaraSuigintou[/strike] Adelaide or [spoiler]harem [/spoiler]routes.