This review contains spoilers

I read a lot of visual novels and specifically enjoy games like this one a lot, but One Night Stand didn't click with me. ONS is one of those VN games that can be beaten in about 5-10 minutes, but gives the player a lot of choices so multiple playthroughs are encouraged

Sadly, I just felt like there wasn't much content and after 2-3 playthroughs, it felt like 85% was skipping stuff I'd seen before and 15% was new interactions. The game basically has a few different moments that the player has to arrive at, with choices changing things in between those moments so the whole thing gets repetitive fast. It also didn't help that skipping text just felt kinda sluggish and I think the game was freezing up slightly? There's 27 achievements so there's a lot of replaying and it was just a bit a tedious, to be honest

My other issue is that the game doesn't really know what it wants to do? For example, there's a really interesting brief plot point where you find out the girl has two IDs with two different names but this seemingly goes nowhere and you cannot learn anything about it? All that can happen is, [spoiler]the girl will get mad and kick you out if you bring it up[/spoiler] so I just don't really see the point of it being included (which is a shame because I actually felt very invested in this mystery). There also doesn't seem to be any opportunities to find out why the girl is sick either so it feels like not much is explored at all

I would very much recommend any game by Angela He if you're looking for something like this

Reviewed on Jan 07, 2022


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