Love starts again

블랙기업에 입사한 주인공이 과로로 인해 대학시절로 타임리프 해서 다시 대학 생활은 한다는 이야기인데 생각해보면 의외로 이 바닥에 좀 흔한 클리쉐군요.. 이거 말고 몇 개 생각 나네요.. 한중일 전부.. 여배우들은 연기자는 거의 없고 대부분 모델 인플루언서 이거나 미스마가 출신으로 알고 있는데 배우들이 매력 이야기는 개인차가 있으니 넘어가고 문제는 연기가 아니라 이건 그냥 대사를 읽는 수준의 배우가 많음 연기력의 더 문제는 주인공의 더빙이 에니메이션 톤도 아니고 정극 연기톤도 아니고 아무튼 다른 여배우들과 대사톤이 너무 안맞아서 듣기 너무 거슬림. 그리고 대놓고 버그도 많은데.. 엔딩 후에 루트를 저장 안하는지 시나리오 지도에 지나갔다는 처리가 안되어 있어서 다시 해야함.. 이거 말고도 앨범에 챗팅 이벤트 후 열린다고 적어 뒀는데 도전과제 100개 전부 깰 동안 안열리네요.. 이상 언급한 부분만 빼면 그냥 그럭저럭 할만함...

So spent my time going through all of the possible dialogues and seeing all of the possible endings in the game and I would say that this game does stand pretty well alongside other FMV's out atm, especially being one that features a Japanese cast. The story follows similarly to "Hello Love, 18 Again" without the magical nuance of a mystical cat. The story is less goonerish and more grounded so set your expectations for a more straightforward story of a lonely man getting a second chance at life. If you need more of a breakdown here's what I've got for you. The story. You are Ei, a company worker that died while doing what he hated the most which is working at his company that overworked him. You find yourself teleported back in time to when you were in college, unsure why or how you got there. The only thing on your mind though is to change the future so that you don't repeat the same fate. But how!? Through a 5 year gap your guy needs to become a different person than he was in college and improve yourself and your relationships. As you make deliberate changes to the past you notice that you suddenly become a chick magnet and have to decide that if your future is going to change then someone is going to be there with you through it all. Overall, the story is pretty cut and dry where you time travel and change your fate with no strings attached. How your story ends is up to you! The cast. You have your friend Kota that provides you some moral support in the story. He starts off strong by being comedic relief but then he disappears for the majority of the story. Kinda wished he had a more impactful role as the best friend. All of the actresses play a stereotypical trope starting with two that happens to be your friend, Azusa the tomboy and Kasumi the childhood friend. Because they are both associated this is perhaps the most interesting relationship route since one literally affects the other. One has known you forever while offering a gentle love, while the other helps you open up to show you a fun side to life. In the game of love, someone's going to always get hurt. Then there is your coworker Ai who often offers you wisdom and listens to your troubles. But with your new and improved self that came from the future, maybe Ai will become willing to also let you listen to her troubles. Ai has a bit of interaction within all of the ladies' story so her wisdom proves to be a valuable asset. Now enter, Yuki, the young princess chasing after you. She has known you at a young age and is the rebellious love that won't give up on you since she has known you in high school. Although she shows dedication her only problem seems to be her wealth status which may become a barrier between the both of you. But wait, you suddenly become neighbors with future celebrity, Chitose. She may not know it yet but she becomes quite the sensation in your future, but for some reason she seems quite drawn to her number 1 fan: you! As lovely as it is fame isn't always what it seems to be so are you willing to deal with those problems just to be with her. Yuki and Chitose has 'some' interactions because of their statuses but I wished there were more to sort of beef up the stakes. Lastly, there is Miku who is the most mysterious girl of all. She is quiet and seems to know more than she lets on but the question is if it is worth losing your peace of mind just to know her secret. Miku probably has the least impact and interactions throughout the story which I wish they would have delved more into. All pretty good choices given the layout of the story and I'd say all the actresses did a great job in the game! I managed to be able to get an even level of affection across all the characters so were able to access everyone's endings in one go so affection management was pretty easy in the game! The mechanics. So I've faced several bugs where the game erased my affection progress and I've had to redo the story multiple time to rebuild my meter. As you would know there is a 'target level' of affection you need per level to proceed. Without it then you cannot proceed which forces you to redo the story until you get enough. The game offers multiple paths to navigate the story but this would often lead you to watching similar scenes you can't skip because you decided to make different choices. I'm not too bothered by this by to the less patient player this may annoy them having to watch long scenes just to get the 100% per chapter. I feel the texting scenes aren't really important either but you are forced to complete them each time you get to them instead of getting to skip them, please just add a skip function next that remembers our previous choices. Lastly, for the endings several of the choices I feel were kinda weird and thought were obvious choices to getting the good endings. I really had to experiment a lot just to get the right path. You unlock 'hearts' for accomplishments but they're only used to unlock the interview videos for each actress, which the hearts can be used for other things like more pictures. Sometimes the scenes would end with a long and awkward pause looking at the characters making me think the game froze, maybe just edit these scenes to be shorter if they're done talking? Also, everytime I return to the story map it resets my position to the beginning, please just have it track my current progress so I don't have to keep scrolling to where I'm at. In summary, I'd give the game a 7/10. Pretty good for what it is and I think most people would enjoy the straightforward story and characters, especially being the first FMV made by the devs (I've seen a lot of bad first FMVs). I say keep doing all of the good stuff and improve on that!