A short love story with a twist: the love of your life is 50% human, and 50% grasshopper.
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funny and weird game very simple but the art is cool i mainly played cuz it was rly cheap on sale and i wanted the steam profile background
❌ Couldn't make it work on Steam Deck (24/10/2022). It just gets stucked trying to launch the game and suddenly closes.
Too dull and shallow for my taste, the story is a giant cliché. The only interesting thing are the visuals, since the characters are all weird monsters.
Too dull and shallow for my taste, the story is a giant cliché. The only interesting thing are the visuals, since the characters are all weird monsters.
"A Generic VN With A Smidge Of The Uncanny"
Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kororo is a visual novel where you play as a normal human high-schooler who exists in a world of random hideous creatures. You are about to flunk out of school, but you are convinced by your longtime crush and childhood friend (who just happens to be a praying mantis) to study hard and attempt to get into the same college as her. You take on this challenge and work hard, hoping to turn your life around and end up with the girl of your dreams. Essentially, this game takes a boring and predictable VN story, but adds strange characters to up the "shock value" and weirdness. Instead, it ends up being worse than a traditional VN with the same story, only with more normalcy.
Gameplay is typical of VN's with no new parts - click, read, and click some more. The art and music is okay but pretty generic looking. The plot is barebones and mostly filled with some witty humor and romance. The main thing this game does different is replace all characters besides the protagonist with anthropomorphic creatures. This includes a bat, praying mantis, demon, and...whatever exactly the principal of the school is supposed to be.
The game does absolutely nothing with these designs apart from including them as a part of its dry humor. The humor is essentially "Wow, its so funny that everyone is a weird creature instead of being human, yet there's a romance plot from a VN occurring". That's it. No attention is paid to why these individuals are not human, and nobody ever mentions it throughout the game. It's a very apparent selling point that is surface level, and really doesn't add much to an experience which is already barebones.
The writing is really basic and amateurish. Dialogue is predictable and empty, and the game thankfully ends before anything drags on too long. This game brings very little to the table beyond its creature design, which while underutilized was at least good for a bit of confusion and humor. Unfortunately, it doesn't really make the game worth playing. I will Not Recommend this title, since it is just a dime a dozen VN with a slight hint of strange character design which ends up taking more away from the experience than what it adds.
Final Verdict: 3/10 (Poor)
Creature Romances: Kokonoe Kororo is a visual novel where you play as a normal human high-schooler who exists in a world of random hideous creatures. You are about to flunk out of school, but you are convinced by your longtime crush and childhood friend (who just happens to be a praying mantis) to study hard and attempt to get into the same college as her. You take on this challenge and work hard, hoping to turn your life around and end up with the girl of your dreams. Essentially, this game takes a boring and predictable VN story, but adds strange characters to up the "shock value" and weirdness. Instead, it ends up being worse than a traditional VN with the same story, only with more normalcy.
Gameplay is typical of VN's with no new parts - click, read, and click some more. The art and music is okay but pretty generic looking. The plot is barebones and mostly filled with some witty humor and romance. The main thing this game does different is replace all characters besides the protagonist with anthropomorphic creatures. This includes a bat, praying mantis, demon, and...whatever exactly the principal of the school is supposed to be.
The game does absolutely nothing with these designs apart from including them as a part of its dry humor. The humor is essentially "Wow, its so funny that everyone is a weird creature instead of being human, yet there's a romance plot from a VN occurring". That's it. No attention is paid to why these individuals are not human, and nobody ever mentions it throughout the game. It's a very apparent selling point that is surface level, and really doesn't add much to an experience which is already barebones.
The writing is really basic and amateurish. Dialogue is predictable and empty, and the game thankfully ends before anything drags on too long. This game brings very little to the table beyond its creature design, which while underutilized was at least good for a bit of confusion and humor. Unfortunately, it doesn't really make the game worth playing. I will Not Recommend this title, since it is just a dime a dozen VN with a slight hint of strange character design which ends up taking more away from the experience than what it adds.
Final Verdict: 3/10 (Poor)