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Love Choice Review

Okay so I had no idea Masquerade Kiss would be Love Choice, but this title has managed to tempt me into reading it anyway. I can’t say I’m happy about it but there are a lot of things I have to say, since the whole Love Choice (LC) system has been controversial, or just incredibly detested/undesired, ever since its conception. And it does suck since I’ve been wanting Voltage to release more mature titles (and the whole female spy thing was just a plus, I guess). Voltage did a really good job of hyping up this release and I love/hate them for it lmao. But yeah here are my two cents on the LC feature. Sorry for the longass rant in advance. If you only care about my opinion regarding Masquerade Kiss and Kazuomi Shido’s route then you can check out my review later on my blog (if and when I get to it). But I still mention the title here and there in this review since it is the first LC main story that was released.

For most people who have been with Voltage for a long time, LC is probably one of the worst things on the planet, right after the Love 365 app debacle which caused many to lose their stories if they weren’t aware of the transfer dates or not able to transfer their data (technically they’re losing the right/license to access those stories, cause they don’t own them) and all the other customer service horror stories you can think of. Generally, for people who think that converting coins into hearts and not being able to read the story however they want are terrible ideas, they will outright avoid LC titles/stories. Since LC is F2P, it isn’t much different from the other otome/visual novels that have premium options where people have the option to spend money.

But let’s just think about it for a moment.

The appeal of LC is that you can read the stories completely free of charge. Yes, there is a countdown timer which prevents you from reading the next episode immediately and you would have to spend hearts to bypass that. But let’s keep in mind that Voltage Entertainment USA (aka the subsidiary which creates apps catered towards Western audiences) is also doing something similar with the ticket system. Plus they don’t even give you the option to buy routes anymore, which is why we should be thankful that Voltage Inc hasn’t done that with their Japanese apps yet. I just want to make the best of what we are given (and hopefully try to get a little enjoyment out of it), even if LC is terribly implemented.

So just hear me out for a second. A very long second.

If you’re not one of those people who need every single CG and ending AND don’t mind the wait, this post is mainly for you.

PLEASE JUST READ THE DAMN STORY. LIKE READ MASQUERADE KISS RIGHT NOW WHILE THERE IS NO WAIT TIME (until 2/17). It costs you nothing and you will still get a pretty complete experience.  Don’t be stupid and believe that you’re missing out if you don’t get the CG’s. Go look the CG’s up online or something if you have to because I’m sure someone has posted them regardless of whether it’s allowed or not. It has a decent plot that doesn’t make me want to ram my head into a wall from secondhand embarrassment. Sure there are aspects of it that weren’t written well (will be explained in my review later) but it’s still a good story and I don’t regret reading it. It would be a shame to miss out just because you’re too busy hating on the system. If you don’t want to spend your free hearts (or don’t have enough) on CG’s that cost you 20-30 hearts and options that require hearts, just use it towards reading the next couple episodes (for when they go back to subjecting you to wait times). At least you still won’t be using as many hearts. Yeah the CG’s and love choices are hella expensive and they shouldn’t be. It might even feel like you’re being punished for not choosing those choices because in the end you won’t be getting the happy ending. But they’re not NECESSARY. However, if you still want the CG’s/happy endings, just reread it again later when you get enough hearts. I don’t know, that’s not a priority for me so I can wait on unlocking those CG’s. 

From Episode 1 up to the second to last episode, you’re getting the same. exact. content. Let me repeat that. YOU GET THE SAME EXACT CONTENT. The only thing is that you won’t get all of the CG’s or the super happy ending, which are what people are really paying for. Is it really worth it??? Voltage apps don’t have bad endings. They’re either the romantic/passionate alternate endings or it’s happy(or normal)/super happy endings. No endings where it’s game over, you’re dead or oops you screwed up this entire thing. You’re essentially getting the same ending, just a slightly different view of the events. Just more vanilla, if you don’t get the “better” ending. Slightly fewer lines of text, less description. Big whoop. That and well, you don’t get the CG. Too bad. No personal bragging rights for me to put on my metaphorical trophy pedestal. For me, reading the visual novel is the main goal. The art and CG’s are just a plus, a very much appreciate plus. I would care more about the plot because if you are reading a terribly written story, what’s the point in having good art anyways? You look at it for a bit and just move on to something else that isn’t a waste of time.  

And like....come on. If you hate the LC feature, that’s all the more the reason why you should try it. It won’t even hurt you to read the story if you’re adamant on not spending money/converting coins. Even if it’s terribly written, you didn’t pay for it like you would have with a P2P story. No monetary loss there, just lost time and feelings of disappointment. And if you hate waiting or think LC is a waste of time, just think of reading an episode whenever you have time. You don’t have to commit to it. You could speed read an episode in a minute or two and then go on doing whatever else you want to do with your day. It shouldn’t take up that much of your time. And if you forget to, it’s fine. Not something you’ll be too invested in.

They’re not charging you for anything, so suck it up. I’m sure you have other things you can do in the meantime while you wait for the next episode. Your life doesn’t revolve around otome games (unless you’re adopting an unhealthy lifestyle in which case you have more things to be concerned about). Don’t be a whiny bitch about it. And that’s why the hearts system exists... for the impatient people. They WANT you to spend money on their products, since that’s the whole point of running a business. Yes you’re paying for a one-time access when you’re using hearts to read episodes. Yes you have to start over if you want to reread a specific episode. Ultimately it’s up to YOU to choose whether you want to spend money or not for LC stories, but you don’t HAVE to.

Again, I’m emphasizing the word ‘time’ because if you really don’t have time, then seriously just do whatever you’re supposed to be doing jesus christ. Don’t feel like I’m calling you out for not wanting to read LC stories because you don’t have time to wait around for it. I’m not telling you to prioritize LC over Voltage’s other stuff. Just give it a chance if you can afford to do so, because money isn’t the issue here if you can read the story for free. I know people look towards Voltage apps as a way to relax and so that I understand that reading a LC novel would not be a choice if you have limited time. Because why go for LC if you have perfectly good apps that you’ve already paid for and can read whenever you want? I understand. I really do.

In regards to people complaining about Masquerade Kiss being a LC novel, I have a couple things I want to say. Voltage has the right to choose whichever title they want to be LC. Besides, what criteria do you expect them to use in choosing which titles should be LC? It’s not as if they’ll be like “oh let’s choose an okay title to be Love Choice”, just to make customers glad that they don’t have to waste money. That’s not practical. And ideally they wouldn’t want to be writing shitty stories anyway. They need to make money off them or else it’s a waste of all the money and time they invested into producing the title. For the most part, all the newer titles have been decent, if not good. There will be people who love them and people who hate them. So how would you decide the best choice to be LC among all the good titles? And it wouldn’t make sense to make a title both LC and P2P because that would be when people will REALLY start to hate LC, especially when you have to fork out a ridiculous amount of hearts for the CG’s.  Then there will be even more customer complaints yay. Also, if they made it P2P how many coins would they even charge for the whole route, considering how many hearts they have to spend for the CG’s? The CG’s are “free” only if you have enough hearts for those in-game choices that you want to choose, but if you’re paying for them that would mean it’s like $2-$3 per CG. 

Since they announced this feature, it’s here to stay unless they decide to get rid of it (which I doubt). YOU DON’T GET A SAY IN IT. Their company, their products, their choices. They will make whatever choices in which they benefit the most from. Sometimes those choices will align with what customers want. Sometimes they won’t. You don’t like it then you leave. That’s what most people would do anyway. Even if you do leave, there will always be more people getting sucked into the Voltage trap anyways. If you don’t, then you will continue to rot in the sin bin that is Voltage and there goes your money. Sadly, that’s how the world works. 

So yeah if you’re still reading, thanks for reading my very long winded, unpopular (probably) opinion. You’re a trooper. I have respect for you. I’m just here to get this off my chest. Please don’t hate me. 

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Liar! Uncover the Truth (iOS/Android)

Overall Rating: 4/5

Date Published: October 3, 2016 Publisher: Voltage Inc Platforms: iOS and Android Price: Free to Play (pay to accelerate/binge) Duration: ~15 minutes of free play a day, about $1/min after Score Breakdown:

Visuals: 5/5 Writing: 4/5 Plot: 2/5 Characters: 2/5 Entertainment: 5/5

Keywords: Office Life, Mature, Working Lady, Investigation, Mystery, Comedy, Gameplay

This is not a game to make you go doki-doki, but it is entertaining, funny and worth your time to play for free.  It can get very expensive to binge.

When rating a game like this, I have to put it on a slightly different scale than how I rate visual novel otome games.  Liar! is not a traditional otome game in the sense that the story, the plot or the writing is supposed to be the major draw of the game.  These elements contribute to this game to a certain extent, but the main reason why this game is entertaining is because of the gameplay elements.

Otome with gameplay?  Yes!  Liar! is a mystery and logic puzzle game that features gameplay elements heavily inspired by the Phoenix Wright series.  Throughout chapters of gameplay, you will encounter phases in which you have to click around scenes to gather evidence (trivial, very easy to pass) and then use that information to make correct choices later on.  This creates a more interesting “game-like” experience that makes up for the frankly, lack-luster plot and one-dimensional characters.

An example of a logic puzzle in the tutorial of the game

Gameplay: 5/5

This game is fun and I look forward to using up my free play tickets.  Every day, Voltage gives you anywhere between 10-13 tickets, which will buy you about 10-20 minutes of free gameplay.  After that, tickets are about $0.75 a piece, which means you’re paying anywhere from $3 to $5 for 5 minutes of gameplay. Playing Liar! for an hour continuously could easily rack up to $60/hr, so this is NOT a game you can binge on.

At the start of every chapter, a theme is introduced and shortly after, 3 suspects are presented.  The game proceeds to evidence collection introduced through a very thin plot, usually involving going on dates with each suspect.  Evidence collection is more or less tapping on various points of interest on a scene or background, and also playing tap-tap-tap on an in-game “text-messaging app” and a “facebook-like app”.

The fun part comes at the accusation and deduction parts of the game.  Using the evidence and notes collected, you should be able to review them and come to a conclusion about who is most likely to be the perpetrator of the chapter. After your accusation is confirmed, a series of question challenges come up which require you to select right answers or present relevant pieces of evidence when prompted.

The logic puzzles are actually pretty fun, and not always super obvious, which makes it challenging in a good way. Sometimes you do have to make a few logical bridges and do some deduction, so it actually makes for a good time.  On the flip side, the game is extremely forgiving, there is no real consequence to messing up aside from the fact that you may have to take longer (more time/more money) to clear a stage.

Visuals: 4/5

Most Voltage games have very good art, some more detailed than others.  I’ve seen people complaining that the men in this game are uglier than some of their other games.  I definitely have to admit Voltage went with a different style, but I still find the men pretty handsome.  

Furthermore, there is a large variety of locations, backgrounds, items/evidence, so there’s a good deal of interesting and unique art.  Each chapter takes you somewhere unique, different locations, different situations. Playing otome games, we’re used to seeing the same few BGs over and over again, so props to Liar! for having a more interesting experience.

Writing: 4/5

A very solid and believable natural translation by Voltage Inc.  Props to their localization teams for doing a great job with all their games lately.  That aside, the writing is pretty basic.  The tone of the narrator is an office lady approaching 30, but she comes off a bit ditzier and less like than a “mature lady”.  That’s fine and all, but there isn’t much depth to the writing, so it doesn’t really make for a very emotionally or intellectually stimulating story, although it can get fairly comedic in some parts.

Plot: 2/5

Whelp.  This plot is pretty shallow.  Protagonist goes to a match making party, meets 10 men who immediately (within 5 minutes of gameplay) all declare themselves in love with her, and you have to play through 10 chapters to weed out 9 scumbags from the ‘true love’.  If it wasn’t for the gameplay, I wouldn’t give this app the time of day, to be honest.

In each chapter, a theme is introduced, ranging from gambling addition to infidelity/cheating.  Over the course of 30 tickets (3 days) worth of gameplay, three suspects are introduced (most of the time because they asked you out on a date), evidence is gathered against each person (over the course of said dates) and a Phoenix Wright-like battle of logic and wits weeds out the perpetrator of the chapter.  This man is then eliminated at the end of the chapter, where you can view 5 different endings or short stories about the guy and potentially what could have happened to you if you fell for his trap.

There is a small bit of plot in that there is a driving storyline of the protagonist going on dates, texting with her suitors and engaging in small talk and banter with them about this and that, but nothing really substantial.  Sometimes you learn about their back stories in their endings, but they’re not terribly interesting or sympathetic.

Don’t think too much into the plot, there really is very little.  Some parts are written fairly comedically, but I haven’t really gotten that many laughs out of it either.  But that’s not what makes this game fun or captivating, so it’s not a big deal if it’s not stellar.

Characters: 2/5

The characters really aren’t what you play for either.  For the first 3 days I was playing this game, I couldn’t remember the difference between three of the men, Keima, Itaru and... another dude I still can’t remember.  Why? Because it really does not matter.  They provide a very limited back story to any of the men, and more or less their roles are to be people that you eliminate over the course of a shallow plot chapter.  When characters get eliminated over the course of the game, it’s really hard to care because they’re just that-- shallow characters.

What I found somewhat interesting is the fact that 9 out of 10 characters will be eliminated for a major character flaw by the end of the game.  It is interesting to me to speculate (I am on chapter 5 right now) who will be the last man standing, so perhaps the plot may pick up some more later.

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