I'm utterly mystified.

Putting aside the plentiful ESL-isms, the dev seems to have internalized all the worst lessons from other popular FVNs. Not only is the plot paper thin, but most scenes seem to exist just to bloat the word count.

Our attention is pulled all over the place: from an overly long job interview that goes nowhere, to an entire scene describing the protagonist making himself a sandwich in painstaking detail, from the random worldbuild elements with no payoff, to the weird obsession with the protagonist's brutal chest... If you stripped all the fat away, you'd probably be left with a few hundred words worth of story.

I must confess that, when I read this for the first time, I was actually gripped by the possibility that this would turn out to be a compelling horror story. Without going into too much detail, the moment when Lauren confirms that what we experienced wasn't a dream left me genuinely stunned and excited. Unfortunately it quickly becomes apparent this is not the direction the story is going to take.

Having said all that, this has become a guilty pleasure of mine. Streaming this with friends (twice!) has been a magical experience and random sentences from this VN have infected my brain. I desperately need more people to understand my random quotes and references.

Serious Loudo is rating this one star for the complete lack of story, but meme-obsessed fun Loudo had a great time with this. I wish the developer all the best.