TLDR: It's a cringey Va11hallA look-alike.
Long version: CT is a proven concept with potential that ends up disappointing in many ways.
I don't usually like holding games in comparison, but you can't overlook it here. A game about serving drinks in a venue frequented by talkative individuals from various walks of like who share their stories with you and in turn overlapping with the other patrons. I won't describe vallhala here because if you didn't try it yet, then you should.
But the setting in CT is a gentrified metropolis (Seattle Lmaoo) with the quirk being that fantastical races like elves, orcs, cat people are living side by side with men. This tangential relationship to the setting and stories is only used to translate human strife. Instead of Latino immigrants we have Atlantians, instead of colored people being racially profiled we have orcs/werewolves. This is exhibited but fails to build any depth in the world or people. It just sounds like someone's first effort at writing a reverse-Isekai fanfic.
The art is well made but the characters' stiff reactions dejected me, the music is forgettable lo-fi (which is a low compared to lo-fi stuff in general) and this is a nitpick, but I hate how boring the environment looks. The MC's exposed brick clean European whatever decor gets dull on the eyes considering that's the background for the entire game. This dude's wack ass coffee shop is so gentrifying that it probably raised rent prices in the vicinity by a third single-handedly.
Long version: CT is a proven concept with potential that ends up disappointing in many ways.
I don't usually like holding games in comparison, but you can't overlook it here. A game about serving drinks in a venue frequented by talkative individuals from various walks of like who share their stories with you and in turn overlapping with the other patrons. I won't describe vallhala here because if you didn't try it yet, then you should.
But the setting in CT is a gentrified metropolis (Seattle Lmaoo) with the quirk being that fantastical races like elves, orcs, cat people are living side by side with men. This tangential relationship to the setting and stories is only used to translate human strife. Instead of Latino immigrants we have Atlantians, instead of colored people being racially profiled we have orcs/werewolves. This is exhibited but fails to build any depth in the world or people. It just sounds like someone's first effort at writing a reverse-Isekai fanfic.
The art is well made but the characters' stiff reactions dejected me, the music is forgettable lo-fi (which is a low compared to lo-fi stuff in general) and this is a nitpick, but I hate how boring the environment looks. The MC's exposed brick clean European whatever decor gets dull on the eyes considering that's the background for the entire game. This dude's wack ass coffee shop is so gentrifying that it probably raised rent prices in the vicinity by a third single-handedly.