My Protogen Engineer ⚙️

The visual novel fumbles what would've been an interesting transhumanist character arc for the MC, but fumbles again and again when he repetitively does the literary equivalent of rolling a Nat 1 on every speech check whilst somehow bagging someone so naive on his situation that the best she only does at times to affirm his situation is "trust me bro, it gets better", only being broken through at the beginning of the final act. Even then, there's nothing behind these characters that truly compels me to care about them; the MC is furry Han Solo that's whose entire motivation can be summed up to being upset he can't have 'real sex' anymore, and the love interest is a cardboard cutout with a construction paper drawing of Tony Stark plastered on top, both caught in a deceptively heart-wrenching romance that preys on cliche to get the waterworks going. Overall, my feelings are that this visual novel needed more. While I understand that I'm asking for more development behind characters that were meant to be utilized by the Sex DLC (extra: i played without it, and the story feels disjointed at times with the poor implementation of jump cuts between when the DLC would add the cutscenes), it nonetheless leaves me disappointed because if given more time to bake in the areas where it needed it, this could've been so much more.