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• gamedeal user

  Jan 12, 2022

  I originally was looking forward to this after playing Forgive my Desires, Father and Forgive my Sins, Father. I thought the writing for those games was great, pacing was good and all endings made sense. What I was anticipating from this VN was a product of similar quality, just far more light-hearted. What a got was a rushed story with strange scene placement and abrupt endings. FOR THOSE WHO DID BUY THIS AND YET TO PLAY IT: PLEASE GO FOR POLY ENDING FIRST, YOU'LL THANK ME LATER. But let's analyze everything stage by stage. First of all: the story and characters. The description doesn't lie: you play as a guy who can end up with his childhood friend or rival, or both! There are also MC's family and female BFF who both cheer MC up and prolong his suffering by refusing to give the lightest of hints to Mr. Dense Himbo. Our MC is Kai: overly dense, dumb and worryingly unaware of some basic concepts young man. He always admired his bff Percy and hated his rival Gavin. My biggest gripe with Kai is simple: nobody his age should be THIS stupid! It's fine if he likes cute things and such(although the game keeps making fun of him for that), but the guy no idea what "catfishing" was and his attempt at it was so painful, I cringed. He's also mega indecisive: even after clearly going on a date with one of the LIs and spending time with mostly one dude he still has no idea who he likes more! Even after I finally get my first ending, I had doubts about how long his relationship will last. I feel like this MC archetype is only suitable for bottom of the barrel ecchi/hentai VNs, not proper stories. Next one is Percy, nice guy best friend stereotype. He's been in love with MC forever and likes to be touchy with him. He also doesn't mind Kai's quirks and interest and hates Gavin, because of course. I have to say, this guy got shafted massively. Even on his route, MC keeps obsessing over the other guy(catfishing I mentioned earlier) and texted him far more than he actually interacted with Percy in specific scenes. Not to mention Percy came off as too one-dimensional compared to Gavin because he simply lacked screentime. Poor lad. Gavin aka the tsun rival character. He's stuck between bullying Kai and having feeling for him at the same time. He actually felt somewhat two-dimensional compared to the other two because he was clearly struggling with his emotions. But at the same time his refusal to call out Kai on his catfishing bs made him less likable(the whole subplot was too long imho). That said, the only character I actually hated was Kai's sister. All she did was insult everyone and be overly mean for no reason. She was nothing but a caricature of a young girl going through puberty. All her scenes felt like a waste of time because she contributed nothing to the plot until her final appearance when she was ACTUALLY nice. Ugh. Few words about poly ending: the game felt like it was made with it in mind and individual endings felt like bad/normal ends. The game is a massive common route until last 5 minutes. If you're expecting Percy and Gavin to warm up to each other over time, tough luck. In the very last scene they just mutually agreed on sharing Kai and after that the game ended. No extra scenes with MC trying to make them tolerate each other, no nothing. Which means poly route only had one unique scene. That's why you should get this ending first instead of two. What a rip-off. UI was alright, I liked how I can look at CG gallery during playthrough without having to quit to the main menu. Music and sfx were annoying and repetitive. It felt like this vn only had 4 tracks, after my first route I turned everything off. Overall, if you're interested in this because of poly ending, better look elsewhere. If you want proper individual routes, look elsewhere. Instead, just go and play(and maybe pay for) other VNs by this dev on itch.io! All of them have a single LI, but they seem to be more focused compared to this one.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 31, 2022

  sweet game about the innocent age of discovering every character in the game is on point and well made A Slice of Life BL/Yaoi visual novel between cute and cool
• gamedeal user

  Jul 15, 2022

  [I] My Nemesis and Hero [/i] is such a sweet Boys' Love visual novel. I can't even compare it to anything else I've played before! It's astonishingly adorable. I was reading the story with a silly smile glued to my face from the very start till the end. That was truly relaxing to play something so naive, innocent and cute. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2834512204 Praises: +Colors are so pleasant to look at. What a great choice for the story. I can't say art is exceptionally pretty. Nope, not to my taste, at least. CGs aren't that marvelous. But visual part feels so perfect for the story, they really complement each other in an ideal way. +MC is such a sweet, pure, innocent boy. I was practically melting from excitement. And honestly, it feels like some kind of miracle. Was it a great writing? Was I playing it in a perfectly suitable mood? But I quite often find such oblivious, dense characters annoying and ridiculous but I was all like 'Oh my, aww, oh God, what a sweetie' Why?! What kind of spell did you cast on me? Why was I reacting in such a silly way? How did you do it? I don't understand but I'm so grateful for this experience! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2834903377 +Mom deserves a separate mention. She's so supportive, understanding. I don't know perhaps someone is lucky to have such parents or at least to know such people but my surrounding is really toxic and homophobic in this regard. But to play this game and imagine that THIS can be a reality, THAT is the way it must be. Immersing myself into that story and feeling that approval no matter what was kinda healing. THANK YOU! +Two love options having so contrast personalities were depicted in an awesome way. To experience THAT kind of deep love was something extremely enjoyable. And poly route was the perfect ending of the game. They (& I inserted to MC's image) deserve that kind of happiness! <3 +Small interactive moments were SWEET as well! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2834818596 Complaints: --The biggest flaw of the game, in my opinion, is only six save slots :((((( Why?! WHY?! Is it really so difficult to make more?(( I like saving before every choice. I didn't notice at first there's only one page with save slots and then every time I had to decide which one to delete I was devastated T_T And that mocking question if I'm sure I want to rewrite my save, I DON'T. But did you leave me a choice? T_T --I wish phone messages weren't autoplayed. Let me decide myself when to continue. It doesn't mean they were uncomfortably fast or smth, still I didn't like it. While playing I get distracted a lot, chatting, checking emails or smth else on my computer (partially the reason you never should trust my steam game time on record). But I had to stay 100% focused on the game while talking on the phone xD Not a nice feeling to be forced to do it :) --No explicit content. And that's great! For this angelic story for the first time in my life I'm not even gonna complain about it BUT what left me a tad disappointed is that tiny 'intimate' content we were still lucky to get when they finally kissed after the confession, it was identical in two different routes. WHY?! It was such a loss. The characters are too different, I just can't feel absolutely the same in these so different relationships. Just a couple of sentences but they ruined all the pleasure during the second playthrough. --Typos. There're 3 BL VNs released by the same devs THIS year. I'm a bit disappointed I missed when it happened. T_T I'm definitely gonna buy and play their other games as well. And I undoubtedly recommend them as an amazing, relaxing, sweet experience. [table] [tr] [th]More thoughts about the game in a [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/readingnook/discussions/0/3419937528180463290/] Reading Nook [/url][/th] [/tr] [/table]