5/10

Euphoria is was a roller coaster, sometimes I questioned what I was doing with my life by reading something terrible and sometimes I was very surprised at the quality of writing sometimes. Euphoria manages to work very well with her characters when it wants to, when it explores the protagonist's psychology and her questions in the situation he is in is very interesting and well done, on Rinne's route he had a good relationship building with her that made everything better.
True Route is 2/3 a boring repetition of Nemu's route with scene additions in the first part, however the third part really surprised me, explored cool themes and kept a great pace, developing the 2 main characters and with a satisfying ending, if I only isolated the True Route I would give an easy 6/10.

basically the good stuff is that, because i found everything else terribly sloppy.
most routes became irrelevant to some extent
the Nukige parts are very poorly fitted and forced breaking the whole rhythm of VN.
the end of each route (with the exception of the True Route) is where all the cool concepts of exploring the protagonist's psychology are abandoned.
the plot twists are mostly ridiculous and without a lot of fuss, I sometimes thought I was playing a Porn Version of Danganronpa plot, not to mention that they are totally predictable.
and 80% of the game is just shock value where you don't bother trying to create a situation so the reader feels really uncomfortable, it's just shock value and fetishes.

Reviewed on Aug 15, 2021


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