Written By: JP Developer: NaweGR Games Platforms: PC, Mac and Linux Genre: Romance, Slice of Life Release Date: January 15, 2013 | ....WHHHHHHHHHHHHY?! I have literally just scaled K2! I have read an EVN that makes me question my philosophy on art itself! It was a masterpiece...WHY DID I DECIDE TO PLAY THIS AFTER CAVE! CAVE! SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH...Let's just make this quick. Earlier this year I had the foresight to purchase several EVNs that had just been released. One was a remake of a 2006 freeware visual novel that had been titled Senior Year, but since has been re-branded Alta, Texas. So, what changes have been made to justify changing a free game to a commercial one? Well let's dive in and see shall we? |
Story
The paths are all painfully predictable and you will be lucky if one or two sentences are devoted to actual character development. The biggest problem is that the girls you have to pick from just aren't that interesting and the game doesn't take the necessary time to MAKE them interesting. Instead we get a paragraph of attempted development, if we're lucky, and college hormones to justify any relationships that spring forward. That last one is painfully true as one path has a foreign girl that moves so fast I nearly got whiplash reading her lines.
There is one event with said foreign girl I have to point out quickly. During a small party on the roof the foreign girl, who is intoxicated, sits a little too close to the roof and nearly falls off. The idiot main character and her friends treats this as an attempted suicide, which her actions and words after show are clearly not the case. I said this when I covered My Teacher and I'll say it now: trying to put forward something tragic in the place of actual CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT doesn't replace the latter, it only makes it much more obvious that you can't develop a decent character.
The main protagonist is your woefully typical, Mary Sue insert. He knows all, says all the right things and after a long romantic drought the heavens have opened up to allow him a flock of harem girls to call his own. Of course, it all really boils down to the teenage head-trick of convincing yourself you're in love when really you just want to have sex and that is where the commercial version deviates hard from the original. As my colleague pointed out in his review, the original VN was much more sexually explicit. All of that had been cut out of the commercial version which makes the above issues much more prominent. I can understand a lack of decent storytelling if you're essentially writing a cheap harem game that's only going to lead to sex with one of your targets. But when you take that element OUT, you need to replace it with something otherwise you're just left with a gaping hole.
And that is what this plot basically is. A gaping hole with no clear sign of a bottom.
Presentation & Gameplay
Gameplay is basic but it works. Simple as that.
Replay Value
overall
FINAL SCORE
1/10 | - Bland Story With Unlikable Characters - Bad Art - I Had To Pay $10 For This |