Norilsk

This is a neutral review as I will neither give a positive nor negative review for this game to be consistent with my group's curator list entry for the following reasons below. I am also writing this as a review to describe more about the game and as a way to reach the developer as a series of suggestions to improve on other games released in future. I also recently received this game for free from korytoombs through my friend Feena. Iosif was 12 when he left home in Norilsk after being overseas in Southeast Asia. He is returning to Norilsk Technical Academy, a high price school for rich, powerful and famous people. He is introduced to the dean of the academy Uliana, his maths and science teacher professor Syvatopolk. Uliana offers Iosif a deal to recognize his credits he earned while abroad at another university in return for reforming a confrontational student Fydor. Iosif agrees to the offer and gets to know Fydor, his childhood friend and neighbour Lesya and 2 female classmates Karina and Sabina. Syvatopolk assigns Iosif to do a group project where he is brought into the group formed by Karina and Sabina. Lesya offers to show Iosif around Norilsk as a weekend date leading …

This game is like having someone in a trench coat talk to you about anime on a bus while you desperately try to avoid making eye contact.

Okay, I've never written a bad review before but I honestly can't recommend this game to anyone. First of all the characters are all way over the top, even more than usual. It's so extreme, in fact, it makes me cringe. There are also a lot of spelling errors and phrases that are strangely worded. Most importantly though, if you enjoy a game with choices, this is NOT a game for you. Basically, you read until you are presented with the only choice in the game and that's it. After the choice is made the game ends after a few paragraphs. I don't remember what I paid for it, only that I bought it on sale, but I wish I hadn't bought it.

The 4 cgs are 'okay', but man the characters all suck. There's not enough development in any of them to want to pick them. The game only has one choice at the end to pick who you want to date, but it feels like there are plenty of places where they could have had branches with different choices and just decided not to do that. You spend like 2 seconds of time with the guy and the weird girl and then for some reason date them anyway if you choose them. And then the other two are just insufferable. The closest to a three dimensional character is Karina and even that's a bit much, but most of her dimension shows up when you pick someone else. Since she's the only one that cares enough about the MC [for some reason] to want him to be happy even if it's not with her. You'd think that would be the "best friend" from childhood, but nope. Just the random girl who when you first meet her is yelling at you for parking in her spot. And then just says she likes you even though your only interactions thus far were her being mean to you. There's also just no reason any of the characters like you. It's just very tropey and boring overall. It's just not worth it. If it were free, it would hav…

not worth it. if you can get the artwork its 3 pictures each scene for a total of 12.