This game has "my first VN" written all over it. That gave it some charm, but oh boy was it rough rough. Not only that, but it was carefully designed in a lab to cram in as many of my personal pet peeves in one package.
The little revelation at the end that it was developed in only a week instead of a full month explains everything. Honestly, it has a surprising amount of art for such a short amount. Speaking of the end, I think ironically the little dev talk was ironically my favourite part... The dev's sassy pose was quite expressive and the openness about the messy development made me mellow out with my feelings about the game.
The game itself though, my god... It's such a cliche storm. We open on a black screen, with the words anyone who's familiar with isekai FVNs has seen many many times in some form. "Dark. Cold. Quite (sic). Only darkness as far as my eyes can see." This, including a catastrophic typo on the third word you'll see in the story, is pretty much what awaits for the rest of your playthrough. There's a lot of unintentionally funny typos (Munch being used instead of much being one of my favs) and English that is more strangely redundant and tangled in its own construction instead of the usual ESL stilted. "I can forge a contract capable of making it possible." is one of pretty early examples you will stumble into, and there is a lot of instances of characters "beginning to start to stop", and similar. There was also the unintentionally funny habit of the player character curtly replying "I see." while a giant eye entity is going on long exposition tangents at him.
There are some jokes that were funny where we laugh together with the game, but a lot of it just very snarky semi-referential humor that didn't land for me. Both the narration and character dialogue have instances of pointing out some FVN tropes, and then going "oh what is this, a furry visual novel!" and it felt very weird, especially this this story is very guilty of repeating the same tropes.
The one non tropey surprise was that the protagonist isn't human (anymore), in fact he turns into a cute canine. I actually like his design quite a bit, better than Wage's.
While I wasn't a big fan of the story of several chosen ones from a prophecy having to save the kingdom from a bad king, the setup is interesting that it has Wage having to collect what is basically his RPG party of chosen ones. I think that could lead some some interesting character dynamics, especially if Wage himself isn't part of the prophecy and how that will affect everyone's feelings and approach to the whole thing.
I did have a lot of complaints, but I hope the dev continues and finishes this game, hopefully by keeping it under a manageable scope. One of my big issues FVN isekai stories is how aimless they often are and how they go on forever with no end or goal in sight. Second Chance gave us a pretty clear goal in build one, and now it just needs to lock in and focus.