I wish the game did more showing than telling, but I can understand how that'd be difficult with limited budget. There are also some nice lines sprinkled throughout.
The flirting/small talk parts also feel quite natural. I do like how some scenes feel disconnected/one-off, but connect at the end. It didn't feel very rewarding getting to those points. Scarlett and Violet were my faves.Īll the twists and possible ways the story could go went within expectation, so once you grasp those outcomes, the focus is on execution. It was an okay experience, but the story felt weak for me as I prefer more nuanced characters and writing. Sounds like a dream, right? But what if there was one big catch? Ever wished you were on one of those dating shows? You’d have beautiful women tripping over themselves to win your affection, get to know them over romantic dates in a tropical paradise, and in the end, ride off into the sunset with your one true love.Just finished the game. That’s the premise of Auden Jin’s Find Love or Die Trying. Date the most beautiful and eligible bachelorettes to find your soulmate! Win the hearts of the girls and audiences at home! But if things don’t work out? Well, then you die. Find Love or Die Trying has been picking up some buzz, and with the killer hook and affordable price of “free”, it’s not hard to see why. Could this be the next visual novel to come out of nowhere and light the world on fire? The reality show premise hits close to home. We might not have killed anyone yet, but watch enough truTV and it feels like it’s only a matter of time.
#FIND LOVE OR DIE TRYING VISUAL NOVEL FOR FREE#
There’s precedent for free visual novels achieving a great deal of success. Love them or hate them, Katawa Shoujo and Doki Doki Literature Club! are among the most significant original English language visual novels to date, and neither costs anything. Find Love or Die Trying doesn’t boast the subversion of DDLC or the character depth of Katawa Shoujo, but it has a lot going for it.
#FIND LOVE OR DIE TRYING VISUAL NOVEL TV#
The look is immediately sleek and stylish, from the TV themed menu and interlude screens to highly polished sprites, CGs, and environments. The shiny new car feel and a premise that’s to die for are right there ready to pull you. Once you’ve named your character and met the lovely host, Kat, you’ll spend your time going on dates with a cast ranging from a wealthy heiress to the down to earth girl next door. The girls lean into their stereotypes, but it’s an effective way to fit a sizable selection of love interests into the whirlwind format of a dating show packed into a 4 or so hour read. It’s also played for amusing jokes that avid gamers and visual novel enthusiasts in particular will likely appreciate. The dates themselves start out fun and cute, helping you get to know the girls and showing their lovable sides, and build to some sweet romantic moments. Many even come with unique CGs to accentuate the occasion. The dates are fun, but they’re over in a flash, and you go through different girls in quick succession. You could argue that’s how dating shows go, but they didn’t always succeed at getting me invested in the girl. There’s also too much telling rather than showing, with transitions along the lines of “and then we talked for hours and got to know each other” being quite common. In between dates Kat interviews you confessional style.
How did that date go? Who’s ahead in the race to win your heart? Kat’s mercurial nature makes her hard to read.
0 kommentar(er)
