Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius

This is the best free game I have played bar none: nice story, engaging gameplay (if you like this type) and wonderful art. But the default combat difficulty should have been ensign instead of captain.

To me, It's the best sci-fi space visual novel series I've ever read. (Besides Stein's gate.) Also the strategic battles are a blast. I have all three of the Sunrider series but not from GOG. The best part is the one-liners the girls say in battle. Especially Asaga's "Fly my children!" The series is full of memorable characters and the entire series is full of plot twists. Mask of Arcadius and Liberation Day are the only two that carry the main story though.

When a game's trailer shows nothing but the sexuality of its characters, you must suspect that it has nothing to offer. Indeed, its gameplay is brutally difficult and so lackluster that a tier-1 difficulty level allows you to skip it altogether. There is nothing awesome about CSS Sunrider. The story is a catastrophe. It serves only to diminish the player's victory by painting it as a canonical defeat. This is story is a ripoff of thousands of other works. The red-loving People's Alliance for Common Treatment is derived from Communism. The Alliance is the ultranationalist republican. Have you noticed how CSS Sunrider resembles Space Battleship Yamato? The literary value of the story is extremely low. This story starts with genocide on the protagonist's planet. The same thing happens in the universally acclaimed video game Homeworld. But while Homeworld took this plotline and made a masterpiece out of it, this game forgot its poignance. Instead, to add poignance to the story, they added a planet called Ongess, the story of which suffers from the poorest penmanship. To wit, Fontana is ordered to *destroy* Sunrider on Ongess. Instead, his mission was to launch a raid on Ongess's fuel supply. To that end, he *bypassed* Sunrider after a brief skirmish. All text in this game needs copyediting. For example, what's Bianca? (I suspect it is the old name of the Liberty mech unit.) As another example, when Asaga comes aboard, she asks "Am I going to be groped by that mean lady?" To which Ava angrily replies, "L-Lady?" It seems a Bushism has happened here. She must have said "G-Groped!?" or "M-Mean!?"

Game looks promising but sadly all I can get on W10 is "there is no script engine for file extension 'vbs' "

it's a pretty entertaining VM. Seems like a harem. Has bare breasts.