If there was a 4.75 option, I'd take that. DRV3 isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but to call my enjoyment a mere 4.5 is insulting to both of us.

I don't want to look at my total hours played, alright? And I've sunk nearly 300 hours into a certain open-world game I have a love-hate relationship with.

Getting into 'why' DRV3 isn't a perfect visual novel is the spoiler equivalent of walking into a hornet's nest where you are not just wielding a baseball bat, but the baseball bat is 1. unconsentingly automated 2. keeps vocally suggesting for the hornets to fight it and 3. is impeded onto your shirt, so let's not.

You're either gonna love or hate this game. Take it or leave it. The mechanics are fine outside of how finnicky and unwieldly perjury is, the story is... well, that's why everyone's fighting, isn't it? Give it a shot - if you don't like it, there's two other DR games that may be more up your alley.

Reviewed on May 26, 2021


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