Contract With The Devil

One of the worst HOGs I've ever played. You can tell right off the bat it's a poorly designed game because you have to wait for a little animation on the main menu to play out before the "start" button is even available, and even after you click it, it looks like it doesn't register and you have to wait for another animation. Never seen a game flub basic menu UI design this badly before. Then, in the game itself... ・There's no voice acting, so the entire story is just presented dispassionately through text that sometimes disappears too quickly to read ・The "voices" of the demons and the weird leprechaun-elf-thing that helps you are incredibly annoying ・There's no map ・Hidden object scenes make you wait between objects (if you click another one before the animation of the first one has finished, the game just doesn't react) ・There are no comments from the protagonist for the two-part objects in hidden object scenes, so sometimes it's unclear what you're supposed to do ・Several of the hidden object scenes instruct you to "find X matching pairs" rather than present a list but still punish you for random clicks even though you don't know what you're supposed to be looking for ・When you pick up documents, they automatically close after a certain period instead of waiting for you to click them... you can read them in your journal, but it's annoying for them to just disappear while you're reading them ・Many minigames are clunky and poorly designed (e.g., having to select a block and then click the associated arrows several times to move it one position at a time rather than just dragging it) ・Weird, clunky, poorly developed story where the protag miraculously knows things that make no sense for her to know... also she's traveling through time and through magical mirror portals and whatnot and seems fine with that but is for some reason dumbfounded by a painting of a snail eating moss ・Game is clearly playing off of the Seven Deadly Sins but chickens out of lust ("Power Lust"? wtf)... a good storyteller could easily cover lust without making the game explicit These HOGs are rather a guilty pleasure and I don't have high expectations for them, but this one was just excessively bad.