Lovely Lady RPG

The dialogue is incredible. It is poetic, musty, hot, raw, and painful. This game is why I made my top surgery appointment this week. I cannot recommend it more highly.

this game cracked my egg... thank you gay rat girls. that's already enough for a positive review but I also enjoyed the story

ITS PEAK

"A cold jolt forces its way up your spine like a snowmans ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"

Other reviews noted the story topics the game goes into, and I agree - it's rough, sweet, desperate, and hopeful at the same time. I'm not one for visual novels but this one is tightly paced, not verbose, and gives you lots of fun dialog branches to explore. I figured I would talk a little about the mechanics and try to avoid spoilers. You have a few in-game days to do things before the game moves to a conclusion, but have a limited number of time-consuming actions you can perform each day (the game is thankfully very clear when you do so). You accumulate quests just from exploring and remembering errands. All of them are pretty interesting, even the filler stuff (is it really filler if you find meaning in it?). There's a 'world map' that's done really well where you can consider your options, and reload if you think you want to try another path. The game does feel made for multiple replays, and once you have a handle on the different chains you can move through them fairly easily - the first playthrough will probably be a bunch of exploring and getting a handle on the world, characters, and tasks, but still enjoyable since your internal dialog tends to be pretty funny and the world has a lot of cute things to check out. Your internal dialog a la Disco Elysium chimes in fairly often and CAN fail checks that put you in a bad spot. There are a few that feel harsh, but they're rare and honestly if you breezed through everything it would be a lot less impactful. Usually failing mean you miss out on a bit of text, often something even funnier happens. Since you'll probably play it a few times it means each run is a little different and you might learn something new late in your time with the game, which is nice. But not everyone enjoys that. Even outside of the game's content (which is great) I really liked the mechanics. I've tried to play other beloved visual novels and they feel dry as a stone. This game hits a great balance and I hope more games follow its lead in the future.

This game is really good and I must leave a positive review to balance out the fact it received its first negative review ever recently from someone trying to play the game on an Apple Watch. Made me laugh. Made me get emotional in parts. I tried to recommend it to a friend but she couldn't get past the tutorial because it was "Too British." I need the Sinner btw.

I haven't finished it, but I really do love this game. It speaks to me. Also women are very pretty and this game has a lot of very attractive women that I really like for a wide variety of quite gay reasons. I think of all the things to borrow the general sort of stylings of Disco Elysium, this is the only one I've seen so far that 1) does a good job of it and 2) does something new and interesting with it beyond that. My only regret is not having played it sooner, since it's been sitting on my wishlist since... since it came out, I think. EDIT: I finished it now! And am playing it again! Because it's wonderful!