Ideology in Friction

I've sunk 10 hours in this game (with the patch) and I'm done. It starts off okay with unique quests with finding items and getting stronger. Then it dawns on you that none of it matters. Combat is a joke. You fight enemies one at a time and cannot lose unless want to lose (normal difficulty, which is the hardest to start). If the designers had included multiple enemies that would have been nice, but they didn't. Just spam attack and you'll win. After the fighting you go through dialog and dialog and then even more dialog. Boring. Other basic content is locked away unless you do specific things in a specific order. I personally hate it when a game requires you to play with a guide book. On the other hand, to be fair, the game DID hold my attention for several hours as I was hoping new content would unlock through normal gameplay. It never did.

The story is good but the game system is not

First, let me point out the fact that the gameplay is a complete joke. The main selling point to this being an RPG maker game vs a visual novel is the corruption and seggs mechanics, which hey I don't mind, but as it is the gameplay is holding back the experience substantially. As a visual novel-like, the Knights route was a super fun experience akin to an anime like Akame ga Kill. Edgy, sometimes to the point of comedy, at times silly, but does manage to have some hype moments here and there. I highly recommend doing this route first, and if you're only going to play the one route you're not missing out on too much plotwise. Drifter route is great if you just want to play as a sociopathic coomer. It's a cathartic experience that's made more enjoyable by information from the other routes. I do think it suffers from being needlessly closed off; you only have one hub town for most of the game, so your pool of NPCs to mess with is unfortunately low. You never get access to the biggest hub town in this mode. It would have been a nice addition as postgame content without much effort. I also wish you could add the boys to your harem, but whatever The other route was the weakest, havin…

I'm stuck on game menu the theme just too good 10/10

if you want freedom, do not play this game. Good story but repetitive combat and no hentai scenes with the protagonist in 4 hours.

good game