A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Honestly if I had noticed a mention of use of AI earlier I would not have downloaded the game. It jumped at me from the very first minute breaking the immersion, and prompted me to start writing this review.
10 minutes in, I'm enjoying the writing, until the game bugs out, and shows all the message options instead of only the one that should be dictated by the player's selected gender.
I did finish the game, and am glad to have done so. Overall the backgrounds were so blatantly bad I would have preferred none, the bugs were annoying but not game breaking, and I want to read every single thing the writer(s?) have in their repertoire.
Basically, without AI and after some bug fixing patches, this game would be 5/5.
| score 0 - 10 | notes |
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| Backgrounds | 0 | AI slop. And oh gods they only get worse as game goes on. |
| Character art | 9 | Love the Prince's sprite, some mismatch with different elements of his ensemble. Is the artist afraid of drawing hands? Sincerely, I cherish them, be brave. |
| Music | 5 | Music is not my greatest strengths, but to me this sounds like they used free music from a library, not something that was made with this game in mind. Using library music is not a bad thing, but the choices stood out. |
| Characters | 9 | I love Auryn. Oh gods, I am become a simp.
We didn't see much of anyone else which made them feel very one dimensional. |
| Writing | 10 | As a non native English speaker some of the fancy words I don't know the meaning of, but I was able to understand meaning from the context.
The writing keeps truly captivating me back time and time again when something else in the game breaks. |
| User experience | 6 | The character's gender affecting the dialogue is broken.
The italicization of letters is shown when character is reading notes, but is sometimes applied to regular text, making things confusing.
Time skips are not the clearest when they happen. |
