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This review contains spoilers
This game was a cool concept to me, being able to date ninjas which is one of my favourite things, but the game slightly stumbled a bit.
All the dateable options were good, but I really wished the main plot point wasn't the exact same in every route. I've played dating sims where the routes go off into their own tangents and storyline, so seeing the exact same thing of "your framed for murder and you escape prison with ""insert character here"" and are on the run until the end of the story" got very stale and boring for me.
I do like the references to real life people and history in the game. It's a nice touch to see the history of the decline of ninjas in that time period.
The soundtrack and art style is really nice, beautifully done. Some of the cgs are really nice too, wanted a couple to be my desktop wallpaper.
All the dateable options were good, but I really wished the main plot point wasn't the exact same in every route. I've played dating sims where the routes go off into their own tangents and storyline, so seeing the exact same thing of "your framed for murder and you escape prison with ""insert character here"" and are on the run until the end of the story" got very stale and boring for me.
I do like the references to real life people and history in the game. It's a nice touch to see the history of the decline of ninjas in that time period.
The soundtrack and art style is really nice, beautifully done. Some of the cgs are really nice too, wanted a couple to be my desktop wallpaper.
This review contains spoilers
This game was a nostalgia bomb to play it again, but having played it recently I noticed a couple of things that didn't make it top tier.
For one, the story was both full of really hard hitting topics, like a girl wanting to commit suicide and the idea of whenever it's ok to use anesthesia. But they never delve too far with it, and the topic is over in just one surgery/level. It's too fast and jarring for it to really sink in. Also, there was a whole section cut out of the game because of it being "too much" and the whole section is just a bunch of text to read, which is really unsatisfying, and they reference it later as if youve to know what happened when we couldn't.
Half of the characters are one and done, or don't really get much of a fleshing out to really matter half the time.
The gameplay is one of the strongest points in the series. The ability that you can suture, transplant and save virtual lives is still a cool thing to do with motion controls, even all these years later. Sometimes the difficulty swings are horrendous, but for the most part it's still fun to casually inject litres of the green juice that keeps the patients alive.
The soundtrack is pretty solid, but half of it is forgettable until you hear it again.
For one, the story was both full of really hard hitting topics, like a girl wanting to commit suicide and the idea of whenever it's ok to use anesthesia. But they never delve too far with it, and the topic is over in just one surgery/level. It's too fast and jarring for it to really sink in. Also, there was a whole section cut out of the game because of it being "too much" and the whole section is just a bunch of text to read, which is really unsatisfying, and they reference it later as if youve to know what happened when we couldn't.
Half of the characters are one and done, or don't really get much of a fleshing out to really matter half the time.
The gameplay is one of the strongest points in the series. The ability that you can suture, transplant and save virtual lives is still a cool thing to do with motion controls, even all these years later. Sometimes the difficulty swings are horrendous, but for the most part it's still fun to casually inject litres of the green juice that keeps the patients alive.
The soundtrack is pretty solid, but half of it is forgettable until you hear it again.