Zeitz Machz √Rhapsody

I mean this in the nicest way possible, because it's far from the worst game I've read and I feel like the creator did care about it, but this game needs SOME negative reviews, for the sake of future players. I don't hate it, but it's [i]not[/i] good. As people before me said: the art is good but the writing is mediocre. The pacing is off, the dialogues are confusing, the characters unlikeable, there are small inconsistencies and it's just generally poorly written. No notes about the story, but it's hard to enjoy when half of the game is practically broken. How are you supposed to get into the character dynamics when a) it's 20% tell and 0% show and b) you almost never know who's talking?

Zeitz Machz √Rhapsody is a free visual novel, that appeared on my radar by accident. It’s first work of the developer that was published on STEAM and it’s easy to tell. Zeitz is poorly written story. It’s missing depth and it's confusing and not clear. The confusion doesn’t come from the attempt of the creator to create plot twists, but Vns style. Sometimes; it’s not clear which character says what. The text is pouring down the screen, without any indication of the person speaking. The way it appears on the screen, feels very old-school and could be seen as a positive, if only it was more intelligible. Characters are missing depth and are irrational. They are flat and simple. Their actions don’t make sense and feel at times - stupid. It’s honestly irritating and make getting through the story challenging. I guess one positive is that the story is short. ~2h The art style is very simple but cute and appealing, so I don’t see a reason to complain about it, in basically a free game. I still want to recommend this story, even after lines and lines of “complaining”, because I see the potential. The idea of the story is good. I like the “mystery” element, but unfortunately the …

to be honest i dont dislike this game at all, i think the premise of the story seems really interesting but theres just too many flaws with the writing and story so far that prevent it from reaching its full potential and prevent me from fully reccommending this. The pacing was kinda weird at first where it started out by digging really deep into the main character before even introducing the main character herself and letting us understand what she does n stuff. besides that the writing just wasnt the best and i think the creator couldve better utilized the NVL format because the dialogue was often split up in a way that made the dialogues really hard to follow along with as well as making it harder to know when the internal monologue change to one of a different character. another small issue i had is the backgrounds did not match up well with what was going on in the story at times which undermines the severity of whats happening in the story at a given moment. that being said i still think it has its moments and the creator has the potential to put out something way better!!

I'll be honest, the start is painfully boring, but i'm happy i stuck with it. Not sure why, because it only gets somewhat interesting later too, but I do indeed wish it would have been longer. More about the vibes than the content I guess. Still, if you have 1.5 to 3 hours of time to kill, I would pick this up.

A relentlessly miserable story that's confusing and nearly incoherent. I can't bring myself to recommend this. It's shallow romance doesn't make up for the nihilism teeming with immaturity in the guise of depth.

Zeitz Machz √Rhapsody is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. Most garbage high school anime club dropout fan-fictions on Steam have of course just one subject, but there's usually a subplot about some anime fantasy crisis or some anime sci-fi crisis or something. This e-book keeps the main subject that most of the high school anime club dropout fan-fictions on Steam have, but doesn't bother with any appreciable back story. What's that subject that every single high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writer writes their e-books about on Steam? Their imaginary girlfriends/waifus, of course. And that's what this is all about... the "author" wrote a cringe inducing, stomach churningly bad e-book …