AIdol: Artificial Intelligence Idol

这是我玩过的视觉小说里图片人物最丑的。欧美人做的都是什么审美啊。服了！ 这货的全成就和全CG还得重复盯着丑女丑男们打好几遍。吐了！ 关键是这玩意的成人内容还真就一张 不忍直视的裸照。

Aidol (2018) Pretty good visual novel game with lots of different endings for you to experience. Each play through takes a while to complete so if you are in the mood for some reading, its a good game to pick up. 7/10

люблю эби всем сердцем, но конкретно айдол - безвкусная и дешевая конфетка в блестящей обертке. персонажи, сценарий, картинка - всё скучное и уже после часа чтения начинает давить на голову, отчего хочется побыстрее либо дочитать, либо наконец выключить. но побыстрее ты не дочитаешь - это не самая короткая новелла авторши (и, что удивительно и не сходится со впечатлениями, далеко не первая). и самое печальное - то, что в эту кашу из кучи странных персонажей и не менее странного сюжета явно была вложена любовь деньги не тратьте, лучше почитайте что-нибудь от эби посерьезнее и с историческим контекстом. дарковый жанр ей дается гораздо лучше

Aidol did, what „Carpe Diem“ failed at. This novel uses very similar idea, to the second mentioned title, however the execution is significantly better. Aidol is a story about artificial intelligence idol, of whome main protagonist Hana is a fan of. The story focus on both of them. As a fan of Japanese idol media, fictional and real world (Idolm@ster/”Lyrical School”), I was excited to read a VN about this topic, however I was a bit cautious with my hype. Nonetheless, this game didn’t disappoint me. It’s obvious after reading, that the author did good research about the medium, because the events are realistic and plausible. They make sense! What further makes sense are the characters. They have depth and are perfectly written. They feel realistic. They have feelings. They have thoughts. They feel genuine. Especially Hana the main heroine of the story. I ended up really fond of her character. The story offers few different routes, that offer more insight into various characters, so it’s definitely recommended to try them, all to find out more. None of them is boring or redundant. What makes the VN even better is a TONE ( ~2204,62lb) of little references to other works of Ebi, which for nerd like me was a field day!!! Talking about nerd stuff. I absolutely love the creativity of the author and the way she plays with form. I won’t tell spoilers, but there is scene in which one of the characters describes something, that happened in the past and the moment the story in past started, the type of text box changed, to older more “old school” style! (Look “The way we all go”)Like.. Who comes up with stuff like this? Ebi apparently!! That is genius. I love it sooo much! What brought me more enjoyment were visuals of the story. They have unique character and have more detail than usually expected. They are well done and have their own personalities. It’s simply work of art. Bold words! Maybe... But deserved! Aidol soundtrack is partially, eerily similar to “Sweetest monster”, which is most likely because, one of the authors „mock off“ worked on both of them. BGM is one of most important part of idol medium. This game unfortunately offer only one “idol track”, in instrumental and with vocals versions, called “Lost and found”. I will be honest, that at the beginning I didn’t like it, but with time I grew to enjoy it. It fits the character of “Aiko” perfectly, that is why I like it so much! It makes a novel I already enjoyed even more fun! At the beginning, I wasn’t going to give this rating, but I decided that I will now. Rating:100/100 It’s too good to rate it lower.

AIdol is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This e-book was slapped together with the godawfully bad RenPy Visual Novel/E-Book construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place here, no professional game development took place either, it's just a product of filling out templates in the construction kit. This E-book features Choose-Your-Own-Adventure elements where you make some decisions that don't do anything to change the fact this is just an E-Book. Nobody finished reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book and said "Boy, what a great game I just played!". Because E-books aren't games. And neither is this. This is a very mediocre E-book/romance novel where you read about some kid who tries to date a robot. Believe it or not, that's not even the worst idea for an E-book I've seen on Steam. Still not a great idea. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. AIdol didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the book, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the E-book didn't really capture any interest from readers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for reaching one of the endings for the CYOA, and only around 16 percent of readers bothered to get that far. Imagine writing a book and having only 1/8th of the people who read it bother to read it all the way through. AIdol has the eye-watering price of $11 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games, let alone the sheer number of free games available on Steam. You can get better quality books and comics for free online or from public libraries, or from bookstores for a fraction of the price of this "game". Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

I feel like I've been baited, and not in an enjoyable way. The ending was quite disappointing as an android yuri fan. Endings, if one must insist. If you're looking at it for that reason, look elsewhere!

I told my best friend ever Yuko about the tablet. Also - the art is really pretty and I adore the coloration of the story especially in contrast to a lot of the dystopian themes - however the actual story itself is very parasocial. If it had been an idol that the MC wasn't obsessed with it might have made me feel less icky but goodness did I feel parasocial.