visualnovels

Feel free to let me know if this is inappropriate, since I literally just copy/pasted it off the comment I put on the weekly what are you playing post in !otomegames@ani.social.

Went and played the Saintess of the Golden Bow demo. Haven't explored different options yet, just one playthrough.

• MC is definitely her own person, and I like how she has realistic reactions to her situation but also still refuses to just give in—she pushes herself to make sure she's taking action to get out of the situation. Has her own hangups about love which bodes very well for my drama appetite.
• Game is very pretty. Also torments me with the fact that out of all the dateable characters, I only like Noah's sprite; for literally every other character I like their sprite including MC's abusive dad. Just off looks he looks better than the LIs 😳 I like the personalities of all the guys though.
• +1 for quality of life features. I got times in the game where it's clear I can make a choice to ask for exposition, but I'm pretty sure I could also not without being penalized. I also got the game explicitly telling me about the fact that the next choice I made would lock me on one guy's route. Yay for having this information upfront for replays!
• I feel right at the beginning I was fed lots of different situations with romantic drama lurking and I am living for it.
  Noah route spoiler

  Died an extremely ho-hum death. It both felt logical, not unexpected or out of nowhere, and also like something I could not really bring myself to care about even though I liked the characters. Didn't jerk any tears from me and it's easy for me to cry at sad stuff in fiction. However we got reincarnated right after and then a "you hit the demo end!" message explaining that death isn't the end. So I am going to guess this wasn't supposed to be a hard-hitting emotional moment, and it's more a part of cool exposition/a twist. I trust the writers so far.