Yeah ok, NOW i understand the extremely positive feedback. (Guess it’s my time to write an essay)
This game is absolutely amazing! The story is awesome. The "Ready Player One" type scenario is truly underused and shouldn’t. Eternum is among the rare case of AVN that aren’t sex-centered in it’s plot (especially for AVN since it’s a good format for dating sim and what comes with it) and manage to get a good balance between the cryptic plot and the softer, romance and slice-of-life style side which gives a game where you can see that the devs actually put work into. It’s also an even rarer case of game that allows you not to choose a harem route, even notifying you of the routes you closed, which is for me a major plus as I am not a harem fan but a single waifu enjoyer.
The models and art of the game are superb. It’s rare to see this kind-of realistic style without it looking too uncanny (exept the first time I saw our MC, his model looked kinda goofy aah with Joshu Higashikata resemblance, but overtime I learned to appriciate it and it even seemed to get better with time). The few qnimqtion are really impressive (especially Nova’s reveal of Dione). The style kind of reminded me of Fates Collide, which isn’t probably surprising because of their mutual references (I will never look at Chang the same way when I’ll go back to Ardoria).
Finnaly the characters are so well constructed. Every character is unique and well written, even Axel... yeah no. Almost everyone. They all have a different character trait. Like Annie (who truly looks like Raiko from Fates) which capture well the childhood friend energy, that energetic nature yet scared of hallways. Or Nova, the hacker, (who, as for her, looks like Maggie from Shale Hill Secrets) that is etheir a bomb for your enemy, or for you. And Luna (Luna😊, yes I just listed my favorites characters, oh yeah, and she looks like Luna... from Lucky paradox... like even the cryptic shit and stuff). Also there is Chang, well executed Jobro, heist master (of two, so far) and even appear in more than one game (Chad, no, Chang move). When there is a good number of male charater, it’s often a sign of a good game since it gives diversity (it’s also probably tied to the fact that it’s neither a sex based game or a harem one).
It’s overall one of the best AVN, scenario and even game at all that I have experienced and played. Even if it doesn’t mean much, it’s my third favorite AVN and will probably stay unmmovable. It got almsot everything near a perfect game, and the fact that the main plot and the romance/sex plot aren’t entangled in a crucially plot relevent way makes it possible to share (for exemple of what i mean, in the AVN Lucky Paradox, the story of Charlotte’s character pretty much require sex to be of any logic, without a loophole). That’s all I have to say. Thanks you (plurial ?) for creating such an amazing game, stay safe, you(again, plurial ?)’ve got a talent that you didn’t waste and I hope you’ll keep it that way and also, be creative,everyday.
(what? no i didn’t stole that quote! thing don’t get stolen, they... just happen to move around. I didn’t stole this one either! also i doubt there is many peoples out there who played "draw a stickman epic" anyway.
im just arguing with myself about the morality of quote-stealing don’t worry 🙃