Order of Ataxia: Initial Effects

No reviews for this one? Guess I'll give it a shot. This is a visual novel. If you've never played one of those, gameplay consists of reading and making choices. Basically a choose your own adventure. TL;DR at the end. At the time of this review, the game is not fully voiced (it will be getting a voice patch later, according to the store page). I completed a single path through the game, and reloaded before the final choice to get a second ending. Took me 3.5 hours. ART: You can see the art in the screenshots on the store page. It remains consistant the whole way through. Characters have several facial expressions and a couple poses. The game is tagged with nudity; there was a bath scene in my playthrough. The phrase, convenient censorship, applies here. The bits that put up all the red flags are hidden by steam / beams of light / splashes of water / etc. WRITING: The writing usually flows rather well, but there were a few times where I had to reread the lines to figure out exactly what a character was trying to say, or what point the narration was trying to get across. There was one time where I actually could not figure it out, and was forced to continue teh gmae hoping that t…

A visual novel with alot of hidden, subtle moral lessons within, though quite obvious upon first appearing but sadly underplayed and undervalued. The light heartedness, comedic tone is the centralized theme, despite the light heartedness it has the potential to be something much more. Regardless the reason, it never manages to dive deep into the world and characters, only giving out the bear minimum. Despite being bear, it has done well with the overall atmosphere, creating sufficent substance which manages to fill in the missing gaps. While, remaning faithful towards its original tone, light hearted adventures of Doctor Charles Malcolm and his beautiful assistant Fallor. A visual novel, I'd recommend if you have the time or a peculiar urge of fluffy fox ear'd girls.

Not a bad VN with choices and multiple endings, story is ok but didint really do it for me.

The personality of all the girls made me angry. I hated them all, and the only thing that got me through the game was the desire to unistall it.

I rarely ever write reviews but I like the developers other visual novels and this one didn't quite reach that expectations but even so it's by no means bad. I didn't write a review so much as make two lists but it's what came to mind so that's what I did and now I'll go to waiting for the next Rising Angels episode. :) Bellow are my positives and negatives for the visual novel. Bad/what could be improved: - Better audio visual feedback when you click something, like a sound effect or the text to scroll. I discovered that there is a text scroll but by default the text speed is set to max? If it was set by default so we could seee the scroll then we would decide if we wanted it or not. - The menus/UI is hard to look at. Especially because you can't immidiatly tell what the buttons are. - The game starts up in window mode. Don't do this unless you are trying to be retro. - Typos - The ending was very abrupt. Good: - The art is pretty and high quality. - Music is good but a little too loud at times. - The story & characters - I feel like this could have led to other stories/adventures with Fallore and the Doctor.

I had fun going through this game to catch the endings for those characters that I was most interested in learning about. It's easy to love the quirky, mischievous types, which Fal falls into, but in general the gamut of characters you can interact with is intriguing. I went through the game to get two of character's endings, which I found quite charming. The backdrop that the story takes place in is another layer of personality to the story, which I finished in two sittings, but you could possibly do in one extended sitting? It was nice to finish a story instead of losing interest and never getting to the end.