Recent reviews by The Pope

Tried it for a few minutes, but the extremely cheap combat animations turned me off.

Duchess of Aquitaine, regent of two lands, patron of troubadours and judge of the court of love, ascend your throne again. Inspire the hearts of your subjects, that they will cheer you and flock to your banners, for all who know your reign know your compassion.

A fantastic story crippled by being in the wrong medium.

Okay, maybe that's too strong of a word. But fittingly enough with the game's subject material, this story is the heart of an anime trapped in the body of a visual novel. While it's great in its current form, I feel like if this was adapted into an anime, with proper direction, great voice acting, and expert musical cues, this could be one of the greatest anime series ever created.

I'm not a huge visual novel buff. I've only played through about four (though I did watch the Steins;Gate anime). This is probably one of the best stories I've ever experienced, visual novel or otherwise, but I simply believe that it would be served better in another medium.

Should that day come that this is adapted into an anime, I will be jubilant. Until then, though, this is definitely more than worth your time. The pacing is sluggish and it takes a LONG time to get good, but once it gets good...damn does it get good. The fact that I can't get it out of my head should be indicative enough of my feelings. Whatever the format, this story deserves to be experienced.

This is a cute game with cute girls.

Really good game, I didn't care much for the ending.

The ability to redo choices after you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up is a really good mechanic, especially since most people (like me) would just save scum and do that anyway so this is just cutting out the middle man. That being said, I often felt like too many dialogue choices weren't clear from the snippet of text provided, a problem I see often in games where you can select dialogue. Still, a really great teen drama that has time travel involved, but I feel like while the mind♥♥♥♥ near the end was executed great, the final choice felt dumb. It reminds me very much of Mass Effect 3, where the game acts like all of your choices matter, only to go "surprise, pick an ending lol". At least in this case the endings are different, but there is no happy ending; both are downers, it just depends on which one will make you less depressed. And I dunno, while the game did deal with some real ♥♥♥♥ (especially suicide), I felt like your choices should've allowed a happy ending, or at least a happier ending. It's like, I do everything right, make everyone happy, and nope, things are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up no matter what. And yes I get that the game calls you out that you're just making everyone happy to make them like you, which...in a sense is true; usually in games if we pick the "better" option to make someone happier, it's so that they'll help us out in the future. It's just the way we expect games to play out. So while I guess it was smart to call that out, it did suck that the ending was going to be a downer no matter what you did throughout the game.

While I wish the time travel powers were explained, the game wasn't really about that; it was about the life of this girl and the people around her. Until, you know, the ending. But spoilers.

I still definitely recommend it for fans of story-based games, just don't be surprised if the ending pulls the rug from under your feet.

Pros:

- Great music
- Great characters
- Dogs
- Retro art
- Dogs
- Lots of gays
- Dogs
- Alcohol
- Drunk dogs

Cons:

- Too hard to get people drunk
- Some things not spelled out

Best game I've played since Undertale.

Makes an already fantastic game even better.

This is a game?

Like Beat Hazard, except even LESS tangentially related to your music.

By "music game" I figured this would let me use my own music. Nope; enjoy lousy 8-bit "retro" music to try to play along to. Yawn.