Posted on: February 26, 2022
TheHostage
Games: 212 Reviews: 61
Inventive genre mashup but poor gameplay
A weird mix of visual novel, RPG and match 3 game mechanics that doesn’t feel finished. It’s very short with only a few different scenes, enemy types and dungeons, a lot (if not all) of the pickups don’t actually do anything and most of the conversation choices don’t matter. The twee teen drama, school monster setting and simple plot is ok, but their conversation style gets tiring after a while, as does the combat which is very samey. It also gets annoying when you get stuck for no reason, inputs don’t register and the enemy attacks and UI take up too much screen space. The town looks great with lots of detail and colour, the music is catchy and the mash up of genres is different and somewhat inventive, but I didn’t really enjoy it that much.
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