I've only had this for under an hour but I absolutely love this game, and Boothill calling himself a good boy had me FOLDED. Cora was right, she knew me well
I was a little taken out by the fem pronouns(a little he/they out in the wild), but it thankfully wasn't enough to sour my experience with the game cause everything else is just so good. All n all it's a solid 10/10 in my books
The thing is is that both characters still see each other as family in and out of these routes. It's also the fact that all the characters realize that it'll reflect on the both of them so badly that it would cause an uproar from the public if it got out, hence their need to hide after all has been said and done. The MC even says that, blood or not that is still her brother so it's just,,, eugh. Doesn't help with the fact that because people don't think that step family/foster family still count as family, they can do anything or whatever (which, irl has led to real bad things, of which is why I say this could be really uncomfortable for people, me almost being a victim of this sort of thing for example) so it's just,,, so bad. so so bad
Yea it's alright. It's just the matter that I wish they went about the two differently. And the thing is is that all the other routes (Karma, Fritz and Waltz) are actually really good and I really liked them, but it gets so damn SOUR when, to get to the latter two, I have to play at least ONE other route and the other two options besides Karma are so damn uncomfortable to play. Doesn't help that in said routes, they try to play being self aware about the fact it's not really okay and is pretty taboo but 'it's okay cause it's true love!' and whatnot. I hate it
I'm not actually that up in arms about the game, but it's still the matter that you have to play these routes and you, as the player who would/could otherwise not enjoy these things have to go through it to get to the other two locked routes and if said player is like me who otherwise enjoys the plot, would be stuck with going through two uncomfortable routes with only one bearable one out of three. Especially since there's a certain order for the game to be played in to get the full extent of the lore. So real or not, it's still uncomfortable and can have a negative effect on people in some way, shape and/or form.
This is really well made, I like the story going for it and it has some interesting and funny parts about it, though one of my main gripes though is the fact that you can ROMANCE Rod? Like, literally all the characters, even the LI and MC acknowledge that it's immoral, you shouldn't do it, it's weird, etc. etc. yet it's still persued? And even after the fact the characters acknowledge that it's wrong by having to sneak around and be covered for? Like, don't get me wrong I'm all for forbidden love stories, but not when it starts tredding on implied incest, whether by blood or not. They acknowledge they are family at the end of the day. I think Rod's curse could've been broken WITHOUT going a romantic love route, maybe not making the mc related to him, or just a new curse altogether, just to avoid it being so WEIRD.
All in all, the game is pretty good. It has it's flaws like all things but that is the most obvious itching one possible that just sours the experience quite a bit for me.
Edit: After some more time playing the game because I do actually enjoy the plot, going through Rumpel's route I learn he's 24????? WHEN THE MAJORITY OF THE ROUTE THE MC IS 17???? WHY COULDN'T THE MC AT LEAST BE 18 OR 19 AND SHE BECOMES THE BEARER AT 19 OR 20 PLEASE THAT WOULD MAKE THIS SO LESS WEIRD!! It's SO undeathly uncomfortable to be forced to play uncomfortable, playfully "taboo uwu" routes just to progress in this game especially since it doesn't get specified in the beginning so that the demographics that DON'T like these sorts of things can avoid them and play a more tasteful route. In my honest opinion, I feel like this game benefited from a young, naive demographic from the early 2010s of anime that thought these things were so "uwu kawaii" or whatever so things like this would get less scrutiny. But now, with higher media literacy, definitely not so much. Not from me at the very least.
Ok so I'm having a bit of an issue-- whenever I try to boot up the game (steam varient) I get the "made by unity" logo with the "feel the fizz inside you" jingle and it's little green background, only for it to go black shortly after and eventually crash if I do remotely anything on it. Sometimes it'll have unity assest install themselves and such but otherwise, nothing but a black screen and crashing. Is there a way I could possibly fix this?
