East Tower - Akio (East Tower Series Vol. 1)

I'm cautiously recommending this game because I enjoyed it, but I will add on up-front that it is very short. There aren't many chances to do anything 'wrong' in the game, so if you're a fast reader and choose wisely, it's only going to last an hour. I would say that the best idea would be to pick this one up if it goes on sale. It's probably best to get this game if you intend to buy all four parts or if you want to test out the game to see if you're interested in all four parts. Needless to say, it's still an interesting concept- most of it taking place inside of a virtual reality game world which can be changed at the whims of the people playing said game. This game is clearly just one 'path' of a romance-focused visual novel, with the love interest already being picked from the four candidates- you can see him on the cover. Because this game is short, there isn't much time to develop the romance between him and the main character, but there is some interesting complications between the heroine and her love interest due to the fact they first meet up in the game with him looking very young and her in a male body. The virtual reality game they find themselves playing actually has some simple puzzles for you to navigate, but they're very basic and hard to go wrong with. Everything resolves, in a way, but by the time the game ends, there is clearly a bigger mystery to be solved through the other parts of this series.

I liked all four of the tower routes. Akio was the first one I played and I reallly enjoyed the route. Despite some of the negative reviews all of the routes are worth playing. Akio was adorable and the route made sense I would reccomend this to all my friends.

I loved East Tower - Akio These "Tower" games were my first roseVeRte games and inspired me to buy more. Great game series.

I really liked the idea of dreamworld. It is an interesting concept that made want to know more about the story. The character of Akio is the basic archetype of the cold, rich otome love interest, which is executed decently. The length of the game is lacking compared to the full price, so I recommend getting while it is still on sale. The art is fine. In my opinion the voice acting was great and the pacing of the romatic moments was pretty good. I never found myself bored throughout and there were many funny and cute moments. The female lead had her own character arc, and even tho it felt pretty rushed,the fact she actually had her personality and flaws made her automatically more likeable then many other otome MCs. Overall I really enjoyed playing it and it did a good job as the first installment in the East Tower series.

East Tower - Akio (ET Series Vol.1) is a badly written e-book that's been dumped on Steam because no publisher in their right mind would touch this. It's set in a sci-fi "stuck in a video game" theme world. Apart from the terrible writing (if they could write professionally, they'd be published authors instead of having to self-publish this non-game on Steam), you also get really badly hand drawn manga style art. For the $5 USD they're asking for this non-game, you can get a number of actual real quality books from a bookstore or on Kindle. Or heck, go to a library. Who would pay money for this junk?

Das ist so was von lutzig

Bite-sized, but lots of fun! WORTH IT, trust me :)

Tags: Adventure - VN - Visual Novel Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Dialogue trees with instant game over results for wrong choices. Good characterization. Lighthearted. Somewhat endearing. Short. The Trial and Error based gameplay is very restrictive. You get 7 small minigames or instances in which rules are laid out. Rules are a bit vague, and how characters react to dialogue in relation to those rules is very arbitrary. Sometimes choices were outright unintuitive. It is a good idea to give each character their own chapter so that they have a chance to differentiate themselves from the others, and let their story through. In this chapter you deal with someone who is resolving issues with their inner child, while you yourself are dealing with your gender dynamics. Because the story happens in a form of VR arena where thoughts create the environment, then those are reflected in the game, which is sort of an interesting twist. Conclusion: This game has its moments, the characters are a bit obvious and silly but still very endearing. The very rigid scripting and the lack of proper gameplay elements however really makes the experience suffer. It is not fun to replay just to find the one easter egg script that will unlock the romantic ending and while playing it is not fun to trial and error for the right thing to say to get progression towards the next bit.