Dear Althea

Sadly, i cannot give an opinion about the story if the game because i had to ask for a refund. The bugs were too many. And some of them serious enough to not letting me play. My save file got corrupted, the dialogue background desappeared (thankfully it came back going to the menu and coming back), when I was seeing one character profile the data of another character popped in a random place, some text was skipped randomly... You know, if they were some minor bugs that didn't make it difficult to play, i wouldn't mind but there are some basics in a visual novel that can't happen... And all of this happened in just the first 20 minutes of the game. I won't risk some of these bugs happening more later like the save file corruption...

I really want to recommend this review without any reservation. The graphics are gorgeous, the story is, if viewed from a distance, quite engaging, and the choice of a Victorian setting makes it miles and leagues above the typical settings seen in this genre. However, this game has a ridiculous number of the most basic and fundamental of bugs. Spanish text is often left in, the text for dialogue does not load if you reload a save (workaround is to look at the dialogue history aka "backlog"), dialogue is often repeated or skipped, some puzzles (like [spoiler]the game your sister gives you[/spoiler]) and there are typos in many, if not most, lines. If I could give this a mixed review, I would have. Had the reviews been overwhelmingly positive, I would have not recommended it because I really like everything except for the typos and bugs. This is really a diamond in the rough, but I would happily buy every single game with this art and this setting in the future if the devs could just hire a proofreader and somebody to test all the dialogue beforehand. It is extremely unfortunate that this game only got one first impression, and that first impression was, understandably, mixed. Thi…

A good visual novel with a few rough edges in it. First off, a positive stuff: [list] [*]Pretty visuals with plenty of unique colourful characters and backgrounds [*]Good soundtrack in the spirit of the time depicted in VN [*]An engaging story about personal conflict and social-economic discrepancy in the end of XIX century [*]Simple puzzles allowing to get rest from continuous reading (and which can be safely skipped!) [*]Stylish pictures and descriptions of various clothes and personal items used in those days (I was amazed to learn that such simple things as buttons on a coat could reveal many about their owner) [*]Lots of choices leading to different outcomes [*]Hack mode to help player view different endings [/list] Secondly, aforementioned rough edges: [list] [*]Lots of typos, however not critical enough to distract from story [*]Minor bugs, like sentences being repeated or UI glitching [*]Lots of choices leading to same outcome since developer guides player towards specific narrative (though I understand that creating truly unique paths is difficult, moreover for a small game studio) [/list] It's clear that developer put a great effort into the game and cares about it. All…

[i]I received a free copy of this game for my curator, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32080131/]Games for Hopeless Romantics[/url].[/i] I encountered a bug that made it impossible to progress through the game. My save was literally on the line immediately before where the crash happens, so reloading isn't helpful. The game does have a chapter menu that lets you restart the game from a specific point (at the cost of losing the impact of all your decisions except a select few)...but choosing the chapter I was in brings up the previous chapter instead. If I had enjoyed the game up to that point, I would be willing to just skip through. The potential is there, especially with how well-done the visuals are, but the game is laggy and the text itself...isn't great. It's written to imitate 19th century English novels (such as the one this VN is based on) but doesn't really succeed at it, often being more confusing than an actual 19th century novel would be. This isn't helped by the repeated pronoun confusion: narration is usually in third person ("She is...") but abruptly shifts to second ("You are...") or first person ("I am..."), sometimes multiple times within a single s…

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME First time playing. Crashed on load, asks what language i want every time game starts, terrible FPS in main menu, crash on new game, crashed after exiting options menu, esc closes game rather than opens menu, game dialogue plays while options menu is open. Game loads into menu, cant leave menu. unlowerable LOUD menu sound effects, Bad dialogue translation, spelling mistakes. Cross dressing characters, everyones a lesbian, if these girls went out in public in Victorian times theyd be stoned to death. I would ask for a refund but its far too late for that (bought at Xmas time). This is not a point and click adventure, this is a static visual novel with no animation, do not be fooled by the trailer, you just pick dialogue text choices.

https://youtu.be/5nbQ5DWldLM Translations issues are immediately apparent and frequent enough to distracting. Despite all that, the story and characters are compelling and well written to match the intended era.