>>44705353My Ninisanni Scenario Review - Part 1: The game
To start the review I'll say I enjoyed it a lot and would recommend it to all other anons. I have acquired all the achievements and probably seen 99+% of the dialogue. I knew next to nothing about NijiEN going in, but now I'm on the verge of being a full blown Pomudachi and have dabbled in a handful of the other girls' streams. There are a lot of NijiEN specific references, but I didn't find them off putting. Made me like the game more when I did some clip watching.
The dialogue was overall fun and enjoyabe and flowed really well. Unlike some of the other Anon's, I didn't feel the humor was too much or distracting since this was clearly more comedy than eroge and the audience is obviously exclusively /here/ so I won't fault the based references. However, there were a couple times where jokes during the actual sex scenes went too off topic, but like 90% of the time you struck the balance. I definitely laughed out loud a few times. It was also quite cute how much of your own personal autism comes through, definitely something that could only be made by a one man team. And I have to give you props on spelling and grammar. I only noticed maybe 15 mistakes across the entire thing, which is insane considering that that's less than the average 4k word story posted here.
If I'm to speak to weaknesses, it would be in the pacing and the repetitive forumla of the endings. The first half of the game when you're slutting around is paced great, but for many of the girls, their individual routes move very quickly and you know the beats of all once you've finished one route. I admire your dedication to giving each girl 2 sex scenes, but you spaced them out minutes apart which diminishes the impact. I understand that this was already a huge project with a big cast, but not getting more in the individual routes is a bummer. It might have been wiser to go with less girls but more time with each. And I have to ask, were the Ethyria girls intended to be in originally? They seem a bit disconnected from the rest of the story. Also it's funny how many dude tubers only appear once. Going back to the sex scenes, a lot of repitions - how tight she is, you're a virgin?, etc... Some were quite fun, creative, and erotic, but all were definitely too short to wank to.
In a follow up post I'm going to rank the girls and talk about their characters, but here I want to focus on the best character - Anon! Anon hard carries this story. His sigma male mindset sets him apart from most other VN MC's I've encountered. Instead of being autistic for the purpose of padding the run time, Anon's autism serves to make him an interesting character with moments of absolute Chaddery. He definitely feels like a partial author insert, but those eccentricities make me like him more, so I guess I'm hitting on you VNanon. MC's who don't hate themselves and aren't afraid of girls are a blessing.
Continuing along this train, I very much enjoyed the world this story takes place in. None of the strict social norms and puritan bullshit we expect from a normal Japan based story. People drink at school, everyone is dangerously horny, and no one seems to care about the law. A refreshing setting that I think serves this off-beat story very well.
I'll write a little now about the gameplay/tech stuff, but I'm not much of a gamer let alone a VN player so idk. First up, the graphics. The character models look good and the backgrounds often provide something interesting. BUT, what I must mention is how insanely charming your animations are. They might be limited, but they brought a lot of personality to the scenes. Secondly, please include a control page for retards like me who don't think to press control for dialogue skip and end up taking a bunch of screenshots and turning on automatic voice. Labelling things more clearly on the menus would also be nice. Also some of the font choices are questionable, especially the acievement page. But overall nothing broke and it didn't crash, so color me impressed.
To close out this part, shill this shit everywhere VNanon. Well, everywhere on /vt/ and nowhere else. It's simply too based for any other audience and they might try to murder you.