Reviews - AlienBaboso

Gameplay-wise, this is a pretty traditional Visual Novel (VN). While it has five main heroine routes, the history doesn't repeat too much, as the first act of the game conveniently changes with the choices you pick, and once you end on a girl's path, the game locks you on that path with a storyline set apart of the rest of the girls, except for a few shared events that are pretty welcome.

The writing, the music, and the artwork of this game is exceptional for a free game, the only shortcut they took was the use of photographs for some of the backgrounds (the ones in the CGs were all hand-painted, though), something that several other VNs have also done (even commercial ones, such as the well-acclaimed Tsukihime).

Overall, you get good feelings while playing this game, and it tells you a pretty touching story of superation and regaining self-esteem, entwined with a few erotic scenes that can be partially toggled off in the options menu, and while that's the selling point of these kind of products, their inclusion doesn't make the game feel cheap. It's also pretty long, each path took me about 6 hours of gameplay from beginning to end. The girl's personalities are complex and don't fall into easy japanese stereotypes as happens with many other games in the genre. The men in this game, however, tend to fall on the silly/cartoon side of the spectrum, but they all have original and different personalities.

Many of the concerns people have expressed with this game are shared with other Visual Novels: it could have more choices that affect the story in decisive ways, it could have more endings/girls, it feels more like reading a book than playing an actual game, and it seems all the interaction you do is pressing the space key for hours. Some other people would also prefer if the game had even more/less spicy content.

In sum, if you enjoy VNs with good writing, you'll probably love this one.

Good enough game with some minor flaws in the puzzle, story and graphic departments. If you are an adventure game fan you will probably enjoy it.

I finally managed to get through this game, and wanted to thank the people of Himalaya Studios for such an experience. It was a pleasure to play a new adventure game in the style of the old ones, and from the start I knew that I had to write a review of the game with the most cacti and red rocks of all Anozira.

The first thing of note is the amazing game cover, which shows a lot of things that won't happen in the game but are somehow related. Then an installation of 1GB so that the CD is no longer required, and a cute note about how cool you were for buying this game to support the genre, so that you have something to read while the game is being installed.

Now, the game: the first impression with the 3D isn't too good: some models are just much better than others; Luckily, Al Emmo is one of the best ones and his animations are good; he also has a strange voice, but as the game progresses it ends fitting him well, unlike the narrator who I found somewhat annoying for varying so much the pitch to sound like an old west commentator. The problem is that you cannot choose which voices you want to suppress, it's all or nothing. I ended leaving them "on" as the others were good enough to give the voices a chance, and the obxonious narrator goes away in some places.

Soon you find that the production values are very high on this game. Almost everything you try has unique descriptions, even objects whose use is pretty obvious and don't stand in your inventory for too long will spawn their own and unique answer if you try to give them to any other person, some of which seem to not have other purpose in the game than to give special and funny commentaries every time you give them something. The mouth icon, which in other games would give endless "I can't talk to that", is in this case an excuse to display lots of jokes and silly animations specially done for that purpose only!!

The puzzles were good, some were easy, some hard. But none so hard that required reading a guide