Yes, it's a pretty much under-informed review. Even many people who replied on the discussion board below that review, have more informed replies.

I don't think the "dating simulator" feature really fits the game anyway. It's like most other RPG games that you make friends or enemies, only here you've overdone it a bit.
That's at least my opinion, okay, I haven't been through it either.
(Does anyone know how many chapters there are in this game?)

Of course he didn't get all the endings, that's not how professional game review sites work. Because of how many games they have to review and deadlines they have to meet, game reviewers always rush through the game as quickly as possible and only beat a game once, if they beat it at all...

Best case scenario? The reviewer plays the game in their spare time, gets all the endings, and later edits the review. But most likely the reviewer will never play the game again.

Most likely they only played it because their job made them play it and it would normally be a game they had no interest in and would have avoided.

The romances being too platonic is a fair critcism, IMO, and not finding the characters interesting is an opinion I can't really argue with. Not mentioning the whole time travel (<- is that even a spoiler anymore?) aspect, though, is ignoring a big part of why people like it. It's like reviewing Higurashi as poorly drawn slice of life comedy that goes on for way too long; technically true, but if you stop there you're kind of missing the point.

Well, the 'dating sim' tag is a little truthful in a way, but only because of two/three scenes.

You win a date with Anna. That, and you have dinner with Remy so... maybe just those two scenes count really? Maybe Remy's 4th scene as well?

The reviewer seemed like they expected full blown pornography or something, which there is not. Steam TOS.

I never laugh so hard when reading this review, it was waaaaay too rushed, and expected way too much porno of the game itself, steam reveiws are waaaaay more helpful and informitve with skippable spoilers, can't wait for IGN doing the same thing with no research, once again, grabbing my popcorn waitng to laugh again. 10/10 best joke of a review m8

I am a man of not many words, but I am sure I could do a better review. Pretty sure I could.

We all can, just i'm a bit busy with working on my game atm.

Well, what else would you expect from Kotaku

Originally posted by n|xeu:

Well, what else would you expect from Kotaku

https://youtu.be/GB7mHxdHlRY?t=4

If you look at her previously reviewed games you can see why she reviewed the game the way she did.

She reviews pornographic dating sim games for a living, or dating sims with sexual themes in them. When she bought this game she was expecting the plot to be revolving around dragon sex, and when she got into it and saw that it was more of a mystery novel with contemporary storyteling aspects rather than a porno game, she became biased and then reviewed it poorly.

Take a look at this little snippit:

"Each time I woke up, greeted by the excitement of a new day full of cutie dragons to woo, I was instead dragged off to a murder scene, asked to do some tedious investigation task, or thrown into a long, long conversation with someone I couldn’t even smooch—a conversation that never really gave me, the player, any real input."

Of course she feels like the game is "tedious", since she is used to reviewing games with little to no plot, only porn. She isn't used to stories with exposition, dialouge, and personality in a character.

And of course she feels like she has "no real input", since all she wants to do is smooch the dragons.


I feel like she's the kind of person that would rather remove the wine bottle from in front of Bryce's crotch than sit down and talk to him about his alcohol problem

Originally posted by jtc0999:

I feel like she's the kind of person that would rather remove the wine bottle from in front of Bryce's crotch than sit down and talk to him about his alcohol problem

I'd do both.

Originally posted by Totally Normal Guy:

Originally posted by jtc0999:

I feel like she's the kind of person that would rather remove the wine bottle from in front of Bryce's crotch than sit down and talk to him about his alcohol problem

I'd do both.

I mean, first and foremost I'd make sure that he is alright mentally and that his problem gets treated.

After that...

But yeah, it really is an unfair review. The reason I picked up the story last year was because of an unfair review a twitch streamer did.

He played it for about 5 minutes, didn't read anything, skipping everything 'text', called it 'furry s**t', and closed game. He didn't give it a chance, so I did.

Originally posted by JeffMakesGames:

But yeah, it really is an unfair review. The reason I picked up the story last year was because of an unfair review a twitch streamer did.

He played it for about 5 minutes, didn't read anything, skipping everything 'text', called it 'furry s**t', and closed game. He didn't give ti a chance, so I did.

Its honestly so frustraiting that this game is labled as "furry ♥♥♥♥" just because it has dragons. I myself am not a furry nor a scalie, but I have backgrounds and emotes of this game because I love it so much.

I wish people would just look past the cover of the game and give it a try. It really is a fantastic story telling game that tells an interesting story, contains characters that are not only realistic and likeable, but also are round and have many qualities to them, and tackles many issues that we face as a society today.

And all of this done by a dev who's primary language is not English? This game really deserves more attention