Death Match Love Comedy!

I'm a big fan of Raging Loop and had high hopes for an earlier work by the same author. Unfortunately, this is probably the worst VN I've bothered to finish. In terms of sprites, backgrounds, and CGs, it's the cheapest of the cheap. The first two thirds of the game are dragged out, boring, annoying, uneventful setup. Ultimately it fails to escape from any of the tired anime romance comedy tropes it's built on, it just constantly winks at you that it knows they're tropes. Still, something about it was compelling enough to keep me from turning it off. The story does try to swing for the fences with multiple layers of twists of impressively escalating absurdity in the home stretch. You can see the seeds of various ideas that would be executed much better in Raging Loop. As something in the same universe as Raging Loop, some of the explanations are a bit interesting and cast some new light to me on some events of that game. However, these positives were definitely not worth the time investment needed to reach them. Ultimately you should just play Raging Loop. If you've already played Raging Loop and liked it, you would still probably get more enjoyment out of playing Raging Loop a…

This game was like edging with a half-mast in visual novel form. There's some interesting things plotwise, but never getting the satisfying climax.

Good visual novel with flowchart system.

Death Match Love Comedy is a visual novel with a good amount of branching paths and a story that gets more interesting the further you progress, as all good novels should. Some of it flew over my head the first go around, but thanks to the Chart system, I can go back and appreciate certain details more without being forced to skip through the very beginning. That said, it's not quite as good on a reread as Raging Loop due to a lack of [spoiler]The Revelations Mechanic that gave you insight into what everyone involved in the scene was thinking at the time.[/spoiler] I will say that having a 'True Ending' defeats the purpose of having multiple endings, but considering the nature of DMLC, the True Ending is, unfortunately, the best way to handle any mainline story continuation unless Amphibian decides to make more sidestories. [spoiler]Ending 3 gives Rei Yagi a chance with Best Girl, so it's my preferred ending.[/spoiler]

For a game with the word "comedy" on the title it is one of the most unfunny visual novels I've ever read. Given the premise of the game, I thought it was going to be an absurd parody dating game. Until I was saw DMCL is a serious narrative first and foremost. The jokes in the game are every overused tired nonsense I've heard in every school harems in VNs, anime and manga you can think of from the last 20 years. From writing and execution, the jokes fall flat, my face is dead pan throughout and the worst ones drag out runtime. The explosion quickly loses its potential at laughs because of the game's serious, long and boring story. I'm also annoyed by the fact that DMCL has that air of "self awareness" that it knows the gags are old and overdone but does nothing about it and keeps using them uncreatively. As a serious narrative that's the biggest joke in the game. The main point of the story is the MC finding the culprit that placed the curse on him. The length of the story is between 25 to 30 hours long. Most of what's happening in the story is the characters not knowing what's the cause, going back and forth between possibilities for hours, wasting time with the cookie cutters y…

this is a very silly game from the outset, much more than Raging Loop, and its humor is very dated and juvenile (think typical fanservice/ecchi anime jokes but without the visuals). If you dont mind that, there's just as much solid mystery content here as in Raging Loop. I ended up enjoying this much more than I expected. There's a certain point midway through the game where the plot starts accelerating rapidly and never lets go until the ending sequence. Very fun. Some of the lore explanations towards the very end are a bit too long and detailed, just like in Raging Loop, but it works better here. In short, absolute recommend for fans of Raging Loop who can stomach its sense of humor.