Ferno
1996
TBD
2021
Huge dissapointment story sucks and is over way too quickly, characters feel bland both villagers and marriage candidates, combat gameplay feels horrible as you have to dodge out of most attacks just so you can do another quickly.
The daily lines villagers have repeat way too quickly compared to previous games, theres no special dialouge for taking villagers with you to main story moments, the side stories are really only marriage candidate events and theyre both short and bad.
not to mention the performance issues this game has and the abundence of long loading screens.
Some villagers are fine BUT I CANT MARRY THEM.
Even on hard the game is way too easy, if you dont craft at all the game gives you so much free good shit. A huge enjoyment of mine in 4 was hell mode so 5 being so extremely easy is Sad.
Post game also bad just because theres not nearly as much dialouge/side events compared to older games so it feels samey. The days being way longer also dont help with that at all i just ended up sleeping super early the majoirty of the time.
Anyways actually stopping now this isnt good for me but if i could marry radea the game would be a 10/10 until then its a 5/10.
17/4/22 edit
Ok so my previous review was me being super dissapointed that i reviewed too early and it got a 5/10 but now that ive played a lot more while getting most characters to affection 10 its bumped to a 7/10 still sucks that the dialouge pool is super limited until you get affection high.
Radea still best girl tho and i will never forgive marvelous until i can marry her.
The daily lines villagers have repeat way too quickly compared to previous games, theres no special dialouge for taking villagers with you to main story moments, the side stories are really only marriage candidate events and theyre both short and bad.
not to mention the performance issues this game has and the abundence of long loading screens.
Some villagers are fine BUT I CANT MARRY THEM.
Even on hard the game is way too easy, if you dont craft at all the game gives you so much free good shit. A huge enjoyment of mine in 4 was hell mode so 5 being so extremely easy is Sad.
Post game also bad just because theres not nearly as much dialouge/side events compared to older games so it feels samey. The days being way longer also dont help with that at all i just ended up sleeping super early the majoirty of the time.
Anyways actually stopping now this isnt good for me but if i could marry radea the game would be a 10/10 until then its a 5/10.
17/4/22 edit
Ok so my previous review was me being super dissapointed that i reviewed too early and it got a 5/10 but now that ive played a lot more while getting most characters to affection 10 its bumped to a 7/10 still sucks that the dialouge pool is super limited until you get affection high.
Radea still best girl tho and i will never forgive marvelous until i can marry her.
Rating tsubasa, hane and saku, I'll review 1-8 once i finish the draft (never gonna happen) but i really want to go in depth with them.
The former 2 honestly have really good side stories and now that theyre voiced they got even more enjoyable.
Now saku is short but is such a great addition to the story that i cant help but feel it elevates it all even higher.
Theres an english translation for the switch version on github which has all of the main/side stories and most of saku translated, I manually translated the rest and would never do that again.
https://github.com/ooa113y/umineko-catbox-english/issues/3
The former 2 honestly have really good side stories and now that theyre voiced they got even more enjoyable.
Now saku is short but is such a great addition to the story that i cant help but feel it elevates it all even higher.
Theres an english translation for the switch version on github which has all of the main/side stories and most of saku translated, I manually translated the rest and would never do that again.
https://github.com/ooa113y/umineko-catbox-english/issues/3