破碎棱镜 Broken Prism

As much as i wanted to like the game, i cannot recommend this game in English. The translation is very obviously machine translated, with zero editing. Many of the genders were flip flopping constantly, the sentences were choppy and didnt make sense. Not to mention the formatting issues. Often, if the text was being translated was too lengthy, it would go off the screen instead of wrapping around like most well formatted VN's. The only way to read the text in those instances would be to go through the log. Perhaps its much better quality in Chinese, but unfortunately not worth the purchase if you're an english speaker.

To me this is one of those VNs with immaculate potential, yet that didn't quite manage to express it in the writing unfortunately. I definitely love the concept a lot; the story premise and setting are incredibly intriguing and creative, while the idea of depressing sci-fi fantasy yuri is very charming! The art is breathtaking and I adore the soundtrack, they add to a quite unique, serene, somber yet weirdly relaxing atmosphere. Now the plot itself appears to be very interesting too, however the writing simply confused me, giving me much trouble following it.. At first I thought that it's mainly a translation issue, yet even people who've read the original version tend to evaluate the writing as rather flawed and incoherent. In my opinion the world-building and lore descriptions are insufficient (considering how much could be said about them) as well as the general plot. Plenty of things just happen really abruptly and the lack of proper transitions between scenes accumulated even more to my confusion. There certainly are many elements I enjoyed about the story, such as the lovely characters and their interactions, complex and fascinating lore, mesmerizing scenery, etc, theref…