Review of RJ01443143.
An absolutely amazing H-game that did so many things right the few flaws it has can be overlooked. To start with the general plot and tone were both great, it had great characters, great gags and dialogue and some interesting plotpoints and all of this without being overly wordy. It even has a high effort postgame where several characters get some returner content on top of having new and unique content. Everything you'd want in a good game. Though, as a small disclaimer I only played the female route, but given the nature of the gameplay I assume the general overarching plot doesn't change, but a lot of interc haracter dialogue does since a lot of character commented on the specifics of the main character.
On to the gameplay, the game itself is split into an overworld action and exploration section and a battlefuck section. Both of which aren't too unique, but they're well balanced and enemies got enough animations variation in the battle sections that they don't overstay their welcome. The reskinned enemies using the same model were noticeable, but not common enough to be too big an issue. There's a tonne of equipment variation and powerscaling was flat enough that you wouldn't constantly be swapping to an objectively better gearpiece(until end/postgame). The action sections I wasn't as favourible with as enemy defences were too high most fast shooting weapons weren't viable and you'd just be sticking with the slower heavy hitters. I assume the game expected you to swap and spec for enemy weaknesses, but the game lacked both a quickswap and bestiary for that to be worth the effort. I did wish item droprates were higher(again, no bestiary), since there was a huge variety of them and several had some really great flavour text. The money economy could also have been better as you're pretty much always broke.
(1/2)