Never heard of this VN series prior to a week ago and I found the presentation interesting.
I can't say Fault is all that fantastic. In terms of writing, it's decent at its best and lifeless at others. What I failed to grasp initially was that the main Fault series of games are episodic in nature. Milestone One is more like just a fragment of the entire narrative, and the episodes that follow feel more like just a pure continuation than less of a grandiose sequel. Think the episodic format of things like the Telltale games.
I can't really tell what Fault wants to be here. It opens up with this ambiguous intro (that is better written than the entire rest of the game), then it's suddenly a magic fantasy story with a princess and a kingdom. Political scheming and war seems to be occurring as you're supposed to feel this immediate threat ever following the two lead characters, but then it is suddenly ACTUALLY a story about this destroyed family that the two main characters are just along for the ride with.
Don't get me wrong, the actual ACTUAL story of Milestone One is decent at times. It's a fairly okay story about humanity, family, emotions, sentience, etc. and it combines the world-building elements of magic and science together into said narrative fine enough.
I don't mind this sort of fantasy journey where the main characters are on an adventure where they meet various characters, and each episode focuses on the main characters assisting them, but I can't get with it when they feel so out of place, and not in a good way. When it comes to story of Milestone One, both lead characters could easily have been removed or replaced and nothing would change. They are uninteresting, boring, plastic archetypes of characters you've read a hundred times over in other stories and do little to be interesting. Never did I feel engaged and want to learn more about them and see how they interact with the plot.
Maybe things improve in the Milestone Two. I can only hope. It's a rough, but not unsalvageable, start to a narrative. It has nice aspects, such as pleasant and dynamic visuals and a pretty lively OST (even if it's sometimes out of place, annoyingly loops and goes on for too long in a scene, and so on and so forth).
I can't say Fault is all that fantastic. In terms of writing, it's decent at its best and lifeless at others. What I failed to grasp initially was that the main Fault series of games are episodic in nature. Milestone One is more like just a fragment of the entire narrative, and the episodes that follow feel more like just a pure continuation than less of a grandiose sequel. Think the episodic format of things like the Telltale games.
I can't really tell what Fault wants to be here. It opens up with this ambiguous intro (that is better written than the entire rest of the game), then it's suddenly a magic fantasy story with a princess and a kingdom. Political scheming and war seems to be occurring as you're supposed to feel this immediate threat ever following the two lead characters, but then it is suddenly ACTUALLY a story about this destroyed family that the two main characters are just along for the ride with.
Don't get me wrong, the actual ACTUAL story of Milestone One is decent at times. It's a fairly okay story about humanity, family, emotions, sentience, etc. and it combines the world-building elements of magic and science together into said narrative fine enough.
I don't mind this sort of fantasy journey where the main characters are on an adventure where they meet various characters, and each episode focuses on the main characters assisting them, but I can't get with it when they feel so out of place, and not in a good way. When it comes to story of Milestone One, both lead characters could easily have been removed or replaced and nothing would change. They are uninteresting, boring, plastic archetypes of characters you've read a hundred times over in other stories and do little to be interesting. Never did I feel engaged and want to learn more about them and see how they interact with the plot.
Maybe things improve in the Milestone Two. I can only hope. It's a rough, but not unsalvageable, start to a narrative. It has nice aspects, such as pleasant and dynamic visuals and a pretty lively OST (even if it's sometimes out of place, annoyingly loops and goes on for too long in a scene, and so on and so forth).