I need to be able to give this more than 5 stars
I purposefully went through the game in a way that doesn't fuck over everyone else, and getting what I assume to be the "good" ending was one of the biggest joys an H-game has ever given me.
With that out of the way, time for a review of the actual game
The management is good enough for what the game is. I am a big 4X player and general fan of management games so I naturally found it very easy, but I think that is by design. So long as you dont be really dumb its completely impossible to lose, which is a nice relief when the real challenge is trying to not ruin fictional womens lives. The spreadsheet view also makes me unnaturally happy, thank you for that Story Anon
Now for what we all came to here for
The art is exactly what you would expect from Story Anon if you have played Out of Touch, which is to say fucking beautiful. The girls are stupidly hot, cute, and endearing all at the same time. The animations are peak, I love how in the scenes with Rina and Yoko Rina is actually moving and not just blankly staring. The writing is all you could ask for out of an h-game, its not gonna win any literary awards but you can tell there's skill behind it.
The overarching stories are also very good. Each of the girls storylines has that perfect mix of "oh haha hot woman awooga" parts and very serious moments that really sell to you that these are people, not just another pretty girl to add to an infinite harem. Yokos and Rinas have gotta be my favorite, Yoko is 110% best girl, and Rina may have singlehandedly made me an ass-man. The fact that the sex and the character growth are largely separate is something that I really like, since it means you can do what I did (go through without having sex with any of the main girls with the exception of the maids, Juni and Mio) and still get to know the girls.
The final event was quite possibly the most stressed I have ever been in an h-game. played the game at every update from the first release up to now, but had ended up not playing 1.0 until after april 1st (obviously) so the "good end patch" thing really made me think I was gonna be getting a bad end no matter what. To be honest, Im almost glad that this is how I went into it, If I had gone in with the normal harem game mentality I almost certainly would have gotten whatever bad end people are talking about. It was thanks to the knowledge that the bad end was real and possible that I went into my final playthrough treating everyone as normally as I could. The only exceptions being Mio (she is not normal so you gotta also be not normal to balance it out), Juni (If a terminal girl told me she wants to fuck I am not gonna go against her possibly dying wish) and the maids (I knew enough from prior playthroughs that sexing them was actually the right thing to do). Every single last second twist that happened during the event had me going "this is it, this is how it all comes apart", and to see every single girl pull through and not fuck me over was relief after relief.
Im getting into rambling territory and also haven't slept so I will end it here. Tropicali is either the best or a very very close runner up for the best h-game ive ever played, and I fully believe that it will stick with me for a long while
Thank you Story Anon for this amazing game, and I promise I'll catch up on OoT some day
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