I finally sorted out my feelings and how I feel about this one after a few days of thinking. I know it's annoying but English isn't my first language so excuse my grammar mistakes (if I do any).

ML:A is one of the biggest wasted potentials I have ever experienced. It misses the chance of being a very good cliché story just for the sake of being "original" (I don't find it very "original" this way either but anyway).

It has one of the best worldbuildings I have ever seen in any kind of media but it lacks at telling its story, furthermore it drowns you in its info dumps (I don't find info dumps "meaningless" most of the time but most of the ML:A's info dumps are technical details about its universe's mechanics(?) and these mechanics are based on bs.) and it's so fucking exhausting to read.

And it all comes to this question at this point: Does this one deserve #1 spot?
Objectively thinking yes, its story can be enjoyed by "mainstream" audience (that kinda sounded "sassy" didn't it? Fuck.). It also has good production so yeah I don't really mind it being #1 spot that much.
But in my opinion this game didn't need to be a love story and doesn't deserve #1 spot.

Edit: Nope, after like few months of thinking about this sorry excuse of a vn, It surely doesn't deserve even top 30 probably. You aren't really missing anything if you didn't read it.

Hope ML:U TDA can meet my expectations.

Reviewed on Jun 17, 2021


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2 years ago

I liked Muv Luv Alt but I agree that it had a lot of wasted potential to be even close to my personal #1 VN. It had some amazing emotional moments and like you said, solid world building.

I agree the infodumping was so obnoxiously long, hell the only VN had some inconsistent pacing issues, usually a bit too slow.