This review contains spoilers
i'm not usually good at writing reviews but I'll give it a shot since there's not a lot of others written!
i actually think it was pretty well written but for such an insane concept i definitely feel like it couldve gone Farther than it did. i would've really loved a first person POV from youji, the 3rd person pov felt just a bit more detached than i would've liked for a game exploring his mental state and making the reader question it themselves. but I do think it achieved this task pretty well.
some specific things I liked were how the meat monsters disappeared after he goes on mood stabilizers, leaning into the idea that he was hallucinating all along, before then revealing that they're absolutely covering the school and he may have been birthing them unconsciously. this was really good! i liked exploring that fear of an unreliable narrator. i also think youji's internal monologue was written well throughout. another thing i read in another review (lone's to be specific) was that most of the NSFW scenes occur around times when he births the monsters, which goes in hand with the game exploring youji's fears of his body changing. that was a super nice detail. and overall, i do think his fears around this "puberty" of sorts were actually very accurate to the female experience can be
what i probably dislike the most is tetsuo. sorry.... hes just not doing it for me. he's intensely bland and i'm honestly not sure why youji likes him beyond the pheromones, although we're led to believe that they actually Like Each Other as People. i thought zenya and makoto were infinitely more interesting and i actually think zenya did not get quite enough screen time. makoto gets a pretty good character progression in most routes, but zenya is more up to interpretation for the reasons behind his actions. a lot of his character progression feels "hidden", i.e. how he first wants tetsuo and youji to produce a purebreed but then he switches to trying to do it himself. even now i'm not entirely sure if he was trying to produce a purebreed, or just fix his condition bc in one lore-dump segment it says that people can become Males in that way, and maybe he was trying to fix himself. i guess i can't nitpick too hard because he's meant to be weird, but like, it would've been nice to have after revealing why he's like that, yknow?
my final comments: the soundtrack is INSANE, idc if its been 15 years please give everyone who worked on it a raise. i got this game because i was promised it would be weird and it definitely was, i do not think ill forget it for a While!
EDIT: I just learned this game came out BEFORE the world’s oldest omegaverse fic was posted? I’m actually so unbelievably stunned. iconic
i actually think it was pretty well written but for such an insane concept i definitely feel like it couldve gone Farther than it did. i would've really loved a first person POV from youji, the 3rd person pov felt just a bit more detached than i would've liked for a game exploring his mental state and making the reader question it themselves. but I do think it achieved this task pretty well.
some specific things I liked were how the meat monsters disappeared after he goes on mood stabilizers, leaning into the idea that he was hallucinating all along, before then revealing that they're absolutely covering the school and he may have been birthing them unconsciously. this was really good! i liked exploring that fear of an unreliable narrator. i also think youji's internal monologue was written well throughout. another thing i read in another review (lone's to be specific) was that most of the NSFW scenes occur around times when he births the monsters, which goes in hand with the game exploring youji's fears of his body changing. that was a super nice detail. and overall, i do think his fears around this "puberty" of sorts were actually very accurate to the female experience can be
what i probably dislike the most is tetsuo. sorry.... hes just not doing it for me. he's intensely bland and i'm honestly not sure why youji likes him beyond the pheromones, although we're led to believe that they actually Like Each Other as People. i thought zenya and makoto were infinitely more interesting and i actually think zenya did not get quite enough screen time. makoto gets a pretty good character progression in most routes, but zenya is more up to interpretation for the reasons behind his actions. a lot of his character progression feels "hidden", i.e. how he first wants tetsuo and youji to produce a purebreed but then he switches to trying to do it himself. even now i'm not entirely sure if he was trying to produce a purebreed, or just fix his condition bc in one lore-dump segment it says that people can become Males in that way, and maybe he was trying to fix himself. i guess i can't nitpick too hard because he's meant to be weird, but like, it would've been nice to have after revealing why he's like that, yknow?
my final comments: the soundtrack is INSANE, idc if its been 15 years please give everyone who worked on it a raise. i got this game because i was promised it would be weird and it definitely was, i do not think ill forget it for a While!
EDIT: I just learned this game came out BEFORE the world’s oldest omegaverse fic was posted? I’m actually so unbelievably stunned. iconic